1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam.
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea.
1942 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die.
1945 Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years.
1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia.
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