1607 First English colony in American lands at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason.
1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1952 US minesweeper Hobson rams aircraft carrier Wasp, kills 176.
1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain on South Georgia Island, near the Falkland Islands.
1986 World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe.
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