1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia.
1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh.
1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect.
1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Höss (not Hess, diferent Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz.
1942 German Luftwaffe estimated to have flown over 11 thousand sorties against Malta since 20th March.
1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats off Slapton Sands, Devon.
1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect.
1973 Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974).
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