1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die.
1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'
1905 The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier.
1916 General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" the day before the Battle of the Somme began.
1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party.
1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999.
1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for first time, at Peenemunde.
1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons).
1950 US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops.
1971 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space).
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