1941 Japanese fleet readies for assault on Pearl Harbour.
1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.
1956 Suez Crisis: British Royal Marines storm Port Said in Egypt amid growing domestic and international opposition to the Anglo-French-Israeli military operation.
1991 The last oil fire in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops is extinguished.
1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians.
1999 Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
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