1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection.
1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die.
1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle.
1942 Battle of Bataan; US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan.
1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.
1963 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen.
1981 US submarine George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru.
2002 Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets.
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