1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel overseas by airplane.
1960 US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant.
1970 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969
1973 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army.
1985 British pound sinks to record low $US1.11
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