1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.
1914 US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off'
1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the Squalus.
1943 Halifax bombers sink U-463
1944 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery, Winston Churchill and King George VI discuss the plan for D-Day.
1957 Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
1971 Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast.
1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1976 The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks.
1986 Former President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri is sentenced to 12 years in prison for mishandling the Falkland Islands War.
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