1776 Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress.
1904 SS Norge runs aground and sinks off Rockall, North Atlantic, more than 635 die, largest maritime loss of life until Titanic.
1910 1st airship with passengers makes its maiden voyage; the Zeppelin LZ7-Deutscheland and gets stuck in some trees in Mount Limberg, Lower Saxony, injuring one crew member.
1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off chain of alliances that begin WWI
1919 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.
1922 The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin.
1934 Adolf Hitler flies to Essen, Germany for "Night of Long Knives"
1948 British begin airlift “Operation Plainfare” to West Berlin.
1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War.
1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1973 New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa nuclear test zone after France’s refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing.
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