1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)
1884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
1918 World War I: the last German air raid on England occurs, with four Zeppelin airships dropping bombs in the Midlands and North East England.
1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising.
1963 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty.
1969 The UVF plant their first bomb in the Republic of Ireland, damaging the RTÉ Television Centre in Dublin.
1997 Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade centre bombing goes on trial.
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