1628 Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm, killing 30
1653 Battle of Scheveningen: Final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War, English fleet defeats a Dutch fleet led by Maarten Tromp who himself is killed by a sharpshooter in the rigging of William Penn's ship.
1776 American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1893 Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany.
1914 At Liege, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary.
1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany.
1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.
1943 US General George S. Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito's status remains unchanged.
1976 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer shot dead by the British Army as he drove in Belfast; his car out of control and kills 3 children, sparking "peace rallies" throughout the month by the 'Peace People'
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