1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.
1917 German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unrestricted submarine warfare against allied shipping.
1918 German spy Lothar Witzke arrested by CIP agent Byron S. Butcher at the US border at Nogales - only German spy sentenced in the US during WWI
1933 German Parliament is dissolved by President Paul von Hindenburg by the request of new chancellor Adolf Hitler.
1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon.
2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
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