1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, France surrenders Canada to Great Britain.
1890 Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians, then opened for settlement.
1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design.
1915 US President Woodrow Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost'
1916 Military conscription begins in Britain.
1933 Adolf Hitler proclaims end of Marxism.
1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland.
1947 WW II peace treaties signed.
1972 Two British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Cullyhanna, County Armagh; an IRA member is shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with RUC officers.
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