1915 Adolf Hitler receives the relatively common Iron Cross second class for bravery in World War I
1915 Kaiser Wilhelm approves the strategic bombing of London's docks.
1942 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest to Germany in a dash up the English Channel.
1973 1st US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines.
1988 US Navy frigate USS Yorktown bumped by Russian frigate Bezzavetny in the Black Sea in dispute over right of innocent passage.
1989 Loyalist paramilitary group kill Pat Finucane, a Belfast lawyer who represented republican hunger striker Bobby Sands, while he is having dinner with family.
1999 US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial.
2013 North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, saying it was a nuclear device that could be weaponized.
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