1915 Italy secretly signs the "Treaty of London" with Britain, France and Russia, bringing Italy into World War I on the Allied side.
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.
1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, arrested for treason.
1945 Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain on South Georgia Island, near the Falkland Islands.
1986 World's worst nuclear disaster: The fourth reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union explodes, 31 die and radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe.
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