1915 German U-20 captures and sinks Britsih schooner Earl of Lathom.
1930 Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
1945 World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers.
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building.
1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
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