1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material.
1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1919 A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans.
1941 British House of Commons votes for Winston Churchill (477-3)
1945 World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution.
1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.
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