1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam in the river upstream.
1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea.
1942 German submarine U-585 sinks.
1945 Movie star James Stewart promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years.
2022 In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
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