1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
1918 United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps.
1924 Adolf Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor for "Beer Hall Putsch" but General Ludendorff acquitted.
1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany.
1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.
1969 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vertical take-off fighter) enters service with the RAF.
1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations.
1986 US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea.
1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California.
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves.
1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned.
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