1789 Captain William Bligh and his loyal men cast off from HMS Bounty reach Timor, after sailing 5,800 km in a 6-metre launch.
1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing of the building of another four major warships.
1917 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London.
1931 Reinhard Heydrich's first meeting with Heinrich Himmler.
1934 European despots Adolf Hitler, of Germany, and Benito Mussolini, of Italy, meet in Vienna, Austria.
1940 Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs, later expanded to include civilian Jews and gypsies (approx. 3 million would die within its walls)
1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral.
1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.
1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge.
1972 Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government.
1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict.
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