1940 German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker.
1940 Norway surrenders to Nazi Germany after 62 days of fighting.
1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under.
1943 FDR becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime.
1943 Heinrich Himmler orders the final liquidation of Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland.
1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.
1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze.
1980 8 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escape from Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast using handguns smuggled into prison.
1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
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