1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid.
1941 Adolf Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years.
1942 -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire.
1943 Dutch resistance fighters burn and bomb the Amsterdam civil registry office in effort to destroy records and prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution; about 15% of records destroyed and 12 of the 19 known participants were tried and executed by the Nazi occupiers.
1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine.
1945 Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.
1977 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain.
2004 HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
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