1795 War of the First Coalition: French cavalry captures 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns near the port of Den Helder - rare instance of cavalry capturing a fleet.
1920 Dutch refuse to turn over ex-Emperor William II of Germany to allies.
1945 World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal to evacuate German soldiers and civilians from Prussia by sea.
1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.
1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War.
1976 The Provisional Irish Republican Army truce of February 1975 is officially brought to an end.
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.
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