1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day. Referred to as Invasion Day by some First Nations people.
1841 Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain.
1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead)
1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp.
1972 Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute - world's highest fall without a parachute.
1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
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