1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers.
1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie.
1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes.
1939 Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany.
1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.
1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.
1943 German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City.
1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta.
1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
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