1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.
1941 Peruvian ambassador Ricardo Rivera-Schreiber warns American Ambassador of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.
1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed.
1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland.
1968 French submarine Minerve disappears in the Mediterranean with the loss of 52 crew.
1972 The British Army and the Irish Republican Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British troops fire over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
1972 Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers shot dead by IRA in an attack on their patrol car in the Creggan Road, Derry.
1973 US & North Vietnam's William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and military draft.
1996 Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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