1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.
1918 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco.
1943 World War II: Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated"
1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
2013 Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China.
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