1890 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to sub-lieutenant.
1940 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England.
1940 British Local Defence Volunteers forms, an armed citizen militia designed to support the British Army during the Second World War. It is later renamed the Home Guard.
1940 Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1943 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sinks off the coast of Queensland after being struck by torpedo fired by Japanese submarine; 268 of 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard die.
1944 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler.
1945 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.
1945 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human.
1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania.
1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship.
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