1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America.
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.
1942 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379
1945 US, USSR, Britain and France sign Treaty of London which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders.
1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.
1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.
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