1659 First known cheque written (£400), now on display at Westminster Abbey.
1861 Abraham Lincoln stops his train at Westfield on his way to Washington to thank 11-year old Grace Bedell in person for her advice to grow a beard to gain more votes.
1916 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships.
1916 The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania.
1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus.
1940 British search plane finds German supply ship Altmark, used to accommodate allied sailors from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee off Norway.
1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.
1942 Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive.
1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip.
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