1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid.
1941 Adolf Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1942 -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire.
1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine.
1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.
1945 Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.
1977 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain.
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