1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam in the river upstream.
1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea.
1942 German submarine U-585 sinks.
1951 American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution.
1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
2022 In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
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