1664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (New York) to 300 English soldiers.
1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, sinks off Scotland.
1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1.
1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated.
1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp.
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged.
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