1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States.
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1876 Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1940 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.
1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1983 World's greatest robbery 26 million pounds worth of gold, diamonds & cash stolen from the Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England.
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