1865 Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
1943 Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust.
1945 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como).
2005 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
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