1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812.
1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo).
1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender.
1911 King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea.
1940 France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France.
1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declare war on the Soviet Union.
2017 Prince Harry claims no one in UK royal family wants to be King or Queen in article published in Newsweek.
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