1915 Woodrow Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly'.
1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship.
1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp.
1955 USS Seawolf launched, first submarine powered by liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor.
1959 First nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, named, Camden NJ.
1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
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