1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
1940 Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest ever air battle.
1942 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese.
1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia.
1960 The Beatles give their first public performance at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg.
1976 Korean axe murder incident: 2 US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers are killed by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-sung in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
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