1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.
1942 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man.
1943 British RAF begins air bombing of Berlin, Germany.
1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles, due to the suggestive lyric “Boy, you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down."
1971 A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh.
1975 Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland.
2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
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