1869 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving.
1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor.
1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad.
1942 Japanese bombing of Port Darwin, Australia.
1991 Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies.
2019 Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
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