1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops.
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize.
1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & submarines so Germans cannot seize them.
1944 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed.
1945 Trial against Dutch Fascist NSB leader Anton Mussert begins (later convicted and executed by firing squad)
1951 1st rocket to intercept an airplane at White Sands, New Mexico.
1951 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea.
1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany.
1967 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time.
1975 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
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