1922 Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex.
1933 President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survives assassination in Miami, Florida, attempt but Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak is mortally wounded, he would die on March 29
1936 Adolf Hitler announces construction of the Volkswagen Beetle (the People's Car, aka the Käfer/Beetle)
1942 German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery.
1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin in the largest raid by the RAF against the city.
1952 King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.
1971 A British soldier dies 7 days after being mortally wounded in an Irish Republican Army attack in North Ireland.
1971 After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons pence & shilling system for decimal currency.
1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends as the last Soviet troops cross the Soviet-Afghan border.
1998 The Angel of the North, a large-scale steel sculpture 20 m (66 ft) tall by Antony Gormley is installed at Gateshead, northern England.
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