1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.
1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift for 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
1943 Mortsel, Belgium: Allies target Minerva car factory, used for repairing Luftwaffe planes for bombing raid; collateral damage from missed targets kills 936 civilians, Belgium's greatest loss of WWII
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death.
1955 Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1971 US Lt William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre.
1982 British Royal Navy aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes, with escort vessels, depart Portsmouth, England for the Falkland Islands in response to the Argentine invasion.
1982 Lord Carrington, British Foreign Secretary resigns for his failure to foresee the invasion of the Falkland Islands.
1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
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