1865 Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.
1916 The British renew their assault on the Irish Volunteer position in Mount Street; shelling also sets the buildings on fire.
1933 Adolf Hitler authorizes creation of Ministry of Aviation, in part to revive the German Luftwaffe, under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering.
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
1943 Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust.
1945 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)
1946 1st radar installed aboard a commercial ship.
1982 Trial of John Hinckley begins for the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan.
2005 The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
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