1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War).
1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands.
1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity.
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