1896 Britain defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.
1939 Erich Warsitz in a Heinkel He-178 makes the 1st manned jet-propelled flight.
1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.
1979 The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland.
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.
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