1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians).
1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson further decimates the French fleet.
1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1934 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces.
1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death.
1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands.
1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 & U-106.
1961 Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club.
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