1780 Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England.
1849 The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1851 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup).
1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field".
1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.
1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany.
1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.
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