1897 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1945 World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1962 British intellegence officer Kim Philby defects to USSR.
1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.
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