1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
1914 A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.
1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin.
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs.
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested.
1967 American General William Westmoreland says in a Vietnam War news conference that the enemy has "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily"
1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumours he is dead.
1993 The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate, London, killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others.
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