1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"
1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II.
1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.
1940 Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1965 First bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon).
1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power.
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