1916 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs.
1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "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 rumors he is dead.
1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die.
2018 US President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron.
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