1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England.
1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank, Scotland.
1941 US launches its first Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry.
1941 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer).
1942 Heavy German assault in Stalingrad.
1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time.
1991 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert.
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