1917 Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WW I
1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II
1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia.
1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.
1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos.
1956 US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll.
1964 First nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands.
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