1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor.
1915 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts.
1943 1st transport from Westerbork Neth to Sobibor concentration camp.
1974 Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up.
1991 Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War.
2004 Rosetta space probe is launched by the European Space Agency to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with Philae lander module aboard.
2014 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia's parliament to send troops to the Ukraine.
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