1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"
1942 British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany.
1942 Major General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe.
1947 First version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands.
1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
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