1818 Napoleon Bonaparte bids emotional farewell to his old guard at Palace of Fontainebleau.
1899 David Beatty is appointed executive officer of the HMS Barfleur, a small battleship and flagship of the China Station.
1918 Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
1934 Heinrich Himmler appointed chief of all German police including the Prussian secret state police.
1945 Soviet artillery begins shelling Berlin.
1951 Huge ticker-tape parade held in NYC for World War II and Korean War General Douglas MacArthur after he was relieved of Command by President Truman.
1968 British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
1982 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs in Belfast, Derry, Armagh, Ballymena, Bessbrook and Magherafelt; 2 civilians are killed and 12 injured.
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
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