432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date).
1800 British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die.
1898 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes.
1942 Bełżec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Lublin Polish Jews.
1966 US submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean.
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