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1957: "IN GOD WE TRUST" IS PRINTED ON AMERICAN PAPER MONEY.....:()1:...."ALL OTHERS PAY CASH" WAS LEFT OUT https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...d_we_trust.jpg

1917 First British bombing of Germany.

1933 Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1941 USS Kearney becomes the 1st US destroyer torpedoed in World War II, while the country is still neutral.

1943 Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army.

2017 Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting.

1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia having paid $7.2 million.

1900 Count Bernard von Bulow becomes Chancellor of Germany, famous for first referring to Germany's need for 'place in the sun' and global empire.

1919 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby.

1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed.

1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon.

1781 British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends.

1812 Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow.

1950 UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.

1951 US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany.

1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte.

1965 Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"

1797 The USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is launched in Boston.

1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.

1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War.

1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall.

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.

1960 1st British nuclear submarine HMS Dreadnought launched.

1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as first elected President of the Republic of Texas.

1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

1962 Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis.

1917 First Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots first US shot in WWI.

1942 German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad.

1944 Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's flagship the heavy cruiser Atago sinks during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

1954 Britain, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany.

1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion.

2001 The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.

1929 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks.

1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines.

1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte.

1962 Cuban missile crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba.

2008 "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

1415 Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight.

1854 The infamous Charge of Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War; over 100 killed.

1946 First trial against nazi war criminals in Nuremberg.

1881 Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.

1918 Germany's supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice.

1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.

1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".

1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary.

1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 86.

1962 JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.

1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected.

1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf of Tonken, 43 die.

1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China.

1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan.

1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz.

1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba.