1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease programme.

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.

1976 "Operation Paul Bunyan" begins in retaliation for the "Korean axe murder incident" 3 days prior. 110 troops, 27 helicopters, 3 B-52 bombers are deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers.

Just been reading about that incident, never knew it could had sparked off the war again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49394758

Read this a long time ago and considering the whole operation lasted less than an hour, their is a lot of detail making it a worthwhile read.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B008MEZ6NM

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations.

1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.

1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany.

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.

1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1839 British capture Hong Kong from China.

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)

1942 World War II: last cavalry charge in history takes place at Isbushenskij, Russia; the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry.

1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

2017 US Navy fires Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin as commander of the Seventh Fleet following series of collisions in Asian waters.

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect.

1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

1892 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to lieutenant.

1943 Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia.

1944 General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation.

1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding.

1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka driven onto rocks in storm at Kamchatka, 284 killed.

1944 Charles de Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.

1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII

1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior.

1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.

1939 Erich Warsitz in a Heinkel He-178 makes the 1st manned jet-propelled flight.

1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

1979 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland.

1830 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed.

1939 Journalist Care Hollingworth observes the “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns” Germany had aligned along the Polish border. Three days later, Hitler invades Poland and WWII begins.

1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to assassinate President Reagan.

1988 70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany.

2017 North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover.

1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed.

1943 Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany.

1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan.

1949 USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR.

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.

1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1914 First German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed.

1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so.

1945 General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

HOW IRONIC::03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossbow

1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel , in London's East End.

1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.