1864 Confederate submarine HL Hunley sinks Union ship Housatonic.
1940 Crew of the British destroyer Cossack board German Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway, and realised 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass.
1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market.
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Oh my God, not again!!
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