1857 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria.
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph).
1917 First US Expeditionary Force arrives in France during World War I.
1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed.
1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US.
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