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1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war.

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany.

1972 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics.

1979 Earl Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey.