1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.
1942 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man.
1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin.
1963 American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
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