1841 US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free.
1862 USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads.
1935 Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.
1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.
1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow.
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.
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