1889 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon."
1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.
1943 Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated."
1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial.
1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
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