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1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.

1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy).

1945 Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories.

2003 Invasion of Iraq by American and British-led coalition begins without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.