1765 HMS Victory launched; Admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, 40 years later.
1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed.
1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3).
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion.
1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed.
1945 Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death.
1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu.
1954 US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership of NATO.
1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.
1999 Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
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