1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes killing 679 German soldiers.
1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, leads to the creation of Remembrance Day.
1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean.
1942 Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea.
1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
1945 German General Von Keitel formally surrenders to Marshal Georgy Zhukov and the Soviets in Berlin.
1945 V-E Day; WWII ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender.
1947 Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki, who had volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to gain information about the Holocaust, is arrested by Polish communist police.
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