1942 First transport of British and Dutch prisoners to South Burma.
1943 SS General Jürgen Stroop orders the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, ending a month of Jewish resistance. 13,000 Jews have died, about half burnt alive or suffocated, German casualties less than 300.
1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs.
1944 First of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.
1958 Major Irwin, USAF, flies a Lockheed Starfight F-104 A to a record 1,404.18 MPH.
1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II becomes first British monarch to address US congress.
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