1917 Leo Pinckney becomes the first American drafted during WWI.
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic.
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland.
1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II.
1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia.
1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.
1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos.
1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores.
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