1902 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the walls of Riyadh and takes the city, marking the beginning of the Third Saudi State.
1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church).
1943 First transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught.
1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed.
1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in one cell, 10 die.
1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp.
1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic.
1991 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so.
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