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1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers.

1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

1934 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces.

1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death.

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands.

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 and U-106.

1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed).

1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

1961 The Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club.

2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.