1901 First Royal Navy submarine HMS Holland 1 launched at Barrow-in-Furness.
1904 German General Lothar von Trotha issues order to exterminate Herero people of Namibia, first genocide of the 20th Century, will kill 65,000 Herero and 100,000 of the Nama tribe.
1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239.
1944 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed.
2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11
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