1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England.
1918 German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution.
1932 French liner Normandie is launched.
1943 Three allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3
1956 Suez Crisis erupts into war as Israel invades the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, to be followed by a planned airborne assault by France and Britain.
1975 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe kills first victim, Wilma McCann.
1986 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the final stretch of London's Orbital Motorway, the M25. Then the world’s longest ring road at 117 miles (188.3 km).
2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years.
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