1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States.
1841 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa.
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1922 Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan becomes Regent of Japan in his ailing father's stead.
1940 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco.
1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 British Labour Party leader Harold Wilson proposes Britain should work towards a withdrawal from Northern Ireland, and after 15 years; the Republic of Ireland could rejoin the British Commonwealth.
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