1778 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1898 SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed.
1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die.
1916 Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Woodrow Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'
1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt.
1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw.
1941 Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor.
1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria.
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River.
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait.
2003 Supersonic airplane the Concorde makes its last ever flight, returning to Bristol, England.
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