1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death.
1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea.
1917 An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
1941 German submarine U-127 sinks.
1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens, Heinrich Himmler falls faint.
1941 USS Swordfish becomes first US submarine to sink a Japanese ship.
1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel.
1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms.
1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel.
2006 First flight of the F-35 Lightning II
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