1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.
1944 Operation Carpetbagger begins (aerial dropping of supplies and weapons to resistance fighters in Europe).
1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack.
1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.
1967 Donald Campbell is killed while driving a Bluebird K7, a jet-powered boat, on Coniston Water; Campbell was trying to beat his own speed record.
1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean.
2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.
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