1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada.
1915 First all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany.
1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
1945 Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death.
1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr
1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
2000 US Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush's favour and thus handing him the presidency.
2019 British General Election won by Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in landslide win with 80 seat majority. Scottish National Party also wins 48 of 59 seats in Scotland.
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