1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood.
1925 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed.
1943 Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad.
1946 UN General Assembly meets for first time in London.
1946 US Army bounces first radar signal off the Moon from Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey.
1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard.
1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal.
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