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1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'

1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party.

1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde.

1940 German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands.

1941 Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.

1942 Col-general Von Paulus 6th Army enters Ukraine.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons)

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong, established by the Second Convention of Peking, expires.