1901 Holland 1 the first Royal Navy submarine launched at Barrow-in-Furness.
1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.
1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239
1944 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed.
2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
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Oh my God, not again!!
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