1240 Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an 8 day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive.
1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, Canada killing 1,700
1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1941 Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore.
1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson confers Presidential Medal of Freedom on 31 recipients selected by JFK, including: contralto Marian Anderson; diplomat Ralph Bunche; cellist Pablo Casals; Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter; labor leader George Meaney; architect Mies van der Rohe; pianist Rudolf Serkin; writers E. B. White and Thorton Wilder; and painter Andrew Wyeth; as well as posthumously to JFK himself, and Pope John XXIII
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