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1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead.

1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops.

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war.

1929 French premier Aristide Briand requests a United States of Europe.

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands, we stand'

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany.

1946 Amon Göth, former head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, found guilty of imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people, the first conviction of homicide at a war crimes court.