1917 The Supreme Allied War Council, meeting at Versailles to define war aim, fails to reach an agreement.
1943 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
1944 Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.
1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in East China Sea killing 1,100
1953 US President Dwight Eisenhower criticizes Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party.
1967 First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky.
1984 Bhopal disaster: A Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, officially killing 2,259 - other estimates are as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured.
1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over.
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