1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death.
1941 German submarine U-127 sinks.
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship.
1944 American bandleader Major Glenn Miller, lost over the English Channel.
1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms.
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star.
1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel.
1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness.
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