1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a female courtesan for safe keeping.
1920 Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland.
1933 Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death for setting the German Reichstag on fire.
1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese.
1943 General Bernard Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day.
1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion.
1968 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea.
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