1689 Parliament of England adopts the Bill of Rights which establishes the rights of parliament and places limits on the crown.
1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy.
1942 Operation Sealion, Nazi Germany’s invasion of England, is cancelled by Adolf Hitler.
1945 Allied planes begin bombing the German city of Dresden, resulting in a devastating firestorm that destroys the city and kills over 22,000 people.
1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation by exploding the 70 kilo-ton "Gerboise Bleue" atomic bomb in the French Algerian Sahara desert.
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