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1776 George Washington asks for a spy, Nathan Hale volunteers.

1813 American naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.

1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes at her moorings after the magazine catches fire, killing 251 seamen.

1939 Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb in London.

1943 German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of Vatican City.

1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta.

1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"

1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.

1945 Vidkun Quisling, head of the Nazi-controlled Norwegian government during WWII is sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazis.

1972 3 British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Dungannon, County Tyrone.

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France.