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1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides.

1939 WWII: Adolf Hitler speech at the Reichstag celebrates the defeat of Poland, offers peace to France and England, and mentions need for "settlement of the Jewish problem"

1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"

1944 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea.

1945 US General Eisenhower welcomed in The Hague (on Hitler's train)

1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine.

1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb.

1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole.

1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.

1985 PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, north London.