1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day.
1907 The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III rifle officially introduced into British Military Service, 2nd oldest military rifle still in official use.
1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead).
1942 First US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland.
1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp.
1968 Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die.
1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
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