1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.
1861 Texas secedes from the Union (which precipitates the American Civil War)
1917 German Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war.
1933 German Parliament is dissolved by President Paul von Hindenburg by the request of new chancellor Adolf Hitler.
1942 Second Norwegian government of Quisling forms.
1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier.
1958 Manchester United beats Arsenal, 5-4 at Highbury in the team's last game on British soil, 5 days prior to the plane crash at Munich airport that killed 7 players.
1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon.
2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
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