1911 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.
1940 Adolf Hitler meets the Head of the French State Marshal Philippe Pétain.
1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks.
1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines.
1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte.
1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba.
2003 Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
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