1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen.
1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)
1965 State Funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral.
1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'
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