1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus.
1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months.
1933 Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda.
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight.
1943 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight.
2019 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia.
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