1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested.
1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.
1944 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting.
1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.
1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean.
1961 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.
1985 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent.
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