1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.
1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight charges of treason in Washington, D.C.
1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death.
1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact.
1990 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty.
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