1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile.
1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI at Vincennes near Paris.
1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
1940 -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed.
1940 London's Waterloo Station bombed by German luftwaffe.
1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die.
1956 First plane to land safely on water - Pan Am Flight 6 San Francisco to Honolulu, all 24 passengers and 7 crew survive.
1967 The Motherland Calls, a monumental statue commemorating the battle of Stalingrad completed in Volgograd, Russia, then the World's tallest statue designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich.
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