1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America.
1910 The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
1918 The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines.
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.
1942 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379
1945 US, USSR, Britain and France sign Treaty of London which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders.
1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.
1953 Soviet leader Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb.
1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.
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