1916 The Aud, carrying a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans in staging what would become the 1916 Rising, is captured by the British Navy and forced to sail towards Cork Harbour.
1916 Ulster Protestant and Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement lands at Tralee Bay, Ireland from a German submarine; discovered at McKenna's Fort and arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary.
1918 German World War I fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen aka "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France. Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown is credited with the kill.
1945 Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory in Haigerloch.
1945 Soviet army arrives at outskirts of Berlin, Germany.
1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilueva arrives in New York City after defecting to the US
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom.
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