1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem Witch Trials.
1914 German submarine (U-9) sinks 3 British ironclads, (HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue) (1,459 die.
1943 British midget submarines attack Tirpitz.
1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks.
1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229
1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record)
1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
1989 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent.
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