1914 Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrive from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens.
1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer").
1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII
1945 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum.
1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb.
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat.
1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled.
1953 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba.
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