1915 Woodrow Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly'
1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship (Ostfriesland)
1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp.
1944 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy.
1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
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