1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)
1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands.
1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin.
1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa.
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
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