1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the (then) longest reigning monarch in British history.
1914 German submarine U-9 sinks 3 British ironclads HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue, and HMS Cressy, 1,459 die.
1943 British midget submarines attack German battleship 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 the Pole (record)
1975 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco.
1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
1995 E-3B AWACS crash outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed.
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