1914 Cavalry battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle of the Silver Helmets")
1918 Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the Western Front.
1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, lose 31 aircraft.
1941 French Marshal Philippe Pétain gives full support to Nazi Germany.
1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
1944 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating.
1944 Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender.
1948 Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment.
1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1959 First ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island.
1978 China & Japan sign peace treaty.
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