1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland.
1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.
1914 German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham.
1915 British naval officer David Beatty is confirmed in the rank of vice-admiral.
1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city.
1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President.
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