1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore.
1939 Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor)
1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany.
1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary.
1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones.
1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina.
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