1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie.
1939 Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany.
1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.
1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.
1944 Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish.
1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced.
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