1915 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians.
1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ships.
1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1943 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.
1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June.
1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland.
1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb.
1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights.
1985 South African President P. W. Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence.
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