1933 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public.
1943 Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails.
1944 US General Eisenhower postpones invasion of the south of France until after Normandy.
1945 1st Japanese kamikaze "flying bombs" (MXY-7 Ohka) attack Okinawa.
1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.
1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.
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