1717 Blackbeard attacks and captures a French merchant slave ship, which he renames as his flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge"
1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution.
1916 First German air attack on London.
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates.
1919 US-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the first female member of the British House of Commons.
1920 Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy.
1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death.
1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
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