1917 The Supreme Allied War Council, meeting at Versailles to define war aim, fails to reach an agreement.
1944 Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.
1967 First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky.
1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over.
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