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1942: German forces massacre 173 residents of the village of Lidice Czechaslovakia in retaliation for the assassination of Reichsprotektor
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1776 - Continental Congress creates committee (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration of Independence.
1987 - Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd consecutive term.
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1942 - Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present (Amsterdam).
1964 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.
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1956 - After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control.
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1935: Movie Becky Sharp, set against the battle of Waterloo opens in New York. This is a landmark flick utilizing and photographed in "three strip" Technicolor for the first time!
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1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict.
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1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany, German troops occupy Paris.
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1880 - Salvation Army forms in London.
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^ GOOD STUFF! An overview of the whole mess, culminating in Waterloo... ol' Boney should have stayed 'retired' on Elba: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/we-better-off-napoleon-never-lost-waterloo-180955298/
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1631 - Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
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1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher.
1928 - American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales. 1940 - Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons.
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1588 - Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna.
1829 - Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies).
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1864:The Confederate sloop of war, CSS Alabama, is sunk in a one-on-one ship duel with the sloop of war, USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France.
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1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years ending in 1901.
1840 - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph. 1941 - German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas.
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