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1919 - The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands.
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1611: English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people are is set adrift in Hudson's Bay by mutineers aboard his ship Discovery; His fate is still unknown.
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1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II.
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1944-In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.
1952-The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
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1974 - 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space.
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1314: During the First War of Scottish Independence the two-day battle of Bannockburn takes place. Exceptionally long for a medieval battle, Robert the Bruce is victorious over Edward II who flees the field.
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1509 - Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's forces invade Russia crossing the Neman River. 2012 - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time.
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1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed.
1950 - Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea.
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Considering that Custer's 1874 Black Hills expedition-with regimental band and photography wagon-
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What really happened at he Little Big Horn! (it's U-Cranks Birthday)
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1857 - The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria.
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1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict.
1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
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1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London.
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI. 1919 - Treaty of Versailles, ending WW I and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.
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