1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms
1915 - British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1918 - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1945 - US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1970 - New English Bible published
1977 - US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
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