1861 Lord Lyons, The British minister
to America presents a formal complaint to secretary of state, William Seward,
regarding the Trent affair.
1900 The Federal Party, which
recognizes American sovereignty, is formed in the Philippines.
1919 Great Britain institutes a new
constitution for India.
1921 President Warren G. Harding 
frees
frees
Socialist Eugene Debs 
and 23 other political prisoners.
and 23 other political prisoners.
1933 Pope Pius XI 
condemns the Nazi
sterilization program.
condemns the Nazi
sterilization program.
1937 London warns Rome to stop
anti-British propaganda in Palestine.
1939 The first Canadian troops arrive
in Britain.
1940 Chiang Kai-shek dissolves all
Communist associations in China.
1941 Despite throwing back an earlier
Japanese amphibious assault, the U.S. Marines and Navy defenders on Wake Island
capitulate to a second Japanese invasion.
1944 General Dwight D. Eisenhower
confirms the death sentence of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American shot for
desertion since the Civil War.
1947 President Harry S Truman grants a
pardon to 1,523 who had evaded the World War II draft.
1948 Japan's Prime Minister, Hideki
Tojo and six other collaborators are hanged for war crimes.
1950 General Walton H. Walker, the
commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, is killed in a jeep accident. Lieutenant
General Matthew B. Ridgeway is named his successor.
1967 U.S. Navy SEALs are ambushed
during an operation southeast of Saigon.
1974 The B-1 bomber makes its first
successful test flight.
1986 The Voyager completes the first
nonstop flight around the globe on one load of fuel. The experimental aircraft,
piloted by Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, landed at Edwards Air Force
Base in California after nine days and four minutes in the sky.
1990 In a referendum on Sovlenia's
independence from Yugoslovia, 88.5% vote in favor of independence.
2002 An Iraqi MiG-25 shoots down a US
MQ-1 Predator drone.
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