1916 – Tanks are used for the first time at the Battle of the Somme, in northern France. This battle would be one of the fiercest in World War I. It would last a full 140 days and nights, and would involve Franco-British troops on one side, and Austro-German troops on the other.
1935 – The Nuremberg Laws would deprive citizens of Jewish origin of German citizenship. The Nuremberg Laws would sanction by law the de jure beginning of the persecution of Jews in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. This persecution would culminate in the 1940s in what would be called the Holocaust.
1944 – US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet officially in Quebec, Canada, to discuss the final fate of World War II. This meeting was part of the so-called Octagon Conference, also known as the Second Quebec Conference.
1968 – The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 becomes the first space object to fly around the Moon’s atmosphere and then return to Earth. Zond 5 was part of the Zond series of space missions. It remained in space (including the trip to the Moon) for 6 days, 18 hours, and 24 minutes.
1971 – The first Greenpeace ship protests on Amchitka Island against nuclear tests to be conducted there. Amchitka was a small island in the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific that was turned into a testing ground for American nuclear weapons. Protests by the environmental organization Greenpeace would continue.
1984 – Prince Harry is born in Sussex. Harry is one of the heirs to the British royal family. He is the youngest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. In 2018, Harry married American actress Meghan Markle in an official ceremony. He also served in the British army in Afghanistan.
2006 – Oriana Fallaci dies at the age of 77. Fallaci was a famous Italian journalist, political scientist, and interviewer. Some of the famous people she interviewed over the years are Henry Kissinger, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Willy Brandt, Ayatollah Khomeini, Muammar Gaddafi, etc.
