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★09 Sep 1939
World War II: About 3,000 Polish Army forces began a nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion of Poland.

★14 Aug 1941
After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post-World War II world despite the fact that the United States had yet to enter the war.

★02 Dec 1943
World War II: The Luftwaffe conducted a surprise air raid on Allied ships in Bari, Italy, sinking twenty-eight ships and releasing one ship's secret cargo of mustard gas.

★20 Sep 1944
Second World War: Allied forces captured San Marino from the German Army.

★29 Nov 1947
The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.

★30 Jun 1963
A car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco killed seven police and military officers near Palermo.

★09 Sep 1969
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, U.S., destroying both planes and killing all 83 occupants of both aircraft.

★04 Dec 1971
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.

★16 Sep 1979
Eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.

★18 Jun 1983
Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman and third one overall in space.

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