• 1982

    Britain suffers its first casualty in the Falklands War against Argentina.
     

  • 1975

    The left-wing German terrorist organisation, the Baader Meinhof Gang, blow up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
     

  • 1953

    Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
     

 

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