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1743 By the Treaty of Abo, Sweden cedes southeast Finland to Russia, ending Sweden's failed war with Russia.

1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's army defeats the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian retreat to Moscow.

1833 The first steam ship to cross the Atlantic entirely on its own power, the Canadian ship Royal William, begins her journey from Nova Scotia to The Isle of Wight.

1863 Union gunboats attack Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, for the first time.

1942 Marine Raiders attack Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands from two submarines.

1943 Allied forces complete the conquest of Sicily.

1944 The mayor of Paris, Pierre Charles Tattinger, meets with the German commander Dietrich von Choltitz to protest the explosives being deployed throughout the city.

1945 Upon hearing confirmation that Japan has surrendered, Sukarno proclaims Indonesia's independence.

1960 American Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty at his Moscow trial for spying over the Soviet Union in a U-2 plane.

1978 Three Americans complete the first crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon.



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