1738-Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1940-British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
1942-Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered
1951-Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1970-British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
1985-Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1994-Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1997-First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997-Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO