1941 - US Gen. Douglas MacArthur starts withdrawing from Manila to the peninsular province of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II as the Japanese forces take the Northern Pacific Wake Island.
1672 - Rhea, Saturn's satellite, is discovered by Giovanni Cassini.
1888 - Renowned Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh cuts off his ear out of severe depression.
1956 - The Suez Crisis ends as British and French forces abandon their armed occupation of the region following Egypt's nationalisation of the important human-made waterway.
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