Late in the night, 76 prisoners of war (POWs) escaped through a secret 110m tunnel built under the Stalag Luft III prison camp in what was Nazi occupied Poland. The camp was reputed to be escape ...
1603: Scottish King James VI, son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, joining the English and Scottish crowns. On the same day, Tokugawa Ieyasu is ...