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** Hampton-on-Sea, Herne Bay, Kent ( drowned settlement at the above location )
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** and Bay
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** The Bay of Pigs Invasion ( 1961 ) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
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** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
** A BOAC scheduled passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), enroute between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters.
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** Yangtze River Floods: In China the Yangtze River breaks through the main bank ; before this, from August 1 – 5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay.
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