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** The prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland are sunk by the RAF in Lübeck Bay.
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** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).
** Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.
** Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to 4 months in prison, concluding a 6-month obscenity trial.
** A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
** British Home Secretary Michael Howard informs Moors Murderer Myra Hindley that she will never be released from prison.
** Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried ; on July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.
** American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago.
** Georges Bégué and others escape from the Mauzac prison camp.
** Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.
** World-renowned bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to 7 years in prison without parole, for leading an illegal parrot smuggling ring.
** Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria: Four guards and 96 prisoners are killed in a day and a half.
** In France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison.
** German left-wing terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin.
** Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
** Cold War: In Moscow, the American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage.
** Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
** In El Salvador, an army colonel and a lieutenant of the Atlacatl Battalion are each sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and their housekeepers.
** In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
** About 850 convicts at Chatham Dockyard in England take over their prison in a riot.
** British spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison ; he is next seen in Moscow.
** After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a public house in a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack, the " Birmingham Six " are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence.
** Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin, with apparent success, escape from the Alcatraz Island prison.
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** foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: 1
** Wharf, a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, where ships are loaded and unloaded
** One of five ships ( the first constructed in 1835 ) of the Hellenic Navy named after him
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** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).
** The Kriegsmarine orders all German-flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately in anticipation of the invasion of Poland.
** Twenty-four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.
** All German, Italian, and Danish ships anchored in United States waters are taken into " protective custody ".
** Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.
** The United States returns to West Germany 382 ships it had captured during World War II.
** orders his coastal provinces to build a vast fleet of ships, with construction centered at Longjiang near Nanjing ; the inland provinces are to provide wood and float it down the Yangzi River.
** Genoese ships fleeing the Black Death plague in Kaffa stop in Constantinople, contaminating the city.
** USS Santa Fe, two US Navy ships named after Santa Fe, New Mexico
** Several American ships named after the Battle of Bunker Hill, including:
** A torpedo aviso, one of the first French ships to be designated as a " contre-torpilleur " ( destroyer )
** Several ships named HMS Monmouth
** LY-60 — PL-11 adopted for navy ships for air-defense, sold to Pakistan but does not appear to be in service with the Chinese Navy.
** USS Milledgeville, the name of three ships in the United States Navy
** Other miscellaneous ships — numbered name
** Pennant ( church ), flown by navies during services on board ships
** French ship Friedland for ships named after the battle
** List of ships of the Canadian Navy
** outdoor display-one of Poland's few ships displayed onshore ( torpedo boat Odważny-The Brave ), planes, tanks ( including one of world's few preserved Sturmgeschütz IV vehicles ), helicopters, cannons, etc.
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