On this day in history
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1190: The Crusades begin the massacre of Jews in York, England.
1621: The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1907: The British cruiser Invincible, the world's largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards.
1917: Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates his throne.
1928: The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
1935: Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty.
1939: Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1945: Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist.
1968: U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre.
1985: Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.
