On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1381: The Peasants' Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury.
1789: Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied.
1907: Women in Norway win the right to vote.
1919: John William Alcott and Arthur Whitten Brown take off from St. John's, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1954: Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.
1982: Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War.
1985: Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East.
1995: Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia.
