1945: In Operation Varsity, the largest airborne operation of World War II, 600 transports and 1,300 gliders conveyed British, American and Canadian paratroopers east of the Rhine. Meanwhile, south of Okinawa, U.S. Navy minesweepers arrived off the coast of Kerama Retto. Read about the assault over Rhine River at HistoryNet.com.
Also, today in history:
1955: British army troops ceased patrolling and withdrew from Belfast for the first time in 20 years.
1958:
1999:
In its first attack on a sovereign country, aircraft of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began an aerial bombardment of Serbia.
2016: In the Hague, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment.
