World War II: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Aruba" id="mwpA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Attack on Aruba">Attack on Aruba</a>, first World War II German shots fired on a land based object in the Americas.<sup about="#mwt58" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_16#cite_note-9" id="mwpQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwpg">[9]</span></a></sup>
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