1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War.
1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford make camp at Isandlwana.
1921 British submarine HMS K5 (which was unusually equipped with steam turbines) sank with 57 crew during exercises in the Bay of Biscay.
1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews.
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.
1955 The first nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton, Connecticut.
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