1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.
1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI.
1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead.
1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched.
1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton for second time.
1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul,
1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m).
1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error.
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