1797 The USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is launched in Boston.
1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.
1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War.
1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall.
1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.
1960 1st British nuclear submarine HMS Dreadnought launched.
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