1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia.
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain.
1915 US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to 'pacify exited public opinion', according to Bryan.
1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons.
1946 US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.
1949 First British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its 1st test flight.
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