1919 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord.
1939 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry.
1941 Japanese naval staff offiicers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbor.
1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean.
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