1915 Canadian physician Cluny MacPherson first presents his gas mask invention to the British War Office.
1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.
1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbour.
1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.
1940 The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland.
1960 US atomic submarine USS Triton completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam.
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