1586 Walter Raleigh brings the first tobacco to England from Virginia.

1941 German army enters Ukraine.

1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)

1949 De Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner, makes its maiden flight.

1953 North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel.

1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII

1972 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.

1914 Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of Word War I

1914 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow.

1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians.

1944 Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy.

1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9

2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

1917 World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins, goes on to cause approximately 500,000 casualties.

1941 U-boats sink and damage 21 allied ships this month (80,521 tons)

1970 Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy (started 1740)

1972 Claudy bombing: nine civilians were killed when three car bombs exploded in County Londonderry, North Ireland; no group has since claimed responsibility.

1972 Operation Motorman: the British Army use 12,000 soldiers supported by tanks and bulldozers to re-take the "no-go areas" controlled by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

1975 The Miami Showband killings: Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, shoot dead three members of an Irish showband at Buskhill, County Down, Ireland.

2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland comes to an end, longest-running British Army operation ever.

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt.

1914 British Grand Fleet reaches Scapa Flow.

1914 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI

1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin.

1943 British Sunderland seaplanes sink German submarines U-454 and U-383

1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; she is arrested three days later.

1944 Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe.

1945 Japanese city Toyama is destroyed by B-29s

1958 Nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus begins the first transit of the North Pole in Operation Sunshine.

1977 Former CIA Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles killing himself and a cameraman.

1978 Gunman occupying the Iraqi Embassy in Paris surrenders and releases the 8 hostages. As the gunman is led away, Iraqi guards open fire, wounding him and killing a policeman. Police return fire, killing one Iraqi and wounding three others.

2023 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the country and prevent the peaceful transfer of power by special counsel Jack Smith.

1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

1880 British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

1934 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces.

1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death in absentia.

1943 Armed revolt by 800 prisoners at Treblinka Extermination Camp: crematorium destroyed; 200 escape the compound, but only 100 survive.

1943 Gene Roddenberry pilots B-17 'Yankee Doodle' which crashes on takeoff, killing two.

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands.

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 and U-106

1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

1964 North Vietnam fires at US Navy destroyer USS Maddox in what becomes known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would eventually escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War.

2018 Apple becomes the first American publicly listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.

2022 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the first speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, prompting condemnation from the Chinese Communist Party.

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates.

1914 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German Army leading to their invasion hours later.

1914 British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time."

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina.

1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)

1943 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice.

1958 USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole.

1972 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.

1790 United States Revenue Cutter Service is established to serve as an armed customs enforcement service (becoming the US Coast Guard in 1915)

1873 Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the 1st time with the Sioux near the Tongue River. 1 man killed on each side.

1914 US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI

1914 WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany.

1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann.

1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US

1943 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada.

1944 Anne Frank is arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who is never identified.

1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning.

1964 North Vietnam purportedly engage US Navy ships in the Gulf of Tonkin for a second time, resulting in US Congress passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, granting authority to assist any Southeast Asian facing "communist aggression"; later investigation deemed the second attack never happened as shipboard communications were misinterpreted.

1972 Uganda dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda.

1305 Scottish resistance leader William Wallace is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown, the first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire.

1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Navy led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

1914 WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener appointed Secretary of War after British declaration of war on Germany.

1918 World War I: the last German air raid on England occurs, with four Zeppelin airships dropping bombs in the Midlands and North East England.

1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping.

1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising.

1890 Murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair, at Auburn Prison in New York.

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210

1942 Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

1588 English set alight eight fireships, with pitch, brimstone, gunpowder and tar, and cast them downwind towards the closely anchored vessels of the Spanish Armada, scattering the armada.

1782 Commander of the Continental Army, George Washington, creates two Honorary Badges of Distinction and a Badge of Military Merit (now the Purple Heart). First time military awards are presented to common soldiers.

1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle's French government in exile.

1944 Trial for surviving '20 July Plot' (attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler) participants begins in courtroom of Nazi Judge Roland Freisler, in Berlin, Germany.

1963 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland.

1970 British keyboard playing singer-songwriter Christine McVie (née Perfect) joins rock band Fleetwood Mac.

1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America.

1910 The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.

1914 Ernest Shackleton's ship "Endurance" leaves Plymouth, England, on the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

1918 World War I: The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines.

1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.

1942 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379

1944 First test flight of the Junkers Ju 287. a proposed German Luftwaffe jet bomber; it was never fully put into production.

1945 Soviet Union declares war against Japan in World War II and invades Manchuria the next day.

1945 US, USSR, Britain and France sign Treaty of London which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders.

1969 The Beatles are photographed by Iain MacMillan crossing the street as they walk away from EMI Recording Studios, for the cover of their "Abbey Road" album.

1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.

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1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.

1914 German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham.

1915 British naval officer David Beatty is confirmed in the rank of vice-admiral.

1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city.

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President.

2020 Disputed Belarusian presidential election sees long time dictator Alexander Lukashenko officially win 80% of the votes but unofficially lose 60-70% of the votes to main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Sparks widespread protests in Belarus and international condemnation.

1628 Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm, killing 30

1893 Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, runs on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany.

1911 The UK House of Commons votes on a salary - of £400 annually - for its members.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany.

1942 General Bernard Montgomery appointed commander British 8th Army in North Africa.

1943 Adolf Hitler watches a lynching of allied pilots.

1943 US General George S. Patton slaps a battle fatigued soldier at an evacuation hospital "cowardly" and threatens him with a pistol.

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito's status remains unchanged.

1932 Rin Tin Tin passes away.

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