1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor).
1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp.
1949 1st jet-propelled airliner (De Havilland Comet) flies.
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