1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal.
1916 Canadian pilot William George Barker flying over Ancre River, spots concentration of German troops massing for counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, sends emergency Zone Call to break up German infantry apart. Barker later receives Military Cross.
1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1960 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched.
1961 UN bans nuclear arms.
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