1797 Bank of England issues first £1 note.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France.
1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
1935 German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering.
1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.
1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb.
1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb.
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