1787 Arthur Phillip sets sail with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia.
1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement of the American Civil War, Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company, 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed.
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain.
1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons.
1946 US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.
1949 First British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its first test flight.
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