1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
1944 First British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor).
1953 North Korea and UN sign armistice.
1972 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible", testifies in Israel.
2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007).
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