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.
1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930.
1924 Trial against Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich begins.
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.
1991 Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death'
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