1586 Walter Raleigh brings the first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1909 British ship SS Waratah is last seen en-route from Durban to Cape Town; 211 on board are missing and no trace of the ship ever found.
1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg.
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt.
1953 North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel.
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