1815 Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy patents miner's safety lamp.
1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse.
1918 Spanish Flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week.
1940 Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends with a British victory.
1941 Prior to US joining WWII, German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland.
1942 U-boats sink and damage 120 allied ships this month (659,457 tons)
1943 World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
1956 Britain and France join Israeli forces in Egypt and begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal.
2011 The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations.
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