1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain)
1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher.
1943 First warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer.
1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam.
1944 First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1944 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed.
1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO
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