1624 First submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I
1792 Court martial begins for instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty on board HMS Duke in Portsmouth harbour, presided over by Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood.
1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism.
1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction.
1941 First German ship in WW II captured by US ship (SS Busko)
1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels.
1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for the first time at Heathrow airport.
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