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.
1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1
1943 First warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer.
1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III
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 an underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (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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