1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty.
1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum.
1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
1915 Germany begins a blockade of Britain.
1916 The last German garrison in the German colony of Cameroons surrenders.
1921 British troops occupy Dublin.
1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on its maiden flight.
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