1854 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War.
1910 First seaplane takes off from water under its own power, piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon at Martigues, France.
1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities.
1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy.
1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire.
1942 St. Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot): obsolete British destroyer HMS Campbeltown, rigged with explosives and flying German flags, rams gates of German occupied St Nazaire port in France, and self detonates; kills 360 Germans, and disables the dry dock for duration of the war.
1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London.
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