1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becomes first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1918 World War I: German armies retreat across Marne River in France.
1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender.
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign.
1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue.
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