1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine.
1911 The first aerial bomb is dropped by an Italian pilot on Turkish troops in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War.
1914 German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile.
1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians.
1919 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord.
1939 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry.
1941 Japanese naval staff offiicers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbor.
1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean.
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