1586: Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia

1689: Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay

1789: US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department

1866: transatlantic telegraph cable successfully in second attempt comes ashore at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland laid out by Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Eastern steamship (1,686 miles long)

1921: Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto

Source: Onthisday.com