1586: Walter Raleigh brings the first tobacco to England from Virginia

1689: Battle of Killiecrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist forces under General Hugh Mackay

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

1866: First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Eastern steamship

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

Source: Onthisday.com