On This Day
May 15
1941 - Frank Whittle's jet-propelled Gloster aircraft made its maiden flight from RAF Cranwell.
1954 - The Queen and royal family returned safely from their six-month tour of the Commonwealth to a
rapturous welcome in London.
1957 - As the arms race began to escalate, following only two years of development, Britain tested its first hydrogen bomb over Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
1988 - The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
1993 - A hostage crisis at a nursery school in Paris ended when commandos stormed the school. The children's teacher was hailed a hero.
2001 - British consumers reaped the benefits of cheaper over-the-counter medicine after a court ruling put an end to the drug industry's price-fixing policy.
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