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 | 
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