This day in history

In Britain, Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party win a second consecutive general election.
 

The first live radio broadcasts from the House of Commons is transmitted in Britain.
 

America launches the USS George Washington - the first submarine to be armed with ballistic missiles.
 

In America, colonists board the Gaspee, a British vessel that ran aground off the coast of Rhode Island, and set it on fire.
 

U.S. Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, resigns due to his concerns over President Woodrow Wilson’s handling of the crisis generated by a German submarine’s sinking of the British cruiser Lusitania the previous month.