On the night of 6 September 1776, Ezra Lee piloted the Turtle, a one-person wooden submersible designed by David Bushnell, toward the British warship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor. The plan was to screw a keg of gunpowder into the ship's hull and escape before a timer set it off. The Turtle could sink, move under water and be steered by hand, but its air ran short after about 30 minutes underwater. Lee could not drive the screw into the hull, so he gave up and the attack failed. It is still considered the first submarine used in combat, a sign of how early engineers tried to solve underwater warfare with the technology available then.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.