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Events on Friday 8 September 1944 1
1944First V-2 rocket strikes LondonThe world's first long-range ballistic missile attackA German V-2 rocket hit Chiswick in west London, killing three people. The supersonic missiles arrived without warning and could not be intercepted. More than a thousand V-2s fell on England before the launch sites were overrun in 1945.