This date in history

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1681 First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher).

1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake.

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1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as first international radio distress signal.

1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59.

1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert causing $30,000 damage.

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1815 Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812); the war had ended on 24th December 1814 but none of the combatants knew.

1835 The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.

1916 WWI: ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople.

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1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.

1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest, Romania.

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane.

1969 First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England.

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1946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London).

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1863 Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras.

1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End, England and kills 220.

1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die.

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1935: On January 11, 1935, Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California. Although this transoceanic flight had been attempted by many others, notably by the unfortunate participants in the 1927 Dole Air Race that had reversed the route, her trailblazing flight had been mainly routine, with no mechanical breakdowns. In her final hours, she even relaxed and listened to "the broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera from New York." DONE that flight 12 times myself...in coach;...breathing what everyone else is exhaling! Still of interest: http://nypost.com/2016/09/09/amelia-earhart-survived-her-plane-crash-new-evidence-suggests/

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1916 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge.

1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

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1842 Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

1915 Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles.

1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast.

1942 First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

2004 Harold Shipman, a British GP who is believed to have killed more than 200 of his patients in Manchester, is found hanged in his prison cell.

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1943 Japan begins Operation Ke.

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel by airplane.

1966 David Bowie releases his 1st single "Can't Help Thinking About Me"

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1967: the Summer of Love begins with a 'Human Be in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco Things were really 'groovy back then?!! although I notice : not a lot of 'flowers in their hair' asd per 1967's San Francisco

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1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England.

1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

1815 War of 1812: the USS President, an American frigate, is captured by four British frigates.

1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught.

1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in one cell, 10 die.

1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England.

1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp.

1951 Ilse Koch, also known as "The Witch of Buchenwald", is sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

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1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor.

1944 Gen Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London.

1945 Adolf Hitler moves into the Fuhrerbunker, his underground bunker.

1957 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights.

1981 Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even took his gold teeth.

2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

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1929 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"

1944 British corvette HMS Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean.

1955 US Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage.

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1961: President Dwight D Eisenhower delivered his farewell address in which he warned against " the acquisition of unwarranted influence ,whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex..."http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/worlds-largest-airplane-graveyard-high-resolution-now-google-maps