This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops.

1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I

1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 marks.

1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship.

1933 First genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1659 First known cheque written (£400), now on display at Westminster Abbey.

A sort of 'check' was used by the Knights Templar. A person would approach the Templars and tell them he is travelling to X; they will issue him with a notary valued at whatever is agreed. When the person arrives at X; he can cash it in. He leave the amount at the 'bank' and collects from the destination 'bank'.

[Aktungbby]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38499883 The Templar paperwork was more "a letter of credit' and probably coded to insure legitimacy. Before the Templars, ca 804 the Chinese were using "feiquan" a two document flying cash system. In my truckin Daze drivers were given blank chck-sized drafts to be encoded with a long code number in $100 increments as we trundled arount the continental US for months at a time. They could be cashed at the fuel desk of major truck stops and my own bank which likened then to 'drafts'... The movie Robert Taylor's Ivanhoe touches upon the matter emphatically in the ransome for King Richard:

Is this enough yet?
- Not yet.

From the people of Israel,
100,000 marks of silver.

So do we fulfill our part of the pledge
to ransom Richard.

One hundred thousand marks of silver
in that scrap of nothing?

We need help for Richard
that a man can see and touch.

That scrap of nothing
is not nothing, milord.

There are merchants in Vienna
who owe sums to our people in York.

These writings call on our debtors
to pay what they owe in Austrian gold.

Can you also convert this weighty trash
to writings?

It shall be done.

[Jimbuna]

1797 Bank of England issues first £1 note.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France.

1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.

1924 Trial against Adolf Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" begins in Munich, Germany.

1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.

1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb.

[Jimbuna]

1925 Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich.

1933 The Reichstag, German parliament building, destroyed by fire; possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Martin van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist.

1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese.

1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.

1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland.

1998 Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son.

2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1925 Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich.

1998 Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son.

Tell that to Elizabeth I and II & Victoria

[Jimbuna]

1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials.

1933 On Adolf Hitler's advice, German President Paul von Hindenburg signs the Reichstag Fire Decree after the building is destroyed by fire in Berlin; this eliminates many civil liberties in Germany.

1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool, England closes.

1967 A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years.

1981 People's Republic of China throws out the Netherlands ambassador due to Dutch sales of submarines to Taiwan.

1991 Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait.

[Jimbuna]

1896 Battle of Adwa: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians in Ethopia, killing two generals and capturing General Matteo Albertone.

1913 David Beatty becomes Rear-Admiral Commanding the Royal Navy's 1st Battlecruiser Squadron.

1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic.

1917 US government releases the plain text of the "Zimmermann Telegram" to the public.

1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp.

1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic.

1953 After an all-night movie and dinner session with his top advisers, Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.

1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US

1972 Two Catholic teenagers shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary while 'joy riding' in a stolen car in Belfast.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1896 Battle of Adwa: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians in Ethopia, killing two generals and capturing General Matteo Albertone.

Considering Little Big Horn: 1876 -3,000 +- Sioux/ Cheyenne; Isandlwana 1879- 20,000 Zulu vs 1200 British and two recent bugouts: Russian and 'Merican version against Afghan Taliban...the master race has yet to get over the Soviet theory (subhuman Slavs vs Aryans): "Numbers have a cachet of their own" ... superior technology not withstanding

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic..

and so were 243 others

[Jimbuna]

1796 Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy.

1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico in Columbia.

1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor.

1888 The Convention of Constantinople signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

1915 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts.

1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocate 521 in Italy.

1974 Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up.

1991 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed.

2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: US conventional forces first deployed as part of Operation Anaconda.

[Jimbuna]

1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine. Generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.

1942 First combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber.

1943 Bethnal Green Tube disaster: 173 die in a stampede sheltering in an air raid, UK's greatest loss of civilian life in WWII (details censored till January 20 1945)

1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted.

2002 Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.

[Jimbuna]

1915 World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe.

1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe.

No longer a footnote to history I'll wager!

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1942 First combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber.

Not sure I understand that. You mean Canadian flown?