This date in history

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1940 - "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins.

1943 - Battle of Kursk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks).

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1885: Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) dies, age 63, at Wilton, New York. With his customary tenacity in spite of his throat cancer, he had just completed his autobiography Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant,

Up to the Battle of Shiloh, I, as well as thousands of other citizens, believed that the rebellion against the Government would collapse suddenly and soon, if decisive victory could be gained over any of its armies… After Shiloh, I gave up all idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest… The Northern troops were never more cruel than the necessities of war required.

A financial and literary success and required reading for any student of the Civil War...Grant's body was laid to rest in Riverside Park, first in a temporary tomb, and then—twelve years later, on April 17, 1897—in the General Grant National Memorial, also known as "Grant's Tomb". The tomb is the largest mausoleum in North America. Attendance at the New York funeral topped 1.5 million. Said Mark Twain:

"I had been comparing the memoirs with Caesar's Commentaries... I was able to say in all sincerity, that the same high merits distinguished both books—clarity of statement, directness, simplicity, unpretentiousness, manifest truthfulness, fairness and justice toward friend and foe alike, soldierly candor and frankness, and soldierly avoidance of flowery speech. I placed the two books side by side upon the same high level, and I still think that they belonged there."

Lincoln on his game changing Commander:

"He's the quietest little fellow you ever saw. He makes the least fuss of any man you ever knew. I believe he had been in this room a minute or so before I knew he was here. Grant is the first general I have had. You know how it's been with all the rest. As soon as I put a man in command of the army, they all wanted me to be the general. Now it isn't so with Grant. He hasn't told me what his plans are. I don't know and I don't want to know. I am glad to find a man who can go ahead without me. He doesn't ask impossibilities of me, and he's the first general I've had that didn't."

[/QUOTE] Personal friend and West Point classmate, Confederate Lt. General James Longstreet... on hearing of Grant's promotion to Command of the Union armies:

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war"

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1938 - Instant coffee invented.

1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana.

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1915: On July 24, 1915 the SS Eastland rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was to become the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great LAkes.
Following the disaster, the Eastland was salvaged and sold to the United States Navy. After restorations and modifications the Eastland was designated as a gunboat and renamed the USS Wilmette. She was used primarily as a training vessel on the Great Lakes, and was scrapped following WW II.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland

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1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of English uniting kingdoms of England and Scotland.

1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive.

1943 - Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on authority King Victor Emmanuel II.

1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.

1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby is born at Oldham General Hospital England.

1997 - Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos.

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1953 - Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime.

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27 of July of 1940: "Eh... What's up, doc?" Bugs Bunny is officially born! Warner Bros. had already done cartoons (Merry Melodies) with a hare/bunny character before, but the final and official final drawing of the character was debuted in 1940, The Wild Hare cartoon.

Personal note, for me, it can not be better and sometimes craziest cartoons that the merry melodies/looney toons series.

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Originally Posted by Rhodes

27 of July of 1940: "Eh... What's up, doc?" Bugs Bunny is officially born! Warner Bros. had already done cartoons (Merry Melodies) with a hare/bunny character before, but the final and official final drawing of the character was debuted in 1940, The Wild Hare cartoon.

Personal note, for me, it can not be better and sometimes craziest cartoons that the merry melodies/looney toons series.

From which we derive the idiom??! http://www.waywordradio.org/wild-hair/ 1967: president Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting...on the same day that black militant H. Rap Brown, author of his autobiography Die ******, Die, declares "Violence is as American as cherry pie!" H. Rap lived up to his idiom... Now Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, former Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from 1968 a member of the Black Panther Party, he was heavily involved with organizations that espoused a Black Power ideology. He is in Federal supermax prison for the murder of a police officer in 2002: life without parole-age 71. One less wild hair on the loose; but it got his book republished.

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1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.

1866 - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).

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1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England.

1914 - Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of WWI.

2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

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1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1949 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends.

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1940-A bombing lull ends the first phase of the Battle of Britain.

1967-General William Westmoreland claims that he is winning the war in Vietnam, but needs more men.

2003-The last of the uniquely shaped "old style" Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.

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1869 - The Charles, considered the world’s first "oil tanker", departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil.

1935 - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution.

1945 - Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die.

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30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.

1961 - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant.

2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.

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1930: the radio show The Shadow makes its debut: