This date in history

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1857 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria.

1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph).

1917 1st US Expeditionary Force arrives in France during World War I.

1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed.

1948 US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a dougnut") speech in West Berlin.

1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career.

1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

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1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa.

1942 FBI captures 8 German saboteurs from a submarine off NY's Long Island.

1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk.

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict.

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1904 SS Norge runs aground and sinks off Rockall, North Atlantic, more than 635 die, largest maritime loss of life until Titanic.

1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI.

1919 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.

1934 Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knives).

1948 British begin airlift “Operation Plainfare” to West Berlin.

1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War.

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1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan.

1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe.

1966 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time.

1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.

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1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die.

1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'

1905 The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier.

1916 General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" the day before the Battle of the Somme began.

1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party.

1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999.

1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for first time, at Peenemunde.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons).

1950 US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops.

1971 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space).

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1908 "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help.

1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men.

1944 2,500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs.

1944 Graf (Count) Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel.

1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!"

1950 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea.

1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane.

1997 United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China.

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1816 French frigate "La Méduse" runs aground under incompetent leadership of aristocrat Viscount of Chaumareys, forcing evacuation of 400 passengers. 150 men, 1 woman are left on "la Machine," a poorly provisioned raft. 13 days later only 15 survivors remain due to starvation, riots, madness, suicide, and cannibalism.

1940 Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion).

1943 Lieutenant Charles Hall becomes first African American pilot to shoot down a German plane.

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1863 Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War.

1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Hitler.

1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it.

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-628.

1947 Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan.

1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.

1988 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290.

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1988 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290.

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1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain.

1934 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy.

1945 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.

2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan.

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1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada.

1943 Battle of Kersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks).

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biscay.

1943 US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily.

1950 US forces enter combat in the Korean War for the first time, in the Battle of Osan.

1954 B-52A bomber makes its maiden flight.

1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.

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1811:Venzuela is the first to declare independence from Spain...and a 'hell of a git they got!'

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1699 Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston.

1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam.

1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 Germans killed.

1943 US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched.

1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1957 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner.

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1535: HAVING BEEN CONVICTED ON 6/1, SIR THOMAS MORE IS EXECUTED BY BEHEADING IN THE TOWER OF LONDON...one thing is sure: there was no court of appeals in those days.

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1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.

1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova.

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-517.

1943 German Submarine U-951 sunk by depth charges, off Cape St. Vincent in the North Atlantic.

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident occured.