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09-08-18, 05:35 AM | #2491 |
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1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1.
1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII. 1944 First V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp. 1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged. 1994 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin.
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09-08-18, 10:18 AM | #2492 | |||
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HIGHGATES DIE IN THREES
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In 2000, the parish council in Highgate’s home village of Shoreham replaced its war memorial plaque bearing the names of those who had fallen during the war of 1914-1918 as the original had become worn. After some debate, the council voted not to include Highgate’s name. However, a space was left should, at some point in the future, the people of Shoreham want his name added. In November 2006, the UK government pardoned all 306 servicemen executed in the First World War but, to this day, the name Thomas Highgate still does not feature on Shoreham’s war memorial. <THE 'SHOT AT DAWN MEMORIAL' AT STAFFORDSHIRE.
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09-09-18, 07:08 AM | #2493 |
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1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI).
1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes. 1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Roma. 2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
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09-10-18, 12:12 PM | #2494 |
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1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.
1943 German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of Vatican City. 1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" 1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis. 1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
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09-11-18, 01:12 PM | #2495 |
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2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,752 people.
2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people. 2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board.
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09-12-18, 07:28 AM | #2496 |
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1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism.
1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction. 1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso.
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09-13-18, 09:29 AM | #2497 |
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1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton.
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09-14-18, 06:46 AM | #2498 |
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1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and the fires start, extinguished by the 19th.
1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches. 1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1.
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09-15-18, 06:57 AM | #2499 |
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1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow.
1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme. 1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts. 1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden. 1940 Climax of the Battle of Britain, tide turns as Luftwaffe loses 56 aircraft, RAF 28. 1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal. 1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs. 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph. 1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea. 1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched.
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09-16-18, 08:26 AM | #2500 |
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1747 French troops occupy Bergen op Zoom (I lived there in the nineties).
1940 Luftwaffe attacks central London. 1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed. 1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled. 1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
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09-17-18, 12:58 PM | #2501 |
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1916 The Red Baron [Manfred von Richthofen], WWI flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich. 1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die. 1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain. 1944 Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine.
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09-18-18, 10:37 AM | #2502 |
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1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed.
1939 William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast. 1942 The order for 'extermination through labour' is approved by Otto Thierack, Nazi minister of justice. 1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.
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09-18-18, 12:03 PM | #2503 | |||
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1961: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld, THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS IS KILLED WHEN HIS AIRCRAFT IS SHOT DOWN IN THE BELGIAN CONGO
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09-19-18, 08:04 AM | #2504 |
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1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France.
1939 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin. 1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. 1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). 1945 Kim Il-sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea. 1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.
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09-20-18, 08:10 AM | #2505 |
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1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.
1939 British navy captures German U-27 boat. 1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US. 1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland. 1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.
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