This date in history

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1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia.

1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers' Party.

1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak.

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women.

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

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address.

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1904 The Marconi International Marine Communcation Company of London announced that the telegraphed letters CQD (come quick dammit?) would serve as a maritime distress call...it was later changed to SOS.

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1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare.

1942 WW II siege of Bataan starts.

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

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes.

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1960 The Polaris missile is tested.

1991 Saddam Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war against the US.

1999 Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate.

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1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.

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

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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.

1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created.

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1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood.

1946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time in London.

1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1806 VICE-Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson ...

Please ! he never made ' admiral' and indeed had his 'vices ' notably vanity and Lady Hamilton!

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1919 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed.

1923 French & Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations.

1964 First government report warning by US Surgeon General Luther Terry that smoking may be hazardous.

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1935: Amelia Earhart flies from Honalulu Hawaii to Oakland CA, an 18hr. flight, becoming the first person to solo the Pacific Ocean!

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1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever.

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge.

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.

1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter.

1962 Operation Chopper begins, America's first combat mission in the Vietnam War.

1966 "Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC.

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1908 Henri Farman becomes the first person to fly an observed circuit of more than 1km, winning the Grand Prix d'Aviation.

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

1942 Allied Conference on war trials.

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

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

1943 Hitler declares "Total War"

1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse Ridge, Guadalcanal.

1992 Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II

2018 Chelsea Manning, former soldier responsible for Wikileaks announces her bid to run for US Senate.

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1943 World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, withdrawal of its troops from Guadalcanal.

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

1960 US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant.

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1902 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the walls of Riyadh and takes the city, marking the beginning of the Third Saudi State.

1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church).

1943 First transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught.

1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed.

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

1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp.

1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic.

1991 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so.