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Old 01-16-19, 06:59 AM   #2626
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1412 The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.

1917 "Zimmermann Telegram" is sent from Germany to Mexico, stating in the event of the US entering World War I on the allied side, Mexico would be given Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Intercepted by British intelligence and partially deciphered by the next day. It's release in March shifts US public opinion in favor of war against Germany.

1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad.

1944 General Eisenhower takes command of Allied Invasion Force in London.

1945 Adolf Hitler moves into the Fuhrerbunker, his underground bunker in Berlin.

1957 3 B-52s leave California for first non-stop round world flights.

1957 Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool, England, home of The Beatles' first appearance.
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Old 01-17-19, 06:41 AM   #2627
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1944 British corvette HMS Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean.

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War.
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Old 01-18-19, 06:35 AM   #2628
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1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony.

1911 First shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania).

1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege would not be fully lifted until a year later.

1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV.
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Old 01-19-19, 06:48 AM   #2629
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1783 William Pitt becomes the youngest Prime Minister of England at age 24.

1915 The first German air raids on Great Britain inflict minor casualties.

1945 The Red Army captures Lodz, Krakow, and Tarnow.

1983 Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Gestapo chief of Lyons, France, during the German occupation, is arrested in Bolivia for his crimes against humanity four decades earlier.

1993 Fleetwood Mac reunite to play “Don’t Stop” at Bill Clinton’s first Inaugural gala.
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Old 01-20-19, 08:07 AM   #2630
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1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the first Opium War.

1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford make camp at Isandlwana.

1921 British submarine HMS K5 (which was unusually equipped with steam turbines) sinks with 57 crew during exercises in the Bay of Biscay.

1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews.

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.

2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president.
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Old 01-21-19, 12:41 PM   #2631
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1919 Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence.

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad.

1943 Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Royal Navy, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

1944 447 German bombers attack London.

1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg.

1954 USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched on the Thames River in Connecticut.

1968 US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in Greenland.

1976 Supersonic Concorde has its first commercial flight.
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Old 01-22-19, 08:34 AM   #2632
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1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain.

1879 Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa.

1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.

1941 British and Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians.
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Old 01-22-19, 11:45 AM   #2633
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1879 Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa.

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"In a few seconds we distinctly saw the guns fired again, one after the other, sharp. This was done several times – a pause, and then a flash – flash! The sun was shining on the camp at the time, and then the camp looked dark, just as if a shadow was passing over it. The guns did not fire after that, and in a few minutes all the tents had disappeared." Nearly the same moment is described in a Zulu warrior's account.
"The sun turned black in the middle of the battle; we could still see it over us, or should have thought we had been fighting till evening. Then we got into the camp, and there was a great deal of smoke and firing. Afterwards the sun came out bright again." The time of the solar eclipse on that day is calculated as 2:29pm.
ANYWAY YOU LOOK AT IT, AN ECLIPSE IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE AGAINST CONSERVATIVLY 20,OOOO CLOSE-QUARTER COMBAT TRAINED ROBUST ZULUS HAS GOT TO BE A REAL DOWNER....
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Old 01-23-19, 04:55 AM   #2634
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
JANUARY 23

On this day in 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs–now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees.

The story of the Frisbee began in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871. Students from nearby universities would throw the empty pie tins to each other, yelling “Frisbie!” as they let go. In 1948, Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the disc called the “Flying Saucer” that could fly further and more accurately than the tin pie plates. After splitting with Franscioni, Morrison made an improved model in 1955 and sold it to the new toy company Wham-O as the “Pluto Platter”–an attempt to cash in on the public craze over space and Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs).

In 1958, a year after the toy’s first release, Wham-O–the company behind such top-sellers as the Hula-Hoop, the Super Ball and the Water Wiggle–changed its name to the Frisbee disc, misspelling the name of the historic pie company. A company designer, Ed Headrick, patented the design for the modern Frisbee in December 1967, adding a band of raised ridges on the disc’s surface–called the Rings–to stabilize flight. By aggressively marketing Frisbee-playing as a new sport, Wham-O sold over 100 million units of its famous toy by 1977.


Today, at least 60 manufacturers produce the flying discs–generally made out of plastic and measuring roughly 20-25 centimeters (8-10 inches) in diameter with a curved lip. The official Frisbee is owned by Mattel Toy Manufacturers, who bought the toy from Wham-O in 1994.
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1897 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.

1945 World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.

1962 British intellegence officer Kim Philby defects to USSR.

1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.
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1915 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland.

1943 Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death.

1943 Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
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1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany.

1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.

1974 Dr Christiaan Barnard transplants first heterotopic heart transplant (adding donor heart without removal of old).

1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US.
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1907 The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III rifle officially introduced into British Military Service, second oldest military rifle still in official use.

1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead)

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp.

1968 Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die.

1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
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1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.

1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed.

1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland.
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1915 First US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK).

1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin.

1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland.

1958 The Lego company patents their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after lift off from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed.
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