This date in history

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1917 Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WW I

1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II

1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia.

1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.

1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos.

1956 US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll.

1964 First nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands.

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1906 The Wright brothers' flying machine is patented

1981 - England The Yorkshire Ripper The Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been found guilty of killing 13 women and the attempted murder of 7 others. and is sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail.



1989 - China Tiananmen Square in Beijing
Students have now occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing for the 10th day protesting for the pro-democracy movement in China , the total number now exceeds 45,000 and conditions are worsening and the Government in China is considering ways to quell the protesters after the military has stated they will not attack the protesters.






1927 - China Earthquake
An earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter scale strikes Xining in the eastern part of Qinghai province It was one of the deadliest earthquakes on record with a total count of 200,000 deaths.



1939 - Germany "Pact Of Steel" Signed By Germany and ImPact of Steel, known formally as the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy signed. The Pact was a declaration of continuing trust and cooperation between Germany and Italy and a joint military and economic policy.

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1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" in Berlin, Germany.

1940 UK Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city.

1947 First US ballistic missile fired.

1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.

2013 British Army Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered near the Royal Artillery Barracks in London by two Islamic terrorists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.

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http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2610024&postcount=1

Originally Posted by GOLDEN RIVET

Wonder how many found themselves in that exact scenario IRL?

1968: USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and the sixth vessel of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was lost on 22 May 1968, with 99 crewmen dying in the incident. It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve and the Soviet submarine K-129.

The secondary Navy investigation – using extensive photographic, video, and eyewitness inspections of the wreckage in 1969 – suggested that Scorpion's hull was crushed by implosion forces as it sank below crush depth. The Structural Analysis Group, which included Naval Ship Systems Command's Submarine Structures director Peter Palermo, plainly saw that the torpedo room was intact, though it had been pinched by excessive sea pressure. The operations compartment collapsed at frame 33, this being the king frame of the hull, reaching its structural limit first. The conical/cylindrical transition piece at frame 67 followed instantly. The boat was broken in two by massive hydrostatic pressure at an estimated depth of 1,530 feet (470 m). The operations compartment was largely obliterated by sea pressure, and the engine room had telescoped 50 ft (15 m) forward into the hull due to collapse pressure, when the cone-to-cylinder transition junction failed between the auxiliary machine space and the engine room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)

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1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde - are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana.

1939 Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor)

1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary.

1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones.

1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.

1982 Falklands Conflict: HMS Antelope sunk.

1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina.

1985 President Ronald Reagan awards Jimmy Stewart the Presidential Medal of Freedom and promotes him to Major General on the Retired List.

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1941 German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive.

1982 Falklands Conflict: Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram are bombed in San Carlos Water, but the bombs fail to explode in all cases.

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1915 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties.

1948 Polish war hero Witold Pilecki is executed by communist police after a show trial in Warsaw.

1953 First atomic cannon electronically fired at Frenchman Flat, Nevada.

1982 Falklands Conflict: HMS Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor hit by Exocet missiles, the former sinking.

2017 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004.

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1964: ALI DEFEATS LISTON; NEAL LEIFER'S ICONIC PHOTO SAYS IT ALL<A SNIPER OF A FOTO SHOT https://slate.com/culture/2015/05/ali-liston-50th-anniversary-the-true-story-behind-neil-leifers-perfect-photo.html

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1941 Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sight German battleship Bismarck.

1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo.

1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb.

1956 A fire on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, kills 103 crew.

1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14.

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1897: Bram Stoker's Dracula is published...talk about all-time successful movie 'franchises' BBY!

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1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history.

1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage.

1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII

1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force.

1942 Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid.

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1923 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.

1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.

1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up.

1940 British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway.

1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot.

1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

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1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition.

1982 Pentagon plans first strategy to fight a nuclear war.

1982 Falklands Conflict: Atlantic Conveyor sinks under tow.

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1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor.

1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington.

1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam.

1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO.

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1431: JOAN OF ARC IS BURNED AT THE STAKE ESSENTIALLY FOR 'CROSS DRESSING'... A SURE SIGN OF HERESY IN THOSE DAYS BUT NOT IN TIME TO SAVE ENGLISH POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS IN FRANCE LITERALLY IN ROUENS! EVEN HER OPPONENTS WERE NOT HAPPY:

An English soldier also constructed a small cross that she put in the front of her dress. After she died, the English raked back the coals to expose her charred body so that no one could claim she had escaped alive. They then burned the body twice more, to reduce it to ashes and prevent any collection of relics, and cast her remains into the Seine River. The executioner, Geoffroy Thérage, later stated that he "greatly feared to be damned".