This date in history

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland.

I'LL DRINK TO THAT
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[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

I'LL DRINK TO THAT
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987), was a prominent politician in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, he served in this position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually was convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide.

[Jimbuna]

1940 German blitzkrieg conquest of France began by crossing Muese River.

1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy.

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender.

[Jimbuna]

1787 Arthur Phillip sets sail with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia.

1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement of the American Civil War, Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company, 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed.

1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain.

1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons.

1946 US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.

1949 First British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its first test flight.

[Jimbuna]

1890 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to sub-lieutenant.

1927 Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.

1943 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

1944 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler.

1945 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.

1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered.

[Jimbuna]

1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

1914 US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off'

1921 British Legion formed to care for ex-servicemen.

1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.

1943 Halifax bombers sink U-463.

1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz.

1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan.

1945 The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.

1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

[Jimbuna]

1942 First transport of British and Dutch prisoners to South Burma.

1943 SS General Jürgen Stroop orders the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, ending a month of Jewish resistance. 13,000 Jews have died, about half burnt alive or suffocated, German casualties less than 300.

1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs.

1944 First of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.

1958 Major Irwin, USAF, flies a Lockheed Starfight F-104 A to a record 1,404.18 MPH.

1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.

1991 Queen Elizabeth II becomes first British monarch to address US congress.

[Jimbuna]

1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street.

1897 The first successful submarine that can run submerged for any considerable distance and combines electric and gasoline engines is launched in the USA by its designer John Philip Holland.

1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway.

1943 Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th.

1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.

1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die.

2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef.

2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef.

THE 'GREAT CARRIER REEF' IS QUITE A SCUBA ATRACTION AND RESTING PLACE FOR THE ASHES OF DECEASED MILITARY SERVICE PERSONNEL.

In the 10 years since the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was intentionally sunk in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, it has become both a top international dive destination and an underwater memorial to thousands of veterans who served on the famed carrier that is now the world's largest artificial reef. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/science/earth/19ship.html

PRIOR TO ITS TRANSFER TO FLORIDA IT WAS BERTHED AT MARE ISLAND VALLEJO CA TO HAVE THOROUGH CLEAN-UP TO PREVENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES FROM ENTERING THE GULF MARINE ECOLOGY. I USED TO SEE IT AS I BOARDED THE VALLEJO FERRY DAILY TO/FRO COMMUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO. SHE WAS IN THE ROBIN WILLIAMS FILM: 'WHAT DREAMS MAY COME'. PART OF THE 1997 FILM'S 'HELL SEQUENCE' WAS FILMED ABOARD THE DECREPIT HULL AT MARE ISLAND.
https://www.hazegray.org/features/mareisland/

[Jimbuna]

1917 First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, are ordered to France.

1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy.

1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea.

1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

[Jimbuna]

1916 Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun.

1941 New German battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.

1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews).

1943 Churchill pledges Britain's full support to US against Japan.

1959 The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed.

1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy.

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5/18/80: 08:32 AM: 38 YEARS AND ONE DAY...STILL BOGGLES THE MIND! AND THIS WAS A MODERATE 'VESUVIUS LEVEL 5' BLAST.

[Jimbuna]

1918 First electrically propelled warship (New Mexico).

1940 German General Guderian's tanks reach the English Channel.

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1899: Jacob German was arrested on this day in 1899 for driving at the blistering speed of 12 mph. The speed limit he blasted past? Eight mph between streets, and 4 mph around corners. He is unlucky enough to be remembered forever, as the New York Times recounted 115 years ago, as "the first man arrested for running an automobile too fast." What's so fascinating about German's arrest is how utterly strange it sounds today. His offending speed is what we'd consider an unbearably crawl. He was driving an electric car. And he was chased down for speeding by a policeman on bicycle. The police officer on a bicycle observed the 26 year old Mr. German speeding and promptly arrested him and imprisoned him in the East 22nd Street station house. https://gizmodo.com/on-this-day-in-1899-the-first-speeding-arrest-happened-1579044541

[Jimbuna]

1917 Leo Pinckney becomes the first American drafted during WWI.

1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic.

1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland.

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.

1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores.