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06-21-17, 09:05 AM | #1951 |
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1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War).
1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands. 1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa.
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06-23-17, 09:28 AM | #1952 |
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1942 World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a ****e-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1943 RAF discovers Werner von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde. 1974 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space. 2016 United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in their "Brexit" referundum.
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06-24-17, 08:01 AM | #1953 |
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1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. 1966 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
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06-25-17, 10:44 AM | #1954 |
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1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"
1940 Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower & grave of Napoleon in Paris, France. 1942 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany. 1943 Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished. 1947 1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands. 1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
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06-25-17, 11:25 AM | #1955 | ||
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A little "third man syndrome" here!
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06-26-17, 10:49 AM | #1956 |
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1857 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria.
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph). 1917 First US Expeditionary Force arrives in France during World War I. 1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed. 1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco. 1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US.
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06-28-17, 09:56 AM | #1957 |
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1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan.
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI. 1919 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France. 1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War. 1967 George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding.
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06-29-17, 09:48 AM | #1958 |
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1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan.
1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe. 1944 Rommel & von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden. 1952 USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn.
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06-30-17, 09:49 AM | #1959 |
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1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die.
1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution' 1905 The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier. 1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party. 1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde. 1942 Col-gen Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine. 1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons).
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06-30-17, 03:02 PM | #1960 |
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The big naval battle of the plains: Hordes of Indians & hoards of gold!
JUNE 30 1876: The steam boat Far West carries wounded survivors all the way back to Bismarck ND from Custer's last stand. They key to understanding the battle of Little Big Horn is to comprehend the river network which formed the basis of military strategy of the Sioux and the US Army.<(enlarges) Horses(and immense buffalo herds) operate on water so all cavalry operations revolved around water hence the location of the huge Indian camp( est. 10,000) along the banks to the Little Big Horn an area suitable for a herd estimated at 20,000+ animals. After the disaster of June 25 the army's steam boat, Far West, carrying supplies to the army, switched priorities and carried 52 wounded survivors 7i0 miles over wild rivers back to Bismarck, ND the headquarters of the Seventh cavalry..an 54 hour transit, starting on the 30th, that stands to this day. The famously able captain, Grant Marsh, buried some $375,000 in gold bars entrusted to him by fearful miners to lighten the load and make room for the wounded and the firewood to make the voyage. Approximately twenty miles up the Little Bighorn from the Yellowstone River.... Marsh returned to reclaim the hoard but a mud slide had buried the site. The treasure has never been recovered.
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06-30-17, 04:34 PM | #1961 |
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Ah yes, the good old Far West.. friend of mine built it as a model almost 1 1/2 meters long. The long wooden beams with their blocks ad tackles were not only for loading/unloading, but also for stemming the hull over sandbanks (called grasshopping), it was a typical "mountain boat". The braces that held the hull up could also be adjusted to lift the hull at certain places and come clear again.. unfortunately she later hit a snag and was given up. For a river boat she had a long service time and was indeed lucky, certainly due to her captain, Mr. Marsh
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06-30-17, 06:08 PM | #1962 | |
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How the west was really won!
You left out Old Shatterhand and Winnetou; and brother horses; Hatatitla (Lightning), and Iltschi ! As conductors of biological warfare in the West, steamboats weere indispensable: http://bigskyjournal.com/fly-fishing-2013/steamboat-acomin
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07-01-17, 09:00 AM | #1963 |
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1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI).
1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!" 1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion). 1997 United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China.
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07-02-17, 07:35 AM | #1964 |
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1900 First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, at Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1940 Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion). 1943 Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126. 1943 Lt Charles Hall becomes first black pilot to shoot down a German plane. 1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback.
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07-03-17, 03:15 PM | #1965 |
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1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas.
1863 Battle of Gettysburg: Largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War. 1886 In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile. 1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Hitler. 1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it. 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628. 1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
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