This date in history

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1959:the term ' beatnik' is coined bySan Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen to refer to members of the pre-hippie counterculture; the term derived from the literary "Beat Generation" and the Soviet launch of the second Sputnik spacecraft...:

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1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz.

1945 Nazis begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald.

1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen, Ruhl, Siebens and Viebahn freed.

1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands.

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1913 Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.

1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day).

1945 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories).

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1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.

1943 Allies bomb Mortsel, Belgium's worse lose of life during WWII (936 civilians).

1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat.

1944 140 Lancasters bomb aircraft factory in Toulouse.

1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m.

1992 Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which would become the longest siege in modern warfare.

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1916 German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare.

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1945 Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa.

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1926 Mussolini is shot at 3 times by Violet Gibson in Rome, she only hits him once in the nose.

1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa.

1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid.

1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, super battleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk.

1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops).

1999 The World Trade Organisation rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

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1940 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink British aircraft carrier Glorious.

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1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection.

1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die.

1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle.

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.

2002 Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets.

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1858 "Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage.

1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons.

1998 The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments.

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1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy.

1912 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY.

1941 Germany blitzes Coventry, England.

1942 US Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal established.

1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen.

1950 US B-29 bomber shot down over Latvia.

1951 US President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas McArthur of command in Korea.

1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes in World War II begins in Jerusalem, Israel.

1974 WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested.

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1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.

1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.

1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands.

1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)

1966 First B-52 bombing on North Vietnam.

2009 U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth.

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1904 A squadron of the Russian fleet is decoyed out of Port Arthur by Japanese maneuvers, when they realize they are sailing into a trap; their battleship Petropavlovsk hits a mine and sinks, with a loss of 700 men.

1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later Royal Air Force).

1940 Second battle of Narvik; 3 German destroyers and one U-boat sunk by the Royal Navy, 5 more German destroyers scuttled.

1960 France becomes fourth nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara.

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1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington.

1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland.

1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast.

1943 A JN-25 decrypt by American intelligence detailing a forthcoming visit by Marshal Admiral Yamamoto to Balalae Island results in his plane shot down 4 days later.

1944 General Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

1945 American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace.

1949 International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment.

1960 First underwater launching of Polaris missile.

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THE GUILTY PARTY SPOTTED MORNING OF TITANIC SINKING WITH RED PAINT AT BASE <
The picture was taken the morning of April 15th, 1912, by M. Linoenewald, Chief Steward of the German liner Prinz Adalbert a few miles south of where the Titanic had gone down taking 1,517 souls with her just hours earlier. The news of the disaster hadn’t reached the liner yet, but the Chief Steward noticed red paint on the iceberg and took the photo out of interest. In a statement by Linoenewald and three other crew members, they said “on one side red paint was plainly visible, which has the appearance of having been made by the scraping of a vessel on the iceberg”. HOWEVER....But a photo of another iceberg with a red gash was taken by the captain of a ship searching for bodies in the vicinity a few weeks later. So maybe this is the bastard....This next photo was taken by a Captain De Carteret of the Minia, one of a few cable ships – vessels ordinarily used to lay deep sea cables, such as those for telecommunications – sent to the site of the shipwreck to recover corpses and debris. The captain claimed this was the only iceberg in the area, and the red paint was again a clear sign that a ship had recently struck it. There's some disagreement over whether this was the only iceberg in the area, but it certainly seems likely that something had hit it, and the odds are good that that something was the Titanic.> ....AND THAT'S IF TITANIC REALLY SANK AT ALL https://theunredacted.com/titanic-co...at-never-sank/

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1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people.

1942 George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta.

1945 British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

1945 FDR buried in grounds of Hyde Park home.

1945 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz.

1952 The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress prototype.