This date in history

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1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

https://ca.hellomagazine.com/royalty/02018011541701/queen-elizabeth-coronation-1953-photos/7

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1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

1935 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage.

1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk.

1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.

1944 Germans pull out of Rome.

1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals.

1970 Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC commercial reference ban.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

I IMAGINE HE WAS IN DENILE ABOUT HIS CAREER AT THIS POINT...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashoda_Incident

On 12 July 1898 Marchand had reached Fashoda and raised the French flag. Kitchener hurried south from Khartoum with his five gunboats, and reached Fashoda on 18 September.

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1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats.

1940 Winston Churchill's speech "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II.

1944 U505 becomes the first German submarine captured and boarded on high seas.

1944 General Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion on June 5th after receiving unfavorable weather reports.

1945 US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany.

1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US.

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1917 Ten million US men begin registering for draft in WWI.

1944 First B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure.

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion.

1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies.

1944 After receiving favourable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6.

1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me"; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie.

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1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.

1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 150,000 strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II.

1944 German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629 and U-373 sink in Bay of Biscay.

1985 Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed.

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1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the 1st king and queen of Britain to visit USA.

1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik.

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island.

1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins first World War II naval defeat of Japan.

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1965 USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles.

1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen.

1982 Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water ("Bomb Alley") by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.

1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.

1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%

2017 British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority.

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JUNE 8, 1959: THEY'LL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT SLOW POSTAL SERVICE AGAIN




1959: “Rocket mail” becomes “missile mail” when 3,000 pieces of mail are delivered by a cruise missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine.

Experiments in delivering mail by rocket had met with mixed success since the first rocket mail was sent between two Austrian villages in 1931. The first successful delivery by this method in the United States occurred in 1936, when two rockets fired from Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, landed on the New York shore about a thousand feet away.

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1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland).

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends second Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal.

1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”

1959 First ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct).

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires.

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1845 Andrew Jackson's African Grey parrot "Poll" is removed from his funeral for swearing at The Hermitage, Tennessee. Funeral attendee William Menefee Norment recorded: "Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house”

1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.

1940 German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker.

1940 Norway surrenders to Nazi Germany after 62 days of fighting.

1943 Heinrich Himmler ordered the final liquidation of Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland.

1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.

1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze.

1984 US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time.

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1900 David Beatty and 150 men from HMS Barfleur land as part of a force of 2,400 defending Tientsin from 15,000 Chinese troops plus Boxers.

1940 First attack by the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.

1987 Margaret Thatcher is first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term.

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1665 New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York.

1900 In Germany, the Reichstag pass the second Navy Bill, which calls for doubling the German Navy within 20 years.

1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam.

1944 First V-1 rocket assault on London.

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1940 Paris evacuates before German advance.

1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km.

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

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1842: Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to travel by rail, proclaiming the journey "delightful and so quick" despite her nerves. The train transported the Queen from Slough to Paddington, and was hauled by the locomotive Phlegethon driven by Daniel Gooch assisted by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The Queen used a Royal Saloon which had been constructed by the Great Western Railway in 1840. NOT TO BE OUT DONE: QUEEN ELIZABETH II RECREATED THE EVENT. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/queen-recreates-first-ever-royal-rail-journey-175-years-train/