This date in history

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1715 London's Thames River freezes over.

1941 "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, the rest are exterminated.

1944 US bombers based on Saipan begin 1st attack on Tokyo.

1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas.

1954 Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened.

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1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States.

1876 Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

1940 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.

1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco.

1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

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1778 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).

1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America.

1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die.

1916 Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Woodrow Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'

1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt.

1941 Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor.

1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria.

2017 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 2nd in season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to claim his 4th World F1 Drivers Championship; wins title by 46 points from Sebastian Vettel.

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1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and submarines so Germans cannot seize them.

1944 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed.

1967 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time.

2017 8 Donkeys freed from jail after 4 days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh, India for eating plants.

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1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates.

1922 Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives first skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called.

1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.

1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death.

1974 John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC).

1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica, killing 257 people, making it New Zealand's deadliest peacetime disaster.

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2008 After Thanks Giving and the 2008 SubSim meet the GWX Team goes into full testing mode for the upcoming release of GWX3. The install is a prime focus and under goes extensive testing and revisions. The Command of the GWX Team is reverted back to Kpt. Lehman for the final release.

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1917 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims.

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet.

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1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons).

1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama.

1944 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched.

1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

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1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews.

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German supply ship Python.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war.

1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day).

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

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1941 US Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul.

1941 Japanese Marshal Admiral Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor.

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1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over.

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1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, first President to travel outside US while in office.

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1872 Ship the Mary Celeste is discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean.

1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor.

1945 Flight 19 the "Lost Squadron" of 5 torpedo bombers and 14 airmen is lost east of Florida in the supposed Bermuda Triangle.

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1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700.

1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact).

1941 Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore.

1956 Against the background of the Soviet invasion of Hungary the nations square off at the Melbourne Olympics in a famous water polo match; game called off with Hungary leading 4-0 and near riot halted by police; Hungary goes on to win gold medal.

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1917 The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks).

1940 The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew.

1941 Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu.

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

1941 First Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward).

2015 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US.