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1864 Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga.

KIND OF A TREND IN THEM-THAR DAYS; THE PRESUMPTION OF 'SUPERIOR' MODERN ARMED WHITE PEOPLE OVER 'INFERIOR' LITTLE BROWN PEOPLE IN THE QUEST FOR EMPIRE.... LITTLE BIG HORN 1876> 1879-ISANDLWANA>
AND 1896-ADOWA>
http://www.burnpit.us/2016/03/battle-adowa-ethiopians-defeat-italian-invasion

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2008: Albert Hofmann DIES ON THIS DATE AT AGE 102!!! (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) He was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide(LSD). Hofmann was also the first person to isolate, synthesize, and name the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin. He 'mini dosed' on LSD till the end of his life; In 2007, he shared first place, alongside Tim Berners-Lee, in a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses, published by The Telegraph newspaper. Whatever he was on, I want some too! ...just to create more interesting....
'pillow talk' BBY!>

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1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America.

1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconson.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) calls for crusade against the Bolsheviks.

1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin.

1945 Soviet Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp.

1945 Record 48 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.

1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city.

1975 North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.

1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London.

1993 The World Wide Web source code is released by CERN, making the software freely available to all.

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1707 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila.

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight.

1945 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army.

1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.

1946 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed British supreme commander.

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.

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1945 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria.

1945 Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin and General Weidling surrenders.

1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men.

2011 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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1915 John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields"

1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air Force in East Sea, 5,800 killed - one of largest maritime losses of life.

1947 Japan's post-war constitution goes into effect, granting universal suffrage, stripping Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power and outlawing Japan's right to make war.

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1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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1945 World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.

1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers.

1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building.

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1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die).

1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler).

1954 Roger Bannister of the UK becomes the 1st person to run a 4 minute mile, recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road, Oxford.

1962 First nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen).

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1765 HMS Victory launched; Admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, 40 years later.

1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed.

1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.

1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3).

1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion.

1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed.

1945 Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.

1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death.

1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu.

1954 US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership of NATO.

1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.

1999 Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

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1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes killing 679 German soldiers.

1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, leads to the creation of Remembrance Day.

1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean.

1942 Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea.

1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"

1945 German General Von Keitel formally surrenders to Marshal Georgy Zhukov and the Soviets in Berlin.

1945 V-E Day; WWII ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender.

1947 Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki, who had volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to gain information about the Holocaust, is arrested by Polish communist police.

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...with wealth gathered from plunder in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire having governed Lima; He was admitted into the prestigious Order of Santiago and "granted the right to conquer Florida". His share was awarded to him by the King of Spain, and he received 724 marks of gold, 17,740 pesos On May 8, 1541, CONQUISTADOR, HERNANDO DESOTO's expedition reaches the Mississippi River and crosses it in search of more gold.... the first Europeans to see and cross the mighty Mississippi River. De Soto died of a fever on May 21, 1542, in the native village of Guachoya (historical sources disagree as to whether de Soto died near present-day McArthur, Arkansas, or in Louisiana) on the western bank of the Mississippi. Louisiana erected a historical marker at the estimated site. According to one source, de Soto's men hid his corpse in blankets weighted with sand and sank it in the middle of the Mississippi River during the night. A rich man by any standard, he should have stayed in Spain. It is important to note the unfortunate negative impact made by the Spanish explorer. The indigenous peoples encountered by de Soto and his men were exposed to European diseases such as measles, smallpox and chickenpox, for which they had no immunity, causing massive loss of life amongst the Native Americans. Mass murder -biological warfare- in pursuit of stolen riches if you will. Nevertheless, de Soto’s records and maps not only greatly added to Europe’s knowledge of the New World but also provided information on the practices and culture of Native Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans. https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/hernando-de-soto/

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1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen.

1945 Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army.

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1797 First US Navy ship, the "United States," is launched.

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

1940 The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.

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

1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam.

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1749 British parliament accepts Consolidation Act, to reorganise the Royal Navy.

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1985 56 die and at least 265 are injured at Bradford City football ground in the worst fire in English football history.