This date in history

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1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron.

1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine.

1941 US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II.

1941 London: Dutch government-in-exile declares war on Japan.

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1980 Annie Leibovitz has a photo-shoot with John Lennon, the last person to professionally photograph him before his death.

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1941 Adolf Hitler orders US ships to be torpedoed.

1948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide.

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1926 2nd part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published.

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divoree Wallis Simpson.

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z ) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die.

1942 An early report the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states.

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1395 John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in late medieval England's only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown).

1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing).

1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1395 John "Eleanor" Rykener, a male cross-dressing prostitute, is brought to court in London for "committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in late medieval England's only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown).

ACTUALLY:''illud vitium detestabile, nephandum, et ignominiosum committentes,'' THERE WAS NO VERDICT HE ESCAPED THE BISHOP'S PRISON (ECCLESIASTIC COURT)....CONVENIENTLY AS HIS CLIENTEL INCLUDED KNIGHTS, NUNS, AND....SCHOLARS. WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THAT 'SOPER LANE AT CHEAPSIDE' WHERE THIS ALL TOOK PLACE HAD A NAME CHANGE AFTER THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON TO....'QUEEN STREET'!!!??? SO NUTHIN' GOOD EVER GOES OUTTA STYLE

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1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations).

1945 Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death.

1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.

1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.

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1636 The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.

1939 Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee.

1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.

1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann.

2002 Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.

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1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York.

1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea.

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1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death.

1941 USS Swordfish becomes first US submarine to sink a Japanese ship.

1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel.

1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star.

1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel.

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1773 Boston tea party incident - Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbour in protest against British imposed Tea Act.

1907 As a gesture of the US's new presence as a world power, President Theodore Roosevelt sends the 'Great White Fleet' on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally.

1914 World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.

1944 Nazi Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the 'Battle of the Bulge'

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1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.

1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.

1988 USS Tennessee, first sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned.

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1793 Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.

1944 US Destroyers Hull, Spence & Monaghan sink in typhoon (Philippines).

1997 HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.

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1783 William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister at age 24.

1941 German submarine U-574 sinks.

1941 Adolf Hitler takes complete command of German Army.

1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander.

1983 The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.

1984 Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration to transfer Hong Kong back to China in 1997.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.

She lived a pretty healthy life for the next twelve years, but became ill with a viral infection in her lung and died in August, 1998. She was 47. PRETTY GOOD FOR ALL THREE MAJOR ORGANS AT THE SAME TIME; THE HEART AND LUNGS HAD TO BE DONE FIRST TO PREVENT A HEART ATTACK FROM THE LIVER TRANSPLANT ALONE.

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1915 Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove.

1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early, having served only nine months of five-year sentence for "Beer Hall Putsch"

1941 World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.

1944 Battle of Bastogne: Germans surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)

1957 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for National Service.

1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR.

1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners.

1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins.