This date in history

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1830 First American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations.

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed.

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed.

1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador.

1916 Transport ship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1,000 die.

1943 Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany.

1949 USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR.

1962 US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba.

1966 The Beatles' last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco).

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1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1914 First German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed.

1918 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia.

1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so.

1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.

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General Mac Arthur had to drive down a blvd with ten thousand Japanese troops pointing bayonets on his first trip to Japan



1945: MacArthur arrives in Japan
General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan to oversee the formal surrender ceremony and to organize the postwar Japanese government.

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[QUOTEJIMBUNA]1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time.
[/QUOTE] the king should have listened....and ducked

In the early evening of 25 March 1199, Richard was walking around the castle perimeter without his chainmail, investigating the progress of sappers on the castle walls. Missiles were occasionally shot from the castle walls, but these were given little attention. One defender, in particular, amused the king greatly—a man standing on the walls, crossbow in one hand, the other clutching a frying pan he had been using all day as a shield to beat off missiles. He deliberately aimed at the king, which the king applauded; however, another crossbowman then struck the king in the left shoulder near the neck. He tried to pull this out in the privacy of his tent but failed; a surgeon called a "butcher" by Howden, removed it, "carelessly mangling" the King's arm in the process.

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1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, is found in Whitechapel , in London's East End.

1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz.

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.

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1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig.

1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David.

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan).

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1922 President Ebert declares "Deutschland Uber Alles" the German national anthem.

1942 German troops enter Stalingrad.

1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US).

1958 U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.

1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well).

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1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.

1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become first warship to circumnavigate globe.

1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion).

1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.

1941 First use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war).

1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp.

1971 John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return.

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1884 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.

1923 Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

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1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war.

1915 Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership.

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany.

1960 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] wins Olympic light heavyweight gold medal.

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1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World.

1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II.

1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London.

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1871 Bay of Biscay: British warship HMS Captain capsizes, 500 killed.

1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy.

1940 Beginning of the Blitz, the German Luftwaffe bomb London for first of 57 consecutive nights.

1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

1976 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine).

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1976 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine).

I KNOW HOW THAT FEELS.... (NOT SO FINE)