This date in history

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1595 William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is thought to have been first performed. Officially published early 1597.

1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge valour in the face of the enemy (United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries).

1916 First bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place.

1917 British submarine K13 sank in Gaire Loch, Scotland; 32 of her crew died.

1943 New Zealand minesweeper Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal.

1943 U.S. cruiser "Chicago" is heavily damaged by Japanese bombers on the first day of the Battle of Rennell Island.

1944 285 German bombers attack London.

1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.

2002 US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" an "Axis of Evil", which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

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1917 British submarine K13 sank in Gaire Loch, Scotland; 32 of her crew died.

WHAT A DREADFUL NUMBER OF ERRORS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_K13 INCLUDING NOT LISTENING TO THE MAID:

Two men were seen on the surface by Annie MacIntyre, a maid in a hotel a mile or so away, but her report was ignored. 57 hours after the accident. 32 crew died in the accident and 48 were rescued. 31 were expected to be still on the submarine, but only 29 were found, and it was concluded that the maid had indeed seen two people escaping from the engine room. They were later identified as Engineer-Lieutenant Arthur Lane and Fairfield foreman John Steel. Lane's body was recovered from the Clyde two months later, Steel's body was never found.

<A memorial to the disaster was erected in Carlingford, New South Wales, Australia, paid for by the widow of Charles Freestone, a leading telegraphist on K13 who survived the accident to later emigrate and prosper in Australia. The memorial was unveiled on 10 September 1961 and has the inscription "This memorial has been created in memory of those officers and men of the Commonwealth who gave their lives in submarines while serving the cause of freedom." Set inside a pool of water surrounded by stone, it is composed of large (taller than a man) white letters saying "K13". It is called the "K13" memorial in particular memory of those lost in HM Submarine K13.

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1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.

1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen.

1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)

1943 Adolf Hitler promotes Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th Army, to Field Marshal in the hope that he will not surrender.

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean.

1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die.

1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral.

1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'

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1915 First (German) poison gas attack, against Russians.

1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ships.

1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1943 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.

1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June.

1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb.

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1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

1917 German Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war.

1942 Second Norwegian government of Quisling forms.

1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier.

1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie.

1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon.

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

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1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York).

1943 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II

1954 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)

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1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

1944 United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.

1945 Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.

1959 "The Day the Music Died" plane crash kills musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, J. P. Richardson and pilot near Clear Lake Iowa.

1971 NYPD officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust while his fellow officers stood outside and failed to call for assistance.

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1919 Navy Cross, Tiffany Cross Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Medal (United States Navy) established.

1938 Adolf Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazis in key posts.

1945 Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of the war.

2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.

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1783 Britain's King GeorgeIII declares a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War. In the 20 20 hindsight of the 20th century and two world wars, a brilliant decision...PERHAPS!

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1918 First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson.

1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".

1969 US population reaches 200 million.

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1819 Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading port.

1919 The first day of the Weimar Republic which, because of its support of the Treaty of Versailles, does not receive proper allegiance from the German nation.

1943 First Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.

1991 The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

1992 Maastricht Treaty signed by 12 countries from the European Community (EC) to create the European Union (EU)

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1906 Without warning, Japanese torpedo boats make a night attack on Russian ships near naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria; confusion because no declaration of war given.

1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374.

1942 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII)

1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

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1587: TROUBLESOME MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, IMPRISIONED FOR 18 YEARS IS FINALLY JUDICIALLY MURDERED BY HER COUSIN QUEEN ELIZABETH I AT FATHERINGHAY CASTLE'S GREAT HALL. < AS SKETCHED BY EYEWITNESS ROBERT BEALE, CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL:

In November 1586 he was despatched with Lord Buckhurst to Fotheringay, to notify the Queen of Scots of the fact that sentence of death had been passed upon her. Early in the following year, Beale carried the warrant to Fotheringay and performed the duty of reading it aloud in the hall of the castle by way of preliminary to the execution, of which he was an eye-witness, and wrote an account.

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1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription).

1943 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic WWII battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific.

1944 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland.

1945 The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.

1963 First flight of Boeing 727 jet.

1969 First flight of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

2001 American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School; nine the Ehime-Maru's crew members were killed, including four high school students.