This date in history

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1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed.

1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoe Norwegian ship Regin.

1942 Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California.

1945 US Marines raise the flag of the United States on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

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1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1,000-1,500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain (according to legend, to Welsh women in tall black hats, mistaken for elite guards regiment)

1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)

1942 The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, a series of anti-aircraft engagements over the city in response to a rumored but false Japanese attack. It would last until the morning of the following day.

1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer.

2022 Russian leader Vladimir Putin announces the start of a three day “special military operation” in Ukraine to "demilitarize" the country. Moments before Russia launched a full-scale pre-dawn and unprovoked invasion by land, air and sea, with bombings in several cities.

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1916 Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I

1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship.

1933 1st genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo.

1964 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] wins his first world heavyweight boxing title when Sonny Liston fails to come out for round 7 at the Convention Center, Miami Beach.

1972 Attempted assassination of Irish Minister of State for Home Affairs John Taylor who is shot a number of times (the Official Irish Republican Army later claimed responsibility)

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1815 Napoléon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France.

1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.

1924 Trial against Adolf Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" begins in Munich, Germany.

1935 Existence of re-formed German Luftwaffe revealed (banned in 1920 by Treaty of Versailles) with Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring as commander-in-chief.

1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.

1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb.

1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb.

1971 Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while on mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, North Ireland.

1991 Gulf War: Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death'

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1816 Dutch regain Suriname from the French after the defeat of Napoleon.

1925 Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich.

1933 Nazi Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, is destroyed by fire; possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe.

1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese.

1990 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy.

2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor.

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1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials.

1854 Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.

1933 After the Reichstag Fire Decree, the German Communist Party (KPD) is essentially outlawed (though not formally banned) after the German government blames the Communists for burning down the Reichstag building.

1933 On Adolf Hitler's advice, German President Paul von Hindenburg signs the Reichstag Fire Decree after the building is destroyed by fire in Berlin; this eliminates many civil liberties in Germany.

1942 German submarine U-578 torpedoes US Navy destroyer USS Jacob Jones (DD130) off Cape May, New Jersey, killing all but 11 of 113 man crew.

1971 A British soldier dies in Derry after his vehicle had been attacked with petrol bombs (he died as a result of inhaling chemicals from fire extinguishers that were used to put out the fire)

1981 People's Republic of China throws out the Netherlands ambassador due to Dutch sales of submarines to Taiwan.

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1944 Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, is run down and injured by a Nazi truck in Krakow.

1952 The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.

1956 US President Eisenhower announces he will seek a 2nd term.

1960 JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue.

1964 LBJ reveals the US has secretly developed the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, an advanced, long‐range high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance airplane.

1968 US end regular flights with nuclear bombs.

1996 Serb forces withdraw from Sarajevo, ending the siege after 1,425 days, the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.

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1579 British admiral and explorer Francis Drake surprises and captures the Spanish treasure ship 'Nuestra Señora de la Concepción' off the coast of Peru, Drake's richest plunder.

1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbour with approximately 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again.

1913 David Beatty becomes Rear-Admiral Commanding the Royal Navy's 1st Battlecruiser Squadron.

1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic.

1941 Commander of the SS, Heinrich Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp for the first time, orders it be expanded.

1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat.

1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic.

1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US

1981 Republican prisoners in the Maze began a second hunger strike; among them is Bobby Sands.

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1796 Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy.

1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico in Columbia.

1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor.

1991 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed.

2002 US invasion of Afghanistan: US conventional forces first deployed as part of Operation Anaconda.

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1837 US President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognize the Republic of Texas.

1855 US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use.

1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine. Generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.

1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol.

1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy.

1980 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned.

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1855 US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use.

Nearly a 150 years later? US Congress spends Trillions of Dollars every year searching for the Straw that will break a Camels Back.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Nearly a 150 years later? US Congress spends Trillions of Dollars every year searching for the Straw that will break a Camels Back.

Particularly on Wednesdays!

 

othewise known as 'hump day'!!??

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1941 Prince Paul, prince regent of Yugoslavia meets with Adolf Hitler at the Berghof, Bavaria, where he rejects deal to allow Nazi's access to Greece.

1945 United Kingdom's Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service (ATS) as a driver.

1969 London East End gang bosses twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity.

1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost.

1985 WWII veterans return to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW

2009 International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the first sitting head of state to be indicted.

2001 IRA detonates a bomb in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, injuring 11 people.

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1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.

1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe.

1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army.

1976 British pound falls below $2 for 1st time.

1995 Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg.

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1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) is patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer.

1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.

1944 British and Canadian sailors board abandoned German U-boat U-774 seeking the Enigma code machine, but are forced to scuttle the sub when efforts to tow it fail.

1947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA

1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"

1970 A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland.

1988 3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers.

1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17

1998 British Union Flag begins to be flown full-mast over Buckingham Palace whenever British monarch not in residence, following change of protocol after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.