This date in history

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1985: a standoff ended when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped two bombs on their compound, which was a rowhouse in the middle of Osage Avenue. This killed eleven MOVE members, including founder John Africa and five children. Fire destroyed 65 houses and prompted widespread news coverage. As of May 2016, it is the only domestic aerial bombing conducted by police in the United States. 13 died in the resulting fire and more than 250 people were left homeless. Apparently it ain't over yet in the city of 'brotherly love'; In 1996 a federal jury ordered the city to pay a $1.5 million civil suit judgment to survivor Ramona Africa and relatives of two people killed in the bombing. The jury had found that the city used excessive force and violated the members' constitutional protections against unreasonable search an seizure. http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/hougland_move_massacre.htm

[Jimbuna]

1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va.

1939 Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.

1943 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

1944 Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler.

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1940 German armoured division moves into Northern France.

1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.

1941 1st British turbojet flies.

1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463.

1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends in its destruction.

1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz.

1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.

SOME IRONY HERE:

Squalus [launched in 1938] was raised in the summer of 1939, and after repair was recommissioned as U.S.S. Sailfish on 15 May 1940, the name change reportedly at the suggestion of President Roosevelt. Lieutenant Commander Morton C. Mumma, jr commanded the recommissioned boat through the end of her first war patrol. Sailors generally consider renaming a ship to be bad luck, [During the Pacific War, the captain of the renamed ship issued standing orders if any man on the boat said the word "Squalus", he was to be marooned at the next port of call. This led to crew members referring to their vessel as "Squailfish". That went over almost as well; a court martial was threatened for anyone heard using it.] but Sailfish—sometimes, despite the objections of her subsequent commanding officers, called “Squalfish”—survived the war with a total bag of 40,000 tons, eventually being scrapped in 1948. In an ironic turn of fate, Sailfish sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Chuyo, which had been carrying half of the surviving crew members from Sculpin, which had located Squalus in 1939. Only one of those being transported by Chuyo survived and, along with the other survivors, spent the remainder of the war as slave laborers in Japan.
One result of the Squalus sinking was redesigning the diving controls, so that the main induction and negative tank flood levers could be easily distinquished by touch even in total darkness. Though unconfirmed, one theory was that the vent operator had accidently opened the induction when he attempted to close the negative flood valve, which is located next to it.

U.S.S. Sailfish off Mare Island, VALLEJO on 13 April 1943 in the Carquinez Strait. This image shows her with her bridge modified to reduce her surface silhouette and add a forward anti-aircraft position.Oddly enough her target the escort carrier Chūyō was also a reconditioned vessel of sorts and had been adapted/converted from the Nitta Maru, a 1938 Mitsubishi built passenger ship. photos enlarge <The detonation blew off her bow and caused the forward part of the flight deck to collapse. To reduce pressure on the interior bulkheads, the ship's captain began steaming in reverse at half speed towards Yokosuka. Nearly six hours later, she was again torpedoed by Sailfish at 05:55, this time twice in the port engine room, . The hits disabled her engines and Maya and one destroyer came alongside to render assistance. Sailfish attacked again at 08:42 and hit the carrier with one or two torpedoes on the port side. The hits caused massive flooding and Chūyō capsized very quickly to port six minutes later. There were very few survivors because of the speed at which she sank. Only 161 crewmen and passengers were saved, including one American POW. wiki

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

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1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham).

1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs.

1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.

1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn.

1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas.

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1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th.

1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.

1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn.

1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas.

Major worldwide event, even worse than WW1 and 2 combined

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1804 Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.

1917 US Congress passes Selective Service Act, authorizing the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through compulsory enlistment. First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, is ordered to France.

1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy.

1974 India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.

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1980: 08:32 David Johnson, volcanologist, immortalizes himself with last radio transmission...from the slopes near Mt. St. Helens! <before<after <David: 13 .5 hours before the lateral blast which killed him at 6 miles distance to the north; pieces of his trailer were found in 1993 at nine miles distance. 'Though a careful analyst, Johnston strongly believed that scientists needed to take this risk for themselves in order to prevent civilian deaths, and therefore chose to take part in dangerous on-site monitoring. He and several other volcanologists prevented people from being near the volcano during the few months of pre-eruptive activity, and successfully fought pressure to re-open the area. Their work kept the death toll at a few tens of individuals, instead of the thousands who possibly could have died had the region not been closed off. Johnston supported the lateral blast theory: he believed the explosive eruption would be ejected sideways out of the volcano, not upward. He also believed that the eruption would originate from the bulge. Because of this, he was more aware than most of the threat of a north-directed eruption...'During>Rule 1 of volcanology: U don't do "during!" (level 5 on volcanic explosivity index(VEI)...same as VesuviUs: 79 AD.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcan...losivity_index

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Death of T. E. Lawrence

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1649 England is declared a Commonwealth by an act of the Long Parliament making England a republic for the next 11 years.

1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-Nazi pact.

1941 New German battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.

1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews).

1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork, Netherlands.

1967 USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space.

1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3.

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OT i know the date was earlier, just saw mentioned that the nurse Edith Clavell was executed by german soldiers, and did not want to let that stand without some background info, since it has so well been used for propaganda.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...wwi-celebrated

https://books.google.de/books?id=u1n...page&q&f=false

" ... Cavell’s biographer, Diana Souhami, records that following her execution, MI5 was anxious to suppress anything that would implicate Cavell in spying.

Stella Rimington, a former head of the intelligence agency, said recently after researching Belgian archives: “Her main objective was to get hidden allied soldiers back to Britain but, contrary to the common perception of her, we have uncovered clear evidence that her organisation was involved in sending back secret intelligence to the allies.”

The intelligence included information about a German trench system, the location of munitions dumps and aircraft. Details were written in ink on strips of fabric and sewn into clothes, or hidden in shoes and boots.
Yet it remained unclear, Rimington told BBC Radio 4’s programme, The Untold Story of Edith Cavell, last month, what Cavell precisely knew about the spying network...."

When two german nurses had been killed by french soldiers for helping german prisoners to flee, the german authorities had decided not to use this for propaganda purposes.

There are so much uncommented events described and anti-german posters shown, just quoting allied war propaganda of WW1.
Sorry, please bear with me.

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Originally Posted by Catfish

There are so much uncommented events described and anti-german posters shown, just quoting allied war propaganda of WW1.
Sorry, please bear with me.

my favorite but I'll bear with you!...anytime!

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^ Thanks

I know where they stole the idea for King Kong, so the »SS Venture« only went to Germany, not to the Pacific.

... whatever happened to Faye Wray ...