This date in history

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1940 - German Luftwaffe blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights.

1973 - Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion.

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

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1944 - 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp.

1945 - Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged.

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1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England.

1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

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1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1944 - Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far."

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1608: Mercenary-Knight, Turkish slave, cartographer, visionary and colonist: Captain John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council:
"The English arrived at Jamestown in April 1607 and, by the summer of that year, the settlers were still living in temporary housing. The search for a suitable site ended on 14 May 1607, when Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, president of the council, chose the Jamestown site as the location for the colony. After the four-month ocean trip, their food stores were sufficient only for each to have a cup or two of grain-meal per day. Due to swampy conditions and widespread disease, someone died almost every day. By September, more than 60 were dead of the 104 brought by Newport....drinking brackish creek water and from poor nutrition.
In early January 1608, nearly 100 new settlers and through carelessness the village was set on fire. That winter the James River froze over, and the settlers were forced to live in the burnt ruins. Cannibalism at some point, is now known to have occurred. During this time, for the three months that Newport and his crew were in port, they wasted much time loading their ship with iron pyrite(fools gold) . In October 1608, Captain Newport arrived with 70 new settlers, including the first women.(now it's getting serious-SWMBOS) Some German, Polish and Slovak (no Catholics allowed) craftsmen also arrived, but they brought no food supplies. Newport brought with him a list of counterfeit Virginia Company orders which angered John Smith greatly. He wrote an angry letter in response. One of the orders was to crown Powhatan Emperor and give him a fancy bedstead. (Considering how things developed with Pocahontas...Strange bedfellows INDEED!)The Company wanted Smith to pay for Newport's voyage with such as the colony could produce in the form of pitch, tar, sawed boards, soap ashes and glass. After that, Smith tried to get food from the Native Americans and it took threats of military force against the native Americans for them to comply. Powhatan was alarmed at the great number of white men coming and was trying to starve them out. Smith found that there were those among both the settlers and Native Americans who were planning to take his life, and it is written he was warned about the plan by Pocahontas. He called a meeting and threatened those who were spoiled and not working "that he that will not work shall not eat…" After that the situation improved and the settlers worked with more industry, albeit with some punishments as needed.[wiki] IN SHORT: Greed, food, real-estate and leadership when the chips are down BBY! 'MERICA! Smith's map: Just as Smith did not exaggerate the possibilities for wealth within America, he did not understate the dangers and toil associated with colonization. He declared that only those with a strong work ethic would be able to "live and succeed in America" in the face of such dangers. A 'little propaganda' didn't hurt:" He gave it the name: New England to the region and noted: "Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land... If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industries quickly grow rich." What a liar!...it took me 64 years!

[BossMark]

1777-General George Washington and his troops are defeated by the British under General Sir William Howe at the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania.

1904-The battleship Connecticut, launched in New York, introduces a new era in naval construction.



2001-In an unprecedented, highly coordinated attack, terrorists hijack four U.S. passenger airliners, flying two into the World Trade Center towers in New York and one into the Pentagon, killing thousands. The fourth airliner, headed toward Washington likely to strike the White House or Capitol, is crashed just over 100 miles away in Pennsylvania after passengers storm the cockpit and overtake the hijackers.

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NAPA, CA: 9/11 Memorial from Building One steel;

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1995: three gas balloons participating in the Gordon Bennett Cup entered Belarusian air space. Despite the fact that competition organizers had informed the Belarusian Government about the race in May and that flight plans had been filed, a Mil Mi-24B attack helicopter of the Belarusian Air Force shot down one balloon, killing two American citizens, Alan Fraenckel and English ex-patriot John Stuart-Jervis. Another of the balloons was forced to land while the third landed safely over two hours after the initial downing. The crews of the two balloons were fined($50) for entering Belarus without a visa and released. Race officials in Switzerland said Belarus was advised in May of the possible flight paths of the balloons, and had granted clearance, but Belarussian officials denied this. [wiki] A Belarussian Interior Ministry official who declined to be named said the government was notified in May about the race. The official did not know whether the information had been passed on to the military. Deputy Chairman of the Government Commission investigating the tragedy: He told a press conference that, "From a legal point of view not a single letter of the law has been violated. As the unidentified flying craft intruded into the National Airspace and did not respond to radio calls. Everything was done in strict compliance with instructions."
Sivakov added, "The moral side of it is another thing, there are many questions about it. That was an outrageous incident." The U.S. State Department rejected suggestions by Belarus that organizers were partly responsible for the deaths of two American balloonists. "There can be no excuses, no rationale, no way of explaining the totally unjustifiable behavior last week, shooting down two Americans in a balloon that posed no threat to them at a time when the Cold War is over,..." Belarus has neither apologized nor offered compensation for the deaths. http://www.balloonlife.com/publications/balloon_life/9510/tragedy.htm

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1588: the Spanish Armada, literally on a mission for God to eradicate the heretic protestant: Queen Elizabeth, is destroyed in the English Channel. 1862: Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, securing the rear of Robert E. Lee’s forces in Maryland. Unfortunately, the front of the army will encounter the Union army in two days at the bloodiest single day in American military history, Antietam (aka Sharpsburg) resulting in the issuing by Lincoln of the war's ultimate game-changing political aim: The Emancipation Proclamation. England and France, each with a rising labor class, are thus politically unable to assist the Southern slaveocracy; ultimately sealing the rebellion's doom. 1935: In Berlin the Reich, under Adolf Hitler, adopts the Swastika (meaning any lucky or auspicious object), as the national flag... now symbolizing auspicious unluckiness!

[Mr Quatro]

Would it be improper to add what we, as in civilization, have learned from this day in history or is that a no no or would it just flicker an argument?

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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Would it be improper to add what we, as in civilization, have learned from this day in history or is that a no no or would it just flicker an argument?

Well, one historian once said you can't tell where yer goin' if you don't know where ya been;

Originally Posted by George Santayana

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

The poor lady author, Iris Chang, who wrote the well-regarded Rape of Nanking was in such dispair that she ended her own life-possibly because, in seeing where we've been...there ain't been a lot of improvement. I just find irony: were still fighting religious wars; still trafficking in human beings and taking peaceful symbols and desecrating what they stood for and now they are so reviled in opposite meaning that they are illegal to display. Unless of course you have a parade permit; in which case, wearing old pillow cases with eye holes, one can still mingle one's pleasures with a burning cross, wave a Rebel battle standard and wear a swastika armband. 1963: the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing took place on this date in Birmingham Alabama... when four members of the KKK planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church; and killed 4 little girls and then bragged about it.

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1936-The German army holds its largest maneuvers since 1914.

1041-The German Army cuts off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.

1942-British forces attack the Japanese in Burma

1944-U.S. troops of the 7th Army, invading Southern France, cross the Meuse River.

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1914 - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die.

1943 - British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz.

1943 - Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229.

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1941 - General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London.

1942 - The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb.

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1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.