This date in history

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1945 First and last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers.

1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk.

1971 US President Richard Nixon orders Lt Calley (Mi Lai) free.

1989 Soviet sub Komsomolets sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths.

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1940 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious.

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Date: Apr 09, 1865
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders
In a last-ditch effort against Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee
realizes the effort is futile and surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant
at Virginia's Appomattox Court House.

The surrender triggers others across the South, as the American Civil War finally winds down.

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1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection.

1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die.

1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle.

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.

1963 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen.

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1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"

1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech).

1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons.

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Sad, but just a note of confidence that things got better with SUB Safe after the loss of he Thresher

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...ks-in-atlantic

On this day in 1963, the USS Thresher, an atomic submarine, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing the entire crew. One hundred and twenty-nine sailors and civilians were lost when the sub unexpectedly plunged to the sea floor 300 miles off the coast of New England.

The Thresher was launched on July 9, 1960, from Portsmouth Naval Yard in New Hampshire. Built with new technology, it was the first submarine assembled as part of a new class that could run more quietly and dive deeper than any that had come before.

On April 10, 1963, at just before 8 a.m., the Thresher was conducting drills off the coast of Cape Cod. At 9:13 a.m., the USS Skylark, another ship participating in the drills, received a communication from the Thresher that the sub was experiencing minor problems.

Other attempted communications failed and, only five minutes later, sonar images showed the Thresher breaking apart as it fell to the bottom of the sea. Sixteen officers, 96 sailors and 17 civilians were on board. All were killed.

On April 12, President John F. Kennedy ordered that flags across the country be flown at half-staff to commemorate the lives lost in this disaster. A subsequent investigation revealed that a leak in a silver-brazed joint in the engine room had caused a short circuit in critical electrical systems. The problems quickly spread, making the equipment needed to bring the Thresher to the surface inoperable.

The disaster forced improvements in the design and quality control of submarines. Twenty-five years later, in 1988, Vice Admiral Bruce Demars, the Navy’s chief submarine officer, said “The loss of Thresher initiated fundamental changes in the way we do business–changes in design, construction, inspections, safety checks, tests, and more. We have not forgotten the lessons learned. It’s a much safer submarine force today.

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1814 Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba.

1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy.

1912 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY.

1933 Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia.

1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen.

1945 Four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.

2015 Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the first meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution.

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1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy.

REQUIRED READING : https://interestingengineering.com/john-philip-holland-father-modern-submarine

His contribution to military history changed the course of naval warfare forever. The great-grandchildren of his brainchildren still stalk the depths to this very day.

WITHOUT HIM, IT FOLLOWS, THERE IS NO

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1916 Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement boards submarine U-19 at Wilmshaven, Germany, bound for a rendezvous with the Aud at Tralee.

1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.

1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands.

1945 US President Franklin Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President.

1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1).

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1940 Second battle of Narvik; 3 German destroyers and one U-boat sunk by the Royal Navy, 5 more German destroyers scuttled.

1943 Germans discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn.

1960 France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara.

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1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington.

1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland.

1918 Douglas Campbell is first US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane).

1943 A JN-25 decrypt by American intelligence detailing a forthcoming visit by Marshal Admiral Yamamoto to Balalae Island results in his plane shot down 4 days later.

1945 American planes bomb Tokyo and damage the Imperial Palace.

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1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on.

1942 George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta.

1945 British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

1945 FDR buried in grounds of Hyde Park home.

1989 96 crushed to death at Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield England.

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1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin.

1945 Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, is liberated by American troops.

1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt.

1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris.

1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75.

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1945: MV GOYA took part in Operation Hannibal, the evacuation of German military personnel and civilians from German-held pockets along the Baltic Sea. Loaded with thousands of refugees and Wehrmacht soldiers, the ship was sunk on 16 April 1945 by the Soviet submarine L-3.
Most of the crew and passengers died. The sinking of Goya was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life of the war, and as such one of the largest maritime losses of life in history, with just 183 survivors among roughly 6,700 passengers and crew. Four hours after leaving the port, close to the southern tip of Hel Peninsula, the convoy was attacked by Soviet bombers. During the air raids one of the bombs hit Goya, but damage was minimal. After rounding the Hel Peninsula and leaving Danzig Bay, several miles north of Cape Rixhöft (Cape Rozewie), the convoy was sighted by the Soviet minelayersubmarine L-3, which also carried torpedoes. While Goya was faster than submarines, the convoy was slowed down by the engine problems of the Kronenfels, which also required a 20-minute stop for repairs. At precisely 4 minutes before midnight (local time), the commander of L-3, Captain Konovalov, gave the order to fire a spread of four torpedoes. Two of them hit Goya; one struck amidships, the second exploded in the stern, sending an immense plume of fire and smoke bursting into the sky. The impact of the torpedoes was so great that the ship's masts collapsed upon the refugees sleeping on the top deck. Within moments, the ship broke in two and while fire consumed the upper portions of the Goya, it sank in less than four minutes, drowning thousands in their sleep, shortly after midnight; most passengers either went down with her or died of hypothermia in the icy waters of the Baltic Sea. https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featurethe-world-worst-naval-maritime-disasters-4149757/

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1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.