This date in history

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France.

Poor Marcel Chevalier became unemployed after that! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Chevalier

[Jimbuna]

1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley.

1940 Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion England).

1941 World War II: US Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.

2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,752 people.

Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people.

Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board.

[Mr Quatro]

This article came out yesterday, but I just read it today on the 12th, but today in history has not been posted yet ... so here is a day in history we should never forget: http://www.taraross.com/2017/09/this...john-cromwell/

Please read and know a great man was born and served in the US Navy and gave his life for his country.

This Day in History: John Cromwell, a captain who went down with his ship
Posted on September 11, 2017 by Tara Ross

On this day in 1901, a hero is born. Captain John P. Cromwell would become the most senior submariner to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II. He stayed aboard his sinking submarine because he knew that his death would keep vital American secrets out of enemy hands.

“Determined to sacrifice himself rather than risk capture and subsequent danger of revealing plans under Japanese torture or use of drugs,” Cromwell’s Medal citation describes, “he stoically remained aboard the mortally wounded vessel as she plunged to her death.”

Cromwell maintained the viability of America’s ongoing missions at the cost of his own life, and yet no one had any idea what he’d done until after the war. Only then were survivors of Sculpin released from Japanese captivity, finally free to describe what they’d witnessed on that November day.

Cromwell’s widow would soon be presented with her husband’s Medal of Honor.

[Jimbuna]

^ Bravery at its highest.

~SALUTE~

[Jimbuna]

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton.

[Jimbuna]

1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and the fires start, extinguished by the 19th.

1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later becomes lyrics of the "Star-Spangled Banner"

1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight.

1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1.

1958 Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.

[Jimbuna]

1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow.

1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme.

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

1940 Climax of the Battle of Britain, tide turns as Luftwaffe loses 56 aircraft, RAF 28.

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph.

1998 Google.com is registered as a domain name.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

That calls for a celebratory beer; a 24 oz can known in thetrade as a 'tallboy'!

[Jimbuna]

1747 French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom (I've lived there).

1906 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen discovers the Magnetic South Pole.

1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed.

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.

1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.

1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon.

[Jimbuna]

1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.

1939 British navy captures German U-27 boat.

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338.

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland.

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

[Jimbuna]

1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.

1942 Transport #35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany.

1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrender.

1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.

1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean.

1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.

[Jimbuna]

1914 German submarine U-9 sinks 3 British light cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue, and HMS Cressy, 1,459 die.

1943 British midget submarines attack Tirpitz.

1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed & sinks.

1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229.

1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general.

1955 Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean.

1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record).

[Jimbuna]

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.

1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London.

1941 German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks).

1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz concentration camp.

1942 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad.

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

1950 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed.

[Jimbuna]

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.

1950 "Operation Magic Carpet" sees all Jews from Yemen move to Israel.

1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched.

1964 First Minuteman II ICBM was tested.

[Jimbuna]

1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed.

1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending WW I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra.