This date in history

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1776 Continental Congress creates committee (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration of Independence.

1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross.

1943 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Nazi ghettos in occupied Poland.

1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term.

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11th June 1847. Death of Sir John Franklin while leading the expedition to navigate the Northwest Passage with Bomb Vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.

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1982 battle for Mount Longdon. British victory over Argentinean forces.

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Originally Posted by ABBAFAN

11th June 1847. Death of Sir John Franklin while leading the expedition to navigate the Northwest Passage with Bomb Vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.

Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (Franklin’s second-in-command) had written a note which was later found by people searching for the missing expedition. Dated April 25, 1848, the note states that both the Erebus and the Terror were abandoned on April 22nd of that year. It also says that surviving crew members were planning to walk to Back’s Fish River.

Franklin, according to Crozier, had died on the 11th of June, 1847. Crozier's note, however, does not discuss Sir John’s cause of death. Historians believe the Expedition’s commander was likely buried in the ice.

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/FRANKLIN-EXPEDITION-MUMMIES-Mummies-Bodies-Talk Crozier, with several monuments to him, might have been the real hero of the expedition lasting according to Inuit accounts until 1852!

There were later, unverified Inuit reports that between 1852 and 1858 Crozier and one other expedition member were seen in the Baker Lake area, about 400 km (250 mi) to the south, where in 1948 Farley Mowat found "a very ancient cairn, not of normal Eskimo construction" inside of which were shreds of a hardwood box with dovetail joints

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

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1918 First aerial bombing raid by an American unit, France.

1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury.

1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam.

1944 First V-1 rocket assault on London.

1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands.

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1940 German forces enter Paris.

1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral.

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would die within its walls).

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.

1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict.

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1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.

2015 Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for US President.

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1904: The General Slocum burns in the East river of New York City on a Wednesday: It is the worst maritime disaster in the city's history, and the second worst maritime disaster on United States waterways. the ship had been chartered for $350 by St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Little Germany district of Manhattan (Kleindeutschland). This was an annual rite for the group, which had made the trip for 17 consecutive years, a period when German settlers moved out of Little Germany for the Upper East and West Sides. This included my immigrant Jewish great-grandmother, Sarah Koenig who was not aboard that day..having married my Methodist great grandfather Charles...by whom she had five daughters and a son-my grandfather- for whom I'm named. <B 4 ...& after>Survivors reported that the cheap rotted cork-filled life jackets were useless and fell apart in their hands. Desperate mothers placed them on their children and tossed them into the water, only to watch in horror as they sank instead of floating. Most of those on board were women and children (it was a work-day for the husbands), who like most Americans of the time, could not swim; victims found that their heavy wool clothing absorbed water and weighed them down in the river. (Yipes! cladding issues again??!!) By the time the General Slocum sank in shallow water at North Brother Island, just off the Bronx shore, an estimated 1,021 people had either burned to death or drowned in the raging fiery attempt to beach the vessel-heading it into the wind!!??. There were 321 survivors. Five of the 40 crew members died. The neighborhood of Little Germany, which had been in decline for some time before the disaster as residents moved uptown, almost disappeared afterward. With the trauma and arguments that followed the tragedy and the loss of many prominent settlers, most of the Lutheran Germans remaining in the Lower East Side eventually moved uptown. The complete shock of losing so many loved ones devastated families. Suicides and depression resulted from such a loss and many residents moved away. Other communities were impacted as well; There was loss of life among the Jewish and Italian communities that had family members aboard the ship. The church whose congregation chartered the ship for the fateful voyage was converted to a synagogue in 1940 after the area was settled by Jewish residents. The bodies washed ashore for days; The sunken remains of the General Slocum were salvaged and converted into a barge named Maryland, which sank without loss of life off the southeast coast of New Jersey during a storm on December 4, 1911, while carrying a cargo of coal. A nickel for your thoughts on bad taste and judgement in pursuit of the almighty buck!! https://www.sixthstreetsynagogue.org/event/moving-uptown-german-american-culture-at-the-turn-of-the-20th-century.html https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/06/13/great-slocum-disaster-june-15-1904

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1982 Britain requests Argentina to arrange for return of prisoners after the Falkland Islands conflict.

2016 British MP (L) Jo Cox is shot and killed outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

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1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'.

1940 World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power.

1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falkland Islands.

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1972: Five Watergate burglars are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Commitee offices. Anything with 'gate' after it now reflects being unhinged vernacular-wise: The name “Watergate” and the suffix “-gate” have since become synonymous with political and non-political scandals in the United States, and some other parts of the world. To date; the best soap-opera this country has ever enjoyed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal Ended over two years later as 'Tricky Dick' Nixon resigned and left the White House...8/9/1974!>Woops! not Air Force One and not a customary US Marine in full dress Uniform! The ignominy! I tell ya!

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1778 – The British army abandons Philadelphia.
1812 – The U.S. declares war on the United Kingdom.
1965 – U.S. bombers drop bombs on Viet Cong forces in South Vietnam.
1972 – British European Airways Flight 548 crashed near the town of Staines less than three minutes after departing from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people aboard, the worst airplane accident in the U.K.
1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational stealth airplane, makes its first flight.
1994 – Terrorists attack a pub in Northern Ireland where people were watching a soccer game, killing six people.
2006 – Kazakhstan launches its first satellite into space.
2007 – A fire at a furniture store in the U.S. state of South Carolina kills 9 firemen.
2012 – Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud becomes crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

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1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher.

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales.

1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons.

1944 German submarine U-767 sunk by Royal Navy destroyers in the English Channel.

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason.

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1829 Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies).

1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France.

1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor.

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police.

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1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas.

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

2016 China's super computer tally overtakes the US; Chinese 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is world's No. 1