This date in history

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1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.

1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy.

1944 First Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima.

1954 Meat and all other food rationing officially ends in Britain, nine years after the end of World War II.

1996 Hotmail, a free internet E-mail service begins.

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1802: The United States Military Academy officially opens Joseph Gardner Swift will be the first official graduate ....and fourth superintendent of the Academy. For an 'army guy'; he did a lot of good naval harbor defense construction throughout the nation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gardner_Swift

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1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada.

1943 Battle of Kursk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks).

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biscay.

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1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr).

1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding.

1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed.

1943 US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched.

1944 US General Patton lands in France.

1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1957 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner.

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1908 Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay.

1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova.

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517.

1943 German Submarine U-951 sunk by depth charges, off Cape St. Vincent in the North Atlantic.

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident occurred.

1950 First Farnborough airshow held.

1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40.

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1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve.

1943 British air raid sinks U-232.

1947 Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

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1916 First cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany.

1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804.

1934 SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps.

1943 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje.

1943 British air raid sinks U-435.

1944 U-740 sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.

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1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.

1940 Battle of Britain begins as German forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel.

1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp.

1943 6th day of battle at Kursk.

1944 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF.

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

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1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam.

1940 Marshall Henri Petain, French hero of World War One, becomes head of the collaborative Vichy government of France.

1943 7th day of battle at Kursk.

1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.

1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor.

A pity he didn't 'chew his ear' off!
The infamous bite cost Tyson 3 million ....however 2009 Tyson returns Holyfield's ear....
....

12 years after the ear-biting fight, the pair have rekindled their 90s friendship.
Last year they famously exchanged quips about the incident on Twitter as Holyfield began promoting his Real Deal BBQ Sauce.
Holyfield posted: ‘My realdealbbqsauce.com will make you take a bite out of someone's ear! Ask Mike Tyson – Luv ya bro!’

Originally Posted by TYSON TWEET

A cookout just isn't a cookout without@Holyfield's #realdealBBQsauce. Get some! It's ear-licking good!

Y...I have no use for boxing! or politicians

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Japanese battleship Kawachi explodes in Bay of Takayama, over 600 killed.

1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles.


1957 First President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.

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1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design.

1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany.

2016 Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs.

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1933 NSDAP (Nazis) becomes only political party in Germany.

1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp.

1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is first US ship to bombard Japan.

1950 RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.

1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward).

1959 USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass.

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15 July

101 years ago today, the Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) was first formed by William Boeing in Seattle Washington. 36 years later they would test and manufacture the first commercial jet transport airliner built in US, the 156-passenger Boeing 707. (1916)


The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta and it later became the key to deciphering hieroglyphics due to its inclusion of a Greek translation (1799)

The pilot Wiley Post began the first solo flight around world (1933)

18 Nobel laureate scientists signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons and within one year 34 more –mostly chemists and physicists– joined the German nuclear scientists Otto Hahn and Max Born in calling for an end to such radioactive and perilous bombs (1955)

President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People’s Republic of China to seek a ”normalization of relations” (1971)

The Mozilla (non-profit) Foundation was established to support and provide leadership for open source software, like its browser, Firefox (2003)101 years ago today, the Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) was first formed by William Boeing in Seattle Washington. 36 years later they would test and manufacture the first commercial jet transport airliner built in US, the 156-passenger Boeing 707. (1916)

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1815 Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

1915 The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US.

1963 Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding.

1973 Ray Davies announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide.