This date in history

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

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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 in After House, Amsterdam.

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

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

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1941 Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania.

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

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-517.

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

1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy.

2005 Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700.

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

1943 British air raid sinks U-232.

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1916 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany.

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

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.

1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten.

1987 Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence.

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Tom Hanks was born today 60 years ago

OJ Simpson was born today 69 years ago

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1919 US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate.

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.

1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong.

1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, New Zealand.

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1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier).

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

1916 Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun.

1960 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

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July 11th, 1924
Eric Liddell wins the Olympic 400 meter race in Paris after he loses his opportunity to run in the 100 meter because its heats are on a Sunday.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.

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1918 IJN Battleship KAWACHI explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed.

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

1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gassed.

1948 First jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires).

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1930 1st-ever football (soccer) World Cup competition begins in Uruguay.

1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis.

1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland.

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.

1953 Battle of the Kumsong River begins - last major battle of the Korean war.

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1882: John Peters Ringo ie Johnny Ringo, affiliated with Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, Ike Clanton, and Frank Stilwell during 1881–1882, is found dead with a gunshot to the head.

Ringo's feet were wrapped in pieces of his undershirt, possibly to protect his feet against insects or scorpions. His revolver had one round expended and was found hanging by one finger in his hand.
His horse was found two weeks later with Ringo's boots tied to the saddle, a method commonly used in that time period to keep scorpions out of boots. The horse had gotten loose from his picket and wandered off. The coroner found that Ringo had a bullet hole in his right temple and an exit wound at the back of his head. After an inquest, the coroner ruled that his death had been caused by a single shot through the head and concluded Ringo had committed suicide. Although the coroner ruled that Ringo killed himself, Wyatt Earp once claimed responsibility, and modern researchers have advanced several theories about who might have killed him, including Doc Holliday, Michael O'Rourke, and Buckskin Frank Leslie.

wiki I suspect we'll never know for sure but talk about a who's who of Old West suspects! What kills me is...how they all sorta look alike!

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1933 NSDAP becomes only political party in Germany.

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

1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan.

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1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

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.

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1918 A Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, executes Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.

1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project.

1946 US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau.