This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies).

1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI).

1942 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome.

1945 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

[Jimbuna]

1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie.

1939 Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

1944 Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish.

1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie.

Oliver Hazard Perry reported, “We have met the enemy and they are ours” to William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie. That phrase stands with John Paul Jones’s “I have not yet begun to fight,” and Julius Caesar’s “Veni, vidi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered) as one of the most famous battle reports in history.
Of course the truth is more hauntingly mundane and ironic given the world situation today:

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced.

Where have all those planes gone to? Perhaps here in the South part of England at Air Salvage:http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/the...-a-boeing-747/

Air Salvage International deals with around 40 planes a year, selling on anything of value to airlines around the world on the hunt for spare parts. There’s serious money involved, with an engine going for around $1 million, landing gear for $300,000 depending on age, and cockpit screens for around $30,000 each. Even a coffee maker from the aircraft can be sold on for as much as $4,600, and toilet bowls too – lovingly restored, of course – can fetch somewhere in the region of $800.
Once everything of value has been taken from the jumbo, all that’s left is a metal shell. This is where it really ends for the plane, with a special digger brought in to break it up (video below). After three days of demolition work, little remains of the jet except a pile of torn up, twisted aluminum.

Even this, however, has scrap value to the tune of $55,000, with some ending up as drinks cans or bicycle frames.

Of course, not all commercial airliners end their days in this way. A few are bought by those looking to build an unusual house or hotel, while others might buy a whole cockpit and turn it into a flight simulator.

That's what I want a 747 flight simulator

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Where have all those planes gone to? Perhaps here in the South part of England at Air Salvage:http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/the...-a-boeing-747/



That's what I want a 747 flight simulator

http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/09/do-you-want-to-.html
Of course one at least beame a waterslide at the EVERGREEN AIR MUSEUM in McMinnville, OR also home of the 'Spruce Goose"

[Jimbuna]

1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley.

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

1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight.

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

1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated.

1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island.

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

2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people.

2001 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.

[Jimbuna]

1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism.

1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph.

1941 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko).

1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso.

1944 US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time.

1966 "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV.

[GT182]

202 years ago, on this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key penned a poem which later became the American national anthem, the 'Star Spangled Banner'.

[Jimbuna]

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

1944 Last transport out of camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen.

1963 "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV.

[Jimbuna]

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

1916 Legendary author Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.

1939 Royal Navy destoyers attack and sink German U-39 boat.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by GT182

202 years ago, on this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key penned a poem which later became the American national anthem, the 'Star Spangled Banner'.

Not tuesday it was today ... WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

1814
Francis Scott Key, an Episcopalian layman and cofounder of the American Sunday School Union, is inspired to write the song that becomes America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” when he sees that Fort McHenry has not struck its colors after a night of heavy bombardment by British ships during the war of 1812.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.

[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.

1938 British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden.

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

1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania.

1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens.

1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens.

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

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

1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea.

[Jimbuna]

1906 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen discovers the Magnetic South Pole.

[Aktungbby]

1953: the movie The Robe opens; and is notable for being the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope! marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal photography and movie projection.
The anamorphic lenses theoretically allowed the process to create an image of up to a 2.66:1 aspect ratio, almost twice as wide as the previously common Academy format's 1.37:1 ratio. YOWZA! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScope Roamin' around just looks better in big format on the big screen: (I swear I'm hearing the Star Wars theme music here) An overlooked 'tale of the Christ'; right up there with Ben Hur imho: Author Lloyd Douglas had said that he wrote the novel The Robe to answer this question through fiction: What happened to the Roman soldier who won Jesus' robe through a dice game?

[Jimbuna]

1862 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War 23,110 die in first battle on Union soil.

1916 The Red Baron [Manfred von Richthofen], WWI flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die.

1944 Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Netherlands.