This date in history

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1819 Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England: cavalry charges demonstrators, 15 people killed and 400–700 injured.

1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.

2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.

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1861: President Abraham Lincoln issued Proclamation 86, which prohibited the states of the Union from engaging in commercial trade with states that were in rebellion — i.e., the Confederacy. CLEARLY A MAN AHEAD OF HIS TIME....ECONOMIC SANCTIONS BEFORE THEY BECAME POPULAR

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1940 Adolf Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain.

1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde (development base for the V weapons).

1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.

1962 E German border guards shoot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector.

1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is first to North Pole.

1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship.

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1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

1940 Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest ever air battle.

1942 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese.

1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia.

1960 The Beatles give their first public performance at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg.

1976 Korean axe murder incident: 2 US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers are killed by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-sung in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

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1915 British liner "SS Arabic" sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident.

1942 Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France.

1942 General Friedrich Paulus orders the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad.

1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident).

1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences.

1981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22.

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1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia.

1913 First pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France).

1940 First Polish squadrons fight alongside the allies in the Battle of Britain.

1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs, first living organisms to return from space.

1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13.

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1968 Marine James Anderson Jr is first African American to win Medal of Honor.

1976 "Operation Paul Bunyan" begins in retaliation for the "Korean axe murder incident" 3 days prior. 110 troops, 27 helicopters, 3 B-52 bombers are deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers.

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1780 HMS Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England.

1849 The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.

I SAW THIS MOVIE...

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1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II.

1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London.

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die).

1942 World War II: last cavalry charge in history takes place at Isbushenskij, Russia; the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry.

1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

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1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812).

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect.

1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

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79AD: VESUVIUS ERUPTS BURYING POMPEII AND HURCULANIUM....410 AD: THE VISIGOTHS, UNDER KING ALARIC, OVERUN AND SACK ROME SIGNALING THE FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE...

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1944 General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation.

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1346 Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle.

1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII.

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1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.

1939 Erich Warsitz in a Heinkel He-178 makes the first manned jet-propelled flight.

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

1965 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley.

1979 The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland.