This date in history

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1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die.

1941 World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.

1942 World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals.

1944 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).

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1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic.

1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease).

1944 Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.

1945 Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan.

1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.

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1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants.

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1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"; he was killed in a plane crash 29 days later.

1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak.

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women.

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1681 First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher).

1941 President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during US State of Union address.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1941 President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during US State of Union address.

FREEDOM FROM WANT IS MY FAVORITE

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Thank you Aktungbby ... Norman Rockwell shows so much character in his paintings.

Most paintings cover up the blemishes, but not Rockwell

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1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes.

1945 The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign, World War II

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1999 Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate.

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1835 The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.

1916 ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople.

1940 Britain's first WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar).

1974 Loch Ness Monster first "photographed"

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1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.

1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1855 Clipper "Guiding Star" disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead.

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster bomber.

1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines.

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands.

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

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1918 U.S. Cavalry engage with Yaquis warriors in the Battle of Bear Valley in Arizona, resulting in 1 Yaquis death and 9 captured. It is the last armed engagement between the US Army and Native Americans.

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1946 UN General Assembly meets for first time in London.

1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY.

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1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die.

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January 11, 1908, Roosevelt exercised this right to make more than 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon area into a national monument. “Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is,” he declared. “You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.”

Congress did not officially outlaw private development in the Grand Canyon until 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Grand Canyon National Park Act.

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1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever.

1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in a letter to the paper, Social Democrat.

1916 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.

1937 Plough for laying submarine cable patented.

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge.

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.

1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die.