This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; a penalty of £120 per slave is introduced for slave ship captains.

1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21.

1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov district reach the Bełżec Concentration camp.

1944 RAF Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall was broken by pine trees and soft snow, and he suffered only a sprained leg.

1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut).

[tomfon]

1957 - Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany sign the Treaty of Rome and lay the foundations for establishing the European Economic Community.

[Jimbuna]

1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia).

1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire.

1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy, France, for Auschwitz concentration camp.

1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania.

1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga, Latvia, ghetto are shot by the Gestapo.

1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno.

1945 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.

[Jimbuna]

1854 Britain & France declare war on Russia (Crimean War).

1933 German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler.

1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.

1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy.

1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London.

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1912 Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far".

1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea.

1942 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die.

1942 German submarine U-585 sinks.

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1867 US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly).

1939 The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.

1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau.

1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp.

1944 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg.

1945 A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.

1949 Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.

[Jimbuna]

1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris.

1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler.

1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany.

1951 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea.

1954 USSR offers to join NATO.

1972 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy.

[Jimbuna]

1918 United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps.

1924 Hitler sentenced to 5 years labour but Gen Ludendorff acquitted.

1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany.

1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses.

1969 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vertical take-off fighter) enters service with the RAF.

[Jimbuna]

1801 Napoleonic Wars: naval Battle of Copenhagen - The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet.

1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.

1917 US President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany.

1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1801 Napoleonic Wars: naval Battle of Copenhagen - The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet.

Indeed! A major affair of heavy guns, losses, and blinding smoke: and the mark of the (handicapped) man.

a British fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker fight a huge Danishfleet anchored just off Copenhagen on 2 April 1801. Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson led the main attack. He famously is reputed to have disobeyed Sir Hyde Parker's order to withdraw by holding the telescope to his blind eye to look at the signals from Parker. Parker's signals had given Nelson permission to withdraw at his discretion, yet he declined. Copenhagen is often considered to be Nelson's hardest-fought victory, with the Danes offering a very stubborn resistance.

A man must know his limitations...and make good use of them

Thinking that Nelson might have fought to a stand-still but might be unable to retreat without orders (the Articles of War demanded that all ranks 'do their utmost' against the enemy in battle), at 1:30pm Parker told his flag captain, "I will make the signal of recall for Nelson's sake. If he is in condition to continue the action, he will disregard it; if he is not, it will be an excuse for his retreat and no blame can be imputed to him."Nelson ordered that the signal be acknowledged, but not repeated. He turned to his flag captain, Thomas Foley, and said "You know, Foley, I only have one eye — I have the right to be blind sometimes," and then, holding his telescope to his blind eye said "I really do not see the signal!"[

And that is how battles are won through blind perseverance! [wiki]

[Jimbuna]

1922 Joseph Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by Vladimir Lenin.

1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion.

1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz.

1945 Nazis begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald.

1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands.

[Jimbuna]

1812 British storm Badajoz fortress in Extremadura, Spain, held by French & Spanish.

1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.

1974 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories).

[Jimbuna]

1916 German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare.

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I.

1939 Great Britain & Poland sign military pact.

1945 Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1916 German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare. [...]

And again, the german U-Boat war was not "unrestricted", not even in the time Germany declared it was.
In contrary to the Entente, whose war was total and unrestricted, from the beginning to the end. Q-ships and armed merchants are only the tip of the iceberg.

Then the "Kaiser" Emperor William 2nd was only in command of the navy, not army or air force. Although he called back and forbade the intended fire bombing of London after some air raids on the german Ruhr area.

Then, England abolishing slave trade in 1807.. thought it was 1833?


But then i have already given up to comment all i find wrong here

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Then, England abolishing slave trade in 1807.. thought it was 1833?


But then i have already given up to comment all i find wrong here

The Slave Trade Act 1807 or the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the title of "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". The original act is in the Parliamentary Archives. The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, in particular the Atlantic slave trade, and also encouraged British action to press other European states to abolish their slave trades, but it did not abolish slavery itself. Many of the Bill's supporters thought the Act would lead to the death of slavery, but it was not until 26 years later that slavery itself was actually abolished. It remained legal in most of the British Empire until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

OF particular note:

The Act created fines for captains who continued with the trade. These fines could be up to £100 per enslaved person found on a ship. Captains would sometimes dump captives overboard when they saw Navy ships coming in order to avoid these fines. The Royal Navy, which then controlled the world's seas, established the West Africa Squadron in 1808 to patrol the coast of West Africa, and between 1808 and 1860 they seized approximately 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard. The Royal Navy declared that ships transporting slaves were the same as pirates. Action was also taken against African leaders who refused to agree to British treaties to outlaw the trade, for example against "the usurping King of Lagos", who was deposed in 1851. Anti-slavery treaties were signed with over 50 African rulers..In the 1860s, David Livingstone's reports of atrocities within the Arab slave trade in Africa stirred up the interest of the British public, reviving the flagging abolitionist movement. The Royal Navy throughout the 1870s attempted to suppress "this abominable Eastern trade", at Zanzibar in particular. In 1890 Britain handed control of the strategically important island of Heligolande North Sea to Germany in return for control of Zanzibar, in part to help enforce the ban on slave trading...

wiki http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-trader.htm & http://www.historynet.com/hanging-captain-gordon.htm Abraham Lincoln got into the act prior to the Emancipation Proclamation; the only execution of an American convicted of international slave trading, a capital crime under an 1820 federal piracy law:

When President Abraham Lincoln refused to pardon Captain Gordon, he wrote: “I believe I am kindly enough in nature, and can be moved to pity and to pardon the perpetrator of almost the worst crime that the mind of man can conceive or the arm of man can execute; but any man, who, for paltry gain and stimulated only by avarice, can rob Africa of her children to sell into interminable bondage, I never will pardon.”