This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam.

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.

1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard tomb of China's 1st emperor Qin Shi Huang.

[Jimbuna]

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

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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

Imagine how different the cold war would have been if this wouldn't have happened.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Imagine how different the cold war would have been if this wouldn't have happened.

Highly likely

[Jimbuna]

1954 USSR offers to join NATO.

1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre.

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

[Jimbuna]

1778 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol.

1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die.

1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government.

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

1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.

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

1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned.

[Jimbuna]

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

1804 Forty merchantmen are wrecked when a convoy led by HMS Apollo runs aground off Portugal.

1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.

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

1942 USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Francisco.

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

[Aktungbby]

[QUOTE=Jimbuna;2476340]1801 Napoleonic Wars: naval Battle of Copenhagen - The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet.

Sometimes it helps to be blind:

Admiral Parker could see little of the battle owing to gun smoke, but could see the signals on the three grounded British ships, with Bellona and Russell flying signals of distress and Agamemnon a signal of inability to proceed. 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!"Rear Admiral Graves repeated the signal, but in a place invisible to most other ships while keeping Nelson's 'close action' signal at his masthead

ODDLY William Bligh of the Bounty fame and not considered a real success in history books , proved very much the man this day. Captain aboard a the fourth-rate (54 gun) HMS Glatton, the only British vessel armed only with Carronades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carronade nasty close-in Scottish made weapon, which also made the ammunition with a very low windage or gap with the gun-tube; as a result, The broadside was greater in destruction than a 100 gun conventional ship of the line such as HMS Victory.

After the battle, Nelson personally praised Bligh for Bligh's contribution to the victory. He sailed Glatton safely between the banks while three other vessels ran aground. When Nelson pretended not to notice Admiral Parker's signal "43" (stop the battle) and kept the signal "16" hoisted to continue the engagement, Bligh was the only captain in the squadron who could see that the two signals were in conflict. By choosing to fly Nelson's signal, he ensured that all the vessels behind him kept fighting.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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

Lessons for all of us to learn ... I wonder how long it took for Russia to spend that $7.2 million dollars? Money all gone and the land is ours ... a lot like all of the sports cars I have owned and sold ... money all gone and the cars now belong to someone else.

[Jimbuna]

1882 American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph.

1929 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

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.

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1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford.

1913 The Greek aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.

1945 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington DC.

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

[Mr Quatro]

Thank you Jim for doing this everyday ... Do you enjoy it?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Thank you Jim for doing this everyday ... Do you enjoy it?

Yeah, I like to know what has happened in previous times in history

[Jimbuna]

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.

1945 Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa.

1945 Massive kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa.