This date in history

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1533: Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Incas, is judicially murdered as Francisco Pizarro completed his conquest of Peru. After several months in fear of an imminent attack from INCA general Rumiñahui, the outnumbered Spanish saw Atahualpa as too much of a liability and decided to execute him. Spanish justice: Pizarro staged a mock trial and found Atahualpa, a king in his own country?!, guilty of revolting against the Spanish, practicing idolatry, and murdering Huáscar, his brother (in the just ended Incan Civil War). Atahualpa was sentenced to death by burning. Since the Inca believed that the soul would not be able to go on to the afterlife if the body were burned: Having offerrred to fill filled a room with ransom gold to bribe Pizarro, and converted to Christianity, he is not burned at the stake, befitting a heathen, but simply garroted..."the quality of mercy is not strained..." ?? and his remains were given a Christian burial! A little too quick with the garrote compadre: Inca general Rumiñahui, the real hero of it all and possibly a half-brother of the dead Atahualpa, was on his way to Cajamarca with an enormous amount of gold for the ransom when he learned that Atahualpa had been murdered. Accounts of the amount of gold involved varies in different versions of the legend, but all agree that on the news of Atahualpa's death, he sent the porters East to areas that are to the present day uninhabited and later returned to Quito and hauled more treasures, including tiles of the temple of the Sun and possessions of the temple dancers. The treasure is assumed to had been hidden in a cave, or dumped into a lake. Rumiñahui continued fighting against the Spanish, and though he was eventually captured and tortured, but he never revealed the location of the treasure. The Treasure of the Llanganatis remains hidden to this day. A hero in present-day Ecuador, Rumiñahui got top 'billing' on 'sucre' notes before Ecuador simply converted to the dollar. Hardly the 'gold standard' IMHO

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1146 - European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1963 - Hotline communication link between Pentagon (Washington) and the Klemlin (Moscow) installed.

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1939 - Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz.

1940 - 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton).

1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel, Paris.

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1939 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig.

1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David.

1945 - Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan).

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1983: 269 people are killed when a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 is shot downby a Soviet jet fighter after entering Soviet airspace. "
The incident was one of the tensest moments of the Cold War and resulted in an escalation of anti-Soviet sentiment, particularly in the United States. The opposing points of view on the incident were never fully resolved. Consequently, several groups continue to dispute official reports and offer alternative theories of the event. The subsequent release of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 transcripts and flight recorders by the Russian Federation(8 years later following the collapse of the Soviet Union) has clarified some details.
As a result of the incident, the United States altered tracking procedures for aircraft departing Alaska. The interface of the autopilot used on airliners was redesigned to make it more ergonomic. In addition, the event was one of the most important single events that prompted the Reagan administration to allow worldwide access to the United States military's GNSS system, which was classified at the time. Today this system is widely known as GPS."[wiki] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 Still an unsatisfactorily resolved mess.

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1192 - Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade.

1942 - German troops enter Stalingrad.

1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends).

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During World War II, on Sept. 2, 1944, a torpedo-bomber was hit by anti-aircraft fire while making a run over Bonin Island, 600 miles south of Japan. The pilot headed out to sea, ejected from his burning plane and was rescued by a submarine.
He received the Distinguished Flying Cross, graduated from Yale, worked in the Texas oil industry and entered politics, eventually being elected the 41st U.S. president. His name was George H.W. Bush.

on Sept. 2, 1945 Emperor Hirohito’s Imperial forces officially surrendered aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay,

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1939-After Germany ignores Great Britain’s ultimatum to stop the invasion of Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.

1939-The British passenger ship Athenia is sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic, with 30 Americans among those killed. American Secretary of State Cordell Hull warns Americans to avoid travel to Europe unless absolutely necessary.

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1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.

1783 - Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.

1939 - WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada.

1917 - 1st night bombing of London by German aircraft.

1940 - Hitler orders invasion of England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion).

1941 - 1First use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war).

1945 - Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies.

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1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson first European to discover island of Manhattan [or Sep 11].

1682 - English astronomer Edmund Halley observes the comet named after him.

1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.

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1939 - New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'.

1972 - 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics.

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1836: Sam Houston is elected president of the Republic of Texas in a landslide. The inauguration is OCT 22, 1836.

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1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World.

1917 - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft.

1939 - 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II.

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Even a French act of state- sponsored terrorism has not stopped the good work...http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/greenpeace/2010/Quarterly/Quarterly_2010_2.web.pdf Weirdly, in light of our own intrusion into Pakistan(technically a 'friendly ally') to kill Osama Bin Laden:" http://www.academia.edu/1416895/The_Rainbow_Warrior_bombers_media_and_the_judiciar y On the nature of "functional immunity" by agents of a sovereign state: https://thenewinternationallaw.wordpress.com/tag/rainbow-warrior-affair/

2015: today: OPERATION SATANIC comes full Circle??!! The French secret service frogman who attached the mines which sank the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand 30 years ago apologised for his actions in an interview today with investigative website Mediapart.
Jean-Luc Kister, whose face was not covered in the hour-long video interview, said he believed it was now the right time to say sorry to the family of Portuguese photographer Fernando Pereira, who was killed in the explosion, to Greenpeace and to the people of New Zealand. We are not cold-blooded killers. My conscience led me to apologise and explain myself."
He said the mission that the 12-strong unit were ordered to carry out by then French defence minister Charles Hernu was "disproportionate" and he claimed that other less drastic ways of damaging the ship, such as breaking the propeller shaft to prevent it from taking to sea, were rejected by the government. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11508836&ref=rss

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1812: The Battle of Borodino outside Moscow takes place...the Russins win against Napoleon I. The fighting costs each side over 30,000 casualties apiece and leads directly to Bonaparte's disastrous retreat from Russia.