This date in history

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1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC).

1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam.

1944 First V-1 rocket assault on London.

1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands.

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1881 The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice.

1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries.

1920 US Post Office says children cannot not be sent by parcel post (after various instances).

1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km.

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks.

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1842:

On 13 June 1842, Queen Victoria left Windsor Castle to undertake her first train journey....BECOMING THE FIRST BRITISH MONARCH TO DO SO... She was no doubt a little nervous, after all, railways were a relatively new technology and their safety record was appalling compared with today's statistics. In 1842, railway accidents in England Scotland and Ireland caused the death of 84 people and injured 102.

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1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.

1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing of the building of another four major warships.

1916 Representatives of eight Allied nations hold an economic conference in Paris at which they discuss ways to cripple their enemies economic power during and after the war.

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would die within its walls).

1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral.

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.

1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict.

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1940 World War II: France surrenders to NAZI Germany, German troops occupy Paris.

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.

1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity.

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1944 King George VI visits General Montgomery's HQ in Normandy.

1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down.

1982 Britain requests Argentina to arrange for return of prisoners.

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1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.

1940 World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

1965 First bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon).

1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falkland Islands.

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1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher.

1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons.

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason.

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1829 Sir Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London.

1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France.

1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor.

1944 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"

1944 World War II: First day of the 2 day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat Japanese fleet.

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police.

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1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She rules for 63 years till 1901.

1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1900 In China, most foreigners in the Peking legations now accept that they are under siege by Boxers.

1900 Baron Von Ketteler, German Minister, decides to go to the Chinese authorities to demand more guards for European protection from Boxers and is killed by Boxers en route.

1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas.

1944 Heavy storm hits the Channel.

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income.

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1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War).

1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands.

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1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812.

1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender.

1900 In China, practically the whole foreign community in Peking, including many Chinese Christians, retreat to British compounds.

1911 King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea.

1940 France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France.

1941 Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union during WWII, the largest military operation in human history.

1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon.

1943 617 Squadron (Dambusters) attends investiture at Buckingham Palace, Commanding Officer Guy Gibson awarded the Victoria Cross.

1972 The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces.

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930 World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi), established.

1940 After conquering France, Adolf Hitler visits Paris and views the Eiffel Tower and the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1942 Germany's latest fighter, a ****e-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.

1943 RAF discovers Wernher von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde.

1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan).

1951 Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR.

2016 Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union.

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1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's forces invade Russia crossing the Neman River.

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

1922 Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations; he rails against the 'Jewish sell-out' of Germany to the Bolsheviks.

1930 First radar detection of planes, Anacostia, Washington, D.C.

1948 Soviet Union begins the West Berlin Blockade by stopping access by road, rail and water.

2016 British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns after the UK votes to leave the EU.

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1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"

1941 Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there.

1942 British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany.

1942 Major General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe.

1943 Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished.

1947 1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands.

1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.