This date in history

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1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death).

1841 US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free.

1925 Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins.

1935 Adolf Hitler publically announces the creation of a new air force, the Luftwaffe.

1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.

1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.

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1944 U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard.

1945 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

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1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks in Straits of Gibraltar, over 400 die.

1915 The British declare a blockade of all German ports.

1935 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force).

1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia.

1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs.

1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death.

1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule.

1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.

2013 Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom.

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1909 Alarmed over increasing German naval strength, Parliament passes a new naval appropriations bill.

1916 French airship mistakenly attacks and sinks British submarine D3 with loss of all hands.

1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships.

1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss).

1940 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"

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1943 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight.

1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah, kills 6,000 sheep.

1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, first woman to do the countdown.

2018 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump.

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1757 On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for failing to come to aide of besieged British garrison.

1889 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"

1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.

1918 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco.

1943 World War II: Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated"

1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial.

1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered.

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44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.

1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea.

1930 First streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched.

1939 Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates.

1939 Reneging on his pledge in the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex Czechoslovakia.

1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest.

1957 Great Britain becomes the third nation to explode a nuclear bomb.

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1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelles.

1935 Adolf Hitler orders German re-armament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles.

1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow.

1944 French Vichy Internal minister Pierre Pucheu sentenced to death for treason.

1945 Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.

1968 My Lai massacre occurs when American soldiers kill ~400 unarmed Vietnamese civilians, in one of the most controversial incidents of the Vietnam War.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.

ET TU BRUTE?

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432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date).

1800 British warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die.

1898 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes.

1942 Bełżec Concentration Camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Lublin Polish Jews.

1966 US submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean.

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1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.

1944 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store.

1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified.

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1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.

1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy).

1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.

1945 800 killed as a result of a Kamikaze attack on the USS Franklin off Japan.

1945 Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories.

1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K.

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1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.

1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable.

1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's first aircraft carrier.

1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.


1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines.

BUT DID OL'BONEY EVER SAY "I SHALL RETURN" ?!!

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1945 First Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa.

1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.

1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled.

1984 Soviet submarine crashes into aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk off Japan.

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation.