This date in history

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1918 First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kansas; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million.

1936 First flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.

1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

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1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes).

1936 Spitfire makes its first flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton).

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe.

1971 "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones.

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1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.

1930 Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food.

1964 Boxer Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali.

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1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US.

1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.

1918 President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.

1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland.

1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.

1942 First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.

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1945: AMERICANS CAPTURE THE LUDENDORFF BRIDGE, THE ONLY BRIDGE STILL STANDING ACROSS THE RHINE CROSS IT FOR TEN DAYS UNTIL ITS COLLAPSE FROM AGE, DEMOLITION AND AIR ATTACKS https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Ludendorff_Bridge_collapse.jpg/310px-Ludendorff_Bridge_collapse.jpg, SHORTENING WWII CONSIDERABLY. THE FEROCIOUS GERMAN COUNTERATTACK - AS DEPICTED BY A WORLD FAMOUS ARTIST:D >http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=9429 <To protect the bridge against aircraft, the Americans positioned the largest concentration of anti-aircraft weapons during World War IIleading to "the greatest antiaircraft artillery battles in American history." The Americans counted 367 different German Luftwaffe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe) aircraft attacking the bridge over the next 10 days. The Americans claimed to have shot down nearly 30% of the aircraft dispatched against them. The German air offensive failed. PROVES UNAVAILING. HITLER ORDERS THE EXECUTION OF THE BRIDGE COMMANDERS FOR FAILURE TO ACT.... AS A WARNING EXAMPLE TO ALL GERMAN COMMANDS THIS MESSAGE WAS DISPATCHED TO ALL COMMANDS: ... The five guilty officers were condemned to death by court martial, one of them, a captain, in absentia. The sentence was executed against three majors and one lieutenant. The above information is to be communicated to all troops as rapidly as possible and should be considered a warning to everyone. Who does not live in honor will die in shame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen)

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1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor.

1959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx's final TV appearance together.

1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.

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

1862 USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads.

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

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

1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.

1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow.

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

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1916: March 9, 1916, began as a raid conducted by Pancho Villa's https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Pancho_Villa_bandolier.jpg/1024px-Pancho_Villa_bandolier.jpg Division of the North (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisi%C3%B3n_del_Norte) on the small American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) border town of Columbus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_New_Mexico), New Mexico (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico), located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the border. The raid escalated into a full-scale battle between Villistas and the US Army. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Columbus.jpg Villa himself led the assault, only to be driven back into Mexico by elements of the 13th Cavalry Regiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Cavalry_Regiment_(United_States)) stationed at the town. The attack angered Americans and President Woodrow Wilson who ordered the Punitive Expedition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition) in which the US Army invaded Mexico in an unsuccessful attempt to capture General Villa.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/VillaUncleSamBerrymanCartoon.png In spite of Villa proclaiming that the raid was a success by evidence of captured arms and equipment from the camp, which included over 300 rifles and shotguns, 80 horses, and 30 mules, the raid was a tactical disaster for him with ill-afforded casualties of 90 to 170 dead from an original force that had numbered 484 men,including at least 63 killed in action and at least seven more who later died from wounds during the raid itself. Of those captured during the raid, seven were tried; of those, one sentence was commuted to life in prison; and six were convicted and executed by hanging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging). Two were hanged on June 9, 1916; four were hanged on June 30, 1916. The sixty-three dead Villa soldiers and all the dead Villa horses that were left behind in Columbus after the raid were dragged south of the stockyards, soaked with kerosene and burned.... 8 AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND 11 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED IN THE BATTLE...JEEEZE! SOMETIMES YA REALLY DO NEED A WALL BBY!:()1:

[Jimbuna]

1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral.

1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

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.

1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley.

1968 North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop.

1975 Dog spectacles patented in England.

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http://www.dogica.com/hq/GLASSES2.png (http://www.dogica.com/dogglass.html)
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England.
https://ipcopy.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/glasses.png?w=300&h=203 (https://ipcopy.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/glasses.png)Pet sunglasses system No documents available for this priority number.
Page bookmark US5868104 (A) - Pet sunglasses system (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=D&date=19990209&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=5868104A&KC=A&ND=1)Inventor(s): RAMIREZ YOLANDA [US] + (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=5868104A&KC=A&FT=D&ND=&date=19990209&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP#) (RAMIREZ, YOLANDA) Applicant(s): RAMIREZ, YOLANDA Classification: - international: A01K13/00 (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=5868104A&KC=A&FT=D&ND=&date=19990209&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP#); A01K29/00 (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=5868104A&KC=A&FT=D&ND=&date=19990209&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP#); (IPC1-7): A01K29/00 (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=5868104A&KC=A&FT=D&ND=&date=19990209&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP#) - cooperative: A01K13/00 (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/classification?locale=en_EP#!/CPC=A01K13/00); A01K13/006 (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/classification?locale=en_EP#!/CPC=A01K13/006); A01K29/00 (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/classification?locale=en_EP#!/CPC=A01K29/00)
Application number: US19980041427 19980312 Priority number(s): US19980041427 19980312
Abstract of US5868104 (A) A pair of glasses for a small animal is provided including a pair of glasses each having a frame and a lens mounted therein. Each frame has a linear arm having a first end coupled to the frame and extending rearwardly therefrom. An interconnect is connected to an inboard edge of each of the frames which permits the selective distancing thereof.
:yeah:Nuthin like Brit inspiration! https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Y4QjOPztL._SX522_.jpg...http://www.dogica.com/dogpuppy/pup/doggless-glasses.jpgand my favorite: http://www.dogica.com/dogpuppy/pup/dog-glasses-doggles8.jpghttp://www.dogica.com/dogglass.html (http://www.dogica.com/dogglass.html)

[Jimbuna]

1869 The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter.

1915 The British declare a blockade of all German ports.

1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.

1942 First deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia.

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

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.

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1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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.

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

2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

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1933 Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda.

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

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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.

1943 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.

[Catfish]

[...] 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. [...].

There is so much more to this, again. Scuttled, after being shelled in neutral waters, still shelled while flying the white flag, Canaris as 1st officer of the SMS »Dresden« making his way back to Germany to become head of the SD later.. some say Churchill used the bombing of Dresden in WW2 as a symbolic revenge against the SMS Dresden "humiliating him" in WW1. Some good history films lately about the story.

[Jimbuna]

^ If any are in English I wouldn't mind a link to them.

[Catfish]

^ I have become an (involuntary lol) "fan" of the german small cruisers of WW1, from the Koenigsberg class and its initial SMS »Koenigsberg« to its successors, the »Emden« and the »Dresden«. ("SMS" is "Seiner Majestaet Schiff", just like "HMS").
We are currently (since years) collecting information about the german ships »Khalif« and the »Koenigsberg«, and the effort to reach German East-Africa with the Zeppelin to help the german army with their Askaris. A member of our family was a crew member of said Zeppelin, a friend was first officer on the »Khalif«. They are all dead now, unfortunately.
Its commanders and missions were well known until 1945, when the history of german military generally somehow seized to exist :03:
Karl von Mueller, Fritz von Muecke, Graf Luckner and their men were the military heroes of the time in Germany, just like Lettow-Vorbeck.
The Zeppelin, The »Graf Goetzen« and the Africa-Zeppelin are also part of an english novel "The ghosts of Africa", fictional but with a lot of real historic details.

Most documentaries i saw are not on Youtube – which is no surprise of course, since there are no english translations i know of.

This should be english translation of one of them:
About the SMS Emden, first part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kleS8kmH28A

Second part is about the SMS Dresden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxlS07si37g

Also a bit of Canaris' fate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcBfjsiYzYE

[Jimbuna]

Danke matey, I will watch them :up:

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

1939 Reneging on his pledge in the Munich Agreement, Hitler occupies and annexes Czechoslovakia.

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

1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered.

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1834 Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, anchors in the Falklands Islands for the first time.

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

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.

1955 President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war.

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

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.

1940 Benito Mussolini and Italy join Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain.

1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified.

1965 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

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United States Secretary of Navy, Gideon Welles, wrote to Rear-Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont, Commanding the United States South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and said “the destruction of the Georgiana not only touched their pockets, but their hopes. She was a splendid craft, peculiarly fitted for the business of privateering1863: The Georgiana, a brig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamship)-rigged steamer belonging to the Confederate Navy during the Civil War, is scuttled. Reputed to be the "most powerful" cruiser in the Confederate fleet, she was never used in battle. On her maiden voyage from Scotland-and still without mounted guns- but laden with a contraband cargo consisting of hundreds of tons of assorted merchandise, munitions and medicines, which had been purchased for today’s equivalent of approximately two million dollars.- where she was built, she encountered Union Navy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Navy) ships engaged in a blockade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade) of Charleston, South Carolina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina),( the birthplace of submarine warfare!:yeah:) and was heavily damaged before being scuttled (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling) by her captain. The wreck was discovered in 1965 and lies in the shallow waters of Charleston's harbor. She had been spotted by the armed U.S. Armed-Yacht America (of the famed America's Cup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Cup) racing trophy) which alerted the remainder of the blockade fleet by shooting up colored signal flares. The Georgiana was sunk after a desperate chase in which she came so close to the big guns aboard the USS Wissahickon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wissahickon_(1861)) that her crew even heard the orders being given on the U.S. vessel. With solid shot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_shot) passing entirely though her hull, her propeller and rudder damaged, and with no hope for escape, Capt. A. B. Davidson flashed a white light in token of surrender, thus gaining time to beach his ship in fourteen feet (4.3 m) of water, three-quarters of a mile (1200 m) from shore and, after first scuttling her, escaped on the land side with all hands; this was construed as "the most consummate treachery" by the disappointed blockading crew, who would have shared in the proceeds from the prize. The scuttled Georgianna would herself sink three blockade runners who ran over the wreck attempting to run the blockade. 1965:The wreck is discovered by German-born Dr. F.Lee Spence, who also found the submarine CSS Hunley, :Kaleun_Salute:with the blockade runner Mary Bowers-victim #2- resting atop the wreck...102 years to the day of its scuttling! On March 19, 1965, the one hundred and second anniversary of her sinking, I booked still another flying lesson with the hope that the tide, currents and sunlight would be exactly right and allow me to spot the wreck from the air. My theory was that the strong currents running cross the seafloor would pick up loose silt from the muddy bottom and, as they crashed into the wreck, the muddy water would be thrust up towards the slightly clearer surface waters making a muddy but visible streak. After almost an hour of doing tight, nauseating circles back and forth about a mile off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina, I finally saw what I was after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Lee_Spence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Lee_Spence) http://shipwrecks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Georgiana-sidescan-S000241.jpgRequired reading:salute:: http://shipwrecks.com/discovery-of-the-georgiana/ (http://shipwrecks.com/discovery-of-the-georgiana/)

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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).

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

2003 Invasion of Iraq by American and British-led coalition begins without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.

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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.

1934 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany.

1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia.

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

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1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk.

1943 Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails.

1945 First Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa.

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation.

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1952: history's first rock and roll concert is held in CLEVELAND Ohio.Radio host Alan Freed wanted to reward his loyal listeners, his Moondoggers. He wanted a concert to celebrate the new teen music. A BIG event.
And he got just that. An event so big that many consider it the birthday for Rock and Roll.
http://www.pophistorydig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1952-Moondog-ball-610.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Moondog_poster.jpg/250px-Moondog_poster.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moondog_poster.jpg)7000 TICKETS AT $1.25-$1.75!:k_confused: Tickets selling out in a single day. Thousands of teenagers, hours before show time, lining up outside the biggest venue in town. The scene outside the Cleveland Arena on a chilly Friday night in March more than 50 years ago would look quite familiar to anyone who has ever attended a major rock concert. But no one on this particular night had ever even heard of a “rock concert.” This, after all, was the night of an event now recognized as history’s first major rock-and-roll show...an estimated 20,000-25,000 fans turned out for an event being held in an arena with a capacity of only 10,000. Less than an hour into the show, the massive overflow crowd broke through the gates that were keeping them outside, and police & fire quickly moved in to stop the show almost as soon as it began. On the radio the very next evening, Promoter and radio host Alan Freed, having wanted to reward his loyal listeners, his Moondoggers http://www.pophistorydig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1950s-Alan-Freed-260.jpg offered an apology to listeners who had tried to attend the canceled event. By way of explanation, Freed said: “If anyone…had told us that some 20 or 25,000 people would try to get into a dance—I suppose you would have been just like me. You would have laughed and said they were crazy.” Considering the bias against 'devil music' and featuring black Rock and Roll artists-a real breakthrough! The unbelievable is now commonplace! :salute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Xq5h9PrCQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Xq5h9PrCQ):Kaleun_Salute:and it still gets crazy! My favorite & talk about audience participation here:yeah::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whQQpwwvSh4&list=RDwhQQpwwvSh4#t=0

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1941 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II.

1944 American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin.

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.

[Mr Quatro]

on this day in 1966

Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Pope Paul VI meet and exchange greetings in Rome,
the first official meeting between heads of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in more than four hundred years.

Note: Anglican church also relates to the Church of England which goes back to the 2nd century ... 400 years is a long long time :o

[Jimbuna]

1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent.

1921 Germany announces it will be unable to meet its Great War reparation payments.

1929 First telephone installed in the White House.

1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers.

1944 Royal Air Force gunner Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m out of a plane without a parachute over Nazi Germany and lives.

1945 Largest operation in WWII's Pacific War, 1,500 US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa.

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1916 German submarines torpedo the unarmed French cross-channel packet 'Sussex'

1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape).

1945 Operation Varsity: In the largest one-day airborne operation of all time, British, US & Canadian paratroopers land east of the Rhine in Northern Germany.

1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761).

1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

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

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

1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop claims his first victory, shooting down and mortally wounding German Leutnant Theiller.

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

1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona.

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1942 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps.

1942 German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel.

1944 705 British bombers attack Essen.

1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed.

1945 British premier Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg).

1945 Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton launch attack at Remagen on the Rhine.

1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms.

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1977 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain.

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

1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire.

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

2003 In a "friendly fire" incident, two US A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.

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

1912 Captain 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.

1945 Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years.

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

1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia.

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

1894 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" premieres at Theatre Royal, South Shields, England.

1944 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg.

1945 World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.

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

1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326.

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.

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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.

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.

1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California.

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

1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.

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

1935 Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt receives a British patent for RADAR.

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.

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

1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion.

1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz.

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

Assassinated!:Kaleun_Mad: https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2001/222/jamesjesse25.jpg https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2001/222/jamesjesse.jpg One may reflect that the the last battle of the Civil War took place at Northfield, MN!:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up: Robbing the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, where I had checking account in my college days, wasn’t the best career move The Boys ever made....:oops: https://truewestmagazine.com/the-great-northfield-raid/ (https://truewestmagazine.com/the-great-northfield-raid/)

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

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

1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories).

1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

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1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.

1943 Allies bomb Mortsel, Belgium's worst loss of life during WWII (936 civilians).

1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat.

1971 US Lt William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre.

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1722 Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards.

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.

2012 US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities.

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1945 First and last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers.

1945 US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers were sunk.

1971 US President Richard Nixon orders Lt Calley (Mi Lai) free.

1989 Soviet sub Komsomolets sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths.

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1940 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious.

[Mr Quatro]

Date: Apr 09, 1865
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders
In a last-ditch effort against Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee
realizes the effort is futile and surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant
at Virginia's Appomattox Court House.

The surrender triggers others across the South, as the American Civil War finally winds down.

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1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection.

1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die.

1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle.

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.

1963 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen.

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1940 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"

1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech).

1972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons.

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Sad, but just a note of confidence that things got better with SUB Safe after the loss of he Thresher :yep:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-submarine-sinks-in-atlantic

On this day in 1963, the USS Thresher, an atomic submarine, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing the entire crew. One hundred and twenty-nine sailors and civilians were lost when the sub unexpectedly plunged to the sea floor 300 miles off the coast of New England.

The Thresher was launched on July 9, 1960, from Portsmouth Naval Yard in New Hampshire. Built with new technology, it was the first submarine assembled as part of a new class that could run more quietly and dive deeper than any that had come before.

On April 10, 1963, at just before 8 a.m., the Thresher was conducting drills off the coast of Cape Cod. At 9:13 a.m., the USS Skylark, another ship participating in the drills, received a communication from the Thresher that the sub was experiencing minor problems.

Other attempted communications failed and, only five minutes later, sonar images showed the Thresher breaking apart as it fell to the bottom of the sea. Sixteen officers, 96 sailors and 17 civilians were on board. All were killed.

On April 12, President John F. Kennedy ordered that flags across the country be flown at half-staff to commemorate the lives lost in this disaster. A subsequent investigation revealed that a leak in a silver-brazed joint in the engine room had caused a short circuit in critical electrical systems. The problems quickly spread, making the equipment needed to bring the Thresher to the surface inoperable.

The disaster forced improvements in the design and quality control of submarines. Twenty-five years later, in 1988, Vice Admiral Bruce Demars, the Navy’s chief submarine officer, said “The loss of Thresher initiated fundamental changes in the way we do business–changes in design, construction, inspections, safety checks, tests, and more. We have not forgotten the lessons learned. It’s a much safer submarine force today.

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1814 Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba.

1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy.

1912 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY.

1933 Hermann Goering becomes Premier of Prussia.

1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen.

1945 Four soldiers in the Sixth Armored Division of the US Third Army liberate the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald.

2015 Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the first meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution.

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1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy.

REQUIRED READING :D: https://interestingengineering.com/john-philip-holland-father-modern-submarine (https://interestingengineering.com/john-philip-holland-father-modern-submarine) His contribution to military history changed the course of naval warfare forever. The great-grandchildren of his brainchildren still stalk the depths to this very day. WITHOUT HIM, IT FOLLOWS, THERE IS NO :subsim:https://static.interestingengineering.com/images/import/2017/08/John-Philip-Holland-1.jpg

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1916 Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger Casement boards submarine U-19 at Wilmshaven, Germany, bound for a rendezvous with the Aud at Tralee.

1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.

1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands.

1945 US President Franklin Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President.

1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1).

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1940 Second battle of Narvik; 3 German destroyers and one U-boat sunk by the Royal Navy, 5 more German destroyers scuttled.

1943 Germans discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn.

1960 France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara.

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1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington.

1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland.

1918 Douglas Campbell is first US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane).

1943 A JN-25 decrypt by American intelligence detailing a forthcoming visit by Marshal Admiral Yamamoto to Balalae Island results in his plane shot down 4 days later.

1945 American planes bomb Tokyo and damage the Imperial Palace.

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1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington.

1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on.

1942 George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta.

1945 British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

1945 FDR buried in grounds of Hyde Park home.

1989 96 crushed to death at Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield England.

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1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin.

1945 Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Germany, is liberated by American troops.

1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt.

1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris.

1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75.

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1945: MV GOYA took part in Operation Hannibal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hannibal), the evacuation of German military personnel and civilians from German-held pockets along the Baltic Sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea). Loaded with thousands of refugees and Wehrmacht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht) soldiers, the ship was sunk on 16 April 1945 by the Soviet submarine L-3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_L-3).
Most of the crew and passengers died. The sinking of Goya was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life of the war, and as such one of the largest maritime losses of life in history, with just 183 survivors among roughly 6,700 passengers and crew. Four hours after leaving the port, close to the southern tip of Hel Peninsula, the convoy was attacked by Soviet bombers. During the air raids one of the bombs hit Goya, but damage was minimal. After rounding the Hel Peninsula and leaving Danzig Bay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danzig_Bay), several miles north of Cape Rixhöft (Cape Rozewie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Rozewie)), the convoy was sighted by the Soviet minelayer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minelayer)submarine L-3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_L-3), which also carried torpedoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo). While Goya was faster than submarines, the convoy was slowed down by the engine problems of the Kronenfels, which also required a 20-minute stop for repairs. At precisely 4 minutes before midnight (local time), the commander of L-3, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/SubmarineL3.jpg Captain Konovalov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Konovalov), gave the order to fire a spread of four torpedoes. Two of them hit Goya; one struck amidships, the second exploded in the stern, sending an immense plume of fire and smoke bursting into the sky. The impact of the torpedoes was so great that the ship's masts collapsed upon the refugees sleeping on the top deck. Within moments, the ship broke in two and while fire consumed the upper portions of the Goya, it sank in less than four minutes, drowning thousands in their sleep, shortly after midnight; most passengers either went down with her or died of hypothermia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia) in the icy waters of the Baltic Sea. https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featurethe-world-worst-naval-maritime-disasters-4149757/ (https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featurethe-world-worst-naval-maritime-disasters-4149757/)

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1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.

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1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day when it began.

1912 Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.

1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

1942 James Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities.

1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona).

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1943 Jews refuse to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then orders its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career.

1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't).

1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.

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1899 David Beatty is appointed executive officer of the HMS Barfleur, a small battleship and flagship of the China Station.

1918 Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.

1945 Soviet artillery begins shelling Berlin.

1976 George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python.

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1976 George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python.

https://78.media.tumblr.com/82b7d093d6da277d5a22f17343d00b6a/tumblr_mk43qmyCXm1s9nul2o1_500.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFq8ZxbXl4A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFq8ZxbXl4A)

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1916 The Aud, carrying a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans in staging what would become the 1916 Rising, is captured by the British Navy and forced to sail towards Cork Harbour.

1918 World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron", shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France, Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown credited with the kill (disputed by some).

1945 Soviet army arrives at outskirts of Berlin.

1963 Beatles meet The Rolling Stones for the first time.

1970 The Principality of Hutt River (previously Hutt River Province) secedes from Australia - it remains unrecognised by Australia or other nations.

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1915 First military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I.

1916 Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunt's Rock, to prevent its cargo of 20,000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands.

1940 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable.

2006 Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War.

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1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel.

[Catfish]

[...]
1916 Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunt's Rock, to prevent its cargo of 20,000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands. [...]

Did not know this, though Spindler had indeed written a book about it, and was greeted as a hero by the irish-americans, after his moving to the USA.
Just looked for it in the 'web, the "Aud" was indeed the german "Libau", which broke the blockade heading for Ireland. There is a lot more of it regarding Graf Luckner and irish 'rebel' Casement :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

1916 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped ship Endurance.

1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs.

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."

1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead.

1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die.

2018 US President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron.

[Jimbuna]

1915 First landings at Gaba Tepe and Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula by ANZAC forces during WWI.

1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Germany.

1945 Soviet forces complete their encirclement of Berlin, cutting off all access points west of the German capital.

1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by USS submarine Triton in 60 days, 21 hours.

[Jimbuna]

1607 First English colony in American lands at Cape Henry, Virginia.

1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason.

1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

1952 US minesweeper Hobson rams aircraft carrier Wasp, kills 176.

1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain on South Georgia Island, near the Falkland Islands.

1986 World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe.

[Jimbuna]

1865 Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.

1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

1943 Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust.

1945 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como).

2005 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

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1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia.

1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh.

1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect.

1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Höss (not Hess, diferent Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz.

1942 German Luftwaffe estimated to have flown over 11 thousand sorties against Malta since 20th March.

1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats off Slapton Sands, Devon.

1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect.

1973 Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974).

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1973 Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974). http://www.insensitivemunitions.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/train.jpgA hot brake shoe ignited the oak-wood floor of a Department of Defense boxcar carrying 250 lb. (MK 81) Air Force General Purpose bombs filled with Tritonal (TNT/aluminum). These bombs were being transported from the Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, NV to the ship load-out port facility at the Naval Weapons Station, Concord, CA (Port Chicago). Over a period of approximately 32 hours, 18 boxcars exploded in succession. The railroad yard was essentially destroyed. Fortunately no one was killed; however 48 persons were injured.
THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE RAILCAR/BOMB DISASTER: http://www.insensitivemunitions.org/history/railroad-train-fires-and-munition-explosions/ (http://www.insensitivemunitions.org/history/railroad-train-fires-and-munition-explosions/)
:doh: ...BUT I HEARD THIS ONE!

[Jimbuna]

1864 Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga.

1916 Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising.

1945 US Army liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.

1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.

1975 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war.

1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women).

1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate.

1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlaws production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.

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1864 Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga. KIND OF A TREND IN THEM-THAR DAYS; THE PRESUMPTION OF 'SUPERIOR' MODERN ARMED WHITE PEOPLE OVER 'INFERIOR' LITTLE BROWN PEOPLE IN THE QUEST FOR EMPIRE....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Plan_of_the_attack_on_gate_pa.jpg/200px-Plan_of_the_attack_on_gate_pa.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_of_the_attack_on_gate_pa.jpg) LITTLE BIG HORN 1876> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Custer%27s_route_over_Little_Bighorn_battlefield.j pg/300px-Custer%27s_route_over_Little_Bighorn_battlefield.j pg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Custer%27s_route_over_Little_Bighorn_battlefi eld.jpg)1879-ISANDLWANA>https://www.britishbattles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/5-Map-of-Isandlwana.jpg (https://www.britishbattles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/5-Map-of-Isandlwana.jpg)
AND 1896-ADOWA> http://www.burnpit.us/sites/burnpit/files/battle_adowa05.gif
http://www.burnpit.us/2016/03/battle-adowa-ethiopians-defeat-italian-invasion (http://www.burnpit.us/2016/03/battle-adowa-ethiopians-defeat-italian-invasion)

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2008: Albert Hofmann https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Albert_Hofmann_Oct_1993.jpg/220px-Albert_Hofmann_Oct_1993.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Hofmann_Oct_1993.jpg) DIES ON THIS DATE AT AGE 102!!! (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) He was a Swiss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland) scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_synthesis), ingest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingestion), and learn of the psychedelic effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug) of lysergic acid diethylamide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide)(LSD). Hofmann was also the first person to isolate, synthesize, and name the principal psychedelic mushroom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_mushroom) compounds psilocybin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin) and psilocin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocin).https://media1.giphy.com/media/xTiTnlzKFDl8nZBYME/200w.gif He 'mini dosed' on LSD till the end of his life; In 2007, he shared first place, alongside Tim Berners-Lee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee), in a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses, published by The Telegraph newspaper:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:. Whatever he was on, I want some too!https://media0.giphy.com/media/bsSqk95Jdk7vi/giphy.gif ...just to create more interesting....
'pillow talk' BBY!>https://media3.giphy.com/media/B79YA0qhF9L2w/giphy.gif

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1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America.

1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconson.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) calls for crusade against the Bolsheviks.

1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin.

1945 Soviet Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp.

1945 Record 48 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.

1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city.

1975 North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.

1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London.

1993 The World Wide Web source code is released by CERN, making the software freely available to all.

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1707 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila.

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight.

1945 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army.

1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.

1946 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed British supreme commander.

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.

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1945 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria.

1945 Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin and General Weidling surrenders.

1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men.

2011 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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1915 John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields"

1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air Force in East Sea, 5,800 killed - one of largest maritime losses of life.

1947 Japan's post-war constitution goes into effect, granting universal suffrage, stripping Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power and outlawing Japan's right to make war.

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1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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1945 World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.

1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers.

1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building.

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1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die).

1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler).

1954 Roger Bannister of the UK becomes the 1st person to run a 4 minute mile, recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road, Oxford.

1962 First nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen).

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1765 HMS Victory launched; Admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, 40 years later.

1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed.

1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.

1941 British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3).

1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion.

1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed.

1945 Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.

1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death.

1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu.

1954 US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership of NATO.

1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.

1999 Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

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1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes killing 679 German soldiers.

1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, leads to the creation of Remembrance Day.

1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean.

1942 Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea.

1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"

1945 German General Von Keitel formally surrenders to Marshal Georgy Zhukov and the Soviets in Berlin.

1945 V-E Day; WWII ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender.

1947 Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki, who had volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to gain information about the Holocaust, is arrested by Polish communist police.

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...with wealth gathered from plunder in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Inca_Empire) having governed Lima; He was admitted into the prestigious Order of Santiago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Santiago) and "granted the right to conquer Florida". His share was awarded to him by the King of Spain, and he received 724 marks of gold, 17,740 pesos On May 8, 1541, CONQUISTADOR, HERNANDO DESOTO's expedition reaches the Mississippi River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River) and crosses it in search of more gold....:k_confused: the first Europeans to see and cross the mighty Mississippi River. De Soto died of a fever on May 21, 1542, in the native village of Guachoya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guachoya) (historical sources disagree as to whether de Soto died near present-day McArthur, Arkansas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McArthur,_Arkansas), or in Louisiana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana)) on the western bank of the Mississippi. Louisiana erected a historical marker at the estimated site. According to one source, de Soto's men hid his corpse in blankets weighted with sand and sank it in the middle of the Mississippi River during the night. A rich man by any standard, he should have stayed in Spain. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Burial_of_de_Soto_-_engraving.jpg/1024px-Burial_of_de_Soto_-_engraving.jpgIt is important to note the unfortunate negative impact made by the Spanish explorer. The indigenous peoples encountered by de Soto and his men were exposed to European diseases such as measles, smallpox and chickenpox, for which they had no immunity, causing massive loss of life amongst the Native Americans. Mass murder -biological warfare- in pursuit of stolen riches if you will. Nevertheless, de Soto’s records and maps not only greatly added to Europe’s knowledge of the New World but also provided information on the practices and culture of Native Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/DeSoto_Map_HRoe_2008.jpg/800px-DeSoto_Map_HRoe_2008.jpg https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/hernando-de-soto/ (https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/hernando-de-soto/)

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1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen.

1945 Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army.

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1797 First US Navy ship, the "United States," is launched.

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

1940 The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland.

1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam.

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1749 British parliament accepts Consolidation Act, to reorganise the Royal Navy.

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1985 56 die and at least 265 are injured at Bradford City football ground in the worst fire in English football history.

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1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland. I'LL DRINK TO THAT
!:O: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=9413

[Mr Quatro]

I'LL DRINK TO THAT
!:O:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987), was a prominent politician in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, he served in this position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. He was taken prisoner and eventually was convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence until his suicide.

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1940 German blitzkrieg conquest of France began by crossing Muese River.

1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Hitler's deputy.

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender.

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1787 Arthur Phillip sets sail with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia.

1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement of the American Civil War, Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company, 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed.

1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain.

1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons.

1946 US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.

1949 First British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its first test flight.

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1890 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to sub-lieutenant.

1927 Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.

1943 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

1944 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler.

1945 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.

1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered.

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1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

1914 US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off'

1921 British Legion formed to care for ex-servicemen.

1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus.

1943 Halifax bombers sink U-463.

1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz.

1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan.

1945 The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.

1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

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1942 First transport of British and Dutch prisoners to South Burma.

1943 SS General Jürgen Stroop orders the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, ending a month of Jewish resistance. 13,000 Jews have died, about half burnt alive or suffocated, German casualties less than 300.

1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs.

1944 First of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.

1958 Major Irwin, USAF, flies a Lockheed Starfight F-104 A to a record 1,404.18 MPH.

1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.

1991 Queen Elizabeth II becomes first British monarch to address US congress.

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1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street.

1897 The first successful submarine that can run submerged for any considerable distance and combines electric and gasoline engines is launched in the USA by its designer John Philip Holland.

1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway.

1943 Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th.

1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.

1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die.

2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef.

2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

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2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. THE 'GREAT CARRIER REEF' IS QUITE A SCUBA ATRACTION AND RESTING PLACE FOR THE ASHES OF DECEASED MILITARY SERVICE PERSONNEL. In the 10 years since the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was intentionally sunk in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, it has become both a top international dive destination and an underwater memorial to thousands of veterans who served on the famed carrier that is now the world's largest artificial reef. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/science/earth/19ship.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/science/earth/19ship.html) PRIOR TO ITS TRANSFER TO FLORIDA IT WAS BERTHED AT MARE ISLAND VALLEJO CA TO HAVE THOROUGH CLEAN-UP TO PREVENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES FROM ENTERING THE GULF MARINE ECOLOGY. I USED TO SEE IT AS I BOARDED THE VALLEJO FERRY DAILY TO/FRO COMMUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO. SHE WAS IN THE ROBIN WILLIAMS FILM: 'WHAT DREAMS MAY COME'. PART OF THE 1997 FILM'S 'HELL SEQUENCE' WAS FILMED ABOARD THE DECREPIT HULL AT MARE ISLAND.https://www.hazegray.org/features/mareisland/cv34_05.jpg
https://www.hazegray.org/features/mareisland/ (https://www.hazegray.org/features/mareisland/)

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1917 First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, are ordered to France.

1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy.

1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea.

1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

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1916 Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun.

1941 New German battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.

1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews).

1943 Churchill pledges Britain's full support to US against Japan.

1959 The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed.

1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy.

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5/18/80: 08:32 AM: 38 YEARS AND ONE DAY...STILL BOGGLES THE MIND! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJA27Bp1q58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJA27Bp1q58) AND THIS WAS A MODERATE 'VESUVIUS LEVEL 5' BLAST. :k_confused:

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1918 First electrically propelled warship (New Mexico).

1940 German General Guderian's tanks reach the English Channel.

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1899: Jacob German was arrested on this day in 1899 for driving at the blistering speed of 12 mph. The speed limit he blasted past? Eight mph between streets, and 4 mph around corners. He is unlucky enough to be remembered forever, as the New York Times recounted 115 years ago (http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20C14FD3E5811738DDDA80A94DD405B8985F0D3), as "the first man arrested for running an automobile too fast." What's so fascinating about German's arrest is how utterly strange it sounds today. His offending speed is what we'd consider an unbearably crawl. He was driving an electric car. https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--MjI4BV0---/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/c4re2l19webocm583ckf.jpg And he was chased down for speeding by a policeman on bicycle. The police officer on a bicycle observed the 26 year old Mr. German speeding and promptly arrested him and imprisoned him in the East 22nd Street station house. https://gizmodo.com/on-this-day-in-1899-the-first-speeding-arrest-happened-1579044541 (https://gizmodo.com/on-this-day-in-1899-the-first-speeding-arrest-happened-1579044541) :k_confused:

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1917 Leo Pinckney becomes the first American drafted during WWI.

1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic.

1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland.

1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II.

1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia.

1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.

1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos.

1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores.

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1906 Wright Brothers are granted a patent for their "flying machine," having applied for one 3 years earlier (patent no. 821,393).

1933 Loch Ness Monster is reportably first sighted by John Mackay.

1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"

1947 First US ballistic missile fired.

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1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde - are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana.

1939 Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor).

1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary.

1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones.

1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

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1844 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message.

1940 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"

1941 German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive.

1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje.

1978 American management consultant Marilyn Loden first coins the term "glass ceiling" to describe invisible career barriers for women.

1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel.

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1935 Track and field athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Remembered as "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport".

1948 Polish war hero Witold Pilecki is executed by communist police after a show trial in Warsaw.

[Rockstar]

The Decision to Go to the Moon: President John F. Kennedy's May 25, 1961 Speech before a Joint Session of Congress

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,"

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On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. A number of political factors affected Kennedy's decision and the timing of it. In general, Kennedy felt great pressure to have the United States "catch up to and overtake" the Soviet Union in the "space race." Four years after the Sputnik shock of 1957, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in space on April 12, 1961, greatly embarrassing the U.S. While Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, he only flew on a short suborbital flight instead of orbiting the Earth, as Gagarin had done. In addition, the Bay of Pigs fiasco in mid-April put unquantifiable pressure on Kennedy. He wanted to announce a program that the U.S. had a strong chance at achieving before the Soviet Union. After consulting with Vice President Johnson, NASA Administrator James Webb, and other officials, he concluded that landing an American on the Moon would be a very challenging technological feat, but an area of space exploration in which the U.S. actually had a potential lead. Thus the cold war is the primary contextual lens through which many historians now view Kennedy's speech. The decision involved much consideration before making it public, as well as enormous human efforts and expenditures to make what became Project Apollo a reality by 1969. Only the construction of the Panama Canal in modern peacetime and the Manhattan Project in war were comparable in scope. NASA's overall human spaceflight efforts were guided by Kennedy's speech; Projects Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Gemini, and Apollo were designed to execute Kennedy's goal. His goal was achieved on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong stepped off the Lunar Module's ladder and onto the Moon's surface.


''That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

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1908 At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made, rights acquired by the United Kingdom.

1941 Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sights German battleship Bismarck.

1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo.

1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb.

1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers.

1956 A fire on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, kills 103 crew.

1972 US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT accord.

1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters and destroyer HMS Coventry hit in Falkland war: 39 crew members die.

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1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history.

1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII.

1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force.

1942 Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor.

1942 Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid.

1958 Maiden flight of the F-4 Phantom II.

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1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution.

1588 Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England.

1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.

1972 White House "plumbers" break into the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate in Washington D.C.

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1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition.

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1431 Nineteen year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France.

1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"

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1911: RAY HARROUN WINS THE FIRST INDIANAPOLIS 500 IN HIS MARMON WASP, FEATURING RACING'S FIRST REAR VIEW MIRROR! & WINNING $10,000....WHEN THAT WAS ALOT OF MOOLAH! https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/05/17/sports/17MIRROR1/17MIRROR1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale When the 40 racecars lined up for the first Indianapolis 500, on May 30, 1911, 39 of them had something in common: There were two men onboard. In the 40th car sat Ray Harroun, all by himself. He was the first driver to race without a riding mechanic to watch for cars from behind. One of the key jobs of the second man in a racecar, who was known as a riding mechanic, was to look backward and alert the driver to what was going on behind him.
Harroun went on to win the race, at least in part because of the aerodynamic advantages his one-man car gave him. The first Indianapolis 500 automobile race: at an average speed of 74.6 mph ...in 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 8 seconds!! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/MarmonWasp.JPG/250px-MarmonWasp.JPG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarmonWasp.JPG)<THE MARMON WASP https://www.historicvehicle.org/national-historic-vehicle-register/vehicles/1911-marmon-wasp/ (https://www.historicvehicle.org/national-historic-vehicle-register/vehicles/1911-marmon-wasp/)

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1878 German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed.

1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.

1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645 in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.

1916 Battle of Jutland: British battle cruiser HMS Invincible explodes, only 6 crew members survive.

1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.

1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons).

1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.

1968 Movie star James Stewart retires from the US Air Force after 27 years of service.

1976 The Who set the record for the loudest concert of all time, 120 decibels at 50 metres, at The Valley in Charlton.

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1968 Movie star James Stewart retires from the US Air Force after 27 years of service.



1992 (June 1st), SAC is dis-established with its assets and personnel transferred to to the Air Combat Command (ACC). :salute:

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1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY.

1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard.

1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes.

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1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno.

1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross.

1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy).

1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

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1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England.https://ca.hellomagazine.com/images/stories/0/2018/01/15/000/537/396/gallery_3_5.jpg
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1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

1935 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage.

1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk.

1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.

1944 Germans pull out of Rome.

1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals.

1970 Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC commercial reference ban.

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1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla. I IMAGINE HE WAS IN DENILE ABOUT HIS CAREER AT THIS POINT:O:...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashoda_Incident https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Fashoda_Incident_map_-_en.svg/350px-Fashoda_Incident_map_-_en.svg.png (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fashoda_Incident_map_-_en.svg)
On 12 July 1898 Marchand had reached Fashoda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodok) and raised the French flag. Kitchener hurried south from Khartoum with his five gunboats, and reached Fashoda on 18 September.

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1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats.

1940 Winston Churchill's speech "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's first major defeat in WW II.

1944 U505 becomes the first German submarine captured and boarded on high seas.

1944 General Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion on June 5th after receiving unfavorable weather reports.

1945 US, Soviet Union, Britain and France agree to divide up occupied Germany.

1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US.

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1917 Ten million US men begin registering for draft in WWI.

1944 First B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure.

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion.

1944 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies.

1944 After receiving favourable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6.

1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me"; group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie.

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1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.

1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 150,000 strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II.

1944 German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629 and U-373 sink in Bay of Biscay.

1985 Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed.

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1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the 1st king and queen of Britain to visit USA.

1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik.

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island.

1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins first World War II naval defeat of Japan.

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1965 USSR launches Luna 6; it missed the Moon by 99,000 miles.

1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen.

1982 Falklands War: Royal Fleet Auxiliary Sir Gahalad attacked in San Carlos Water ("Bomb Alley") by Argentine aircraft: 48 soldiers and crewman were killed.

1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.

1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%

2017 British General Election results in a hung parliament, Prime Minster Theresa May and the Conservative party lose their majority.

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JUNE 8, 1959: THEY'LL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT SLOW POSTAL SERVICE AGAIN

https://media.wired.com/photos/59329b429be5e55af6c262be/master/w_384,c_limit/rocket_mail.jpg


1959: “Rocket mail” becomes “missile mail” when 3,000 pieces of mail are delivered by a cruise missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine.

Experiments in delivering mail by rocket had met with mixed success since the first rocket mail was sent between two Austrian villages in 1931. The first successful delivery by this method in the United States occurred in 1936, when two rockets fired from Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, landed on the New York shore about a thousand feet away.

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1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland).

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends second Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal.

1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”

1959 First ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct).

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires.

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1845 Andrew Jackson's African Grey parrot "Poll" is removed from his funeral for swearing at The Hermitage, Tennessee. Funeral attendee William Menefee Norment recorded: "Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house”

1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.

1940 German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker.

1940 Norway surrenders to Nazi Germany after 62 days of fighting.

1943 Heinrich Himmler ordered the final liquidation of Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland.

1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane.

1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze.

1984 US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time.

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1900 David Beatty and 150 men from HMS Barfleur land as part of a force of 2,400 defending Tientsin from 15,000 Chinese troops plus Boxers.

1940 First attack by the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.

1987 Margaret Thatcher is first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term.

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1665 New Amsterdam legally becomes an English colony and renamed New York after English Duke of York.

1900 In Germany, the Reichstag pass the second Navy Bill, which calls for doubling the German Navy within 20 years.

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

1944 First V-1 rocket assault on London.

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1940 Paris evacuates before German advance.

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

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

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1842: Queen Victoria became the first British monarch to travel by rail, proclaiming the journey "delightful and so quick" despite her nerves. The train transported the Queen from Slough to Paddington, and was hauled by the locomotive Phlegethon driven by Daniel Gooch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gooch) assisted by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel). The Queen used a Royal Saloon which had been constructed by the Great Western Railway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway) in 1840. NOT TO BE OUT DONE: QUEEN ELIZABETH II RECREATED THE EVENT. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/06/13/TELEMMGLPICT000131816778_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqIn0rSyD aWwNJ6H_54mHH_Ch37hHnOANeoxl-KErxt0Y.jpeg?imwidth=480https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/queen-recreates-first-ever-royal-rail-journey-175-years-train/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/queen-recreates-first-ever-royal-rail-journey-175-years-train/) :up:

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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 First bazooka rocket gun produced (Bridgeport, Connecticut).

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.

1944 First B-29 raid against mainland Japan.

1952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus).

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

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1940 France surrenders to Germany, German troops occupy Paris.

2015 Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for US President.

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1941 First US federally owned airport opened Washington, D.C.

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

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1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"

1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.

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 Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

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

1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power.

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

It didn't go well: During the Vietnam War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War), with the escalating situation in Southeast Asia, twenty-eight B-52Fs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress) were fitted with external racks for twenty-four 750-pound (340 kg) bombs under project South Bay in June 1964; an additional forty-six aircraft received similar modifications under project Sun Bath. In March 1965, the United States commenced Operation Rolling Thunder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder). The first combat mission, Operation Arc Light (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Arc_Light), was flown by B-52Fs on 18 June 1965, when 30 bombers of the 9th and 441st Bombardment Squadrons struck a communist stronghold near the Bến Cát District (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%BFn_C%C3%A1t_District) in South Vietnam. The first wave of bombers arrived too early at a designated rendezvous point, and while maneuvering to maintain station, two B-52s collided, which resulted in the loss of both bombers and eight crewmen. The remaining bombers, minus one more that turned back for mechanical problems, continued toward the target. Twenty-seven Stratofortresses dropped on a one-mile by two-mile target box from between 19,000 and 22,000 feet, a little more than 50% of the bombs falling within the target zone. The force returned to Andersen AFB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersen_AFB) except for one bomber with electrical problems that recovered to Clark AFB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_AFB), the mission having lasted 13 hours. Post-strike assessment by teams of South Vietnamese troops with American advisors found evidence that the VC had departed the area before the raid, and it was suspected that infiltration of the south's forces may have tipped off the north because of the ARVN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARVN) troops involved in the post-strike inspection...https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/B-52D_dropping_bombs.jpg/1024px-B-52D_dropping_bombs.jpg

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post

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

It didn't go well:

I didn't know that ... how sad like the helicopter crews that crashed in Iran going in for the hostages.

I always thought the song by Creedence Clearwater Revival: Who'll Stop The Rain was about the Vietnam war and the B-52's dropping bombs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27ll_Stop_the_Rain_(song)


many see "Who'll Stop the Rain" as a thinly veiled protest against the Vietnam War

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1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.

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

1940 General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy Nazi occupiers.

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.

2016 Soyuz capsule returns to Earth first British International Space Station astronaut Tim Peake, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Timothy Kopra after 186 days.

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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.

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act.

1944 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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1941 German U-203 fails in torpedo attack on US battleship Texas.

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1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France.
While the CSS Alabama had heavier firepower, the USS Kearsarge was a more advanced ship with more precise firepower. Thousands of French spectators witnessed the fight between the two ships from the coast, and the USS Kearsarge defeated the CSS Alabama, which sank. The fight was widely covered in the newspapers. Not having witnessed the battle himself, Manet relied on press descriptions of the fight to document his work in his famous painting. His knowledge of the USS Kearsarge being limited, he hid the victor in the smoke of the defeated USS Alabama in his battle painting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/arts/art-review-sunk-at-sea-and-captured-on-canvas.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/arts/art-review-sunk-at-sea-and-captured-on-canvas.html) http://www.manet.org/images/gallery/alabama-and-kearsarge.jpgAND THE USS KEARSARGE AT BOULOGNE PAINTED FIRSTHAND WELL AFTER THE BATTLE: BOTH BY EDOURD MANET>https://www.tripimprover.com/uploads/7/3/6/3/73636755/manet-the-kearsarge-in-boulogne_orig.jpg

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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.

1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity.

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

1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo).

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

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 Germany, Italy and Romania declare war on the Soviet Union.

2017 Prince Harry claims no one in UK royal family wants to be King or Queen in article published in Newsweek.

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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 Werner von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde.

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

2016 United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in their "Brexit" referundum.

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

1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico).

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

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

1947 Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold.

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

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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"

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

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

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

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

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1857 The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria.

1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph).

1917 1st US Expeditionary Force arrives in France during World War I.

1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed.

1948 US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a dougnut") speech in West Berlin.

1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career.

1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

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1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa.

1942 FBI captures 8 German saboteurs from a submarine off NY's Long Island.

1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk.

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict.

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1904 SS Norge runs aground and sinks off Rockall, North Atlantic, more than 635 die, largest maritime loss of life until Titanic.

1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI.

1919 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.

1934 Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knives).

1948 British begin airlift “Operation Plainfare” to West Berlin.

1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War.

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1940 Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan.

1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe.

1966 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time.

1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.

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1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die.

1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'

1905 The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier.

1916 General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" the day before the Battle of the Somme began.

1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party.

1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999.

1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for first time, at Peenemunde.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons).

1950 US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops.

1971 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space).

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1908 "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help.

1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men.

1944 2,500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs.

1944 Graf (Count) Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel.

1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!"

1950 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea.

1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane.

1997 United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China.

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1816 French frigate "La Méduse" runs aground under incompetent leadership of aristocrat Viscount of Chaumareys, forcing evacuation of 400 passengers. 150 men, 1 woman are left on "la Machine," a poorly provisioned raft. 13 days later only 15 survivors remain due to starvation, riots, madness, suicide, and cannibalism.

1940 Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion).

1943 Lieutenant Charles Hall becomes first African American pilot to shoot down a German plane.

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1863 Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War.

1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Hitler.

1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it.

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-628.

1947 Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan.

1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.

1988 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290.

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1988 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290. TALK ABOUT ''GOING POSTAL'' HERE!:k_confused: http://iranstamp.com/en/images/cache/nf2316.500.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Rogers_III (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Rogers_III)

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1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain.

1934 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy.

1945 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.

2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan.

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1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada.

1943 Battle of Kersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks).

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biscay.

1943 US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily.

1950 US forces enter combat in the Korean War for the first time, in the Battle of Osan.

1954 B-52A bomber makes its maiden flight.

1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.

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1811:Venzuela is the first to declare independence from Spain...and a 'hell of a git they got!':k_confused:

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1699 Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston.

1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam.

1943 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 Germans killed.

1943 US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched.

1947 The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1957 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner.

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1535: HAVING BEEN CONVICTED ON 6/1, SIR THOMAS MORE IS EXECUTED BY BEHEADING IN THE TOWER OF LONDON...one thing is sure: there was no court of appeals in those days.:k_confused:

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1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.

1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova.

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-517.

1943 German Submarine U-951 sunk by depth charges, off Cape St. Vincent in the North Atlantic.

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident occured.

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1915 The Germans reply to US President Woodrow Wilson's second Lusitania note by saying that Americans may sail on clearly marked neutral ships, but Germany does not deal with Wilson's other demands.

1943 Fourth day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve.

1943 British air raid sinks U-232.

1947 Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC.

1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea.

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1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.

1940 Battle of Britain begins as German forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel.

1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp.

1943 6th day of battle at Kursk.

1944 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF.

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

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1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam.

1940 Marshall Henri Petain, French hero of World War One, becomes head of the collaborative Vichy government of France.

1995 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.

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1859: BIG BEN CHIMES IN THE CLOCK TOWER FOR THE FIRST TIME....AFTER CONSIDERABLE PROBLEMS: Since the tower was not yet finished, the bell was mounted in New Palace Yard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster#Grounds) but, during testing it cracked beyond repair and a replacement had to be made. The bell was recast on 10 April 1858 at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_Bell_Foundry) as a 13½ ton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton) (13.76-tonne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne)) bell. The second bell was transported from the foundry to the tower on a trolley drawn by sixteen horses, with crowds cheering its progress; it was then pulled 200 ft (61.0 m) up to the Clock Tower’s belfry, a feat that took 18 hours. It is 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) tall and 9 feet (2.74 m) diameter. This new bell first chimed in July 1859; in September it too cracked under the hammer. According to the foundry's manager, George Mears, the horologist Denison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Beckett,_1st_Baron_Grimthorpe) had used a hammer more than twice the maximum weight specified. For three years Big Ben was taken out of commission and the hours were struck on the lowest of the quarter bells until it was repaired. To make the repair, a square piece of metal was chipped out from the rim around the crack, and the bell given an eighth of a turn so the new hammer struck in a different place. Big Ben has chimed with a slightly different tone ever since, and is still in use today with the crack unrepaired. Big Ben was the largest bell in the British Isles until "Great Paul", a 16¾ ton (17 tonne) bell currently hung in St Paul's Cathedral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral), was cast in 1881. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Big-ben-1858.jpgI JUST LOVE THE SOUND BBY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BYN7Qc3qI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BYN7Qc3qI)

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1918 Japanese battleship Kawachi suffers a magazine explosion and sinks while docked in Tokuyama Bay, resulting in over 600 deaths.

1948 First jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires).

1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer.

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1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany.

1953 Battle of the Kumsong River begins - last major battle of the Korean war.

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1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is first US ship to bombard Japan.

1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward).

1959 USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass.

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1922: SUZANNE KINCAID :Kaleun_Salute: IS BORN TO CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS IN CONNECTICUTT ON BASTILLE DAY;https://media1.shmoop.com/images/chart/Tale_of_Two_Cities/madame-defarge.png (https://www.shmoop.com/tale-of-two-cities/chart-madame-defarge.html)<STERN DISCIPLINARIAN & 'RABID' REPUBLICAN :o, AN ELECTED STATE LEADER OF WOMENS' (LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS:hmmm:) GROUPS, TOP OF HER TENNIS LADDER, DEACONESS OF THE CHURCH(S), A SUPERB HORSEWOMAN AND SAILOR OF HER OWN BOAT..... GIVING RISE TO A FIRST-BORN DEVOTED PRINCE-OF-A-SON:O: WHO WILL SOMEHOW SURVIVE TO CREATE THIS AWARD-WINNING THREAD:arrgh!: :shucks: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/images/bestof2014_small2.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=313053&tab=myawards#aw_issue237) (BOTH SHE AND MY WIFE KNIT INCESSANTLY):o :()1: GOOD GOD!...I MARRIED MOM!???

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1815 Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

1915 The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US.

1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb.

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1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading).

1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project.

1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb.

1946 US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau.

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1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

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1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.

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1843 The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender.

1941 British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign.

1941 First US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama).

1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas.

1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue.

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1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack.

1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg.

1969 1st Moon Landing: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin step out from Apollo spacecraft 11, 530 million watch live global broadcast.

1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing.

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1915 Woodrow Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly'.

1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.

1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship.

1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp.

1955 USS Seawolf launched, first submarine powered by liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor.

1959 First nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, named, Camden NJ.

1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).

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1912 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea.

1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp.

1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour.

2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya.

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1942 Hitler's Directive number 45: order to occupy Stalingrad.

1943 Battle of Kursk, USSR ends in German defeat (6,000 tanks).

1945 Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial.

1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"

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1945 Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial.

His trials were just beginning!:O: 1951: Marshal Henri Pétain dies in prison.. Over the following years Pétain's lawyers and many foreign governments and dignitaries, including Queen Mary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Teck) and the Duke of Windsor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII), appealed to successive French governments for Pétain's release, but given the unstable state of Fourth Republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republic) politics no government was willing to risk unpopularity by releasing him. As early as June 1946 U.S. President Harry Truman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman) interceded in vain for his release, even offering to provide political asylum in the U.S. A similar offer was later made by the Spanish dictator General Franco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco)..Pétain required constant nursing care, and he was often suffering from hallucinations, e.g. that he was commanding armies in battle, or that naked women were dancing around his room.:yeah: By the end of 1949, Pétain was completely senile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia), with only occasional moments of lucidity.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Flag_of_Philippe_P%C3%A9tain%2C_Chief_of_State_of_ Vichy_France.svg/220px-Flag_of_Philippe_P%C3%A9tain%2C_Chief_of_State_of_ Vichy_France.svg.png (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Philippe_P%C3%A9tain,_Chief_of_State_ of_Vichy_France.svg) :Kaleun_Salute:

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1943 Operation Gomorrah begins - RAF begins bombing Hamburg (till 3rd August), creating firestorm and killing 42,600.

1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam.

1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth.

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AFTER GOMORRAH THERE WAS NO TOMORRAH! THE VERY DEFINITION OF A FIRESTORM; The architect of that destruction was Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur ‘Bomber Harris, head of British Bomber Command. The stocky Harris had great intelligence, enormous determination and an unyielding hatred of Germany. His aim as chief of Britain’s bomber offensive was to destroy Germany’s cities. A large number of those killed died seeking safety in bomb shelters and cellars, the firestorm consuming the oxygen in the burning city above. The furious winds created by the firestorm had the power to sweep people up off the streets like dry leaves: Some people who tried to walk along, they were pulled in by the fire, they all of the sudden disappeared right in front of you (...) You have to save yourself or try to get as far away from the fire, because the draught pulls you in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II) THE NEW TRICK WHIC WORKED ONLY TOO WELL;
Window also was prepared. The new device seemed an unlikely weapon to RAF crews. It consisted of bundles of metalized paper strips–each bundle had 2,200 strips–made of coarse black paper with aluminum foil stuck to one side. British scientists had theorized that the strips of metalized paper floating in the air would swamp German radar with false echoes. The idea was not new. Japanese naval aircraft had used such a weapon–called Giman-shi, or deceiving paper–during night attacks on Guadalcanal. Adolf Hitler’s scientists had developed their own, called Duppel, in Berlin and tested it. The test was so successful that the Germans were afraid it would fall into British hands and be used against them. Incredibly, Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring, chief of the Luftwaffe, not only ordered all research on Duppel stopped but forbade development of a counter to the device.

Now, from Lancasters and Handley Page Halifaxes, bundles were hurled out flare chutes into the freezing dark, a wearying task. In all, 7,000 bundles were dropped.
Down below, Luftwaffe radar stations that had been easily plotting RAF bomber streams were flooded with false returns. Hostile planes were everywhere. The whole defense system was blinded.
German ground controllers panicked. All Luftwaffe planes were ordered to simply fly toward Hamburg and find their own targets. Rolf Angersbach, in a Dornier Do-217, obediently headed for the city and found himself surrounded by slow-moving radar contacts…but no planes. After firing his guns all over the sky, he was ordered to land to tell his bosses what was going on. Angersbach later recalled that he found everyone helpless and bewildered. http://www.historynet.com/allied-aerial-destruction-of-hamburg-during-world-war-ii.htm (http://www.historynet.com/allied-aerial-destruction-of-hamburg-during-world-war-ii.htm)

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1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).

1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher.

1943 First warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer.

1944 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed.

1999 86th Tour de France: Lance Armstrong wins 1st of 7 consecutive Tour de France titles but is later disqualified for drug cheating.

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1914 Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrive from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens.

1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer").

1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the Japanese surrender during WWII.

1945 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum.

1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb.

1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat.

1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled.

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1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.

1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).

1944 First British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor).

1953 North Korea and UN sign armistice.

1972 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.

1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible", testifies in Israel.

2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007).

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1914 Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of WWI.

1914 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow.

1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead.

1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians.

1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender.

1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9.

2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

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1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine.

1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin.

1973 Led Zeppelin have more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at the New York Hilton.

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1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey.

1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-58. 880 of the crew died, many after being attacked by sharks, the inspiration for the movie Jaws.

1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escapes down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff.

1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow.

1966 FIFA World Cup Final: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany 4-2 a.e.t. in London, England.

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2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.

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1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt.

1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested.

1944 Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe.

1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's.

1958 US atomic submarine USS Nautilus begins first transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine"

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1934 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces.

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands.

1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

1961 Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club.

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1945-08-02 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

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1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived..

1945-08-02 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.please! This a respectable thread...not an echo chamber:O:

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1914 First seaworthy ship passes through the Panama Canal.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina.

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader).

1943 General Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice.

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1873 Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River. One man killed on each side.

1900 An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops, sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion.

1914 WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany.

1914 US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI.

1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann.

1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US.

1943 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada.

1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified.

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1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown - first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire.

1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War).

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1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair.

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210.

1942 Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

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1914 Lord Kitchener says "Your country needs you" poster spreads over UK.

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1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges.

1918 6 US soldiers surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York given command, shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more.

1925 First national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.

1942 Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.

1945 US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials.

1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.

1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.

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1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, takeing two centuries to complete.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland.

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.

1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroying part of Nagasaki.

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as US President and VP Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President.

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1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland. https://shannonselin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/napoleon-arrival-st.-helena-caricature.jpg

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1942 General Bernard Montgomery appointed commander British 8th Army in North Africa.

1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali.

1943 US General George Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"

1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito's status remains unchanged.

1961 UK applies for membership of the European Common Market.

1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again.

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1908 King Edward VII of Britain meets with Emperor Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy.

1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC.

1942 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle torpedoed and sinks.

1945 Allies refuse Japan's offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status.

1984 During a radio voice test, US President Reagan jokes he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."

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1869 Self-proclaimed Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton of the USA issues edict abolishing the Democratic and Republican parties.

1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.

1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender.

1948 Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment.

1959 First ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island.

1981 IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0).

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1940 Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain).

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1915 British transport HMT Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills almost 1000.

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter.

1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa.

1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone).

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1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars.

1906 King Edward VII of Great Britain visits German Emperor Wilhelm II to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations' naval forces.

1914 Dinant, Belgium, destroyed by German bombs. Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured.

1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.

1944 German field marshal Günther von Kluge vanishes for one day; he killed himself on the 19th in the aftermath of the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220.

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1819 Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England: cavalry charges demonstrators, 15 people killed and 400–700 injured.

1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.

2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.

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1861: President Abraham Lincoln issued Proclamation 86, which prohibited the states of the Union from engaging in commercial trade with states that were in rebellion — i.e., the Confederacy. CLEARLY A MAN AHEAD OF HIS TIME....ECONOMIC SANCTIONS BEFORE THEY BECAME POPULAR:03:

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1940 Adolf Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain.

1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde (development base for the V weapons).

1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.

1962 E German border guards shoot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector.

1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is first to North Pole.

1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship.

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1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

1940 Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest ever air battle.

1942 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese.

1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia.

1960 The Beatles give their first public performance at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg.

1976 Korean axe murder incident: 2 US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers are killed by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-sung in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

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1915 British liner "SS Arabic" sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident.

1942 Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France.

1942 General Friedrich Paulus orders the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad.

1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident).

1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences.

1981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22.

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1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia.

1913 First pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France).

1940 First Polish squadrons fight alongside the allies in the Battle of Britain.

1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs, first living organisms to return from space.

1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13.

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1968 Marine James Anderson Jr is first African American to win Medal of Honor.

1976 "Operation Paul Bunyan" begins in retaliation for the "Korean axe murder incident" 3 days prior. 110 troops, 27 helicopters, 3 B-52 bombers are deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers.

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1780 HMS Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England.

1849 The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.

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1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5HiIzbdgIkI/Tz7_MokbIHI/AAAAAAAAAgg/kyBrwTNFi00/s400/jack08.jpg I SAW THIS MOVIE...http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2fyL7Y1V_A8/Tz8JnmZ0DKI/AAAAAAAAAho/NkBSI6arIn8/s400/rifle.jpg

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1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II.

1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London.

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die).

1942 World War II: last cavalry charge in history takes place at Isbushenskij, Russia; the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry.

1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

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1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812).

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect.

1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

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79AD: VESUVIUS ERUPTS BURYING POMPEII AND HURCULANIUM...https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Pompeii_Garden_of_the_Fugitives_02.jpg.410 AD: THE VISIGOTHS, UNDER KING ALARIC, OVERUN AND SACK ROME SIGNALING THE FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE...https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Eroberung_roms_410.jpg

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1944 General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation.

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1346 Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle.

1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII.

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1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.

1939 Erich Warsitz in a Heinkel He-178 makes the first manned jet-propelled flight.

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

1965 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley.

1979 The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland.

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1830 First American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations.

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed.

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.https://img.apmcdn.org/60281777e9cbe0864fcee7c3a7a1cdc065be1662/uncropped/4c8aee-20150825-mlk15.jpghttps://img.apmcdn.org/34baad1c480e86097c31dbbc6287f7a75c4ba294/uncropped/27acb5-20150825-mlk03.jpg

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1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed.

1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador.

1916 Transport ship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1,000 die.

1943 Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany.

1949 USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR.

1962 US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba.

1966 The Beatles' last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco).

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

1914 First German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed.

1918 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia.

1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so.

1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.

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General Mac Arthur had to drive down a blvd with ten thousand Japanese troops pointing bayonets on his first trip to Japan :o

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1945: MacArthur arrives in Japan
General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan to oversee the formal surrender ceremony and to organize the postwar Japanese government.

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1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time.
the king should have listened....and ducked In the early evening of 25 March 1199, Richard was walking around the castle perimeter without his chainmail, investigating the progress of sappers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapper) on the castle walls. Missiles were occasionally shot from the castle walls, but these were given little attention. One defender, in particular, amused the king greatly—a man standing on the walls, crossbow in one hand, the other clutching a frying pan he had been using all day as a shield to beat off missiles. He deliberately aimed at the king, which the king applauded; however, another crossbowman then struck the king in the left shoulder near the neck. He tried to pull this out in the privacy of his tent but failed; a surgeon called a "butcher" by Howden, removed it, "carelessly mangling" the King's arm in the process. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Richard_the_first.jpg/800px-Richard_the_first.jpg

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1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, is found in Whitechapel , in London's East End.

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

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.

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

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1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig.

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

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan).

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1922 President Ebert declares "Deutschland Uber Alles" the German national anthem.

1942 German troops enter Stalingrad.

1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US).

1958 U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.

1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well).

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

1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become first warship to circumnavigate globe.

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

1940 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion).

1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.

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

1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp.

1971 John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return.

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1884 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.

1923 Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

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1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war.

1915 Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership.

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.

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'

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany.

1960 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] wins Olympic light heavyweight gold medal.

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

1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II.

1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London.

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1871 Bay of Biscay: British warship HMS Captain capsizes, 500 killed.

1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy.

1940 Beginning of the Blitz, the German Luftwaffe bomb London for first of 57 consecutive nights.

1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

1976 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine).

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1976 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine). I KNOW HOW THAT FEELS.... http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/smartdark/redcard.gif (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/infraction.php?do=view&p=2236067) (NOT SO FINE):o :()1:

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1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1.

1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII.

1944 First V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp.

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged.

1994 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin.

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1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1.

In the early hours of 6 September, as his battalion moved forward to take part in the First Battle of the Marne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Marne), Highgate (A 17 YEAROLD FARMAHAND) was apprehended in a barn on the estate of Baron de Rothschild at Tournan-en-Brie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournan-en-Brie) by the gamekeeper who happened to be English and an ex-soldier. . He reportedly informed the latter, 'I have had enough of it, I want to get out of it and this is how I am going to do it.' Highgate had changed into civilian clothes and his discarded uniform was found nearby. Highgate was tried by court martial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_martial) (convened at Chateau Combreaux, near Tournan in northern France (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France)), convicted of desertion and the death sentence was confirmed on 6 September 1914. Highgate was undefended and called no witnesses in his defence, but claimed that he was a 'straggler' trying to find his way back to rejoin his regiment, having got separated from his comrades.
Highgate's execution was almost as hasty as his trial, as senior officers insisted that he be executed "At once, as publicly as possible." Highgate was informed of his fate at 6:22am on 8 September in the presence of a Church of England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England) clergyman. An officer then ordered a burial party and a firing squad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad) to prepare, and Highgate was shot at 7.07am (45 MINUTES TO FILE A APPEAL) witnessed by men from the 1st Dorset Regiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_Regiment) and 1st Cheshire Regiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Regiment). News of his fate was published in Army Routine Orders and distributed to the remainder of the British Expeditionary Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_I))
Private Highgate has no known grave, although his name is shown on the British memorial to the missing at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fert%C3%A9-sous-Jouarre), Seine-et-Marne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine-et-Marne)..
In 2000, Shoreham Parish Council voted not to include his name on its war memorial. However, after a posthumous pardon, it was considered that his name might be added.
It was discovered that Highgate's name already appeared on another memorial. His mother, who lived in Sidcup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidcup), Kent, lost three sons in the war; unaware of the circumstances of Thomas' death, she submitted the names of all three sons to the Sidcup War Memorial Committee, and his name appears there. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Sidcupwm02.jpg/220px-Sidcupwm02.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sidcupwm02.jpg)
The mass pardon of 306 British Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire) soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Act_2006), which came into effect on royal assent(This is when the Queen formally agrees to make the bill into an Act of Parliament (law)) on 8 November 2006.
In 2000, the parish council in Highgate’s home village of Shoreham replaced its war memorial plaque bearing the names of those who had fallen during the war of 1914-1918 as the original had become worn. After some debate, the council voted not to include Highgate’s name. However, a space was left should, at some point in the future, the people of Shoreham want his name added.
In November 2006, the UK government pardoned all 306 servicemen executed in the First World War but, to this day, the name Thomas Highgate still does not feature on Shoreham’s war memorial. http://s20357.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Shot-at-Dawn-memorial-225x300.jpg (http://s20357.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Shot-at-Dawn-memorial.jpg)<THE 'SHOT AT DAWN MEMORIAL' AT STAFFORDSHIRE.

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1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI).

1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Roma.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

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1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1943 German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of Vatican City.

1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.

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2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,752 people.

2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people.

2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board.

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1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism.

1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction.

1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso.

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1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton.

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1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and the fires start, extinguished by the 19th.

1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1.

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1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow.

1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme.

1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

1940 Climax of the Battle of Britain, tide turns as Luftwaffe loses 56 aircraft, RAF 28.

1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal.

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph.

1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea.

1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched.

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1747 French troops occupy Bergen op Zoom (I lived there in the nineties).

1940 Luftwaffe attacks central London.

1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed.

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.

1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.