This date in history

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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 World War II: 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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1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.

1917 A flotilla of US destroyer ships arrive in Queenstown, Ireland, to aid in convoying ships to England.

1945 German forces in Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands surrender unconditionally to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Luneburg Heath.

1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Nazi SS officer in the Netherlands Hans Rauter of Crimes against Humanity (executed 24 March 1949).

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

1982 British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.

1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex-husband David slept with Mick Jagger.

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1762 Russia & Prussia sign Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years War

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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.

1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.

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1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die.

1910 George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII

1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German South West Africa to South Africa.

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" (Adolf Hitler)

1954 Roger Bannister of the UK becomes the first 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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1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.

1919 A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans.

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

1945 World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.

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

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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 Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin.

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

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

1945 Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested.

1945 Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army.

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now that U muenchen it, I believe that's how it happened!:O:

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1915 Canadian physician Cluny MacPherson first presents his gas mask invention to the British War Office.

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.

1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbour.

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.

1960 US atomic submarine USS Triton completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

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

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/The-Golden-Spike-7Oct2012.jpg/200px-The-Golden-Spike-7Oct2012.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The-Golden-Spike-7Oct2012.jpg)The golden spike (also known as The Last Spike) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carat_(purity)) gold final spike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_spike) driven by Leland Stanford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford) to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad) across the United States connecting the Central Pacific (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pacific_Railroad) and Union Pacific (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Railroad) railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory_Summit,_Utah). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/East_and_West_Shaking_hands_at_the_laying_of_last_ rail_Union_Pacific_Railroad_-_Restoration.jpg/800px-East_and_West_Shaking_hands_at_the_laying_of_last_ rail_Union_Pacific_Railroad_-_Restoration.jpg

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1921 The Allied Supreme Council warns Germany to pay reparations or the entire Ruhr Valley will be occupied; Germany agrees.

1941 First Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England.

1943 US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured).

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1967 Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for membership of the EEC.

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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1858: Minnesota, in its current form, was admitted as the country's 32nd state.:yeah: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/Seal_of_Minnesota.svg/800px-Seal_of_Minnesota.svg.pngULTIMATELY BECOMING A CULINARY ICON TO:subsim: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/images/spam_hunter_sm2.png (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=313053&tab=myawards#aw_issue203)....AND THE WORLD.... ...https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Spam_2.jpg/220px-Spam_2.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spam_2.jpg) :Kaleun_Salivating:

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1797 Nore Mutiny: British Royal Navy sailors mutiny on the Thames, England and blockade London.

1937 Coronation of King George VI of Great Britain (and his other realms and territories beyond the sea) at Westminster Abbey, London.

1940 Nazi blitzkrieg and conquest of France begins with the crossing of the Muese River.

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

1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz.

1951 First H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll.

1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations.

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

1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain.

1915 US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to 'pacify exited public opinion', according to Bryan.

1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and 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 1st test flight.

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

1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain.

1915 US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to 'pacify exited public opinion', according to Bryan.

1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and 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 1st test flight.

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1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution.

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

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.

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1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

1911 The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.

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'

1917 The first officer's training camp is opened in the US, as the country prepares for war.

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

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

1945 World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.

1957 Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

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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.

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.

1957 US launches its third nuclear submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut.

1969 US nuclear submarine USS Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.

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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.

1938 US Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy.

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler.

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

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

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

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

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

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1963 Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail is published

1962 Marilyn Monroe performs her famous rendition of Happy Birthday

1959 The North Vietnamese Army begins organizing the Ho Chi Minh trail

1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sets off the Turkish War of Independence

1743 Jean-Pierre Christin invents the Celsius thermometer

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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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1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.

1918 First electrically propelled warship (New Mexico).

1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.

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1917 Leo Pinckney, first American drafted during WW I

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.

1956 US explodes first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll.

1964 First nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands.

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1906 The Wright brothers' flying machine is patented

1981 - England The Yorkshire Ripper The Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe has been found guilty of killing 13 women and the attempted murder of 7 others. and is sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail.



1989 - China Tiananmen Square in Beijing
Students have now occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing for the 10th day protesting for the pro-democracy movement in China , the total number now exceeds 45,000 and conditions are worsening and the Government in China is considering ways to quell the protesters after the military has stated they will not attack the protesters.






1927 - China Earthquake
An earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter scale strikes Xining in the eastern part of Qinghai province It was one of the deadliest earthquakes on record with a total count of 200,000 deaths.



1939 - Germany "Pact Of Steel" Signed By Germany and ImPact of Steel, known formally as the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy signed. The Pact was a declaration of continuing trust and cooperation between Germany and Italy and a joint military and economic policy.

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1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" in Berlin, Germany.

1940 UK Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city.

1947 First US ballistic missile fired.

1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.

2013 British Army Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered near the Royal Artillery Barracks in London by two Islamic terrorists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.

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http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2610024&postcount=1 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2610024&postcount=1) Wonder how many found themselves in that exact scenario IRL? 1968: USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack-class_submarine) nuclear submarine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine) of the United States Navy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy) and the sixth vessel of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was lost on 22 May 1968, with 99 crewmen dying in the incident. It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Dakar), the French submarine Minerve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Minerve_(S647)) and the Soviet submarine K-129 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_(1960)). The secondary Navy investigation – using extensive photographic, video, and eyewitness inspections of the wreckage in 1969 – suggested that Scorpion's hull was crushed by implosion forces as it sank below crush depth. The Structural Analysis Group, which included Naval Ship Systems Command (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVSEASYSCOM)'s Submarine Structures director Peter Palermo (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Palermo&action=edit&redlink=1), plainly saw that the torpedo room was intact, though it had been pinched by excessive sea pressure. The operations compartment collapsed at frame 33, this being the king frame of the hull, reaching its structural limit first. The conical/cylindrical transition piece at frame 67 followed instantly. The boat was broken in two by massive hydrostatic pressure at an estimated depth of 1,530 feet (470 m). The operations compartment was largely obliterated by sea pressure, and the engine room had telescoped 50 ft (15 m) forward into the hull due to collapse pressure, when the cone-to-cylinder transition junction failed between the auxiliary machine space and the engine room. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Bow_Scorpion.jpg/300px-Bow_Scorpion.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bow_Scorpion.jpg) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589))

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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.

1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.

1982 Falklands Conflict: HMS Antelope sunk.

1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina.

1985 President Ronald Reagan awards Jimmy Stewart the Presidential Medal of Freedom and promotes him to Major General on the Retired List.

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

1982 Falklands Conflict: Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram are bombed in San Carlos Water, but the bombs fail to explode in all cases.

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1915 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties.

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

1953 First atomic cannon electronically fired at Frenchman Flat, Nevada.

1982 Falklands Conflict: HMS Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor hit by Exocet missiles, the former sinking.

2017 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004.

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1964: ALI DEFEATS LISTON; NEAL LEIFER'S ICONIC PHOTO SAYS IT ALLhttps://compote.slate.com/images/79a8e94c-7dfe-4e1c-a0db-c18e7a56a51b.jpg<A SNIPER OF A FOTO SHOT https://slate.com/culture/2015/05/ali-liston-50th-anniversary-the-true-story-behind-neil-leifers-perfect-photo.html (https://slate.com/culture/2015/05/ali-liston-50th-anniversary-the-true-story-behind-neil-leifers-perfect-photo.html)

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1941 Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sight German battleship Bismarck.

1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo.

1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb.

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

1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14.

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1897: Bram Stoker's Dracula is published...talk about all-time successful movie 'franchises' BBY!

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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.

1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage.

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

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1923 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.

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

1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up.

1940 British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway.

1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot.

1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

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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.

1982 Pentagon plans first strategy to fight a nuclear war.

1982 Falklands Conflict: Atlantic Conveyor sinks under tow.

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1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor.

1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington.

1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam.

1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO.

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1431: JOAN OF ARC IS BURNED AT THE STAKE ESSENTIALLY FOR 'CROSS DRESSING'... A SURE SIGN OF HERESY IN THOSE DAYS https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Stilke_Hermann_Anton_-_Joan_of_Arc%27s_Death_at_the_Stake.jpg/800px-Stilke_Hermann_Anton_-_Joan_of_Arc%27s_Death_at_the_Stake.jpgBUT NOT IN TIME TO SAVE ENGLISH POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS IN FRANCE LITERALLY IN ROUENS! EVEN HER OPPONENTS WERE NOT HAPPY: An English soldier also constructed a small cross that she put in the front of her dress. After she died, the English raked back the coals to expose her charred body so that no one could claim she had escaped alive. They then burned the body twice more, to reduce it to ashes and prevent any collection of relics, and cast her remains into the Seine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seine) River. The executioner, Geoffroy Thérage, later stated that he "greatly feared to be damned".

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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.

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.

1941 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, in neutral Ireland, claims 38 lives.

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

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

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1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraw from USA.

1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden.

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

1944 Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth, England just prior to D-Day.

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

1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.

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1943: FAMED BRITISH ACTOR AND WAR PROPAGANDIST LESLIE HOWARD IS SHOT DOWN IN BAY OF BISCAY:
Howard's Second World War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War) activities included acting and filmmaking. He was active in anti-German propaganda and rumoured to have been involved with British or Allied Intelligence, sparking conspiracy theories regarding his death in 1943 when the Luftwaffe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe) shot down BOAC Flight 777 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_777) over the Bay of Biscay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Biscay) (in Cedeira (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedeira), A Coruña (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Coru%C3%B1a)) on which he was a passenger.In 1943 Howard was 50 and doing propaganda work of a more subtle kind, acting as a “British cultural ambassador” in Portugal. On June 1 he boarded Flight 777 at Lisbon airport, a civilian DC-3 heading for Bristol. A squadron of Junkers 88 fighter-bombers shadowed them and then, even though the airliner was known to be a civilian plane on a scheduled flight, shot it down over the Bay of Biscay.
Was it a mistake? Rumours soon began to circulate that the Luftwaffe had targeted the plane because they believed that Churchill was on it. The British prime minister was indeed supposed to be returning to the UK from Lisbon that day, on a later flight. But it doesn’t seem likely that agents from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, could have confused the two flights – not least because Churchill would not have taken an unescorted scheduled flight at that stage in the war.
“There are many theories as to why my father was shot down,” Doodie says in the documentary. “One was that the Germans thought his manager, who was accompanying him, was Churchill – because he looked quite like him, a bald, pudgy man who smoked big cigars. But I don’t believe the German secret service would be taken in like that.” PLOTS WITHIN PLOTS ABOUND-THE RECORDS ARE STILL SEALED- BUT THIS RINGS TRUE IMHO: Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer's "Soldiers: Germans POW's on Fighting Killing, and Dying" includes a recently declassified transcript of a surreptitiously recorded conversation by two German Luftwaffe prisoners of war talking about the shooting down of Howard's flight. The Luftwaffe pilot seems to express pride in his accomplishment, but states clearly he knew nothing of the passenger's identities or importance until hearing an English broadcast later that evening. Asked why he shot down a civil aircraft, he states it was one of 4 such planes he shot down: "Whatever crossed our path was shot down." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Howard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Howard)

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1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897.

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 aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross.

1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach.

1944 Herzogenbusch concentration camp near Vught, Netherlands, is disbanded by Allied forces, one of two SS-run camps outside Germany.

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

1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy.

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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 Nazis pull out of Rome.

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

1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing.

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1944: TYPE XIC U-505 IS THE FIRST ENEMY VESSEL CAPTURED IN BATTLE SINCE 1812_ LTJG ALBERT DAVID RECIEVED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR LEADING THE BOARDING PARTY KNOWING SCUTTLE CHARGES WERE SET.KNOWING THE DETONTION SCUTTLE CHARGES WERE SET.....,-COMPLETE WITH ENIGM MACHINE AND CODEBOOKS! The cipher materials captured on U-505 included the special "coordinate" code, the regular and officer Enigma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine) settings for June 1944, the current short weather codebook, the short signal codebook, and bigram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigram) tables due to come into effect in July and August. The material arrived at the decryption establishment at Bletchley Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park) on 20 June 1944, and the Allies were able to break most of the Enigma settings by intense cryptanalysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma), including heavy use of the electromechanical "bombes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe)". It saved work and time to have the Enigma settings for the U-boats which could be applied to other keys. The settings break was only valid until the end of June and therefore had an extremely limited outcome on the eventual cracking of the Enigma code, but having the weather and short signal codebooks and bigram tables made the work easier.
The "coordinate" code was used in German messages as an added layer of security for locations. Allied commanders sent Hunter-Killer task groups to these known U-boat locations, and re-routed shipping away from the areas A more lasting benefit came from the intact capture of the U-boat's two G7es (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7es) (Zaunkönig T-5) acoustic homing torpedoes. These were thoroughly analyzed and then tested on the range, giving information that was invaluable in improving the Foxer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxer)and FXR countermeasures systems, as well as the doctrine for using them to protect escorts. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/A_U.S._Navy_boarding_party_working_to_secure_a_tow _line_to_the_bow_of_the_captured_German_submarine_ U-505%2C_4_June_1944_%2880-G-49172%29.jpg/800px-A_U.S._Navy_boarding_party_working_to_secure_a_tow _line_to_the_bow_of_the_captured_German_submarine_ U-505%2C_4_June_1944_%2880-G-49172%29.jpgAND CURRENTLY RESIDES IN THE CHICAGO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/U505tower.jpg/240px-U505tower.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/U505wide.jpg/240px-U505wide.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-505 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-505)

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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.

1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000.

2018 US President Donald Trump tweets "I have the absolute right to PARDON myself"

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1906 Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet.

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the first 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 favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6.

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

HE LEFT FOR GERMANY AND HIS WIFE'S BIRTHDAY SECURE IN IN THE WEHRMACHT DOCTRINE THAT NO LANDING WOULD OCCUR ABOVE SEA LEVEL 4 IN THE CHANNEL...EXCEPT THAT THE ALLIED INVASION PROTOCOL PERMITTED LEVEL 6....https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.1257 (https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.1257) The Allies would certainly have liked to land at high tide, as Rommel expected, so their troops would have less beach to cross under fire. But the underwater obstacles changed that. The Allied planners now decided that initial landings must be soon after low tide so that demolition teams could blow up enough obstacles to open corridors through which the following landing craft could navigate to the beach. The tide also had to be rising, because the landing craft had to unload troops and then depart without danger of being stranded by a receding tide. MOVE OVER ENIGMA: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE KELVIN TIDE CALCULATOR USED BY: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/aip/journals/content/pto/2011/pto.2011.64.issue-9/pt.3.1257/production/images/medium/pt.3.1257.figures.f2.gif<Arthur Thomas Doodson at the Liverpool Tidal Institute. The 53-year-old Doodson was at that time the world’s leading authority on tide prediction. He used two tide-predicting machines: the Kelvin machine, built in 1872 but overhauled in 1942 ]“most urgent” October 1943 note to Arthur Doodson from William Farquharson, the Admiralty’s superintendent of tides, listing 11 pairs of tidal harmonic constants for a location, code-named “Position Z,” for which he was to prepare hourly tide predictions for April through July 1944. Doodson was not told that the predictions were for the Normandy coast, but he guessed as muchIt is still not known how Farquharson came up with those 11 pairs of harmonic constants. Probably he modified the Le Havre constants in such a way as to match the shape of a measured tide curve determined from the little bit of water-level data collected by one of the reconnaissance teams. He may also have taken into consideration the time and height differences found in the Admiralty Tide Tables. In any case, Farquharson’s harmonic constants for the Normandy beaches compare favorably with those derived from modern hydrodynamic tide models of the English Channel.
Doodson put Farquharson’s harmonic constants on his tide-predicting machines to produce the tide predictions for D-Day. IT ALL CAME DOWN TO A SINGLE SHEET: TOP SECRET YOUR EYES ONLY: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/aip/journals/content/pto/2011/pto.2011.64.issue-9/pt.3.1257/production/images/medium/pt.3.1257.figures.f3.gif AS A MARRIED MAN MYSELF; ROMMEL HAD HIS PRIORITIES IN ORDER ON JUNE 6....IMHO:yep:

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1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, first US victory of WW I

1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.

1944 As part of the D-Day landings, the 82nd Airborne Division arrives at the French town of Sainte-Mère-Église.

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.

1971 Air West flight 706 collides with a US Marine Corps F-4B Phantom jet over Los Angeles killing all 49 aboard the DC-6 and the pilot of the F-4B.

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

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1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.

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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793 Vikings in long ships from modern-day Norway plunder St Cuthbert's monastery on Lindisfarne Island, off the northeast coast of England.

1940 Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway.

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann.

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%

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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.

1940 General Charles de Gaulle's first meeting with Winston Churchill.

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 submarine launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)

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

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

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

1943 FDR becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime.

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.

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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 World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.

1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas.

1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in US (began May 28, 1942).

1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend.

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

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

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

1944 First V-1 rocket assault on London.

1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands.

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

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

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

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

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral.

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.

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

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

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.

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

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

1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down.

1982 Britain requests Argentina to arrange for return of prisoners.

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

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police.

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

1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

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

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

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

1944 Heavy storm hits the Channel.

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan).

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

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

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

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1943 Crematorium 3 at Birkenau is finished.

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

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

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

1917 1st US troops arrive 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 doughnut") speech in West Berlin.

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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.

1929 President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WWI

1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub 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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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.

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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. ALL NEATLY TIDIED UP IN ONLY HALF A DECADE!:rock: :shucks: :nope: :dead: not! ...YOUNG ADOLF (FAR RIGHT) AND HIS DOG FUCHS https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Hitler_and_Fuchsl.jpg/800px-Hitler_and_Fuchsl.jpg http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/hitler-ww1.jpg <IN THE END (1939) WE'RE ALL FUCH'D ??!!:timeout: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/warone.htm (http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/warone.htm)

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1922 France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."

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.

1952 USS Oriskany becomes first aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn.

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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.

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

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.

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

1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion).

1950 First 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea.

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.

1839 Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another.

1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguished Flying Cross authorized, to award "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight"

1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead).

1943 Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126.

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

1957 First submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback.

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

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

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628

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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.

1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die.

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

1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima.

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.

1954 Meat and all other food rationing officially ends in Britain, nine years after the end of World War II

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

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France.

1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290.

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

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1826: John Adam's and Thomas Jefferson, both original signers of the Declaration of Independance a half century before, die on the same day!:k_confused:

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1826: John Adam's and Thomas Jefferson, both original signers of the Declaration of Independance a half century before, die on the same day!:k_confused:


Almost interesting trivia questions


1. Who died first, Adams or Jefferson?
2. What other president died on July 4th?

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1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and Vichy government in France.

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

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

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

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.

1973 Test cricket debut of English umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds (66 Tests, 69 ODI)

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

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

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

1944 US General Patton lands in France.

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

1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.

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

1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall German invasion.

1943 Third day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova.

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517.

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

1944 RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France.

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.

1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40.

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1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade.

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.

1919 US President Woodrow Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference.

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

1943 British air raid sinks U-232.

1947 Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

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

1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join.

2014 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to "take their gloves off" against Hamas and to take any means necessary to "restore peace" to Israeli citizens.

2018 British Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns in a stand against Theresa May's new softer Brexit policy.

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1911: 'TWO GUN' NAN ASPINWALL COMPLETES HER HORSE RIDE ABOARD 'LADY ELLEN':https://i.pinimg.com/474x/b7/93/0d/b7930d45163847131a2098b9672c99a7--split-skirt-buffalo-bills.jpg the first woman to ride on horseback across North America alone. She rode from San Francisco to New York from September 1, 1910 arriving on July 8, 1911. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Aspinwall#cite_note-3) on a bet from Buffalo Bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill), whose Wild West show she performed in as an oriental dancer https://i1.wp.com/www.horsetalk.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/two-gun-nan3.jpg?resize=325%2C258 as well as a horsewoman, sharpshooter, and roper.https://i2.wp.com/www.horsetalk.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/two-gun-nan2.jpg?resize=200%2C382 covering 4496 miles and taking 180 days in the saddle; At 31 years old, she became the first woman to ride from coast to coast. She did it wearing pants and split skirts, riding astride, which was likely still illegal in some parts of the country. She did it packing a pistol, which she used on at least two occasions to shoot up inhospitable towns. And, she made the ride alone. :Kaleun_Salute: HAVING TAUGHT HORSEMANSHIP (TAUGHT ME BY GOOD OL' MOM WHO HAD HER OWN SAILBOAT AND BOARDED A HORSE( BLUEBOY) IN NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK DURING HER WORKING DAYS):yeah: TO SNOTTY TEN YEAROLDS AS AN 18 YEAR OLD Y.M.C.A. CAMP COUNCILOR MYSELF.... AND I USED TO CROSS THE U.S. IN MY TEAMDRIVEN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER IN JUST UNDER 3 DAYS....BUT WOULDN'T DARE SIT A NAG FOR 180 DAYS STRAIGHT....:O: THE ANATOMY JUST AIN'T RIGHT!

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1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804.

1943 Fifth day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje.

1943 British air raid sinks U-435.

1944 U-740 sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.

1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

2017 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaims victory over Islamic State forces in Mosul.

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1919 US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate.

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.

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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1944 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF.

Her captain(AGE 23) made the decision to battle it out rather than dive, (This boat was fitted with a Schnorchel underwater-breathing apparatus in May 1944.:hmmm:) and engaged in a running firefight with three Mosquito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito) aircraft of 248 Squadron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._248_Squadron_RAF) and a large Consolidated Liberator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-24_Liberator) Liberator Mk.V BZ781 (53 Sqn RAF/A, pilot F/O W.J. Irving, RCAF) made a Leigh Light attack (0304AM) after following a radar trace. The depth charges failed to release on the first run, and on a further two passes, possibly due to flak hits to the bomb bay on the second approach. The undamaged U-821 escaped further strafing attacks by diving after 20 minutes. The Liberator was left with an inoperable tail gun turret and damage to the hydraulics and nose wheel. The damage was noticed, and F/O Irving managed to reach base and land without flaps or brakes at first light - for which he later received the DFC. bomber of 206 Squadron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._206_Squadron_RAF). One Mosquito was shot down in the clash, but rockets and depth charges (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_charges) took their toll on the submarine which soon sank, taking with her 50 sailors. One survivor was pulled from the sea by small German Naval units a few hours later. http://www.uboataces.com/emblems/821.jpg ONE WONDERS WHY THE YOUNG COMMANDER STAYED ON THE SURFACE NEAR BAY OF BISCAY AS MARCH 1944 WAS WELL PAST DOENITZ'S INFAMOUS ORDER 483 WHICH COST 26 U-BOATS: On 1 May, 1943 an order was put into effect for the U-boats traversing the Bay of Biscay (https://uboat.net/maps/biscay.htm). It was decided on April 27 by Grossadmiral Karl Donitz (https://uboat.net/men/doenitz.htm)... This order stayed in effect for 97 days and during that time no less than 26 boats (over 20 in the Bay of Biscay (https://uboat.net/maps/biscay.htm)) were lost and 17 damaged. https://uboat.net/articles/19.html (https://uboat.net/articles/19.html)

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1798 US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress.

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

1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.

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

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1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, later known as Ellis Island.

1918 Japanese battleship Kawachi explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed.

1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles.

1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gassed.

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

1957 First President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.

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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.

1985 "Live Aid" concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London) and John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia) raises over $70 million for African famine relief.

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1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille Prison.

1933 Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses.

1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany.

1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp.

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

1967 The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits.

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1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

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.

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

1900 A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been massacred. Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobilize support for relief of foreigners.

1900 Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

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.

1969 Apollo 11 launched, carrying first men to land on Moon.

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1957:
Marine Corps Major John Glenn got up on the morning of July 16, 1957, strapped into a Vought F8U Crusader,https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/ZqZLuCOYgp1-FGF-OxQAWgZW6Gk=/fit-in/1072x0/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/f0/6f/f06f33a8-26b1-4931-b736-e2d453452fa3/11b_on2015_voughtrf8g-146882-vf-206may86_live-web-resize.jpg < GOIN' VERTICAL WITH AN 18000 LB THRUST PRATT AND WHITNEY WITH AFTERBURNER) and took off from Los Alamitos Naval Air Station in California like a cannon shot. Three hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds later (a time based on a National Aeronautic Association formula for records), he touched down at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, setting a transcontinental speed record: 725.55 mph. At a time when aviation records were still a big deal in both the media and in geopolitics, the feat put Glenn on the radar just before selections would be made for the first class of astronauts and served notice that carrier-based aircraft could match speeds with anyone.
Far from being a publicity stunt, (GLENN LATER STATED), the flight was intended to prove that the Pratt & Whitney J-57 would tolerate an extended period at combat power—full afterburner—without damage. After the flight, the engine maker tore the J-57 down and, based on the examination, lifted all power limitations on J-57s from that day forth. The airplane was a photo-reconnaissance version, an F8U-1P, which carried more fuel than the armed fighter. On this flight, it was loaded with enough film so its cameras would run continuously for the entire trip. The Crusader, sometimes called “the last gunfighter,” had no search radar, so for his three refuelings, Glenn had to find the AJ Savage tankers—North American’s converted twin-recip-engine bombers sent up in pairs for redundancy—using a direction finder to home on the tankers’ beacons. After each refueling, Glenn applied full afterburner and climbed to about 30,000 feet, drifting up to 50,000 for maximum range as fuel burned off.

Glenn came up with the name Project Bullet for the flight because he would fly faster than a round from a .45-caliber pistol.

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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.

1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde.

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.

[Jimbuna]

64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero.

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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1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die.

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 Adolf 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 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany.

1944 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity.

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.

1957 First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada.

1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.

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1917 US WW I draft lottery held; #258 is first drawn.

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 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later.

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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.

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

1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

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1861: two great armies finally test the waters of civil war to settle the issue decisively... the Yankees at Bull Run(after the stream)... the [Confederates at Manassas (after the town); both evenly matched at 30,000 troops apiece, the blue coats suddenly fled all the way back to Washington in what is known to CW buffs as "the great skeedaddle" leaving newly christened "Stonewall" Jackson master of the field... and all parties aware that the war was going to be a long one....sometime later the issue would be revisited with an even greater rebel victory: Second Manasses. Rule 1: winners get to name the battle field!:doh:

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

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.

[Jimbuna]

1942 Adolf Hitler's Directive number 45: order for army to advance on Stalingrad.

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

1947 First (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph.

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1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers.

1941 Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania.

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

1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek.

1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam.

1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth.

1985 French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

1990 US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait.

2001 An Iranian warship in the Caspian Sea threatens a BP oil exploration ship off the coast of Azerbaijan.

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

1866 David Faragut appointed as first admiral in US Navy.

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

1944 First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262).

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

1946 US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion).

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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.

1957 USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile.

1962 Maria Oeljanov, first airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba.

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

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

1953 North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel.

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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.

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 US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die. "Elevator girl" Betty Lou Oliver survives falling 75 stories after fog caused the US bomber plane to crash into the Empire State Building, breaking the cables supporting the elevator she was operating. This remains a world record for the longest survived elevator fall.

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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10 Thermidor, Year II: ( French revolutionary calendar) Maximillian Robespierre 'buys the farm' and gets a very close shave...:/\\chop:|\\:dead:

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

1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin.

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

1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES).

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.

1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow.

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1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize.

1917 World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins, goes on to cause approximately 500,000 casualties.

1941 U-boats sink and damage 21 allied ships this month (80,521 tons).

1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia.

1943 Transport #58 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany.

1944 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz.

1944 Transport #77 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany.

1945 Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.

1970 Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy (started 1740).

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.

1914 British Grand Fleet reaches Scapa Flow.

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383

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.

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

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1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers.

1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

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

1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death.

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

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 and U-106.

1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed).

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

2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.

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1876: Famed scout, frontiersman and lawman, 'Wild Bill' Hickock, playing poker in a Deadwood, South Dakota's Saloon #10, https://s22658.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/early-view-of-deadwood.jpg is shot dead while playing poker, ALLEGEDLY holding aces and eights: thereafter known as " the deadman's hand" ...:timeout: https://www.truewestmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Andy-Thomas_Wild-Bill_s-Last-Deal.jpghttps://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-jackmccall/ (https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-jackmccall/)

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1798 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates.

1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I

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.

1972 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.

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1914 WWI: German army shoots Belgian priests and burns down village of Battice.

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

1914 WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war.

1914 German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast.

1914 WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of 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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1914 WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of war on Germany.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/30a_Sammlung_Eybl_Gro%C3%9Fbritannien._Alfred_Leet e_%281882%E2%80%931933%29_Britons_%28Kitchener%29_ wants_you_%28Briten_Kitchener_braucht_Euch%29._191 4_%28Nachdruck%29%2C_74_x_50_cm._%28Slg.Nr._552%29 .jpg/800px-thumbnail.jpgThe title page of the "London Opinion" in 1914 for the first time printed images showing popular by its command posts in colonial wars War Minister Lord Kitchener. The advertising psychologically pioneering subject of fixing the viewer with the look in perspective enlarged outstretched forefinger was copied in several countries - the most successful in the United States and the Soviet Union. Kitchener represented a return to the military victories of the colonial era. The fact that Kitchener's name was not used in the poster demonstrates how easily he was visually recognized. David Lubin opines that the image may be one of the earliest successful celebrity endorsements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_endorsements) as the commercial practice expanded greatly in the 1920s. It continues to be considered a masterful piece of wartime propaganda as well as an enduring and iconic image of the war. :Kaleun_Salute:https://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/img/media/440_l.jpg (https://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/zoomify.asp?id=440&type=i&width=640&height=480&hideAlt=1) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Dmitry_Moor_1941_What_have_you_done_to_help_the_fr ont.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Julius_Ussy_Engelhard_1919_You_too_must_join_Reich swehr.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kitchener_Wants_You (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kitchener_Wants_You)

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On 5th August 1944, the biggest breakout of pow's in WW2 occured in Cowra NSW Australia.

A series of massed Banzai charges overwhelmed the guards, and a mass breakout into the surrounding countryside happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vm4TxldME

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-04/cowra-breakout-75-years-on/11367316

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/\ Perhaps they remake The Gleat Escape!:x

[Eisenwurst]

There was a 3 part mini series made in 1984, pre CGI.

This is a short clip from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmheKebSBzQ

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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.

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)

1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising.

1963 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty.

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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.from which originated the Gaelic expression: A man of many parts...

:hmmm:

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1914 Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I

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

PUTTING 'PAID' TO GEN CURTIS LEMAYS BELIEF THE WAR COULD BE WON FROM THE AIR ALONE... The Joint Target Group compiled a list of the 22 most
important industrial cities in Japan. The new directive was
issued to LeMay on April 3. Top priorities were Nakajima -
Mushimo and Mitsubishi - both at Nagoya. Also listed were
urban areas of Tokyo, Kawasaki, Nagoya, and Osaka.(43) The
Joint Target Group based their selection on the premise that
the home islands would be invaded. LeMay's fire attacks had
been so successful in March however, that some of Arnold's
staff believed the war could be won exclusively from the
air. LeMay did. In April he wrote in a private letter, "I
consider that for the first time strategic air bombardment
faces a situation in which its strength is proportionate to
the magnitude of the task. I feel that the destruction of
Japan's ability to wage war lies within the capability of
this command."
BY THE TIME HIROSHIMA SUFFERED HISTORY'S FIRST BIG BANG THEORY THE DAMAGE HAD BEEN DONE...

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1914 Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece.

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

1954 Englishman Roger Bannister beats Australia’s John Landy in the mile at the Empire Games in Vancouver; first time 2 men run a mile in less than 4 minutes in the same race.

1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt.

1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield.

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1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges.

1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.

1942 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379

1945 US, USSR, Britain and France sign Treaty of London which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war leaders.

1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.

1953 Soviet leader Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb.

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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.

1914 German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham.

1915 British naval officer David Beatty is confirmed in the rank of vice-admiral.

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

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1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany.

1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali.

1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.

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

1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841).

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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.

1942 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle torpedoed and sinks.

1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz.

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."

2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

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1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, losing 31 aircraft.

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

1944 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating.

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

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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1932 Adolf Hitler refuses President von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany.

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

1942 The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb.

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

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

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

1969 British Army deploys on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of Operation Banner.

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1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England, with 102 Pilgrims.

1900 The Boxer Rebellion: In China, the Empress, her family and court retainers flee while foreign troops move through Peking in an attempt to quell the rebellion.

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.

1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends.

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1969: PEACE HARMONY....AND TRUE LOVE https://people.com/human-interest/couple-who-met-at-woodstock-finds-photo-50-years-later/ (https://people.com/human-interest/couple-who-met-at-woodstock-finds-photo-50-years-later/) ONE IF BY DAY: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2019/08/woodstock/w01_50461159/main_1500.jpg?1565815504 TWO (SECONDS OPEN APERTURE )IF BY NIGHT: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2019/08/woodstock/w24_53365525/main_1500.jpg?1565816114AND THE LAST ACT: JIMI HENDRIX ( FORMER 101ST AIRBORNE) NAILED IT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAwPA14Ni4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAwPA14Ni4)

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1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.

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

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1940 Adolf Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain.

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

1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow.

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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1862: Dakota uprising begins

Dakota war begins with Dakota Indians attacking white settlements along the Minnesota River. Over the next few days, hundreds of settlers were killed, towns burned, and thousands became refugees fleeing the carnage.

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IN THE END IT WASN'T 'MINNESOTA NICE' BY ANY STANDARD AND 'HONEST ABE' ....WASN'T :hmmm: HIS SHORT CAREER AS A MILITIA CAPTAIN IN THE EQUALLY WRETCHED BLACK HAWK WAR (1832) MAY HAVE HAD SOME BEARING ON THIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_in_the_Black_Hawk_War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_in_the_Black_Hawk_War) http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/images/Indian%20mass%20hanging%20Mankato,%20Minnesota.jpg http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/hanging.html (http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/hanging.html) It is expected that Lincoln be removed from his position as “hero” and relegated to a more appropriate position, to somewhere near the status of “Columbus” and “Hitler.”
We demand that Abe Lincoln's dishonest and shameful face be removed from the "occupied" and desecrated area called “Mount Rushmore” immediately.
Abe Lincoln “honest” and “hero” No more

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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.

1947 Naval torpedo and mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300.

1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"

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.

2017 Civilian researchers led by Paul Allen re-discover the USS Indianapolis 18,000 feet below the Pacific surface, 72 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes.

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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 World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France.

1942 World War II: General Friedrich Paulus orders the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad.

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

1987 Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.

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On the 20th August 1857, the "Dunbar" came to grief ( in a howling gale and mountainous seas ) practically at journey's end off Sydney Heads.

http://i.imgur.com/7zOf516.jpg

The "Dunbar" ( one of the largest sailing ships of her day - 1850s ) struck the cliffs at Macquarie lighthouse - about a mile south of the harbour entrance, and was badly damaged. The brave captain and crew fought desperately to save her and bring her home. They got to within a 1/2 mile of the harbour entrance - being repeatedly smashed against the cliffs by the massive seas and howling gale, when her structural integrity finally gave out and she disintegrated.

Out of 122 passengers and crew there was 1 survivor.

http://i.imgur.com/jne6E1y.jpg

In the pic above :- She struck the cliffs at top left, they managed to get to "The Gap" ( bottom left ) where she finally gave up the ghost and broke up.

The harbour entrance is only a few hundred yards further on. And you can see in the distance on the right, her destination. So close.

http://i.imgur.com/yZANDnL.jpg

"The Gap", on a calm day. There's always a huge swell there and the cliffs are 200 feet high.

The harbour entrance is just around the corner.

The currents are treacherous and there's a lot of sharks.

http://i.imgur.com/d52CUDE.jpg

One of her 3 ( Huge ) anchors, recovered years later and set up as a Memorial on the cliffs above.

http://i.imgur.com/5EFD6jm.jpg

A contemporary painting of her loss, showing her Blue light ( Distress??? )
vainly burning.

The below link takes you to a gripping/well written/and very moving account of the time. I HIGHLY recommend you read it ( only 12 pages ). I gotta confess I shed a few tears.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-33595956/view?partId=nla.obj-33595962#

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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 along 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"

1944 Gen de Gaulle returns to France.

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

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1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease programme.

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.

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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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.

Just been reading about that incident, never knew it could had sparked off the war again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49394758

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Read this a long time ago and considering the whole operation lasted less than an hour, their is a lot of detail making it a worthwhile read.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B008MEZ6NM

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1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations.

1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.

1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany.

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.

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

1839 British capture Hong Kong from China.

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

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"

2017 US Navy fires Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin as commander of the Seventh Fleet following series of collisions in Asian waters.

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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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1892 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to lieutenant.

1943 Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia.

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

1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding.

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1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka driven onto rocks in storm at Kamchatka, 284 killed.

1944 Charles de Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.

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

1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior.

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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 1st manned jet-propelled flight.

1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

1979 1st 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 1st 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!

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

1939 Journalist Care Hollingworth observes the “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns” Germany had aligned along the Polish border. Three days later, Hitler invades Poland and WWII begins.

1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to assassinate President Reagan.

1988 70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany.

2017 North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover.

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

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

1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan.

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

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.

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1944: The U.S. 28th Infantry Division on the Champs Élysées (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs_%C3%89lys%C3%A9es) in the "Victory Day" parade...WHAT A VICTORY PARADE SHOULD LOOK LIKE IMHO: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/American_troops_march_down_the_Champs_Elysees_crop .jpg/1024px-American_troops_march_down_the_Champs_Elysees_crop .jpg:Kaleun_Salute:

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

1914 First German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed.

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

1945 General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

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


HOW IRONIC::03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossbow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossbow)

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

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

1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)

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


INVESTIGATING DETECTIVE AKTUNG AND CONSTABLE JIMBUNA ARE FIRST ON THE SCENE:o https://media1.tenor.com/images/62d69eb55a2c51bc4e4228a74a703dff/tenor.gif?itemid=13274033

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1915 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"

1939 Adolf Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill through the "T4 Euthanasia Program," arguing that wartime "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"

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

1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.

1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal.

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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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)

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

1878 British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die.

1919 President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.

1939 German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans.

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.

1939 Mitford sister and Nazi sympathizer Unity Mitford attempts suicide after Britain declares war on Germany, bullet lodged in her brain eventually kills her in 1948.

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 1st 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.

1945 World War II: Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies.

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1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war.

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

1939 Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated.

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

1964 Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe)

1980 Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden)

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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.

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'

2018 UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirms in parliament two Russian military intelligence officers undertook novichok nerve agent attack, prompts international condemnation.

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

1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet.

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

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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 1st of 57 consecutive nights as the Nazis prepare to invade Britain.

1940 Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England.

1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

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1664 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers.

1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, sinks off Scotland.

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

1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated.

1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII

1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp.

1948 British De Havilland DH108-fighter flies faster than sound.

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1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

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 Rome.

1945 First "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log.

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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1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers.

1894 London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving.

1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes.

1919 NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

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.

1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life.

1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish.

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France.

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1941 FDR orders US Navy that any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight.

1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated.

1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island.

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

2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 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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1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission.

1792 Court martial begins for instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty on board HMS Duke in Portsmouth harbour, presided over by Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood.

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.

1941 First German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko).

1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso.

1995 Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.

2001 Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first and only time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.

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122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England.

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

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 Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it - fire continues to burn for five days.

1814 Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbour.

1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)

1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches.

1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight.

1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

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1901: President William McKinley diies from assassination; Theodore Roosevelt becomes President...

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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.

1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

1940 UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Royal Air Force 11th Fighter Group on what would be the fiercest day of the Battle of Britain.

1940 Battle of Britain Day: climax of the Battle of Britain, tide begins to turn as the Royal Air Force repulses a major Luftwaffe attack, losing 29 aircraft to the Germans' 57-61

1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal.

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched.

1997 Google.com is registered as a domain name.

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1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed.

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.

1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany.

1974 US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters.

1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.

1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon.

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1859 Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America.

1916 The Red Baron [Manfred von Richthofen], WWI flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die.

1939 Soviet Union invades Eastern Poland allowing Germans to advance West, taking 217,000 Poles prisoner, without a formal declaration of war.

1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain.

1944 Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine.

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1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed.

1939 William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.

1944 HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.

1947 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July.

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1939 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin.

1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-341

1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War)

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.

1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic.

1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

1959 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland.

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1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US.

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland.

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"

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1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested.

1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.

1944 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting.

1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.

1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean.

1961 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.

1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.

1985 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent.

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1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested.


1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.

1985 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent. IN AL THREE CASES, A GREAT RULE OF THE UNIVERSE WOULD PREVAIL: GRAVITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.... Howard died on July 12, 2002, at his Russian dacha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha), reportedly from a broken neck after a fall in his home. HIS 24/7 SOVIET PROTECTION HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN..... https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/who-was-5/ (https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/who-was-5/) :hmmm:

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1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall during Salem Witch Trials.

1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

1914 German submarine U-9 sinks 3 British ironclads, Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy 1,459 die.

1943 British midget submarines attack Tirpitz.

1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks.

1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229

1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record).

1975 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco.

1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”

2006 The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.

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1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die.

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.

1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London.

1941 German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)

1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp.

1942 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad.

1949 US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation.

1950 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed.

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1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.

1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight charges of treason in Washington, D.C.

1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death.

1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact.

1990 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty.

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1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending WW I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra.

1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government.

1944 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem.

1976 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2

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1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.

1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI

1925 Italian submarine "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed.

1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul.

1964 "Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS

1983 Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error.

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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England.

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.

1941 US President Roosevelt launches the first Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry.

1941 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer).

1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time.

1968 France denies UK entry into common market.

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1066 William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.

1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

1942 Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad.

1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's

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1829 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital.

1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explodes, sinking her and killing 286 of her crew.

1940 First US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware.

1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar, near Kiev, 33,771 mostly Jews murdered.

1942 French Government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich.

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1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany.

1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland.

1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine.

1941 German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins.

1946 22 Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials.

1954 First nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy.

1968 First Boeing 747 rolls out.

1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.

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1914 The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth.

1918 Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

1934 Adolf Hitler expands German army and navy, violating Treaty of Versailles.

1939 Winston Churchill calls Russia a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, first US jet, makes maiden flight.

1946 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg.

1947 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1950 South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea.

1952 Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain first atom bomb explosion)

1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack.

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1901 First Royal Navy submarine HMS Holland 1 launched at Barrow-in-Furness.

1904 German General Lothar von Trotha issues order to exterminate Herero people of Namibia, first genocide of the 20th Century, will kill 65,000 Herero and 100,000 of the Nama tribe.

1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239.

1944 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed.

2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11

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1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status.

1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "already broken and will never rise again" in a broadcast to the German people.

1942 Launch of first A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)

1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

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1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul.

1914 Dardanelles: French & British fleet bombards Turkish forts.

1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad.

2006 WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange.

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1916 Adolf Hitler is wounded in the left thigh by an exploding shell during the Battle of the Somme.

1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London.

1942 Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women beaten to death by prison guards.

1943 US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation.

1946 Newcastle United equals English Football League record for biggest winning margin in a 13-0 thrashing of Newport in a Division 2 match at St. James' Park; Len Shackleton scores 6, Charlie Wayman 4 for the Toon.

1991 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal.

2014 French driver Jules Bianchi collides with recovery vehicle during Japanese Grand Prix, dies 2 days later; first F1 death due to racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)

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1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides.

1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die.

1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain.

1939 Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem.

1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"

1944 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea.

1945 US General Eisenhower welcomed in The Hague (on Hitler's train)

1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine.

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb.

1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole.

1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.

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1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters.

1919 KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)

1935 Himmler, Hess and Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau.

1940 World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

1944 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.

1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums.

1950 US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel.

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.

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1918 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.

1941 Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins.

1945 US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada.

1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party.

[Jimbuna]

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project.

1958 Israeli navy inaugurates its first submarine INS Tanin.

2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons.

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1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney.

1944 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die.

1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world's first major nuclear accident.

1985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody.

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1915 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners.

1923 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $

1939 Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb.

1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England.

1990 UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd says force would be used if Iraq does not withdraw from Kuwait.

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1859 Self-proclaimed Emperor of the USA, Emperor Norton issues edict abolishing the US Congress.

1901 Theodore Roosevelt renames the "Executive Mansion" as "The White House"

1927 Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet.

1941 Soviet government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis forces close in on Moscow.

1984 IRA bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton, where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die.

2000 American destroyer USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

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1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights: British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada.

1884 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude.

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.

1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII

1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains, (passengers eat crash victims to survive, 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later)

1987 First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

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1912: shot in the chest in Milwaukee, Theodore Roosevelt still gives a scheduled speech. 1947: Chuck Yeagaer becomes the first pilot to break the sound barrier in a Bell XS-1 over Muroc Dry Lake CA! 1939: Gunther Prien infiltrates Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands Scotland and sinks the battleship HMS Royal Oak; 833 of 1200 seamen perish.:Kaleun_Salute:

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1066 Battle of Hastings: William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle.

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

1933 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations.

1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed.

1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed.

1943 600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland.

1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt.

1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba.

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1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile.

1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI at Vincennes near Paris.

1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6

1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ

1940 -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed.

1940 London's Waterloo Station bombed by German luftwaffe.

1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die.

1956 First plane to land safely on water - Pan Am Flight 6 San Francisco to Honolulu, all 24 passengers and 7 crew survive.

1967 The Motherland Calls, a monumental statue commemorating the battle of Stalingrad completed in Volgograd, Russia, then the World's tallest statue designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich.

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1813 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia.

1940 Warsaw Ghetto is formed by German Governor-General Hans Frank.

1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz.

1946 10 Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg war trials, including Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Alfred Jodl.

1962 Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power.

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1943 Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army.

1933 Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1941 USS Kearney becomes the first US destroyer torpedoed in World War II, while the country is still neutral.

1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631

1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers.

2017 Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting.

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1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million.

1919 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby.

1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed.

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.

2013 Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria.

2017 US congresswoman Frederica Wilson says President Donald Trump said to bereaved army family of Sgt. La David Johnson "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway"

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1781 British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends.

1812 Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow.

1950 UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.

1951 US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany.

1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's first landing in NYC.

1987 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf.

2016 Third US Presidential debate: Donald Trump notably refuses to say if he will accept the result of election during debate with Hillary Clinton at Nevada University, Las Vegas.

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1918 In order to secure an armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions.

1921 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden.

1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte.

1987 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis.

2011 The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.

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1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.

1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War.

1917 First Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command.

1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall.

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.

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1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

1962 Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis.

1981 US national debt tops $1 trillion.

1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.

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1911 First aerial reconnaissance mission is flown by an Italian pilot over Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War.

1942 German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad.

1944 Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's flagship the heavy cruiser Atago sinks during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

1954 Britain, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany.

2001 The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.

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1910: BLANCHE S SCOTT BECOMES THE FIRST WOMAN TO SOLO IN AN AIRCRAFT
http://earlyaviators.com/scottblanche12209rLOC.jpghttps://static.thisdayinaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/tdia//2016/09/494112350_c8e90e225c_o.jpg (https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/2-september-1910/scott-blanche-stuart-2/)<"DON'T ASK HOW OLD I AM I'VE BEEN 29 FOR YEARS":Kaleun_Salute: On September 6, 1948, Scott was once again achieving distinction. On a flight with pilot Charles E. Yeager in a TF-80C, she became the first American woman to ride in a jet. For the pleasure of his passenger, Yeager included some snap rolls and a 14,000 foot dive. SOME GALS WILL DO ANYTING TO TO LEAVE A STAMP ON HISTORY! https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/GxwDKLCw0rMNq8bF26i_9UwpTI8=/fit-in/1072x0/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/e4/8c/e48cc5b0-29a0-4578-8913-a0ab7fcd602b/10b_am2019_stamp_1985_0021_2544a_live.png :yeah:

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1911 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.

1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.

1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks.

1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines.

1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba.

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1415 Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight.

1854 The infamous "Charge of the Light Brigade" during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War results in over 100 killed.

1962 US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"

1971 United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People's Republic of China.

2017 Chinese Premier Xi Jinping unveils his new ruling council in the Great Hall of the People, none of the five are young enough to succeed him.

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1760:
Britain's King George III succeeds his grandfather King George II, who died of "overexertions of the privy"...:o

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1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross.

1881 Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed.

1918 Germany's supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice.

1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.

1943 First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".

1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 76.

1957 USSR fires defense minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov.

1962 JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.

1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected.

1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die.

2002 Moscow Theatre Siege ends: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.

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1913 President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country.

1914 British battleship HMS Audacious sunk by a mine.

1942 US aircraft carrier USS Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz.

1962 Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines.

1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide.

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1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea.

1943 German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic.

1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR.

1962 Cuban missile crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement.

1971 Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit.

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1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England.

1918 German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution.

1932 French liner Normandie is launched.

1943 Three allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3

1956 Suez Crisis erupts into war as Israel invades the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, to be followed by a planned airborne assault by France and Britain.

1975 'Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe kills first victim, Wilma McCann.

1986 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the final stretch of London's Orbital Motorway, the M25. Then the world’s longest ring road at 117 miles (188.3 km).

2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years.

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1784 Napoléon Bonaparte admitted to the elite École Militaire in Paris, the start of his military career.

1938 A radio broadcast of H. G. Wells "The War of the Worlds", narrated by Orson Welles, allegedly causes a mass panic.

1939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Adolf Hitler deports Jews.

1939 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard.

1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen.

1944 Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau.

1952 Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas.

1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.

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1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse.

1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week.

1940 Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends with a British victory.

1941 Prior to US joining WWII, German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 120 allied ships this month (659,457 tons)

2011 The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations.

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1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses denouncing the abuses of the Catholic church, particularly the sale of indulgences by the profit-minded Archbishop of Mainz, Germany thus starting the Protestant Reformation...by and by, I, a Congregationalist, would attend a small Lutheran college in Minnesota and occasionally participate in anti 'Nam war demonstrations whilst enjoying the 'indulgence' of a 1-J ( air cadet-not the customary 2-S draft deferment). Thankyou MartinBBY!:Kaleun_Salute:

[Mr Quatro]

Lutherans are better than Catholic's as far as I can discern from having worked as a janitor for a Catholic church right next door to a Lutheran church. They would sing louder and better is all I really know, but having one man pretend to be God is not a wise move.

Anyway what I really wanted to point out is a very real oddity about Martin Luther marrying a defrocked nun.

Katharina von Bora (29 January 1499 – 20 December 1552), after her wedding Katharina Luther, also referred to as "die Lutherin" ("the Lutheress"), was the wife of Martin Luther, German reformer and a seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.

Hard to understand, but it is reported that Martin Luther had his wedding guest surround the bed as he did what grooms due to virgin brides consummate the marriage. :o

Strange, uh?

[Catfish]

We have a holiday today in some of Germany's more evangelic counties, newly introduced Reformation Day. Tomorrow there's Corpus Christi feast as a holiday for the more Catholic counties.

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Lutherans are better than Catholic's as far as I can discern from having worked as a janitor for a Catholic church right next door to a Lutheran church. They would sing louder and better is all I really know, but having one man pretend to be God is not a wise move.

Anyway what I really wanted to point out is a very real oddity about Martin Luther marrying a defrocked nun.



Hard to understand, but it is reported that Martin Luther had his wedding guest surround the bed as he did what grooms due to virgin brides consummate the marriage. :o

Strange, uh? NOT STRANGE AT ALL:O: IV'E DEFROCKED MANY A LUTHEREß AS THEY SHRIEKED "OH MY GOD":yeah: AND FOLLOWING A DIET OF WORMS, DECLARED "HERE I STAND I CAN DO NO OTHER"!:yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Worms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Worms) AS FOR WITNESSING THE WEDDING NIGHT : WEDDINGS WERE LEGAL AFFAIRS, NOT ROMANTIC MATTERS, AND LEGAL CONSUMATION WAS TO BE ASCERTAINED TO INSURE THE LEGALITY OF UNION.... https://www.quora.com/In-medieval-times-were-newlyweds-watched-as-they-consummated-their-marriage The bedding ceremony refers to the wedding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding) custom of putting the newlywed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlywed) couple together in the marital bed before numerous witnesses, thereby completing the marriage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage). In most traditions the newlyweds were put in bed by their family, friends, and neighbors.
The purpose of the ritual was to establish the consummation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consummation) of the marriage, either by actually witnessing the couple's first sexual intercourse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse) or symbolically, by leaving before consummation. It symbolized the community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community)'s involvement in the marriage. The legally binding nature of the ceremony varied greatly from place to place and through time. Not until very recent times in Western cultures has this changed. Why? Because marriage has been considered since ancient times to be a contract between the families and the community (not the betrothed themseves). Love had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Many times the man and woman had never met before their wedding day when the bride is “given away” by the head of her family to the husband’s family. In fact, a vestige of this custom lies in the present-day superstition that the husband should not see his wife-to-be in her bridal gown prior to the ceremony.
The reason for witnessing the conjugal act (and examining the virgin’s blood on the sheets) was that there needed to be witnesses who could attest to the fact if at some later date the marriage was contested by either party: a non-consummated marriage is null and void, and a non-virginal bride would make the marriage subject to annulment.
Point of interest: In the sacramental Churches of Christendom, marriage is the only sacrament of the Seven not performed by the clergy, as the bride and groom perform the marriage; the priest/minister is merely the witness who blesses the couple on behalf of the church. NATURALLY THIS WAS FODDER FOR HUMOR AND SATIRE AS WELL...TWO THINGS TOTALLY FOREIGN TO MY OWN STERN PURITAN NATURE:timeout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedding_ceremony (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedding_ceremony) : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/The_wedding_night.png/1024px-The_wedding_night.png< GEORGE III'S DAUGHTER, CHARLOTTE, ON HER WEDDING NIGHT- CONVEYED TO THE ROYAL BOUDOIR WITH POMP AND... CIRCUMCISION CA 1797.:timeout:

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1914 German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile.

1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians.

1919 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord.

1939 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry.

1941 Japanese naval staff offiicers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbour.

1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean.

1976 W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis.

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1914 Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk.

1916 Battle of Verdun: Fort Vaux reconquered from Germans by French troops without firing a shot.

1917 In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay.

1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed.

1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates.

1989 "Blackadder Goes Forth" final episode "Goodbyeee" airs starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson.

2008 British McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 4th in season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 1 point from Felipe Massa.

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1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help.

1918 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors.

1941 Hirohito's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails.

1956 Suez Crisis: After several days of fighting, Israeli forces capture the Gaza Strip.

1967 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins, becoming one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam.

2014 New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks.

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1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.

1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally established by Adolf Hitler.

1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain.

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1605 Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war.

1941 Japanese naval staff officers Suzuki and Maejima leave Pearl Harbor.

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1911:Leonard Sly is born in Cincinnati, Ohio! https://i.pinimg.com/474x/6d/56/95/6d5695f3d355e948f0d71d101e129462--pretty-horses-beautiful-horses.jpgI DIDN'T MUCH CARE ABOUT TEPID SINGING COWBOYShttps://i.pinimg.com/474x/49/d8/20/49d82061b4e0c319d104ad4beb5b83c7--atomic-age-retro-vintage.jpg....BUT I REALLY LIKED HIS HORSE TRIGGER! SMALL WONDER! HE WAS A TRUE STAR IN HIS OWN RIGHT: Golden Cloud made an early appearance as the mount of Maid Marian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_Marian), played by Olivia de Havilland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Robin_Hood_(film)) (1938). A short while later, when Roy Rogers was preparing to make his first movie in a starring role, he was offered a choice of five rented "movie" horses to ride and chose Golden Cloud. Rogers bought him eventually in 1943 and renamed him Trigger for his quickness of both foot and mind. Trigger learned 150 trick cues and could walk 50 ft (15 m) on his hind legs (according to sources close to Rogers). They were said to have run out of places to cue Trigger. Trigger became such a ham that as soon as he heard applause, he would start bowing and ruin that trick. He could sit in a chair, sign his name "X" with a pencil, and lie down for a nap and cover himself with a blanket. Roger's most carefully guarded trade secret was to get Trigger housebroken. "Spending as much time as he does in hotels, theaters, and hospitals, this ability comes in might handy and it's conceded by most trainers to be Trigger's greatest accomplishment." —Glenn Randall, wrangler with Hudkins Stables. TRIGGER, MOUNTED ON DISPLAY AT THE ROY ROGERS MUSEUM, REMAINED ITS BIGGEST ATTRACTION FOR YEARS.....https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ca/CAVICtrigger2.jpg

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1941 Japanese fleet readies for assault on Pearl Harbour.

1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.

1956 Suez Crisis: British Royal Marines storm Port Said in Egypt amid growing domestic and international opposition to the Anglo-French-Israeli military operation.

1991 The last oil fire in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops is extinguished.

1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians.

1999 Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

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1800 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013).

1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later.

1918 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed.

1962 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California.

1972 Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states.

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush's favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court.

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1800 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013).

WHAT AN INSULT TO GABRIELLE 'COCO' CHANELhttps://i.pinimg.com/474x/e9/9c/18/e99c18b9ceba3da27b3ccfd77ffd8216--biarritz-france-deauville-france.jpg....NOT EVERYBODY CAN WEAR ''THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS":yeah: In 1926 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Chanel) published a picture of a short, simple black dress in American Vogue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)). It was calf-length, straight and decorated only by a few diagonal lines. Vogue called it "Chanel's Ford". Like the Model T (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_T), the little black dress was simple and accessible for women of all social classes. Vogue also said that the LBD would become "a sort of uniform for all women of taste" 1926'S VERSION: https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/Lh58yHKI4MONiE1i2NwgCBUfITA=/800x600/filters:no_upscale()/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/da/31/da31bf95-5733-48c5-ab80-69378793912b/lbd.jpg
WAS REALLY BIG HIT! AND THEN SOME! https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/46/2016/07/Princess-Diana-27.jpg
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1900 David Beatty takes part in the successful relief of the naval brigade and is promoted to captain.

1915 An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Italian liner 'Ancona' without warning; over 200 lives lost.

1923 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party stage "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich.

1939 Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich.

1942 Adolf Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall.

1950 A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.

1974 British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London.

2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America, defeating democrat Hillary Clinton, who received 2.9 million more votes.

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1888 Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed.

1923 Beer Hall Putsch's second day in Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die, Hitler flees.

1925 German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)

1979 False alarm of a Soviet ballistic missile attack by US NORAD system after technician fails to code a test properly.

1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed.

1989 East Berlin opens its borders, the Berlin Wall is taken down.

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1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

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1918 WWI armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

1920 The burials of unknown soldiers take place simultaneously in Westminster Abbey, London, and at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.

1921 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery.

1940 Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier.

1940 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto.

1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")

1983 First US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain.

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1912 British explorer Robert Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica.

1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power during "Beer Hall Putsch" coup.

1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power.

1933 First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken by Hugh Gray.

1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland.

1944 RAF sinks German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord, Norway.

1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal.

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1789 Benjamin Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"

1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War.

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1941 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before.

1965 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.

1983 First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common, England.

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1898 David Beatty is promoted to commander.

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal.

1916 Canadian pilot William George Barker flying over Ancre River, spots concentration of German troops massing for counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, sends emergency Zone Call to break up German infantry apart. Barker later receives Military Cross.

1919 US Senate first invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)

1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium Demonstration across the United States.

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1940 In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

1969 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported.

2018 CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas.

1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

1937 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement.

1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1973 US President Richard Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"