This date in history

[ABBAFAN]

1918, while acting as a troop transport, White Star liner RMS (HMTS)Olympic, sister to the late Titanic and Britannic, rams and sinks U-103.
So far the only instance of a liner sinking an enemy warship.

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1918, while acting as a troop transport, White Star liner RMS (HMTS)Olympic, sister to the late Titanic and Britannic, rams and sinks U-103.
So far the only instance of a liner sinking an enemy warship. To be sure RMS Olympic had ample practice in rammings with warships as evidenced in 1911's collision with HMS Hawke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-1G0tucKM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-1G0tucKM) At the time RMS Olympic was captained by the same captain Smith of the Titanic disaster:hmmm: White Star Lines was held to blame for the collision:https://www.history.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:good%2 Cw_700/MTYwMTg5ODQyNDUyNDU2ODc1/titanic-conspiracy_rms-olympic-gettyimages-1055101284.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Hawke_-_Olympic_collision.JPG
By the 1918 encounter with U-103 A dazzling performance https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/RMTOlympic.jpg by HMT Olympic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Olympic_pictures_%28HS85-10-35058A%29.jpg/800px-Olympic_pictures_%28HS85-10-35058A%29.jpg with it's business end as seen by U-103....too late:arrgh!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLjgEh1wics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLjgEh1wics) The open hatch in the video gives credence to the official record that all but 9 crewmen got out after sinking-35 survived and were taken to Queenstown. And of course there is the profit motive:arrgh!:: My father was 16yrs of age on board the Olympic when it hit this Submarine - he told me (and I still have the recording of him saying it) that about 4am one morning they were awakened by the sound of the forward guns firing. He recorded no sound of any contact with anything - but on arrival in Southampton the ship was in dry dock for 9 days whilst they filled the bow area with concrete (it was spewing water when he looked at it). The ship had been fitted with a 2x1ft pointed iron spike (specifically for ramming things) and this was bent over when he saw it. Maybe the propellers also hit but certainly the front spike did as well. He also tells that when they next returned to Southampton they were all told to report to the Paymaster and to take 4d (4 old pence) with them and they all received 30 shillings - in other words they all received 29shillings and 8pence as prize money:yeah: for sinking the Submarine. I have it in his own voice and words so have no reason to disbelieve him.

[Jimbuna]

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

1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey.

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 U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River.

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender.

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13th May 1920

La Targette, France (French military cemetery)
https://i.postimg.cc/x89kXz7N/qpro6b8e6iy41.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Ship Losses:

Florence Thurlow (United States) The schooner collided with Laramie ( United States) off New York and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Laramie.
RIMS Mayo (Royal Navy) The Royal Indian Marine transport collided with Arankola ( United Kingdom) at Rangoon and was run ashore. She became a total loss.

[Jimbuna]

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

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.

1916 Lafayette Escadrille, an American air force unit under French command comprised of volunteers to fight for France, see first combat at the Battle of Verdun.

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 first test flight.

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

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

1940 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England.

1940 Luftwaffe bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany.

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.

1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes.

1986 Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary.

[mapuc]

Don't like to post comment in Jim's great thread, which is his.

I felt that the creation of Israel is also an important thing, whether you support Israel or not.

Because on this day 14 May 1948 in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years

Markus

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Don't like to post comment in Jim's great thread, which is his.:ping: :ping: :ping: :nope:

I felt that the creation of Israel is also an important thing, whether you support Israel or not.

Because on this day 14 May 1948 in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years

Markus :Kaleun_Mad: YOU DAMNED DRUNK DANE!!??:()1:https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/26/12/2BA8AF3700000578-3211382-Benedict_Cumberbatch_is_taking_to_the_stage_at_the _Barbican_as_H-m-9_1440590225359.jpgI'LL NOT TOLERATE SOME MOROSE DANISH MUNCHING MORON GIVING CREDIT FOR MY AWARD WINNING THREAD TO AN ENGLISHMAN! http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/images/bestof2014_small2.png (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=313053&tab=myawards#aw_issue237) Issue time: 12-29-2014 06:27 PM
Issue reason: Best of Subsim 2014: Best Thread of the year, way to go! :O: IT WAS A GREAT POST HOWEVER! :up: :Kaleun_Cheers:

[mapuc]

I'm terrible sorry. It was not my intention to do so.

A great thanks to the creator of this fabulous thread shall also be given.

Markus

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I'm terrible sorry. It was not my intention to do so.

A great thanks to the creator of this fabulous thread shall also be given.

Markus OF COURSE I DEIGNED TO THINK OTHERWISE; WITHOUT THE 'ELEMENT OF INTENT' THERE CAN BE NO CRIME! :arrgh!:...OCCASIONALLY I THINK IT'S JIMBUNA'S THREAD TOO!:timeout:

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1930:Registered nurse, Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, goes on duty aboard an Oakland-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Transport, a forerunner of United Airlines. This will give rise to the literary classic:Coffee, Tea, or Me!:Kaleun_Wink:

[Jimbuna]

1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

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

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

1921 British Legion formed to care for ex-servicemen.

1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders.

1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the Squalus.

1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463

1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and King George VI discuss the plan for D-Day.

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.

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

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He force-fed his second wife...Ouch.
Well, I am not good at England's history in those days.:doh::oops:
1536:Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of Henery VIII to Anne Bolyn to be invalid after she failed to pruduce a male heir; already condemned falsely for treason, Ms. Tudor(wife #2!) :O:was beheaded at the Tower of London 2 days later...talk about having a wicked spousal 'beef' resulting in 'judicial murder' ie: "it's good to be king" and saves on alimony!
I'd consider that a divorce!:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

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

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler.

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

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

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce)

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

[Jimbuna]

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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1568 English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Mary, Queen of Scots.

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.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty.

1918 First electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title.

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

1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands.

[Jimbuna]

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

1933 First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by Aldie and John Mackay saw "something resembling a whale"

1947 First US ballistic missile fired.

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1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore.

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

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

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

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

1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina.

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

1916 Conscription begins in Britain.

1940 Adolf Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"

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

1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boats in Atlantic Ocean.

[Jimbuna]

1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report detailing People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over prior two decades.

2009 North Korea conducts its second nuclear test while also conducting several missile tests.

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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.

1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

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1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore.

Throughout his trial, Kidd maintained his innocence. When he was asked if he had any final words he said: 'I have nothing to say except that I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.' Kidd was hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping, where his body remained strung up in the gibbets for three years to serve as a warning to other would-be pirates. He was actually hanged three times: 1: the rope broke onlookers pleaded for mercy to no avail; 2: immedite re- hanging was for keeps 3: he was dipped in tar and hung out on the River Thames to deter others from piracy...for three years!https://www.historytoday.com/sites/default/files/history-matters/kidd.jpg
What he needed at his 'trial' and didn't have....found 200 years laterhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/4a/36/9b/4a369b61f7de445ac8de31ca94c1fb69.jpg
confirming hima 'privateer' and not a 'pirate'.....:wah: In truth he was hung four times:'hung out to dry' by his investor-superiors who left him to his fate. :hmmm: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54444/54444-h/54444-h.htm#APPENDIX_D (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54444/54444-h/54444-h.htm#APPENDIX_D)

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

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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

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"Well George, We knocked the bastard off."-Sir Edmond Hillary KG ONZ KBE:Kaleun_Salute:

[Jimbuna]

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

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbour.

1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Panorama_of_the_ruined_area_tulsa_race_riots.jpg/1920px-Panorama_of_the_ruined_area_tulsa_race_riots.jpg19 21:TULSA OKLAHOMA- a two day riot by white and black mobs leaves portions of Tulsa OK devastated.
Attack by air

Numerous eyewitnesses described airplanes carrying white assailants, who fired rifles and dropped firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families. The privately owned aircraft were dispatched from the nearby Curtiss-Southwest Field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Southwest_Field) outside Tulsa.
Law enforcement officials later said that the planes were to provide reconnaissance and protect against a "Negro uprising". Law enforcement personnel were thought to be aboard at least some flights.Eyewitness accounts, such as testimony from the survivors during Commission hearings and a manuscript by eyewitness and attorney Buck Colbert Franklin discovered in 2015, said that on the morning of June 1, at least "a dozen or more" planes circled the neighborhood and dropped "burning turpentine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpentine) balls" on an office building, a hotel, a filling station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station) and multiple other buildings. Men also fired rifles at young and old black residents, gunning them down in the street. ...Losses included 191 businesses, a junior high school, several churches, and the only hospital in the district. The Red Cross reported that 1,256 houses were burned and another 215 were looted but not burned. The Tulsa Real Estate Exchange estimated property losses amounted to US$1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property(equivalent to a total of $32 million in 2019). Compared to two days in Tulsa, the current situation(99 years later??!!) across America is positively "Minnesta Nice" :nope: :ping::ping::ping:https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/i8QSalKNxCJsgJ5QG54BYqOVBAE=/0x0:5219x3480/1520x0/filters:focal(0x0:5219x3480):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/20008954/GettyImages_1231648948.jpghttps://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/kByLuKwYA4rINqyE3w_1BpIe8yI=/1200x800/media/img/photo/2020/05/photos-24-hours-twin-cities/a18_RC27YG9SG3SZ/original.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre) There were no convictions for any of the charges related to violence. There were decades of silence about the terror, violence, and losses of this event. The riot was largely omitted from local, state, and national histories: "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place." It was not recognized in the Tulsa Tribune feature of "Fifteen Years Ago Today" or "Twenty-five Years Ago Today". A 2017 report detailing the history of the Tulsa Fire Department from 1897 until the date of publication makes no mention of the 1921 fire. The death toll in the hundreds is still undetermined to this day.

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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.

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

1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.

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

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

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

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1944: as a war saving measure on tires, petrol and public transit, Mexico 'officially' abolishes the siesta:Kaleun_Sleep:...Que Lastima!

[Jimbuna]

1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws 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.

1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY

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.

1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"

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

[Catfish]

1944: as a war saving measure on tires, petrol and public transit, Mexico 'officially' abolishes the siesta:Kaleun_Sleep:...Que Lastima!
^ indeed, i hope they soon reintroduced it in 1945 ..

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

1944 Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery dine in Portsmouth, England.

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.

1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk.

1944 Germans pull out of Rome.

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

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1913 English suffragette Emily Davison dies after throwing herself in front of King George V's horse Anmer during running of the Derby at Epsom.

1917 Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WWI

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 unfavourable 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

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1917 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I

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

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

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

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

1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany.

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

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

1939 The ship MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Europe, begins sailing back to the continent after it was refused entry into America. Approximately a quarter of those on board would perish in the Holocaust.

1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.

1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II

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1912 US army tests first machine gun mounted on a plane.

1917 The British detonate mines beneath the German-held Messines Ridge, in the Ypres area.

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

1940 British/French troops evacuate Narvik.

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island.

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1779 Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain Thomas Hardy on HMS Foudroyant set sail against Spanish fleet.

1944 1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attacks at Normandy.

1944 General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in Chateau de Creully.

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann.

1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1969 General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar.

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68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.

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

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

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

1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

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

2019 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new extradition laws to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city.

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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 first 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.

[Cybermat47]

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

The Oradour-sur-Glane massacre was carried out by the 1st Battalion of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment Der Führer, part of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. Das Reich had already committed numerous war crimes, such as Holocaust killings in Minsk and the hanging of several French civilians only a day before Oradour-sur-Glane. After the war, Das Reich was glamourised by the writings of HIAG, a revisionist SS veterans’ group. Oradour-sur-Glane remains abandoned to this day.

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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.

1939 King and Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at FDR's party.

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

1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein, North Africa.

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

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1917 US Secret Service extends protection of the President to include his family.

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

1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London.

1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.

2018 Singapore Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.

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1842: Queen Victoria becomes the first Brish monarch to ride on a train travelling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington...in 25 minutes!:Kaleun_Applaud:

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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.

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

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy.

2000 South Korean President Kim Dae Jung meets leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

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1789 Captain William Bligh and his loyal men cast off from HMS Bounty reach Timor, after sailing 5,800 km in a 6-metre launch.

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 Germany, German troops occupy Paris.

1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann.

1967 "The Dirty Dozen", based on E. M. Nathanson's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Charles Bronson is released in the US

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.

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1944 George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century America.

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

1982 Britain requests Argentina to arrange for return of prisoners.

2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.

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1963:Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first and only solo-mission woman launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6. Her flight lasted 71 hours and circled earth 48 times before landing safely. VT is still alive at age 83! :Kaleun_Salute:

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

1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

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

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.

1940 Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

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

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

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales.

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

1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts the International Declaration of Human Rights.

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

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

1941 Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later Germany invades Russia.

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

1947 First plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California.

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

1970 British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher in the Cabinet)

1991 The Bundestag (German parliament) decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

[Jimbuna]

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

1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.

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

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

1992 Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb.

[Jimbuna]

1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (Vatican only admits it was wrong on Oct 31, 1992!)

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

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

1939 Princess and future Queen Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)

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 history.

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.

1992 Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg, Russia identified as Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

[Jimbuna]

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 World War II: 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)

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

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

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.

1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy, Lithuania, exterminated.

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

[Jimbuna]

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"

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

1942 British RAF stages a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WWII)

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

1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa.

1982 Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.

[Jimbuna]

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

1917 First 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.

1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

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

1993 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure.

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

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

[Jimbuna]

1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan.

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

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

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

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

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

[Jimbuna]

1900 The Imperial Chinese Court issues what is essentially a declaration of war against the foreigners in China and blames hostilities on them, giving license to Boxers for even greater ferocity.

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."

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

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

1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.

[Jimbuna]

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'

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.

1940 German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands.

1942 Col-general Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine.

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

1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

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

1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane.

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

1843 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina.

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

[Wolferz]

1954:
Wolferz was hatched from an egg.

Yes guys and gals, the news of my demise was incorrect!

[Jimbuna]

1913 Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

1915 After exploding a bomb in US Senate reception room previous day, Erich Muenter, a German instructor at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations.

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

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628

1947 Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan.

[_dgn_]

1954:
Wolferz was hatched from an egg.

Yes guys and gals, the news of my demise was incorrect!


In any case, a date in History, or, at least, in YOUR history.


Best wishes !


Cheers.

[Aktungbby]

1954:
Wolferz was hatched from an egg.

Yes guys and gals, the news of my demise was incorrect!Good to see you're still above ground fearless leader!:Kaleun_Salute: The Bilge could use your August presence. I tried to P.M. this but your message storage is full..delete a few.:Kaleun_Cheers: AKbby

[_dgn_]

3 July 1940 ? One month after the joint (French and British armies) fighting in the Dunkirk pocket ("Operation Dynamo"), it's now time for the infamous "Operation Catapult", an attack of the British Navy against the French Navy, in the naval base of Mers El Kébir.

Between 1300 and 1500 French sailors lose their lives there (225 on the battlecruiser "Dunkerque" : very symbolic !).

In the same time, the French "Force X" is captured by the British in Alexandria harbour.

In the same time, the giant submarine-cruiser (the ancestor of the Japanese I-400-class submarines) "Surcouf", named after the famous Captain Robert Surcouf from Saint-Malo, is assaulted in the night by British sailors. 4 men are killed during the inamical boarding : the mecanic officer of the "Surcouf", Yves-Marie Daniel, and 3 British (including the commander of the submarine "Thames), the 2 British officers (Cdr. Sprague and Lt. Griffith) killed by Lieutenant de Vaisseau Bouillaut, the NCO (quartermaster Webb) by the board medic officer, Lieutenant Le Nistour.

Perhaps the English didn't know that sailors never submit their ship under force : on 27th November 1942, the French Fleet scuttled in the port of Toulon to avoid being captured by the German army.

Fortunately, these crimes (or the criminals) didn't go unpunished :

- the submarine "HMS Thames" disappeared one month later, on 3 August 1940

- the destroyer "HMS Escort" was sunk on 11 July 1940 (1 week later, torpedoed by Italian submarine "Guglielmo Marconi")

- the destroyer "HMS Fearless" was sunk on 23 July 1941 (torpedoed by an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79)

-the destroyer "HMS Vortigern" was sunk on 15 March 1942 (torpedoed by the S-Boot "S-104")

- the destroyer "HMS Foresight" was sunk on 12 August 1942 (torpedoed by an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79)

- the destroyer "HMS Wrestler' was sunk on 6 June 1944 (mined off the coast of Juno Beach)

Concerning the majors criminals :

- the aircraft carrier "HMS Ark Royal" was sunk on 14 November 1941 (torpedoed by the German U-Boot U-81). On 6 July 1940, its "Swordfish" planes damaged the battlecruiser "Dunkerque", already grounded on the beach since the first attacks, 2 days earlier.

- the battlecruiser "HMS Hood" was sunk on 24 May 1941 (totally exploded by the German battleship "Bismarck"). It damaged the battlecruiser "Dunkerque". In fact, in Mers El Kébir, it was easier for the "Hood" to fire on immobile targets (with extinguished boilers), some with turrets facing the earth (and not the sea). The "Bismarck" was not such "sitting duck", and the "Hood" learned it the hard way ...

80 years after, a great thought for all these French sailors killed by their "allies". In some cases, isn't necessary to have foes, "allies" are enough ...

These facts are completely forgotten in France. Fortunately for the mythical "Franco-British Friendship" !

My father, Engineers Captain in 1940 and present in Dunkirk (please read here : https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2673845&postcount=68) never forgave the English for this attack. As member of the Résistance in the "Réseau Morhange" and in the "Corps Franc Pommiès" (both mainly constituted of French officers) in the south of France (sector of Agen and Toulouse), he had to deal with British "Jedburgh" teams. His relationships were difficult and this trust relative ...

Cheers.

[Aktungbby]

1826: 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died... 1831: the fifth president, James Monroe, died in NYC at age 73. 1872: the 30th president Calvin (silent Cal:up:) Coolidge is born in Plymouth, Vermont.

[Jimbuna]

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

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.

1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die.

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 First 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.

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

[Aktungbby]

1946: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1up-TRMxdo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1up-TRMxdo) INSPIRES & LEADS DIRECTLY TO THE FIRST MODELLING OF THE BIKINI. On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Réard introduced the bikini at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. A Parisian showgirl named Micheline Bernardini (NOW 92!) modeled the new liberating style. Réard’s bikini, named after the tiny atoll of Bikini where the U.S. tested the atomic bomb, (RÉARD: "BOTH WERE SMALL....AND DEVASTATING":O:) It was made with only 30 square inches of fabric. (CAPABLE OF FITTING IN THE MATCHBOX IN MS. BERNARDINI'S HAND) When Réard planned the launch of his bikini, he could not find a professional model who would wear it. Micheline Bernardini http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2011/top_10_bikinis/bikinis_07.jpg :Kaleun_Salute: who was used to “baring her assets” as an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, agreed to model Réard’s bikini. I GET A BANG OUT OF AGREEABLE GIRLS IN BIKINIS! :yeah:

[Jimbuna]

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.

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

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

1952 Last tram ride in London.

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

[Jimbuna]

1865 Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln.

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

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down seven 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.

2005 Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700

[Jimbuna]

1905 The soldiers of the Russian battleship "Potemkin" who mutinied, surrender to Romanian authorities, who turn ship over to Russian authorities soon after.

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

1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve.

1943 British air raid sinks U-232

1947 Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC

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

1950 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea.

1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.

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

[Jimbuna]

1853 Commodore Matthew Perry and four US Navy vessels visit Japan to force them to open up to American trade and end their policy of isolation.

1916 First cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany.

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

1943 5th 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.

1951 US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany.

1982 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London.

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

[Jimbuna]

1778 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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

1943 6th day of battle at Kursk.

1943 US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)

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.

[Aktungbby]

1859: Big Ben, the geat bell inside the London clock tower, chimed for the firstime. 1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in Weehawken, New Jersey...1995: The UN designated "safe haven" of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovinia fell to Bosnian Serb forces...who then executed more than 8000 Muslim men and boys.

[Catfish]

1995: The UN designated "safe haven" of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovinia fell to Bosnian Serb forces...who then executed more than 8000 Muslim men and boys.
As far as i know what the Serbs did in Vukovar and Srevenica, apart from all those rape concentration camps, has never really been put before trial.

[Aktungbby]

As far as i know what the Serbs did in Vukovar and Srevenica, apart from all those rape concentration camps, has never really been put before trial.I suspect the real issue revolves around the 576,000 critical virgin shortage for all the martyrs in paradise...at 72 per!??:hmmm::Kaleun_Crying:https://image.cagle.com/231224/750/231224.png (https://www.cagle.com/stephane-peray/2019/10/72-virgins)

[Jimbuna]

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

1940 Marshall Philippe Petain, French hero of World War I, becomes head of the Vichy collaborationist government of France.

1943 7th day of battle at Kursk.

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.

[Catfish]

1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam. [...]
Not really ;)

[Jimbuna]

Not really ;)

Not sure what you mean Kai :hmmm:

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

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

1957 First President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.

[Aktungbby]

2003: the USS Ronald Reagan, the first carrier named for a living President, is commissioned at Norfolk, VA. A minor technical point imho; Mr. Reagan, suffering from Alzheimers for 10 years, died in June 2004...I doubt he knew.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1955 The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London.

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

[Catfish]

1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam. [...]
Not sure what you mean Kai :hmmm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rufiji_Delta
Maybe lacking english skills, but the "cruiser Koenigsberg sinking off Dar-es-Salam" sounded like it sank off the coast on sea, and not inland so to speak :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Maybe lacking english skills, but the "cruiser Koenigsberg sinking off Dar-es-Salam" sounded like it sank off the coast on sea, and not inland so to speak :hmmm:

Yep, I see what you mean :yep:

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release "Linux" soon afterwards.

[Jimbuna]

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

1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens.

1963 Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding.

1980 Billy Carter, the brother of US President Jimmy Carter, registers as a foreign agent of the Libyan government after it was revealed they paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[Aktungbby]

1945: the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, and created trinitite, a new anthropogenic material; the same day the USS Indianapolis left Mare Island to deliver components of the device to a waiting EnolaGay crew on Tinian. The consequence of releasing the nuclear genie out of the bottle would have immediate
disasterous consequences..for Hiroshima and the crew of the Indianapolis on its return voyage. WWII would end, the Cold war would start. 75 years later, one meglomaniac with a bad haircut and his finger on the button keeps another more rotund meglomaniac with a bad haircut in N.Korea barely in check with his finger on the button. Throwing in pandemics, global warming, dwindling resources on an overpopulated planet, methinks the Age of Aquarius (2160 years??:hmmm:) won't get that far...:ping::ping::ping:

[Jimbuna]

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

1945 Potsdam Conference: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold 1st post-World War II meeting.

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]

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.

[Jimbuna]

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 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)

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

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.

[Jimbuna]

1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops.

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 and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.

[Bilge_Rat]

1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas.



That june 19, 1944 actually.

[Jimbuna]

That june 19, 1944 actually.

Quite correct, I should have checked :doh:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Taih%C5%8D

[Aktungbby]

1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack.
That June 20, 1944 actually.:D

[Jimbuna]

Different time zones :)

[Jimbuna]

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 (Ostfriesland)

1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp.

1944 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy.

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

[Aktungbby]

Different time zones :) Excess Nelson's Blood'll https://www.proof66.com/images/hires/Pussers-15yr-Rum-500.jpgdo that to you! do not imbibe when setting the month dials in your favorite wheels!:O: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/TeamTimeCar.com-BTTF_DeLorean_Time_Machine-OtoGodfrey.com-JMortonPhoto.com-07.jpg/1024px-TeamTimeCar.com-BTTF_DeLorean_Time_Machine-OtoGodfrey.com-JMortonPhoto.com-07.jpg

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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.

[Aktungbby]

1862:Abraham Lincoln presents to his cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation...'cause black lives are gonna matter!:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

1942 Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins.

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

1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the French Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II goes on trial.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam.

1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City.

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

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam.

1944 First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)

1944 World War II: 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)

1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO

[Jimbuna]

1914 First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain alert.

1914 For the next two days, the foreign ministries and leaders of major states work feverishly to avert war.

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

1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII

1945 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum.

1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb.

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

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

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1794: French revolutionary, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Robespierre.jpg/220px-Robespierre.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robespierre.jpg), is overthrown and placed under arrest...to be:/\\choped the next day, a failed pistol suicide attempt and gunshotted jaw notwithstanding.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Sketch_of_Robespierre.jpg/220px-Sketch_of_Robespierre.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sketch_of_Robespierre.jpg) Poor fellow, he didn't lose his appeal... he had no appeal at all! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Robespierre_guillotinant_le_boureau_apr%C3%A8s_avo ir_fait_guillot.r_tous_les_Fran%C3%A7ais.jpg/800px-Robespierre_guillotinant_le_boureau_apr%C3%A8s_avo ir_fait_guillot.r_tous_les_Fran%C3%A7ais.jpg<Cartoon showing Robespierre guillotining the executioner after having guillotined everyone else in France...talk about 'getting hoist with your own petard!:wah:as Madame Defarge watched??!! https://i.pinimg.com/originals/33/b7/53/33b7535712b60c885545801a833a671a.jpg

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1909 British ship SS Waratah is last seen en-route from Durban to Cape Town; 211 on board are missing and no trace of the ship ever found.

1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg.

1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)

1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt.

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

[_dgn_]

Death of Maximilien de Robespierre, 36 years old, surnamed by people "the Incorruptible", one of the 12 members (but perhaps one of the most influential) of the Committee of Public Safety's (a group of deputies responsible for leading ministries, and thus for waging the war against the Coalitions).


On July 27, 1794, at the time of his arrest in the middle of the National Convention, the last words of this politician (considered to be the soul of the French Revolution), and moreover, his last words of man (since he then kept silence until his execution) would have been: "The Republic is lost, the robbers triumph!"


The victorious batlle of Fleurus (8 Messidor An II or June 26, 1794, a month earlier) may be the main reason for Robespierre's "fall" : member of the Committee since one year, he wanted only to liberate France from foreign troops, not to wage a war of conquest. However, he had contributed greatly to forging the tools of victory, in particular by creating an army of one million men (a record for the time !), arming them, dressing them, feeding them, providing them with mounts ...


This made the fortune of the suppliers to the armies. The victory of Fleurus had liberated the territory, but Robespierre didn't intend to go any further, with an offensive war. Already hostile to war in 1792, he had rightly stated: "No one likes armed missionaries". He suggested that a war full of conquests would bring out a new Caesar. "If the chiefs of the armies are Caesars or Cromwells, they take over authority themselves." So contacts with Pitt for peace were ongoing. But powerful suppliers to the armies didn't want to see their huge incomes run out.


The same day, he was guillotined with 21 other people, including another important member of the Committee of Public Safety's, Louis-Antoine de Saint Just, the real winner of the Battle of Fleurus (and not Carnot). Among the victims was a MP who asked to share his plight: his brother, Augustin de Robespierre. The other MP in the same case(requesting to be arrested in the Nartional Convention at the same time as Robespierre), Philippe Le Bas, succeeded in committing suicide with pistol in the early morning of 10 Thermidor, in the Hotel de Ville of Paris.


History proved that Robespierre was right : a Caesar conquered Italy, looted it, brought for him and the suppliers to the armies (close to the future French Directory) huge masses of money. This Caesar then became Director, Consul and Emperor, continuing war of conquest over war of conquest. The "armed missionaries" bringing the principles and laws of the French Republic into their luggage throughout Europe also contributed, unintentionally, to a national feeling in the European countries (and the premises of German unity, by exemple).

But the relationship between the Incorruptible and the future Caesar are amazing. The protector of a certain artillery captain named Napoléon Buonaparte during the battle for Toulon was Augustin de Robespierre, representative of the Convention to the Armed Forces. Napoleon was arrested after the "fall" of Robespierre, for being close to the "tyrant". Moreover, due to its important reform legislation (largely exported throughout Europe), Napoléon is sometimes surnamed by historians as "Robespierre on a horse" !


Finally, who remembers that the motto of the French Republic (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity), present on all public buildings, coins, stamps, military flags ..., is due to a certain Maximilien of Robespierre, in a speech of December 1790 ?


RIP, Maximilien. No matter what was said to tarnish your reputation, you are still among us.


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RIP, Maximilien. No matter what was said to tarnish your reputation, you are still among us.

^Excellent! but hey I only post as it's the only time of the year I can use the :subsim: :/\\chop legitimately!! I only threw in Madame Defarge so I can post a picture of Blanch Yurkahttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9f/Blanche_Yurka.jpg/200px-Blanche_Yurka.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blanche_Yurka.jpg) who captured the rôle so completely!:salute: She is of course a Minnesota girl.:yeah:The way she wore her head cover and Robepierre's creation of les San Culottes https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Sans-culotte_avec_sa_redoutable_pique_-_Lesueur.jpg/220px-Sans-culotte_avec_sa_redoutable_pique_-_Lesueur.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sans-culotte_avec_sa_redoutable_pique_-_Lesueur.jpg) is an inspiration to me: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=10818:arrgh!:

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The same day, he was guillotined with 21 other people, including another important member of the Committee of Public Safety's, Louis-Antoine de Saint Just, the real winner of the Battle of Fleurus (and not Carnot). Among the victims was a MP who asked to share his plight: his brother, Augustin de Robespierre. The other MP in the same case(requesting to be arrested in the Nartional Convention at the same time as Robespierre), Philippe Le Bas, succeeded in committing suicide with pistol in the early morning of 10 Thermidor, in the Hotel de Ville of Paris. It's tough to be August in July 1794 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg/1024px-Execution_robespierre%2C_saint_just....jpg<Augustine de Robepierre shown going up the stairs: #3; Maximilian was #10; I don't know how he managed it!?? In order to avoid capture, Augustin Robespierre took off his shoes and jumped from a ledge. He landed on the steps or on some bayonets resulting in a pelvic fracture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic_fracture) and several serious head contusions, in an alarming state of "weakness and anxiety''. Barras ordered that Augustin to be carried back to the rooms of the Committee of General Security. After a couple of hours the prisoners were taken to the Conciergerie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conciergerie) prison; four of them were lying on stretchers. After identification at the Revolutionary Tribunal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Tribunal) according to the Law of 22 Prairial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_22_Prairial) the twenty-two convicts were sent to the scaffold on Place de la Révolution in the early evening. Couthon was the second of the prisoners to be executed, with Augustin as the third, Hanriot as the ninth and Maximilien as the tenth. At least his brother, Maximilian, got to 'lie in state' briefly after his failed suicide pistol shot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Matin_du_10_thermidor_an_II-Melingue-IMG_2405.JPG/1024px-Matin_du_10_thermidor_an_II-Melingue-IMG_2405.JPG
I had an '64 Aurora model of this in the 60's:O: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/32/4d/e7/324de72fca38a50f96c670a6d8b823fa.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2K5iRnlok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2K5iRnlok) :/\\chop:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:<the basket is essential equipment: no loose heads rollin' around!:doh: :oops: :dead:

[Jimbuna]

1794 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris.

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

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

1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender.

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

1945 "Elevator girl" Betty Lou Oliver survives falling 75 stories after fog causes a 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.

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

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1945 "Elevator girl" Betty Lou Oliver survives falling 75 stories after fog causes a US bomber B-25 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.
One wonders; if the British air attack on Taranto which inspired Yamamoto's attack on Pearl Harbor didn't similary affect Mr Atta with his attack on the World trade center on 9/11....:hmmm: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Empirestate540.jpg https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/07/empire_state_plane_crash_1945.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=55856 years later:hmmm:: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/journalstar.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/ab/9ab6ba02-dd5c-5e4b-b04a-3c3d01d6b9e6/57d30eab105dc.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1403My grandfather was in the Empire State Building in 1945; My best college friend/dorm-mate was killed on the hundredth floor of Building one on 9/11; and an uncle escaped from building two; My sister-in-law directed the escapes from nearby building seven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/7_World_Trade_Center.jpg/275px-7_World_Trade_Center.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:7_World_Trade_Center.jpg) which was also severly damaged from the seismic impact of collapsing buildings one and two...but attention-wise was (understandably) overlooked by the greater disaster to the two main buildings.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/WTC_Building_Arrangement_and_Site_Plan_%28building _7_highlighted%29.jpg/250px-WTC_Building_Arrangement_and_Site_Plan_%28building _7_highlighted%29.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WTC_Building_Arrangement_and_Site_Plan_(build ing_7_highlighted).jpg)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/WTC_Area_With_Building_Numbers_50dpi_contrast.jpg/800px-WTC_Area_With_Building_Numbers_50dpi_contrast.jpg

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

1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin.

1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)

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

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

1834 Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire - Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect.

1914 British Grand Fleet reaches Scapa Flow.

1914 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI

1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin.

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.

1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's

1958 US atomic submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine"

[Jimbuna]

1914 German troops overthrow Luxembourg.

1914 Great Britain mobilizes.

1916 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 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.

[Jimbuna]

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 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German Army leading to their invasion hours later.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina,

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.

[Jimbuna]

1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

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

1942 First train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz.

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.

1972 Uganda dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda.

[Catfish]

Not exactly today, but 80 years ago:

"An He-111H 5/KG 26 is forced to land in a remote field near St Abbs Head in Berwickshire with smoke streaming from one engine. Squadron Leader Douglas Farquhar of No. 602 Squadron, who brought it down wants to prevent the Germans from destroying the intact plane, so lands his Spitfire beside it. The Germans watch with disbelief as the Spitfire trundles down the hill and cartwheels into a bog. After pulling their injured rear gunner out and setting fire to the plane, the Germans rush down the hill to rescue Farquhar who is suspended upside down in his harness. Local Defense Volunteers (later called Home Guard) arrive and arrest everyone, including Farquhar who eventually convinces their commander that he is “one of the goodies”. ' "

"[Farquhar] was awarded the DFC (gazetted 1st March 1940), promoted to Wing Commander and posted to RAF Martlesham Heath to take command there."

[Jimbuna]

910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.

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

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

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

1918 World War I: the last German air raid on England occurs, with four Zeppelin airships dropping bombs in the Midlands and North East England.

1921 Treaty of Berlin: US and Germany sign separate peace treaty.

[Mr Quatro]

August 5 — in history

Philadelphia's dance show debuts on nationwide TV

A low-budget show featuring dancing teens and lip-syncing musical acts is a hit on local Philadelphia stations, and now 'American Bandstand' makes its US network debut on ABC. The show, with its host Dick Clark, will prove popular and enduring, lasting another 32 years.

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910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred. :hmmm: I thought Harald Hardrada's defeat at Stamford bridge in 1066 by Harold of England was the last major Viking army??!! The battle has traditionally been presented as symbolising the end of the Viking Age (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age), although major Scandinavian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia) campaigns in Britain and Ireland occurred in the following decades, such as those of King Sweyn Estrithson of Denmark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_II_of_Denmark) in 1069–1070 and King Magnus Barefoot of Norway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_III_of_Norway) in 1098 and 1102–1103. At Stamford bridge: As given in the Chronicles, pursued by the English army, some of the fleeing Norsemen drowned whilst crossing rivers. So many died in an area so small that the field was said to have been still whitened with bleached bones 50 years after the battle. The losses the Norwegians had suffered were so severe that only 24 ships from the fleet of over 300 were needed to carry the survivors away... The Viking leader, Harald, learns ''the arrow of his ways''...:o https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Arbo_-_Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge_%281870%29.jpg/1024px-Arbo_-_Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge_%281870%29.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge)

[Jimbuna]

The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place in September 1066 and said Battle of Hastings took place a month later in October. The latter battle was against the Normans under William the Conqueror and it is that battle where it is believed Harold died as the result of an arrow hitting him in the eye.

[Jimbuna]

1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair.

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210

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: America's ace of aces Richard Ira Bong https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Richard_Bong_photo_portrait_head_and_shoulders.jpg/220px-Richard_Bong_photo_portrait_head_and_shoulders.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Bong_photo_portrait_head_and_shoulder s.jpg) dies in a jet training accident but is overshadowed by Col Tibbetts B-29 Enola Gay (named for his mom!!) dropping the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, on relatively undamaged Hiroshima, resulting in 140,000 lives lost; with Nagasaki three days later;
Emperor Hirohito ordered his diehard cabinet to accept 'unconditional surrender' two days later...:Kaleun_Salute:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/1945-08-07-Los-Angeles-Times-front-page.jpg/800px-1945-08-07-Los-Angeles-Times-front-page.jpg My dad, also in B-29's, on Tinian Island that day, didn't have to invade Japan as a result!:yeah: I'd imagine with the 'political correctness' rampant in today's all-encompassing military, the name of the bomber, now at the Smitnsonian would have to be 'Enola-Don't Ask Don't Tell':hmmm: https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/SiteCollectionDocuments/Enola%20Gay%20Archive/0404EnolaGayControversy.pdf (https://www.airforcemag.com/PDF/SiteCollectionDocuments/Enola%20Gay%20Archive/0404EnolaGayControversy.pdf) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Enola_Gay_on_Display_at_Udvar-Hazy.jpg/1920px-Enola_Gay_on_Display_at_Udvar-Hazy.jpg<Enola Gay on display at Smithsonian...oddly next to what Maj Bong flew: P-38 lightning The display of the Enola Gay without reference to the historical context of World War II, the Cold War, or the development and deployment of nuclear weapons aroused controversy. A petition from a group calling themselves the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy bemoaned the display of Enola Gay as a technological achievement, which it described as an "extraordinary callousness toward the victims, indifference to the deep divisions among American citizens about the propriety of these actions, and disregard for the feelings of most of the world's peoples". It attracted signatures from notable figures including historian Gar Alperovitz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar_Alperovitz), social critic Noam Chomsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky), whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg), physicist Joseph Rotblat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat), writer Kurt Vonnegut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut), producer Norman Lear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lear), actor Martin Sheen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheen) and filmmaker Oliver Stone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone)Political correctness notwithstanding: I'm here 'cause of that bomber!:doh: :yep: :03:

[Jimbuna]

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

1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle's French government in exile.

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

[Jimbuna]

1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America.

1910 The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.

1918 The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines.

1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

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 war trials of Nazi leaders.

1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.

1953 Soviet leader Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb.

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

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

Herbert Haupt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hans_Haupt)
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Heinrich Heinck (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heinrich_Heinck&action=edit&redlink=1)


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Eddie Kerling (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddie_Kerling&action=edit&redlink=1)


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Herman Otto Neubauer (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herman_Otto_Neubauer&action=edit&redlink=1)


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Richard Quirin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Quirin)


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Werner Thiel (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Werner_Thiel&action=edit&redlink=1)
All were electrocuted and buried in a potter's field. Justice is not always fair: The failure of Operation Pastorius led Hitler to rebuke Admiral Canaris and no sabotage attempt was ever made again in the United States. During the remaining years of the war, the Germans only once more dispatched agents to the United States by submarine. In November 1944, as part of Operation Elster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Elster), the German submarine U-1230 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1230) (IXC/40) dropped two RSHA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt) spies off the coast of Maine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine) to gather intelligence on American manufacturing and technical progress. The FBI captured both men shortly after. These agents benefited from the calmer state of public nerves in the later years of the war and received prison sentences rather than execution...:hmmm: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Colepaugh_Gimpel.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colepaugh_Gimpel.jpg) William Colepaugh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colepaugh) (L) and Erich Gimpel (R), following their arrest in December 1944. After his release, Colepaugh moved to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Prussia,_Pennsylvania), near Philadelphia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia), where he worked in a print shop. He subsequently owned and operated a retail business that sold lockers, desks and other metal office products he had learned to build in prison. He married and participated in community activities, volunteered with the Boy Scouts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting_in_Pennsylvania) and became a member of Rotary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_International) He died of complications from Alzheimer's disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease) in 2005. Gimpel was the last person to be tried before a U.S. military tribunal in the 2nd World War. His autobiographical account of his undercover work, Spy For Germany, was first published in English in 1957, in Great Britain.
Following the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, several books about Nazi spies in America were published, and his book finally appeared in the U.S. under the title Agent 146 (2003).
Gimpel was interviewed by Oliver North (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North) for his Fox News Channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel) program War Stories with Oliver North (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Stories_with_Oliver_North) in the episode "Agent 146: Spying for the Third Reich".
The 100-year-old Gimpel :up: died in São Paulo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo), Brazil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil) on 3 September 2010. Erich Gimpel's career as a spy was dramatized in the 1956 film Spy for Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_for_Germany) (German title: Spion für Deutschland). The actor Martin Held (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Held) played the leading role
In both spy operations, Pastorius and Elster, one spy betrayed the other(s) in exchange for leniency.It pays to work alone imho:O: and write a good book https://booklife.com/image-factory/http/localhost/amazongetcover/9780312307974.jpg/w204.jpg for the movie right$!:k_confused:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Spion_f%C3%BCr_Deutschland_1956.jpg/220px-Spion_f%C3%BCr_Deutschland_1956.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spion_f%C3%BCr_Deutschland_1956.jpg)

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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 Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city.

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

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1628 Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm, killing 30

1897 German chemist Felix Hoffman first synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, which would later be patented by his company Bayer under the name "aspirin"

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

1943 US General George Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"

1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.

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

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

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1909 SOS first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC

1942 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle torpedoed & sinks.

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

1988 Al-Qaeda formed at a meeting between Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Dr Fadl in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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1914 Cavalry battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle of the Silver Helmets")

1918 Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the Western Front.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, lose 31 aircraft.

1941 French Marshal Philippe Pétain gives full support to Nazi Germany.

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

1944 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating.

1944 Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

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

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

1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.

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

1978 China & Japan sign peace treaty.

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1908 King Edward VII of Great Britain meets with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria at Ischl; the King tries to persuade the Emperor to advise Germany against aggressive (anti-British) policies.

1918 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.

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

1940 Battle of Britain: Hermann Goering's "Adlertag" (Eagle Day) offensive happens, intending to destroy the Royal Air Force; 47-48 German aircraft shot down, the RAF loses 25 planes.

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

1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany.

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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.

1980 17,000 workers go on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, marking the beginning of the Solidarity movement.

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

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

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

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

1940 Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircraft damaged.

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 Victory over Japan Day, the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII is announced in Japan (due to time zones 14th Aug in the Americas)





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

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1940 45 German aircraft shot down over England.

1943 First Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily).

1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.

1945 Puyi, the last Chinese Emperor and ruler of Manchukuo is captured by Soviet troops.

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

[Mr Quatro]

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


https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Ecuador-s-ex-president-detained-in-organized-15479619.php

Ecuador's ex-president detained in organized crime probe


QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A former Ecuadorian president known for his wild antics has been detained in an organized crime probe as authorities investigate the murder of an Israeli man jailed in a possible COVID-19 medical supplies scandal, the nation’s interior minister said Wednesday.

Heavily armed police burst into Abdalá Bucaram’s home, waking up the 68-year-old in his bed and detaining him under a judge’s order in the port city of Guayaquil, Interior Minister María Paula Romo told an Ecuadorian radio station.

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1940 Adolf Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain.

1941 German raider Komet attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan.

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

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

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

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

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

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1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

1940 Battle of Britain: The air battle known as "The Hardest Day" occurs; Luftwaffe lose approximately 69 aircraft and the RAF lose 68 in one of the largest ever air battles.

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

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

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.

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1914 German fleet bombards English coast.

1914 In a message to the Senate, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name'

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

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

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

1960 Soviet Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 2 rats, 40 mice, 1 rabbit and fruit flies into orbit, - 1st animals to return alive from orbit.

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

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

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

1940 First Polish squadrons fight alongside 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"

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

2015 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight.

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1808 Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

1879 The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program.

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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565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness.

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.

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.

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1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.
Bottom Line: He found himself in 'grave circumstances' https://www.historic-uk.com/assets/Images/richardIIIgrave.jpg?1484907553and no longer footloose...Truely defeeted:yep:https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/X1zITQA9CGIUVzn_XQ5eHeXBBmw=/1000x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BFM4NHBV5A5HTFEDJ6XKLS7JBA.jpg nor fancy free!:nope: HIS new "digs"....sodaspekehttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Picture_of_Richard_III%27s_new_tomb.jpg/1024px-Picture_of_Richard_III%27s_new_tomb.jpg

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

1911 British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany.

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)

1944 US B-24 crashes into school in Freckleton England, 76 killed.

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

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79 A.D.:Mt. Vesuvius, long dormant volcano erupted(level 5 volcanology scale- think Mt. St. Helenshttps://i.pinimg.com/564x/ae/27/fa/ae27fac716ffecc44947097e5d29321d.jpg) destroying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with pyroclastic surges and ash; an estimated 20,000 people died. 410 A.D:. Rome is overrun by the Visigoths, a major event in the fall of the Western Roman Empire....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Sack_of_Rome_by_the_Visigoths_on_24_August_410_by_ JN_Sylvestre_1890.jpg/800px-Sack_of_Rome_by_the_Visigoths_on_24_August_410_by_ JN_Sylvestre_1890.jpg"toga toga BBY!":dead: meets ''Propaganda never goes outta style BBY!'' https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81wOhb1wlLL._AC_SL1500_.jpg <1593 years later!:O:

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

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

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

[_dgn_]

During French Wars of Religion and on the occasion of the marriage of Henry of Navarre (the future King Henry IV), sometimes Protestant, sometimes Catholic, with Margaret of Valois (the "Queen Margot"), daughter of Catherine of Medicis and sister of the King of France Charles IX (replaced 2 years later on the throne by an other brother, Henry III), the main leaders of the mighty "Protestant Faction" met in Paris.

During the night of 23 and 24 August 1572, for reasons not yet fully known (but mainly because of the close ties between the French Calvinists and enemy countries of French kingdom) and in circumstances not yet fully detailed by historians, the people of Paris, helped by the Swiss Guards (and likely, by the faithful Scottish Guards), began to eradicate the "internal enemy", after hearing the sound of alarm ("tocsin") from the bell-tower of the church of Saint-Germain-L'Auxerrois, located opposite the "Palais du Louvre" (and at the time, the royal chapel), alarm which was taken over by most of the bell towers in Paris.

As for the reasons and the course of these tragical events, the exact number of the victims is still not exactly known. In general, historians believe that here were between 2000 and 3000 persons killed in Paris, but similar massacres took place, the following days, in the rest of the kingdom (estimated between 3000 and 7000 other victims).


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[Jimbuna]

1875 Captain Matthew Webb makes the 1st observed and unassisted swim across the English Channel in 21 hours and 45 minutes.

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.

1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria.

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



Sorry, Captain, but the battle for Paris and its liberation took place on August 25, and de Gaulle walked the Champs-Elysées only on August 26.


Cheers

[Jimbuna]

Sorry, Captain, but the battle for Paris and its liberation took place on August 25, and de Gaulle walked the Champs-Elysées only on August 26.


Cheers

Typo, 44 for 45 :oops:

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

1957 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile.

1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior.

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1939 Erich Warsitz in a Heinkel He-178 makes the 1st manned jet-propelled flight.

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.

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.

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

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech addressing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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

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

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

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.

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1967: The U S Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U S Supreme Court. :yeah: 1983::Kaleun_Salute: Guion S. Bluford Jr. becomes the first black American astronaut to travel in space aboard Challenger. He was the second person of African descent however to go into space, as a Cuban-born Cosmonaut had preceeded him into space. :salute:1861:: Famed Western explorer, political rival: Union General John C. Fremont, institutes martial law in Civil War Missouri and declares slaves to be free...his martial proclamation is countermanded by President Abraham Lincoln....:hmmm: too little? too soon? such is the nature of wartime politics!!?.:oops::wah:

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

1932 Hermann Goering elected Chairman of the Reichstag.

1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese flee.

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII

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

1945 General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin.

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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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1752 Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.

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"

1920 France creates Greater Lebanon.

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 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.

1939 In the "scoop of the century," Telegraph journalist Clare Hollingworth becomes the first to report the outbreak of World War II

1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal.

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

1950 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines.

1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan revolution.

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1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed.

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 World War II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.

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1901: then Vice-president, Teddy Roosevelt, offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." at the Minnesota State Fair...the 1907 Great White Fleet will exemplify the concept::salute: :hmmm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKr5KUIA6gQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKr5KUIA6gQ)1944: George Bush I is shot down and rescued by USS Finback. :salute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZYv2TFnZg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZYv2TFnZg)

[Jimbuna]

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

1917 First night bombing of London by German aircraft.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1914 France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace.

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

1940 Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands.

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

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1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead.

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 WWII 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'

1939 J. B. M. Hertzog resigns as South African Prime Minister after losing a vote in parliament on neutrality in WWII

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

1946 Amon Göth, former head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, found guilty of imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people, the first conviction of homicide at a war crimes court.

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

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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)

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

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.

[Jimbuna]

1940 Beginning of the Blitz: the German Luftwaffe bomb London for first 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.

1997 The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.

[Jimbuna]

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

1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

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

1923 Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.

1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII

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

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

1951 Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco.

1965 A small ad in New York’s Daily Variety attracts 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees"

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1942 : during WWII, a Japanese submarine launched aircraft dropped a pair of incendiary bombs in a failed attempt at igniting a massive forest fire; it was the first aerial bombing of the US by a foreign power. As proven by the present inferno situation in the Western states, the concept was a sound one...:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)

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

1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England.

1942 1st 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 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies.

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.

[Jimbuna]

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

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

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

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

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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.

[Jimbuna]

1624 First submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I

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.

1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction.

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

1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels.

1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for the first time at Heathrow airport.

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1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

1944 Amon Göth removed as head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp by the SS for stealing state property.

1978 First flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet.

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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 Lord Kitchener: "Your country needs you" appears as front cover design for the London Opinion magazine.

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

1939 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow, Orkney.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

[Eisenwurst]

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/fatal-legacy-of-a-beautiful-riviera

Wow. Talk about a strange coincidence. :o

Both Grace Kelly AND Isadora Duncan.....Sept 14.

[Jimbuna]

1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme.

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza.

1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts.

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.

1997 Google.com is registered as a domain name.

[Jimbuna]

1940 FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)

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

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.

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 WWI flying ace The Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich.

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.

1941 Famous meeting between Danish physicist Niels Bohr and German head of nuclear energy project Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen to discuss nuclear weapons (date approximate)

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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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.


A man of foresight and wisdom:timeout::https://images.wsj.net/im-230337?width=620&size=1.5 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Nortonplaque3-01.png/800px-Nortonplaque3-01.png The city of San Francisco also honored Norton. When his uniform began to look shabby,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg/220px-Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg) the San Francisco Board of Supervisors bought him a suitably imperial replacement. Norton sent a gracious thank you note and issued a "patent of nobility in perpetuity" for each supervisor.

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

1944 British submarine 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.

1971 Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup Noodle, packaging it in a waterproof polystyrene container.

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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 bombers sink U-341

1945 Kim Il-sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea.

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

1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic.

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1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338

1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

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.

1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major John André plans to West Point.

1915 Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600

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.

1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel after a delay due to bad weather and a shortage of planes.

1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaim the People's Republic of China.

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.

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1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues his prliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all persons held in slavery in rebel states should be free as of January 1, 1863....'cause "black lives matter"??...maybe; but more certainly to demonstrate a higher purpose to the war on a an idealistic level that would keep England or rising proletariat oriented Europe from siding with the Confederacy militarily or commercially. Truly one of the politico-militant master penstrokes of history imho; the more so, as prior to Gettysburg's turning point, nine months later, the conflict was much in doubt with two years of bloodshed yet to come. :Kaleun_Salute: 1961: 99 years later, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting discrimination on interstate busses. I suppose that's progress...:hmmm::salute:

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1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem Witch Trials.

1914 German submarine (U-9) sinks 3 British ironclads, (HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue) (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)

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

1989 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent.

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1780 British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.

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

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.

2012 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine.

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1789 US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court.

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 of Justice Donker decides war criminal Willy Lages will not be executed but sentenced to life.

1964 First Minuteman II ICBM was tested.

1971 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying.

1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact.

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1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British.

1915 Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties.

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

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

1990 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience.

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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.

1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England.

1941 US President Roosevelt launches the 1st 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.

1991 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert.

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

1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin siege of Yorktown.

1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.

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

1974 Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople.

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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail for 1066: William the Bastard of Normandy lands in England to begin becoming the Conqueror....although he'll be referred to as the Bastard behind his back, probably by his half brother Odo, who will be imprisoned by William for greed corruption and larceny. As Kim Jung Un proved later with his own half brother: never do business with family!:arrgh!: 1850: The US Navy abolishes flogging as a form of punishment!:k_confused: Good God! Buggery without the lash....:arrgh!: Flogging has been suspended in the Royal Navy but not abolished since 1879!:salute:

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1850: The US Navy abolishes flogging as a form of punishment!]

The cops simply shoot you instead :):03:

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especially the "black gang" for not shovelling/stoking fast enough!:timeout:

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Ten point infraction for racial slur.

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Ten point infraction for racial slur.Five points! They were usually only sooty Irish!:arrgh!:

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Five points! They were usually only sooty Irish!:arrgh!:

Seven, final offer :)

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Seven, final offer :)2! and a footnote to history: 6 of 8 Chinese black gang stokers aboard Titanic survived the sinking and made it to the Carpathia: "raising a few eyebrows" from the predominantly white survivors. Stoker Fang Lang was found floating on wreckage in the frigid water and taken into the lifeboat by passengers who overruled the coxwain's racial objectons: "Is he worth it!!?". Cold, exhausted: 'He worked like hero' at the oars according to the crewman who'd originally objected to taking him in. Out of 150 black gangers total, only 44 survived! The Chinese survivors were deported immediately after arriving in the US, per the Chinese Exclusion laws at the time...:hmmm: Critical testimony at the enquiry from the few surviving stokers, who manned their 4 hour shifts heroically, then scrambled up several decks to the boat deck gave time approximation to the sinking and boat lowering activity during the disaster.

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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 explode killing 286 crew.

1916 American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire.

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

1976 Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest.

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Who else loves history so much and remembers all the important dates?:hmmm: practically everyone at :subsim: whether 'immersed' authentically in their respective simulation or not, is a relative history jock to some degree imho; and some of us have degrees:O:! The emphasis in this thread is to spot the arcane and small aspects of timeline history, especially ones that affect one's personal history by which everyone arrives at this point in time in this forum...for example I owe my presence to a 'cuppa Joe': my dad, a engineer/navigator on WWII B-29's and a 1st lLt. was recalled up to fly cannonfodder missions in Korea 1950 against murderous jet Migs. A chemical engineer developing and producing instant coffee by then, his employer got him deferred to help create /develope coffee rations for the military; a "serious morale booster" for every dogface GI :yeah: I have the deferment application documents. As a result he was married in 1950. I was born in '51...and am savoring my own sacred "cuppa Joe" as I post. Feel free to contribute.:up:

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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.

1940 47 German aircraft shot down above England.

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

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

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

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.

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

1998 Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

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1919 US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1940 17 German aircraft shot down over England.

1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.

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.

2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il

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1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239.
Some discrepancy there: a Ceres class cruiser carried approx 460 crewmen. The casualties listed for HMS Curacao are 337 dead and 101 rescued on a few other sites:hmmm:...2/3 blame to HMS Curacao; 1/3 to Queen Mary which could only proceed rather than become a stationary target if stopped during rescue, loaded with 15,000 troops. The survivors were orderd to remain silent as a matter of national security. Both captains were under differing 'right of way' rule perceptions zig-zagging at very high speed within two cables length (400 meters). Queen Mary's commander when advised of the escort's proximity, assured his exec "these chaps are experienced" and would give way...":oops::damn::dead: In the Carquinez Strait..learning from the mistakes of others-not my own; I simply stay out of everything's way.:arrgh!: https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/zig-zagging-how-confuse-enemy-sea

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Some discrepancy there: a Ceres class cruiser carried approx 460 crewmen. The casualties listed for HMS Curacao are 337 dead and 101 rescued on a few other sites:hmmm:...2/3 blame to HMS Curacao; 1/3 to Queen Mary which could only proceed rather than become a stationary target if stopped during rescue, loaded with 15,000 troops. The survivors were orderd to remain silent as a matter of national security. Both captains were under differing 'right of way' rule perceptions zig-zagging at very high speed within two cables length (400 meters). Queen Mary's commander when advised of the escort's proximity, assured his exec "these chaps are experienced" and would give way...":oops::damn::dead: In the Carquinez Strait..learning from the mistakes of others-not my own; I simply stay out of everything's way.:arrgh!: https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/zig-zagging-how-confuse-enemy-sea

You would appear to be correct :yep:....that goes to show what can happen when you take your source from a US site :) :oops:

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

1952 First British nuclear test during Operation Hurricane at Monte Bello Island, Australia, UK becomes the world's third nuclear nation.

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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You would appear to be correct :yep:....that goes to show what can happen when you take your source from a US site :) :oops: Of course! That was following the Admiralty's explicit orders to keep the casualties reasonably reduced(33%??-reflective of QM's share of blame assessment!) for morale purposes. They certainly need to adjust their thinking in light of the recent US Navy incompetence in collision avoidance... ie: "learning fom the mistakes of others preferably to one's own; is less painful...and I also tend to avoid icebergs in the Carquinez Strait as well!":hmmm::doh::oops::salute:

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

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.

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.

1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament.

1962 "Dr. No", 1st James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming and starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, premieres in London.

1993 Last honour guard at Lenin's mausoleum.

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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 and Ireland, 425 die.

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

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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1915 English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers.

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

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

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

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

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.

1959 Far side of Moon seen for the first time, courtesy of USSR's Luna 3 space probe.

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

ie: Travelin' P.O.S.H. to see the Pasha??!!:Dhttps://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=11535

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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.

1962 Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", uncovering sorry state of West German army. Magazine soon accused of treason.

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1781 Americans under George Washington and the French under comte de Rochambeau begin bombardment of Yorktown, the last battle of American Revolutionary War.

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

1958 Israeli navy inaugurate its first submarine.

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

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1843: The US Naval Academy is established at Annapolis.:Kaleun_Salute: Considering that Britannia no longer rules the waves-sending forth new carriers (2)a little short on F-35 B (STOL) Lightnings, at least The US has two carrier groups( out of 10) flaunting it in the South China Sea while China trys to gear up its own carrier fleet(3)....and suffers fom under-engined carrier aircraft...that Academy might be keepin' the 'new normal' in strategic check. Now if only we could revamp the museum'd BB Iowa's(cruise missile equipped of course) ; paint 'em white as Teddy Rooseveldt advocated, and send them back out too... Von C's "whenever possible increase firepower" maxim will be well met. :hmmm:

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1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage.

1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed)

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.

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1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum.

1984 First space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)

1992 First three-way US presidential debate (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot)

2018 World's new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins.

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1910 :President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis, MO. The flight, in a Wright built plane, lasted four minutes....

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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

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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.

1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.

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

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1917: Mata Hari refuses a blindfold and blows a kiss to her firing squad executioners as she is executed by the French military for espionage...that's serious panachè BBY!:Kaleun_Salute:

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

1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Abraham Lincoln telling him to grow a beard.

1880 Cologne Cathedral, Germany completed, 633 years after it was begun.

1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6

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

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

1941 Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow.

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.

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1946: 10 Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg war trials, including Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Alfred Jodl.
Considering their Super-stud status in the Third Reich's heyday....they weren't well hung in the end!:03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Woods
Woods also participated in the execution of about 45 war criminals at various locations which included Rheinbach, Bruchsal, Landsberg, and Nuremberg. Donald E. Wilkes Jr., a professor of law at the University of Georgia Law School, noted that many of the executed Nazis fell from the gallows with a drop insufficient to snap their necks, resulting in their death by strangulation that in some cases lasted several minutes. Woods stated:
I hanged those ten Nazis ... and I am proud of it ... I wasn't nervous. ... A fellow can't afford to have nerves in this business. ... I want to put in a good word for those G.I.s who helped me ... they all did swell. ... I am trying to get [them] a promotion. ... The way I look at this hanging job, somebody has to do it. I got into it kind of by accident, years ago in the States ... The 'standard drop' vs the British 'long drop...https://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=11580:hmmm:

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

1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631

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

1960 US & Britain sign accord for nuclear submarine bases.

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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1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631
Damn those American sources!:O: U-631: type VIIC Sunk on 17 October 1943 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 58.13N, 32.29W, by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Sunflower. 54 dead (all hands lost).https://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5555.html U-540 was sunk very nearby by 2 Liberators...A slower-diving XIC type:hmmm:Sunk on 17 October 1943 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 58.38N, 31.56W, by depth charges from two British Liberator aircraft (59 Sqn RAF/D & 120 Sqn RAF/H). 55 dead (all hands lost). Whether by sea or by air, they didn't call it Cape Farewell fer nuthin':doh: No doubt, a "fog of war" claim subject to postwar verification correction issue.

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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.

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1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million.A bargain...formerly referred to as Seward's Folly; but in today's global situation, giving a good Bering chokepoint on the the "yellow peril"; not content with their aggravating claim on the apparently Sino-exclusive South China Sea, exploring new Arctic commercial routes to the West thru the Arctic ocean...incl. profitable oceanic mineral surveys! I see an upcomining Canadian-Russia-US detente to stop the current aggressive global Sino-expansion in the heretofore Russo-N. American backyard.

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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, ending the US Revolutionary War.

1812 Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow.

1950 UN forces enter Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.

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

1977 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found.

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

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

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

1944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen.

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

1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House.

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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 World War II: US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall.

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.

1960 First British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched.

1966 116 children and 28 adults died as a coal waste heap slid and engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales.

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

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1948 Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel.

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.

1964 EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers"; they go on to become The Who.

1969 Paul McCartney denies rumours of his death.

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

1917 1st Infantry division "Big Red One" shoots first US shot in WW I

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.

1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion.

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

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1881 Levi P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty.

1940 Adolf Hitler meets the Head of the French State Marshal Philippe Pétain.

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.

1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.

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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1415 Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight. Presumably, The french learned the arrow of their ways!
and started wearing pauldrons instead of spauldrons!:hmmm:

1854 The infamous "Charge of the Light Brigade" during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War results in over 100 killed. Not to mention over 300 horses killed or destroyed!:wah:

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" Maybe the Russkies will open an Embassy in Napa....no chance of freezing over!:yep::O:

1971 United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People's Republic of China. We'll pay for that one and the nonreponse to Tibet in '59 shortly when the Chinese force their way into Taiwan.:yep:

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. Pretty much why they always pick an old pope...he won't last too long; and the College of Cardinals has no lack of old candidates.

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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 defence 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.

2019 Raid by US Special Forces kills ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.

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1914 British battleship HMS Audacious sunk by mine.

942 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.

1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people.

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1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City.

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.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leader Khrushchev suggesting agreement.

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

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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.

1929 "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression"

1940 Secretary of War Henry L Stimson draws the 1st number - #158 - in the 1st peacetime military draft in US history.

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.

1998 Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

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.

1944 Sweden announces intention to stay neutral & refuse sanctuary in WW II

1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.