This date in history

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1568: Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by her half-brother, the Earl of Moray, in the battle of Langside thwarting Mary's attempt to regain power after having abdicated her throne the year before. Considering what her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, will eventually do:/\\chop:dead: ...at least she kept it in the family!!:03:

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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 excited 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.

1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England.

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

1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its 1st test flight.

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1940 British Local Defence Volunteers forms, an armed citizen militia designed to support the British Army during the Second World War. It is later renamed the Home Guard.

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

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.

1948 Israel declares independence from British administration.

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1536 Anne Boleyn and her brother George, Lord Rochford, accused of adultery and incest.

1800 King George III survives a second assassination attempt.

1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

1911 The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.

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

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

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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1954: the Fender Stratocaster guitar, created by Leo Fender, was officially released!:Kaleun_Salute: Having plucked a few myself, I'd imagine, as with most official releases, there were some strings attached...:o:doh::shucks:

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

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

1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.

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1536 Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed shortly before her own beheading.

1871 Native American fighter General William T. Sherman escapes from the Comanches in an ambulance.

1876 7th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Fort Lincoln.

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

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

1949 British government recognises Republic of Ireland (previously Irish Free State)

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)

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

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

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

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1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason.

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

1941 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis.

1941 New battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.

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

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

1981 5 British Army soldiers are killed when their armoured vehicle is ripped apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh.

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1876 7th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Fort Lincoln. "Go West young man" would prove to be a bad idea! :arrgh!: Ol George & his mankinfolk really had more fun 'holdin' the
the fort' :oops::nope::dead:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Hunting_and_camping_party_of_Custer_%28standing_in _center%29_and_invited_guests._Fort_A._Lincoln_on_ the_Little_Heart_River%2C_-_NARA_-_530885.tif/lossy-page1-1024px-Hunting_and_camping_party_of_Custer_%28standing_in _center%29_and_invited_guests._Fort_A._Lincoln_on_ the_Little_Heart_River%2C_-_NARA_-_530885.tif.jpg

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1310 Shoes were made for both right & left feet.

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.

1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship.

1964 Buster Mathis beats future world heavyweight champion Joe Frazer on points at trials in Flushing, NY to qualify for US Olympic boxing team; Mathis injures thumb, replaced by Frazier who wins gold medal.

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

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

1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman.

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

1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.

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

1966 A "loyalist" group calling itself the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands.

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1849 Abraham Lincoln receives a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions.

1947 1st US ballistic missile fired.

2014 Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha stage a coup in Thailand, suspending the kingdom's constitution and taking control of the government, the 12th since the country's first coup in 1932

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

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

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

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

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

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1916 US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker.

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

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

1982 Liberation of Khorramshahr; Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War.

1989 Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages after winning a libel action against satirical magazine Private Eye (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal).

2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

2004 North Korea bans mobile phones.

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

1961 JFK announces US goal of putting a man on the Moon before the end of decade.

2020 Video of African American George Floyd's arrest and murder while restrained in Minneapolis police custody shows he was pinned to the ground by police officer Derek Chauvin's knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, ignites widespread condemnation and nationwide protests.

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1954: explosions rock aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. The initial blast is blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by jet engine flames. 1981: 14 sailors are killed when a Marine jet crashed into the USS Midway's flight deck off Florida.

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

1941 Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sights German battleship Bismarck.

1970 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2

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

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1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England.

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

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

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

1941 FDR declares state of emergency after a German U-boat sinks the American flagged SS Robin Moor.

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval forces.

1942 Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is mortally wounded by a grenade thrown by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid; he would die a week later.

1966 55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes.

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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.

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

1940 British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway.

1946 US Patent filed for a hydrogen bomb.

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

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

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1937: On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while seated in the Oval Office, pressed a golden telegraph button to ceremonially open the Golden Gate Bridge to vehicular traffic. The president did so at 3 p.m. EST so that the flow of cars and tracks over the 4,200-foot suspension bridge could begin precisely at noon in San Francisco.
On the previous day, the bridge was opened to the public on Pedestrian Day. More than 200,000 people paid 25 cents(ie: $4.65 at todays inflation rates!!) each to walk a mile across the span. https://youtu.be/30ihKbigYhE Good thing it was a day early too: 'cause when Ol' FDR pressed the button, there was a small electrical problem:https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=11948:k_confused: Still my favorite shot of a bridge I cross (in the free direction avoiding the ever-outrageous toll fee$) every other day: taken from the top parapet at Fort Point https://www.for-site.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/international-orange.jpg under the bridge of USS Iowa enroute to it's permanent museum berthing port> https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=10272 :Kaleun_Salute:

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1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

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

1972 The Official IRA announce a ceasefire.

1989 Student pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it the Goddess of Democracy.

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1868 "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states.

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

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor.

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

1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO

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1878 German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed.

1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.

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

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

1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.

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

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

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

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

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1968 Movie star James Stewart retires from the US Air Force after 27 years of service. That's Brigadier General James Stewart!!:Kaleun_Salute: https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Jimmy-Stewart-and-Tenovus-Crew.jpg?resize=1024,634 Seen here as a WWII major at East Anglia Station 124> https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Jimmy-Stewart-at-Control-Tower-1.jpg?resize=1024,672 https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jimmy-stewart-ww2-mission-air-force/ The sound of the impact is deafening. More than 18,000 feet above the German city of Fürth, the World War II B-24 bomber they call Dixie Flyer has just delivered its full payload onto a German manufacturer, devastating its ability to build military aircraft and turning the airfield into a scrap heap. But even before making the full turn out of Bavaria, Dixie Flyer’s copilot and the leader of this bombing group, Maj. James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart to his fans), is nearly lifted out of his chair.

That’s because a German shell (or flak) has pierced directly through the center of his B-24 Liberator. The whiplash is so intense that only harnesses keep him in his seat. Still, Stewart rises in the air; pilot Capt. Neil Johnson’s hands are briefly shaken from the controls; and for a moment, the entire plane is consumed with smoke as it violently ascends. When Stewart finally gets his bearings, he’s able to look down and see the hole in the aircraft—the edge of it is inches from his boot. Almost two feet in width, the gap offers a clear view through the plane’s fuselage and straight on to the German landscape below. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/31/44/4c/31444c3095c642a7372cf1adc655df54.jpg

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1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from USA

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

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

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

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

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

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1896 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom.

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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"

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

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

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

1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day. and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”
More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe.
The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler’s crack troops.

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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.

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

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

1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.

1972 David Bowie releases his breakthrough album "The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"

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1906 Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches.

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.

1937 Time magazine publishes the second of the only two known photos taken of the United States Supreme Court in session.

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.

1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for the assassination of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

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

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann.

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

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

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

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

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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.

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends 2nd Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) 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”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under.

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.

1944 World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.

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

1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip.

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1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip.

Purchased my first Apple computer in January 1998 :up:

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

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

1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas.

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 First V-1 rocket assault on London.

1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands.

2018 singapore summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump - first time a North Korean leader and an incumbent US President have ever met.

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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.

1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering.

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

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

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

1956 The last British troops leave the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt.

1981 Teenager fires 6 blank rounds at Queen Elizabeth II

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

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

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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1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy....One of history's more useless and futile investments of national treasury assets; as will be definitively proven in 16 years...by Jellico at Jutland...:hmmm:

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1917 In order to calm troubled relations with Ireland, the British grant amnesty to the Prisoners taken during the Easter Rising of 1916

1940 France surrenders to the Germans after German troops occupy Paris.

1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.

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.

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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1944 King George VI visits General Montgomery's HQ in Normandy. https://www.nam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/slice_sm/public/2018-12/95436_slice_v2.jpg?itok=rSrpuSMV "I say Monty ol' Chap, could U kindly get yer arse in gear and break out of the Caen salient. We've simply got to give the bloody Damn-Yanks a good show!":ping::ping::ping: http://www.baldwinbattlefieldtours.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/German-situation-7-JUne-300x194.pngThe Germans did a good job of defending Caen.
This situation map drawn by German senior Prisoners for US Army historians shows the German reinforcements heading for Caen 7-9 June 1944
War is a kind of democracy: The enemy gets a say. The biggest single reason why the British and Canadians advance was so slow was because the Germans committed the necessary resources to stop them. German doctrine required the commander to determine a point of main effort. In summer 1944 in Normandy the Germans decided that they would put their main effort against Caen. On D Day itself the German local Commander General Marcks organised the armoured counter attack from Caen. In the following days two more Panzer Divisions were brought up between Caen and Bayeux. The Germans would continue to reinforce the Caen sector through out June, bringing a whole SS Panzer Corps and about 100 heavy Tiger tanks to face the British and Canadians.
Montgomery Vindicated? This German situation map 23 July 1944 :shows that 48 hours before the successful US breakthrough at St Lo the German effort and attention is focused on the Anglo Canadian force at Caen
To be fair to the Allied commanders and their staff, they had studied German doctrine and predicted that the Germans would strike at the British and Canadian forces. This knowledge drove the allied strategy for the British and Canadians to act as a shield was the basis for the role outlines as the British and the Germans who needed to throw the allies into the sea. http://www.baldwinbattlefieldtours.com/2019/01/27/was-montgomery-to-blame-for-the-failure-to-take-caen/ All factors thrown In: Poor allied intelligence; political infighting amongst Allied commanders; and the German 21 SS Panzer fanatics: Monty gets a solid 'B' for his arduous performance imho.

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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'

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster, charged with treason in England.

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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.

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police.

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

1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria.

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

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

1967 Mohammed Ali [Cassius Clay] sentenced to 5 years by jury after 21 minutes of deliberation for refusing to be inducted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War.

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

2019 Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, the first Chinese president to visit North Korea in 14 years.

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

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

1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)

1978 The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack.

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

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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!)

1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II

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

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.

1975 Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely)

1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.

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

1942 Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-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.

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1497 John Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he has found Asia in Nova Scotia)

1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River.

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

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

1942 Village of Ležáky, Czechoslovakia destroyed by Nazis after Gestapo finds a radio transmitter believed to have been involved coordinating the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, 33 adults were executed by firing squad on site, and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under.

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

1982 US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace.

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

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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.Well my German translator says it means: "I am a Berliner!":hmmm::yeah::shucks:

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

1746 Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye.

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

1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane.

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

1942 FBI captures 8 German saboteurs from a submarine off NY's Long Island.
1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk

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

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1958. privateer is born.
:D

and???

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1776 Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress.

1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London.

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.

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

1922 The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin.

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

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

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

1970 Around 500 Catholic workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard are forced to leave their work by Protestant employees as serious rioting continues in Belfast.

2020 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, doubling in less than two months (Johns Hopkins)

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thanks Jim

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1863 George Armstrong Custer, aged 23, appointed Union Brigadier General.

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

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

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

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

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

1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.

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1613 the Globe Theatre in London burns down; the fire started from a cannon shot during the play Henry VIII...since was no TV, going to executions was entertainment and going to the theater was considered...a real blast !?? :o:oops::shucks:

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

Unsure of origins but not true. The U boats were withdrawing because Hunter Killer Group (2nd Support Group -6 x Black Swan class sloops) under Captain Johnnie Walker were sinking them. Every U boat he found, he sank. Usually in the Bay of Biscay as they were coming out of port. The other reason was the introduction of long rang aircraft that filled the black spot centre of the Atlantic and forced the U boats to stay underwater longer than they had been used to. Better escorts and sonar gave the convoys a better chance. Several got through without even being spotted by the Germans. Another interesting stat is that Walker never lost a man in combat.

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

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

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

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

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

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong, established by the Second Convention of Peking, expires.

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1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons)
The Kreigsmarine's tonnage targeting for the Battle of the Atlantic was 300,000 GRT until the entrance of American forces; at which time the level to win the British Blockade war was upped to 700,000 GRT tons monthly. Given Uboat Aces over-assessment of tonnage misinformation, Nazi homefront propaganda et al, this neccesary tonnage goal was only achieved 2 times during the war: June & Nov of '42 ....:hmmm: thus, the expensive Dönitz-conceived U-boat campaign was a strategic failure and a dismal waste of German war assets.

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

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)

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

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1901 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana.

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

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

1976 Ramble Inn attack: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 6 civilians (5 Protestants, 1 Catholic) in a gun attack at a pub near Antrim; the pub was targeted because it was owned by Catholics.

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

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

1943 British Liberator bomber sinks German U-628 in Bay of Biscay.

1996 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and British monarchs), will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey.

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

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.

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

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

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

1944 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.

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

[Red Devil]

2021. The beginning of the end for humanity, look around

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1937 Spam, the luncheon meat is first introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

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.

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

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1917: T.E. Lawrence(Lawrence of Arabia) and Auda Abu Tayi capture the port of Aquaba from the Ottomon Turks.

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1785 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage.

1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

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.

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18 August 1949. Super submariner Red Devil was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England.

sorry jimbuna. if you disagree, you can delete ;)


1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam. 1942 All she wanted was to live.

Desperately sad news considering a neighbour gave her away. I hope the local got his. or her, just desserts.

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

1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk.

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

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.

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

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1835 Liberty Bell cracks (again)

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

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

1947 Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC

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

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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

1934 SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps.

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

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

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

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

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

1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish women in Ravensbrück concentration camp, in northern Germany.

1944 German submarine U-821 sunk by the RAF

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

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

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

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

1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor.

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

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1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent.

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

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

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1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design.

1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949

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.

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1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris (now celebrated as France's national day)

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

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

2002 French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.

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

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

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

1941 Britain's MAUDE Report edited by James Chadwick approved, concludes an atomic bomb is feasible.

1973 Ray Davies announces his retirement from The Kinks, then attempts suicide.

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1924 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London.

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

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

1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb.

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

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

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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 first post-World War II meeting.

1948 US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen encounters children in at Templehof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, giving him the idea to drop candy in 'Operation Little Vittles'

1975 Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce.

1998 Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died.

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

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64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero.

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

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

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

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1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.No wonder they made it a trike! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmFoBGT-nAE and seen here defending the Ludendorf Bridge as painted by :subsim:'s own 'desirable artist' :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up: https://subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=815&pictureid=9429

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

1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.

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.

1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.

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

1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster.

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.

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

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

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

1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp.

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)

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

1975 US House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee

2003 Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.

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

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

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

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

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

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1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the French Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II goes on trial.1951 Marshal Pètain dies in prison...

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1951 Marshal Pètain dies in prison...

Pétain died in a private home in Port-Joinville on the Île d'Yeu on 23 July 1951, at the age of 95

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When the Angel of Death approached, I have it on good authority he said "Sacrè! not a Pètit mort this time!:o :|\\

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1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots.

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.

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

1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek.

1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam.

1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth.

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

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

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

1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1

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

1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III

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 an underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (5th atomic explosion)

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

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

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

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

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

Kursk came about because the British, at Bletchley Park intercepted and decoded the orders for the germans to attack, and when. We told Stalin who was able to rush many hundreds of tanks into the area under cover of night and when the germans began their mass attack, they met a hefty shock.

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

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

1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the 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.

1953 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba.

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1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia.

1866 transatlantic telegraph cable successfully in second attempt comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland laid out by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship (1,686 miles long)

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

1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt.

1949 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

depends on who is writing it; the rest of us call it kids with guns terrorism. They were not interested in a united ireland it was a good excuse to play soldiers.

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1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines.

1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover.

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

1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin.

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1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot.

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

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

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

1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow.

1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

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

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

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

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

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

1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon.

1972 Operation Motorman: the British Army use 12,000 soldiers supported by tanks and bulldozers to re-take the "no-go areas" controlled by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

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

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

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

1941 The first Jeep is produced.

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 first transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine"

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1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt. It took the French awhile to 're-Orient' their naval strategy after this debacle:|\\ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Luny_Thomas_Battle_Of_The_Nile_August_1st_1798_At_ 10pm.jpg < the explosion of French flagship Orient; Momentarily stopping the battle: everyone at the battle who saw it remembered this moment for the rest of their lives! Shortly after the battle, Nelson was presented with a coffin carved from a piece of the main mast of Orient, which had been taken back to England for this purpose, he was put inside this coffin after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar.

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

AHEM! That is a damn lie:O: https://i2.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Familyrelationships.png?w=768&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px&ssl=1 One aspect of the war is the close connection among the three principal monarchs of the age, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; King George V of England; and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. In fact, they were all cousins with each other: Wilhelm and George were first cousins, George and Nicholas were also first cousins, and Wilhelm and Nicholas were third cousins. All three men were also fifth cousins, being equal descendants of King George II of England.* https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2013/12/20/the-family-relationships-that-couldnt-stop-world-war-i/ They should perhaps rename WWI "Cousin Cousin"!!:D

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1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson further decimates the French fleet.

1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers.

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 Armed revolt by 800 prisoners at Treblinka Extermination Camp: crematorium destroyed; 200 escape the compound, but only 100 survive.

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.

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

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

1914 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

1914 British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time."

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.

1958 USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole.

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

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

1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US

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

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

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

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

1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown, the 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 David 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.

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

1992 4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, acquitted on charges of beating Rodney King, are indicted on civil rights charges.

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1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.

1914 French cavalry enters Belgium.

1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege, 9 killed.

1914 Serbia declares war against Germany.

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

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210

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

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of 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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1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle's French government in exile.

1954 Englishman Roger Bannister beats Australia’s John Landy in the mile at the Empire Games in Vancouver; first time 2 men run sub-4 minute mile in the same race.

1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt.

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

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

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.

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

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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.

2020 Disputed Belarusian presidential election sees long time dictator Alexander Lukashenko officially win 80% of the votes but unofficially lose 60-70% of the votes to main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Sparks widespread protests in Belarus and international condemnation.

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1628 Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm, killing 30

1776 American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

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

1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali.

1943 US General George S. 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.

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

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383


French have never won a battle v the English, probably explains why they hate us so much.


Sunderland RAAF
Sunderland RAF

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1942 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle hit by 4 German torpedoed and sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, 81 miles south of Mallorca.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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


it reappeared in 2055 in the middle of the Woke Navy. :haha:

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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.

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

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

1947 Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain.

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

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

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

1936 Carla de Vries, an American tourist at the swimming event of the Berlin Olympics finds Adolf Hitler “so friendly and gracious” she shakes his hand and gives him a kiss.

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

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

1945 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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1943 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)

1943 Bulgarian Tsar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler.

1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287

1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer, first official concert two days later.

1971 Over 8,000 workers go on strike in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest at the introduction of Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)

1984 Sunken liner Andrea Doria's safe opened.

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

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1940 Adolf Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain.

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.

1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.

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

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.

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 army executes 150 Belgians by firing squad.

1914 German fleet bombs the English coast.

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

1919 After nearly 100 years of British control, Afghanistan declares itself independent.

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 American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident); sentence to 3 years in prison plus 7 in a labor camp, he served 17 months before being exchanged for a captured Soviet KGB spy.

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

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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.

1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along allies in the Battle of Britain.

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

1944 French General Charles de Gaulle returns to France.

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

1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US

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1831 Nat Turner launches a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in thr deaths of at least 55 white people; scores of blacks are killed in retribution in the aftermath of the rebellion. Turner is eventually captured and executed...the state license plates read: "Virginia is for lovers"...and his politically correct statue stands in Richmond!:doh:

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1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease programme.

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.

1968 Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols.

1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)

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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.

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.

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle.

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1973: A bank robbery-turned -hostage-taking began in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors...:hmmm: a psychological condition now referred to "Stockholm Syndrome"!:know: I'd imagine the newly empowered Taliban might be hoping for a little more Kabul Syndrome; it would certainly save on ammo!??:doh:

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79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii) [approx date]

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

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

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

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

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

1921 British airship R-38 crashes in River Humber, 44 die.

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.

1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon's murder.

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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.

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

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

1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior.

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

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

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

1942 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the 1st Soviet citizen welcomed at the White House, by Eleanor Roosevelt.

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

1979 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland.

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

1939 Gen Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") becomes commander of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division.

1952 German and Israel reach accord about recovery payments.

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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1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed.With 3 cruisers and three torpedo boats lost...it certainly took a considerable Bight :o out of the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet initiative vventuring out to engage the Grand Fleet!:arrgh!:

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1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion.

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

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

1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan.

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

1953 USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb.

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

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

1914 First German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed.

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

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

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

1945 General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

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1986: 82, incl. 15 0n the ground, people are killed when an Aeromexico jetliner https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Aerom%C3%A9xico498.jpgand a small private plane collided over Cerritos California. The passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea, causing the ex WWII hospitalship! SS Berlin, to sink; 448 (of 1243 aboard)people reportedly died. Both captains were convicted of criminal negligence and imprisioned. http://odessareview.com/30-years-sinking-admiral-nakhimov/

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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.

1929 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years.

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

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

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.

1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal.

1950 Thirteen North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines.

1975 Gunsmoke goes off the air.

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1666: :o The Great Fire of London breaks out in Aktung's favorite year!:arrgh!:

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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)

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

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

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

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.

1945 Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies.

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

1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen, Germany.

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

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

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

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

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands, we stand'

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.

1961 JFK begins underground nuclear testing.

1979 Earl of Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey.

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1776 1st (failed) submarine attack: David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY

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

1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.

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1907 Ocean liner RMS Lusitania begins her maiden voyage sailing from Liverpool to New York City.

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

1940 Beginning of The Blitz as the German Luftwaffe bomb London for the first of 57 consecutive nights losing 41 bombers as the Germans prepare to invade Britain.

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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

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; well over a million lives.

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

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

1974 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.

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

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)

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

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.

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

1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie.

1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes.

1939 Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

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

1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta.

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

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

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

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2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people.

2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people.

2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board.

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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 (Busko)

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

1944 Second Quebec Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet in Quebec City, Canada to discuss Allied occupation zones, the Morgenthau Plan, U.S. Lend-Lease aid to Britain and the role of the Royal Navy.

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

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1994: a stolen-single engine Cessna 172 plane crashed into the south lawn of the White House. The pilot, Frank Corder was killed... a mere 7 years ahead of Egyptian Mr Atta and his Saudi associates et al...:hmmm: https://www.historyonthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Corder-4.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/cEt3hwG4CEsbiT-PcARnuvMLTpGE5tbqQXV20Ue1twVrKj688Yicr5SoOf1LAkxap 8W9Dmb0YEIjcGqGEyf5ZMjiLU_nMjeTEhyKn_9qGCA

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1907 Lusitania arrives in New York City after record 5 day crossing of Atlantic.

1940 Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs.

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

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

1971 Two North Ireland Loyalists are mortally injured when the bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a house in Bann Street, Belfast.

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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 harbor.

1914 Lord Kitchener: "Your country needs you" appears as front cover design for the London Opinion magazine.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

1958 Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.

1971 Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people.

2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

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14 September 1962: At Edwards Air Force Base, in the high desert of southern California, Major Fitzhugh L. Fulton, Jr., United States Air Force, with Captain William R. Payne, USAF, and civilian flight test engineer C.R. Haines, flew a Convair B-58A-10-CF Hustler, serial number 59-2456, to a record 26,017.93 meters (85,360.66 feet) while carrying a 5,000 kilogram payload. This set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Altitude in both the 2,000 kilogram (4,409.25 pounds) and 5,000 kilogram (11,023.11 pounds) classes.

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1812 French army under Napoleon Bonaparte reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.

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

1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

1940 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

1944 British bombers hit German battleship Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched.

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

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.

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Today in Naval History

September 16

1814
A squadron from the schooner USS Carolina attacks and raids the base of the pirate Jean Lafitte, at Barataria, La., capturing six schooners and other small craft while the pirates flee the attack.

1823
Samuel Southard becomes the seventh Secretary of the Navy, serving until March 3, 1829. During his tenure, he enlarges the Navy, improves administration, purchases land for the first Naval Hospitals, begins construction of the first Navy dry docks, undertakes surveying U.S. coastal waters and promotes exploration in the Pacific Ocean.

1854
Mare Island, Calif. becomes the first permanent U.S. naval installation on the west coast, with Cmdr. David G. Farragut as its first base commander.

1922
Cmdr. Halsey Powell in USS Edsall (DD 219 becomes the senior officer directing the evacuation of 250,000 Greek refugees from Turkey after war between Greece and Turkey.

1944
USS Barb (SS 220) sinks the Japanese 11,700-ton tanker, Azusa, and the 20,000-ton escort carrier, Unyo, 200 miles southeast of Hong Kong. Additionally, while off Yokosuka, Japan, USS Sea Devil (SS 400) sinks the Japanese submarine I-364.

1947
The National Security Act becomes effective after the bill signed by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1947. The Act realigns and reorganizes the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. The Act merges the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the National Military Establishment, headed by the Secretary of Defense, Adm. James Forrestal.

1958
USS Grayback (SSG 574) fires the first operational launch of a Regulus II surface-to- surface guided missile, while off the coast of California.

1966
USS Oriskany (CVA 34) helicopters rescue 44 men of British merchant ship, Aug. Moon, as she was breaking up in heavy seas on Pratas Reef 175 miles southeast of Hong Kong.

1994
USS Charlotte (SSN 766) is commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk. The 16th of the Los Angeles-class(improved) attack submarines, the boat is the fourth Navy ship to be named for the North Carolina city.

[Jimbuna]

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

1929 British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany.

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.

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.

[Arlo]

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Today in Naval History
September 17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2S-lput9DY&t=1s

1787
The Continental Convention signs the Constitution of the United States at Philadelphia, Pa., replacing the Articles of the Confederation. Named in honor of the Constitution, USS Constitution is launched in 1797 and to date is the world's oldest commissioned U.S. Navy ship in service.

1852
A party of Marines from USS Jamestown land at Buenos Aires, Argentina, to protect Americans during a revolution. During this time, USS Jamestown serves as part of the Brazil Squadron.

1861
During the Civil War, a landing party from USS Massachusetts takes possession of Ship Island, Miss., forcing the Confederates to evacuate.

1902
Landing parties of Marines and Sailors from the sternwheel gunboat USS Cincinnati go ashore at Coln, Panama (later Colombia) to protect American property during a period of unrest.

1944
The Naval Task Force under Rear Adm. William H. P. Blandy lands Army troops on Angaur, Palau Islands, supported by Navy carrier aircraft from USS Wasp (CV 7)and shore bombardment from USS Tennessee. Two days later, Marines land. On Sept. 20, the island is declared secure.

2011
USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1) is christened and launched at Mobile, Ala. The joint high-speed vessel provides rapid transport of military equipment and personnel in theater.

[Platapus]

17 September 1947 The National Defense Act of 1947 was signed into law. Among other things, this act created the US Air Force and the CIA


Almost interesting trivia: The position of DCI is older than the CIA.

[Arlo]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rHHli1EhgM&t=1s

1860
The sloop of war, USS Levant, sails from Hawaii for Panama. She is never seen again. In June 1861 a mast and a part of a lower yardarm believed to be from USS Levant are found near Hilo. Spikes had been driven into the mast as if to a form a raft. Some rumors had her running aground on an uncharted reef off California; others had her defecting to the Confederacy.

1906
A Marine battalion from USS Dixie lands at Cienfuegos, Cuba to reinforce a party guarding American owned plantations, where tensions are still high from the stalled revolution attempt from Sept. 13.

1936
Squadron 40-T, based in the Mediterranean, is established to protect U.S. interests and evacuate U.S. citizens around the Iberian Peninsula throughout the Spanish Civil War.

1943
U.S. Navy aircraft perform aerial raids on the Tarawa Makin Islands, where the aerial photography taken proves to be fruitful for the oncoming invasion of the islands.

1947
Pursuant to provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 of the previous July 26, the Department of the Air Force is established.

1993
USS Gladiator (MCM 11) is commissioned at Naval Station Newport, R.I. The 11th Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship is the third U.S. ship named Gladiator.

1993
USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) is commissioned at her homeport of Naval Station Norfolk. The guided-missile cruiser is the 26th in the Ticonderoga-class and the second Navy ship to be named after the famed Battle of Vella Gulf from the Solomons campaign of World War II.

2004
USS Chung Hoon (DDG 93) is commissioned. USS Chung Hoon is named in honor of Rear Adm. Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon, first Asian-American Naval Academy graduate and first Asian-American flag officer. During World War II, he was in command of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) when a kamikaze crashed into her in Apr. 1945.

2008
USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7) is christened and launched at San Diego, Calif. The dry cargo ship provides ammunition, food, repair, parts, stores and small quantities of fuel for the U.S. Marine Corps. The ship is named for Master Chief Carl Brashear, the first African American Master Diver in the U.S. Navy and the first amputee to be recertified as a diver after amputation.

2017
Hurricane Maria makes landfall with the Caribbean island of Dominica. Joint Task Force-Leeward Islands (JTF-LI) was established to support relief efforts in St. Martin and Dominica as requested by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA). JTF-LI with the USS Wasp (LHD 1) assisted with the evacuation of 2,073 American Citizens (AMCITs) from St. Martin and at least 178 AMCITs from Dominica. Additionally, the JTF-LI provided 83,020 gallons of potable water to St. Martin and assisted with distributing relief supplies to Dominica.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1914 General Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on the Eastern Front.

1939 William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.

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

[Jimbuna]

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 sinks U-341

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

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

1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic.

[Arlo]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwSoy6ZOd-g

1777
During the American Revolution, the British cutter HMS Alert captures the brig Lexington.

1862
The side-wheel ram Queen of the West exchanges sharp fire with Confederate infantry and artillery above Bolivar, Miss., while escorting two troop transports.

1864
Confederates seize steamer Philo Parsons, in an attempt to bribe USS Michigan officers and crew for the release of Confederate prisoners. The plot is foiled and the mission aborted.

1942
USS Hughes (DD 410), while serving in Task Force Seventeen (TF 17), rescues the surviving crewmen of a USAAF (B 17) that makes a forced landing in the Coral Sea one week before.

1944
USS Shad (SS 235) torpedoes and sinks Japanese coast defense ship, Ioshima. (ex-Chinese cruiser, Ning Hai) 85 miles off Hachij, Jima.

1952
USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD 752) takes fire from three guns, estimated 105 to 155 mm in the Wonsan area of Korea. Thirteen personnel casualties, none fatal, were suffered. She expended 75 rounds of 5 inch and 84 of 3 inch in return counter battery fire. After emergency repairs, USS Alfred A. Cunningham was able to continue her combat operations.

1957
Bathyscaphe Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches a record depth of two miles. Three years later, Trieste would set a new record of seven miles on Jan. 23, 1960.

1992
USNS Loyal (T-AGOS 22) is christened and launched at McDermott Shipyards, Morgan City, Louisiana. The Military Sealift Command ship conducts surveillance towed array sensory system operations.

[Jimbuna]

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland.

1939 British navy captures German U-27

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338

1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland.

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

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

[Arlo]

https://www.history.navy.mil/etc/clientlibs/history/images/NHHC-newLogo.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NFe2Gf7Sk4&t=1s

1942
During World War II, the U.S. Naval Operating Base at Auckland, New Zealand, is established.

1943
USS S-28 (SS 133) sinks Japanese gunboat No. 2 Katsura Maru, 165 miles southwest of Paramushir, Kuril Islands.

1943
While conducting daylight reconnaissance of the Bay of Naples to investigate German shore battery activity on the Sorrento Peninsula, Motor Torpedo Boats PT 204 and PT 209 are showered with water from near-hits but escape damage. They chart the location of the battery before leaving the area.

1951
During Operation Summit, the first helicopter-borne landing of a combat unit is performed when Marines are landed by Marine helicopter squadron (HMR 161) in dense fog in Korea.

1981
Philippine Navy frigate, Datu Kalantia, previously, USS Booth (DE 170), is forced aground by Typhoon Clara while at anchor near Clayan Island, 340 miles north of Manila. USS Mount Hood (AE 29), with a special medical team embarks and joins in on rescue operations on Sept. 21. Only 18 members of the crew survive.

1986
USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) is commissioned at Charlestown Naval Shipyard in Boston, near the American Revolutionary War battleground for which the ship is named.

1997
USS Bataan (LHD 5) is commissioned at Pascagoula, Miss. It is the second US Navy ship named in remembrance of the valiant resistance of American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the dawning days of World War II.

2017
Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm with deadly flooding. The Navy responds by sending USS Wasp (LHD 1), USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) and 17 aircraft to provide humanitarian assistance that lasts until Nov. 20.

[mapuc]

Got an idea.

Arlo has posted some interesting stuff in this thread.
What if we made a thread of it own -This date in Naval history- ?
Then we can let Arlo posted his interesting stuff in this thread.

Only an idea.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

We could name it the "Contemplate Yer Naval Thread":O:

[Arlo]

We could name it the "Contemplate Yer Naval Thread":O:

Yar!:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

1913 First aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France.

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

1938 Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia.

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.

1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.

1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean.

1964 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.

1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs at the RAF airfield near Eglinton, County Londonderry; the terminal building, two aircraft hangars and four planes are destroyed.

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.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1943 British midget submarines attack German battleship 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 the Pole (record)

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

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

1995 E-3B AWACS crash outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed.

[Jimbuna]

1779 John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats the British frigate HMS Serepis and becomes the United States first well-known naval hero.

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.

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.

1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.

2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches "Modicare", free heathcare for 500 million, world's biggest healthcare programme.

[Jimbuna]

1885 Five German warships depart to Zanzibar.

1929 Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in first all-instrument flight.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.

1960 USS Enterprise, first nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched.

1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact.

[Jimbuna]

1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge: English army under King Harold II defeat invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed.

1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending World War 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.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

1969 The Beatles release "Abbey Road" album, their final recordings as a quartet.

[Jimbuna]

1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy for conquest of England.

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

1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank, Scotland.

1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance.

1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England.

1940 Nazi Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)

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.

[Aktungbby]

1928 Scottish medical researcher, Alexander Fleming, discovers penicillin the first effective antibiotic. Considering my arrival a mere 23 years later, one serious gunshot wound ( incl.1 month in traction with pneumonia!!; a childhood meningitis attack; a wrestling-mat staph infection(entire team!)in high school; a cardiac birth defect requiring antibiotics for all dental work; a recent 8 hr. ER diverticulosis(age 70?!!:wah:) attack requiring IV antibiotics; and a wicked recent boatdock arsenic-wood sliver accident to my ungloved hand...I'm particularly grateful...and still here...having only to contend with Covid, global warming and impending WWIII!!??:doh::roll::shifty::rock:

[Jimbuna]

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

1850 US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment.

1939 German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR

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

[Jimbuna]

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

1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine begins, 33,771 mostly Jews murdered.

1972 Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations.

1984 Elizabeth Taylor undergoes rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic.

[Jimbuna]

1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. Chamberlain infamously declares "Peace for our time" on his return to London.

1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland.

1939 Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.

1946 Twenty-two 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 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy.

1977 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

[Jimbuna]

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 World War I: Combined Arab and British force under the Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence captures Damascus from the Turks.

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, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight.

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

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day)

1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa.

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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

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.

[Aktungbby]

1941: Adolf Hitler declares in a speech that Russia had been "broken" and would "never to rise again!" "Ach du Liebe!":k_confused:...1944: U.S. Army troops crack the Seigfried line north of Aachen, Germany...:hmmm: did the German commander think :Aachen du Leibe! :03::oops::shifty::nope:

[Jimbuna]

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

[Aktungbby]

^ Ach du Liebe!

[Jimbuna]

1914 Dardanelles: French & British fleet bombards Turkish forts.

1940 French Vichy regime proclaims end of "Statute of the Jews"

1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad.

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

[Jimbuna]

2020 US President Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while still infectious with COVID-19 and returns to the White House.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"

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

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

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

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

1944 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.

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

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.

2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

[Jimbuna]

1665 Due to the Great Plague of London, the British Parliament meets at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster.

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

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

[Jimbuna]

1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.

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

1963 France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

1972 3 members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion in a house in Balkan Street, Lower Falls, Belfast.

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

[Jimbuna]

1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m

1976 Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing and the "Gang of Four" are arrested and charged with plotting a coup.

1981 Unknown American rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at Los Angeles Coliseum.

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

[Jimbuna]

1900 The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S. Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland.

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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

1914 Garrett Morgan patents his safety hood device, which would later be refined into the gas mask.

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.

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

2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile comes to a happy end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground.

[Jimbuna]

1066 Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy 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.

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

1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed.

1943 600 Jewish prisoners mount an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland, 300 successfully escape.

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.

[Jimbuna]

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

1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested and accused of espionage in France.

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

1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6

1941 Hideki Tojo appointed Prime Minister of Imperial Japan.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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.

1957 USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space.

1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power.

[Jimbuna]

1941 USS Kearney becomes the 1st 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.

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.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed.

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

[Jimbuna]

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 Bonaparte and his Grande Armée begin their retreat from Moscow numbering just 100,000 (started campaign with 500,000)

1950 UN forces enter Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.

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

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

2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

[Aktungbby]

1976: 78 passengers are killed in America's 3rd worst peacetime maritime disaster when the errantly piloted ferry, George Prince, is collided with by the Norwegian tanker Frosta on the Mississippi River just north of New Orleans. The stricken vessel immediately capsized, killing the entire crew and passengers in their vehicles and the vessel's cabin as the Frosted passed directly over the smaller ferry making keel to keel contact!! The ferry pilot had not yielded proper cutomary right-of-way to the much larger Frosta pilot's 2 warning horns and nor responded to radio messages; and had turned 90 degrees to cross the river too its destination...directly across the tanker's route; which was powerless to slow down or shift course out of the river's shallow bigship channel close to east bank.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1941 Nazi occupiers murder 500 inhabitants of Kragujevac Serbia.

1967 A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern California.

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

2015 US Vice President Joe Biden confirms he will not run for President in 2016

2018 President Trump threatens to pull the US out of an arms control agreement with Russia because Russia has violated its terms.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.

1994 North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects.

[Red Devil]

1066 Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy 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.

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

1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed.

1943 600 Jewish prisoners mount an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland, 300 successfully escape.

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.

Battle of Hastings was actually the Battle of Pevensea, several miles away.

[Jimbuna]

When William the Conqueror launched his invasion of England by landing at Pevensey Bay on 28 September 1066, his army sheltered for the night in a temporary fortification situated within the old Roman fort. The army left for Hastings the following day, en route to the Battle of Hastings.

[Jimbuna]

1942 German units go through Red October factory in Stalingrad.

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

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

1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion.

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

[Red Devil]

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

PIRA terrorists, killed more of their own side than of our soldiers. They were not of 'northern ireland' as they refused to recognise it as a sovereign state of the UK. They thought killing was 'for fun'.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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.

2003 Concorde makes its last commercial flight.

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1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte.
On June 19, 1944, during the "Marianas Turkey Shoot," Commander McCampbell shot down five Japanese Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' dive-bombers, to become an "ace in a day". Later that afternoon, during a second sortie, McCampbell downed two Mitsubishi A6M 'Zekes' over Guam.
On October 24, 1944, in the initial phase of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the Philippines, he became the only American airman to achieve "ace in a day" status twice. McCampbell and his wingman attacked a Japanese force of 60 aircraft. McCampbell shot down nine—seven Zeros and two Oscars—setting a U.S. single-mission aerial combat record. During this same action, his wingman downed another six Japanese warplanes. When he landed his Grumman F6F Hellcat aboard USS Langley (the flight deck of Essex wasn't clear), his six machine guns had just two rounds remaining, and his airplane had to be manually released from the arrestor wire due to complete fuel exhaustion.[3] Commander McCampbell received the Medal of Honor for both actions, becoming the only Fast Carrier Task Force pilot to be so honored. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Captain_David_S._McCampbell_plaque.jpg/1024px-Captain_David_S._McCampbell_plaque.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/McCampbell_Hellcat_Kills.JPEG/220px-McCampbell_Hellcat_Kills.JPEG<Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat displayed at the National Naval Aviation Museum, painted as a replica of McCampbell's Minsi III to include Japanese flags representing aerial victories The President of the United States take pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Commander David McCampbell, United States Navy for service as set forth in the following

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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as commander, Air Group Fifteen, during combat against enemy Japanese aerial forces in the First and Second Battles of the Philippine Sea. An inspiring leader, fighting boldly in the face of terrific odds, Commander McCampbell led his fighter planes against a force of eighty Japanese carrier-based aircraft bearing down on our Fleet on June 19, 1944. Striking fiercely in valiant defense of our surface force, he personally destroyed seven hostile planes during this single engagement in which the outnumbering attack force was utterly routed and virtually annihilated. During a major Fleet engagement with the enemy on October 24, Commander McCampbell, assisted by but one plane, intercepted and daringly attacked a formation of sixty hostile land-based craft approaching our forces. Fighting desperately but with superb skill against such overwhelming airpower, he shot down nine Japanese planes and, completely disorganizing the enemy group, forced the remainder to abandon the attack before a single aircraft could reach the Fleet.(I'd certainly call that 'Nipping it in the bud" !!??:yep::salute:) His great personal valor and indomitable spirit of aggression under extremely perilous combat conditions reflect the highest credit upon Commander McCampbell and the United States Naval Service.

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

1914 British battleship HMS Audacious sunk by mine.

1942 US aircraft carrier USS Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz.

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

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

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

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea.

1916 Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected.

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.

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Sunk 28 Oct 1943 in the North Atlantic, in position 48.53N, 33.30W by depth charges from two Avenger and Wildcat aircraft of the American escort carrier USS Block Island. 56 dead (all hands lost).

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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 U-56 fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard.

1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen.

1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square as part of de-Stalinization efforts.

1972 The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document 'The Future of Northern Ireland'; the paper states Britain's commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom.

1972 Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry, and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns.

1974 "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in the 8th round in Kinshasa, Zaire; regains world heavyweight boxing title with famous "rope-a-dope" tactic.

1990 Britain and France complete the "Chunnel" under the English Channel.

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

1926 Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot.

1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto.

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

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

1943 World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.

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

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1941 Prior to US joining WWII, German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland. https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.572184915.4774/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.u3.jpg actually had bad results for the Kreigsmarine:On 31 October 1941, USS Reuben James was one of five destroyers escorting convoy HX-156, close to the coast of Iceland, about 600 nmi (1,100 km; 690 mi) west of the island. Reuben James had just begun turning to investigate a strong direction-finder bearing when a torpedo launched from U-552 struck her port side and caused an explosion in her forward magazine.[12] The entire bow section of the destroyer was blown off as far back as the fourth funnel and sank immediately. The stern remained afloat for around five minutes before sinking; unsecured depth charges compounded the damage, exploding as they sank and killing survivors in the water. One hundred and fifteen of her 160-man crew were killed, including all the officers.
The destroyer was the first US Navy warship to be sunk in World War II.
The incident provoked a furious outburst in the United States, especially when Germany refused to apologize, instead countering that the destroyer was operating in what Germany considered to be a war zone and had suffered the consequences. The sinking of the Reuben James did not lead the US to declare war on Germany; it did, however, provide a pretext to officially transfer the US Coast Guard from its peacetime role as an arm of the US Treasury Department to a wartime function as part of the US Navy. Congress also amended the Neutrality Act to permit the arming of US-registered merchant ships and authorized them to enter European waters for the first time since 1939.:oops:

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Aktung: thats Erich Topps insignia isnt it?

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1911 The first aerial bomb is dropped by an Italian pilot on Turkish troops in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War.

1914 German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile.

1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians.

1919 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1947 Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose", a huge wooden airplane for the first and last time.

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

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

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

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1862 American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.

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

1922 Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt.

1939 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WWII

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

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1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected US President.

1941 Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine.

1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million.

1942 Nazis kill 12,000 Jews in the Minsk ghetto.

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

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

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

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

2000 Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming first US First Lady to win public office and while still the First Lady.

2020 Former Vice-President Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump.

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1871 Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

1918 German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands.

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

1944 Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands.

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/USS_Mount_Hood_%28AE-11%29_explodes_at_Seeadler_Harbor_on_10_November_1 944.jpg/1280px-USS_Mount_Hood_%28AE-11%29_explodes_at_Seeadler_Harbor_on_10_November_1 944.jpgNo other remains of Mount Hood were found except fragments of metal which had struck other ships in the harbor and a few tattered pages of a signal notebook found floating in the water several hundred yards away. No human remains were recovered of the 350 men aboard Mount Hood or small boats loading alongside at the time of the explosion. Right up there with the infamous Port CHicago two ship obliteration 7/17/1944 20 miles from my home on the Sacramento River. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Portchicago.jpg 320 dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster In both cases, poor leadership and poor ammunition handling were assessed to be the cause of the disasters... 670 dead ammo handlers??!!:hmmm:

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

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

1923 Eternal flame lit for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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

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

2004 Yasser Arafat's death through unidentified causes confirmed by Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas elected PLO chairman minutes later.

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11 Nov 1918 The US started operating its first Transoceanic Radio Intercept Site on Gillin Farm, Houlton Maine.

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

1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal near Gibraltar.

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1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18. Things caught up logicwise in '72 when the voting age was also lowered to 18...ie: if yer old enough to die in 'Nam ya ought be able to cast a ballot along with a grenade!:Kaleun_Salute:

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1910 The US military took its first step toward linking flight and naval operations when Eugene Ely made the first carrier takeoff, guiding a Pusher biplane off the deck of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in the waters of Norfolk, Virginia.

1935 Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship.

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

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

1947 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of Nazis.

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

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1910 The US military took its first step toward linking flight and naval operations when Eugene Ely made the first carrier takeoff, guiding a Pusher biplane off the deck of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in the waters of Norfolk, Virginia.
A mere 31 years and 8 mos. later, the concept would be put to the climatic test as Japan and the United States put 'paid' to traditional battleship warfare at the 4 on 3 carrier encounter at Midway 1942 to decide the fate of empire. Japan never recovered from the clash; spending the next 3 years stubbornly 'bushidoing' their way to the rising sun(s) ....over Hiroshima and Nagasaki...:x:oops::dead: The concept is not lost on China or Iran which have built dummy target carriers to practise missile & hypersonic strikes on American carriers; ie: still the dominant surface force on planet spinning mudball.

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

1873 Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary.

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

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1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded.

1949 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days.

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1919 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary.

1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army.

1950 US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe.

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1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army.
Uranus!!! :o Pure Soviet Propaganda no IMHO 'bout it! Many a kraut Frontkämpfer must have puckered below his gunbelt and known his sorry expendible aß was in a frigid General Winter sling: Leck mich im Arsch meets Hände Hoch!! and taking live prisoners was'nt big on the Russian Army's '42 to-do list!:oops: :dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Winter#:~:text=Russian%20Winter%2C%20somet imes%20personified%20as,of%20several%20invasions%2 0of%20Russia.

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1815 Second Treaty of Paris: France and her allies agree France will pay indemnities after Battle of Waterloo, ending the Napoleonic Wars.

1917 1st successful tank use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines.

1941 German "auxiliary cruiser" (armed merchant raider) Kormoran sinks near Australia.

1944 1st Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)

1945 The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers.

1995 Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview.

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1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with Britain.

1916 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.

1918 The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

2002 NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

2017 Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's parliaments during impeachment proceedings.

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1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.

1942 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man.

1943 British RAF begins air bombing of Berlin, Germany.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

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1869 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving.

1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad.

1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor.

1963 JFK's body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House.

1963 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)

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1936 German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for uncovering German re-armament.

1944 US bombers based on Saipan begin 1st attack on Tokyo.

1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas.

1954 Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened.

1971 American "Dan Cooper" hijacks plane, extorts $200,000 ransom before jumping out of plane over Washington State, never seen again.

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1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States.

1940 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.

1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco.

1957 US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech.

1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1969 John Lennon returns OBE to protest against UK's support for Vietnam War.

1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21

1975 A loyalist gang nicknamed the "Shankill Butchers" undertakes its first "cut-throat killing"; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast.

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1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so the Germans cannot seize them.

1944 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed.

1945 Trial against Dutch Fascist NSB leader Anton Mussert begins (later convicted and executed by firing squad)

1951 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea.

1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany.

1967 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time.