This date in history

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1900 An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops, sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion.
Precipitating "the century of shame" for which we'll pay a hefty price shortly over Speaker Pelosi's trip to Taiwan!!??

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On 5 August 1888, 39-year-old Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzeim with her sons Richard and Eugen, thirteen and fifteen years old respectively, in a Benz Patent-Motorwagen Model III, thus becoming the first person to drive an automobile a significant distance. This pioneering tour covered a one-way distance of about 106 km (66 mi).


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Motorwagen_Serienversion.jpg

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1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.

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

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

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.

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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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 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.

1943 US General George S. Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"

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

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10 August 1792 : end of the French monarchy after the assault on the Tuileries Palace.

This date marks the beginning of the Terror. This event is known in Switzerland as the "Tuileries massacre".

https://i.postimg.cc/xjFc4Cxw/Tuileries-Henri-Motte.jpg (https://postimg.cc/NLmsygwD)


Indeed, King Louis XVI sacrificed his faithful Swiss guards, ordering them to lay down their arms. Of the 950 soldiers engaged, bravely defending the Palace against 20,000 insurgents, 300 will survive. The rest will be mainly massacred by the populace, a bit like a preamble to the next massacres of September 1792. Acts of cannibalism would have been committed against them.

A monument honoring them, as well as their fidelity (FIDEI) and their courage (VIRTUTI) was built in 1821 in Lucerne (Switzerland) : the Lion of Lucerne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Monument).

https://i.postimg.cc/90p3srVv/Lion-Monument.jpg (https://postimg.cc/sGv0hfMc)free image upload (https://postimages.org/fr/)


A date to bring back to May 6, 1527, when the Pontifical Swiss Guards sacrificed themselves (as usual for an elite unit) to protect the escape of Pope Clement VII to his refuge in Castel Sant'Angelo.

RIP

[Aktungbby]

The Lion of Lucerne would be impressive any where; but nowhere so impressive as where he is." -Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad 1880

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

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

1945 Japanese government notifies the Allies that it had accepted the Potsdam Declaration.

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

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

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

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

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

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 Nazi Luftwaffe Stuka dive bombers crash into the ground during a disastrous practice-demonstration at Neuhammer-am-Queis, Silesia, Germany (now Świętoszów, Poland) . 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

2021 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flees the country as Taliban forces enter the capital Kabul and take control.

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1998 Omagh Bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220. I was based there in 73/74. The people of Omagh were nice people. We could visit the town centre from our barracks.

This bomb was strategically placed in a car park at the opposite end of the High Street to The court House. A phone call from the INLA informed the RUC that a bomb had been placed at the Court House, thereby driving all the people towards the real bomb.

A cowardly and deliberate attack to multiple kill many many innocents. They did not discriminate between catholic or protestant, even their own were expendable.

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1896 Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek in the Yukon, Canada by George Carmack.

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

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)

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.

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

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

1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole.

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

[Jimbuna]

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.

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

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.

[Red Devil]

1949 On this day the debonaire, extrovert, Red Devil, was born in Hull

[Dargo]

OTD in 1989 USSR admitted the secret clause of the Ribbentrop/Molotov pact. It remains one of very few treaties Russia have actually honored.

[Eisenwurst]

https://talesfromthequarterdeck.com/2022/08/05/the-dunbar-tragedy-1857/

Church Services are still held on this day after all these years.

The modern equivalent would be 4 jumbo jets crashing at the airport with only a couple of survivors.

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1911 "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia; recovered in 1913

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.

1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days.

2015 First British unmanned drone hit on a UK citizen outside a conflict - ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria.

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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.

1914 First encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)

1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle.

1972 IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post at Newry, County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion.

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

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

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

1943 50th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Largest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, nearly 250,,000 combatants killed.

1990 East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3

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

1892 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to lieutenant.

1940 First British night bombing of Germany (Berlin)

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

1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame.

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

1991 Linux is born when Linus Torvalds sends off an email announcing his project to create a new computer operating system.

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

1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley first observes the comet named after him.

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

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

1985 French government denies knowledge of bombing of the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland New Zealand.

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1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn 'recourse to war for the solution of international controversies'.

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

1942 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the first 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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1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1791 HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her.

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

1932 Hermann Goering elected Chairman of the German Reichstag.

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 US General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

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1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

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

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

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

1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal.

1950 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines.

1951 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad.

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

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

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

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

1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1954 The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

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

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

1939 Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality.

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

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

1970 An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast.

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1666 After St Paul's Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, The Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.

1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop - Adolphe Pégoud in France.

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

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1940: Nazi Germany begins its eight month 'Blitz' of England with a first 300 bomber air-attack on London.

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7th September 1940 1st day of the Blitz of London for 57 conscutive days and nights


The September raid caught the RAF off guard all of eleventh groups fighters were up covering airfields as the German bomber fleets crossed the coast they turned north west to the east end port area London burned Raf Fighter Command regrouped.
This was the turning point in the Battle of Britain German bombers had further to go and come back also they would loose much of their fighter protection german fighters could only stay 10 minuets over London also Liegh Mallorys so called big wing of 12th Groups fighters were now close enough to join the battle.


https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=september+7th+1940&docid=608005286102434933&mid=546DEE47A7E5BD5C26E6546DEE47A7E5BD5C26E6&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

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1812 Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonapartre wins a pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era, 70,000 are killed.

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

1940 Beginning of The Blitz as the German Luftwaffe bomb London for the 1st of 57 consecutive nights losing 41 bombers as the Nazis prepare to invade Britain.

1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

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

1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, two weeks into its service with the Royal Navy, runs aground off, Foula, Shetland, Scotland in good weather and eventually sinks.

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

1941 WWII: 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 are lost.

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

1966 The Severn Bridge between England and Wales is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II

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

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

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

1919 NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing and 25,000 WWI soldiers.

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

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb in London.

1942 British RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf, Germany.

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

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

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1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley.

1940 Nazi Germany begins Operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion of England)

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

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

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

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

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

[Aktungbby]

1814: An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the war of 1812.:arrgh!:

[Red Devil]

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

This is an interesting one because CinC Eastern Seaboard, US Admiral King, would have nothing to do with intercepts passed on by the UK because he was vehemently anti English. He left the seaboard lit up, he refused to organise US shipping into the suggested convoy system and as a result US civilians died in horrific circumstances on 175 ships during what the German U Boats called the 'happy time'. When NO precautions were taken. One U Boat commander logged. Sat on the surface off Coney Island watching the people enjoying themselves on the fun fair. A ship passed, highlighted against the fair lights, we sank it".

Roosevelt called Admiral King's lack of action as criminal. I don't know what was done. Gross dereliction of duty comes to mind. He should have been executed as 'giving succour to the enemy'

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

1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism.

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

1941 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko)

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

1990 US, United Kingdom, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge.

2003 The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

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1812 Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it - fire continues to burn for five days.

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

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

1918 WWI: Austria-Hungary sends a note to the Allies requesting peace discussions, but the Allies reject the offer.

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

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

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

1942 US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz presents the 1st Medal of Honor of WWII, for courage and valor beyond the call of duty during the attack on Pearl Harbor, to sailor John William Finn; ceremony took place in Pearl Harbor aboard USS Enterprise.

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton.

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.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

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

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.

1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal.

1944 British bombers hit German battleship Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph

1970 Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed.

[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.

1934 USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland & Portugal vote no)

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.

[Red Devil]

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

They make a habit of that. Didn't they also invade Finland on the sly, and Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania to mention but a few.

[Aktungbby]

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Manfred_von_Richthofen.jpg/330px-Manfred_von_Richthofen.jpg FE2b No7018; 11 squadron: When patrol flyingI detected shrapnel clouds in the directiion of Cambrai. i hurried forth and met a squad which I attacked shortly after 1100. I singled out the last machine and fired several times at close range(ten metres). Suddenly the the enemy propeller stood stock still. the machine went down gliding and I followed untilI had killed the observer who had not stopped shooting until the last moment. Now my opponent went downwards in sharp curves. At approxinately 1200 metrtes a second german machine came along and attacked my victim right down to the ground and then landed next to the English plane. Weather was bright morning with afternoon clouds Pilot: 2nd Lt> Lional Bertram Morris: https://www.ww1cemeteries.com/uploads/7/4/4/5/74452945/portedp-morris-lionel-bertram_orig.jpg died of wounds; age 19. Observer: Captain Tom Rees KIA...:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Tom_Rees_1915.jpg the day of his promotion to captain; age 21 :Kaleun_Salute: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Royal_Aircraft_Factory_FE2d_gunner.jpg <An F.E.2d observer demonstrating the use of the rear-firing Lewis gun, which required him to stand on the rim of his cockpit. Certainly not how I'd like to be; standing firing at the Red Baron "following" behind??!! Poor Rees "firing till the last moment!" Early in the F.E.2b's career, a second Lewis gun was added in front of the pilot's cockpit, on a high telescopic mounting so that the pilot could fire forward, over his observer's head. In practice, this gun was appropriated by the observers, especially when they discovered that by climbing onto the rim of their cockpits they could fire backwards over the top wing – to some extent overcoming the notorious deficiency of pusher types in rear defence, although even this failed to cover a very large blind spot under the tail. The observer's perch was a precarious one, especially when firing the "rear gun", and he was liable to be thrown out of his cockpit, although his view was excellent in all directions except directly to the rear.
An F.E.2d observer demonstrating the use of the rear-firing Lewis gun, which required him to stand on the rim of his cockpit. Note the camera, and the (non-standard) fixed Lewis gun for the pilot.
The arrangement was described by Frederick Libby, an American ace who served as an F.E.2b observer in 1916:
When you stood up to shoot, all of you from the knees up was exposed to the elements. There was no belt to hold you. Only your grip on the gun and the sides of the nacelle stood between you and eternity. Toward the front of the nacelle was a hollow steel rod with a swivel mount to which the gun was anchored. This gun covered a huge field of fire forward. Between the observer and the pilot a second gun was mounted, for firing over the F.E.2b's upper wing to protect the aircraft from rear attack ... Adjusting and shooting this gun required that you stand right up out of the nacelle with your feet on the nacelle coaming. You had nothing to worry about except being blown out of the aircraft by the blast of air or tossed out bodily if the pilot made a wrong move. There were no parachutes and no belts. No wonder they needed observers.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

1973 German FR & German DR admitted to UN

1976 Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.

[Red Devil]

1976 Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.

When did his name change from Mao Tse Tung?? :doh:

[Aktungbby]

The western Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Chinese: 'Mao Tsê Tung' begun and used even by the PRC Foreign Ministry, began to change with the advent of Mao's The Little Red Book and the adoption and use of Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin Chinese?!! Both are still in use today. :hmmm::oops::x:dead: and we will all be using one form or the other after our inevitable indoctrination.:yep:

[Red Devil]

The western Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Chinese: 'Mao Tsê Tung' begun and used even by the PRC Foreign Ministry, began to change with the advent of Mao's The Little Red Book and the adoption and use of Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin Chinese?!! Both are still in use today. :hmmm::oops::x:dead: and we will all be using one form or the other after our inevitable indoctrination.:yep:


well put, danke

[Jimbuna]

1893 New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote.

1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France.

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

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1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland.

1860 First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII)

1939 British navy captures German U-27 boat.

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"

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

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

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

1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.

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

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.

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

1914 British cruisers, the Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue, were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 9. 1,459 die.

1943 British midget submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz.

1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks next day.

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.”

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1954: the Japanese ferry, ToyaMaru, sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Straight. More than 1150 passengers are lost.On September 26, 1954, an advance party of American soldiers from the 99th Field Artillery Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division Artillery lost their lives in the capsize of this Japanese ferry boat. There were approximately 1,159 aboard and only 150 survived. Only one American soldier survived, Pfc. Francis P. Goedken from Dubuque, Iowa. Due to high winds of approaching Typhoon No. 15 (Marie), the anchor of the ferry did not hold and the Toya Maru was cast adrift. Water entered the engine room, caused the steam engine to stop, and sent the ferry out of control. She overturned in the high waves. 2Lt. George A. Vaillancourt was awarded the Soldiers Medal posthumously.http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/casualties/p_casualties_ss_toya_maru.htmhttps://world.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2012/01/au1069536.jpg?w=360&h=240&crop=1

[Jimbuna]

1580 Francis 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

1934 British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched; "wins" Blue Riband for fastest passenger crossing of Atlantic, 1936 & 1938-52; retired in 1967, permanently moored and converted to a hotel in Long Beach, California.

1938 Adolf Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudetenland.

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

1944 World War II: Battle of Arnhem ends in Allied failure as German forces link up on both sides of the Lower Rhine river and mop up last British resistance.

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

1960 Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations.

1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m).

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

2017 Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving - last country in the world to do so.

[Jimbuna]

1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England.

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

1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launched 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)

1941 US President Roosevelt launches the 1st Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry.

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

1956 Great Britain commences 'Operation Buffalo' testing four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga, South Australia.

1968 France denies UK entry into common market.

1982 Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again" with Sean Connery playing James Bond for the final time.

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

[Jimbuna]

1066 William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1785 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

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.

[Red Devil]

1066 William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

True. it never was the Battle of Hastings. I think maybe the victorians twisted it like they did with most history. It was the Battle of Pevensea, and nearby to here is a place called Battle. Nowadays migrants land here in the search for the land of milk and honey.

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/\ U Anglophile Geordi!::haha: U overlooked the most important event of all! :D 1781: Colonial forces under the command of General George Washington in conjunction with French Admiral DeGrasse and the French fleet, blockading the Cheasepeake Bay, commence the seige of the trapped Lord Cornwallis's British army at Yorktown, Virginia; culminating in the end of the American Revolution.:arrgh!:

[Red Devil]

Bloody French, always hated us Brits. Just as bad now. Agincourt fingers to them.

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1938: British, French German and Italian leaders conclude the Munich Agreement which was aimed at appeasing megalomaniac Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudatenland...:hmmm: Lesson of History learned?: 83 years later it does not pay to appease the current magalomaniac: Vlad the Annexor-who publically thinks he's Peter the Great, nostalgiclly trying to recreate Stalin's Iron Curtain...starting with Ukraine after being unopposed in Crimea. His sham 5-day "elections" at gun-point in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson & -Zaporizhzia reflect 99% acceptance of Don Basin annexations... C'MON! What legit election ever has 99% acceptance of anything??:timeout::nope::hmph: :shifty: :damn:

[Jimbuna]

1901 Holland 1 the first Royal Navy submarine launched at Barrow-in-Furness.

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

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

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

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

[Red Devil]

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

Puzzled: I can find no reference, via google, of this vessel? And no records of u boat attack on u boat site I use. :hmmm:

[mapuc]

Puzzled: I can find no reference, via google, of this vessel? And no records of u boat attack on u boat site I use. :hmmm:

If this wiki page about this Liner is correct then Jim has used the wrong day

At around 9:20 am on 26 October 1940, travelling about 70 miles northwest of Ireland along the west coast, Empress of Britain was spotted by a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C Condor long-range bomber, commanded by Oberleutnant Bernhard Jope. Jope's bomber strafed Empress of Britain three times and struck her twice with 250 kg (550 lb) bombs.

Only after Jope returned to base in northern France was it discovered which ship he had attacked. A telex was sent to German Supreme Headquarters. Realising the significance, a reconnaissance plane went to verify; and the German news agency reported that Empress of Britain had been sunk:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Britain_(1930)#War_service

Markus

[Red Devil]

I found a site which mentions this vessel and its fate on this date. But the ship does not exist???? Its called 'on this day'.

[Jimbuna]

1928 French submarine "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42

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

1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)

1945 Elvis Presley's 1st public performance, at age of 10, singing "Old Shep" in youth talent contest Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, in Tupelo, Mississippi; contest is broadcast over WELO Radio, he wins fifth prize - $5.00 in fair ride tickets.

1952 1st British nuclear test during Operation Hurricane at Monte Bello Island, Australia, UK becomes the world's third nuclear nation.

1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea.

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

[Jimbuna]

1915 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)

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

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

1955 World's most powerful (at the time) aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched.

1981 US President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral.

1998 US House of Representatives votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

[Jimbuna]

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

1958 Israeli navy inaugurates its first submarine.

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

[Jimbuna]

1845 Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis.

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

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

2021 Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen says country won't bow to Chinese pressure in defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to "fulfil reunification"

[Jimbuna]

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

[Jimbuna]

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

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.

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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

1941 Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine; additional murders continue on the 14th

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.

1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during World War II

1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

[Jimbuna]

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

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

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

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

1993 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed.

1998 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a Spanish warrant requesting his extradition on murder charges.

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1967: Puyi, the last Emperor of China died at age 61...and now we have Xi??!...hardly an improvement... :hmmm: 1989: an earthquake measuring 6.9 in magnitude struck northern California killing 63 people and causing $6 billion in damage...I was driving on Saratoga-Sunnyvale road to my appraisal office, watched the streetlights swaying violently; and immediately 180'd; heading back to our apartment where the elderly nanny and my 10 month old baby were. They were ok! The quake, which had epicentered in the Loma Prieta area of the Santa Cruz Mtns south of San José CA, was my principal appraisal territory; and I was practically the only such 'moutain' appraiser. Consequently, FEMA came a-knocken, and commandeered all my files for the mountain homes (and their photos) to assist in rebuilding to utterly destroyed homes in them thar-hills... I retired from appraisal work (14 years) and moved 100 miles north to Napa and so never saw the rebuilt results of my Canon AE-1's photowork. But an unexpected consequence occurred 10 years later in the 2000 Napa quake, which had epicentered 500 yards from my house, and destroyed the chimney and rear stucco in the shockwave. Showing up to get a Federal grant, covered in dust after a day of cleanup, I encountered the very same FEMA team from '89 who recognized me, with the nervous Napa county assessor who had previously told me I was "overqualified to be a Napa County assessor". After a round of 'howdy do' handshakes with the federals, and on my surmise that 'the elderly and non-English-speaking wouldn't know their damages for some time', the head-Fed agreed and stated they would stay in Napa for a year! Some years later, that much relieved same re-elected assessor actually saw me in full gear, by then guarding a Bank of Amerika during the violent "occupy movement"; and asked me to "please apply for the assistant-assessor opening on Craig's List"... but my wise boss-wife said nyet to that...sparing my overqualified ass undoubted corporate misery!:shucks:

[Jimbuna]

1931 Gangster Al Capone is convicted on five of the 23 counts of tax evasion against him, later fined $50,000 and sentenced to 11 years in jail.

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

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

1943 Liberators sink U-540

1960 US & Britain sign an accord granting US access to the British nuclear submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland.

1973 OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, mandating a cut in exports and recommending an embargo against unfriendly states.

[Jimbuna]

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

1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m

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

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed.

1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon.

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1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million. No doubt Putin will want that back as soon as he's done in Ukraine!:D

1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 mI beat that in 1974 in a Cessna 172!

1919 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby....there was "something wrong with his ships" at Jutland; He's entombe right next to arch-rival Adm. Jellico in recently visited Westminster Cathedral! ie: "they are all equal now":dead:

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed. Having grown up on Karl May German-authored tales of: Old Shatterhand and Winitou stories-(the precursor to Lone Ranger &Tonto stories), Ol' Adolf probably figured the "only good commando is a dead commando"!

1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon...."practise makes perfect"; NASA just hit an asteroid deadon as it hurtled thru the solar system...60 years later! All monies utterly wasted on bragging rights over $oviet rivalry might actuall prove useful saving this ever-worsening spinning mudball?!:oops::dead:
1648: Boston shoemakers are authorized to form a guild to protect their interests; it's the first American labor organization on record. :hmmm: Having at various points of my unstellar career stewarded both a Teamster truckdock and a shortlived Federal guard union; it's good to know where my "playing footsie negotiations with the boss" roots came from...and I'm certainly having a better day than Jimmy Hoffa!:O::yep::arrgh!: 1969: the Federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence. it caused cancer in lab rats! As an immediate result my dad quit making instant coffee and ice tea with cyclamate in horribly frigid Minnesota (18 years) and moved us out to warmer California to make dehydrated onion an garlic spice pruducts;:yeah: 'twas my first pretrukking longhaul on-the-job-training; doing most of the driving in the family CountrySquire station wagon and trailer 2000 miles with mom and younger siblings (at age 19)'! 2013: the FDA lifted its ban on cyclamates citing "no evidence of cancer in lab rats";:oops: and it probably was promoted by natural $ugar corporate interest$....but as a happy warm Californiano albeit a Covid/Flu/shingles vaccine labrat in my own right:o:hmmm: , perhaps I should title my autobiography Tropic of Cancer??!:O:

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1805:Horatio "Nelson of the Nile" perishes in his climactic victory over the French fleer at Trafalgar, off Cadiz, aboard his flagship HMS Victory; declaring to the captain: '' 'tis kismet Hardy!'' The name of the doughty French marine sniper who spotted him sporting all his medals on the quarterdeck from the masttops remains unknown. 1797: the Frigate USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides" is christened at Boston Harbor and will go on to victory in 3 naval battles in the War of 1812... each under a different capable commander! Ironically both HMS Victory and Old Ironsides still exist to this day. I've seen them both and built models!:salute: Yesterday 2022: Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after 6 weeks in office...apparently "the lady was for turning?" :o

[Jimbuna]

1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb.

1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian.

1938 President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Beneš goes into exile in London, in the aftermath of the Munich agreement and German annexation of Sudetenland.

1944 Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo.

1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1942 During WWII, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt.

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

1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion.

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

[Red Devil]

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

murderers

[Jimbuna]

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.

1945 Charter of United Nations comes into effect.

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.

1949 Construction begins on the United Nations headquarters in New York.

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

1971 President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O'Brady, addresses a party conference in Dublin and proclaims that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as a first step to achieve a united Ireland.

1972 2 Catholic men are found dead at a farm at Aughinahinch, near Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh - British soldiers carry out the killings.

[Jimbuna]

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 Valerian 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.

[Jimbuna]

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

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

1918 Cecil Chubb gives prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation.

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

1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".

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

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

[Red Devil]

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

lasted a whole 30 seconds :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed and sunk by a spar torpedo mounted on a steam launch.

1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine.

1942 US aircraft carrier 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.

1986 British government deregulates financial markets in a "Big Bang", enhancing London's status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality.

[August]

Say isn't this thread and the 100 years ago today thread kinda redundant? :hmmm:

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kinda sorta!:D but as OP Oberon doesn't participate in the forum or his thread; and my thread commenced the year(1913) before his(1914) ; thus, my award-winning thread (2014)holds 'primacy of redundancy" over Oberon's award-winning thread (2015):O:...my continued participation notwithstanding?! :hmph::shifty::roll::smug::|\\:woot::shucks: Kudos to Jinbuna though for keeping both threads active-particulrly this one on a daily basis!:salute::Kaleun_Goofy:

[Jimbuna]

1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

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

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

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

1971 The British Parliament debates the European Communities principle of membership and votes 356 to 244 in favour of joining, requiring a new law to be drafted and a later final vote on joining.

1971 United Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to have a satellite in orbit with the launch of Prospero.

[Jimbuna]

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

1863 International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)

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

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

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1918 German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution.
Bringing to fruition, two years belatedly, the tactical victory of Jutland by Jellico ordering a well-considered port turn to cross Scheer's fleet's 'T'; compelling it's return to the jade for the war's duration with the strategic political result: U really can't have the Kaiser's "place in the sun" unless you "rule the waves..."

[Jimbuna]

True that.

[Jimbuna]

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

1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

[Jimbuna]

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

1918 Spanish Flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week.

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

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

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

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

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

1956 Britain and France join Israeli forces in Egypt and begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal.

1973 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter.

1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi.

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

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1926 Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot.
Ironic considering El Duce "became linched" in turn; errr 'turning his world upside down" alongside his enamorata...soda speke :03: EDIT: technically, the attack at Beersheba was a 'mounted infantry' attack. The troopers were"talkin Turkey" using their bayonets. To have a cavalry attack requires a saber & gallant "beau sabreurs" on steeds...not nags!:O:

[Catfish]

Bringing to fruition, two years belatedly, the tactical victory of Jutland by Jellico ordering a well-considered port turn to cross Scheer's fleet's 'T'; compelling it's return to the jade for the war's duration with the strategic political result: U really can't have the Kaiser's "place in the sun" unless you "rule the waves..."
True that.
Sorry but no. "Tactical victory [...] by Jellicoe"? England won "strategically" at the end of the war, but the Grand fleet lost "tactically" in Jutland, by sheer numbers.
Germany could never muster the ship numbers England had at the time worldwide of course, so the designation of the german "fleet in being" is correct. William 2nd loved the navy but he was not as crazy as to challenge England's status worldwide. You may also notice it was not Germany that declared war to England. Even so the outcome of the war was anything but clear, until the US entered the war. And the latter alone sure did not "rule the waves" at the time.
There are a lots of discussions and interpretations but wiki is good enough for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland (see strength and casualties).

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I think you're confusing Beaty's tactical defeat at the hands of Hipper's superior ships, gunnery, and better shells wreaking havoc on the Brit Battlecruisers and brittle ineffective shells...such that Beatty was overheard saying "there's something wrong with our ships today." Once out with the main weight of the Jellico portion of the fleet "lighting up his horizon" Scheer opted to leave the scene, remain off the seas rechallenge-wise; and opt for blockade by unlimited submersible warfare...at which the British excelled: lowering Germany's imports necessary to their war effort by over 50%. The greater English casualties in both long tons sunk, amended by later accounting of 3 German scuttled ships withheld to maintain homefront morale; and deaths, notwithstanding, :oops: only registered a sense of defeat primarily in nostalgia for not having replicated 1805's climatic battle of Trafalgar...for which Jellico the Cautious was, imho, unfairly replaced by Beatty! Bottom line: any naval engagement that compels your opponent to moor his High Seas fleet for the 2 years war's duration is a victory. Throwing in the added total defeat of Spee at the Falklands in the Pacific...Britainia ruled the waves.

[Jimbuna]

1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine.

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.

[Jimbuna]

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

1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I

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

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

1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space.

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1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Laika_%28Soviet_dog%29.jpg Alas! a poor Moscow stray, she did not survive but left her 'stamp' on history:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Posta_Romana_-_1959_-_Laika_120_B.jpg The Soviet scientists had planned to euthanise Laika with a poisoned serving of food. For many years, the Soviet Union gave conflicting statements that she had died either from asphyxia,[20] when the batteries failed, or that she had been euthanised. Many rumours circulated about the exact manner of her death. In 1999, several Russian sources reported that Laika had died when the cabin overheated on the fourth orbit.[4] In October 2002, Dimitri Malashenkov, one of the scientists behind the Sputnik 2 mission, revealed that Laika had died by the fourth circuit of flight from overheating. According to a paper he presented to the World Space Congress in Houston, Texas, "It turned out that it was practically impossible to create a reliable temperature control system in such limited time constraints."[5]

Over five months later, after 2,570 orbits, Sputnik 2 (including Laika's remains) disintegrated during re-entry on 14 April 1958. https://guiarus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/El-monumento-a-Laika-en-Mosc%C3%BA.jpg Bottom Line: Poor Laika had one of history's worst 'Dog Day Afternoons'... no imho 'bout it! :oops: :dead:

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Animal cruelty

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

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

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

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1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe, on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.

1917 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution.

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev.

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.

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

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

1918 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed.

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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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.

Cemeteries will be open two weeks before for voting. :arrgh!:

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1900 David Beatty takes part in the successful relief of the naval brigade and is promoted to captain.

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

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

1940 RAF bombs Munich, Adolf Hitler promises "an attack on the capital of the Nazi movement would not go unpunished"

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

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

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

2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences"

2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States of America, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton, with an Electoral College victory of 304- 227; Clinton received just under 2.9 million more popular votes.

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1620 After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)

1914 Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser 'Sydney' sinks German cruiser 'Emden', which has been attacking ships in the Pacific.

1918 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I

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

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

1938 Kristallnacht begins: pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria - first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.

1961 The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein after a lunch time performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.

2020 Drug makers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people.

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

2020 Drug makers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people. Probably why he didn't bother the second time from the Berlin battle-bunker...he wasn't up to penning Mein Tod without his Pervitin-tablet supply et al. :shucks::oops::dead: 2022: AKtungBBY gets his third 'booster Covid Pfizer shot after previous Moderna shots...supposedly mixing brands increases effectiveness...maybe I'm at 91% effectiveness!??:yeah: "What a fascinating moderna age we survive in!"https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.DYB5Hef459xzt4EuOyvFUQDhEs?pid=ImgDet&w=199&h=265&c=7:haha:

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1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English.

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

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

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

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1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English.
De grote Appel becomes: "the big apple"...:03: a mere 277 years later...AktungBBY enters the spinning mudball there!:oops::arrgh!::haha:

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1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, the 1st framework of government in the territory that is now the USA

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"

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

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

1942 WWII: British led Allied forces defeat Erwin Rommel's German and Italian Army Panzers in Second Battle of El-Alamein, North Africa, helping to secure the Suez Canal.

1961 Stalingrad renamed Volgograd.

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

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

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

1926 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers.

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

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

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

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

1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau.

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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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November 13th, 1942: IJN battleship Hiei is scuttled after being crippled in the first naval battle off Guadalcanal (night of 12th/13th) and repeatedly hit by aircraft during the day.


First Japanese battleship lost in the war, followed by sister ship Kirishima two days later (early hours of Nov 15th).

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1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours.

1940 During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England.

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

1965 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.

1983 First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common, England.

1994 1st public trains run through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France under the English Channel.

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1910: Eugene B. Ely becomes the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss pusher rolls off a sloping platform on the scout cruiser, USS Birmingham, off Hampton Roads, Virginia...https://64.media.tumblr.com/971a1950da39b0f26b21eb8c88265e99/dd760615d3fabdbd-37/s1280x1920/0276d5cf330b7252b740dbe4f5536cee1f180195.jpga mere 32 years later, the "Jutland" of carrier warfare: USS Yorktown, USS Hornet, USS Enterprise vs Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga, & Akagi will clash at Midway; ending Japanese imperial aspirations in the Pacific Theater of WWII; and strategically altering the course of the war..

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1898 David Beatty is promoted to commander.

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

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

1919 US Senate 1st invokes the Cloture Rule to end a filibuster, passes Versailles Treaty.

1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

1960 USS G Washington, 1st submarine with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched.

1961 UN bans nuclear arms.

1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft descending from 81km, causing its mid air destruction over the Mojave Desert.

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

1970 South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky defends operations in Cambodia because communist forces could overrun South Vietnam "within 24 hours" if troops operating there were withdrawn.

1970 Two men are shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

1971 The Compton inquiry is published, acknowledging that there was ill-treatment of internees, but rejected claims of systematic brutality or torture (Northern Ireland)

1988 President Reagan and the First Lady participate in the official state arrival ceremony, meetings and a state dinner with Margaret Thatcher.

1998 Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton.

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1558 Elizabeth I aged 25, ascends the English throne upon death of her half sister, Queen "Bloody" Mary.

1800 Congress holds its 1st session in Washington, D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building.

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

1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship.

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

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1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast.

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.

1940 First major German air raid on Birmingham - about 440 bombers kill 450

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

1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

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

1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH

1969 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon.

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1942 Operation Uranus::o Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army. Considering the Soviet predilection for rape and pillage as a weapon of war, even now in Ukraine, not a bad name choice for a military operation!:hmmm: :oops::O:

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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.

1917 Ukrainian Republic declared.

1941 Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note.

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

1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

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 Diana, Princess of Wales, admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview.

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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.

1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged submarine.

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."

1974 Birmingham pub bombings: 21 civilians killed when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England (deadliest attack in England during "the Troubles")

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

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1906: the 'S-O-S' distress signal is adopted at the International Radio Telgraphic Convention in Berlin. 1963: famous philandering womanizer, John F. Kennedy, doesn't "get lucky" in the limo's back seat with long-suffering First Lady, Jackie, alongside him in Dallas...Texas. Native Texan Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as POTUS....the next day?:hmmm: Weirdly it's the only event, like most 'Mericans(besides 9/11) that I "can remember where I was" when I heard the news...in art class water-color painting a U-boat in the moonlight; and concluding America might not be such a great country after all...:nope: Nothing has dissuaded me since...but it's decidedly "the least worse" on this spinning mudball.:O:

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1963: famous philandering womanizer, John F. Kennedy, doesn't "get lucky" in the limo's back seat with long-suffering First Lady, Jackie, alongside him in Dallas...Texas. Native Texan Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as POTUS....the next day?:hmmm:



You forgot to mention that the sun shining brightly on both days. :hmmm: That's even more significant that a sitting VP taking over the presidency the day after his POTUS was assassinated. You think they should have waited a few days to see if JFK came back from the dead or something? :)

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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.

1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles, due to the suggestive lyric “Boy, you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down."

1971 A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh.

1975 Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

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You think they should have waited a few days to see if JFK came back from the dead or something? :)a 'few days'?(3)= messiah complex imho?...alas his POTUS cetainly didn't "rise to the occasion!" They had to swear in Lyndon quickly...aboard the airplane, with co-conspirator Jackie looking on, to avoid renaming it: "Air Force Two"...:shucks::yep:https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lbj-oath-office-jfk.jpg?quality=85&w=2405

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

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

1942 Japanese bombing of Port Darwin, Australia.

1991 Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies.

2019 Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

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

1940 The Blitz: Luftwaffe bombs Bristol city centre, killing 200 people in the first German raid on the city.

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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1778 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)

1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America.

1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die.

1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt.

1941 Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor.

1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria.

1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River.

2003 Supersonic airplane the Concorde makes its last ever flight, returning to Bristol, England.

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1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die.
1943: The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American troops is hit by a Henschell 293 "glide bomb", launched from a Heinkel 177A off Algeria's coast. 1138, mostly American soldiers, are killed.

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1942: during WWII, the Vichy French Navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of German hands. At the onset of the allied invasion of North Africa, Operation Torch, the Nazis launch Operation Anton, essentially removing Vichy as a nominally independent state. French admiral, Gabriel Auphan, correctly surmising the german true intent to commandeer the French fleet, ordered its scuttling. 164 vessels: 3 battleships, 7 cruisers, 18 destroyers, 13 torpedo boats 6 sloops, 9 patrol boats, 18 auxiliary ships, 28 tugs, 39 small ships; all scuttled at a cost of 12 killed and 26 wounded. Considering the effect such a massive material addition to the Kriegsmarine would have made in Nazi domination of the confines of the Mediterranean Sea during the Allied effort against Rommel and resupply/strategic control issues to the AfrikaKorps, this single action ranks as one of the Allies' greatest naval victories of WWII. The key to winning WWII was always keeping Germany a "land animal" unable to "rule the waves".

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1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops.

1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize.

1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & submarines so 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 1st rocket to intercept an airplane at White Sands, New Mexico.

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.

1975 The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.

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1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election.

1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates.

1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons.

1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy.

1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death.

1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

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1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons.I'd imagine she "Yanked" a few Parliamentarian chains during her tenure in office!:haha: Particularly half-American Winston Churchill's: when he wondered what disguise to wear to a masquerade ball, she retorted: "Why don't you just come sober Prime Minister!" :haha:

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1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia.

1917 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims.

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet.

1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched.

1951 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada.

1952 US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war.

1961 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone.

1963 LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK

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OTD in 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Shinano was torpedoed and sunk by USS Archerfish (SS-311) just 10 days after being commissioned. The Shinano was the largest carrier built at that time and remains the largest warship to be sunk by a submarine.

https://i.postimg.cc/2j44xyJr/Fivpk-Gr-WIAMel-ZM.jpg

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^ that put a halt to any Shenanogans the warship could have promulgated!:03:

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1922 Adolf Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich, Germany.

1924 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano.

1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

1944 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched.

1958 1st US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine.

1982 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea.

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1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

NOVEMBER 1942

Atlantic

Allied Convoy Routes - New fast (F) and slow (S) convoys started in October and November between the UK and North African ports - UK out (KMF and KMS) and Home to UK (MKF and MKS). From April 1943 these convoys sailed to and from the Gibraltar area mainly with OS and SL-convoyed ships.

15th - The Germans reacted to the 'Torch' landings on French North Africa by concentrating U-boats off Morocco and to the west of Gibraltar. A number of empty transports were sunk, and on the 15th escort carrier "AVENGER" sailing with return convoy MKF1 was torpedoed by "U-155" and went down off the Strait of Gibraltar. Only 12 men survived. That same day, destroyer "Wrestler" also with MKF1 sank "U-411". Over the next few days US destroyers accounted for "U-173" and the RAF for "U-98".

Attacks on UK/North America Convoy ONS144 - Slow convoy ONS144 was heavily attacked in the mid-Atlantic and lost five ships. Escort was provided by the British B6 group composed largely of Norwegian-manned corvettes. On the 18th the Norwegian "MONTBRETIA" was lost to "U-624" or "U-262", but two days later Norwegian sister-ship "Potentilla sank "U-134".

21st - Aircraft of 817 Squadron from fleet carrier "Victorious" accounted for "U-517" southwest of Ireland.

Arctic Convoys - Archangel to Loch Ewe, Scotland convoy QP15 with 28 ships loses two to U-boat attack.

Battle of the Atlantic - World-wide losses in tonnage due to Axis submarines were the highest of any month of the war - 119 ships of 729,000 tons, mostly in the Atlantic. By year's end, submarines in 1942 accounted for 1,160 ships of 6,266,000 tons or a monthly average of 522,000 tons. Losses in the North and South Atlantic made up most of this total. To deal with this grave threat, a Cabinet Anti-U-boat Warfare Committee (not the 1941 Battle of the Atlantic Committee) was formed under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It saw the first need as closing the mid-Atlantic gap once and for all. Steps were taken to further expand Coastal Command and speed up the introduction of VLR aircraft. Adm Sir Max Horton, commander of home-based submarines since 1940 and a World War 1 submariner himself, succeeded Adm Noble as C-in-C, Western Approaches.

Monthly Loss Summary
- 93 British, Allied and neutral ships of 567,000 tons in the Atlantic from all causes, 1 escort carrier, 1 destroyer and 1 corvette
- 7 U-boats including one by US aircraft off Iceland, and one possibly by the RAF in the North Atlantic https://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsUboats3.htm

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1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington.

1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38

1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war.

1943 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

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1942: an artificially created self sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago. 80 years later: with 'fatboy' in N. Korea, Premier Xi in China building hundreds of missiles in silos, and Vlad the disPutin' mulling over using 'nukes' in Ukraine; the big bang appears ever more imminent...:hmmm:

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1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many The First Thanksgiving in the Americas.

1791 Britain's "The Observer" is first published, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world.

1908 The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband.

1915 Frank Friday Fletcher is first US admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor.

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France.

1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River, China, sinks killing 2,750

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1908 The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband.
...that didn't last much past 1914...(unrestricted submarine warefare:oops:)and now we have:subsim: games!:yeah::arrgh!:

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1952: the Great Smog of London descends on the British capital; the unusually thick fog, which contained toxic pollutants, lasted 5 days and caused thousands of deaths. TODAY'S NEWS: Iran announces the disbanding of its so-called morality police and is considering the altering the requirement that women wear hijab head-coverings in public...

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1933 Prohibition ends in the US when 21st Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, 18th Amendment repealed (5:32 PM EST)

1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor.

1945 Flight 19 the "Lost Squadron" of 5 torpedo bombers and 14 airmen is lost east of Florida in the supposed Bermuda Triangle.

1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl.

1958 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

1974 Final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC TV

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1240 Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an 8 day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive.

1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, Canada killing 1,700

1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.

1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)

1941 Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore.

1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson confers Presidential Medal of Freedom on 31 recipients selected by JFK, including: contralto Marian Anderson; diplomat Ralph Bunche; cellist Pablo Casals; Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter; labor leader George Meaney; architect Mies van der Rohe; pianist Rudolf Serkin; writers E. B. White and Thorton Wilder; and painter Andrew Wyeth; as well as posthumously to JFK himself, and Pope John XXIII

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1917 The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks)

1941 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time.

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1926 2nd part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published.

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1936 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die.

[Jimbuna]

1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.

1917 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot.

1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)

1936 Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson.

1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)

1971 A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded.

[Red Devil]

1620 Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.

Any they did not leave from Plymouth but Dartmouth/Kingswear.

[Jimbuna]

1936 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan.

1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)

1945 Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death.

1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.

1948 Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.

1961 Nazi German army officer Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.

[Jimbuna]

1577 Francis Drake sets sail from England on an epic three year circumnavigation of the world aboard the Golden Hind.

1636 The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. Recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.

1939 Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee.

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138

1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann.

2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit, during Operation Red Dawn by US forces.

[Jimbuna]

1812 The French invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, officially ends with the French having lost as many as 530,000 people.

1918 Sinn Féin candidates win 73 of 105 Irish seats in UK general election, though all will refuse to take seats in Westminster, instead meeting at a Dail Eireann in Dublin.

1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York.

1952 UN Troops kill 82 North Korean POWs during a prison camp riot in Pongam-do, South Korea.

[Jimbuna]

1915 WWI: ANZAC troops complete their withdrawal from Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early, having served only nine months of five-year sentence for "Beer Hall Putsch"

1941 First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.

1944 Battle of Bastogne: Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)

1951 Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA

1957 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for national service.

1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR

1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners.

2007 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.

[Aktungbby]

1987: more than 4300 people are killed when Dona Paz, a Phillipine passenger ship, collided with the tanker Vector off Mindoro Island.

[Jimbuna]

1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium.

1925 "Battleship Potemkin", Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barksy and Grigori Aleksandrov, premieres in Moscow.

1939 Adolf Hitler names Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B", responsible for evictions and Jewish immigration.

1941 German submarine U-567 sinks.

1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence.

1962 US & Cuba negotiate accord for Cuba to release "Bay of Pigs" captives in exchange for $23M worth of medicine and baby food.

1988 Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air, over Scotland; kills all 259 passengers and crew on board, and 11 people on the ground.

1989 VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon.

1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States.

[Ostfriese]

December 21st, 2012, the day we all thought the world would end (or not), as it was the last year in the mayan calendar (or not).
What a hype was made around this ten years ago, and literally nothing happened.

[Jimbuna]

1942 Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

1963 Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.

1965 Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour.

1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment.

1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975

2010 Repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell policy", a 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the US military, signed into law by President Barack Obama.

[Aktungbby]

1944: during the WW II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe, encircled by the Nazi onslaught in Bastogne, rejects a German surrender demand and achieves immortality with his one word official reply: "Nuts!" :Kaleun_Salute:

[Jimbuna]

1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping.

1920 Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland.

1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese.

1943 General Bernard Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day.

1968 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea.

1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued from Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 after 72 days on the Andean Mountains, after only surviving through cannibalism.

[Jimbuna]

1814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812 between the United States, the United Kingdom and their allies.

1939 World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.

1941 First ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan.

1942 First powered flight of V-1 'buzz bomb', Peenemunde, Germany.

1943 US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces.

[Aktungbby]

1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping. ...and $till making money 134 years later:https://arthistoryproject.com/site/assets/files/17262/vincent-van-gogh-self-portrait-with-bandaged-ear-1889-trivium-art-history.jpgI meant 'Vinny' Van Gogh...not the prostitute!:O::arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

1932 Emperor Hirohito of Japan narrowly evades an assassination attempt by a Korean independence activist, Lee Bong-chang.

1942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use.

1943 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea.


1983 Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)

[Red Devil]

1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence.

Strange that as when I referred to it as Eire when stationed in N Ireland, I was told No, Its Ireland. And that was by an irishman. I've heard it a few times since.

[Jimbuna]

1915 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones.

1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea.

1972 2 people are killed in a Loyalist bomb attack on the village of Belturbet, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland.

1972 Kim Il-song becomes president of North Korea.

1972 Nazi leader Martin Bormann's skeleton and remains are found in Berlin.

2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children.

[Aktungbby]

1915 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones.

2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children. Egad! Nuthing like post-Nativity "cannon fodder" planning to maintain or to re-constitute collapsing/failed empires!:oops::nope::dead:

[Jimbuna]

1170 English Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket assassinated before the high altar of Canterbury Cathedral by four knights.

1860 The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.

1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype.

1940 Worst German air raid on London as over 10,000 bombs including the 1st incendiary bombs are dropped on the city as part of the Blitz.

1944 Belgian Walloon Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle sentenced to death.

1944 General Eisenhower's train returns to Versailles.

[Red Devil]

Egad! Nuthing like post-Nativity "cannon fodder" planning to maintain or to re-constitute collapsing/failed empires!:oops::nope::dead:I resemble that remark. THe empire did not collapse, it 'diversified' :haha:

[Aktungbby]

I resemble that remark. THe empire did not collapse, it 'diversified' :haha:...or got amalgamated, subsumed, or reaffiliated like any ol' grenadier regiment!:arrgh!:

[Red Devil]

Grenadier!!!! No need to be insulting.

I was in the First Royal Tank Regiment

[Jimbuna]

1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR

1941 In an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament Winston Churchill states Britain will never surrender to "Hitler and his Nazi gang" and that "they have asked for total war. Let us make sure they get it".

1972 US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks.

[Aktungbby]

1813: British troops burn Buffalo, New York in the War of 1812...:hmmm: given the current frigid state of affairs in that blizzard-beleaguered city (37 dead in autos & snowdrifts so far:timeout:) this holiday season, 'twould be really nice if the Redcoats could return to light a few major conflagrations right about now!:shucks:

[Jimbuna]

1775 Battle of Quebec: American Continental Army led by Richard Montgomery is defeated trying to take the British stronghold of Quebec City in the American Revolutionary War, General Montgomery is killed and Benedict Arnold is injured.

1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1942 Battle of the Barents Sea between British Navy and German Kriegsmarine off North Cape, Norway.

1945 Ratification of United Nations Charter completed.

1946 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

1958 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista tells his Cabinet he is fleeing the country.

1974 Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac.

1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US

1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President.

[Jimbuna]

1801 The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1852 National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds.

1892 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station - it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people.

1910 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to rear-admiral.

1917 T. E. Lawrence joins the forces of the Arabian sheik Feisal al Husayn, beginning his adventures that will lead him to Damascus by October, 1918

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to full admiral.

1934 Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".

1946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god.

1958 European Economic Community, better known as the European Common Market starts operation.

1962 Beatles' Decca Records audition is unsuccessful - they are told “guitar groups are on the way out..."

[Jimbuna]

1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Florida, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)

1941 The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.

1942 The 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals.

1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

[Jimbuna]

1777 General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.

1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic.

1925 Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title "Il Duce" (the Leader)

1944 Top Ace Major Pappy Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Japanese Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.

1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits France.

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, injuring over 60 people.

1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc

1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.

[Jimbuna]

1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack.

1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

2021 1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed.

[Red Devil]

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

Beginning of the end for america

[Aktungbby]

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

Beginning of the end for americaParticularly for her
poor husband (82)...recently convicted of drunk driving Napa after a collision; and then brutally head-hammered by a burglar/intruder looking for Nancy in his San Francisco home!:o

[Jimbuna]

1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later exonerated.

1919 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)

1919 Left-wing Spartacus organization instigates a revolt in Berlin; terrified by the spread of Bolshevism, German troops brutally suppress the uprising.

1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game winning streak.

1976 In retaliation for the Reavey and O'Dowd killings, the South Armagh Republican Action Force shoot dead 10 Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus in County Armagh.

1981 Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver confesses that he is the "Yorkshire Ripper" and murdered 13 women.

[Jimbuna]

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address.

2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence.

[Jimbuna]

1915 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed.

1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare.

1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes.

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1999 President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

[Jimbuna]

1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1941 6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania.

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane.

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands.

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1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral":Kaleun_Cheers:

[Red Devil]

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral":Kaleun_Cheers:

Indeed Sir, admirably spoken. Kismet is Arabian for FATE!

[Jimbuna]

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral":Kaleun_Cheers:

Here's me thinking for all those years he said "Kiss me Hardy"

:O:

[Red Devil]

Incidentally, a Vet of the Royal Navy from WW2 told me that they were all issued with pussers rum, and gave me a sample. "Warms one cockles" as a brit saying goes (Well, actually "Warms the cockles of your heart")

Pussers is not cheap but well worth it. The last bottle I have was Pussers Gunpowder Rum!

[Red Devil]

9th January 1963 Charlie Watts joined the Rolling Stones.
9th January 1941 Meat ration for a week was 1/2d (One shilling and two pennies) reduced from 1/6d.
9th January 2023 UKs first rocket launch from Cornwall is called Start Me Up, after the song by the Rolling Stones.

[Aktungbby]

'' 'Twas kismet Hardy!"...as I rationalized opening my Pusser's Nelson's Blood to "broach the admiral"https://cdn.caskers.com/catalog/product/cache/ce56bc73870585a38310c58e499d2fd4/p/u/pusser_s-british-navy-rum-15-year-old-nelson-blood_1.jpgIndeed Sir, admirably spoken. Kismet is Arabian for FATE!

Here's me thinking for all those years he said "Kiss me Hardy"

:O: And you'd be correct:
Nelson, England's greatest naval hero, died at the Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805. He was hit by a musket ball, fired from a French ship, at about 1.15pm and died below decks at about 4.30pm. His body was preserved in a barrel of brandy.

The details are relevant in attempting to authenticate whether Nelson ever spoke those words. The best argument in support of it being authentic is the fact that the events surrounding Nelson's death were witnessed by several people at close quarters, all of whom would have had intense interest in it.

There are at least three eye-witness accounts recording that Nelson asked Hardy to kiss him. The precise words said aren't recorded verbatim, but "kiss me Hardy" can't have differed in any material way from reality.

Death of NelsonThe witnesses, William Beatty, Chaplain Alexander Scott and Walter Burke are shown in Arthur Devis's painting Death of Nelson. As a consequence of Nelson's importance as a historical and heroic figure, there are many Death of Nelson paintings. Devis had the advantage over other painters of being present on the Victory for the event though and we can be assured that his painting is an accurate representation of Nelson's death. https://www.phrases.org.uk/images/nelson.jpg?ezimgfmt=ng:webp/ngcb54
According to the contemporary accounts, Nelson last words were:
"Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy, take care of poor Lady Hamilton". He paused then said very faintly, "Kiss me, Hardy". This, Hardy did, on the cheek. Nelson then said, "Now I am satisfied. Thank God I have done my duty". The later story, that Nelson's last words were "Kismet [fate] Hardy", aren't supported by any contemporary evidence. In fact, 'kismet' isn't recorded as being in use in English to mean fate until as late as 1830, a quarter of a century after Nelson died. That euphemistic version of events is thought to be a later invention that attempted to avoid embarrassment by covering up the supposed homo-erotic imagery of men kissing. That was misguided in more ways than one, not least because platonic kisses between men at times of great emotion weren't viewed in the way in 19th century England. AND this settles the argument::arrgh!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9RwIm3WpdQ:Kaleun_Salute: Sometimes Art and life are intertwined: "Dream couple", Olivier and Leigh, were newlyweds for this
flick! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Vivian_Leigh_Laurence_Olivier_That_Hamilton_Woman. jpg/390px-Vivian_Leigh_Laurence_Olivier_That_Hamilton_Woman. jpg

[Red Devil]

No, it wasn't in common english use BUT - Nelson had spent many campaigns in and around Egypt and, like me in Germany, picked up loads of local lingo. Sailors had many words which meant much at sea and sod all on land. The word fate, in Egypt, was much used.

[Jimbuna]

1839 First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam, India arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate]

1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pancho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 US mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood.

1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco.

1946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time in London.

1946 US Army bounces 1st radar signal off the Moon from Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey.

1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard.

1990 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989

1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal.

[Aktungbby]

:Kaleun_Salute:
1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal. Supposedly supplanted by NATO "guarantees of security" which are currently resulting in the commencement of WWIII. The challenge to the WWII created 'world order' NATO domination being challenged by the communist led ''new world order'. We need to re-nuclearize Ukraine and Taiwan and re-establish the 20th century's MAD doctrine which is only thing "snatch-and-grab' failed-states Russia and China (Tibet 1950 & Crimea 2014 )seem to comprehend!!? As both snatch-grabbers are dealing in nostalgia; one creating the Peter-the-Great/Stalinist empire and the other some form of the Chinese/Mongol empire, we need to revamp the nuclear genii unleashed in 1945...a little big-bang nostalgia of our own...:shucks: to 'keep the peace' before civilization falls to pieces...estimated to occur by 2040...:oops::ping::ping::dead: DPRK's Kim Jung Un, having observed the fiasco of Ukrainian denuclearization, is not making the same mistake twice. Methinks he'll not act till fellow commie, 'Master Xi', :x allows him to... :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in a letter to the newspaper Social Democrat.

1916 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.

1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

1962 Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange.

1967 Louisville, Kentucky draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali.

[Aktungbby]

1914: Ford Motor Company greatly improved its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Highland Park, Michigan plant. Chugging along at 6 feet per minute, Model T construction had gone from 12 hours to build a Model T to 1 hour and 33 minutes...with 83 discrete assembly steps.

[Jimbuna]

1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel overseas by airplane.

1960 US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant.

1970 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969

1973 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army.

1985 British pound sinks to record low $US1.11

[Jimbuna]

1815 War of 1812: the USS President, an American frigate, is captured by four British frigates.

1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.

1922 Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State after Eamon de Valera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De Valera will lead a military opposition seeking a unified and independent Ireland)

1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)

1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed to house the US military.

1951 Ilse Koch, also known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald", is sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

1991 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so.

2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

[Aktungbby]

1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly. IT was actually referred to as JACKASS by cartoonist Thomas NAST!:O: https://thomasnast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/02SY-ALiveJackassKickingaDeadLion-945x1024.jpg :arrgh!:

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1865: Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of confiscated land would be divided into 40-acre parcels to be given to 'emancipted' ex-slaves. The order, later revoked by Southern born President Andrew Johnson, is believed to have inspired the expression: "Forty acres and a mule"...:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)

1912 Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.

1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting.

1972 Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland.

1977 Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, convicted of murder.

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War.

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1944: During WWII, Alllied forces launched the first of four assaults on strategic overlooking Monte Cassino in Italy; the Allies were ultimately successful. :timeout:...ergo: "the third time's NOT always the charm?!!":o:damn::nope:

[Red Devil]

Polish Forces eventually took the Mount. The polish flag was followed by the raising of the Union Flag. Allies wasted thousands of shells on the Monastery, when the germans were not even in it, but around it.

[Catfish]

^ as far as i read it was mostly Gurkhas who attacked and took Monte Cassino eventually.

[mapuc]

^ as far as i read it was mostly Gurkhas who attacked and took Monte Cassino eventually.

In my older War history it says the Polish who took it.

So to be sure(I could remember wrong) I made a search

Who Took Monte Cassino ?

Answer:
Polish troops
Polish troops finally captured Monte Cassino on May 18, 1944, five months into the bloody campaign and four months after the monastery was leveled.

Question number 2.
Did Gurkhas take part in battle of Monto Cassino?
Answer
Gurkha troops, of the 4th Indian Division (part of the Allied 8th Army) were heavily involved.

Markus

[Red Devil]

^ as far as i read it was mostly Gurkhas who attacked and took Monte Cassino eventually.

Nope. Some of WW2 is a 'hobby' of mine:

Polish troops finally captured Monte Cassino on May 18, 1944, five months into the bloody campaign and four months after the monastery was leveled.

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1911: Legendary airman, Eugene Ely, lands aboard
USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay in first shipboard touchdown after having flown off a ship 3 days before...essentially confirming carrier warfare's feasibility w/o a one-way trip later used by desperate Japan in WWII...:oops:https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/OUMAAMXQlgtS7COu/s-l1600.jpg https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/h77000/h77609.jpg<Ely (with rubber inner tubes around his shoulders, (flotation gear:yeah:) and wearing a leather helmet) has dismounted from the plane and is talking with a man standing in front of the plane.
Note the sand bags attached to lines behind the plane, used to stop it after it reached the deck.:Kaleun_Salute: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/eugene-ely-and-birth-naval-aviation-january-18-1911 https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/callout_half/public/images/editoral-stories/thumbnails/NH77579_640.jpg?h=2c9c7e58&itok=UFVmaxKs

[Jimbuna]

Definitely the Poles and I had the privilege of personally knowing one of the senior officers who led them but is sadly not with us anymore.

[Jimbuna]

1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony.

1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege would not be fully lifted until a year later.

1945 Soviet Armed Forces enter Krakow, Poland to push Germans out, only to eventually occupy entire country.

1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min.

2005 The world's largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France.

[Jimbuna]

1915 World War I: 4 people in Norfolk are killed in the 1st German Zeppelin air raid attack on the United Kingdom.

1974 China and South Vietnam clash over the Paracel Islands, resulting in a Chinese victory.

1977 Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.

1978 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America would continue until 2003.

1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages.

1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief in Lyon in Nazi-occupied France, arrested in Bolivia.

[Red Devil]

1911: Legendary airman, Eugene Ely, lands aboard
USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay in first shipboard touchdown after having flown off a ship 3 days before...essentially confirming carrier warfare's feasibility w/o a one-way trip later used by desperate Japan in WWII...:oops:

Didnt know that they already had mid air refueling - 3 day flight WOW!!!:haha:

[Jimbuna]

1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain.

1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.

1905 In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday'

[Red Devil]

1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain.

It was never argie. French came saw nothing and left, spain arrived said sod this and gave it to Britain. Now that its got potential minerals and oil, the argies decided it was theirs. Oil company wanted to do some exploratory work, and London said its up the the Falkland Islanders who does what and where. Communist labour MP said he would 'give it back to the argies' if he got in. Luckily he didn't.

[Jimbuna]

1795 War of the First Coalition: French cavalry captures 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns near the port of Den Helder - rare instance of cavalry capturing a fleet.

1920 Dutch refuse to turn over ex-Emperor William II of Germany to allies.

1945 World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal to evacuate German soldiers and civilians from Prussia by sea.

1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea.

1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War.

1976 The Provisional Irish Republican Army truce of February 1975 is officially brought to an end.

1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.

[Jimbuna]

1915 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland.

1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons.

1943 Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death.

1943 Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles.

1968 Operation Coburg, an Australian and New Zealand military action during the Vietnam War, begins.

1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.

[Jimbuna]

1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets.

1939 1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi.

1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.

1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death.

1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life.

1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia.

[Jimbuna]

1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day. Referred to as Invasion Day by some First Nations people.

1841 Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain.

1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead)

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp.

1972 Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute - world's highest fall without a parachute.

1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

[Jimbuna]

1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.

1941 Peruvian ambassador Ricardo Rivera-Schreiber warns American Ambassador of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.

1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed.

1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland.

1968 French submarine Minerve disappears in the Mediterranean with the loss of 52 crew.

1972 The British Army and the Irish Republican Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British troops fire over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

1972 Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers shot dead by IRA in an attack on their patrol car in the Creggan Road, Derry.

1973 US & North Vietnam's William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and military draft.

1996 Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.

[Red Devil]

1972 The British Army and the Irish Republican Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British troops fire over 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

Actually The PIRA. The IRA is the political wing. PIRA were gun nutters.

[Jimbuna]

1915 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)

1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland.

1986 Space shuttle challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed, including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first teacher in space.

[Jimbuna]

1595 William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is thought to have been first performed. Officially published early 1597.

1886 Karl Benz patents the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" in Karlsruhe, Germany, the world's 1st automobile with a burning motor.

1917 British submarine K13 sank in Gaire Loch, Scotland; killing 32 of her crew.

1943 New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal.

1943 U.S. cruiser "Chicago" is heavily damaged by Japanese bombers on the first day of the Battle of Rennell Island.

1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.

1980 6 Iranian-held US hostages escape with help of Canadians.

1985 Oxford University refuses to award Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher an honorary degree.

2002 US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" an "Axis of Evil", which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

[Red Devil]

1986 Space shuttle challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed, including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first teacher in space.

The hardest part was seeing it happening live on tv. A hell of a shock.

[Rockstar]

80 years ago tonight. 13 Halifaxes and Stirlings used the H2S ground-mapping radar operationally for the first time.

https://mraths.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1942-H2S-Radar-v2.1_resize.jpg

[Aktungbby]

...after 5 years, to this fabulous thread:O: Rockstar!:Kaleun_Salute:

[Jimbuna]

1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years

1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen.

1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)

1943 6 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight.

1943 Adolf Hitler promotes Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th Army, to Field Marshal in the hope that he will not surrender.

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean.

1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die.

1965 State funeral for Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's largest ever state funeral.

1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'

[Jimbuna]

1915 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians.

1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ships.

1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1943 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.

1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June.

1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland.

1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb.

1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights.

1985 South African President P. W. Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence.

[Jimbuna]

1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.

1917 German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unrestricted submarine warfare against allied shipping.

1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon.

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

[Jimbuna]

1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)

1887 First Groundhog Day observed at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

1901 Queen Victoria's funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.

1943 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II

1954 President Eisenhower announces the detonation of the world's 1st hydrogen bomb (tested in 1952)

1974 The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.

[Aktungbby]

1917: the U.S. breaks off relations with Germany, the same day as an American cargo ship, the SS Housatonic, was sunk by a U-boat after the crew boarded lifeboats. 1943: during WW II, the U.S. transport ship, SS Dorchester, carrying 900+ troops to Greenland, sank after being attacked by a U-boat. Only 230 persons survived.

[Aktungbby]

1918: during WW I, the Cunard liner SS Tuscania, transporting approx. 2,010 American troops, and 380 crewmembers was torpedoed by a U-boat, UB-77, in the Irish Sea with loss of 210 lives. One notable survivor was Harry Truman, who, steadfastly refusing to evacuate his secluded mountaintop abode, died in the 1988 Vesuvian-Scale level-5 eruption of Mt St Helen's in 1980...62 years later.

[Jimbuna]

1945 WWII: US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manila, Philippines; month long battle ends 3 years of Japanese military occupation.

1972 Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were planting exploded prematurely.

1981 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with the enemy during the Vietnam War.

1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial.

1996 British supermarket chains stock genetically modified tomato puree - the first GM food to be sold in the country.

2009 The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

[Aktungbby]

Rule 3: always go to confession before handling munitions above yer IQ level...to avoid "being hoist with one's own petard" -Hamlet Act III Scene IV :doh::timeout::shucks::oops::nope::dead:

[Red Devil]

Feb 6th 1958. A Ambassador aircraft crsahed on take off at Munich Airport killing 23 people which was a charter flight for Manchester United FC returning from Belgrade with journalists and players on board.

[Jimbuna]

1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

1958 23 dead in air crash at Munich-Riem Airport; 8 players and 3 staff are from the Manchester United football team.

1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel.

1971 Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast.

1971 James Saunders (22), a member of the IRA, is shot and killed by the British Army during a gun battle near the Oldpark Road, Belfast.

1971 The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the 'Troubles'

1983 Trial of former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie begins in France for war crimes during World War II

[Red Devil]

1971 Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast.

Don't forget how many of my comrades were killed and blown up. I was there at the time and saw the horros.

[Jimbuna]

1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

1991 Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister John Major, injuring four people.

1992 The Maastricht Treaty is signed by 12 countries from the European Community (EC) to create the European Union (EU)

[Jimbuna]

1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot.

1807 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - 1st battle Napoleon isn't victorious.

1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374

1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort.

1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland.

1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

[Jimbuna]

1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)

1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)

1943 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific.

1944 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland.

1945 The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.

1961 The Beatles first gig at Liverpool's Cavern Club; they would play there nearly 300 times over the next two years.

[Jimbuna]

1554 Queen of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is executed for treason.

1879 News about British loss at Battle of Isandlwana to Zulu attack (Anglo-Zulu War) reaches London.

1912 The last Qing Emperor of China, Puyi (age 6) abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the "mandate of heaven"

1915 Adolf Hitler receives the relatively common Iron Cross second class for bravery in World War I

1942 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest to Germany in a dash up the English Channel.

1973 1st US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines.

1988 US Navy frigate USS Yorktown bumped by Russian frigate Bezzavetny in the Black Sea in dispute over right of innocent passage.

1989 Loyalist paramilitary group kill Pat Finucane, a Belfast lawyer who represented republican hunger striker Bobby Sands, while he is having dinner with family.

2013 North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, saying it was a nuclear device that could be weaponized.

[Jimbuna]

1916 The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania.

1916 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships.

1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus.

1940 British search plane finds German supply ship Altmark, used to accommodate allied sailors from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee off Norway.

1942 Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive.

1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.

[Aktungbby]

1916 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships. I've noticed of late: a great deal of "diplomacy " involves rejecting or reserving so-called rights...IE: China has recently rejected our right to shoot down its spy balloons over US territory and so forth under there right of 'force majeure" formerly known as 'right of 'innocent passage'??! :ping::ping::ping::ping:

[Aktungbby]

:hmmm::timeout:Post any interesting event that happens on or near today's date. Since we're all the end-users of the historic events that get us to the moment of posting in this forum, try to point out how such an event may have personally affected, afflicted, or otherwise influenced your existence on the spinning mudball...humor is emphasized??!:D :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:A case in point:1864: The Union ship, USS Housatonic is sunk by an electrically detonated spar-charge of a black-powder device in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina by the Confederate hand-cranked submarine, HL Hunley, in the first naval attack of its kind; the Hunley also sank with all 8 crew members. Submarine warfare evolved from this precise moment in time...factoring hugely in 2 global world wars, and an ongoing nuclear 'cold war'; ultimately giving rise to a 100,000+ membership global forum: :subsim::salute:...and here I've been for a decade, at the keyboard, posting in this and other threads...:hmmm::yep::()1::woot::lurk:

[Red Devil]

:Kaleun_Cheers: Happy Forumday Achtung

[Jimbuna]

1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty.

1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.

1943 German Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbells demands "total war" from German citizens in speech at Berlin Sportpalast.

2014 Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych.

[Jimbuna]

1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance.

1915 British fleet opens fire on Dardanelles coast.

1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin.

1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans.

1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland.

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines.

1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatles wigs to the US

[Aktungbby]

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma. 'Let's "Nippon these" bellowed one 'croc' to another...!:Kaleun_Salivating:

[Jimbuna]

1916 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months)

1917 British troopship SS Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 646 die.

1945 Battle of Monte Castello (Italy): Allied forces, including the first land battle of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, defeat Germans after three months of fierce fighting in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains.

1965 Civil rights activist and Muslim minister Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in New York City.

1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado.

[Jimbuna]

1797 The Last Invasion of Britain, launched by the French during the Revolutionary Wars, begins near Fishguard, Wales.

1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary.

1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia.

1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph

1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine warfare.

1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578

1942 World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defences collapse.

1967 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since WWII.

[Red Devil]

'Let's "Nippon these" bellowed one 'croc' to another...!:Kaleun_Salivating:

Now that's a takeaway!!

[Jimbuna]

1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed.

1918 First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.

1942 Japanese submarine I-17 fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California.

1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

1991 US President George H. W. Bush gives Iraq a 24-hour deadline to withdraw from Kuwait or face a ground war.

[Aktungbby]

1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

... and dispatched his assistant operations officer, Lieutenant Ted Tuttle, to the beach to obtain a replacement flag. As an afterthought, Johnson called after Tuttle: "And make it a bigger one." PICs or it didn't happen!:yeah: :arrgh!: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2651017&postcount=3134

When it comes to victorious flag raising on mountain tops..."size matters!" https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Moments_after_the_second_flag_raising%2C_February_ 1945.jpg/800px-Moments_after_the_second_flag_raising%2C_February_ 1945.jpg:Kaleun_Salute:

[Red Devil]

th guy on this side of the camera is, if I recall correctly, Ira Hayes, (I could be wrong). there was a docum on Discovery a couple of years ago about him. He was an indian.

[mapuc]

There is a famous movie called Flag of our Fathers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_Our_Fathers_(film)

Markus

[Aktungbby]

th guy on this side of the camera is, if I recall correctly, Ira Hayes, (I could be wrong). there was a docum on Discovery a couple of years ago about him. He was an indian.Ira Hayes is in the right background and is one of the gents raising the vertical flag. The group in the foreground is lowering the first smaller flag. The famous photo had just been taken seconds before by another photographer.