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Jimbuna

03-05-23, 02:26 PM

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus#:~:text=%22%20More%20popul ar%20than%20Jesus%20%22%20%5Bnb%201%5D,that%20it%2 0might%20be%20outlasted%20by%20rock%20music.

“Christianity will go,” Lennon said, according to Cleave’s article. “It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock ’n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
https://www.britannica.com/story/did-the-beatles-really-say-they-were-more-popular-than-jesus

Jimbuna

03-05-23, 02:32 PM

1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.

1915 World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

1936 Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)

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

1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army.

mapuc

03-05-23, 03:05 PM

On this day 70 years ago:

Josef Stalin dies in an age of 74

Markus

Jimbuna

03-06-23, 01:46 PM

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

1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer.

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

1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"

1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the US Embassy in New Delhi, India, and asks for political asylum.

1998 British Union Flag begins to be flown full-mast over Buckingham Palace whenever British monarch not in residence, following change of protocol after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Jimbuna

03-07-23, 02:42 PM

1936 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.

1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.

1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee, Alabama.

1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site.

1974 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras.

1994 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship.

Jimbuna

03-08-23, 01:19 PM

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

1915 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned.

1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime.

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

1973 The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries.

Red Devil

03-08-23, 04:01 PM

1973 The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country.

Undertakes its first TERRORIST attack, cowardly planting 4 bombs, killing innocent people. This item makes it sound like a regular armed forces which it IS NOT. I assume these dates are written by an american, proud supporters of irish terrorism.

Jimbuna

03-09-23, 02:20 PM

1916 Mexican General Francisco "Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed)

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

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

1953 Joseph Stalin's funeral is held in Moscow after four days of national mourning.

1971 Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to the streets to demand internment in response.

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

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

1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport.

Aktungbby

03-10-23, 11:43 AM

1906: About 1100 French miners in Courrières, France were killed by a coal-dust explosion. 500 miners escaped incl. A group of thirteen survivors, known later as the rescapés, was found by rescuers on 30 March, twenty days after the explosion.They had survived at first by eating bark from the crossbeams, later by eating a rotting mine horse.[8] They avoided dehydration by drinking the water dripping from the walls. The two eldest (39 and 40 years old) were awarded the Légion d'honneur, the other eleven (including three younger than 18 years of age) received the Médaille d'or du courage.[citation needed] A final survivor was found on 4 April. Only a similar disaster in China in 1942, under Japanese control, (1500) has been worse. :k_confused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courrières_mine_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benxihu_Colliery

Jimbuna

03-10-23, 01:26 PM

1920 Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by the southern counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year.

1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches.

1944 U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard.

1945 Deadliest air raid of World War II sets Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

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

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

Jimbuna

03-11-23, 02:59 PM

1935 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)

1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill, allowing US to provide material support to Great Britain's war effort in return for future use of land for US military bases in England.

2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant.

2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, will allow Xi Jinping presidency for life.

2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths.

Aktungbby

03-12-23, 12:54 PM

2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths. That was 'the good 'ol daze'
:hmmm: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Coronavirus Cases:
681,518,412
view by country
Deaths:
6,811,869
Recovered:654,420,553
It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Mortality was high in people younger than 5 years old, 20-40 years old, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic. While the 1918 H1N1 virus has been synthesized and evaluated, the properties that made it so devastating are not well understood. With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions such as isolation, quarantine, good personal hygiene, use of disinfectants, and limitations of public gatherings, which were applied unevenly. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htmhttps://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/images/seattle-police.jpg Avian related Flu killed 10%; Bat virus whether natural or Wuhan-Lab released Corona does .009%:hmmm: BOTTOM LINE: Impact to me: don't get the flu vaccine and the Phizer booster vaccine in the same shoulder on the same day!https://media.defense.gov/2020/May/29/2002307642/1088/820/0/200515-O-ZZ999-005.JPG Plus, after 17 years guarding ATM techs it's impossible to tell the bad masked guys from the good masked guys around an open ATM machine, so I hung it up and simply retired...:shucks:

Jimbuna

03-13-23, 12:48 PM

1905 Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris.

1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, the Winter War ends. Finland gives up Karelische.

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

1943 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight.

Jimbuna

03-14-23, 02:30 PM

1899 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a "Navigable Balloon"

1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.

1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco.

1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party)

1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes.

1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial.

1972 Two IRA members shot dead by British soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry.

1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

Rockstar

03-15-23, 01:09 PM

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Aktungbby

03-15-23, 01:48 PM

"ET TU Rockfish?"

Jimbuna

03-15-23, 02:35 PM

44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.

1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea.

1916 General Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.

1922 France, which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials as payment.

1939 Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates. Germany occupies and annexes Czechoslovakia reneging on the Munich Agreement.

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

1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War.

2019 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.

Jimbuna

03-17-23, 01:25 PM

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

1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA

1965 Beatles announce their second film is titled "8 Arms to Hold You" ; later changed to "Help!"

1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor.

1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister, the first and only female to hold the office.

1995 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.

Red Devil

03-17-23, 07:36 PM

1995 Sinn Féin leader, and Terrorist and leader of the 'belfast brigade' Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C. America supported terror on UK streets

Jimbuna

03-18-23, 02:32 PM

1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.

1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass where the Italian dictator agrees he will, in due course, join Germany's impending war effort in the west.

1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, which was charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

1943 British merchant vessel "Canadian Star" is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by German U-boat U-221, 34 die with 54 survivors.

1945 US Army Air Force completes largest bombing raid on Berlin Germany: Over 1200 bombers drop 3,000 tons of explosives .

1965 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination.

1972 Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy"

Aktungbby

03-19-23, 11:40 AM

1945 Essex class carrier USS Franklin is struck by a Japanese dive bomber causing massive damage. The second largest loss of crew After USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.Before dawn on 19 March 1945, Franklin, which had maneuvered to within 50 miles (80 km) of the Japanese mainland, closer than any other U.S. carrier during the war, launched a fighter sweep against Honshū and later a strike against shipping in Kure Harbor. The Franklin crew had been called to battle stations twelve times within six hours that night and Gehres downgraded the alert status to Condition III, allowing his men freedom to eat or sleep, although gunnery crews remained at their stations. A single Yokosuka D4Y dive bomber approached Franklin without being detected by American forces. As Franklin was about halfway through launching a second wave of strike aircraft, the Japanese dive bomber pierced the cloud cover and dropped two semi-armor-piercing bombs before the ship's anti-aircraft gunners could fire. The damage analysis came to the conclusion that the bombs were 550 pounds (250 kg).[8] Accounts differ as to whether the attacking aircraft escaped or was shot down...At the time she was struck, Franklin had 31 armed and fueled aircraft warming up on her flight deck, and these planes caught fire almost immediately. The 13 to 16 tons of high explosives aboard these planes soon began detonating progressively, and although "Tiny Tim" air-to-surface rockets were loaded aboard Vought F4U Corsairs, their three-point, nose up attitude allowed most of the rockets to fly overboard when their engines ignited.[8] The hangar deck contained planes, of which 16 were fueled and 5 were armed. The forward gasoline system had been secured, but the aft system was operating. The explosion on the hangar deck ignited the fuel tanks on the aircraft, and a gasoline vapor explosion devastated the deck. The twelve "Tiny Tim" rockets aboard these planes ricocheted around the hangar deck until their 138 lb (63 kg) warheads detonated. Only two crewmen survived the fire in the hanger deck. A recent count by Franklin historian and researcher Joseph A. Springer brings total 19 March 1945 casualty figures to 807 killed and more than 487 wounded. Franklin had suffered the most severe damage and highest casualties experienced by any U.S. fleet carrier that survived World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Franklin_(CV-13) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Attack_on_carrier_USS_Franklin_19_March_1945.jpg/1280px-Attack_on_carrier_USS_Franklin_19_March_1945.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Joseph_T._O%27Callahan_gives_last_rites_to_an_inju red_crewman_aboard_USS_Franklin_%28CV-13%29%2C_19_March_1945.jpg/375px-Joseph_T._O%27Callahan_gives_last_rites_to_an_inju red_crewman_aboard_USS_Franklin_%28CV-13%29%2C_19_March_1945.jpg <Although wounded by one of the explosions after the attack, Chaplain O'Callahan moved about the exposed and slanting flight deck, administering the last rites to the dying, comforting the wounded, and leading officers and crewmen into the flames to carry hot bombs and shells to the edge of the deck for jettisoning. He personally recruited a damage control party and led it into one of the main ammunition magazines to wet it down and prevent its exploding. For this action he received the Navy Cross, which he publicly refused (the only man to do so in World War II). At the time, it was speculated that O'Callahan was offered the Navy Cross in lieu of the Medal of Honor since his heroic actions on USS Franklin highlighted perceived lapses in leadership by the ship's commanding officer, Captain Leslie E. Gehres, which reflected poorly on the Navy. President Harry Truman intervened after the resulting public outcry and the Medal of Honor was awarded to O'Callahan on January 23, 1946. He was the first Naval Chaplain so decorated. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Medal_of_Honor_ribbon.svg/159px-Medal_of_Honor_ribbon.svg.png:Kaleun_Salute:

Jimbuna

03-19-23, 02:31 PM

1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor.

1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.

1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane.

1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan.

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

2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.

Rockstar

03-19-23, 02:51 PM

20 years ago today shock and awe bombardments began. Coalition forces would invade Iraq the following day.

https://youtu.be/Qn6VfGv7N4A

Jimbuna

03-20-23, 02:09 PM

1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.

1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable.

1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

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

1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks.

1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded.

Red Devil

03-20-23, 08:36 PM

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

Interesting item I saw on some war online site. The white house warned McArthur that a jap fleet was heading his way and to be ready. He not only was not ready but did very little. Not an american plane took off to attack the fleet and the troops were unprepared.

Jimbuna

03-21-23, 01:20 PM

1933 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public.

1939 Nazi Germany demands the return of Danzig (Gdańsk) from Poland.

1943 Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails.

1945 1st Japanese kamikaze "flying bombs" (MXY-7 Ohka) attack Okinawa.

1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.

1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall.

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.

Red Devil

03-22-23, 09:07 AM

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.

And the world did nothing, again. We are governed by wimps

Jimbuna

03-22-23, 09:42 AM

1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed.

1917 The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia.

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

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

1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler.

1979 Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague.

Red Devil

03-22-23, 10:50 AM

1979 terrorists assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague.

Jimbuna

03-23-23, 09:55 AM

1903 The Wright brothers 1st file a patent for a flying machine, which is granted 3 years later.

1918 Germany begins using long-range gun, the 'Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz' ('Emperor William Gun'), aka 'Paris Gun' to shell Paris from Crépy-en-Laonnais, 75 miles away; over several days, 303 rounds kill 256 and wound over 600

1919 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky.

1933 German Reichstag hastily passes the Enabling Act and President Paul von Hindenburg signs it the same day, granting Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

1945 British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine into Germany.

1945 British Prime Minister Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Straelen.

1945 Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey becomes the first British commander to cross the Rhine during the Allied invasion of Germany.

1983 US President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")

Jimbuna

03-24-23, 08:32 AM

1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.

1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost.

1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows Great Britain rules 1/5th of the world.

1942 US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionage.

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

1944 Ardeatine massacre: Nazis led by SS officers Herbert Kappler, Erich Priebke and Karl Hass execute 335 civilians and political prisoners in occupied Rome in retaliation for the previous day's Via Rassela bombing that killed 33 Germans.

1944 RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall broken by pine trees and soft snow, suffers only a sprained leg.

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

1949 SS police chief in the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauter's request for a pardon denied, executed by firing squad.

1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)

1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.

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

Jimbuna

03-25-23, 12:38 PM

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

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

1949 The Soviet Union begins Operation Pribioi, the mass deportation of 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to inhospitable areas in the Soviet Union.

1960 First guided missile launched from nuclear powered submarine (Halibut)

1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona.

1970 Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)

Jimbuna

03-26-23, 01:55 PM

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

1945 Allied generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton launch attack at Remagen on the Rhine.

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

1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945

Jimbuna

03-27-23, 01:08 PM

1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid.

1941 Adolf Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)

1942 -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire.

1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine.

1945 General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.

1945 Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.

1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.

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

Rockstar

03-27-23, 02:24 PM

On this day in 1794, the United States established a permanent navy, complete with six frigates.

1. USS President 44 gun
2. USS Constellation 38 gun
3. USS Chesapeake 38 gun
4. USS United States 44 gun
5. USS Congress 38 gun
6. USS Constitution 44 gun and still serving as the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. Launched in 1797 she is also the world's oldest ship still afloat.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4a/23/07/4a23076044bd8e2639ddf9a6d290a639.jpg

Red Devil

03-27-23, 03:44 PM

1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.

Nowadays they would have got 5 years and out. If they were unlucky. The haul was 'only' £2m, but because a guard got brain injuries, they threw the book at them. One man was never identified or caught. They became sort of 'public celebrities' on the same lines as the mythical Robin Hood.

Jimbuna

03-28-23, 09:29 AM

1935 Influential Nazi Propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" released showing Nuremberg rallies, commissioned by Adolf Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl.

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

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

1942 St. Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot): obsolete British destroyer HMS Campbeltown, rigged with explosives and flying German flags, rams gates of German occupied St Nazaire port in France, and self detonates; kills 360 Germans, and disables the dry dock for duration of the war.

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

1979 A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths.

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

Aktungbby

03-28-23, 10:29 AM

1935:the Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will", directed by Leni Riefenstal, premiered in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.

Red Devil

03-28-23, 12:09 PM

2003 In a "friendly fire" incident, two US A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull. They were Warrior APCs. Sadly, this happens far too often with US Forces..

Jimbuna

03-29-23, 10:26 AM

1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam in the river upstream.

1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea.

1942 German submarine U-585 sinks.

1951 American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution.

1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang.

2022 In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.

Red Devil

03-29-23, 10:40 AM

1975. Red Devil married Sue. 48 years later still together:yeah:

Aktungbby

03-29-23, 10:43 AM

:shucks:1867: Queen Victoria gives 'royal assent' to the creation of Canada in the British North America Act. The act united New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada into the Dominion of Canada and took effect July 1 1867. My maternal grandparents immigrated from Brockville near Toronto to Bridgeport, Connecticutt around 1910. Given the miserable state of Amerika these daze, I might just decide to emigrate back to Vancouver, BC; there must be some kind of "law of return" to facilitate this!

Rockstar

03-29-23, 05:31 PM

On this day in 1973, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam. Under terms of the Paris Peace Accord. A handful of American military advisors and a contingent of embassy guards remain until the fall of the Saigon in 1975.

Jimbuna

03-30-23, 08:31 AM

1867 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre.

1939 Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph

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

1972 Northern Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is introduced.

1979 Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.

1981 US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, three others are also wounded.

Aktungbby

03-30-23, 10:53 AM

1867 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre.
...otherwise known as 'Sewards Folly'. Poor Secretary of State, Seward, seriously wounded in his home during the Lincoln assassination plot night, never got an even break! Now Russia, embroiled in the present fiasco in Ukraine, has stated it would like to reclaim Alaska as well...:hmmm: 1959: A narrowly divided US Supreme Court, in Barkus v. Illinois, ruled that a conviction in state court following an acquittal in federal court did not constitute 'double jeopardy'!!?:hmmm:

Jimbuna

03-31-23, 01:39 PM

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

1951 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea.

1954 USSR offers to join NATO

1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same.

1972 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy.

1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).

Catfish

03-31-23, 03:56 PM

1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany. [...]
.. which is why both declared war to Germany after the german invasion. Conveniently ignoring the russian invasion of Poland of the same time. I always wondered what would had happened if the Soviet Union had attacked Poland alone, without the Molotov treaty and all that. Probably nothing apart from Poland joining the soviet block by force in the following events.. which happened anyway after WW2.
I read Niall Ferguson's book about WW1 and i would really like to read something like that by him, about WW2.
There is an (imagined) german general in Herman Wouk's "The winds of war" who now and then expresses his view of things – i really liked that.

Jimbuna

04-01-23, 12:44 PM

^ I've put the Herman Wouk's book on my 'to find' list.

Jimbuna

04-01-23, 01:01 PM

1918 United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps.

1924 Adolf Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor for "Beer Hall Putsch" but General Ludendorff acquitted.

1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany.

1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.

1945 The Ruhr Pocket of German forces are encircled by the US Ninth Army and US First Army, eventually leading to the capture of 317,000 German troops.

1969 The Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vertical take-off fighter) enters service with the RAF.

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

1986 US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea.

1992 Battleship USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender took place, decommissioned.

2001 Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.

Jimbuna

04-03-23, 01:27 PM

1882 American outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by fellow gang member Robert Ford at home in St. Joseph, Missouri.

1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin.

1929 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent.

1944 British dive bombers attack German battleship Tirpitz at Kåfjorden, Norway.

1948 US President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan to rebuild war-torn Western Europe after World War II, granting an initial $5 billion in aid to 16 European countries.

Red Devil

04-03-23, 05:00 PM

1944 British dive bombers attack German battleship Tirpitz at Kåfjorden, Norway.

Wrong. WE had no dive bombers. The Blackburn Skua was so bad it was obselete by 1941 and never used again. It was only the Lancaster that had the range. No 9 Sqn and 617 Sqn (Dam Busters) took part in the raid, dropping 12000lb 'tallboy' bombs from height. 12 November 1944.

Aktungbby

04-03-23, 11:38 PM

:nope::nope:Wrong. WE had no dive bombers. AHEM!...on April 3, 1944 a force of 80 aircraft including 40 Barracuda dive bombers attacked and inflicted damage on Tirptz. 3 Barracudas were lost along with a Hellcat-9 killed. Tirpitz suffered 15 bomb hits with 122 killed; 316 wounded... :Kaleun_Salute: As the only British naval aircraft in service stressed for dive bombing following the retirement of the Blackburn Skua[16] the Barracuda participated in Operation Tungsten, an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz while it was moored in Kåfjord, Alta, Norway. On 3 April 1944, Strike Leader Roy Sydney Baker-Falkner, led two Naval Air Wings with a total of 42 aircraft dispatched from British carriers HMS Victorious and Furious scored 14 direct hits on Tirpitz using a combination of 1,600 lb (730 kg) and 500 lb (230 kg) bombs for the loss of one bomber.This attack damaged Tirpitz, killing 122 of her crew and injuring 316, as well as disabling the ship for over two months during the critical period leading up to the Normandy invasion. However, the slow speed of the Barracudas contributed to the failure of the subsequent Operation Mascot and Operation Goodwood attacks on Tirpitz during July and August of that year, but were effective as diversionary tactics whilst the Normandy landings in Operation Overlord were underway.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Fairey_Barracuda_II_of_814_Squadron.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Barracuda

Red Devil

04-04-23, 05:51 AM

I think some of these so called experts need to go back to school. According to more than one source, we had none, as they has been scrapped in 1941. I checked your facts and they are accurate, according to wikipedia. Although I dont entirely trust Wiki as its comments are based, in many cases, on opinion, by members of the public. I am a wiki editor and have had to delete some comments as slanderous and 100% untrue.

The Tirpitz proved to be one awkward target to hit, and failures were in double figure. I also based my comment on the fact that Tirpitz was moved to Tromso Fjord, forgetting the fact it was originally hundreds of mile south at first.

1-0 to you Sir.

Jimbuna

04-04-23, 10:08 AM

1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard his galleon "Golden Hind" at Deptford, England.

1915 Germany protests vigorously to the US, claiming it must insist that Britain lifts its blockade and assert American neutrality.

1917 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.

1958 The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.

1965 The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled.

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

Aktungbby

04-04-23, 10:28 AM

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.
Lucky Ukraine!!:hmmm:...74 years later and with Finland just added...will it get us through WWIII??!! Premier Xi wonders too as he contemplates a similar 'land grab' in Taiwan to solidify his South China Sea hegemony. The 1959 takeover in Tibet wasn't enough it seems...:oops:

Aktungbby

04-04-23, 11:01 AM

1-0 to you Sir.Concession accepted. It only caught my eye as Jimbuna is generally accurate on British naval facts, particularly in this thread-ie: if he said 'dive' bombers he meant dive bombers, so I looked into it. On a non-WIKI site with all the raids on Tirpitz throughout the war; 5 at least were with Barracudas. The Barracuda was afflicted with difficulties. Aside from an under-powered R.R. Merlin vs a MkV's R.R. Griffin engine issues; the hydraulic fluid containing ether could leak: often at the pilot's instrument guage( G stresses from dives?)...directly into the 3 man tandem crew compartment rendering the personnel unconscious; masks were not worn below 10,000 feet...this killed a number of crews.

Red Devil

04-04-23, 07:06 PM

I was under the impression that Jim cut and pasted the info. As he is such a nice guy, I could not see him referring in date as the PIRA as an 'army' as I know, as I wuz der! :yeah: Allies should have copied the Stuka, as they had enough wrecks covering the S of England.

Jimbuna

04-05-23, 08:05 AM

1847 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton.

1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.

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

1943 Mortsel, Belgium: Allies target Minerva car factory, used for repairing Luftwaffe planes for bombing raid; collateral damage from missed targets kills 936 civilians, Belgium's greatest loss of WWII

1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death.

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

1982 British Royal Navy aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes, with escort vessels, depart Portsmouth, England for the Falkland Islands in response to the Argentine invasion.

1982 Lord Carrington, British Foreign Secretary resigns for his failure to foresee the invasion of the Falkland Islands.

1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

Red Devil

04-05-23, 11:18 AM

1847 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton.

Me again. The park in NY city was copied from this park.

Jimbuna

04-06-23, 09:35 AM

1916 German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare.

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1920 To force German evacuation of the Ruhr area, the French occupy Frankfurt, Darmstadt, and Hanau.

1945 Battle of Okinawa: Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa with orders to beach herself and be destroyed defending the island.

1945 The Holocaust: Nazis begin evacuating prisoners from Buchenwald concentration camp.

Jimbuna

04-07-23, 02:00 PM

1945 Battle of Okinawa: Massive kamikaze attack of around 110 Japanese aircraft damages three US battleships off Okinawa island.

1945 Battle of Okinawa: US planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission, super battleship Yamato and four destroyers are sunk.

1948 World Health Organization formed by the United Nations.

1972 Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature bomb explosion in Belfast.

1999 The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

Jimbuna

04-09-23, 06:51 AM

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

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

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

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.

1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen.

2002 Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets.

2018 Fleetwood Mac announce new members Neil Finn and Mike Campbell after firing long-standing member Lindsey Buckingham.

Aktungbby

04-10-23, 11:14 AM

2010: Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 60, was killed in an air disaster while landing in at Smolensk in foggy conditions. His wife, members of parliment, military and church officials, (94) died as well. Conspiracy theories, including assassination still abound...:hmmm:

Jimbuna

04-10-23, 12:08 PM

1887 US President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois.

1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage.

1923 Adolf Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin, Germany.

1932 Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected President of Germany in a runoff election against Adolf Hitler.

1955 Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely (last woman to be executed in the UK)

1963 USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston killing 129 men, including 17 civilians.

1972 Two British soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Derry.

1998 The Good Friday Agreement [Belfast Agreement] for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments.

Jimbuna

04-11-23, 01:27 PM

1612 Last public burning at the stake in England - Edward Wrightman for heresy in Lichfield.

1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates unconditionally and he is exiled to the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

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

1912 RMS Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland, for NY

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

1951 US President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command in Korea.

1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes in World War II begins in Jerusalem, Israel.

1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3

Jimbuna

04-12-23, 12:56 PM

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

1941 Vichy-France's head of government Admiral François Darlan consults with Adolf Hitler.

1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands.

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

1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria.

1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into space and orbit Earth, aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

2009 U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth.

Jimbuna

04-13-23, 01:39 PM

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

1944 Transport #71 departs Drancy (France) internment camp, taking 1,500 French Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi German occupied Poland; an estimated 91 survived.

1945 Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly liberates Dutch town of Zwolle by fooling Germans into thinking a raid had begun.

1965 The Beatles record their single "Help!"

1970 Apollo 13 announces "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here", as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon.

1980 US and its allies boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest against Russia's invasion of Afghanistan.

Jimbuna

04-14-23, 05:54 AM

1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington; he dies a day later.

1912 RMS Titanic, the world's largest ocean liner, hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland, sinks in the early hours of 15 April.

1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)

1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast.

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

1944 General Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

1945 American planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace.

1958 Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard burns up during reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile.

1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland.

Jimbuna

04-16-23, 01:44 PM

1939 The Soviet Union proposes an alliance with Britain and France to counter Nazi Germany; the Soviets would later sign a secret agreement with the Nazis.

1945 Battle of Berlin: Red Army begins its attack on the capital of Nazi Germany.

1945 American troops liberate Colditz Castle, the high-security prisoner of war camp in Saxony, Germany.

1945 Dutch town of Arnhem, site of failed Operation Market Garden, is freed by British and Canadian forces.

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

1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75

1953 British royal yacht Britannia launched by Queen Elizabeth II

1972 Two British soldiers are shot dead by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry.

2004 The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Transatlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.

Jimbuna

04-17-23, 08:44 AM

1941 Egyptian steamer SS Zamzam attacked and later scuttled by German cruiser Atlantis (all on board rescued)

1943 Marshal Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul.

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

1964 Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world.

1979 Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point.

Jimbuna

04-18-23, 11:19 AM

1783 American Revolution: George Washington issues General Order announcing the end of hostilities with Britain, giving thanks to the Almighty, and offering congratulations and authorizing an extra ration of alcohol to the troops to celebrate.

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

1916 US Secretary of State Warns Germany that the USA may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop.

1934 Adolf Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop ambassador for disarmament.

1942 James Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities.

1943 Operation Vengeance: US Army Air Force P-38G fighter aircraft from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal ambush and shoot down the transport bomber aircraft of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy and mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack.

1975 John Lennon gives what becomes his final public performance at a gala salute to British media mogul Lew Grade at the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel, NYC; he performed 3 songs - Little Richard’s “Slippin’ and Slidin’”, Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”, and closed with his own “Imagine”

Jimbuna

04-19-23, 01:40 PM

1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia. Writes in his log book that “what we have as yet seen of this land appears rather low, and not very hilly, the face of the Country green and Woody, but the Sea shore is all a white Sand.”

1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts. The "Shot Heard Round the World" takes place later that day in Concord.

1932 Bonnie Parker is captured in a failed hardware store burglary, and subsequently jailed. A grand jury fails to indict her, however, and she is released a few months later.

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

1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin heavily damaged in Japanese air raid.

1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career.

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

Jimbuna

04-20-23, 08:32 AM

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

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

1934 Heinrich Himmler appointed chief of all German police including the Prussian secret state police.

1968 British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.

1968 British rock band billed as "Roundabout" debuts in Kastrup, Denmark; after a brief tour of Scandinavia, they change their name to "Deep Purple"

1974 'The Troubles', the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim.

1979 US President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia.

1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado.

Jimbuna

04-21-23, 01:16 PM

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

1916 Ulster Protestant and Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement lands at Tralee Bay, Ireland from a German submarine; discovered at McKenna's Fort and arrested by the Royal Irish Constabulary.

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

1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom.

Jimbuna

04-22-23, 10:20 AM

1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I

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

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

1945 Battle of Berlin: Upon being informed that a planned counter-attack never happened, Adolf Hitler flies into a rage, denounces the German Army and concedes World War II is lost.

1945 SS chief Heinrich Himmler secretly meets with Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, asking him to act as an intermediary for a surrender offer to the Western Allies. The Allies do not take the offer seriously.

1972 An 11-year-old boy killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army in Belfast; he was the first to die from a rubber bullet impact.

2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C

Aktungbby

04-24-23, 09:49 AM

1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry. He was the first human spaceflight casualty.

Jimbuna

04-24-23, 01:14 PM

1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)

1914 A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ypres (Leper)

1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin.

1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

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

1969 Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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

1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st

1993 The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate, London, killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others.

Ostfriese

04-25-23, 09:22 AM

April 25th, 1983 (40 years ago): German magazine "Der Stern" holds its most infamous press conference, officially announcing what they thought to be the headline of the century, "We have Hitler's diaries" - 62 volumes.

"Stern" began publishing excerpts from the dieares three days later in their regular (weekly) issue.

Analytic examinations in May 1983 came to the conclusion that the pages were luminecent when hit with UV light, which meant the paper contained optical brighteners, which were only introduced in the 1950s. The rrthreads which held the seals were also coloured with a pigment that hadn't been available before 1956.

The diaries were forgeries, and not even good ones.

Aktungbby

04-25-23, 09:57 AM

1507:...a world map produced by German
cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term: "America" in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci...who"s tales of two voyages to a "New World" were widely read. :hmmm: It is unknown if Vespucci was ever aware of the cartographic distinction bestowed upon him...but now I'm living in a country named for an Eyetalian??!! :timeout::roll::nope::O:

Jimbuna

04-25-23, 12:57 PM

1792 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier.

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

1941 Operation Mercury: Adolf Hitler orders the conquest of the island of Crete, the first mainly airborne invasion in military history.

1945 "Elbe Day" - US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in WWII

1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany.

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

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

1980 Announcement of US hostage rescue bungle in Iran.

1985 West German Parliament rules it is illegal to deny the Holocaust.

1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), Nazi concentration camp guard, sentenced to death in Jerusalem.

Jimbuna

04-26-23, 12:32 PM

1915 Italy secretly signs the "Treaty of London" with Britain, France and Russia, bringing Italy into World War I on the Allied side.

1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.

1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, arrested for treason.

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

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

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

Jimbuna

04-27-23, 10:55 AM

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

1916 The British renew their assault on the Irish Volunteer position in Mount Street; shelling also sets the buildings on fire.

1933 Adolf Hitler authorizes creation of Ministry of Aviation, in part to revive the German Luftwaffe, under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering.

1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

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

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

2018 Historic Korean summit, the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons.

Aktungbby

04-28-23, 09:09 AM

1952: the war with Japan officially ends as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before took effect. 5-star general, Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied commander in Europe; succeeded by General Matthew B. Ridgeway. 1986: the Siviet union informs the world of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl...:hmmm:

Jimbuna

04-28-23, 10:49 AM

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

1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific.

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

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

1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along US East Coast.

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

1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO

1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title.

1967 The Douglas Aircraft Company behind schedule with deliveries of the DC-8 and DC-9 and close to bankruptcy agrees to merge with the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to form McDonnell Douglas.

1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.

1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer and his wife Rosario plead guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.

1996 In Australia's worst massacre in modern history, Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Leads to a compulsory gun buy back program and major changes to gun control laws.

Platapus

04-29-23, 06:35 AM

Douglas Seymour Mackiernan (April 25, 1913 – April 29, 1950) was the first officer of the CIA to be killed in the line of duty.

He was killed trying to exfiltrate China after collecting information about, then, Soviet nuclear testing.

His death was the first to be memorialized on the Agency's Book of Honor and with the first memorial star.

:salute:

Jimbuna

04-29-23, 11:27 AM

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

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

1945 Conscientious objector Desmond Doss saves 75 wounded soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa at Hacksaw Ridge. Later depicted in the Oscar-winning film "Hacksaw Ridge".

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

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

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

Jimbuna

04-30-23, 02:26 PM

1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America at Federal Hall in NYC

1920 The British Government ends military conscription.

1940 Air New Zealand then known as TEAL makes its inaugural flight with a flight from Auckland to Sydney. Later becomes 1st airline in the world to boil hot water in-flight to offer customers hot tea and coffee.

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

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

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

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

1945 Soviet Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp.

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

Aktungbby

04-30-23, 02:53 PM

2010: the US navy officially ends a ban on women serving in submarines, saying the first women would be reporting
for duty by 2012.:/\\k:

Jimbuna

05-01-23, 11:35 AM

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

1840 "Penny Black", the world's first adhesive postage stamp issued by Great Britain.

1915 British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool on it's last fateful journey.

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

1923 Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rohm attempt to break up socialist May Day demonstrates, inviting Nazis from as far away as Nuremberg to take part in the violence.

1939 Batman first appears in Detective Comics #27

1943 German plane sinks the British ship SS Erinpura in the Mediterranean with the loss of 799 lives.

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight.

1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.

1946 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed British supreme commander.

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

1986 Russian news agency Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap.

2003 In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California.

Aktungbby

05-02-23, 09:16 AM

1940: General Mills began shipping it's new cereal "Cheerioats" to six test markets. The cereal was later renamed "Cheerios" and has been on my breakfast shelf for over 65 years...:shucks: 1970: jockey Diane Crump became the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; finishing 15th aboard Fathom...but undoubtedly gaining the greater victory...:hmmm: :Kaleun_Salute: https://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/TWCNews/diane_crump_derby_ap_0426?wid=1250&hei=703&$wide-bg$ https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2022/04/27/life-as-a-female-jockey In 1970, she became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Crump won the first race on the undercard that day, and then on a horse named Fathom, came in 15th in a 17-horse field in the Derby. By the time she ended her racing career in 1985, she had ridden to 235 wins, though she is officially credited with 228 by Equibase.

Jimbuna

05-02-23, 11:22 AM

1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.

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

1945 World War II: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender.

1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on maiden voyage to NY

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

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

Jimbuna

05-03-23, 01:47 PM

1926 Britain's Trade Union Congress calls for the country's first ever general strike, begins at 1 minute to midnight in support striking coal miners, lasts 9 days.

1915 John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields"

1916 Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising.

1921 Northern Ireland is created under the UK Government of Ireland Act partitioning off six north eastern counties with a Protestant majority.

1942 Nazis execute 71 Dutch resistance fighters in reprisal at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany.

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

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

Jimbuna

05-04-23, 01:55 PM

1910 Wilfrid Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy.

1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.

1916 Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan and Joseph Plunkett are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising, at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

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

1945 German forces in Bavaria surrender unconditionally to American commander Jacob L. Devers.

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

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

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

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

Jimbuna

05-05-23, 11:58 AM

1915 German U-20 captures and sinks Britsih schooner Earl of Lathom.

1930 Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.

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

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

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

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

Jimbuna

05-06-23, 07:19 AM

1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods, believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape.

1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die.

1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground.

1941 Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union, replacing his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

1994 Channel tunnel linking England & France officially opens.

Aktungbby

05-06-23, 11:54 AM

1910: King Edward VII dies after a short but able reign of 9 years. Born in 1841, he waited 60 years for his mother, Queen Victoria, to finally vacate the throne; a circumstance being duplicated this very day as King Charles III is coronated with 'pomp and circumstance', having waited even longer (74 years) for his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, to vacate the throne!?? VIVAT REX!:03:

Rhodes

05-06-23, 12:11 PM

1894 The Municipal Museum of Figueira da Foz opens for the first time. The line for entering the new cultural space extends for a consider length and time estimates were of 5 hours in line to enter!

Jimbuna

05-07-23, 10:15 AM

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material.

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

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

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

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

1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution.

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

Aktungbby

05-07-23, 10:39 AM

1915 RMS Lusitania is sunk with great loss of life incl. 128 Americans; causing a great deal of anti-Kaiser sentiment against unrestricted submarine warfare in the declared warzone around the Brtish Isles. In reality, subsequent examination of the wreck has proven that the vessel was carrying war material, (4,200,000 rounds of ammunition and explosive fuses)making the liner a legitimate target for the relatively new form of uncivilized 'undeclared' submarine warfare. The wreck is still under advisory to SCUBA divers as extremely dangerous.

Jimbuna

05-08-23, 08:52 AM

1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.

1902 Mount Pelée on the French overseas island of Martinique erupts, wiping out the city of Saint-Pierre, killing 30,000 and leaving only two survivors.

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

1916 Irishmen Eamon Kent, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Sean Houston are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

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

1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean.

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

1945 German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin.

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

1962 Oskar Schindler and his wife Emilie Schindler are honored for saving 1200 Jews during WWII, in a ceremony on the Avenue of the Righteous, Jerusalem.

1980 World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated.

Jimbuna

05-09-23, 07:56 AM

1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England is ratified at Windsor cementing and strengthening ties between the two kingdoms (oldest diplomatic alliance still in force). The treaty guarantees the mutual security of both nations and strengthens commercial ties.

1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London, captured running from the tower with the jewels.

1726 Three men arrested during a February raid on Mother Clap's molly-house (a coffee house catering to homosexuals) in London are executed by hanging at Tyburn, England.

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

1945 Norwegian Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling arrested.

1945 World War II: Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army.

1945 World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.

1955 German Federal Republic (West Germany) joins NATO

Rockstar

05-09-23, 09:58 AM

9th May, 1943. A Junkers 88R-1 night fighter, carrying the Luftwaffe’s latest Lichtenstein radar, landed at RAF Dyce near Aberdeen. Unlike many other German aircraft which became unintentional ‘guests’ in Britain, this arrival was no accident - the pilot and crew had intentionally defected.

Oblt. Herbert Schmid took off from Kristiansand, Norway, at 16:50 with Obfw Paul Rosenberger and Obfw Erich Kantwill on board. Shortly after takeoff, a false distress message declaring an engine fire was sent and the Ju 88 disappeared from radar as it dropped to sea level before setting course for Scotland. The aircraft’s dinghy was released to convince air-sea rescue teams that it had been lost.

Schmid circled off the coast near Aberdeen and, when two Spitfires arrived to investigate, dropped his undercarriage and fired flares to indicate surrender before being escorted to RAF Dyce. Despite a burst of fire from the airfield defences, the Ju 88 landed safely and was placed under guard. It was later flown to Farnborough, where both it and the Lichtenstein radar were extensively tested. This provided vital technical information that helped to develop countermeasures and a homing device for British night fighters.

The actions of Schmid and his crew seem to have been primarily motivated by anti-Nazi feeling. It had not gone unnoticed in Luftwaffe circles that they had so far failed to score a single victory, despite being highly experienced. Having made it clear they wanted to actively work for the British against Hitler’s regime, they were given false identities and positions at the Political Warfare Executive. Schmid, Rosenberger and Kantwill took part in various activities including POW interviews and propaganda broadcasts to Germany.

Rockstar

05-09-23, 10:24 AM

1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.

Actually he crushed private labor unions and forced all workers to join the largest nationalized trade union ever created in the history of mankind, the 32 million member strong German Labor Front (DAP). Lenin basically did the same thing.

Aktungbby

05-09-23, 10:45 AM

Great dictators think alike !! :hmm2::()1::rock:

Jimbuna

05-10-23, 10:13 AM

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

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.

1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbour.

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

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

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

1960 US atomic submarine USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

1969 In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children"

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

Jimbuna

05-11-23, 01:15 PM

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

1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England.

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1995 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

Aktungbby

05-11-23, 01:35 PM

1995 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. That might have been a mistake in Ukraine's case:hmmm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#:~:text=95 %20strategic%20bombers-,Denuclearization,minority%20view%20at%20the%20tim e.

Jimbuna

05-12-23, 11:28 AM

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

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

1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz.

1944 German police arrest Dutch resistance member Gerrit van der Veen and later execute him.

1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)

Jimbuna

05-13-23, 11:23 AM

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

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

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

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

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

Jimbuna

05-14-23, 11:12 AM

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

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

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

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

1943 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sinks off the coast of Queensland after being struck by torpedo fired by Japanese submarine; 268 of 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard die.

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

1945 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.

1945 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human.

1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania.

1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship.

Aktungbby

05-14-23, 11:50 AM

1804: the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest sets out from camp near present-day Hartford, Illinois. :hmmm:

Jimbuna

05-15-23, 11:01 AM

1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

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

1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

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

1943 Halifax bombers sink U-463

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

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

1971 Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast.

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

1976 The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks.

1986 Former President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri is sentenced to 12 years in prison for mishandling the Falkland Islands War.

Jimbuna

05-16-23, 01:01 PM

1922 White Star Liner Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage, from Southampton, England to New York City.

1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

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

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

1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut.

1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.

1991 Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress.

Jimbuna

05-17-23, 08:43 AM

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

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler.

1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

1944 US General Dwight Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5

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

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

1973 Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone.

1974 Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explode four bombs in Republic of Ireland, killing 33 civilians, wounding 300 (highest number of casualties in a single incident during "The Troubles")

Jimbuna

05-18-23, 01:10 PM

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

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

1965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names for Star Trek Captain; they include Kirk.

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

Jimbuna

05-19-23, 01:14 PM

1941 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis.

1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.

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

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

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

1962 Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to JFK before 15,000 attendees, accompanied by jazz pianist Hank Jones, at Madison Square Garden, NYC

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

1967 USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space.

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

Jimbuna

05-21-23, 11:19 AM

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

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

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

1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia.

1944 WWII: West Loch Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills at least 160 sailors, injures nearly 400, destroys six ships and damages 3 piers and several buildings at Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base in Oahu, Hawaii; details were kept classified until the early 1960s

1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.

1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

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

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

1969 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.

1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, to repel Argentine military invasion.

Aktungbby

05-21-23, 11:20 AM

1927: Charles A. Lindburgh lands his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight Across the Atlantic Ocean in 33.5 hours...1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Ireland about 15 hours after departing Newfoundland....ie less fanfare but in half the time!!?:o

magic452

05-21-23, 10:42 PM

Charles Lindbergh took off from New York.
Just a wee bit farther.

Magic

Aktungbby

05-22-23, 11:56 AM

1939: the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joschim con Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, signed a "Pact of Steel" committing the two nations to a military alliance. Ciano was executed by firing squad in 1944; and Von Ribbentrop was hung at Nuremburg in 1946...:hmmm: certainly giving the lie to any concept of "diplomatic immunity'':shucks::oops::dead:

Jimbuna

05-22-23, 12:55 PM

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

1906 A British garrison leaves Esquimalt, on the Pacific coast, after a military occupation that began in 1858: the last British soldiers stationed in Canada.

1939 Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel" formalizing the 1936 alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.

1945 NSB-Fuhrer Rost van Tonningen makes failed suicide attempt.

1947 1st US ballistic missile fired.

1972 Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting of William Best by the Official Irish Republican Army.

Jimbuna

05-23-23, 12:29 PM

1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms (it didn't get the "Royal" until 1904)

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

1939 Adolf Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland.

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

1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires and Luftwaffe.

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

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

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

1981 Peter Sutcliffe is convicted for the "Yorkshsire Ripper" murders of 13 women at the Old Bailey in London and sentenced to life sentences for each.

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

Jimbuna

05-24-23, 08:26 AM

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

1930 Amy Johnson becomes the 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia.

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

1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean.

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

1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark.

Aktungbby

05-24-23, 12:26 PM

2006: "An Inconvenient Truth", a documentary about Vice President Al Gore's campaign against global warming, went into release...throwing in horrific fires across the globe(within 8,000 feet of my house!??), the imminent return of El Niño heat, 100⁰F-114⁰F(here in Napa) temps, massive super-hurricanes(presently smiting U.S. Guam)...the truth has become exponentially more inconvenient! I may opt for interement in the local cemetery in lieu of cremation...just to help cut down on global warming!:O::hmmm::smug::shucks:

Jimbuna

05-25-23, 11:32 AM

1915 Second Battle of Ypres on the Western Front ends with 105,000 casualties.

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

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

1971 The Provisional Irish Republican Army throw a time bomb into Springfield Road British Army base in Belfast, killing British Army Sergeant Michael Willetts and wounding seven officers.

Jimbuna

05-26-23, 06:27 AM

1805 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy.

1919 The Supreme Council of Allies, meeting at Versailles, decides to recognize two White Russian leaders, Admiral Kolchak and General Denikin, and support them against the Bolsheviks.

1922 Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke.

1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky.

1941 Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sights German battleship Bismarck.

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) plant a bomb in Oxford Street, Belfast, killing a 64 year old woman.

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

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

2004 The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

Aktungbby

05-26-23, 10:23 AM

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

1954: explosion rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. The initial blast was blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by jet flames. Considering my first post-college ambition to be a naval aviator, and my less than stellar Cessna 152 landings in the '70's around California...perhaps best I didn't pass the physical!:hmmm:

Jimbuna

05-27-23, 02:20 PM

1679 Habeas Corpus Act passes in England, strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment.

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

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

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

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

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force.

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

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

Jimbuna

05-28-23, 07:01 AM

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

1588 King Philip II dispatches the Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia from Lisbon, Portugal to invade England.

1972 White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters and install listening devices at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.

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

1940 British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway.

1942 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich.

2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.

Rockstar

05-28-23, 07:51 AM

28th May, 1935. The prototype Messerschmitt Bf 109V1 flew for the first time. Ironically, it was fitted with an imported Rolls Royce Kestrel engine as its intended Junkers Jumo poweplant wasn’t yet available. Test pilots complained about its cramped cockpit and narrow track undercarriage, but its potential performance in the air was evident. Over 34,000 Bf 109s would be produced, far more than any other fighter aircraft in history.

Rockstar

05-28-23, 08:22 AM

28 May 585, BC. What is known as the Battle of the Eclipse occurs. Medes and the Lydians call off their battle after both armies are frightened by an eclipse of the Sun. Peace terms were agreed to shortly thereafter, ending the six-year war.

Aktungbby

05-28-23, 10:24 AM

/\ no such break occurred for the 1200 red coated British at Isandhlwana as 20,000 Zulus warriors overwelmed their encampment and slaughtered nearly the entire regiment. A total eclipse occurred during the battle?!!:oops: 1987: German youth, 18 yearold Marhias Rust, a self-described 'oddball' flies his Cessna 172 Skyhawk to Russia and lands in Moscow's Red Square at the height of the cold war, mortifying Russian air defenses that had spotted him several times but assumed he was friendly. He said he did it to lessen tension between East and West??!! His subsequent 4 year sentence for "hooliganism" is reduced to one year and the plane resides in a German museum to this day!:Kaleun_Salute: He is one of my heros; just for effrontery alone! The Soviet Minister of Defense and the head or the Soviet airforce were dismissed in one of the biggest purges since Stalin. And these daze, a mere 36 years later, we could certainly do with less tension 'twixt East and West. :hmmm:

Rockstar

05-29-23, 06:18 AM

1453 A.D. The Byzantine Empire comes to an end as the Ottomans, under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih, capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege. The empire began on May 11, 330 A.D.

Rockstar

05-29-23, 06:20 AM

In 1736 American Revolutionary hero Patrick Henry is born in Studley, Virginia. He is likely most famous for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

Rockstar

05-29-23, 08:13 AM

1903, actor and entertainer Bob Hope, born Leslie Townes Hope, is born in London, England

Jimbuna

05-29-23, 11:13 AM

1916 Official flag of President of the United States adopted.

1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd

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

1972 The Official IRA announce a ceasefire.

Aktungbby

05-30-23, 10:17 AM

1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, is burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

Rockstar

05-30-23, 11:51 AM

In 1381, the Peasants’ Revolt in England begins with riots in Kent and Essex over tax increases to fund coastal defenses. Wat Tyler leads the rebels in a march on London where they burn homes and property of those they deem wealthy.

Red Devil

05-30-23, 12:34 PM

1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, is burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

there was a chain of thought, that the english did not burn her but spirited her away, probably never know now

Jimbuna

05-30-23, 01:10 PM

1431 Hundred Years' War: 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France.

1842 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria.

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

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

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbour.

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

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05-30-23, 04:08 PM

1922: The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. President Abraham Lincoln's son, 78 year-old Robert Todd Lincoln, was in attendance.

1982: Spain joins NATO

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05-30-23, 06:34 PM

In 1911 Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 auto race in his Marmon Wasp car. He averaged 74.6 miles per hour. The average speed today is 190 miles per hours.

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05-31-23, 07:49 AM

1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.

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

1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.

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

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

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

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05-31-23, 02:11 PM

1223, Genghis Khan's Mongol armies led by Subutai defeat several Rus' principalities, including Kiev, in the Battle of Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.

1578: King Henry III of France lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf, which is the oldest bridge of Paris, France. The bridge was completed in 1607.

1819, Poet Walt Whitman is born in West Hills, New York. He incorporated transcendentalism and realism into his work. In addition, he is often called the father of free verse.

1902, The Treaty of Vereeniging is signed, ending the Second Boer War between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, on one side, and the United Kingdom on the other. The treaty ensured British control of SouthAfrica.

1910, British doctor Elizabeth Blackwell, who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S., dies at the age of 89.

1940, US Ambassador to Argentina Norman Armour and US Minister in Uruguay Edwin Wilson meet in Montevideo and request Sec of State Hull ask FDR to send warships to South America as a show of force to prevent Uruguay from joining Germany.

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06-01-23, 10:04 AM

1943: a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during WWII, killing all 17 people aboard it, including actor Leslie Howard.

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06-01-23, 11:16 AM

1 June 1944, Italy. The first German Panther tank (No. 211) to be captured intact.

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Eventually sent to U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen Maryland to undergo trials and evaluation.

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06-01-23, 01:29 PM

1861 1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House, Virginia.

1864 Confederate cruiser Georgia sold to a British merchant in Liverpool.

1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed serving with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire.

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

1935 Compulsory driving tests and license plates introduced in the United Kingdom.

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

1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, 13 passengers, included actor Leslie Howard, and 4 crew die.

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

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

1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"

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

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06-01-23, 04:01 PM

1 June 1495. A Tironensian monk named John Cor is the first known person to make a batch of Scotch.

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06-02-23, 08:09 AM

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

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

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

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

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06-02-23, 08:39 AM

2 June 1914, General Order No. 99 banned all alcohol on U.S. Navy ships. Ships have remained dry except on very rare occasions. Meanwhile, the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has its own pub. "The Queen's Head" beer selection includes "Carrier Ale".

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06-02-23, 09:25 AM

2 June 1944, Operation Cover begins. The Allies bomb France, focusing on the Pas de Calais area in order to deceive the Germans into thinking that is where the D-Day landings will occur.

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06-02-23, 05:38 PM

2 June 455, a Vandal army led by Genseric loots Rome. Although the invaders agree to spare the city's inhabitants and destroy no buildings, tales of their depredations flourish. Eventually, any public act of wanton defacement will become known as "vandalism."

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06-03-23, 01:14 PM

1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla.

1906 Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession.

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

1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk.

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

1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner ("Concorde-ski"), crashes, 15 killed.

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

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06-03-23, 02:08 PM

1888:'Casey at the Bat' is published in the San Francisco Examiner. Given my disgust at the San Francisco Giants always striking out in the Ninth inning, with bases laoded, and two outs thse days, the poem rings true 136 years later...:Kaleun_Crying: The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that -
We'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.

But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.

But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despis-ed, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Johnnie safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.

Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.

Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip.

And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped-
"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one," the umpire said.

From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;
And its likely they'd a-killed him had not Casey raised his hand.

With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two."

"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.

The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.

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06-03-23, 03:02 PM

On 3 June 1996, the Japanese destroyer Yugiri accidentally shot down a U.S. Navy A-6E Intruder with a Phalanx CIWS during a training exercise. The Intruder crew from VA-115 ejected and were recovered.

It was the first foreign plane shot down by Japanese forces since 1945.

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06-03-23, 07:18 PM

3 June 1968. Pop artist Andy Warhol is shot by Valerie Solanas. She thought he was trying to steal her manuscript, which portrayed a world without men and called on women to eliminate the males and overthrow the government.

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06-03-23, 09:29 PM

/\ her S.C.U.M. Manifesto was the 'bone' of contention...ie: her intellectual property!??:shucks::timeout:

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06-04-23, 07:59 AM

4th June, 1944. The German Type IX-C submarine U-505 was captured by Task Group 22.3 off the coast of West Africa. This was the first enemy vessel boarded at sea by the U.S. Navy since 1815.

4 June 1940, Churchill gives his "We shall fight on the beaches" speech in the House of Commons.

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On this day 1942. American dive bombers from the USS Hornet zero in on the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway.

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06-04-23, 12:45 PM

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

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

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

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II

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

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

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06-04-23, 12:53 PM

4 June 1745. The Prussian army under Frederick the Great defeats Prince Charles Alexander's Austrian army in Battle of Hohenfriedberg.

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06-05-23, 10:44 AM

2020:Minneapolis, MN banned the use of chokeholds by police, the first of many changes in law enforcement practices to be announced in the aftermath of George Floyd's death; officers would be required to intervene any time they saw un-authorized force by another officer.

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06-05-23, 01:44 PM

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

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

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

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

1945 WWII: Allied Powers (US, UK, USSR, and France) assume supreme authority over Germany with the "Berlin Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany"

1968 Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan assassinates Robert F. Kennedy, shooting him 3 times and wounding 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy dies the next day..

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06-05-23, 03:55 PM

5 June 1884. Civil War General William T. Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination, with the now famous words, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. But you cannot have peace and a division of our country. If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war ... I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect and early success.

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06-06-23, 11:09 AM

1912: Lasting three days, the largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century exploded June 6, 1912, from a new volcano, Novarupta. In the process, it created Katmai caldera and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Not only have the 1912 events remained scientifically important ever since, but also the 1912 deposits continue to provide insights about volcanic and magmatic processes that impact us and the land we live in. The magnitude and volume of the eruption at Novarupta in 1912 were exceptional, far larger than any other historical eruption in North America. The eruption formed the Valley of 10,000 Smokes. It created and spread more ash fallout than all the other historic eruptions from Alaska volcanoes combined . The dust and sulphurous aerosols were detected over California, Europe and North Africa within two weeks of the eruption (AVO, Fierstein and Hildreth 2001). It was also reported that an ash blanket reached as far as Greece . The ash and dust deposited has shown up in ice cores taken from Greenland (Fierstein and Hildreth 2001). Other recorded effects were extensive and included collapsed roofs, contaminated water supplies, a devastated fishing industry and cooler summers. https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/stories/images/nri/20150811/articles/256893E9-CFA4-867D-19A9CF2DDC3744B3/256893E9-CFA4-867D-19A9CF2DDC3744B3.jpg https://geology.com/novarupta/maps/largest-volcano-usgs.gif Many aspects of the three-day explosive eruption at Novarupta in June 1912 focused attention on this remote volcano, and it has become one of the most intensively studied in the world. Its eruptive volume of 3.1-3.4 mi3 (13-14 km3) of magma places it among the five largest in recorded history. At any time, such an eruption would attract much attention, but in 1912 the field of volcanology was in its infancy. Phenomena not previously seen or recognized anywhere else provided opportunities for a wide range of research. In addition to aspects already discussed, the eruption also led to pioneering studies in eruption dynamics and mechanisms of explosive eruptions, evolution of underground magma systems that produce volcanoes, and high-temperature vapor transport in fumaroles with relevance to metallic ore deposition. https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v11-i1-c2.htm Bottom Line: if you're gonna get 'cooked' on the spinning mudball, its good to know what the 'stove' is gonna do...somewhat in advance!!??https://i.insider.com/61ab8150983f360019c86fe5?width=700 In 2010, I myself was held over for 5 days in Shannon ireland when Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull erupted, halting all air travel in Europe. If Novarupta(or Yellowstone) erupted again today, to the same scale as in 1912, it would cripple the aviation industry in North America and possibly Europe.https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/stories/images/nri/20160726/articles/94DCDF10-1DD8-B71B-0B96422C53420AB4/94DCDF10-1DD8-B71B-0B96422C53420AB4.jpg< ash load upends jet in Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. The minimum cost is estimated in excess of $300 million and the social implications are likely to be devastating all around the world.

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06-06-23, 01:12 PM

1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I

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

1941 1st US Navy vessel constructed as mine layer, USS Terror (CM-5) launched from the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

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

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

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

1988 George H. W. Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)

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06-07-23, 09:39 AM

1929: The sovereign state of Vatican came into wpexistance as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome. The Vatican is thus one of the world's theocracies. It is the only Christian one. The others are Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. BOTTOM LINE: God or Allah better be real, or it's just another case of goddamn government lying to ya!

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06-07-23, 10:24 AM

1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.

1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane.

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

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island.

1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

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

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06-07-23, 12:24 PM

7 June 1494. Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the New World between them. Other European countries generally ignore the treaty.

7 June 1753. The British Museum is established by an Act of Parliament after King George II gave his Royal Assent. Sir Hans Sloane had bequeathed his collection to the king for £20,000.

7 June 1776. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offers a resolution in the Continental Congress stating “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”

7 June 1788. In what is known as The Day of the Tiles occurs in Grenoble, France. Roof tiles and other objects were thrown at royal French troops. Historians credit it as the start of the French Revolution.

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06-08-23, 05:38 AM

On this day in 793, Vikings land at Lindisfarne, England and slaughter the inhabitants of the monastery there. The bloodbath signals the beginning of nearly 300 years of Norsemen raids and conquest. "Never before has such terror appeared in Britain," writes one chronicler.

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06-08-23, 10:19 AM

8 June 1940. sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in the Norwegian Sea. She and her escorting destroyers, HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent, were returning to Scapa Flow after the carrier had embarked Gladiators from 263 Squadron and Hurricanes of 46 Squadron. Funnel smoke from the ships was sighted by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at 15:45.

Glorious had received no warning of the presence of German ships in the area. She had traversed the Norwegian Sea without incident several times and was not steaming at high speed, though she was zigzagging as a precaution against U-Boats. Despite Glorious still having some Swordfish and Sea Gladiators on board, no aircraft were on patrol or on deck ready to launch, which remains unexplained. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were finally sighted at 16:00, with ‘action stations’ sounded soon afterwards.

The German ships opened fire at 16:30 and Ardent and Acasta attempted to lay a smokescreen to conceal Glorious, but to no avail. The carrier was hit repeatedly by 11 inch shells, reducing her to a flaming wreck; she sank at 18:30. Despite the hopeless odds, both destroyers made repeated attack runs on the German battlecruisers, even scoring hits with their 4.7 inch guns before being sunk themselves at 17:30 and 18:10. A torpedo from Acasta struck and badly damaged Scharnhorst, killing 51 men; repairs took 6 months. The captains of both Ardent and Acasta were later considered for the Victoria Cross.

Over 1,000 men were now in the water, but the German ships, fearing the arrival of reinforcements, didn’t stop to pick up survivors. Before sinking, Glorious had sent distress signals, but whether they were received intact is still disputed. The cruiser HMS Devonshire was only 50 miles away, but was carrying the King of Norway and was under strict orders to keep radio silence and maintain her course for home. The Admiralty only learned of the sinkings 24 hours later - from a German broadcast. By the time Norwegian vessels arrived to rescue survivors, only 40 were still alive. 1,519 men had lost their lives, the worst British naval death toll of the war from a single incident.

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06-08-23, 11:52 AM

8 June 1949. English writer George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, aka 1984, is published by Secker & Warburg. Orwell was his pen name as his given name was Eric Aruthur Blair.

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06-08-23, 12:57 PM

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

1940 Last British troops leave Narvik, Norway.

1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann.

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

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

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

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

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06-09-23, 11:49 AM

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

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

1940 General Charles de Gaulle's 1st meeting with Winston Churchill.

1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks.

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06-09-23, 05:40 PM

9 June 1973. Secretariat, nicknamed Big Red, wins the Triple Crown, winning the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes. It was the first horse since Citation in 1948 to accomplish this. He won the Belmont Stakes by an incredible 31 lengths.

1946, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues a secret order to denounce General Georgy Zhukov.

1943: Future President George H. W. Bush is commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserves, making him the youngest naval pilot to that date.

1920, The Imperial War Museum is opened by King George V at the Crystal Palace. The museum now has five branches located throughout England.

1914. Honus Wagner, age 40, gets his 3,000th hit, a double. He was the second person to get 3,000 hits. His lifetime batting average was an incredible .329.

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06-10-23, 06:51 AM

I can’t Gitmo satisfaction

10 June 1898, U.S. Marines capture Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Since 1959, Havana's communist government has protested the presence of U.S. troops on Cuban soil.

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06-10-23, 07:08 AM

10th June, 1944. 94 P-38 Lightnings of the Fifteenth Air Force took off from airfields in Italy to strike the oil refineries at Ploiesti in Romania. Despite previous raids by heavy bombers, these still produced up to 15% of the Axis fuel supply. It was hoped that a low altitude attack by the P-38s could achieve surprise before smoke generators obscured the target. Meanwhile, their speed, small size and agility would give some protection from the lethal flak defences. Unfortunately, the reality was rather different.

It was one of the longest fighter-bomber missions flown during the Second World War, a 1,300 mile round trip. 48 P38s of the 82nd Fighter Group carried a single 1,000lb bomb and a 300 litre drop tank. They were escorted by the same number of Lightnings from the 1st Fighter group, but on the outbound leg 17 aircraft from the formation had to abort the mission, mostly with engine trouble. Another crash landed in Yugoslavia.

German radar and Romanian observers detected the raid well in advance of its arrival at Ploiesti and the defences were ready. The formation began to split at a turning point and some P-38s broke off to engage 6 German Dornier 217s. At this point, a group of 23 Romanian IAR-81s attacked, shooting down 9 of the escorting Lightnings and losing 3 of their own number. A mixed force of German and Romanian aircraft continued to engage the formation.

25 P-38s of the 82nd made it to the refineries, but the smokescreen was already well established and flak was intense. The Germans had recently shipped in more anti-aircraft guns, from 20 and 37mm cannon up to 88, 105 and even 128mm weapons. Taking their visual cues from surrounding landmarks, the Lightnings dropped their bombs without being able to see the results in most cases. Several aircraft limped away with damage and would not make it back to base.

The final analysis was not encouraging. 14 P-38s from the 1st Fighter Group and 9 from the 82nd had been shot down flak and fighters, a loss rate similar to the infamous low-level B-24 raid the previous August. Some damage was done to one refinery, but production resumed within days. Lessons had been learned, however; there would be no more low-level attacks. A series of heavily escorted conventional daylight USAAF raids, with some RAF bombing by night, eventually halted fuel production by mid-August 1944.

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06-10-23, 08:55 AM

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by Dr. Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

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06-10-23, 09:20 AM

10 June 1854. The first class of Navy cadets at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland graduate.

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06-10-23, 12:12 PM

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

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

1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under.

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

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

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

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

1980 8 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escape from Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast using handguns smuggled into prison.

1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

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06-10-23, 08:08 PM

10 June 1864, Maximilian I of Austria becomes Mexican Emperor. France's Napoleon III offered it to him after the 1861 French invasion. He ruled until June 19, 1867.

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06-11-23, 10:43 AM

11 June 1944, Douet area, France. D-Day + 5. Private Wheatley from 6 Durham Light Infantry firing his Bren gun.

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06-11-23, 10:48 AM

11 June 1775: The first naval battle of American Revolutionary War occurs. The Yanks capture the Margaretta at Battle of Machias in Maine.

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06-11-23, 10:57 AM

11 June 173. During the First Marcomannic War, Marcus Aurelius defeats the Quadi after the "miracle of rain." Romans were outnumbered and almost surrendered because of heat and thirst. Rains refreshed the Romans as lightning struck the Quadi army.

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06-11-23, 10:59 AM

11 June 1902, President Roosevelt spoke at the centennial celebration of West Point. “During that century no other educational institution in the land has contributed as many names as West Point to the honor roll of the nation's greatest citizens.”

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Aktungbby

06-11-23, 11:12 AM

Rains refreshed the Romans as lightning struck the Quadi army. Nothing like having a 'thunderbolt from Jupiter' smite the heathen Quadi to raise morale along the Danube...:hmmm: clearly a case of blitzkrieg warfare...:arrgh!: The Legio LEGO imbibing:http://www.bricktothepast.com/uploads/3/8/6/6/38665903/img-7636-2048_orig.jpg "For when the Romans were in peril in the course of the battle, the divine power saved them in a most unexpected manner. The Quadi had surrounded them at a spot favorable for their purpose and the Romans were fighting valiantly with their shields locked together; then the barbarians ceased fighting, expecting to capture them easily as the result of the heat and their thirst. So they posted guards all about and hemmed them in to prevent their getting water anywhere; for the barbarians were far superior in numbers. The Romans, accordingly, were in a terrible plight from fatigue, wounds, the heat of the sun, and thirst, and so could neither fight nor retreat, but were standing and the line and at their several posts, scorched by the heat, when suddenly many clouds gathered and a mighty rain, not without divine interposition, burst upon them. Indeed, there is a story to the effect that Harnuphis, an Egyptian magician, who was a companion of Marcus, had invoked by means of enchantments various deities and in particular Mercury, the god of the air, and by this means attracted the rain." https://imperiumromanum.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cud-deszczu-na-kolumnie-marka-aureliusza.jpgRelief on the column of Marcus Aurelius with the whole stage No. XVI commemorating the so-called the “miracle of rain” that took place during the battle fought by the Romans with the barbaric Quadi during the Marcomannic Wars. On the right side, there is a bearded figure floating in the air with wings spread wide (arms) from which streams of water flow down for thirsty Roman soldiers. On the left, on the left, are Roman legionaries catching rain falling on inverted shields.

Jimbuna

06-11-23, 12:28 PM

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

1939 King and Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party.

1940 World War II: First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta.

1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas.

1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term.

Rockstar

06-11-23, 03:29 PM

11 June 1509: English King Henry VIII marries his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon. Henry’s attempt to have the marriage annulled led to the English Reformation and the separation of the Church of England from Rome.

This mug shot reminds of those Aktungbby posted of himself

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Rockstar

06-11-23, 06:47 PM

11 June 1776, the Continental Congress appointed John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.

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Rockstar

06-11-23, 06:50 PM

Fraction is inevitable, it’s only common decency which holds things together by a thread.

“[The spirit of party] agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.” - President Washington in his Farewell Address, 1796

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Aktungbby

06-11-23, 08:16 PM

This mug shot reminds of those Aktungbby posted of himself

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Fraction is inevitable, it’s only common decency which holds things together by a thread.
https://i.postimg.cc/k4jLYbkz/IMG-1619.jpg:hmmm:not in this thread it seems!:arrgh!:

Rockstar

06-12-23, 08:43 AM

12 June 1665: New Amsterdam becomes an English colony and is reincorporated as New York City. On Sept. 8, 1664, the Dutch gave up the settlement after British troops occupied it. It was named after the English Duke of York, who becomes King James II.

1939, The term "World War I" is coined by Time magazine. In the same article, the term "World War II" is first used to describe what many thought was the upcoming war.

1939, Baseball Hall of Fame is dedicated in Cooperstown, NY. Hotelier Stephen Clark opened it to bring tourists to the city hurt by the Depression. First inductees were Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson.

Rockstar

06-12-23, 08:54 AM

:hmmm:not in this thread it seems!:arrgh!:

It’s the beard

Jimbuna

06-12-23, 12:20 PM

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

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

1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London.

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

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

1973 Coleraine bombings: six Protestant civilians were killed and 33 wounded by a Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands.

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

Jimbuna

06-13-23, 08:51 AM

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

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

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

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

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

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea.

1972 The Irish Republican Army invites British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Willie Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law"

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

Rockstar

06-13-23, 10:47 AM

13 June 1774, Rhode Island becomes the first British colony in North America to ban the importation of slaves.

1967, President Lyndon Johnson nominates Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Tom Clark retires.

1941, A week before Germany's invasion of the USSR, Goebbels plants an article in a German newspaper making it seem Germany was about to invade Britain. To further deceive, German police confiscated most of that day's newspaper.

2000, President Kim Dae-Jung of South Korea and Dictator Kim Jong-il of North Korea begin the first ever inter-Korea summit in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

1944, The first V-1 flying bombs were launched against England. Flakregiment 155(W), the unit responsible for implementing the campaign, was not yet fully ready and could only get seven missiles in the air. Four crossed the English coast, the first spotted at 4:08am from a Royal Observer Corps post in a Martello Tower (a legacy of the Napoleonic Wars) at Dymchurch. Instructions had already been issued to use the code word ‘Diver’ if pilotless weapons were sighted. This V-1 flew across Kent, exploding in a field at Swanscombe at 4:13.

Other missiles fell in farmland near Cuckfield, Sussex at 4:20 and at Platt, near Sevenoaks, Kent at 5:06. The latter made ‘a terrible mess of a row of greenhouses’ in the grounds of a large house, but there were no casualties. The scene when the first V-1 to hit London landed on Grove Road, Bethnal Green, at 4:25 was very different.

The missile struck and partially demolished a railway bridge over Grove Road which carried the line between Liverpool Street and Stratford. Remarkably, it was replaced with a temporary structure, in place until 1948, within 40 hours. In a sign of what was to come, the blast from the explosion demolished 12 and damaged 50 houses on Antill Road, Burnside Street and Bellraven Street, making 200 people homeless. Six people were killed and 50 seriously injured.

The first fatal casualties of the V-1 campaign were:
Dora Cohen, aged 55
Connie Day, 33
Willie Rogers, 50
Lennie Sherman, 12
Ellen Woodcraft, 19 and her 8-month old baby, Tom.

Commemorative plaque on the Grove Road railway bridge.
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Rockstar

06-13-23, 12:36 PM

13 June 1962, the 2.9-kiloton Des Moines nuclear test (conducted as part of Operation Nougat in a tunnel beneath Rainier Mesa at the Nevada Test Site), accidentally vented, releasing 11 million curies of radioactive material and sending workers racing away from the cloud.

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The Des Moines venting was the largest accidental release of radioactivity from an underground nuclear test in US history.

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Per a formerly secret 1962 AEC report, the cloud traveled “northerly for a few hundred miles, then toward the west and finally curled down the west coast. The highest record amount of I-131 in milk was 1,240 micromicrocuries per liter at Spokane, Washington, on June 21, 1962.”

Rockstar

06-14-23, 06:56 AM

14 June 1158, Munich is founded by Henry the Lion. Munich is derived from Old/Middle High German meaning "by the monks". Henry was one of the most powerful princes of his time. He was also cousins with Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa.

1645, Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army smashes Royalists under Charles I at Naseby. Although England's three-year-old civil war will continue for another 12 months, the king is effectively beaten.

1775, The Continental Army is founded by the Second Continental Congress. It is considered to be the birth of the United States Army. Before finally being disbanded in 1783, it will reach a peak strength of 80,000 men.

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1777, The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Resolution adopting the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States. It had 13 stars, now 50, representing each state. The stripes represent the original 13 colonies.

1800, Napoleon triumphs at Marengo. The victory sees Austria driven from Italy while consolidating Bonaparte's power as First Consul. Parisian streets, French warships & even a chicken dish will all be named for the battle. Napoleon even dubs his favourite horse Marengo.

1807, Napoleon crushes Tsar Alexander I's army at Friedland (in present-day Kaliningrad). After suffering 40% casualties in one day of fighting, Russia is forced to sue for peace, leading to the Treaty of Tilsit and the end of the War of the Fourth Coalition.

1846, The Bear Flag Revolt begins when a group of 30 Americans, led by William Ide and Ezekiel Merritt, attack a Mexican outpost in Sonoma that was left undefended. After taking Sonoma, the men declared California an independent republic.

Rockstar

06-14-23, 08:41 AM

14 June 1944, Normandy. Major "Spike" Galloway MC (6 Durham LI) from Newcastle, going to hospital after his wounded arm had been attended to at a Regimental Aid Post. (He was killed by a tree burst on 12 August near Le Plessis Grimault.)

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Jimbuna

06-14-23, 08:52 AM

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

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

1917 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London.

1931 Reinhard Heydrich's first meeting with Heinrich Himmler.

1934 European despots Adolf Hitler, of Germany, and Benito Mussolini, of Italy, meet in Vienna, Austria.

1940 Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs, later expanded to include civilian Jews and gypsies (approx. 3 million would die within its walls)

1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral.

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.

1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge.

1972 Members of the NI Social Democratic and Labour Party hold a meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army in Derry; the IRA representatives outline their conditions for talks with the British Government.

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

Rockstar

06-15-23, 04:15 AM

15 June 1215, The Magna Carta is sealed by King John of England. It guarantees feudal rights and privileges, upheld the freedom of the church, and maintain the nation’s laws. It was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.

1389, The Ottomans defeat Serbia at the Battle of Kosovo, subjugating Serbia to Ottoman Islamic rule. The day is commemorated as St. Vitus' Day in Serbia. It symbolizes Serbian martyrdom in defense of their honor and Christendom.

1815, Wellington learns that Napoleon has captured Charleroi and is threatening to split the Anlgo-allied and Prussian armies. “He's humbugged me, by God!" the Duke reportedly declares.

Rockstar

06-15-23, 05:19 AM

15 June 1864: 18 months after President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, black soldiers are paid the same as white soldiers.

1775, the Continental Congress unanimously elects a 43-year-old Virginia militia officer named George Washington to command the Continental Army.

Rockstar

06-15-23, 11:13 AM

15 June 1859, an American farmer on the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest shoots a hog owned by a British settler. The incident sparks what becomes known as the "Pig War," a crisis that nearly leads to conflict between the US & Great Britain.

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Jimbuna

06-15-23, 12:46 PM

1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, the day after Congress establishes the force.

1940 German troops occupy Paris as French resistance to the German invasion crumbles.

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

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

1974 "All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation is published by Simon and Schuster in the US

1982 Riots occur in Argentina after the country is defeated in the Falklands Island War.

1996 IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200

Rockstar

06-15-23, 12:58 PM

15 June 1864, the U.S. government establishes a cemetery for fallen Union soldiers on the grounds of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's estate at Arlington, Virginia.

Rockstar

06-16-23, 09:30 AM

16 June 1815, Napoleon wins the last victory of his career at Ligny. Two days later, he'll lose everything at Waterloo.

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1858, future U.S. president Abraham Lincoln warns of the growing danger of civil war. "A house divided against itself, cannot stand," he says. "This government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. It will become all one thing or all the other."

1940, Marshal Henri Pétain, a WWI hero, becomes Chief of State, of Vichy France after the French surrendered to the Germans during World War II. After the war, he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison.

1940, A communist government is installed in Lithuania after the Soviet Union occupies the country the day before on June 15.

1950, David Greenglass was arrested & charged with espionage for passing US atomic bomb secrets to Soviet spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were later convicted and executed. Greenglass was sentenced to 15 years in prison but was released after 9 1/2 years.

Aktungbby

06-16-23, 09:55 AM

16 June 1815, Napoleon wins the last victory of his career at Ligny. Two days later, he'll lose everything ...from which we get the expression in English: "He met his Waterloo"...:hmmm: ie: 'c'est le guerre"!?:|\\:/\\chop:dead:

Jimbuna

06-16-23, 09:55 AM

1779 Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of France and the USA, starting the Great Siege of Gibraltar which goes on to last 3 years, 7 months and 2 weeks.

1815 French army under Napoleon defeats Prussia in the Battle of Ligny, Napoleon's last military victory.

1922 Irish republicans are beaten in a national election; the vote is in favor of the Treaty of London, which leaves the Irish Free State as a dominion within the British Commonwealth.

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

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

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

Aktungbby

06-16-23, 10:24 AM

2020: federal authorities announced murder and attempted murder charges against an Air Force sergeant, Steven Carrillo, in the fatal shooting of a a federal security officer and wounding of another in a 'drive by' shooting as the two officers stood on the front steps of the Oakland, California Federal building.https://media.gettyimages.com/id/172915633/photo/oakland-federal-building.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=xokm-Bv8iLkLI1HS8HfPbC09FBlcnjDEaxbp6ZpTnrE= Carrrillo, who had ties to rthe far right,anti government"boogaloo" movement pled guilty to a federal murder charge in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty....:hmmm: I used to guard that building on day and grave shifts monitoring the X-ray machine for bombs, ID checks, and temporarily confiscating Kirpans (symbolic cultural weaponshttps://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0316/7197/6075/products/64710c5101d08062a3367d89_4f312a30-7670-45fa-97fc-048a2213f39c_grande.png?v=1685202844)from Sikh&s and regular knives from persons entering the building...(confiscating the occasional illegal switchblade). RULE ONE in downtown "Oaktown": U do not ever stand outside on the front steps in uniform!:ping::ping:

Rockstar

06-16-23, 10:45 AM

...from which we get the expression in English: "He met his Waterloo"...:hmmm: ie: 'c'est le guerre"!?:|\\:/\\chop:dead:

And it’s been said the deciding factor was the Belgians stopping Michel Ney, 1st Duke of Elchingen, 1st Prince of the Moskva at the crossroads of Quatre-Bras. When Swiss mercenary Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, William of Orange’s quartermaster-general grew a pair and countermanded Wellington’s order to retreat from the area. Had he not, ol’ Boney would have taken Brussels without a battle at Waterloo.

Aktungbby

06-16-23, 11:41 AM

NOPE the deciding factor was :The Prussian army was defeated by the French two days before the Battle of Waterloo, at the Battle of Ligny on 16 June 1815. Blücher himself was knocked off his horse and almost killed by the French cavalry. However, he rejoined his army, who regrouped and moved north toward the Anglo-Allied army. Blücher claimed he recovered from his injuries by being rubbed with brandy and drinking champagne.

The Prussian army arrived on the battlefield of Waterloo at about 4.00pm, after over four hours of brutal combat between the French and British. The Duke of Wellington, believing that his army was on the point of being overwhelmed, at one point remarked: “Give me night or give me Blücher!”
Often overlooked amid the tales of heroism and sacrifice that characterize the Battle of Waterloo is the decision made by the 72-year-old:salute: Blücher to come to Wellington’s support rather than retiring eastward. Although he was advanced in age,Blücher remained energetic and possessed a keen tactical military sense. He discounted the advice of his chief of staff Field Marshal August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, who doubted the capabilities of Wellington’s army to stand up to Napoleon. Nevertheless, once the task was placed before him Gneisenau urged the Prussian Army forward toward Waterloo with the corps of Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow, relatively unscathed during the defeat at Ligny, in the van.
The Prussians had marched since 4.00am along muddy country roads, but even exhausted they quickly threatened to overwhelm the French. Napoleon had to order increasing numbers of troops east to try and hold off the approaching Prussians, while his main force still tried to finally break the British to his north. When the Prussians reached Waterloo, their heavy pressure on Napoleon’s right flank coupled with an advance by Wellington’s forces finally routed the French Army. "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been decisively defeated at a village called Waterloo, and he was now keen to escape from his enemies, some of whom—such as the Prussians—had sworn to execute him.https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/QfWfvEv0uKzb2UXS86YFYf1Auhc=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/37/f7/37f76041-e0f6-4087-8388-ec211c26a9fb/jun2015_j04_waterloo.jpghttps://www.nam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/slice_lg/public/2017-02/13517_slice.jpg?itok=D8kXfrCn<"please don't leave us Boss!!??" Additionally and overlooked in history:In addition, the Prussian rearguard of 17,000 troops had tied down 33,000 French troops that could have otherwise taken part at Waterloo. Thus, for the Prussians, the battle was a strategic success, as it contributed to the decisive victory at Waterloo. Both offensive on Napoleon's flank and defensive simultaneously- now that's serious multi-tasking! Alas: Ol' Boney's horse, (d. 1833) poor Marengo's, hoof(s) ended up as a snuff box: one at at St James palace in London....https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/01/10/3FCD747600000578-0-image-a-8_1493631870338.jpg a footing end to a titanic struggle.:hmmm: Considering the futility of the Imperial Guard's advance and 'Recule'; a whole lotta bears died for nuthin:https://www.nam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2017-02/1054034_half.jpg:wah:

Jimbuna

06-16-23, 11:47 AM

It is not hard to attribute whoever or whatever tipped the balance in the allies favour but much is dependant on who you prefer to believe and therefore support.

Rockstar

06-17-23, 08:29 AM

17 June 1462, Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia, tries to kill Sultan Mehmed II when his troops attack Ottoman forces at Târgovişte in present day Romania. Vlad's refusal to pay the jizya (tax on non-Muslims) led to the conflict.

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In the glorious year 1775, The brave valiant freedom fighters for truth justice and the American way entrenched near Bunker Hill inflict heavy casualties on the British oppressors before withdrawing to finish their honey-do-list. While not a victory for the fledgling American independence, the battle shows that colonials can indeed stand up to redcoats, just not their wives.

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1885, The remaining parts to the Statue of Liberty arrives in New York from France. The hand and torch had been on display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia 10 years before the rest of it was completed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch 17 June 1917 prints this J Crowley graphic of an idea proposed by Doctor Gernsback in the journal Electrical Experimenter. He wanted to convert obsolete American battleships into super-Tanks.

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17 June 1940 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov sends German Ambassador Schulenburg a message congratulating Germany on its victory over France, saying it should put an end to distrust England and France tried to sow between Germany and the USSR.

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17 June 1944, Two weeks after the allies' D-Day invasion, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel warns German dictator Adolf Hitler that troops in the west might collapse after the Normandy invasion takes hold, encouraging Hitler to seek a negotiated settlement.

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17 June 1944, Normandy. Men from 5 Welsh Guards, moving up to the front line.

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in 1944, Normandy. Off-duty, time to write a letter home, or clean a rifle. Bofors anti-aircraft gun crews from 393 Light Anti-Aircraft Battery.

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17 June 1944: Iceland declares its independence from Denmark, becoming a republic. The Danish–Icelandic Act of Union expired on Dec. 31, 1943 after 25 years. Voters went to the polls in May and 97% voted to dissolve the union.

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1953, Soviet tanks crushed workers protests in East Germany. Up to 125 were killed.

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1960, The Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams, the greatest hitter of all time, hits his 500th home run against the Cleveland Indians, becoming only the third player to reach that plateau.

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Jimbuna

06-17-23, 12:47 PM

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

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

1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia.

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

1938 Japan declares war on China.

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

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

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

1944 Hitler secretly meets with Field Marshals von Rundstedt and Rommel in Marjival, Soissons, France to assess response to Normandy Invasion.

1953 US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary.

1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)

1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear power by exploding a hydrogen bomb.

1972 Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington.

1974 The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage.

1982 President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri resigns as commander in chief of the army and as president after leading Argentina to a disastrous defeat against the British in the Falkland Islands War.

Jimbuna

06-18-23, 12:41 PM

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

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon Bonaparte and France defeated by British forces under Duke of Wellington and Prussian troops under Field Marshall von Blücher.

1940 General Charles de Gaulle makes his first speech on the BBC to the French people, since arriving in London, an appeal to defy Nazi occupiers - regarded as the beginning of French Resistance during WWII

1940 Winston Churchill gives his "this was their finest hour" speech to the House of Commons urging perseverance in the war after the Dunkirk evacuation and the fall of France.

1944 German submarine U-767 sunk by the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Fame, HMS Inconstant and HMS Havelock in the English Channel

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

1953 USAF C-124 Globemaster crashes shortly after takeoff from Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, killing 129 servicemen; at the time, it was the deadliest incident in aviation history.

1972 3 members of the British Army are killed by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb in a derelict house near Lurgan, County Down.

Aktungbby

06-19-23, 10:48 AM

1865: Union troops arrived in Galveston Texas with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free- an event known as "Juneteenth". Oddly, there is a movement to amend the Constitution's exception to prohibition of slavery "except as punishment for crime"; particularly used by Southern states and others well into the 20th century, during the lengthy Jim Crow era to target and incarcerate 'persons of color' compelling forced prison labor as a source of income to state and County governments. The proposed legislation to eliminate the 'remaining vestige' of slavery would still permit 'voluntary' employment....:o:yep::timeout:. Junteenth being a new national holiday, I didn't get my copy of the Wall Street Journal, which I rely on for clear, concise, and (relatively) unbiased points-of-view over my morning cuppa-joe! DAMN!:wah:

Jimbuna

06-19-23, 11:34 AM

1819 HMS Kite chases the steamship SS Savannah on its historic voyage across the Atlantic for 3 hours off the coast of Ireland believing it to be on fire. Unable to catch the steamship HMS Kite fires warning shots forcing it to stop and be inspected to the amazement of the British.

1829 Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, the city's first modern police force.

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

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

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

1972 A Catholic civilian is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the Cracked Cup Social Club, Belfast.

1972 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw concedes 'special category' status, or 'political status' for paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland.

Rockstar

06-19-23, 01:02 PM

19 June 1269, King Louis IX of France orders Jews found in public without a yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.

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1787, Framers of the U.S. Constitution tentatively decide senators should serve 7 yrs; House members should serve 3 yrs; Congress should elect the president and they should serve 7 yrs; and the Senate should appoint Supreme Court justices.

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1865, Choctaw Indian tribe leader Peter Pitchlynn surrenders to the U.S. during the U.S. Civil War. In 1864 the leaders of the “Five Civilized Tribes” agreed to make peace with the Union as independent nations and not part of the Confederacy.
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1867, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico after Republican forces, led by Mexican President Benito Juárez, captured him. Juárez had been supported by the U.S.

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1933, Due to increased subversive activities, the Austrian government under Engelbert Dollfuss bans the Austrian Nazi party. On March 12, 1938 Germany would absorb Austria into Germany.
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1944, Tilly-sur-Seulles area, France. Men from 2 Essex passing a knocked out Panther tank.
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1944, Normandy. A damaged Spitfire from 403 Squadron at a forward airstrip in Normandy.
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1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returns to Earth after spending nearly three days in space. She was the first woman to travel to space.
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1968, Lt. j.g. Clyde Lassen and crew, flying a UH-2A helicopter, launch a rescue mission of two downed U.S. aviators in North Vietnam. Despite heavy anti-aircraft fire, the crew rescues the men. For his actions, Lassen receives the Medal of Honor.
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The Tonca is an event in Trento, Italy, where every 19th of June a ceremonial jury sentences the local politician that committed the year's worst blunder to be locked in a cage and dunked in the river. Tradition is important. Happy June 19th !!!
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06-19-23, 06:19 PM

19 June 1940, Congress passed the Vinson-Walsh "Two-Ocean Navy" Act which increased the size of the U.S. Navy by 70%. It was the largest naval procurement bill in U.S. history, adding 18 carriers, 7 battleships, 33 cruisers, 115 destroyers, 43 subs and 15k aircraft to the fleet.

Aktungbby

06-19-23, 10:31 PM

1867, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by a firing squad in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico after Republican forces, led by Mexican President Benito Juárez, captured him. Juárez had been supported by the U.S.'Twas the lesser of two evils. Revolution on the US southern boarder is one thing, particularly as the political high handedness of France was conducted while the American attention was on the Civil War; but having a major European power in place is a clear violation of the Montroe Doctrine. The firing squad saved us the trouble of invading from the North under General W.T.Sherman. It would be enforced again under Kennedy against Russian missiles in Cuba.

Jimbuna

06-20-23, 12:21 PM

1819 The SS Savannah reaches Cork in Ireland after a 29 day and 11 hour voyage from Savannah, Georgia to become the 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic or any other ocean.

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

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

1919 Philipp Scheidemann resigns as chancellor of the new German Republic, which he helped establish, refusing to sign the Treaty of Versailles.

1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews.

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

1945 U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. approves transfer of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and his specialists to the US

1979 US President Jimmy Carter unveils 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House; his immediate successor has them removed.

2020 Highest-ever temperature recorded in the Arctic circle, 38C (100F) in Verkhoyansk, Siberia.

Rockstar

06-20-23, 01:34 PM

20 June 451, A coalition led by Roman General Flavius Aetius and Visigoth King Theodorid defeat Attila the Hun at the Battle of Châlons. Theodorid was killed at the battle. It was one of the last major military operations of the Western Roman Empire.

1837, The United Kingdom’s Queen Victoria begins her reign at the age of 18. She was crowned on June 28, 1838 and ruled until her death on January 22, 1901.

1921, Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson, a Republican from Oklahoma, becomes the first woman to preside over a session of the House of Representatives. She was the first woman to serve from Oklahoma and the second woman to serve in Congress.

1840, U.S. inventor Samuel Morse receives a patent for the telegraph. He also co-invented Morse code. Before becoming an inventor, he was a well known portrait painter.

1942 ,Estevan Point Lighthouse & Wireless Station on Vancouver Island Canada is shelled by Japanese submarine I-26.

Rockstar

06-20-23, 03:00 PM

20 June 1963, The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to establish a "hotline" between the two nations due to tensions between the countries.

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1898, USS Charleston captured Guam. The island's garrison was unaware that there was a state of war between the US and Spain, so they mistook salvos from the Charleston as a salute. When officials went to greet the ship, they were shocked to learn that they had become PoWs.

Jimbuna

06-21-23, 07:42 AM

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

1887 Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.

1900 In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty.

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

1948 HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London.

1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, disappear after being released from a Mississippi jail, later found murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

1975 Elton John, The Eagles and The Beach Boys play to 72,000 fans at Wembley Stadium, London.

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

Rockstar

06-21-23, 08:51 AM

21 June 1527, Italian Niccolo Machiavelli dies. He was a founder of modern political science and political ethics. The term "Machiavellianism" is used as a negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians he described in his book The Prince.

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1933. First flight of the Supermarine Walrus amphibious seaplane. Initially a private venture, the first customer was the Australian government (as the Seagull V). The aircraft was then adopted by the RAF and Royal Navy as the Walrus, entering service in 1936. Developed primarily as a reconnaissance aircraft, its most important role would prove to be air-sea rescue, with many a ditched Allied airman relieved to see its approach. Affectionately known as the ‘Shagbat’ or ‘Steam Pigeon’, just under 750 Walruses were produced by January 1944.
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1939, The New York Yankees announce the retirement of Lou Gehrig, who had been recently diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He last played on April 30, then a record 2,130 consecutive games played.

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1942, The Japanese submarine I-25 attacks Fort Stevens in Oregon near the mouth of the Columbia River during World War II. The sub fired shots at the fort from its gun deck, but the shots missed. No one was killed or injured.

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1943, Tripoli. Tunisia. HM King George VI riding with Montgomery.
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1948, Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 revolutions per minute record at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

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1957, Soviet spy Rudolph Abel was arrested for espionage. His undoing began when a Brooklyn newsboy found a hollow nickel containing a coded message, drawing FBI interest. Abel was later exchanged for American U-2 pilot Gary Powers, a prisoner of the USSR.

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1970, Brazil, led by Pele, defeats Italy, 4-1, to win its third World Cup.

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1982, John Hinckley, Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981 at the Washington Hilton Hotel.

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2009, Greenland gains additional self-rule from Denmark. However, the Danish government retains control of foreign affairs and defense.

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06-21-23, 10:07 AM

1943: an imperial Japanese submarine, I-25, fired shells at Fort Stevens, a Civil War era fort on the Oregon coast at the mouth of the Columbia River, causing little damage. Power lines were damaged, but most of the shells fell into a swamp. The fort's Commander wisely didn't return fire with the forts older artillery, as the submarine was out of range and he didn't want to betray the fort's location with artillery flashes.:know: A passing army air formation spotted and reported the Japanese submarine which was subsequently attacked by a Hudson bomber which the I-25 Commander, Tagami, successfully evaded. Fort Steven's was the only continental US fortification attacked during WW II. .

Aktungbby

06-22-23, 09:37 AM

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated for the second time as Emperor of the French...and was incarcerated on the island of St. Helenain the South Atlantic. Attention Donald Trump: the lowest thing in politics is a two-time loser!:O:

Rockstar

06-22-23, 09:55 AM

22 June 1476, The Swiss Confederation defeat Charles the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy, at the Battle of Morat during the Burgundian Wars. The Swiss Confederation and its allies were victorious in the Burgundian Wars.
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1593, Allied Christian troops from the Kingdom of Croatia and Inner Austria defeat the Islamic Ottomans led by Telli Hasan Pasha at the Battle of Sisak in present-day Croatia.

1807, the warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the frigate USS Chesapeake off Norfolk, Virginia. Four crew members from the American vessel are accused of desertion from the Royal Navy and arrested. One is later hanged.

1813, Laura Secord walks 20 miles to warn the British of an American attack near Niagara. The incident will later give the fledgling Canadian nation its own Paul Revere legend.

1944, France. Piper R. Brown entertaining his pals from 51 "Highland" Infantry Division.
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1945, The U.S. defeats the Japanese at the Battle of Okinawa. The battle started on April 1. 12,500 U.S. troops were killed or declared missing. The amphibious invasion was bigger than D-Day in Europe a year earlier.
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1945, at HMS Hornet in Portsmouth, surrendered German fast attack boats ('E boats') are tied up as their crews disembark.
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1969, U.S. actress and singer Judy Garland, dies at the age of 47 of an overdose. She was born June 10, 1922 in Minnesota.
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1998, a manned KPN sub was found tangled in nets near South Korea. Placed under tow by the ROK Navy, the sub sank after possibly being scuttled by its crew. When the sub was salvaged, it was found that the crew had been executed by officers who then committed suicide.
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1990, Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing point between East and West Berlin, is dismantled. The Berlin Wall came down beginning on November 9, 1989.https://i.postimg.cc/CLzjB222/IMG-1729.jpg

Jimbuna

06-22-23, 01:39 PM

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

1815 After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates for the second time, in favor of his son Napoleon II

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rockstar

06-23-23, 09:40 AM

1314, Robert the Bruce takes on the English army at Bannockburn. After two days of fighting, Scotland prevails.

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1757, 3,000 British East India Company troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-man army of the Nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey. The victory helps put the region in company hands and paves the way for the eventual British takeover of the Indian subcontinent.
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1865: Confederate General and Cherokee Chief Stand Watie surrenders the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.
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1888: Former slave Frederick Douglass receives one vote at the Republican convention, making him the first black candidate placed in nomination for U.S. president.
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1915, Royal Navy submarine C24 sunk German U-40, 40 miles off Eyemouth. First success in using decoy vessel to tow submerged submarine, which would slip its tow & torpedo U-boat when it surfaced to attack decoy. C24’s skipper awarded DSO.

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1919 East Oregonian Newspaper prints this photo of the men who forced the United States Army to invade Mexico. The United States Army had invaded Mexico while hunting paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa
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1923, Experts from the leading Allied nations are at work in The Hague on a protocol for rules of bombing in future wars. "Aerial bombardment for the purpose of terrorizing the civilian population, of destroying or damaging private property...is prohibited."

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1942, the Allies capture a German Focke-Wulf fighter intact after a Luftwaffe pilot named Armin Faber lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales. The confused German flyer mistakes the Bristol Channel for the English Channel and believes the runway he is landing on is in France.
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1997, former FBI agent Earl Pitts was sentenced to 27 years in prison for providing classified information to the Russian intelligence services. Pitts was identified as a Russian mole when his KGB handler Aleksandr Karpov himself became a double agent for the FBI.

Jimbuna

06-23-23, 11:34 AM

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

1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbour strikers.

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

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

1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken (Tarakan)

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

1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the U.S.

1961 The Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes; for international cooperation in scientific research; and does not become the scene or object of international discord, comes into force.

1972 Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage.

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

Rockstar

06-24-23, 09:56 AM

24 June 217 BC, Carthaginian General Hannibal ambushes and defeats the Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
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1340, Edward III leads an English fleet to victory over the French at Battle of Sluys. The king packs his ships with soldiers and longbowmen and uses superior tactics and favourable winds to capture or destroy 190 enemy vessels for the loss of only two of his own.
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1779, French and Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful Great Siege of Gibraltar against the British during the U.S. Revolutionary War. The unsuccessful siege lasted three years.
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1812, Napoleon and his French army cross the Prussian-Russian border near Kaunas, in modern-day Lithuania, at the Nieman river to begin his invasion of Russia. It would not end well for Napoleon nor his troops.
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1850, Field Marshal Kitchener, army officer, colonial administrator, & Secretary of State for War was born.
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1859, France's Napoleon III and Sardinian King Victor Emmanuel II defeat the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I at Solferino. It's the last battle in history in which all the armies are commanded by sitting monarchs.
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1908, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dies at the age of 71. He was the 22nd and 24th president, serving from 1885-89 and 1893-1897.
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1922: The American Professional Football Association, which was founded in 1920, consisting of 10 teams from four different states, adopts the name the National Football League.
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1940, The Italians and French sign an armistice to end their brief conflict. Italy declared war on France on June 10, 1940, while France was on the verge of defeat against Germany.
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1948, The Soviets begin the Berlin Blockade, blocking travel over land between West Germany and West Berlin, after West Germany introduced the Deutsche mark.

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Jimbuna

06-24-23, 12:18 PM

1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England.

1374 Sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

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

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

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

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

1930 1st detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.

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

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

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry.

1997 USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies.

Rockstar

06-25-23, 09:41 AM

25 June 1678, Elena Cornaro Piscopia of Venice becomes the first woman to receive a doctoral degree when she earns a doctorate of #philosophy from the University of Padua in what is now Padua, Italy.
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1868, After the Civil War, Congress basically overrides the veto of Omnibus Act, which allows for the readmission of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to the Union.

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1876, George Armstrong Custer and five companies of the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry — 268 men in all — are wiped out at Little Bighorn by Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho forces.
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1913, the first of more than 53,000 aging Civil War veterans begin arriving at Gettysburg for a week of commemorations marking the battle's 50th anniversary. "We have found one another again as brothers, enemies no longer."
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1923, Poland's Marshal Josef Pilsudski reviews a military parade from a balcony in Warsaw, flanked by Romanian visitors King Ferdinand and Queen Marie.
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1942, Rottingdean. 11 Armoured Division, passing through. Corporal Stephenson speaking to five year old Pat Brooker.
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1944, The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle fought in the Nordic countries, begins. It was part of the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union. In the battle, the Finns are victorious over Soviets.

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1944. On the right, Squadron Leader Horbaczewski [KIA 18-08-1944] showing how he rescued Warrant Officer Tadeusz Tamowicz (not in picture) who was forced to land in Normandy. Horbaczewski landed nearby Tamowicz and evacuated him in his P-51 Mustang.
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1947: The diary of Anne Frank is published in Dutch.
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1950, 100,000 North Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel kicking off the Korean War. The three-year conflict draws in 19 nations and leaves an estimated 3 million people dead.
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1975, Mozambique gains its independence from Portugal after ten years of fighting.
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1997, French explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, author, who studied the oceans, Jacques Cousteau, dies at the age of 87 in Paris.
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Jimbuna

06-25-23, 09:44 AM

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

1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)

1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

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

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

1950 north korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.

1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Alexander Haig Jr. in Obourg, Belgium by German terrorist Rolf Klemens Wagner, a former member of the Red Army Faction.

2021 WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus confirms the COVID-19 Delta variant is the most transmissible to date, now present in 85 countries and spreading rapidly.