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Mr Quatro

08-01-17, 08:55 AM

The Protestant Passover

August 1

We can’t blame churchmen in England for agonizing every time a new monarch was crowned, for the religious persuasion of the kings determined who would be burned. Anxiety continued even in the days of Isaac Watts and his fellow pastor, Thomas Bradbury. During their day, Queen Anne and the parliament passed the “Schism Bill,” to take effect August 1, 1714. Many predicted it would reestablish Catholicism in England “with mighty gust,” and that Baptists and other Dissenters would again be racked and burned. A terrible storm gathered, and even the stalwart Bradbury grew anxious.

In the early hours of August 1, Bishop Burnet was passing through Smithfield in London where martyrs of previous eras had died. Seeing Bradbury there, he asked, “Why are you so buried in thought, Mr. Bradbury?”

“I have been wondering, bishop,” replied Bradbury, “whether I shall have the resolution of that noble army of martyrs whose ashes are deposited in this place. Similar times of persecution are at hand, and I shall be called to suffer.”

“Then you have not heard the news! The queen is seriously ill. I am on my way to obtain the latest particulars. I will dispatch a messenger with the earliest intelligence of her death. If you are in the pulpit when he arrives he will drop a handkerchief from the gallery.”

Later that morning Bradbury ascended his pulpit, and in the middle of his sermon a handkerchief fluttered from the gallery. For weeks he had lived in suspense. Now the news descended with the handkerchief: Anne is dead; the Schism bill, lost; the danger, past. His blood surged, but he continued his sermon without pause. Only in his concluding prayer did he reveal to his stunned congregation that God had “delivered these kingdoms from evil counsels.”

He prayed for “His Majesty, King George,” then quoted Psalm 89.

For years, Dissenters regarded August 1, 1714 as a day of deliverance, the “Protestant Passover.”

On This Day : 265 Amazing and Inspiring Stories About Saints, Martyrs & Heroes.

Jimbuna

08-02-17, 08:14 AM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1961 Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club.

Aktungbby

08-02-17, 12:58 PM

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

1964: Generally a bad day for PT boats al' round! As is usual procedure: a naval incident propels US of A into another war. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/h95611.jpgPhotograph taken from USS Maddox (DD-731) during her engagement with three North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, 2 August 1964. The view shows all three of the boats speeding towards the Maddox. This real attack, later confirmed by N. Viet Nm's Gen Giap, would occasion the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and a useless nine year war ending when Congress repealed the Resolution in 1973...The NVN torpedo boats were commanded by three brothers: Van Bot commanded boat T-333, Van Tu commanded T-336, and T-339 was commanded by Van Gian.The torpedo boats initially conducted their attack in numerical order, with T-333 spearheading the assault. ( Brother Bot was in 'the van' of the attack??!!:timeout:-Clearly a violation of the Sullivan law!!) Maximum effective range for their torpedoes was 1,000 yards (910 m),. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maddox_(DD-731)#cite_note-Moise.2C_p._79-7)but Maddox's 5-inch gun's range was 18,000 yards (16,000 m).[ As the boats pressed home their attack and came within 5,000 yards (4,600 m), T-333 attempted to run abeam of Maddox for a side shot, while the remaining two boats continued their stern chase. The two chasers, T-336 and T-339, fired first, but due to Maddox's heavy fire of 5-inch shells, the torpedo boats had discharged their torpedoes at excessive range, all four underwater missiles missing their mark. T-333 fired its torpedoes, without effect, but dueled Maddox's 5-inch guns with its twin 14.5 mm (0.57 in)machine gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_gun), achieving one hit on the destroyer. The ship altered her course to avoid the torpedoes, which were observed passing on the starboard side. Soon, four F-8 Crusaders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-8_Crusader) from an aircraft carrier in the region,USS Ticonderoga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ticonderoga_(CV-14)), arrived on the scene and attacked the three torpedo boats. The combination of fire from Maddox and the F-8s severely damaged all three boats, and forced them to retreat to the bases from which they came. Several NVN sailors were wounded, and four were killed. No US sailors were killed or wounded, and Maddox did not sustain serious damage; one of the four Crusaders sustained some 14.5 mm machine gun fire hits, as a large portion of its left wing was "missing", but managed to return to Ticonderoga. Having recently fired at Iranian patrol boats in the Persian Gulf (July 24) and dodging Chinese military aircraft in the South China Seas under disputed 'right of free passage' (July 25) http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-us-navy-ship-fires-warning-shots-iranian-48834904 (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-us-navy-ship-fires-warning-shots-iranian-48834904) & http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/chinese-jet-intercept-us-navy-plane/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/chinese-jet-intercept-us-navy-plane/index.html) ....the US military-industrial complex, Ol' Ike warned about, is up to its normal preliminary tricks...and the 'enemy' has read our book!:03:

Jimbuna

08-03-17, 08:30 AM

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader).

1943 Gen Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice.

1954 First VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) flown.

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

1963 Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool.

Mr Quatro

08-03-17, 10:42 AM

The Boxers, waged a virtual war against believers. Nearly 200 missionary adults and children and 30,000 national Chinese Christians perished. Among them was missionary Lizzie Atwater who wrote her family on August 3, 1900:

Dear ones, I long for a sight of your dear faces, but I fear we shall not meet on earth. I am preparing for the end very quietly and calmly. The Lord is wonderfully near, and he will not fail me. I was very restless and excited while there seemed a chance of life, but God has taken away that feeling, and now I just pray for grace to meet the terrible end bravely. The pain will soon be over, and oh the sweetness of the welcome above!

My little baby will go with me. I think God will give it to me in Heaven, and my dear mother will be so glad to see us. I cannot imagine the Savior’s welcome. Oh, that will compensate for all these days of suspense. Dear ones, live near God and cling less closely to earth. There is no other way by which we can receive that peace from God which passeth understanding. …

… I just keep calm these hours. I do not regret coming to China, but am sorry I have done so little. My married life, two precious years, has been so very full of happiness. We will die together, my dear husband and I. I send my love to you all, the dear friends who remember me.

Twelve days later the Atwaters perished. But it was not for nothing. When tensions subsided the missionary army returned, remaining until expelled by the Communists in 1949. The number of Chinese Christians grew to about 5 to 7 million by 1980, and has since mushroomed to an estimated 50 million—and counting.

Aktungbby

08-03-17, 02:14 PM

Of some interest to this old Congregationalist: The most severe persecution came in the northern province of Shanxi, where the governor of the province, Yu Xian was (allegedly)a noted Boxer sympathizer. In Fenzhou in northern Shanxi, however, local officials seemed to be more kind to the missionaries than in most other locations. A number of missionaries flocked to Fenzhou at the invitation of workers stationed there, believing they would be safe until the trouble blew over. Shortly after they arrived in the town, however, the evil governor assigned a new magistrate over Fenzhou, who promptly placed an armed guard over the foreigners. The missionaries knew they had walked into a trap and feared the worst:
Seven members of the Oberlin Band were in Fenzhou: Charles and Eva Price and their daughter, Florence, about six years old; and Ernest and Elizabeth Atwater and their two younger daughters, Celia and Bertha, about five and three years old. With them were three missionaries of the China Inland Mission.
On August 14, the missionaries were ordered to leave the city. The ten missionaries, three Chinese Christians, and two cart drivers departed through the streets while 10,000 people silently watched them depart. The soldiers escorting the missionaries had orders to kill them along the road, One of the Chinese Christians, warned of what was coming, bribed the soldiers with his possessions and was permitted to depart. As he was fleeing he heard shots. All the missionaries were killed. The soldiers robbed the bodies and local villagers buried them. (at night and at considerable risk to themselves; 200 hundred Christian Chinese were executed for this kindness) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/DSCN4646_oberlincollegepetershall_e2.jpg/300px-DSCN4646_oberlincollegepetershall_e2.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DSCN4646_oberlincollegepetershall_e2.jpg)The Memorial Arch at Oberlin College is dedicated to the memory of the 15 missionaries of the Oberlin Band killed in China in 1900.
Accounts of the 2 separate massacres of Oberlin missionaries vary: Twelve days after her letter was written, Lizzie Atwater, her unborn baby, and six other missionaries were hacked to death by the guards. (I somehow find it difficult to believe that the guards suddenly were merciful and used guns....)
Later, when Lizzie's parents in Oberlin, Ohio, heard the dreadful news of the death of their daughter, son-in-law, and unborn grandchild, they said, in tears, "We do not begrudge them - we gave them to that needy land; China will yet believe the truth." ...right!:oops: The truth perhaps: Alas poor governor Yu Xian, who perhaps tried to suppress the Boxers,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Yu-Hsien%2C_the_butcher_of_Shan-Si.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Yu-Hsien%2C_the_butcher_of_Shan-Si.tif.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yu-Hsien,_the_butcher_of_Shan-Si.tif) was himself beheaded one year later: After Allied armies seized control of North China, Yuxian was blamed by both foreign and Chinese officials for having encouraged the Boxers, and at their insistence, he was beheaded. Historians have now shown that while Yuxian was strongly resistant to foreign influence, he was in fact actively involved in the suppression of Boxer groups in 1895–96 and 1899, but that his strategy of killing Boxer leaders without prosecuting their followers failed in late 1899, when the Boxers had changed in nature and their executed leaders could easily be replaced by new ones. They also suggest that the Christians in Taiyuan were killed by mob violence, not by Yu Xian's order. Scapegoats and fallguys, as always I 'spect.

Jimbuna

08-05-17, 09:59 AM

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

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

Jimbuna

08-06-17, 10:21 AM

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210.

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

1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

Jimbuna

08-07-17, 10:27 AM

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

1942 First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Island.

1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

Jimbuna

08-09-17, 08:40 AM

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

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany patents the diesel internal combustion engine.

1914 German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, HMS Birmingham.

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

1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki.

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

Mr Quatro

08-09-17, 01:14 PM

During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom ... The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

Jimbuna

08-10-17, 09:09 AM

1942 General Bernard Montgomery appointed commander British 8th Army in North Africa.

1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali.

1943 Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.

1944 Battle for Guam ends, US troops recapture Guam from the Japanese.

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged.

Aktungbby

08-10-17, 11:32 AM

1943 Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots. The German and Hungarian governments carried on an extensive domestic propaganda campaign regarding Terrorfliegers and encouraged the populace to vent their anger against these down airmen. The Allied goverments did not do the same. In Hungarian propaganda, for example, the American airmen were protrayed as "Chicago gangsters" whom the Americans had released from jail to conduct these missions, and that the gangsters were paid $50,000 per flight One American POW who was shot down over Hungary and who was injured and could not flee told me that the first Hungarian who came upon him was a Hungarian girl who went through the pockets of his flight jacket looking for the $50,000. Now, propaganda such as this dramatically increases the anger of population against airmen bombing their cities, and in a sense, legitimizes the harming of the airmen as they are in the mind of the population only "gangsters" anyway. Widespread, understandable,...and most distressing; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7br1QHqPFtk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7br1QHqPFtk) http://hydraprod.library.cornell.edu/fedora/get/nur:00482_2/digitalImageJust to be perfectly fair and 'aboveboard' however (attn Catfish) ....Never mess with enraged English Lady Blitz firefighters:yeah:: Gladys Edwards, from South London, is 83 now, but was an eight-year-old girl when she witnessed an extraordinary event two weeks after the outbreak of the Blitz.
'A great shout went up from outside the flats where I was living in Westminster. A Luftwaffe pilot had been shot down in nearby Victoria and had baled out in his parachute, landing in Kennington.
'That pilot was pursued by a huge crowd of angry women wielding shovels, brushes, sticks and whatever weapons they could grab. They were hellbent on his annihilation. One woman reached him and hit him with her coal shovel with an angry cry of “That's for my boy at Dunkirk.”
'He tried to run but his harness was too much for him. Suddenly, an Army lorry drew up and half a dozen soldiers with fixed bayonets jumped out and forced a way through the crowd. They rescued the airman and the last I saw of him was when, looking battered, he climbed into the back of the lorry.
'You have to understand how much we hated them. The Germans started it, but we sure as hell finished it.http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/16/21/2C64DFA200000578-3237394-image-a-2_1442433801592.jpg My Grandmother lived in the idyllic little village of Ringwood, for most of her life. In 1940; the villagers took in a number of women and children, who had been bombed out, during the Luftwaffe raids on Southampton. A city situated on the Southern coast, some 20 miles away.
Some of these women had lost loved ones, some had lost friends and all of them had lost their homes.
Within days of their arrival; A parachute was seen decending into a field close to the village. Why a German plane, tasked with bombing Southampton, would be so far off course and so far inland and why this airman had to bail out over Ringwood, my Grandmother couldn´t say. What she did say however, was that these women grabbed kitchen knives and anything else they could lay their hands on, and then ran straight over to the field and hacked the poor sod to death.
The incident (according to my Grandmother) was hushed up by the authorities and nobody was prosecuted, but the story didn´t end there. Two of the women later commited suicide and several of the others ended up in mental institutions.
A quick search on the net showed plenty of Ju 88s, He -111s, Bf 110s and others German aircrafts being shot down all over Hampshire in 1940. And I suppose there are instances of crippled planes that kept on flying for some distance, before finally crashing, even after the crew had bailed out. But the fact is; the only plane that crashed anywhere near Ringwood in 1940 was N2703, a Hurricane 1, belonging to 145sq, which crashed NW of the Village due to engine failure on the 12th of july 1940. And yes; Several of the sqaudrons pilots were indeed Polish.
However any further inference based on these facts alone, would be pure speculation on my part. That said, a man, where ever he came from, was hacked to death in Ringwood, 1940.
So in responce to your question; Yes, British women at the very least, were quite willing to exact revenge on an enemy that bombed them from above. On 20 May 1940 a Messerschmitt Bf110 of 9 Staffel Zerstorergeschwader 26 was shot down by French fighters near Luchy, France. Its pilot, Uffz Wilhelm Ross (born 27 Jan 1917 at Duisburg) and gunner both baled out, the gunner landed injured and both were captured by French soldiers and civilians. The Pilot was pushed around a little and then shot in the head and killed.

On 26 Aug 1940 a Heinkel He111 of 4 Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 55 based at Chartres in France was shot down by RAF fighters and was crash landed by its wounded pilot Leutnant Albert Metzger on the beach at East Wittering in Sussex. Metzger couldnt get out of the bomber due to wounds but his crew Uffz. Rudolf Schandner (Observer), Fw. Julius Urhahn (Flight Mechanic), Uffz. Rudi Paas (Radio Operator) and Flgr. Rudolf Fessel (Gunner) climbed out to surrender to A Company, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry. They were all shot dead on the beach.

On 15 Sep 40 a Dornier Do17Z of 1 Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 76 was shot down over London, it crashed on Victoria Station after some of the crew baled out. Oberleutnant Robert Zehbe (born 9 Dec 1913 Kiel) landed by parachute in Kennington, London. He was captured and beaten to death by a mob of civilians. These incidents were by no means unique. The most notorious case in my opinion remains the Rüsselsheim massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCsselsheim_massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCsselsheim_massacre) The bitter irony is the aircraft was named 'Wham!, Bam!, Thankyou Ma'm'...http://b-29s-over-korea.com/Russelsheim/images/B-24_WHAM_BAM.jpg While being marched through town, two women, Margarete Witzler and Käthe Reinhardt, shouted out, "There are the terror flyers. Tear them to pieces! Beat them to death! They have destroyed our houses!" (they received 30 years imprisonment ) One of the crew-members replied back in German, "It wasn't us! We didn't bomb Rüsselsheim!" Nevertheless, one woman threw a brick at the crew and that precipitated a riot during which the townspeople attacked the prisoners with rocks, hammers, sticks and shovels... http://b-29s-over-korea.com/Russelsheim/Russelsheim02.html (http://b-29s-over-korea.com/Russelsheim/Russelsheim02.html) The citizens of Russlesheim have since erected a memorial to the six murdered airmen: http://b-29s-over-korea.com/Russelsheim/images/Russelsheim_Memorial_01.jpg

Jimbuna

08-11-17, 07:41 AM

1942 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle torpedoed & sinks.

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

1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito.

Jimbuna

08-12-17, 09:04 AM

1959 First ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island

1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 41,600 m.

1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.

Jimbuna

08-13-17, 10:50 AM

1913 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England.

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

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

1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany.

Jimbuna

08-14-17, 02:00 PM

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

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

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

Jimbuna

08-15-17, 02:31 PM

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

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

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

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

1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter.

STEED

08-18-17, 03:42 PM

19th August, Hungerford 30 years on..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/hungerford_massacre

Aktungbby

08-20-17, 11:33 AM

1932 :the German artist Kathe Kollwitz unveils the monument,"The Parents," at the German military cemetery near Vladslo in Flanders, Belgium. She created to memorialize her son, Peter, along with the hundreds of thousands of other soldiers killed on the battlefields of the Western Front during WW I. She became the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts but was forced to resign after the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933. Three years later the Nazis classified Kollwitz’s art—like that of so many others during that period—as “degenerate,” and barred her from exhibiting her work. In 1942, her grandson, also named Peter, was killed at the Russian front during WW II. The monument has not been defaced nor torn down...Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.” https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Het_treurende_ouderpaar_-_K%C3%A4the_Kolwitz.JPG/800px-Het_treurende_ouderpaar_-_K%C3%A4the_Kolwitz.JPG

Jimbuna

08-20-17, 12:53 PM

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

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

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

1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert.

Aktungbby

08-20-17, 05:46 PM

1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f2/ca/ee/f2caee9d220016cccdf049e7f2124cd1--the-great-white-us-navy.jpgGlass plate negatives of North Shore, Sydney Harbour and general subjects Spectators viewing the US Navy's Great White Fleet in Sydney Harbour
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d7/59/fa/d759fad2b70861838314fbef2ee6d7b6--the-great-white-model-ships.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/bf/5f/73/bf5f7329cb5ae6f27716ec1918ec0f2b--cruisers-battleship.jpgA closeup at Sydney! The Aussies thought the stern of the USS Minnesota was particularly....Nice :yeah:http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacunithistories/Site%20Graphics/Minesota_Stern.jpg:arrgh!:

Jimbuna

08-21-17, 10:22 AM

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

1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program.

1968 Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st African American to win Medal of Honor.

Jimbuna

08-22-17, 01:00 PM

1780 Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England.

1849 The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.

1851 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup).

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

1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed.

1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany.

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle.

Aktungbby

08-22-17, 01:37 PM

1780 Resolution, without Captain James Cook, returns to England.. According to the history books, several days after the death of James Cook on the shore of Hawaii, a native priest delivered a parcel containing the Captain's remains to the Resolution, from whence they were ceremonially buried at sea in Kealakekua Bay. (Cook's Monument: I've been there!>https://www.to-hawaii.com/big-island/attractions/images/captaincook/captain_cook_monument.jpg Some 30 years later, reports began to reach England suggesting that some of Cook's remains were still on the island where they were held in a temple devoted to the god Lono. The initial scepticism which greeted these reports began to recede as their number increased as the standing rose of those making the reports. This culminated in the account of William Ellis, who in the early 1820s was a missionary on the island. He not only confirmed the location of the temple in which Cook's remains were kept, but stated that the bones were "...preserved in a small basket of wicker-work, completely covered over with red feathers..." There is also an account which alleges that King Kamehameha II brought some of Cook's remains to England in 1824, intending to return them to Cook's family, or failing that, then to present them to the King on behalf of the nation.
King Kamehameha II, his Queen, and their entourage arrived in London in May 1824 and were treated with the respect and dignity afforded to any visiting head of state. Unfortunately neither the King nor Queen had any resistance to European diseases and within 6 weeks of their arrival they had contracted measles. King George IV assigned his royal physicians to attend to them but despite their administrations the disease proved fatal to them both.... a relative of the Cook family subsequently claimed to possess an arrow which he alleged had been brought to England by the King. The arrow was unusual in its construction as it comprised a short foreshaft made of bone, said to have come from one of the small leg-bones of Captain Cook.
To authenticate the provenance of the arrow Adams produced two statements. One had been written in 1828 by Joseph Henry Green, subsequently a President of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The other statement was from Bishop Staley, late Bishop of Hawaii. The Bishop had queried the origin of the arrow with the King of Hawaii who after making appropriate enquiries indicated that the claimed source of the bone was most likely to be true.
In 1886 the arrow and its supporting statements were exhibited in London at The Colonial and Indian Exhibition. It lay alongside other Cook-related exhibits which relatives of the Cook family had loaned to form part of the display of the Government of New South Wales. The following year the artefacts were acquired by that Australian State, and passed into the collection of its museum. The arrow now lies in the anthropology collection of The Australian Museum, Sydney. It is hoped that one day a DNA analysis of the bone may indicate whether of not there is any truth in its legendary association with Captain Cook.

One way or another Captain Cook, obviously 'a man of many parts':oops: was a well-travelled fellow....alas DNA tests have shown the arrow bone not to be human...Damn!
1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle https://trailersfromhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/5403f.jpg
Double Damn! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b0/b2/22/b0b222fee479c0a52a34b2da013be8c3--library-books-cinema.jpgStill the best flick!
http://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi2173370649 (http://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi2173370649)

Jimbuna

08-23-17, 06:31 AM

1617 First one-way streets open (London).

1921 Austria and the US formally end war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th, and Hungary on the 29th.

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

1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.

1974 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC.

Jimbuna

08-24-17, 07:47 AM

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

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

Jimbuna

08-25-17, 07:49 AM

1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812).

1829 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses.

1892 David Beatty is promoted to lieutenant.

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

1991 Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.

Aktungbby

08-25-17, 09:43 AM

1829 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses.Proof positive that 'warfare is a mere continuation of policy with other means' as we then proceed to 'Remember the Alamo!' :k_confused:...and then build a big wall.:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz)

Jimbuna

08-26-17, 08:07 AM

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

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

1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior.

Jimbuna

08-27-17, 09:04 AM

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

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

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

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

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

Jimbuna

08-28-17, 02:44 PM

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations.

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Jimbuna

08-29-17, 12:26 PM

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

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

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

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.

Aktungbby

08-29-17, 12:33 PM

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage. Here's hoping federal aid is improved for Houston over the miserable assistance of Katrina....we'll see.

Jimbuna

08-30-17, 09:34 AM

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

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

1945 General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.

1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.

Jimbuna

08-31-17, 07:39 AM

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

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

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

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.

Jimbuna

09-01-17, 09:17 AM

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

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

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

Jimbuna

09-02-17, 08:13 AM

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

1942 German troops enter Stalingrad.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well).

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

Jimbuna

09-03-17, 07:54 AM

1812 World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy.

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

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

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

1940 Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion).

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

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

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

1971 John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return.

STEED

09-04-17, 04:22 AM

THE INVADERS LANDED!

The apparently extra-terrestrial vessels prompted a major police and military response, witnessed by Ray Seager who was with other children playing outside when one of the six saucers was found in the Isle of Sheppey on 4 September 1967.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41110193

Aktungbby

09-04-17, 12:51 PM

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2510492&postcount=2533 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2510492&postcount=2533) :Kaleun_Salute:

Jimbuna

09-04-17, 04:41 PM

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

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

1888 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera & registers "Kodak".

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652.

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

1980 Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden).

Jimbuna

09-05-17, 05:09 AM

1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jimbuna

09-06-17, 06:50 AM

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

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

Jimbuna

09-07-17, 09:11 AM

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

1940 Beginning of the Blitz, the German Luftwaffe bomb London for first of 57 consecutive nights.

1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

Aktungbby

09-08-17, 12:00 PM

1900: The Great Galveston Hurricane, known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900, was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph, which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston,_Texas), in the United States. At the time of the 1900 hurricane, Galveston, nicknamed the Oleander City, was filled with vacationers. Sophisticated weather forecasting technology didn’t exist at the time, but the U.S. Weather Bureau issued warnings telling people to move to higher ground. However, these advisories were ignored by many vacationers and residents alike. A 15-foot storm surge flooded the city, which was then situated at less than 9 feet above sea level, and numerous homes and buildings were destroyed. It killed 6,000 to 12,000 people, making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Galveston_Hurricane_%281900%29_SWA.JPG/260px-Galveston_Hurricane_%281900%29_SWA.JPG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Galveston_Hurricane_(1900)_SWA.JPG) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Galveston_-_1900_bodies.jpg/300px-Galveston_-_1900_bodies.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Galveston_-_1900_bodies.jpg) https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2017/08/27/as-terrible-as-harvey-is-the-galveston-hurricane-of-1900-was-much-much-worse/#61f626c82594 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2017/08/27/as-terrible-as-harvey-is-the-galveston-hurricane-of-1900-was-much-much-worse/#61f626c82594) In retrospect: with Harvey and impending Irma-both Category 4 storms...we might just be having a better day....:hmmm: Why was the Galveston Hurricane so deadly? In a word – technology, or rather the lack of it. The communication and transportation infrastructure we take for granted wasn’t in place in 1900. Some people in Galveston had heard there was a storm in the Gulf of Mexico, but they didn’t know how big it was, where it was or where it was going. After the storm hit, people in the rest of the country didn’t know what had happened until two days later. Galveston Hurricane's path: https://blogs-images.forbes.com/kevinmurnane/files/2017/08/Storm-path_Wikipedia-1200x815.jpg?width=960 (https://blogs-images.forbes.com/kevinmurnane/files/2017/08/Storm-path_Wikipedia.jpg)

STEED

09-08-17, 05:09 PM

SEPTEMBER 8TH 1966

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WJP7GXu9s88/THDo-sSWwOI/AAAAAAAADEk/2Dt_YQ0I6HY/s1600/startrekoriginalseries.jpg

Aktungbby

09-08-17, 05:32 PM

SEPTEMBER 8TH 1966

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WJP7GXu9s88/THDo-sSWwOI/AAAAAAAADEk/2Dt_YQ0I6HY/s1600/startrekoriginalseries.jpg

Stardate 1513.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBJd3sASjo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBJd3sASjo)

Jimbuna

09-09-17, 08:11 AM

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

1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

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

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Aktungbby

09-09-17, 11:56 AM

1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

1942:Nobuo Fujita https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/NobuoFujita-flightgearhistorical.jpg/220px-NobuoFujita-flightgearhistorical.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NobuoFujita-flightgearhistorical.jpg)was a warrant flying officer of the IJN who flew a floatplane from the long-range I-25 and conducted the only wartime aircraft-dropped bombing on the contiguous US, which became known as the Lookout Air Raid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Air_Raid). Using incendiary bombs, his mission was to start massive forest fires in the Pacific northwest near the city of Brookings, Oregon with the objective of drawing the U.S. military's resources away from the pacific theater! The strategy was also used later in the Japanese fire balloon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon) campaign. Fujita himself suggested the idea of a submarine-based seaplane to bomb military targets, including ships at sea, and attacks on the U.S. mainland, especially the strategic Panama Canal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal). At 06:00 on 9 September, I-25 http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/PublishingImages/threats-I-25.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I-26_Japanese_submarine.jpg) surfaced west of the Oregon border where she launched the Yokosuka E14Y Glen, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Fujita%26Glen.jpg/250px-Fujita%26Glen.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fujita%26Glen.jpg)<Fugita & 'Glen") flown by Fujita and Petty officer Okuda Shoji with a 154 kg (340 lb) load of two incendiary bombs. Fujita dropped two bombs, one on Wheeler Ridge on Mount Emily (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Emily) in Oregon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon). The location of the other bomb is unknown. The Wheeler Ridge bomb started a small fire 16 km (9.9 mi) due east of Brookings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings,_Oregon), which U.S. Forest Service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Forest_Service) employees were able to extinguish. Rain the night before had made the forest very damp, and the bombs were rendered essentially ineffective. Fujita's plane had been spotted by two men, Howard Gardner and Bob Larson, at the Mount Emily firetower; the other lookouts (the Chetco Point Lookout and the Long Ridge Lookout) reported the plane, but could not see it due to heavy fog. The plane was seen and heard by many people, especially when Fujita flew over Brookings in both directions. At about noon that day, Howard Gardner at the Mount Emily Lookout reported seeing smoke. The four U.S. Forest Service employees discovered that the fire was caused by a Japanese bomb. Approximately 27 kg (60 lb) of fragments, including the nose of the bomb, were turned over to the army.
After the bombing, I-25 came under attack after the Glen seaplane had landed and been disassembled for storage, I-25 was bombed by a United States Army Hudson piloted by Captain Jean H. Daugherty. The Hudson carried 300-pound general purpose demolition bombs with delayed fuzes rather than depth charges. The bombs caused minor damage, but quick response by a Coaast Guard and three more aircraft caused I-25 to be more cautious on a second bombing raid on 29 September 1942. The American attacks caused only minor damage, and Fujita flew a second bombing sortie three weeks later on 29 September. Fujita used the Cape Blanco Light (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Blanco_Light) as a beacon. After 90 minutes flying east, he dropped his bombs and reported seeing flames, but the bombing remained unnoticed in the U.S. http://www.historynet.com/japanese-bomb-the-continental-u-s-west-coast.htm (http://www.historynet.com/japanese-bomb-the-continental-u-s-west-coast.htm)
The submarine torpedoed and sank the SS Camden (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Camden&action=edit&redlink=1) and SS Larry Doheny (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Larry_Doheny&action=edit&redlink=1) and then sailed for home. On its way to Japan, I-25 sank the Soviet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union) submarine L-16 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninets-class_submarine#L-16), which was in transit between Dutch harbor and San Francisco CA, mistaking it for an American submarine (Japan and the USSR were not at war at the time).
The two attacks on Oregon in September 1942 were the only World War II aircraft bombings on the US mainland. All-in-all a rather productive and strategic submarine mission. This being a submarine Forum: No small amount of kudos to the sub's capable and daring commander: LT. Commander Meiji Tagami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_I-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_I-25)
How significant were these two bombing attacks on Oregon, the only times in history that America has been bombed from the air? For the Japanese, they were clearly a major propaganda victory, one that made banner headlines on the home front and to some extent evened the score for the April 18, 1942, Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo, itself a retaliatory raid in return for the Pearl Harbor attack. Fujita found himself something of a national hero upon his return to japan.
Fujita returned to Brookings, OR in 1990, 1992, and 1995. In 1992, he planted a tree at the bomb site as a gesture of peace. In 1995, he moved the donated family samurai sword from the Brookings City Hall into the new library's display case. He was made an honorary citizen of Brookings several days before his death at a hospital in on September 30, 1997, at the age of 85. In October 1998, his daughter, Yoriko Asakura, buried some of Fujita's ashes at the bomb site. :Kaleun_Salute:wiki

Jimbuna

09-10-17, 07:08 AM

1931 Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

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

Aktungbby

09-10-17, 09:16 AM

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

Poor Marcel Chevalier became unemployed after that! :/\\chop :|\\ :hmph: :shifty: :oops:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Chevalier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Chevalier)

Jimbuna

09-11-17, 09:06 AM

1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley.

1940 Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion England).

1941 World War II: US Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.

2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,752 people.

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

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

Mr Quatro

09-12-17, 02:57 PM

This article came out yesterday, but I just read it today on the 12th, but today in history has not been posted yet ... so here is a day in history we should never forget: http://www.taraross.com/2017/09/this-day-in-history-john-cromwell/

Please read and know a great man was born and served in the US Navy and gave his life for his country.

This Day in History: John Cromwell, a captain who went down with his ship
Posted on September 11, 2017 by Tara Ross

On this day in 1901, a hero is born. Captain John P. Cromwell would become the most senior submariner to receive the Medal of Honor during World War II. He stayed aboard his sinking submarine because he knew that his death would keep vital American secrets out of enemy hands.

“Determined to sacrifice himself rather than risk capture and subsequent danger of revealing plans under Japanese torture or use of drugs,” Cromwell’s Medal citation describes, “he stoically remained aboard the mortally wounded vessel as she plunged to her death.”

Cromwell maintained the viability of America’s ongoing missions at the cost of his own life, and yet no one had any idea what he’d done until after the war. Only then were survivors of Sculpin released from Japanese captivity, finally free to describe what they’d witnessed on that November day.

Cromwell’s widow would soon be presented with her husband’s Medal of Honor.

Jimbuna

09-13-17, 09:50 AM

^ Bravery at its highest.

~SALUTE~

Jimbuna

09-13-17, 09:53 AM

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

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

Jimbuna

09-14-17, 07:41 AM

1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and the fires start, extinguished by the 19th.

1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later becomes lyrics of the "Star-Spangled Banner"

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

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

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1.

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

Jimbuna

09-15-17, 07:45 AM

1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow.

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

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

1940 Climax of the Battle of Britain, tide turns as Luftwaffe loses 56 aircraft, RAF 28.

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

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

1998 Google.com is registered as a domain name.

Aktungbby

09-15-17, 10:56 AM

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

That calls for a celebratory beer; a 24 oz can known in thetrade as a 'tallboy'!:Kaleun_Cheers: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b9/58/86/b95886e425ce3ab402dc9d3a31435627--beer-cans-dr-oz.jpg

Jimbuna

09-16-17, 05:46 AM

1747 French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom (I've lived there).

1906 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen discovers the Magnetic South Pole.

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

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.

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

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

Jimbuna

09-20-17, 08:17 AM

1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.

1939 British navy captures German U-27 boat.

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338.

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland.

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

Jimbuna

09-21-17, 10:21 AM

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

1942 Transport #35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany.

1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrender.

1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.

1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean.

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

Jimbuna

09-22-17, 07:33 AM

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

1943 British midget submarines attack Tirpitz.

1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed & sinks.

1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229.

1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general.

1955 Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean.

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

Jimbuna

09-23-17, 08:57 AM

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.

1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London.

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

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

1942 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad.

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

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

Jimbuna

09-24-17, 06:58 AM

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.

1950 "Operation Magic Carpet" sees all Jews from Yemen move to Israel.

1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched.

1964 First Minuteman II ICBM was tested.

Jimbuna

09-25-17, 02:38 PM

1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed.

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

Jimbuna

09-26-17, 01:18 PM

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

1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched.

1938 Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton for second time.

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

1954 Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die.

Jimbuna

09-28-17, 08:49 AM

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

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

2015 NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars.

Aktungbby

09-28-17, 10:27 AM

1066 William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex. Nothing good goes outta style this got studied carefully in preparation during WWII for 1944's D-day landings: http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/Images/Bayeux/bayeux18.jpghttp://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/Images/Bayeux/bayeux19.jpghttp://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/Images/Bayeux/bayeux20.jpg
the number of men William brought with him who eventually fought in the final battle has been calculated to be around 7500 give or take a thousand either way. To mount an operation such as this was a logistic nightmare. It was not just a case of sticking 7500 men in a ship, sailing across the English Channel, win the battle and take over the country . It required meticulous planning and calculation. By knowing the equipment that was used in the battle and livestock to ride or eat combined with everything else that was needed to provision, fight and win a battle abroad, a figure of about 750 ships at the extreme and 500 as a minimum. Battle logistics is a subject on its own William's own ship, Mora, was a gift to him from his wife. (second panel with the papal cross on masthead)

Jimbuna

09-29-17, 09:41 AM

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

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

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

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

1989 Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for first time since 1981).

1990 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

Aktungbby

09-30-17, 08:15 PM

1954: The USS Nautilus SSN-571, the world’s first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy. After a career spanning 25 years and almost 500,000 miles steamed, the Nautilus was decommissioned on March 3, 1980. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, the world’s first nuclear submarine went on exhibit in 1986 as the Historic Ship Nautilus at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. Nautilus attracts some 250,000 visitors annually to her present berth near Naval Submarine Base New London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Submarine_Base_New_London). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/USS_Nautilus_SSN571.JPG/800px-USS_Nautilus_SSN571.JPGThis is what an official launch, complete with First Lady with christening Champagne is supposed to look like! http://connecticuthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LaunchingNautilus.jpg:salute:

Jimbuna

10-01-17, 07:57 AM

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

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

1934 Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles.

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

1946 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg.

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

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

1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title in "The Thrilla in Manila"

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10-01-17, 01:23 PM

1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title in "The Thrilla in Manila"
Ali nicknamed Frazier "The Gorilla", "Uncle Tom", and used this as the basis for the rhyme, "It will be a killa and a thrilla and a chilla when I get the Gorilla in Manila," which he chanted while punching an action-figure-sized gorilla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla)doll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doll). Ali told a reporter that it was part of a longstanding pre-fight strategy of his: "I like to get a man mad, because when a man's mad, he wants ya so bad, he can't think, so I like to get a man mad."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhorwoo_B4A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhorwoo_B4A) <inexcusable!) Considering that on September 5, 1983, famed sportscaster Howard Cosell announced a Monday night game between the Redskins and the Cowboys. During the broadcast, Cosell stated, and damaged his career, in reference to Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Garrett) after his sixth reception of the evening, that Washington Coach Joe Gibbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gibbs), "wanted that kid, and that little monkey gets loose doesn't he". The comment brought immediate criticism for being racist, specifically by then-president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference) Rev. Joseph Lowery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery), who demanded Cosell apologize. What is apparent is the double standard; somehow it's permissibly different?? when two 'brothers' express the sports related racist commentary. To his credit in later years....: Ali: "I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight." The fight damaged and shortened both pugilists' lives, went too long because of poor officiating and was well below professional levels of respect and sportsmanship; no imho about it> https://media1.giphy.com/media/rvaQRHCzisFeo/200.gif#0-grid1

Jimbuna

10-02-17, 01:24 PM

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

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

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

1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people.

1979 Pope John Paul II visits New York City, and at the U.N. denounces all concentration camps and torture.

Jimbuna

10-03-17, 08:37 AM

1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status.

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

1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS.

1941 Nazis blow up 6 synagoges in Paris.

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

1945 Elvis Presley's first public appearance at the age of 10.

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

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

Aktungbby

10-03-17, 11:20 AM

1945 Elvis Presley's first public appearance at the age of 10.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b2/09/6d/b2096de779696f15d632b2d3d813a8ca.jpgElvis at 10 ...always making a spectacle of himself! Elvis Presley appeared in a talent show at the age of 10 singing 'Old Shep'. It was his first public appearance. He won 2nd place and 5 dollars.:yeah: THIS being a naval forum: Elvis, a Sergeant in the US Army himself, bought Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential yacht.
In 1964, Elvis paid $55,000 for the Potomac, the 165-foot-long vessel that served as FDR’s “floating White House” from 1936 to 1945. Constructed in 1934, the Potomac originally was a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. After the president’s death in 1945, the ship was decommissioned and had a series of owners before Elvis bought it. However, he soon donated it to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, which in turn sold the vessel to raise money. (In 1980, the Potomac, then being used by drug smugglers, was seized in San Francisco by U.S. Customs. It later was restored and opened to the public.) Elvis’ yacht donation was one of many charitable acts after he would make during his life. In addition to giving away cars, jewelry and cash to friends and strangers, he performed a number of benefit concerts. One such performance, in 1961, generated more than $50,000 toward the completion of the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii. Work on the project, a tribute to the more than 1,100 men who died aboard the USS Arizona during the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, had begun years earlier then stalled due to a lack of funds. Elvis’ concert, for which tickets ranged from $3 to $100, helped reinvigorate fund-raising efforts for the memorial, and it was dedicated the following year. The USS Potomac AG-25 still rides the SF Bay waters...If suitable for 2011's The Master movie shots hey...how about a :subsim: reunion site to boot??!!:yeah:: https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/LoFhTlQ_ZiziAMkb4ipOcA/o.jpg https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/9gpPuyd06RELRqMRr5CCQQ/o.jpg
https://cdn.relaymedia.com/ping?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Fnews%2F7-fascinating-facts-about-elvis

Jimbuna

10-04-17, 06:14 AM

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

1939 Last Polish troops surrender.

1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad.

1957 Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.

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

Jimbuna

10-05-17, 07:00 AM

1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides.

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

1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London.

1942 5,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia massacred.

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

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

1947 Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House.

1962 The Beatles release their first record, "Love Me Do"

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

Catfish

10-05-17, 07:27 AM

:
William's own ship, Mora, was a gift to him from his wife. (second panel with the papal cross on masthead)

Wow, it already was named after Eichhoernchen's wife :o
(+i, ok)

Jimbuna

10-07-17, 10:15 AM

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

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

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands).

1944 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.

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

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

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.

Jimbuna

10-08-17, 06:59 AM

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

1941 Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins.

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

1964 Ringo Starr passes his driving test.

1968 Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly British HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina.

Aktungbby

10-15-17, 05:10 PM

1917: Famed dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad; blows a kiss to her executioners and declines a blindfold! Mata Hari's sealed trial and related other documents are scheduled to be declassified by the French Army (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Army) in 2017, one hundred years after her execution...Mayhap some juicy secrets may be ....unveiled :Kaleun_Wink:https://i.pinimg.com/236x/e6/18/e8/e618e820f46a5df6a02671671d7f8985--matahari-vintage-photographs.jpg

Aktungbby

10-25-17, 01:45 PM

1854: a charge of British light cavalry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cavalry) led by Lord Cardigan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brudenell,_7th_Earl_of_Cardigan) against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava) on in the Crimean War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War).https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._ 1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.j pg/1920px-William_Simpson_-_Charge_of_the_light_cavalry_brigade%2C_25th_Oct._ 1854%2C_under_Major_General_the_Earl_of_Cardigan.j pgI'm wearing my Cardigan sweater(my wife knits them) in honor of the day!:salute: ]"The Last of the Light Brigade" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling) echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson,_1st_Baron_Tennyson)'s famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(poem)). Employing synecdoche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche), Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War), as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade) who charged at the Battle of Balaclava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava). It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers. Some sources treat the poem as an account of a real event, but other commentators class the destitute old soldiers as allegorical, with the visit invented by Kipling to draw attention to the poverty in which the real survivors were living Seems nothing bad goes outta style for Veteran care...either!:oops: There were thirty million English who talked of England's might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.
They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;
They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.

They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,
That though they were dying of famine, they lived in deathless song.
They asked for a little money to keep the wolf from the door;
And the thirty million English sent twenty pounds and four !

They laid their heads together that were scarred and lined and grey;
Keen were the Russian sabres, but want was keener than they;
And an old Troop-Sergeant muttered, "Let us go to the man who writes
The things on Balaclava the kiddies at school recites."

They went without bands or colours, a regiment ten-file strong,
To look for the Master-singer who had crowned them all in his song;
And, waiting his servant's order, by the garden gate they stayed,
A desolate little cluster, the last of the Light Brigade.

They strove to stand to attention, to straighen the toil-bowed back;
They drilled on an empty stomach, the loose-knit files fell slack;
With stooping of weary shoulders, in garments tattered and frayed,
They shambled into his presence, the last of the Light Brigade.

The old Troop-Sergeant was spokesman, and "Beggin' your pardon," he said,
"You wrote o' the Light Brigade, sir. Here's all that isn't dead.
An' it's all come true what you wrote, sir, regardin' the mouth of hell;
For we're all of us nigh to the workhouse, an' we thought we'd call an' tell.

"No, thank you, we don't want food, sir; but couldn't you take an' write
A sort of 'to be continued' and 'see next page' o' the fight?
We think that someone has blundered, an' couldn't you tell 'em how?
You wrote we were heroes once, sir. Please, write we are starving now."

The poor little army departed, limping and lean and forlorn.
And the heart of the Master-singer grew hot with "the scorn of scorn."
And he wrote for them wonderful verses that swept the land like flame,
Till the fatted souls of the English were scourged with the thing called Shame.

They sent a cheque to the felon that sprang from an Irish bog;
They healed the spavined cab-horse; they housed the homeless dog;
And they sent (you may call me a liar), when felon and beast were paid,
A cheque, for enough to live on, to the last of the Light Brigade.

O thirty million English that babble of England's might,
Behold there are twenty heroes who lack their food to-night;
Our children's children are lisping to "honour the charge they made - "
And we leave to the streets and the workhouse the charge of the Light Brigade!

Jimbuna

10-27-17, 09:32 AM

1775 US Navy forms as the Continental Navy.

1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine.

1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz.

1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba.

Jimbuna

10-28-17, 08:28 AM

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

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea.

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

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

Jimbuna

10-29-17, 08:02 AM

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

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

Jimbuna

10-31-17, 03:11 PM

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

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

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

Jimbuna

11-01-17, 10:47 AM

1919 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord.

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

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

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

Jimbuna

11-02-17, 08:11 AM

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

1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed.

1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates.

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

Jimbuna

11-04-17, 08:41 AM

1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.

1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.

Jimbuna

11-05-17, 09:21 AM

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

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

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

1956 Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis.

Jimbuna

11-06-17, 02:13 PM

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

1935 First test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft.

1941 Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor.

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

Jimbuna

11-07-17, 12:06 PM

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

Jimbuna

11-09-17, 10:32 AM

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

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

1918 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I.

1923 Beer Hall Putsch, Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die, Hitler flees.

1961 The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude.

Jimbuna

11-10-17, 08:15 AM

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

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

1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

Jimbuna

11-11-17, 09:06 AM

1918 Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00 am

1923 Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph.

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

Jimbuna

11-12-17, 07:58 AM

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

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

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

1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

Jimbuna

11-13-17, 07:35 AM

1918 Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

1969 Vice President Spiro Agnew accuses network TV news departments of bias and distortion.

1970 US Vice President Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"

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

Aktungbby

11-13-17, 10:37 AM

1969 Vice President Spiro Agnew accuses network TV news departments of bias and distortion.
Fake News! ahead of its time!:yep:

Jimbuna

11-14-17, 01:19 PM

1922 BBC begins daily radio broadcasts from the 2LO transmitter at Marconi House.

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

1965 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.

1993 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state.

Jimbuna

11-15-17, 06:55 AM

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

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

1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

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

1961 UN bans nuclear arms.

Jimbuna

11-16-17, 07:44 AM

1939 German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland.

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

Jimbuna

11-17-17, 07:46 AM

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

STEED

11-18-17, 07:49 AM

30 Years on..

1987 King's Cross fire

https://news.sky.com/story/fears-lessons-of-deadly-1987-kings-cross-fire-have-been-forgotten-11130364

Jimbuna

11-18-17, 07:55 AM

1916 General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme (WWI) - over 1 million killed or wounded.

1943 444 British bombers attack Berlin.

1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

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

1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight.

2012 Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix.

Jimbuna

11-19-17, 07:13 AM

1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast.

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

1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

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

1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons.

STEED

11-19-17, 07:30 PM

The Battle of Cambrai: 'We had a sense of victory for the first time'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40927944

The age of the Tank had truly started but still needed improvements.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-the-battle-of-cambrai-changed-fighting-tactics-on-the-western-front

Jimbuna

11-20-17, 03:09 PM

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

1917 First successful tank use in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI.

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

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

1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1944 First Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines).

1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany.

1969 Brazilian soccer icon Pele scores his 1,000th goal.

Jimbuna

11-22-17, 11:06 AM

1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight.

1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.

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

1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin.

1963 American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.

Jimbuna

11-23-17, 08:27 AM

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

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

1942 Japanese bombing of Port Darwin, Australia.

1945 Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends.

Jimbuna

11-24-17, 09:20 AM

1715 London's Thames River freezes over.

1944 US bombers based on Saipan begin first attack on Tokyo.

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

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

Jimbuna

11-25-17, 07:07 AM

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

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

1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

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

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

1983 World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England.

Aktungbby

11-25-17, 01:13 PM

1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

Was Sunk!:Kaleun_Salute: https://uboat.net/men/commanders/1410.html (https://uboat.net/men/commanders/1410.html)

Jimbuna

11-26-17, 08:50 AM

1778 British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).

1898 SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed.

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

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

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

1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria.

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

1962 Fab Four have their first recording session under name The Beatles.

Jimbuna

11-27-17, 03:44 PM

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

1945 Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins.

1945 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina.

1951 First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM.

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

Jimbuna

11-28-17, 01:34 PM

1717 Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called "La Concorde", which he would capture and rename as the "Queen Anne's Revenge"

1922 Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives first skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called.

1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death.

1974 John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC).

Aktungbby

12-02-17, 01:10 PM

1804: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor. At the moment of the crowning when the Pope said, "Receive the imperial crown...", Napoleon turned and removed his laurel wreath ( certainly a clear case of not resting on one's laurels??!!:O:) and crowned himself and then crowned the kneeling Joséphine with a small crown surmounted by a cross, which he had first placed on his own head. "Napoleon's detractors like to say that he snatched the crown from the Pope, or that this was an act of unbelievable arrogance, but neither of those charges holds water. Napoleon was simply symbolizing that he was becoming emperor based on his own merits and the will of the people, not because of some religious consecration. ie absolute power corrupts...absolutely:doh: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Jacques-Louis_David%2C_The_Coronation_of_Napoleon_edit.jpg/1024px-Jacques-Louis_David%2C_The_Coronation_of_Napoleon_edit.jpg Old 'Boney', who's love letters suggest less than confidence in the boudoir with his vastly experienced wife, was so worn out from the day's proceedings and his weighty crown that he begged off using the famous expression: "Not tonight Josephine" with his newly-minted Empress.....:haha:

Jimbuna

12-03-17, 07:36 AM

1917 The Supreme Allied War Council, meeting at Versailles to define war aim, fails to reach an agreement.

1943 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins.

1944 Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.

1967 First human heart transplant performed by Dr Christian Barnard in South Africa.

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over.

Jimbuna

12-04-17, 12:36 PM

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

1829 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre).

1872 Ship the Mary Celeste is discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean.

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

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, first President to travel outside US while in office.

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

1978 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed.

Jimbuna

12-05-17, 11:29 AM

1717 English pirate Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop "Margaret" and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock later provides first record of Blackbeard's appearance, and the source for his name.

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

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

1967 The Beatles' clothing store "Apple" opens at 94 Baker Street, London.

Aktungbby

12-05-17, 02:42 PM

1952:
The Great Smog, which blanketed the British capital for five days in December 1952, is estimated by some experts to have killed more than 12,000 people and hospitalized 150,000. Thousands of animals also died.
During a cold snap on Dec. 5 that year, sulphur particles mixed with fumes from burning coal and made the yellow fog smell like rotten eggs. Some Londoners reported being unable to see their feet, and transportation was canceled with the exception of the London Underground. Birds flew into buildings, and robberies increased as thieves were able to make an easy getaway.
The smog eventually lifted on Dec. 9, after cold winds swept the fumes out to the North Sea. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/13/scientists-say-theyve-solved-mystery-1952-london-killer-fog/95375738/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/13/scientists-say-theyve-solved-mystery-1952-london-killer-fog/95375738/)

Jimbuna

12-06-17, 03:38 AM

1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700.

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

1957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up.

1962 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program.

2006 NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

Rockstar

12-06-17, 10:32 AM

Not only did Mont Blanc explode but its been said U.S. Canadian relations warmed and we became relatively good friends because of that incident

Prior to that we were not on the best terms with Canada. Since we fought them in 1776, 1812 and in the American Civil War by proxy.

Mr Quatro

12-06-17, 12:04 PM

1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700.

1962 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program.

Perhaps we should reintroduce the Skybolt missile program ... you know just in case there really is going to be a war someday. Lord only knows we've been getting ready for one since 1945 ... we could send thousands of drones to defeat the ground to air missiles they would encounter.

Here's what happen to the Skybolt in the US and the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAM-87_Skybolt

The Douglas GAM-87 Skybolt (AGM-48 under the 1962 Tri-service system) was an air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) developed by the United States during the late 1950s. The basic concept was to allow US strategic bombers to launch their weapons from well outside the range of Soviet defenses, as much as 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from their targets. To do this in an air-launched form, a lightweight thermonuclear warhead was needed, initially selecting the W47 from the Polaris missile, but later moving to the W59 from the Minuteman missile.
The UK joined the Skybolt program in 1960, intending to use it on their V bomber force. When the design added a star tracker in addition to its inertial navigation system (INS) this meant that it could only be carried externally (where the tracker could see the sky) and the requirement for adequate ground clearance on takeoff limited it to the Avro Vulcan bomber. A number of design decisions in the W47 led the RAF to question its safety, so they intended to use their own Red Snow warheads. This was a heavier warhead and would reduce the range to about 600 miles (970 km), meaning the bombers would have to cross the Soviet coastline to attack Moscow.
Testing began in 1962 and was initially marked by a string of failures. These failures, along with a lack of mission after the successful development of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), led to its cancellation in December 1962.[1] The UK had decided to base its entire 1960s deterrent force on Skybolt, and its cancellation led to a major disagreement between the UK and US, known today as the "Skybolt Crisis". This was resolved by a series of meetings that led to the Royal Navy gaining the UGM-27 Polaris missile and construction of the Resolution-class submarines to launch them.

The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan[2] from July 1963)[3] is a jet-powered tailless delta wing high-altitude strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Avro_Vulcan_Bomber_RAF.JPEG/1280px-Avro_Vulcan_Bomber_RAF.JPEG

Not only did Mont Blanc explode but its been said U.S. Canadian relations warmed and we became relatively good friends because of that incident

Prior to that we were not on the best terms with Canada. Since we fought them in 1776, 1812 and in the American Civil War by proxy.

Back to not on so good terms with Canada canceling the F-18 super hornet contract: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/363433-boeing-dispute-derails-sale-of-super-hornet-fighters-to-canada-report

Canada was in the midst of negotiations to buy the Boeing-made F/A-18s for an estimated $5.15 billion, but the country put talks on hold after the defense contractor in April filed a complaint with the U.S. Commerce Department against Canadian company Bombardier.

Boeing argued that Bombardier -- which sold its new C-series commercial jets to American company Delta Air Lines -- was given a competitive advantage against other companies by receiving Canadian government subsidies. The funding allowed Bombardier to significantly lower the cost per aircraft, Boeing argued.

Jimbuna

12-07-17, 08:09 AM

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

1941 Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu.

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

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

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

Aktungbby

12-07-17, 12:57 PM

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

At 6:45, the captain ordered to “commence firing!” Gun 1, Which was composed of a gun crew of Minnesota Reservists who were not Minnesota Nice and fired the first shot. They were with a crew filled out mostly by 84 naval reservists from St. Paul. https://mn.gov/mdva/assets/uss-ward-gun-framed_tcm1066-223871.pngTheir seamanship had been acquired training on the Mississippi and Lake Superior. :doh: That shot 'barely missed' but the second gun, #3 didn't.....and sank the first enemy ship of the war for the US... before it had fired its own two torpedos! As Ward pounded past at 25 knots, number three gun atop the galley deckhouse amidships commenced fire, its round passed squarely through the submersible's conning tower. As the Japanese midget wallowed lower in the water and started to sink, the destroyer swiftly dropped four depth charges, signalled by four blasts on the ship's whistle. Black water gushed upwards in the ship's boiling wake as the charges went off, sealing the submarine's doom. http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/science/2016/12/09/haunting-photos-japanese-mini-submarine-sunk-during-pearl-harbor-attack/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1481303670096.jpg?ve=1&tl=1What a four inch shell hole looks like on the Jap mini sub rediscovered on 2002-fulfilling the Ward's claim of a sinking:http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/HURL/gallery/archaeology/images/stbd_conning_sm.jpg (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/HURL/gallery/archaeology/images/stbd_conning.jpg) http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/HURL/gallery/archaeology/midget.html#images (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/HURL/gallery/archaeology/midget.html#images) The actual gun that fired the first shot now is a memorial upon the Minnesota Capitol Mall> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/USS_Ward_4_inch_gun_Minnesota_Capitol.jpg/120px-USS_Ward_4_inch_gun_Minnesota_Capitol.jpg (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/USS_Ward_4_inch_gun_Minnesota_Capitol.jpg)(click to enlarge):Kaleun_Salute:

Jimbuna

12-08-17, 09:33 AM

1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron.

1941 US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II.

1941 President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Mr Quatro

12-08-17, 01:29 PM

Did Roosevelt really say, "I hate war, Eleanor hates war and my dog Fido hates war"?

I also hate war ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view.jpg/1280px-Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view.jpg

A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California. On the near side of Ford Island, to the left, are light cruisers Detroit and Raleigh, target and training ship Utah and seaplane tender Tangier. Raleigh and Utah have been torpedoed, and Utah is listing sharply to port. Japanese planes are visible in the right center (over Ford Island) and over the Navy Yard at right. U.S. Navy planes on the seaplane ramp are on fire.

Jimbuna

12-09-17, 11:13 AM

1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem.

1941 Hitler orders US ships are to be torpedoed.

Jimbuna

12-10-17, 11:20 AM

1926 Second part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published.

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

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

1942 An early report the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states.

Jimbuna

12-11-17, 04:28 PM

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

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

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

1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va.

Jimbuna

12-12-17, 11:56 AM

1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada.

1915 First all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany.

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

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

1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.

Jimbuna

12-13-17, 05:54 AM

1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world.

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

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

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

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.

2002 Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.

Jimbuna

12-14-17, 08:26 AM

1812 The French Invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon, officially ends.

1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's expedition is the first to each the South Pole.

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

1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea.

1967 DNA created in a test tube.

Jimbuna

12-15-17, 06:39 AM

1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death.

1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea.

1941 German submarine U-127 sinks.

1941 USS Swordfish becomes first US submarine to sink a Japanese ship.

1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel.

1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star.

1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel.

Aktungbby

12-15-17, 11:35 AM

1944: Famed bandleader Captain Glenn Miller https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/8c94943d0fab45dbc321c90bb3876bb437efc0ff/c=26-0-795-1024&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2014/07/06/1404675453000-GLENN-MILLER.JPG disappears over the English channel in a UC-64 Norseman https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Noorduyn_UC-64A_Norseman.jpg/220px-Noorduyn_UC-64A_Norseman.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Noorduyn_UC-64A_Norseman.jpg)Theories abound as to the cause of the disappearance incl. the Norseman's notorious carburetor issue in freezing weather...https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2014/07/07/glenn-miller-plane-mystery-history-detectives-norseman/12268729/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2014/07/07/glenn-miller-plane-mystery-history-detectives-norseman/12268729/)

Jimbuna

12-16-17, 09:12 AM

1773 Boston tea party incident - Sons of Liberty protesters throw tea shipments into Boston harbour in protest against British imposed Tea Act.

1914 German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.

1944 Ardennes campaign ('Battle of the Bulge') begins in Belgium.

1969 British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty.

Jimbuna

12-17-17, 09:05 AM

1903 The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1927 US submarine S-4 sinks after collision killing all 34 aboard.

1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) airplane.

1938 Discovery of nuclear fission using uranium by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann.

1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.

1944 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed.

1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart, lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.

Jimbuna

12-18-17, 01:51 PM

1941 German submarine U-434 sinks.

1944 US Destroyers Hull, Spence & Monaghan sink in typhoon (Philippines).

1957 World's first full scale nuclear power plant begins to generate electricity, at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania.

1996 During a press conference, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Maleki states that Iran supports the free flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, but reserves the option of closing off the shipping route if it is threatened.

Jimbuna

12-19-17, 11:52 AM

1941 German submarine U-574 sinks.

1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army.

1958 First radio broadcast from space, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower Christmas message "to all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill to men everywhere".

1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die).

1984 Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration to transfer Hong Kong back to China in 1997.

Jimbuna

12-20-17, 09:34 AM

1915 Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove.

1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early.

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

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

1957 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for National Service.

1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR.

1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins.

1975 Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles.

Jimbuna

12-21-17, 11:09 AM

1872 Phileas Fogg completes his round the world trip in 80 days, in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days".

1988 Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by a terrorist bomb killing all 258 on board over Scotland.

Jimbuna

12-22-17, 08:25 AM

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

1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium.

1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan.

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

Aktungbby

12-22-17, 11:22 AM

2017: HMAS AE1 IS FOUND AFTER 103 YEARS: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--afWH99mZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/a6dmdgy7gofenkrgdhok.jpg< LAST KNOWN PHOTO) Just six weeks into the First World War, Australian submarine HMAS AE1 disappeared without a trace somewhere off the coast of New Guinea, marking the first time an allied sub had been lost in the conflict. Marine archaeologists have now discovered the historic wreck, ending a mystery that has endured for over a century.
Australia, like other commonwealth countries, joined Great Britain in the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary on August 4, 1914. Six weeks later, on September 14, the HMAS AE1 was on patrol off the New Guinean island of East New Britain when it went missing, going down with 35 Australian, New Zealand, and British crewmen on board. No distress calls were issued, nor were there any witnesses to the scene. Its final resting place, and the cause of the sinking, have remained a mystery since that day. Since the sub went down, there have been no less than 13 private and government-funded hunts for the wreck. Sydney , it seems the 13th time’s the charm.
Along with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, the AE1 was part of an operation to capture German-occupied New Guinea. Commanded by Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Thomas Besant, the sub participated in actions that eventually led to the capture of New Guinea.
The reason for the sinking is still unknown. It’s highly unlikely that the sub went down as a result of enemy action, as the nearest German vessel at the time was a survey ship. Also, because no oil, wreckage, or bodies were found, it was assumed the sub sank intact—an assumption that proved correct. Radio scans and images taken by a submersible show a remarkably well-preserved submarine. https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ehlB018G--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/g4ewyo8a1ufg4qc3qhi8.jpg:Kaleun_Salute: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/21/australian-navy-world-war-one-ae1-submarine-found-103-years-after-it-vanished (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/21/australian-navy-world-war-one-ae1-submarine-found-103-years-after-it-vanished)

Jimbuna

12-23-17, 10:46 AM

1937 First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.

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

1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies.

1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion.

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

Aktungbby

12-24-17, 12:09 PM

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Khaki-chums-xmas-truce-1914-1999.redvers.jpg/800px-Khaki-chums-xmas-truce-1914-1999.redvers.jpg1914: Widespread Christmas truces break out along the WWI front as soldiers of both sides meet in No Man's Land. Roughly 100,000 British and German troops were involved in the unofficial cessations of hostility along the Western Front. Friday (Christmas Day). We are having the most extraordinary Christmas Day imaginable. A sort of unarranged and quite unauthorized but perfectly understood and scrupulously observed truce exists between us and our friends in front. The funny thing is it only seems to exist in this part of the battle line – on our right and left we can all hear them firing away as cheerfully as ever. The thing started last night – a bitter cold night, with white frost – soon after dusk when the Germans started shouting 'Merry Christmas, Englishmen' to us. Of course our fellows shouted back and presently large numbers of both sides had left their trenches, unarmed, and met in the debatable, shot-riddled, no man's land between the lines. Here the agreement – all on their own – came to be made that we should not fire at each other until after midnight tonight. The men were all fraternizing in the middle (we naturally did not allow them too close to our line) and swapped cigarettes and lies in the utmost good fellowship. Not a shot was fired all night. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Christmas_Truce_1914.png<The Northumberland Hussars and their (erstwhile) German foes in No Man' Land. The Christmas truce occured during the relatively early period of the war (month 5 of 51). In the week leading up to the 25th, French (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Third_Republic), German (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire), and British (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland) soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk. In some areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man%27s_land) on Christmas Eve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Eve) and Christmas Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Day) to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing. Men played games of football (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football) (soccer) with one another, giving one of the most memorable images of the truce. Peaceful behavior was not ubiquitous; fighting continued in some sectors, while in others the sides settled on little more than arrangements to recover bodies....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce)

Jimbuna

12-24-17, 01:07 PM

1914 German plane drops bombs on Dover England.

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

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

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

1946 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazis" amnesty.

Mr Quatro

12-25-17, 06:59 PM

Christmas use to be against the law in merry old England: https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/it-happened-today/12/25

After the Puritans came to power in England, they began issuing laws against Christmas in 1642. In 1647 Parliament passed a law that the feast of the Nativity of Christ should be no longer observed. Some English folk protested through pamphlets, others by holding celebrations in defiance of the law, still others by refusing to open their shops. At Oxford, Ipswich, and Canterbury, people rioted. A mob beat the Mayor of Canterbury senseless, breaking his windows as well as his bones. Thousands vowed that if they could not have Christmas, they would bring the king back to his throne.

Five years later, Parliament was still issuing unpopular rules. One dated Christmas Eve, 1652, directed, “That no observation shall be had of the five and twentieth day of December, commonly called Christmas Day; nor any solemnity used or exercised in churches upon that day in respect thereof.”

Jimbuna

12-26-17, 07:23 AM

1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing".

1943 Royal Navy sinks German battle cruiser Scharnhorst.

1943 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarters.

1944 Battle of Bastogne: US General Patton's 3rd Army repulses Germans.

1968 Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge.

STEED

12-27-17, 08:57 AM

1977: Star Wars fever hits Britain
Thousands of people are flocking to cinemas in the UK to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars - a movie which is already setting US box offices alight. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/27/newsid_2544000/2544239.stm

Thank you Star Wars that gave ALIEN the green light.

Jimbuna

12-27-17, 10:59 AM

1923 Unsuccessful assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan.

1945 International Monetary Fund formally established by 29 member countries based on ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes.

Jimbuna

12-28-17, 09:34 AM

1867 United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.

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

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

1972 Martin Bormann's skeleton is found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy).

Jimbuna

12-29-17, 08:49 AM

1845 Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union.

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

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

1940 Germany drops its 1st incendiary bombs on London during the Blitz.

1944 General Eisenhower's train returns to Versailles.

1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu.

Jimbuna

12-30-17, 07:47 AM

1915 Cromarty Harbour, Scotland - British cruiser HMS Natal explodes: 405 die.

1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

2016 Ray Davies of The Kinks is awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II.

Jimbuna

12-31-17, 10:45 AM

1904 First New Year's Eve celebration held in Times Square (then Longacre Square), in New York City.

1907 For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the New Year.

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

1946 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II.

1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail.

Jimbuna

01-01-18, 03:40 PM

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

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

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

Jimbuna

01-02-18, 03:37 PM

1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die.

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

1942 World War II: the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals.

1944 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).

Jimbuna

01-03-18, 08:09 AM

1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic.

1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease).

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

1945 Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan.

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

Jimbuna

01-04-18, 09:01 AM

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

1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants.

Jimbuna

01-05-18, 08:49 AM

1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"; he was killed in a plane crash 29 days later.

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

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women.

Jimbuna

01-06-18, 10:33 AM

1681 First recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher).

1941 President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during US State of Union address.

Aktungbby

01-06-18, 11:02 AM

1941 President Franklin Roosevelt's "4 Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during US State of Union address.FREEDOM FROM WANT IS MY FAVORITE:Kaleun_Cheers:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/%22Freedom_From_Want%22_-_NARA_-_513539.jpg/800px-%22Freedom_From_Want%22_-_NARA_-_513539.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/%22Freedom_of_Worship%22_-_NARA_-_513537.jpg/800px-%22Freedom_of_Worship%22_-_NARA_-_513537.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/%22Freedom_of_Speech%22_-_NARA_-_513536.jpg/800px-%22Freedom_of_Speech%22_-_NARA_-_513536.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/%22Freedom_from_Fear%22_-_NARA_-_513538.jpg/800px-%22Freedom_from_Fear%22_-_NARA_-_513538.jpg "In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt)

Mr Quatro

01-06-18, 11:45 AM

Thank you Aktungbby ... Norman Rockwell shows so much character in his paintings.

Most paintings cover up the blemishes, but not Rockwell :up:

Jimbuna

01-07-18, 08:25 AM

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

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

1945 The last surface engagement between Allies and Japanese in the Pacific campaign, World War II

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

1999 Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate.

Jimbuna

01-08-18, 12:11 PM

1835 The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.

1916 ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople.

1940 Britain's first WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar).

1974 Loch Ness Monster first "photographed"

Jimbuna

01-09-18, 10:14 AM

1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.

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

1855 Clipper "Guiding Star" disappears in Atlantic, 480 dead.

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

1945 US soldiers led by Gen Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines.

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands.

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

Jimbuna

01-09-18, 02:22 PM

1918 U.S. Cavalry engage with Yaquis warriors in the Battle of Bear Valley in Arizona, resulting in 1 Yaquis death and 9 captured. It is the last armed engagement between the US Army and Native Americans.

Jimbuna

01-10-18, 10:32 AM

1946 UN General Assembly meets for first time in London.

1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY.

Jimbuna

01-11-18, 07:33 AM

1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die.

Mr Quatro

01-11-18, 02:36 PM

January 11, 1908, Roosevelt exercised this right to make more than 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon area into a national monument. “Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is,” he declared. “You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.”

Congress did not officially outlaw private development in the Grand Canyon until 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Grand Canyon National Park Act.

Jimbuna

01-12-18, 08:36 AM

1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever.

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

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

1937 Plough for laying submarine cable patented.

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge.

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

1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die.

Jimbuna

01-13-18, 08:13 AM

1842 Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.

1915 Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles.

1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast.

1942 World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1943 Hitler declares "Total War"

2000 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position.

Aktungbby

01-13-18, 01:08 PM

1842 Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Remnants_of_an_army2.jpg/1024px-Remnants_of_an_army2.jpgPart of his skull had been sheared off by an Afghan sword and he survived only because he had stuffed a copy of Blackwood's Magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood%27s_Magazine)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Blackwood%27s_Edinburgh_Magazine_XXV_1829.jpg/220px-Blackwood%27s_Edinburgh_Magazine_XXV_1829.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blackwood%27s_Edinburgh_Magazine_XXV_1829.jpg ) into his hat to fight the intense cold weather. The magazine took most of the blow, saving the doctor's life. Brydon became widely, if inaccurately, known as being the only survivor of the entire army. In fact, he was not the only European to survive the retreat; about 115 British officers, soldiers, wives and children were captured or taken as hostages and survived to be subsequently released...The episode was made the subject of a famous painting by the Victorian artist Lady Butler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Thompson), who portrayed Brydon approaching the gates of the Jalalabad fort perched on his exhausted horse (which reportedly dropped dead upon arrival in the city).:k_confused:Lady Butler's other famous painting imho:up::https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Scotland_Forever%21.jpg/330px-Scotland_Forever%21.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scotland_Forever!.jpg)< klik 2 enlarge) Scotland Forever! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Forever!) :Kaleun_Applaud:

Jimbuna

01-14-18, 08:35 AM

1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo.

1943 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw.

1943 Japan begins Operation Ke, withdrawal of its troops from Guadalcanal.

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

1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant.

1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers.

Jimbuna

01-15-18, 10:00 AM

1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.

1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die.

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

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

Jimbuna

01-16-18, 11:49 AM

1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor.

1944 General Eisenhower takes command of Allied Invasion Force in London.

1945 Adolf Hitler moves into the Fuhrerbunker, his underground bunker in Berlin.

1957 3 B-52s leave California for first non-stop round world flights.

1957 Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool, England, home of The Beatles' first appearance.

Jimbuna

01-17-18, 08:25 AM

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

1779 Captain James Cook's last notation in Discovery's ship's log.

1944 British corvette HMS Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean.

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police in Hungary.

1951 China refuses ceases-fire in Korea.

1955 US Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage.

1987 US President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran.

Jimbuna

01-18-18, 07:39 AM

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

1884 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum.

1911 First shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania).

2016 World's 62 richest people are now as wealthy as half the world's population according to a report published by Oxfam.

Jimbuna

01-19-18, 10:25 AM

1915 First German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die.

1939 Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record of 4.4 seconds.

1971 The Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial.

Aktungbby

01-19-18, 12:53 PM

1942:German submarine U-66 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-66_(1940)) sank RMS Lady Hawkins in the North Atlantic, killing 251 of the 322 people aboard.
On the morning of 19 January 1942 the ship was sailing unescorted about 150 nautical miles (280 km) off Cape Hatteras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras), taking a zigzag course to make her more difficult to hit, when at 0743 hrs U-66 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-66_(1940)) commanded by Korvettenkapitän (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korvettenkapit%C3%A4n) Robert-Richard Zapp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Richard_Zapp) ( 27th highest scoring U-Boat ace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_successful_U-boat_commanders) of World War II) hit her with two stern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern)-launched torpedoes.:Kaleun_Los: The liner sank in about 30 minutes.Three of her six lifeboats were damaged, but the other three were launched. One was commanded by her Chief Officer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mate). It had capacity for 63 people but managed to embark 76 survivors. Its occupants could hear more people in the water, but could neither see them in the dark nor take them aboard the overcrowded boat if they had found them.
The boat had no radio transmitter and very limited rations of drinking water, biscuit and water. It shipped water and needed constant baling, but it had a mast, sail and oars and Chief Officer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mate) Percy Kelly set a course west toward the USA's Atlantic coast sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_lane) lanes and land. The boat was at sea for five days, in which time five of its occupants died. Then the survivors sighted the US Army (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Army)troopship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troopship)USAT Coamo (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USAT_Coamo&action=edit&redlink=1) and signalled her with a flashlight. Coamo's Master (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_captain) misread the flashes as an enemy submarine preparing to attack, and was going to continue without stopping. It was only when the survivors shone the light on the boat's sail that he correctly understood their signal. Coamo rescued the boat's 71 surviving occupants, landing them at Puerto Rico on 28 January. Of the three lifeboats launched, only Chief Officer Kelly's was found.. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lady_Hawkins#cite_note-Hocking-9) Including the five who died in that boat, a total of 251 people from Lady Hawkins were lost. They were her Master Huntly Giffen, 85 of her crew, one DEMS gunner and 164 of her passengers, two of whom were Distressed British Seamen (i.e. survivors from previous sinkings). The 71 survivors whom Coamo rescued were Percy Kelly, 21 crew and 49 passengers. KorvettenKapitan Zapp surviverd the war as commanadant of La Rochelle Uboot base until the end of the war. U-66 was sunk in 1944 after a ferocious hand-to-hand sea battle: 1 May 1944, U-66 came under attack by American ships from an antisubmarine hunter-killer group formed around USS Block Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Block_Island_(CVE-21)). Three Fido (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_24_Mine) homing torpedoes were dropped near the boat, and numerous aircraft from Block Island, along with smaller craft, were designated to hunt for her. On the morning of 6 May, the destroyer escort USS Buckley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Buckley_(DE-51)) found the submarine. After an exchange of gunfire and torpedoes, Buckley, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Brent Abel, rammed the submarine.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/U-66_Rammspur.jpg/220px-U-66_Rammspur.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U-66_Rammspur.jpg)
The bow of the USS Buckley after the ramming of U-66
With the two vessels stuck fast, a party of Germans, under the command of U-66's first officer, Klaus Herbig, attempted to climb onto the American escort's forecastle to create a diversion while Seehausen and the remainder of the U-boat's crew worked to free the boat. As American sailors saw the boarding party climbing on deck, hand-to-hand fighting broke out in which a number of Germans were killed or wounded before the U-boat was able to make good its escape. Five armed Germans remained on deck of the destroyer but they were quickly over-powered and taken prisoner. Buckley's 3-inch gun was unleashed on the U-boat as the Americans chased after her, but U-66 then turned and rammed Buckley near her engine room, damaging the ship's starboard screw. Soon afterward, U-66 was scuttled on Seehausen's orders to prevent her secret equipment from being captured. Buckley then began rescue operations, which lasted three hours. with 24 dead and 36 survivors,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/U-66_Gerettet_3.jpg/220px-U-66_Gerettet_3.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U-66_Gerettet_3.jpg) all of whom were captured by Buckley. Seehausen was not among the survivors, who were later transferred to Block Island. For his act of ramming U-66, Brent Abel received the Navy Cross Jeeze!: two classic naval commands in one sea-battle: "Ramming Speed and "Repel all boarders"...U-66 lived up to its two '6's (out of three!:shucks:)...12 patrols: 200,012 tons (under three commanders) 8th highest tonnage of WWII U-Boot tonnage:Kaleun_Salute: The battle between U-66 and USS BUCKLEY was the basis for the movie "Enemy Below" which stared Robert Mitchum and Kurt Jürgens! http://sharkhunters.com/U-66%20German%20Submarine.htm (http://sharkhunters.com/U-66%20German%20Submarine.htm)

Jimbuna

01-20-18, 08:25 AM

1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the first Opium War.

1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford make camp at Isandlwana.

1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews.

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.

Jimbuna

01-21-18, 09:32 AM

1943 Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Royal Navy, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

1944 447 German bombers attack London, 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg.

1954 USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched on the Thames River in Connecticut.

1968 US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in Greenland.

1968 The Battle of Khe Sanh - one of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War - begins at the Khe Sanh Air Base.

1977 US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

Aktungbby

01-21-18, 12:01 PM

1791: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Duplessis_-_Louis_XVI_of_France%2C_oval%2C_Versailles.jpg/220px-Duplessis_-_Louis_XVI_of_France%2C_oval%2C_Versailles.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duplessis_-_Louis_XVI_of_France,_oval,_Versailles.jpg) :/\\chop:rotfl2::dead: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Execution_of_Louis_XVI.jpg/1024px-Execution_of_Louis_XVI.jpg'Vive la Republique!' :()1:

Buddahaid

01-21-18, 02:59 PM

Buddahaid celebrates his fortieth wedding anniversary walking the GG bridge early in the morning to beat the crowds. Murder suicide was only fleetingly entertained......:O:
https://imageshack.com/a/img923/8877/BZzVqd.jpg

Aktungbby

01-21-18, 05:02 PM

Murder-suicide was only fleetingly entertained ODDLY, WHEN I APPLIED FOR A SECURITY POSITION ON THE GGB, THE INTERVIEW PANEL MEMBER ASKED IF I 'HAD ANY THOUGHTS ON IMPROVEMENTS'...MY BARRACKS-ROOM HUMOR KICKED IN; AND I SUGGESTED 'A BUNGEE-CORD CONCESSION...SO " THEY COULD "TRY IT OUT ONCE FOR PRACTICE'':doh: I WAS ACTUALLY INVITED BACK FOR A SECOND-TIER INTERVIEW BUT FIGURED OUT I DIDN'T WANT WINTER GRAVE SHIFT DUTY. THE GGB IS COLD PLACE IN WINTER AND I'VE SPENT QUITE A FEW NIGHTS SHIVERING ON GRAVE-SHIFT GUARDMOUNT JUST BELOW ON 'AUTHENTIC' CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTAING (20 YEARS:shucks: )https://sfdrew.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/cv1-e1312411941620.jpg?w=225&h=300 (https://sfdrew.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/cv1.jpg) WITHIN OLD FORT POINT! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Fort_Point_Light%2C_U.S._Highway_101%2C_San_Franci sco_%28San_Francisco_County%2C_California%29.jpg <GUARD MOUNT PER THE OLD MILITARY PROTOCOL MANUAL FOR 1860(THE YERAR THE FORT SUMPTER STYLE FORT WAS FINISHED) IS COLD AT 2 AM IN JANUARY -GENERALY ON THE UPPERMOST LEVEL IN THE UNRELENTING FREEZING DAMP BREEZE-THANK GOD FOR OLD- STYLE WOOL GREAT-COATS AND LONG 'UNONSUIT' UNDER WEAR :salute:THE FORT WAS OBSOLETE WHEN FINISHED AS THE SHIPS OF THE DAY WERE STEAM DRIVEN BY THEN AND THE HUGE SEACOAST BATTERY GUNS COULDN'T BE AIMED SPEEDILY ENOUGH:http://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/qPteRWic7dnzlhfds2XjdQ/o.jpg

Jimbuna

01-22-18, 07:38 AM

1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.

1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain.

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

1946 US president Harry Truman sets up the Central Intelligence Agency.

Aktungbby

01-22-18, 11:37 AM

1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.
1789: A little good PR to cover up the nearby disaster it seems: the disaster at Isandlwana of the main British force. Approximately 1300 British(800) and auxiliary(500) forces (out of a force of 1700+) were killed by 20,000 Zulu warriors. There were no prisoners...the Zulu suffered suffered around a thousand killed. The fighting had been hand to hand and no quarter was given to the British regulars(in red). The Zulus had been commanded to ignore the civilians in black coats and this meant that some officers, whose patrol dress was dark blue and black at the time, were spared and escaped.https://i0.wp.com/www.military-history.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/map.png?resize=600%2C390 An officer in advance from Chelmsford's force gave this eyewitness account of the final stage of the battle at about 3:00pm.
"In a few seconds we distinctly saw the guns fired again, one after the other, sharp. This was done several times – a pause, and then a flash – flash! The sun was shining on the camp at the time, and then the camp looked dark, just as if a shadow was passing over it. The guns did not fire after that, and in a few minutes all the tents had disappeared." Nearly the same moment is described in a Zulu warrior's account. "The sun turned black in the middle of the battle; we could still see it over us, or should have thought we had been fighting till evening. Then we got into the camp, and there was a great deal of smoke and firing. Afterwards the sun came out bright again."] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana#cite_note-62) The time of the solar eclipse on that day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_22,_1879) is calculated as 2:29pm.An eclipse in the middle of a big battle has got to have a psychological effect....they never show that in the movie:hmmm: The measure of respect that the British gained for their opponents as a result of Isandlwana can be seen in that in none of the other engagements of the Zulu War did the British attempt to fight again in their typical linear formation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(formation)), known famously as the Thin Red Line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Red_Line_(Battle_of_Balaclava)), in an open-field battle with the main Zulu impi. In the battles that followed, the British, when facing the Zulu, entrenched themselves or formed very close-order formations, such as the square (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_square). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana)

Jimbuna

01-23-18, 10:14 AM

1945 World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.

1962 British intellegence officer Kim Philby defects to USSR.

Jimbuna

01-24-18, 08:43 AM

1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.

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

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

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

1958 After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion.

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

1984 Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer.

Jimbuna

01-25-18, 10:48 AM

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

1964 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand"

1971 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin.

1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft.

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

Jimbuna

01-26-18, 07:24 AM

1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day.

1907 The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III rifle officially introduced into British Military Service, 2nd oldest military rifle still in official use.

1926 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London.

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

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp.

1968 Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die.

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

Jimbuna

01-27-18, 07:25 AM

1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.

1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with the loss of 600,000 killed.

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

Jimbuna

01-28-18, 08:04 AM

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

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

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

1982 Italian police rescue, James Dozier, a US Brigadier General, held hostage by the Red Brigade for 6 weeks.

Jimbuna

01-29-18, 10:43 AM

1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge valour in the face of the enemy (United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries).

1916 First bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place.

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

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

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

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

2015 Malaysia officially declares the disappearance of missing flight MH370 an accident.

Jimbuna

01-30-18, 09:59 AM

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

1862 USS Monitor, the US Navy's first ironclad warship launched.

1943 6 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight.

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

1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral.

Jimbuna

01-31-18, 08:33 AM

1915 First (German) poison gas attack, against Russians.

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

1943 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.

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

1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland.

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

Mr Quatro

01-31-18, 10:49 AM

January 31st 1892

Death of Charles Spurgeon, a Baptist minister considered one of the greatest preachers of all time.

Jimbuna

02-01-18, 09:04 AM

1917 German Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war.

1942 Second Norwegian government of Quisling forms.

1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier.

1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes.

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

Jimbuna

02-02-18, 07:15 AM

1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

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

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

1954 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952).

Aktungbby

02-02-18, 12:12 PM

1954 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952). ...and the nuclear clock https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_90px/public/DoomsdayClock_black_2mins_regmark.png?itok=0miW3du V is still ticking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQX033V_M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQX033V_M) <:()1:I wasn't even one year old...:rock: "nuthin' bad goes outta style either BBY!":()1:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/world/americas/doomsday-clock-nuclear-scientists.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/world/americas/doomsday-clock-nuclear-scientists.html)

Jimbuna

02-03-18, 07:38 AM

1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

Jimbuna

02-04-18, 09:11 AM

1789 First US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice-President.

1938 Adolf Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazis in key posts.

1945 Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of the war.

2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.

Jimbuna

02-05-18, 12:54 PM

1918 First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson.

1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla.

Aktungbby

02-05-18, 05:02 PM

1918 First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson.

^ that was the good news!:salute: This being a submarine naval forum: 1918: SS Tuscania was a luxury liner of the Cunard Line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunard_Line). She was torpedoed in 1918 by the German U-boat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat)UB-77 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UB-77) while transporting American troops to Europe and sank, sending 210 people to their deaths. With 384 crew members and 2,013 United States Army (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army) personnel aboard. On the morning of 5 February 1918, she turned south for the North Channel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Channel_(Great_Britain_and_Ireland)) en route Liverpool. The German submarine UB-77 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UB-77) sighted Tuscania′s convoy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy) during the day and stalked it until early evening. Under the cover of darkness at about 6:40 p.m., the submarine′s commander, Korvettenkapitän (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korvettenkapit%C3%A4n) Wilhelm Meyer, ordered two eels fired at Tuscania. The second of these struck home, sending her to the bottom of the Irish Sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea) within about four hours. < survivors and the dead washed up on the Isle of Islay where there are burials and a memorial. http://www.islayinfo.com/loss-troopship-tuscania-islay.html (http://www.islayinfo.com/loss-troopship-tuscania-islay.html)

Jimbuna

02-06-18, 11:02 AM

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

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

Aktungbby

02-06-18, 01:29 PM

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5a382534160000783ecf1e7e.jpeg?ops=scalefit_600_nou pscale

Jimbuna

02-07-18, 10:13 AM

1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.

1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

1964 Cassius Clay converts to Islam, and is renamed Muhammad Ali.

1991 The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

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

Jimbuna

02-08-18, 07:23 AM

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

1906 Without warning, Japanese torpedo boats make a night attack on Russian ships near naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria; confusion because no deceleration of war given.

1912 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength.

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

1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland.

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

Jimbuna

02-09-18, 07:29 AM

1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription).

1943 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic WWII battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific.

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

1945 HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.

1964 First appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers).

Aktungbby

02-09-18, 10:10 AM

1964 First appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs) :yeah: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs) I actually tuned (age 13) in to see what the fuss was about; the only time I ever watched Ed Sullivan...MEH.... until Sgt Pepper was released; that did it for me! I still have the vinyl album!

Jimbuna

02-10-18, 07:44 AM

1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design.

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost'.

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.

1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland.

1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel.

1964 Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager sinks after colliding with aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, killing 82.

Jimbuna

02-11-18, 07:56 AM

1943 US General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe; British General Montgomery not best pleased.

1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland.

1946 Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 116 of 156 captured U-boats.

1956 British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier.

Jimbuna

02-12-18, 11:44 AM

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

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

1935 First secret demonstration of radio signals detecting aircraft by Robert Watson-Watt at Daventry, England.

1938 The first 'Kindertransport' carrying Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany arrives in Britain.

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

Jimbuna

02-13-18, 01:58 PM

1942 Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled.

1945 Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die.

Jimbuna

02-14-18, 10:03 AM

1797 The Battle of Cape St Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself.

1876 Alexander G. Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor.

1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut.

1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders.

1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed.

1989 The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit.

Catfish

02-14-18, 10:32 AM

^[...]
1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed. [...]

Such a small, harmless sentence :hmmm:

Jimbuna

02-14-18, 10:52 AM

Such a small, harmless sentence :hmmm:

Not sure what you mean :hmmm:

Catfish

02-14-18, 01:37 PM

It made the prize regulation impossible. Full text of "International law documents : regulation of maritime warfare, 1925" , from 40 on (but not only)

https://archive.org/stream/internationallaw25nava/internationallaw25nava_djvu.txt

Aktungbby

02-14-18, 06:55 PM

INDEED! If an armed merchant ship of the enemy makes armed resistance to measures of the right of prize, such resistance is to be
broken with all means. The responsibility for any damages which
the ship, cargo, and passengers may thereby suffer rests with the
enemy government. The crew are to be treated as prisoners of war.
The passengers are to be released, except when they have demon-
strably taken part in the resistance. In the latter case, the procedure
extraordinary to the laws of war is to be employed against them. —
Ger. App. P. C. 1914.
:know:

Catfish

02-15-18, 03:09 AM

^ This, also including neutral merchants (certainly carrying contraband) into allied convoys. Next, Q-ships. History is still being blurred, and intentionally so.

edit: but i did not mean that a controlling ship had the international right to treat the armed "civilian" vessel as a military ship, treat the crew as military, and sink it (which is bad enough). We know that german U-boat commanders usually did not deliberately target and kill the crew, both wars.

What i mean is, just like in WW1, the arming of civilian merchants (making them military ships, with a military (if small) crew to fire the guns) broke international law.
By this international law a military ship was allowed to stop and search neutral merchant vessels for contraband and then take it as a prize or sink it, and even sink enemy merchants without hailing in certain areas! Complicated enough with british merchants notoriously running under false flags.

This was a "nice" move by british politics, since the sinking of any "neutral" ship could instantly be used for propaganda and blamed on those brutish germans. Truth is, they cheated, and let the outcome be carried on the shoulders of civilian crews. And the propaganda is still strong.

Truth is that even obvious enemy allied merchants were usually stopped, the crew allowed to leave ship, and only then sunk. Also in WW2.
But the armament of merchants, and the running of neutral ships carrying contraband in enemy convoys, made the prize regulation impossible. A U-boat could not risk to surface and stop a surface merchant, when one shot could sink the boat.

Jimbuna

02-15-18, 08:52 AM

1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die.

1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (the People's Car, aka the Kaefer/beetle).

1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched.

1942 German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery.

1942 World War II: British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.

1944 Attack begins at Monte Cassino monastery, Italy.

1952 King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.

1971 After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons pence & shilling system for decimal currency.

Jimbuna

02-16-18, 07:26 AM

600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze.

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

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

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

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

1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.

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

1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip.

2006 The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Jimbuna

02-17-18, 09:02 AM

1936 The world's first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, makes his first appearance in comics.

1940 Crew of the British destroyer Cossack board German Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway, and realised 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass.

1972 British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market.

Aktungbby

02-17-18, 02:39 PM

1936 The world's first superhero,.....

WRONG!:hmmm: 1864: CSS Hunley with eight intrepid super heroes (of crew #3!!??-the first 2, incl. owner/inventor Horace Hunley himself, had died in previous experiments.....)https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_1100,c_fill,g_auto,h_619,ar_16:9/http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets% 2F140214161131-hunley-facial-reconstruction.jpg <sink the USS Housatonic in Charlston Harbor leading (ultimately) to the creation of :subsim: !https://today.duke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/story_body/public/140214162243-hunley-remains-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg?itok=TxkMOczVhttps://www.cnn.com/travel/article/civil-war-submarine-hunley-crew/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/civil-war-submarine-hunley-crew/index.html) :yeah: Additionally: the invention of electronic submarine warfare: The Hunley continues to prove that she was a high-tech machine that was generations ahead of her time.” Over the course of the submarine’s excavation, scientists have found a number of tantalizing clues that point to a battery being aboard the Hunley. A metal plate was recovered near Hunley commander Lt. George Dixon’s station. The plate is approximately 4 inches wide, 16 inches long, 1/8 of an inch thick, and has a series of holes running along its perimeter, meaning it was most likely mounted to something or one component of a much larger device.
Preliminary surface analysis of the plate shows it has zinc and copper elements, the two main ingredients needed for a 19th century battery.
For a battery to be used to send an electric charge to detonate the torpedo, wire connecting the energy source to the torpedo would have been needed, and there is no shortage of wire on the sub. Near the plate, scientists found a copper wire with a looped end and there is a large spool of deteriorated wire hanging from the upper bulkhead in the forward ballast tank. If the plate proves to be part of a battery, the wire remnants recovered may have been part of the overall construction of an electric detonation system for the torpedo.
“All this wire was found within reach of Lt. Dixon, the man responsible for detonating the torpedo,” https://hunley.org/2005/06/24/hunley-torpedo-may-have-been-electrically-detonated/ (https://hunley.org/2005/06/24/hunley-torpedo-may-have-been-electrically-detonated/) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/16_20_146_hunley.jpg/220px-16_20_146_hunley.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:16_20_146_hunley.jpg) < On April 17, 2004 the remains of the crew were laid to rest at Magnolia Cemetery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_Cemetery_(Charleston,_South_Carolina)) in Charleston, South Carolina.Tens of thousands of people attended including some 6,000 reenactors and 4,000 civilians wearing period clothing. Color guards from all five branches of the U.S. armed forces—wearing modern uniforms—were also in the procession. Even though only two of the crew were from Confederate States all were buried with full Confederate honors, including being buried with the 2nd Confederate national flag.:Kaleun_Salute: https://today.duke.edu/2017/08/confederate-submarine-crew-killed-their-own-weapon (https://today.duke.edu/2017/08/confederate-submarine-crew-killed-their-own-weapon)

mapuc

02-17-18, 03:39 PM

Sorry for interrupting your discussion

The Phantom is a phantasy figure

While the crew of CSS Hunley was, depending on which side you were in the civil war, real life heroes.

Markus

Aktungbby

02-17-18, 08:27 PM

^TRUE THAT! BUT ONE FAMOUS CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN DECLARED THE CONFEDERACY...."DIED OF A THEORY"! THEORIES ARE OFTEN FANTASIES ERGO IMHO: Of all New World slave societies, the Confederacy stood alone in predicating its very existence on the ideological defense of slavery, and thus rendering slaves’ military service a contradiction in terms. No other Atlantic slave power — not even the Brazilian planters who stood largely unopposed within their nation until the 1870s — so fiercely constructed ideological defenses of slavery as a legitimate, and indeed beneficial, modern social institution. And so, likewise, the Confederacy stood alone in contradicting the Atlantic norm of trading slaves service for freedom.
This proved to be a critical weakness, uniquely condemning the slave power of the Confederacy to be undone by the very institution it sought most to conserve. In 1865, Confederate congressman Howell Cobb of Georgia rebuked those who called for the Confederacy’s enlistment of black soldiers: “The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong.” Confederate President Jefferson Davis demurred: “If the Confederacy falls there should be written on its tombstone, ‘Died of a theory.’” THE SUBMARINE WAS BUILT TO DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE; IMPROVED BY AN IRISHMAN JOHN PHILIP HOLLANDhttp://irishamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/holland-190x300.jpg (http://irishamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/holland.jpg) TO ASSIST HIS FENIAN BROTHER MICHEALL 2 "RAM IT HOME' AGAINST ENGLAND; ADAPTED BY THE KAISER, 1914, 2 ESTABLISH 'GERMANY'S PLACE IN THE SUN' (again against the Royal British Navy) WITH POLITICALLY INCORRECT UNRESTRICTED WARFARE THAT AT THE TIME WAS OUTRAGEOUS ...SUBMARINE WARFARE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IS LARGLY BASED ON PHANTASY THAT VICTORY IS POSSIBLE. ADM. DOENITZ NEVER CAME CLOSE; AND EVEN THE AMERICAN EFFORT AGAINST JAPAN NEEDED TO BE TOPPED OFF WITH 'THE BOMB' TO AVERT A MILLION-CASUALTY LANDING IN THE JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS.....:arrgh!: :subsim:

Jimbuna

02-18-18, 10:34 AM

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

1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on its maiden flight.

2016 Pope Francis questions US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Jimbuna

02-19-18, 09:58 AM

1906 Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's.

1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area.

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

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

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines.

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.

1964 UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US.

Catfish

02-19-18, 10:25 AM

Regarding "superheroes", this is a term for comics, not real life. By all courage and spirit, labelling them as such seems wrong for me :hmmm:

[...] ASSIST HIS FENIAN BROTHER MICHEALL 2 "RAM IT HOME' AGAINST ENGLAND; ADAPTED BY THE KAISER, 1914, 2 ESTABLISH 'GERMANY'S PLACE IN THE SUN' (again against the Royal British Navy) [...]
The Kaiser wanted no war, but demanded the same rights as other nations of the time, read: colonies. He did neither intend to invade England, nor attack the Royal Navy. Nor did he intend to concquer the world (shown in all those nice Entente propaganda posters of the time), which b.t.w. England had already done :03:

WITH POLITICALLY INCORRECT UNRESTRICTED WARFARE THAT AT THE TIME WAS OUTRAGEOUS ... :hmmm: No. It never really was unrestricted. It was sold as such to the german population, and gladly adopted by enemy propaganda. I can explain this, but this will take some time. It also explains some of the fury, after Versailles.

P.S: those Aktung's red colors are killing me when trying to quote :haha:

.:arrgh!: :subsim: I agree :D

Aktungbby

02-19-18, 10:27 AM

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma. When the British outflanked a Japanese stronghold, the 900 defenders abandoned the base and marched to join a larger battalion of Japanese soldiers across the island. The route took the Japanese across 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) of mangrove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove) swamp and as they struggled through it, the British encircled the area. Trapped in deep mud-filled land, tropical diseases soon started to afflict the soldiers, as did scorpions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion), tropical mosquitoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito) and saltwater crocodiles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_crocodile). Some British soldiers, including naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright who participated in the battle: That night [of the 19 February 1945] was the most horrible that any member of the M. L. [motor launch] crews ever experienced. The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on earth. At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left.... Of about one thousand Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about twenty were found alive. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Odh0PsJuL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/SaltwaterCrocodile%28%27Maximo%27%29.jpg/800px-SaltwaterCrocodile%28%27Maximo%27%29.jpg< saltwater crocodile whether completely true or not..it wasn't called Nipponese fer nuthin! :wah:

Jimbuna

02-20-18, 11:09 AM

1938 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany.

1938 Adolf Hitler announces his support for Japan during the Sino-Japanese War.

1941 First transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland.

1942 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers, becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

1947 Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence.

1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.

1962 John Glenn become 1st American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7.

Jimbuna

02-21-18, 10:21 AM

1907 SS Berlin sinks off the Hook of Holland (142 dead).

1916 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties.

1917 British troopship SS Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 646 die.

Mr Quatro

02-21-18, 12:24 PM

1916 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties.

This should be a victory celebration day for France even though many brave men were lost in the next ten (10) months of warfare.

10 Things You May Not Know About the Battle of Verdun

http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-battle-of-verdun

Shortly after 7 a.m. on the morning of February 21, 1916, German gunners unleashed a hail of artillery fire on French positions surrounding the fortified city of Verdun. The Germans planned for their attack to “bleed France white,” but the battle soon dragged both sides into a costly standoff. For 10 months, French and German forces engaged in a grueling cycle of attacks, counterattacks and near-constant bombardments that turned the small city on the Meuse River into hell on earth. The French eventually halted the German advance and regained their lost territory, but not before the two sides had suffered some 800,000 casualties between them. Explore 10 facts about one of the longest and most ferocious battles of World War I.

Jimbuna

02-22-18, 08:34 AM

1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House.

1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578.

1942 World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse.

1955 British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sets sail.

1972 The Official IRA bombs Aldershot military barracks, the headquarters of the British Parachute Regiment, killing seven people; thought to be in retaliation for Bloody Sunday.

1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud".

1997 Dolly the Sheep, world's first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) is announced by the Roslin Institute in Scotland.

Jimbuna

02-23-18, 09:26 AM

1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed.

1893 Rudolf Diesel obtains a patent for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.

1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux (Battle of Verdun).

1942 Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California.

1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

Aktungbby

02-23-18, 12:29 PM

1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux (Battle of Verdun). WELL NOT ALL THE ARTILLARY WAS GERMAN IT SEEMS.... :wah:http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/Verdun%20February%2023.jpg (http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/Verdun%20February%2023.jpg)<ENLARGES
On February 23 the German attack ground on, with waves of infantry from six German divisions advancing behind unrelenting artillery bombardments, slowly forcing the French 72nd and 51st Reserve Divisions out of Brabant and the forest of Herbebois, back towards the villages of Beaumont and Samogneux. With both French divisions nearing their breaking point, on the evening of the 23rd the French 37th Division, consisting of Algerian and Moroccan colonial troops, was hurled into the fight while the 72nd Reserve fought tooth and nail to hold Samogneux. Tragically, miscommunication led the French overall commander at Verdun, General Herr, to believe Samogneux had already fallen to the enemy, and friendly fire from French guns wiped out scores of their own troops – an all-too-common occurrence in the First World War. The misdirected French bombardment cleared the way for the Germans to occupy Samogneux, while the ragged remnants of the 72nd Reserve Division were withdrawn from the frontline. Together with the 51st Reserve Division, it had lost an astonishing 16,224 men out of an original strength of 26,523 in just three days. THIS WAS NO PLACE TO BE NO MATTER WHO'S ARTILLERY IS DOING THE KILLING...http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/Wagon.jpg

Jimbuna

02-24-18, 09:36 AM

1875 The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.

1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram).

1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service.

Jimbuna

02-25-18, 07:44 AM

1836 Samuel Colt patents first revolving barrel multishot firearm.

1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun.

1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship.

1933 First genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo.

Jimbuna

02-26-18, 11:10 AM

1797 Bank of England issues first £1 note.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France.

1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.

1935 German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering.

1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.

1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb.

1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb.

Aktungbby

02-26-18, 12:08 PM

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France. ...& MET HIS WATERLOO! STRANGELY, THE TOWN JUST NORTH OF NAPA IS ....ST. HELENA:timeout:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Napoleon_sainthelene.jpg

Aktungbby

02-27-18, 12:21 PM

1700: William DAMPIERhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Dampier-portrait.jpg/220px-Dampier-portrait.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dampier-portrait.jpg)discovers New Britain ( in the Bismark Archepelago) the first person to circumnavigate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation) the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Walter_Raleigh) and James Cook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook). ( and smarter: Raleigh was beheaded and poor Cook was eaten by Hawaiians)
After impressing the Admiralty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty) with his book A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy) ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, before being court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage he rescued Alexander Selkirk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk), a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe)'s Robinson Crusoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe). Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook), Horatio Nelson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson), Charles Darwin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin), and Alfred Russel Wallace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace). Somwhat forgotten today :He is cited over 80 times in the Oxford English Dictionary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary), notably on words such as "barbecue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue)", "avocado (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado)", "chopsticks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks)" and "sub-species (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-species)". That is not to say he coined the words, but his use of them in his writings is the first known example in English. Well... I Bar B Q on my Weber making avocado-burgers; eat sushi with my chopsticks; and my wife considers me a sub- species.... if not an outright Sasquatch:o! Alternately shipwrecked and courtmartialled for cruelty(move over Bligh!!)his travels along the "Miskito" Coast in 1679 are also strangely remembered: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Dampier_Mosquito.gifhis excellent charts, notes, and logs gave rise to...his leaving a stamp on history :O: all-in-all, a remarkable man!:Kaleun_Salute: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/William_Dampier_Ecuador2006.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dampier)