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.

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.

Fake News! ahead of its time!:yep:

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.

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.

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.

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

30 Years on..

1987 King's Cross fire

https://news.sky.com/story/fears-les...otten-11130364

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.

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.

Quote:

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-th...-western-front

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.

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.

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.

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.