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Perhaps Putin should study our methods!

^A little dynastic success and 'Bankin' it up then?!:D 1963: President Dwight D Eisenhower delivers his farewell address and warns against "the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.":timeout: Too late: 1893: 'Hawaii's monarchy is overthrown as a group of businessmen(Sanford Dole et al) and sugar planters (raisn' a little cane perhaps?) Forced Queen Lili'uokalani to abdicate. An independent nation: On July 6, 1846, US SEC of State on behalf of President Tyler, had afforded formal recognition of Hawaiian independence under the reign of Kamehameha III. As a result of the recognition of Hawaiian independence, the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into treaties with the major nations of the world and established over ninety legations and consulates in multiple seaports and cities.' BOTTOM Line: we usurped an independent nation...and acquired Pearl Harbor-deemed necessary to the interests of the nation...When the Queen tried to fight back, she was placed in house-arrest for Treason in her own country???!!!. In "1993, the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Congress passed a resolution, which President Bill Clinton signed into law, offering an apology to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the United States for its involvement in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. This law is known as the Apology Resolution." I'll mutter "so sorry" as I sip my MAI-TAI topped with a little Dole pineapple...on Kauai. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hawaii

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

1841 - China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War.

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January 21, 1954: USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, is launched

Powered by nuclear reactors instead of diesel engines, the new wave of submarines could stay submerged for months - adding further intrigue to Cold War espionage.

http://home.bt.com/news/world-news/j...11363955605561

1944 - 447 German bombers attack London
1944 - 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg

No messy chemistry-just close shave!

1793: Louis XVI, condemned for treason = :/\\chop on a new humane device that he had suggested be beveled along its business edge for greater efficiency and humane-ness. This inaugurated a period of French history known as The Terror, JUN/1793-JUL/1794, in which the :/\\chop was referred to as 'the National Razor'.:|\\ Estimates of the death toll range between 16,000 and 40,000. The last person guillotined in France was a Tunisian murderer, Hamida Djandoubi, on 10 SEP 1977-as executions were abolished 1981 by President Mitterand...The way things in France are today, perhaps it should be brought back for the Terror II ?! :hmmm:

1879 - Battle at Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors.

Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders of Rorke's Drift, seven of them to soldiers of the 2nd/24th Foot – the most ever received in a single action by one regiment (although not, as commonly thought, the most awarded in a single action or the most in a day: 16 were awarded at the Battle of Inkerman, on 5 November 1854; 28 were awarded during the Second Relief of Lucknow, 14–22 November 1857)

'Promicuous puffing in public' ordinance annulled in the Big Apple

1908: SMOKEFREE: New York city passes Sullivan Act, forbidding women to smoke in public. Managers of public establishments must not permit females to smoke. An earlier ordinance which would have forbidden men to smoke in the presence of women failed to pass.:hmmm: One Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting up. Two weeks after enactment, Mayor George B. McClellan vetoes the ordinance. KATIE MULCAHEY on the subject: "No man shall dictate to me!" MS Mulcahey spent a night in jail after refusing to pay the $5.00 fine. The law, which in fact specified NO fines...was vetoed, to his everlasting credit, by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr.(son of the Union general) two weeks later! Quite liberal for the two-term mayor, who is notable in the history of movie censorship for canceling all moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908, claiming that the new medium degraded the morals of the community and that celluloid film was an unacceptable fire hazard. The women smoking in public issues had serious social and women's equality implications for the 'Victorian era': http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=nehas

1924-James Ramsay MacDonald becomes Britain's first Labour prime minister, leading a minority government.

1960-The USS 'Trieste' bathyscaphe makes the deepest recorded dive of 35,800ft into the Challenger Deep.

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

1965-British statesman and national hero Winston Churchill dies aged 90 and is honoured with a state funeral.

1972-World War Two Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is found at his post on Guam and told the war is over.

41 - Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after his assassination by Praetorian Guards.

1858 - Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" first played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia.

1841 - Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain.

1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan lands at Panama City.