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1595 William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is thought to have been first performed. The play was officially published in early 1597.
1916 1st bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place. 1917 British submarine K13 sank in Gaire Loch, Scotland; 32 of her crew died. 1933 German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor. 1943 New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal. 1944 285 German bombers attack London. 1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched. 1944 World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland. 2002 US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" an "Axis of Evil", which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. |
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 1st ironclad warship launched. 1939 Hitler threatens the Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament). 1943 6 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight. 1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to Field Marshal. 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. Largest ever state funeral. |
1865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24).
1915 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians. 1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship. 1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. 1940 40 U-boats sunk this month (111,000 ton). 1941 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton). 1942 62 U-boats sunk this month (327,000 ton). 1943 39 U-boats sunk this month (203,100 ton). 1943 Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad. 1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June. 1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland. |
"the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions"
1606: Guy Fawkes 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, is hanged for his part in the failed gun powder plot...giving rise to Guy Fawkes day! A lifelong mercenary fighting the Dutch in the Spanish army, his luck strangely held: The trial of eight of the plotters began on Monday 27 January 1606. Fawkes shared the barge from the Tower to Westminster Hall with seven of his co-conspirators. They were kept in the Star Chamber before being taken to Westminster Hall, where they were displayed on a purpose-built scaffold. Each of the condemned plot conspirators would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground. They were to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both". Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air".:timeout: Fawkes was the last to stand on the scaffold. He asked for forgiveness of the King and state, while keeping up his "crosses and idle ceremonies" (Catholic practices). Weakened by torture and aided by the hangman, Fawkes began to climb the ladder to the noose, but either through jumping to his death or climbing too high so the rope was incorrectly set, he managed to avoid the agony of the latter part of his execution by breaking his neck. His lifeless body was nevertheless quartered and, as was the custom, his body parts were then distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom", to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors. [wiki] His image is iconic to this day:03::https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._vendettax.jpg
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2003 - The space shuttle USS Colombia breaks up on re-entry over the continental US, killing all on board.
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1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
1861 Texas secedes from the Union (which precipitates the American Civil War). 1917 German Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war. 1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini. |
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. 1933 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves the Reichstag (Parliament). 1934 Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism. 1943 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad, turning point in Europe during WW II. 1962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years. 1974 The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. |
1904 American occupation of Cuba ends.
1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson. 1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla. |
1952: George VI dies and is succeeded by Elizbeth II the current reigning monarch. The queen remains the only female member of the royal family to have entered the armed forces and is the only living head of state who served in World War II.:salute: http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/...x701/65562.jpg:salute:http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...31_634x529.jpghttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/...16_634x562.jpgsame ambulance: A121225i in all/both shots.
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^Nice PR pics. I guess most of the war time she was doing something else but changing oils to the halftracks.
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Multi-tasking as 'Advisor of State' while riding(ouch)sidesaddle!
^True that: but consider that most warfare is PR-politics by other means'- but, when you no longer ain't 'talkin' the talk' you're 'walkin' the walk'...catastrophically for Victoria's descendants c. 1914-1945.:/\\!! At least she got her hands dirty... and is finishing the tyre job.http://imgur.com/TSFt9.jpghttp://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/...x701/65550.jpgQueen Elizabeth II sitting side saddle on horseback, in uniform as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards in 1947 http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2015/05/112296044-E.jpeg<I still remember this: During her birthday celebration on June 13, 1981, shots rang out as Elizabeth rode her horse(side side-saddle) in a parade near Buckingham Palace. The Queen’s horse, Burmese, shied at the noise and almost bolted. Her Majesty unflinching, only leant forward to comfort Burmese and continued the Trooping of the Colour parade. Marcus Sarjeant, a 17-year-old who idolized the assassins of John F. Kennedy and John Lennon, had fired six blank shots in the queen’s direction. Swiftly subdued by police, the teen would spend three years in a psychiatric prison under the 1842 Treason Act for, ‘wilfully discharging at the person of Her Majesty the Queen-a blank cartridge pistol, with intent to alarm her.’ Her mother, the Scottish Queen Mother, lived to 101; I suspect the current monarch is a very tough lady. Riding side-saddle for half a century's gotta hurt (I've tried doing that! after a wicked nag crunched on my toes and I had to forgo the use of the stirrup (keeping foot elevated:oops:) while Civil War reenacting for three days of a whole lotta blank cartridges!:O:) and doing it under gunfire on a capricious nag surely 'put's paid' to her 'courage under fire'! PR notwithstanding.:stare: imho:salute:
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And her real name was of course Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, not "Windsor" :D
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1964 Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour.
1993 Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed. 2005 Britain's Ellen MacArthur becomes the fastest person to sail solo around the world. |
I would also like to add that on 6th of February 1990 the Soviet Union collapses as the Central Committee of the Communist Party gives up power after 73 years. A turning point for Russia, most definitely.
Two years later the treaty of Maastricht is signed by the 12 member nations of the newly founded European Union. The treaty was supposed to be the first step towards the creation of a monetary union. :hmm2: |
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