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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2397810)

1939 Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact.[...].

1939? And then, this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloto...ibbentrop_Pact
:hmmm:

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2397420)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ic_iceberg.jpg]

A loong animation about the sinking, in real time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9w5bgtJC8

1836 Battle of San Jacinto, Texas wins independence from Mexico.

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

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

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

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

1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated.

1597 William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.

1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel.

1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated.

1980 Soviet Echo-1-class submarine catches fire off Japan, 9 die.

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

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

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

1981 IBM-PC computer introduced.

25 April 1945, US and Soviet troops meet near Torgau:

http://i.imgur.com/jMydNHf.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe_Day

1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany.

1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin.

1980 Announcement of US hostage rescue bungle in Iran.

1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2399824)

1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust.

:subsim:

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FAQ:.... no propaganda denying the Holocaust.

No doubt a member of the Bundestag was an inspired subsimmer! :shucks:

30 years ago today:

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen (Post 2400016)

CHERNOBYL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

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It is difficult to establish the total economic cost of the disaster. According to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union spent 18 billion rubles (the equivalent of US$18 billion at that time) on containment and decontamination, virtually bankrupting itself. In Belarus the total cost over 30 years is estimated at US$235 billion (in 2005 dollars).In the aftermath of the accident, 237 people suffered from acute radiation sickness (ARS), of whom 31 died within the first three months...Of all 66,000 Belarusian emergency workers, by the mid-1990s only 150 (roughly 0.2%) were reported by their government as having died. In contrast, 5,722 casualties were reported among Ukrainian clean-up workers up to the year 1995, by the National Committee for Radiation Protection of the Ukrainian Population. In Greece, following the accident many obstetricians were unable to resist requests from worried pregnant mothers over fears of radiation. Although it was determined that the effective dose to Greeks would not exceed 1 mSv (100 mrem), a dose much lower than that which could induce embryonic abnormalities or other non-stochastic effects, there was an observed 2500 excess of otherwise wanted pregnancies being terminated, probably out of fear in the mother of radiation risk. An area originally extending 30 kilometres (19 mi) in all directions from the plant is officially called the "zone of alienation". It is largely uninhabited, except for about 300 residents who have refused to leave. The area has largely reverted to forest, and has been overrun by wildlife because of a lack of competition with humans for space and resources. Even today, radiation levels are so high that the workers responsible for rebuilding the sarcophagus are only allowed to work five hours a day for one month before taking 15 days of rest. Ukrainian officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years.

Of some interest: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/25/chernobyl-30-year-anniversary/83220302/

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In Russia, where much information about Chernobyl remains classified, the health ministry said more than 900,000 people undergo annual medical examinations associated with the nuclear accident, including 240,000 children. The ministry said the public's health related to Chernobyl is "not getting worse."

How encouraging! :timeout:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...p_1996.svg.png

1607 1st English colony in American lands at Cape Henry, Virginia.

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

1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason.

1986 - Reactor #4 of Chernobyl's Nuclear Power Plant suffers a catastrophic power increase leading to explosions in its core.

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

1904 The Australian Labor Party under Chris Watson becomes the first Labour government in the world.

1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

1942 Belgian Jews are forced to wear stars.

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

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

1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh.

1910 First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White in England.

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

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

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

1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect.

1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.