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1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean.

1940 First British night bombing of Germany (Berlin).

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

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.

1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka driven onto rocks in storm at Kamchatka, 284 killed.

1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France. Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany.

1944 Charles de Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.

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

1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane).

1939 Heinkel He-178 makes first manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion.

1939 Erich Warsitz makes first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178).

1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan).

1944 200 RAF Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg.

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

Must B global warming week!
 

1883: The Island of Krakatoa explodes with the loudest sound in recorded history. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ion_map-en.gif..unleashing huge tsunamis (killing more than 36,000 people) and destroying over two-thirds of the island. The explosion is considered to be the loudest sound ever heard in modern history, with reports of it being heard up to 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from its point of origin. The shock waves from the explosion were recorded on barographs worldwide for days afterward. This was a 6 on the VEI scale, larger than Vesuvius. We know what that looks like: Mt Pinatubo 1991 also a VEI 6:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...91-resized.jpg What is compelling is: prior to Vesuvius 79 AD eruption the same volcano erupted in what is known as the the Avellino eruption around 1800 BC; a monster which encompassed present day Naples. A prior eruption of Krakatoa in 416 AD

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A sound was heard from the mountain Batuwara [now calledPulosari, an A thundering extinct volcano in Bantam, the nearest to the Sunda Strait] which was answered by a similar noise from Kapi, lying westward of the modern Bantam [(Banten) is the westernmost province in Java, so this seems to indicate that Krakatoa is meant]. A great glowing fire, which reached the sky, came out of the last-named mountain; the whole world was greatly shaken and violent thundering, accompanied by heavy rain and storms took place, but not only did not this heavy rain extinguish the eruption of the fire of the mountain Kapi, but augmented the fire; the noise was fearful, at last the mountain Kapi with a tremendous roar burst into pieces and sank into the deepest of the earth. The water of the sea rose and inundated the land, the country to the east of the mountain Batuwara, to the mountain Rajabasa [the most southerly volcano in Sumatra], was inundated by the sea; the inhabitants of the northern part of the Sunda country to the mountain Rajabasa were drowned and swept away with all property ... The water subsided but the land on which Kapi stood became sea, and Java and Sumatra were divided into two parts ie; creating the Sunda Strait??!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ait_map_v3.png Where Krakatoa was, the 'Son of Krakatoa' now is forming. Both Krakatoa and Vesuvius have been considerably more dangerous in the past prior to their 'recorded' eruptions...and R not done yet:hmmm: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ure_en.svg.png

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August 27th 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes, was signed by 15 nations in Paris.

World War II began 11 years later.

Think how worse it could have been had they not signed the treaty.

1565 Oldest city in the US established - St Augustine Florida.

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German fleet, 1,100 killed.

1942 Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany.

1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared.

1952 German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments.

1981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to assassinate President Reagan.

1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II.

1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children.

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

1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees.

1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan.

1945 Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan.

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1963 Hotline communication link between Pentagon (Washington, D.C.) and the Klemlin (Moscow) installed.

On August 30, 1945, MacArthur landed at Atsugi Airport in Japan and proceeded to drive himself to Yokohama. Along the way, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers lined the roads, their bayonets fixed on him. One last act of defiance—but all for naught. MacArthur would be the man who would reform Japanese society, putting it on the road to economic success.

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

1940 56 U-boats sunk this month (268,000 ton).

1941 23 U-boats sunk this month (80,000 ton).

1942 U-boats this month sank 108 ships (544,000 ton).

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

1915 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"

1938 Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews.

1939 Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill.

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.

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

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

1942 German troops enter Stalingrad.

1944 During WW II, George H. W. Bush ejects from a burning plane.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz.

1958 U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.

1987 Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR.

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1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed.

1777 Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during American Revolutionary War.

1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.

1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe.

1918 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line.

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

1939 German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans.

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.

1954 The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.