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1944 - General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th.
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1917 - First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, are ordered to France.
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1953: Jacqueline Cochran become the first woman to break the sound barrier in a F-86 Sabre over Rogers Dry Lake California. In June, 1941 Cochran became the first woman to fly a bomber across the North Atlantic. In July, 1943 Cochran was appointed to the General Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces to direct all phases of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) program. In 1945 Jacqueline Cochran received the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal. Calling her line of cosmetics Wings, she flew her own aircraft around the country promoting her products. The 'right stuff' chats with Chuck Yeager
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1568 - English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish Queen Mary.
1941 - Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis. 1989 - Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas.
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On a submarine note, HMS TIRELESS arrived in Gibraltar 15 years ago today for her now famous reactor weld repair: http://www.gibnet.com/library/tire01.htm
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1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent first blue jeans with copper rivets.
1927 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda).
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Sorry for being late
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19 may 1845. The Franklin expedition sails from Greenhithe in Kent for the northwest passage. Two bomb vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men.
21 may 1982 the British landings at San Carlos in the Falkands begin the liberation of the islands. HMS Ardent sunk by bombs.
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1932 - 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland.
2004 - Stanislav Petrov awarded World Citizen Award for averting a potential nuclear war in 1983 after correctly guessing Russian early warning system at fault.
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1941:SS Robin Moor, a Hog Islander
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1826 - HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1931 - Canned rattlesnake meat first goes on sale in Florida. 1933 - Loch Ness Monster is first reportedly sighted by John Mackay.
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1968: USS Scorpion is sunk with 99 crewmen 400 miles SW of the Azores. It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968; the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve (S647) and the Soviet submarine K-129. "
The cause of the sub's loss remains hotly disputed. A Navy Court of Inquiry found "the cause of the loss cannot be definitively ascertained." "The families of those 99 men are still out there, and they want to know what happened," says former U.S. naval officer Paul Boyne, who presented a new mechanical explanation for the loss of the sub at a recent marine forensics symposium outside Washington. Calls for an expedition to the sub's wreck, saying it might put to rest a multitude of theories about the Scorpion's demise — ranging from a covert Soviet attack to a torpedo self-firing into the ship to a faulty trash disposal, have not been forthcoming. Evidence for a more mundane explanation comes from the sub's propeller shaft; Undersea photographs show it rests about 20 yards outside the wreck on the seafloor, about 11,220 feet underwater. Rubber bearings holding the propeller shaft failed, putting stress on the coupling connecting it to the engine. The coupling's bolts failed catastrophically during a deep test dive, the theory goes, spilling water into the sub too rapidly to allow ballast maneuvers to raise the ship to the surface." Of some interest ...until we get down there for a 'definitive' look...http://www.historynet.com/the-uss-scorpion-buried-at-sea.htm ![]()
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1701 - Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore.
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