This date in history

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

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.

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

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1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed.

1942 German troops enter Stalingrad.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well).

1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.

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1812 World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy.

1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become first warship to circumnavigate globe.

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

1939 Mitford sister and Nazi sympathizer Unity Mitford attempts suicide after Britain declares war on Germany, bullet lodged in her brain eventually kills her in 1948.

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.

1971 John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return.

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THE INVADERS LANDED!

The apparently extra-terrestrial vessels prompted a major police and military response, witnessed by Ray Seager who was with other children playing outside when one of the six saucers was found in the Isle of Sheppey on 4 September 1967.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41110193

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1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley observes the comet named after him.

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war.

1888 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera & registers "Kodak".

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652.

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

1980 Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden).

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1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards.

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war.

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany.

1972 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics.

1979 Earl Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey.

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1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World.

1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London.

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1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy.

1940 Beginning of the Blitz, the German Luftwaffe bomb London for first of 57 consecutive nights.

1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

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1900: The Great Galveston Hurricane, known regionally as the Great Storm of 1900, was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph, which made landfall on September 8, 1900, in Galveston, Texas, in the United States. At the time of the 1900 hurricane, Galveston, nicknamed the Oleander City, was filled with vacationers. Sophisticated weather forecasting technology didn’t exist at the time, but the U.S. Weather Bureau issued warnings telling people to move to higher ground. However, these advisories were ignored by many vacationers and residents alike. A 15-foot storm surge flooded the city, which was then situated at less than 9 feet above sea level, and numerous homes and buildings were destroyed. It killed 6,000 to 12,000 people, making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2017/08/27/as-terrible-as-harvey-is-the-galveston-hurricane-of-1900-was-much-much-worse/#61f626c82594 In retrospect: with Harvey and impending Irma-both Category 4 storms...we might just be having a better day....

Why was the Galveston Hurricane so deadly? In a word – technology, or rather the lack of it. The communication and transportation infrastructure we take for granted wasn’t in place in 1900. Some people in Galveston had heard there was a storm in the Gulf of Mexico, but they didn’t know how big it was, where it was or where it was going. After the storm hit, people in the rest of the country didn’t know what had happened until two days later.

Galveston Hurricane's path:

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SEPTEMBER 8TH 1966

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Originally Posted by STEED

SEPTEMBER 8TH 1966

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1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI).

1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

1942:Nobuo Fujita was a warrant flying officer of the IJN who flew a floatplane from the long-range I-25 and conducted the only wartime aircraft-dropped bombing on the contiguous US, which became known as the Lookout Air Raid. Using incendiary bombs, his mission was to start massive forest fires in the Pacific northwest near the city of Brookings, Oregon with the objective of drawing the U.S. military's resources away from the pacific theater! The strategy was also used later in the Japanese fire balloon campaign. Fujita himself suggested the idea of a submarine-based seaplane to bomb military targets, including ships at sea, and attacks on the U.S. mainland, especially the strategic Panama Canal. At 06:00 on 9 September, I-25 surfaced west of the Oregon border where she launched the Yokosuka E14Y Glen, <Fugita & 'Glen") flown by Fujita and Petty officer Okuda Shoji with a 154 kg (340 lb) load of two incendiary bombs. Fujita dropped two bombs, one on Wheeler Ridge on Mount Emily in Oregon. The location of the other bomb is unknown. The Wheeler Ridge bomb started a small fire 16 km (9.9 mi) due east of Brookings, which U.S. Forest Service employees were able to extinguish. Rain the night before had made the forest very damp, and the bombs were rendered essentially ineffective. Fujita's plane had been spotted by two men, Howard Gardner and Bob Larson, at the Mount Emily firetower; the other lookouts (the Chetco Point Lookout and the Long Ridge Lookout) reported the plane, but could not see it due to heavy fog. The plane was seen and heard by many people, especially when Fujita flew over Brookings in both directions. At about noon that day, Howard Gardner at the Mount Emily Lookout reported seeing smoke. The four U.S. Forest Service employees discovered that the fire was caused by a Japanese bomb. Approximately 27 kg (60 lb) of fragments, including the nose of the bomb, were turned over to the army.
After the bombing, I-25 came under attack after the Glen seaplane had landed and been disassembled for storage, I-25 was bombed by a United States Army Hudson piloted by Captain Jean H. Daugherty. The Hudson carried 300-pound general purpose demolition bombs with delayed fuzes rather than depth charges. The bombs caused minor damage, but quick response by a Coaast Guard and three more aircraft caused I-25 to be more cautious on a second bombing raid on 29 September 1942. The American attacks caused only minor damage, and Fujita flew a second bombing sortie three weeks later on 29 September. Fujita used the Cape Blanco Light as a beacon. After 90 minutes flying east, he dropped his bombs and reported seeing flames, but the bombing remained unnoticed in the U.S. http://www.historynet.com/japanese-bomb-the-continental-u-s-west-coast.htm
The submarine torpedoed and sank the SS Camden and SS Larry Doheny and then sailed for home. On its way to Japan, I-25 sank the Soviet submarine L-16, which was in transit between Dutch harbor and San Francisco CA, mistaking it for an American submarine (Japan and the USSR were not at war at the time).
The two attacks on Oregon in September 1942 were the only World War II aircraft bombings on the US mainland. All-in-all a rather productive and strategic submarine mission. This being a submarine Forum: No small amount of kudos to the sub's capable and daring commander: LT. Commander Meiji Tagami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_submarine_I-25

How significant were these two bombing attacks on Oregon, the only times in history that America has been bombed from the air? For the Japanese, they were clearly a major propaganda victory, one that made banner headlines on the home front and to some extent evened the score for the April 18, 1942, Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo, itself a retaliatory raid in return for the Pearl Harbor attack. Fujita found himself something of a national hero upon his return to japan.

Fujita returned to Brookings, OR in 1990, 1992, and 1995. In 1992, he planted a tree at the bomb site as a gesture of peace. In 1995, he moved the donated family samurai sword from the Brookings City Hall into the new library's display case. He was made an honorary citizen of Brookings several days before his death at a hospital in on September 30, 1997, at the age of 85. In October 1998, his daughter, Yoriko Asakura, buried some of Fujita's ashes at the bomb site. wiki

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1931 Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France.