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09-21-18, 06:01 AM | #2506 |
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1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.
1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrender. 1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean. 1961 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter. 1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.
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09-22-18, 07:36 AM | #2507 |
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1914 German submarine U-9 sinks three British cruisers, the Aboukir, the Hogue and the Cressy, in just over one hour. 1,459 die.
1943 British X-class midget submarines attack Tirpitz. 1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks. 1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229. 1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general. 1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under the North Pole. 1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.” 1988 South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in.
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09-23-18, 04:54 AM | #2508 |
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1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die.
1941 German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) 1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz concentration camp. 1942 The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb. 1950 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed.
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09-23-18, 10:01 AM | #2509 | |
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1805 Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to establish a military post, Fort Snelling. ONE COULD CONSIDER THAT THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT GOT ITS LEGAL START HERE:
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09-23-18, 11:03 AM | #2510 |
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I don't know what $2,000 was worth in today's dollars, but as close as I could get was 1914
$2,000 in 1914 equals $49,304.80 in 2018
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09-24-18, 12:38 PM | #2511 |
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1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.
1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death. 1960 USS Enterprise, first nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched.
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09-25-18, 10:28 AM | #2512 |
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1878 British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking.
1911 French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbour, 285 killed. 1915 Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties. 1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending WW I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra. 1990 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience.
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09-25-18, 11:00 AM | #2513 | |
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THE 'BAND OF BROTHERS' GOES TO SCHOOL
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That will be quite a turnaround from the first time they stood among members of the U.S. military. The women are not due in Newport News for some time. Construction on the nuclear-powered attack submarine will begin in 2018, and the boat is scheduled to join the fleet in 2023. No dates have been set for its keel-laying and christening, ceremonies that mark construction milestones where sponsors play a formal role. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who named the sponsors, said he always looks for people who contribute to the community in some way. Needing an example from the state of Arkansas, he didn't have to think very hard. "The Little Rock Nine just jumped out," he said in a telephone interview. "Here were six women, three men, who as adolescents integrated Little Rock's Central High School. They had to be taken through mobs of jeering, yelling people." That courage and fortitude, he said, "are the examples you want to see in an American – and in a ship's sponsor." I STILL RECALL THE MAGAZINE COVER:
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09-26-18, 05:54 AM | #2514 |
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1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.
1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI. 1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead. 1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched. 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton for second time. 1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul, 1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m). 1983 Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error.
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09-27-18, 07:16 AM | #2515 |
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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England.
1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank, Scotland. 1941 US launches its first Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry. 1941 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer). 1942 Heavy German assault in Stalingrad. 1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time. 1991 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert.
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09-27-18, 10:34 AM | #2516 |
Gefallen Engel U-666
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PICS (HICS?)OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN
HIC WILLELM[US] DUX IN MAGNO NAVIGIO MARE TRANSIVIT ET VENIT AD PEVENESÆ:
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09-28-18, 05:46 AM | #2517 |
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1066 William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.
1939 German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR. 1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's.
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09-28-18, 06:58 AM | #2518 |
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You mean they captured the crew? The boat itself went down.
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09-29-18, 01:50 PM | #2519 |
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1940 First US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware.
1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar, near Kiev, 33,771 mostly Jews murdered.
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09-29-18, 03:03 PM | #2520 | ||
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an accomplished gent!
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