This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London.

1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off chain of alliances that begin WWI

1919 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.

1934 Adolf Hitler flies to Essen, Germany for "Night of Long Knives"

1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War.

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1922 France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."

1927 First test of Wallace Turnbull's controllable pitch propeller.

1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe.

1966 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time.

[Jimbuna]

1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'

1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party.

1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde.

1940 German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands.

1941 Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.

1942 Col-general Von Paulus 6th Army enters Ukraine.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons)

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong, established by the Second Convention of Peking, expires.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227

Considering the initial 300,000 GRT target of Axis U-boat warfare as conceived by Dönitz's strategy of a tonnage war, the rapid buildup of allied shipbuilding necessitated the tonnage target to be elevated to 700,000 GRT. This was only achieved once in the entire war. Considering only 5% of Allied cargo ships were sunk or damaged...(per Blair) ie: abject failure; the only good to come out of it all is this forum! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnage_war

Germany was never able to mount a comprehensive blockade of Britain. Nor were they able to focus their effort by targeting the most valuable cargoes, the eastbound traffic carrying war materiel. Instead they were reduced to the slow attrition of a tonnage war. To win this, the U-boat arm had to sink 300,000 GRT per month in order to overwhelm Britain's shipbuilding capacity and reduce its merchant marine strength.
In only four out of the first 27 months of the war did Germany achieve this target, while after December 1941, when Britain was joined by the US merchant marine and ship yards the target effectively doubled. As a result, the Axis needed to sink 700,000 GRT per month; as the massive expansion of the US shipbuilding industry took effect this target increased still further. The 700,000 ton target was achieved in only one month, November 1942, while after May 1943 average sinkings dropped to less than one tenth of that figure.
By the end of the war, although the U-boat arm had sunk 6,000 ships totalling 21 million GRT, the Allies had built over 38 million tons of new shipping.[citation needed]
The reason for the misperception that the German blockade came close to success may be found in post-war writings by both German and British authors. Blair attributes the distortion to "propagandists" who "glorified and exaggerated the successes of German submariners", while he believes Allied writers "had their own reasons for exaggerating the peril".

[Jimbuna]

1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism.

1921 Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany.

1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguished Flying Cross authorized, to award "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight"

1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)

1957 First submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback.

1976 Ramble Inn attack: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 6 civilians (5 Protestants, 1 Catholic) in a gun attack at a pub near Antrim; the pub was targeted because it was owned by Catholics.

1991 Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism.

and communism would not exist but for capitalism

[Aktungbby]

1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism.

The new "Peter the Grate" ain't disPutin that !

[Jimbuna]

1863 Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War.

1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Adolf Hitler.

1940 British Royal Navy damages the French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it.

1943 British Liberator bomber sinks German U-628 in Bay of Biscay.

1996 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and British monarchs), will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1996 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and British monarchs), will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey.

on condition it is returned to Westminster for any coronations

[Jimbuna]

1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain.

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.

1945 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in France.

2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan.

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1937 Spam, the luncheon meat is first introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and Vichy government in France.

1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada.

1943 Battle of Kursk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biscay.

1950 US forces enter combat in the Korean War for the first time, in the Battle of Osan.

1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.

[Red Devil]

1943 Battle of Kursk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)

Possibly one of Enigma's greatest successes. Bletchley Park (Station X) had broken the codes and read about the planned huge German push. Churchill told Stalin but not how he had got info, Stalin massed his tanks near Kursk and the rest is war changing history.

[Jimbuna]

1785 US Congress unanimously resolves the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopts decimal coinage.

1917 T. E. Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks.

1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

1923 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam.

1943 Second day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 Germans killed.

1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations.

1947 The Ak-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1971 A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland.

1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.

[Jimbuna]

1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam.

1940 Marshall Philippe Pétain, French hero of World War I, becomes head of the Vichy collaborationist government of France.

1943 7th day of battle at Kursk.

1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1940 Marshall Philippe Pétain, French hero of World War I, becomes head of the Vichy collaborationist government of France.

why does this Nazi collaborator and a person who shipped jews top their death become a hero?????