This date in history

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived..

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

1945-08-02 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

please! This a respectable thread...not an echo chamber

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1914 First seaworthy ship passes through the Panama Canal.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina.

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader).

1943 General Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice.

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1873 Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River. One man killed on each side.

1900 An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops, sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion.

1914 WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany.

1914 US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI.

1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann.

1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US.

1943 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada.

1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified.

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1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown - first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire.

1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War).

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1890 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair.

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210.

1942 Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

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1914 Lord Kitchener says "Your country needs you" poster spreads over UK.

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1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges.

1918 6 US soldiers surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York given command, shoots 20 Germans and captures 132 more.

1925 First national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.

1942 Six convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.

1945 US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials.

1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.

1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.

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1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, takeing two centuries to complete.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland.

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.

1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroying part of Nagasaki.

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as US President and VP Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland.

https://shannonselin.com/2015/10/napoleons-arrival-at-st-helena/ FROM WHICH WE GOT THE EXPRESSION: '' NOT TONIGHT ...JOSEPHINE''!

 

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/260600.html

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1942 General Bernard Montgomery appointed commander British 8th Army in North Africa.

1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali.

1943 US General George Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"

1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito's status remains unchanged.

1961 UK applies for membership of the European Common Market.

1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again.

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1908 King Edward VII of Britain meets with Emperor Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy.

1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC.

1942 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle torpedoed and sinks.

1945 Allies refuse Japan's offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status.

1984 During a radio voice test, US President Reagan jokes he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."

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1869 Self-proclaimed Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton of the USA issues edict abolishing the Democratic and Republican parties.

1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.

1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender.

1948 Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment.

1959 First ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island.

1981 IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0).

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1940 Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain).

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1915 British transport HMT Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills almost 1000.

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter.

1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa.

1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone).

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1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars.

1906 King Edward VII of Great Britain visits German Emperor Wilhelm II to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations' naval forces.

1914 Dinant, Belgium, destroyed by German bombs. Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured.

1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.

1944 German field marshal Günther von Kluge vanishes for one day; he killed himself on the 19th in the aftermath of the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220.