This date in history

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1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed.

1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux (Battle of Verdun)

1941 Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.

1942 Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California.

1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

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1868 US House of Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson.

1875 The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.

1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram).

1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service.

1942 The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, a series of anti-aircraft engagements over the city in response to a rumored but false Japanese attack. It would last until the morning of the following day.

1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer.

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1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1,000-1,500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain (according to legend, to Welsh women in tall black hats, mistaken for elite guards regiment).

1836 Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloading.

1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops.

1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship.

1933 First genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo.

1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28.

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1797 Bank of England issues first £1 note.

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France.

1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast.

1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930.

1924 Trial against Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich begins.

1935 German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering.

1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.

1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb.

1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb.

1991 Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait during the Gulf War, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death'

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1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese.

1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms.

1990 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy.

1998 Britain's House of Lords agrees to end 1,000 years of male precedence by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son.

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1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials.

1854 Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.

1915 WWI: After the French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region, they gain a few hundred yards - at the cost of 50,000 casualties.

1991 Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait.

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1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs first (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane.

1913 David Beatty becomes Rear-Admiral Commanding the Royal Navy's 1st Battlecruiser Squadron.

1917 US government releases the plain text of the "Zimmermann Telegram" to the public.

1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat.

1953 Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.

1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll - most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US.

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1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor.

1915 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts.

1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world, with a cargo compartment 37m long.

1991 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed.

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1899 George Dewey becomes first in US to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy.

1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine. Generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.

1942 First combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber.

1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy.

1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511.

1980 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1899 George Dewey becomes first(only) in US to hold the rank of Admiral of the Navy.

a bit of a fluke actually:

The Admiral of the Navy (abbreviated as AN) is the highest possible rank in the United States Navy. The rank is equated to that of a six-star admiral and is currently one of the two highest possible operational ranks in the United States Armed Forces. The rank is an admiralissimo-type position which is senior to the rank of fleet admiral.
The rank has only been awarded once, to George Dewey, in recognition of his victory at Manila Bay in 1898. On March 2, 1899, Congress approved the creation of the grade of Admiral of the Navy. On March 3, President McKinley transmitted to the Senate his nomination of Dewey for the new grade, which was approved the same day. But McKinley's nomination had used the term "Admiral in the Navy," while the act creating the new grade had used "Admiral of the Navy." On March 14, 1903, this discrepancy was addressed when President Roosevelt nominated and the Senate approved Dewey to the grade of "Admiral of the Navy," retroactive to March 2, 1899. The Navy Register of 1904 listed Dewey for the first time as "Admiral of the Navy" instead of "Admiral.''Though this clarified the grade's unique title, the precedence of the new rank was still considered "four star", equivalent to general in the army, in the US Navy Regulations of 1909. In the US Navy Regulations of 1913, perhaps in anticipation of legislation to authorize more admirals, the precedence of Admiral of the Navy had been set at the "five star" level, equivalent to a British field marshal or admiral of the fleet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_of_the_Navy_(United_States) and it was good for advertising! not to mention America's true reflection of humanity....at the 'not so politically correct' time! lithographs are still available on ebay but I prefer to visit the original in Philadelphia and check out the Independence Seaport Museum <models of 'protected cruiser' USS Olympia at various career intervals! parked next to the USS Becuna (baleo class)

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1918 First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kanas; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million.

1936 First flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1944 First US bombing of Berlin.

1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.

1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

1969 London East End gang bosses twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity.

1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost.

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1836 Samuel Colt manufactures first pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model.

1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe.

1971 "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast.

2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets South Korean officials for the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in Pyongyang.

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1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer.

1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.

1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US.

1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17

1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

2018 American WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington rediscovered in Australia's Coral Sea, lost during 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea.

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1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 276.71 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car; last record set at Daytona Beach, Florida.

1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to the Rhineland.

1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.

1942 First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.

1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine.

1968 The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.

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1862 Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.

1915 First US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned.

1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.