This date in history

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1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade.

1915 The Germans reply to US President Woodrow Wilson's second Lusitania note by saying that Americans may sail on clearly marked neutral ships, but Germany does not deal with Wilson's other demands.

1919 US President Woodrow Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference.

1943 Fourth day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve.

1943 British air raid sinks U-232.

1947 Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea.

1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join.

2014 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to "take their gloves off" against Hamas and to take any means necessary to "restore peace" to Israeli citizens.

2018 British Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns in a stand against Theresa May's new softer Brexit policy.

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1911: 'TWO GUN' NAN ASPINWALL COMPLETES HER HORSE RIDE ABOARD 'LADY ELLEN':

Originally Posted by WIKI-ET AL

the first woman to ride on horseback across North America alone. She rode from San Francisco to New York from September 1, 1910 arriving on July 8, 1911. on a bet from Buffalo Bill, whose Wild West show she performed in as an oriental dancer as well as a horsewoman, sharpshooter, and roper. covering 4496 miles and taking 180 days in the saddle; At 31 years old, she became the first woman to ride from coast to coast. She did it wearing pants and split skirts, riding astride, which was likely still illegal in some parts of the country. She did it packing a pistol, which she used on at least two occasions to shoot up inhospitable towns. And, she made the ride alone.

HAVING TAUGHT HORSEMANSHIP (TAUGHT ME BY GOOD OL' MOM WHO HAD HER OWN SAILBOAT AND BOARDED A HORSE( BLUEBOY) IN NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK DURING HER WORKING DAYS) TO SNOTTY TEN YEAROLDS AS AN 18 YEAR OLD Y.M.C.A. CAMP COUNCILOR MYSELF.... AND I USED TO CROSS THE U.S. IN MY TEAMDRIVEN EIGHTEEN-WHEELER IN JUST UNDER 3 DAYS....BUT WOULDN'T DARE SIT A NAG FOR 180 DAYS STRAIGHT.... THE ANATOMY JUST AIN'T RIGHT!

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1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804.

1943 Fifth day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje.

1943 British air raid sinks U-435.

1944 U-740 sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.

1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

2017 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaims victory over Islamic State forces in Mosul.

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1919 US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate.

1940 Battle of Britain begins as German forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel.

1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp.

1944 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF.

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1944 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF.

Her captain(AGE 23) made the decision to battle it out rather than dive, (This boat was fitted with a Schnorchel underwater-breathing apparatus in May 1944.) and engaged in a running firefight with three Mosquito aircraft of 248 Squadron and a large Consolidated Liberator

bomber of 206 Squadron. One Mosquito was shot down in the clash, but rockets and depth charges took their toll on the submarine which soon sank, taking with her 50 sailors. One survivor was pulled from the sea by small German Naval units a few hours later.

ONE WONDERS WHY THE YOUNG COMMANDER STAYED ON THE SURFACE NEAR BAY OF BISCAY AS MARCH 1944 WAS WELL PAST DOENITZ'S INFAMOUS ORDER 483 WHICH COST 26 U-BOATS:

On 1 May, 1943 an order was put into effect for the U-boats traversing the Bay of Biscay. It was decided on April 27 by Grossadmiral Karl Donitz... This order stayed in effect for 97 days and during that time no less than 26 boats (over 20 in the Bay of Biscay) were lost and 17 damaged.

https://uboat.net/articles/19.html

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1798 US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress.

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

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

1995 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.

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1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, later known as Ellis Island.

1918 Japanese battleship Kawachi explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed.

1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles.

1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gassed.

1948 First jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires).

1957 First President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.

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1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany.

1985 "Live Aid" concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London) and John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia) raises over $70 million for African famine relief.

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1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille Prison.

1933 Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses.

1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany.

1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp.

1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is first US ship to bombard Japan.

1967 The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits.

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1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

1815 Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

1915 The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US.

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1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading)

1900 A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been massacred. Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobilize support for relief of foreigners.

1900 Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project.

1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb.

1946 US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau.

1969 Apollo 11 launched, carrying first men to land on Moon.

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1957:
Marine Corps Major John Glenn got up on the morning of July 16, 1957, strapped into a Vought F8U Crusader, < GOIN' VERTICAL WITH AN 18000 LB THRUST PRATT AND WHITNEY WITH AFTERBURNER) and took off from Los Alamitos Naval Air Station in California like a cannon shot. Three hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 seconds later (a time based on a National Aeronautic Association formula for records), he touched down at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, setting a transcontinental speed record: 725.55 mph. At a time when aviation records were still a big deal in both the media and in geopolitics, the feat put Glenn on the radar just before selections would be made for the first class of astronauts and served notice that carrier-based aircraft could match speeds with anyone.
Far from being a publicity stunt, (GLENN LATER STATED), the flight was intended to prove that the Pratt & Whitney J-57 would tolerate an extended period at combat power—full afterburner—without damage. After the flight, the engine maker tore the J-57 down and, based on the examination, lifted all power limitations on J-57s from that day forth. The airplane was a photo-reconnaissance version, an F8U-1P, which carried more fuel than the armed fighter. On this flight, it was loaded with enough film so its cameras would run continuously for the entire trip. The Crusader, sometimes called “the last gunfighter,” had no search radar, so for his three refuelings, Glenn had to find the AJ Savage tankers—North American’s converted twin-recip-engine bombers sent up in pairs for redundancy—using a direction finder to home on the tankers’ beacons. After each refueling, Glenn applied full afterburner and climbed to about 30,000 feet, drifting up to 50,000 for maximum range as fuel burned off.

Glenn came up with the name Project Bullet for the flight because he would fly faster than a round from a .45-caliber pistol.

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1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia.

1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

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64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero.

1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.

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1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die.

1843 The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender.

1941 British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign.

1941 First US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)

1944 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany.

1944 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity.

1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas.

1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue.

1957 First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada.

1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.