This date in history

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1940 FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)

1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed.

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.

1974 US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters.

1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.

1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon.

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1859 Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America.

1916 WWI flying ace The Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich.

1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die.

1939 Soviet Union invades Eastern Poland allowing Germans to advance West, taking 217,000 Poles prisoner, without a formal declaration of war.

1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain.

1941 Famous meeting between Danish physicist Niels Bohr and German head of nuclear energy project Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen to discuss nuclear weapons (date approximate)

1944 Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1859 Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America.

A man of foresight and wisdom:

The city of San Francisco also honored Norton. When his uniform began to look shabby, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors bought him a suitably imperial replacement. Norton sent a gracious thank you note and issued a "patent of nobility in perpetuity" for each supervisor.

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1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed.

1944 British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.

1947 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July.

1971 Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup Noodle, packaging it in a waterproof polystyrene container.

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1939 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin.

1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-341

1945 Kim Il-sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea.

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.

1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic.

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1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338

1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"

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1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested.

1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major John André plans to West Point.

1915 Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600

1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.

1944 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting.

1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel after a delay due to bad weather and a shortage of planes.

1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaim the People's Republic of China.

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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1862: President Abraham Lincoln issues his prliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all persons held in slavery in rebel states should be free as of January 1, 1863....'cause "black lives matter"??...maybe; but more certainly to demonstrate a higher purpose to the war on a an idealistic level that would keep England or rising proletariat oriented Europe from siding with the Confederacy militarily or commercially. Truly one of the politico-militant master penstrokes of history imho; the more so, as prior to Gettysburg's turning point, nine months later, the conflict was much in doubt with two years of bloodshed yet to come. 1961: 99 years later, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting discrimination on interstate busses. I suppose that's progress...

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1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem Witch Trials.

1914 German submarine (U-9) sinks 3 British ironclads, (HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue) (1,459 die.

1943 British midget submarines attack Tirpitz.

1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks.

1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229

1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record)

1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”

1989 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent.

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1780 British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.

1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die.

1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London.

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 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad.

1949 US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation.

1950 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed.

2012 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine.

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1789 US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.

1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight charges of treason in Washington, D.C.

1952 Dutch Minister of Justice Donker decides war criminal Willy Lages will not be executed but sentenced to life.

1964 First Minuteman II ICBM was tested.

1971 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying.

1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact.

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1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British.

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.

1944 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem.

1976 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2

1990 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience.

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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England.

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.

1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England.

1941 US President Roosevelt launches the 1st Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry.

1941 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer)

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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1066 William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.

1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin siege of Yorktown.

1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.

1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's

1974 Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail for

1066: William the Bastard of Normandy lands in England to begin becoming the Conqueror....although he'll be referred to as the Bastard behind his back, probably by his half brother Odo, who will be imprisoned by William for greed corruption and larceny. As Kim Jung Un proved later with his own half brother: never do business with family! 1850: The US Navy abolishes flogging as a form of punishment! Good God! Buggery without the lash.... Flogging has been suspended in the Royal Navy but not abolished since 1879!