This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor.

1944 German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht.

1945 Flight 19 the "Lost Squadron" of 5 torpedo bombers and 14 airmen is lost east of Florida in the supposed Bermuda Triangle.

1974 Final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC TV

1988 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's first nuclear-war-fighting satellite.

[Aktungbby]

1917: The SS Mont-Blanc entering Halifax's harbor, carrying thousands of tons of ammunition destined for France, is collided by Norwegian steamship SS Imo. As crowds gathered to watch the fire, a sailor appraised train dispatcher Vince Coleman of the danger. Colman warned incoming trains: "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Goodby boys." Coleman died at his post but probably saved 300 lives. The explosion sent up a mushroom-cloud 2 miles high and shattered windows 50 miles away. Water vaporized exposing the harbor floor and a shower of metal fell on the city in a veritable air-raid. 2,000 people were killed; 9,000 wounded, out of 50,000...12,000 buildings were obliterated; 25,000 people were homeless in the cold...the largest explosion until Hiroshima 28 years later! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_...in_dispatcher)

[Jimbuna]

1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.

1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)

1982 Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin’ Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry.

2017 US President Donald Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, announcing plans to move US embassy there.

[Jimbuna]

1917 US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I

1917 The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks)

1940 The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew.

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

1941 First Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)

1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan.

1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time.

[Aktungbby]

1941 First Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)

That was Minnesota NICE! https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...postcount=2130

[Mr Quatro]

1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan

No wonder China is angry at Taiwan all of these years

Did you know that Taiwan has not reported (I say reported) a single case of
Covid-19 since mid-April

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

No wonder China is angry at Taiwan all of these years

Did you know that Taiwan has not reported (I say reported) a single case of
Covid-19 since mid-April

I'm not sure of the date but I know it has been well over 200 days.

[Jimbuna]

1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron.

1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine.

1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1966 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II

Thus, Pearl Harbor, essentially a tactical copy-cat of the British Taranto raid, is considered a strategic defeat for the Empire. (The carriers and fuel tanks were unscathed) and the Strategic Yankee victory 19 months later at Midway (Set in motion to correct the failure to sink the carriers at Pearl) puts paid to the Empire's aspirations...in the Pacific and Asia. Yamamoto, with the unable assistance of Nagumo at Pearl, broke Prussian von C's rule #3: "never count on your enemy doing what your plan calls for him to do"! Japan was was not strong in all things to begin with(rule 1 as Yamamoto acknowledged in fearing to awaken the 'sleeping American giant') and with four main carriers: Hiryu, Soryu, Akagi, and Kaga, sunk at Midway by '42, could not "increase firepower whenever possible"(rule 2) The 3 year cleanup of the Pacific was a stubborn Bushido motivated slugfest culminating in the nuclear age...

[Jimbuna]

1941 Adolf Hitler orders US ships to be torpedoed.

1984 Iranian commandos end day hijack of Kuwaiti plane.

1990 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland's first direct presidential election in Poland.

2014 CIA Torture Report released, detailing the CIA's use of torture on detainees between 2001-2006

2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, for her handling of debt and refugee crises.

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1869: Women are granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory...putting 'paid' to the 'rootin'-tootin' Wild West !!

[Jimbuna]

1926 Second part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published.

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die.

1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.

[Jimbuna]

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[Jimbuna]

1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)

1936 Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson.

1940 Russian general Georgy Zhukov warns of German assault.

1941 Germany and Italy declare war on USA

1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)

1971 A bomb explodes outside a furniture showroom on the mainly-Protestant and loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; four civilians (including two babies) were killed and nineteen wounded.

1981 Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick.

[Jimbuna]

1901 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, Canada.

1915 First all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany.

1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)

1945 Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death.

1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr

1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.

2000 US Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush's favour and thus handing him the presidency.

2019 British General Election won by Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in landslide win with 80 seat majority. Scottish National Party also wins 48 of 59 seats in Scotland.