This date in history

[Aktungbby]

1864: In the middle of the Civil War, Congress authorized the use of the phrase: "In God we trust" on U.S. coins...a clear violation of church and state imho...

[Jimbuna]

1915 First military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I

1916 Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunt's Rock, to prevent its cargo of 20,000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands.

1945 Battle of Berlin: Upon being informed that a planned counter-attack never happened, Adolf Hitler flies into a rage, denounces the German Army and concedes World War II is lost.

1945 SS chief Heinrich Himmler secretly meets with Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, asking him to act as an intermediary for a surrender offer to the Western Allies. The Allies do not take the offer seriously.

2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C

[Jimbuna]

1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel.

1918 Raid of Zeebrugge; the British navy attempts to block German vessels from leaving port by sinking obsolete ships - mostly fails.

1941 Greek Army surrenders to Germany; British RAF evacuates the Greek King George II to Egypt.

1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces)

1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy (later commuted to life sentence)

[Jimbuna]

1914 A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland

1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin.

1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."

[Aktungbby]

Presley Wilson!

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Presley Wilson

This is very interesting, thanks!

It truly is, it's one of my favorite thread.

Me having hope that someone with more knowledge about American history, than I have will make a thread with the title

This date in USA('s) history

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Presley Wilson

This is very interesting, thanks!

[Jimbuna]

1792 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier.

1945 Soviet forces complete their encirclement of Berlin, cutting off all access points west of the German capital.

1945 "Elbe Day" - US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in WWII

1980 Announcement of US hostage rescue bungle in Iran.

1985 West German Parliament rules it is illegal to deny the Holocaust.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Presley Wilson

This is very interesting, thanks!

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Presley Wilson!

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Of all the towns...in all the forums...in all the threads....Poor Mr. Wilson had to pick this one! <meets Mr. Earp and Mr. Holliday!

[Jimbuna]

1944 First B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down.

1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, arrested for treason.

1945 Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

1952 US minesweeper Hobson rams aircraft carrier Wasp, 176 die.

1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain on South Georgia Island, near the Falkland Islands.

1986 World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe.

[Jimbuna]

1865 Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.

1916 The British renew their assault on the Irish Volunteer position in Mount Street; shelling also sets the buildings on fire.

1933 Adolf Hitler authorizes creation of Ministry of Aviation, in part to revive the German Luftwaffe, under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering.

1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

1943 Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust.

1945 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)

2005 The superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

[Jimbuna]

28th April 1921

Giant Sturgeon at the Mac Fisheries shop in London.


Police seize a barrel of wine from a store in New York to enforce Prohibition.


At Paris, M. Briand, departing for London, tells newspapermen France will occupy the Ruhr region to help the German people to get rid of reactionaries.


Ship Losses:

Bona H (United Kingdom) The schooner was destroyed by fire off Havana, Cuba.

[Jimbuna]

1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia.

1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific.

1939 Adolf Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect.

1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Höss (not Hess, different Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz.

1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats off Slapton Sands, Devon.

1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect.

1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO

1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

28th April 1921
At Paris, M. Briand, departing for London, tells newspapermen France will occupy the Ruhr region to help the German people to get rid of reactionaries.

How extraordinarily kind of him, now was'nt this more of an invasion?

"In 1922, Germany requested permission to suspend their payments whilst their economy recovered. This was refused by the Allies. By 1923, Germany reached breaking point as inflation started to run out of control. They were unable to continue paying reparations.

On the 9 January 1923, in response to the lack of payment of reparations, France and Belgium invaded the Ruhr. The Ruhr was a region of Germany which contained resources such as factories. The French and Belgians intended to use these resources to make up for the unpaid reparations.

German factory workers refused to co-operate with the occupying French and Belgian armies. With the German governments support, the workers went on strike. The French sent in their own workers, and arrested the leaders of the German strikers and the German police. This led to violence on both sides.

With the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr, goods in Germany became even more difficult to obtain, and therefore very expensive. To fix this problem and pay the striking Ruhr workers, the government again printed more money. This led to hyperinflation."

[Jimbuna]

1864 Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga.

1916 Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising.

1945 US Army liberates 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

1975 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war.

1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate.