This date in history

[Aktungbby]

1940: General Mills began shipping it's new cereal "Cheerioats" to six test markets. The cereal was later renamed "Cheerios" and has been on my breakfast shelf for over 65 years... 1970: jockey Diane Crump became the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; finishing 15th aboard Fathom...but undoubtedly gaining the greater victory... https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvi...-female-jockey

In 1970, she became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Crump won the first race on the undercard that day, and then on a horse named Fathom, came in 15th in a 17-horse field in the Derby. By the time she ended her racing career in 1985, she had ridden to 235 wins, though she is officially credited with 228 by Equibase.

[Jimbuna]

1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.

1945 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria.

1945 World War II: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender.

1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves Southampton on maiden voyage to NY

1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men.

2011 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

[Jimbuna]

1926 Britain's Trade Union Congress calls for the country's first ever general strike, begins at 1 minute to midnight in support striking coal miners, lasts 9 days.

1915 John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields"

1916 Irish Nationalists Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas Clarke are executed by firing squad following their involvement in the Easter Rising.

1921 Northern Ireland is created under the UK Government of Ireland Act partitioning off six north eastern counties with a Protestant majority.

1942 Nazis execute 71 Dutch resistance fighters in reprisal at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany.

1945 World War II: German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air Force in East Sea, 5,800 killed - one of largest maritime losses of life.

1947 Japan's post-war constitution goes into effect, granting universal suffrage, stripping Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power and outlawing Japan's right to make war.

[Jimbuna]

1910 Wilfrid Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy.

1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.

1916 Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan and Joseph Plunkett are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising, at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

1917 A flotilla of US destroyer ships arrive in Queenstown, Ireland, to aid in convoying ships to England.

1945 German forces in Bavaria surrender unconditionally to American commander Jacob L. Devers.

1945 German forces in Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands surrender unconditionally to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Luneburg Heath.

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1982 British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.

1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex-husband David slept with Mick Jagger.

[Jimbuna]

1915 German U-20 captures and sinks Britsih schooner Earl of Lathom.

1930 Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.

1945 World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.

1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers.

1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building.

1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.

[Jimbuna]

1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods, believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape.

1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die.

1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground.

1941 Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union, replacing his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

1994 Channel tunnel linking England & France officially opens.

[Aktungbby]

1910: King Edward VII dies after a short but able reign of 9 years. Born in 1841, he waited 60 years for his mother, Queen Victoria, to finally vacate the throne; a circumstance being duplicated this very day as King Charles III is coronated with 'pomp and circumstance', having waited even longer (74 years) for his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, to vacate the throne!?? VIVAT REX!

[Rhodes]

1894 The Municipal Museum of Figueira da Foz opens for the first time. The line for entering the new cultural space extends for a consider length and time estimates were of 5 hours in line to enter!

[Jimbuna]

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material.

1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.

1919 A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans.

1941 British House of Commons votes for Winston Churchill (477-3)

1945 World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.

1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution.

1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.

[Aktungbby]

1915 RMS Lusitania is sunk with great loss of life incl. 128 Americans; causing a great deal of anti-Kaiser sentiment against unrestricted submarine warfare in the declared warzone around the Brtish Isles. In reality, subsequent examination of the wreck has proven that the vessel was carrying war material, (4,200,000 rounds of ammunition and explosive fuses)making the liner a legitimate target for the relatively new form of uncivilized 'undeclared' submarine warfare. The wreck is still under advisory to SCUBA divers as extremely dangerous.

[Jimbuna]

1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.

1902 Mount Pelée on the French overseas island of Martinique erupts, wiping out the city of Saint-Pierre, killing 30,000 and leaving only two survivors.

1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes killing 679 German soldiers.

1916 Irishmen Eamon Kent, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Sean Houston are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, leads to the creation of Remembrance Day.

1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean.

1942 Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea.

1945 German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin.

1945 V-E Day: World War II ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender.

1962 Oskar Schindler and his wife Emilie Schindler are honored for saving 1200 Jews during WWII, in a ceremony on the Avenue of the Righteous, Jerusalem.

1980 World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated.

[Jimbuna]

1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England is ratified at Windsor cementing and strengthening ties between the two kingdoms (oldest diplomatic alliance still in force). The treaty guarantees the mutual security of both nations and strengthens commercial ties.

1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London, captured running from the tower with the jewels.

1726 Three men arrested during a February raid on Mother Clap's molly-house (a coffee house catering to homosexuals) in London are executed by hanging at Tyburn, England.

1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen.

1945 Norwegian Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling arrested.

1945 World War II: Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army.

1945 World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day.

1955 German Federal Republic (West Germany) joins NATO

[Rockstar]

9th May, 1943. A Junkers 88R-1 night fighter, carrying the Luftwaffe’s latest Lichtenstein radar, landed at RAF Dyce near Aberdeen. Unlike many other German aircraft which became unintentional ‘guests’ in Britain, this arrival was no accident - the pilot and crew had intentionally defected.

Oblt. Herbert Schmid took off from Kristiansand, Norway, at 16:50 with Obfw Paul Rosenberger and Obfw Erich Kantwill on board. Shortly after takeoff, a false distress message declaring an engine fire was sent and the Ju 88 disappeared from radar as it dropped to sea level before setting course for Scotland. The aircraft’s dinghy was released to convince air-sea rescue teams that it had been lost.

Schmid circled off the coast near Aberdeen and, when two Spitfires arrived to investigate, dropped his undercarriage and fired flares to indicate surrender before being escorted to RAF Dyce. Despite a burst of fire from the airfield defences, the Ju 88 landed safely and was placed under guard. It was later flown to Farnborough, where both it and the Lichtenstein radar were extensively tested. This provided vital technical information that helped to develop countermeasures and a homing device for British night fighters.

The actions of Schmid and his crew seem to have been primarily motivated by anti-Nazi feeling. It had not gone unnoticed in Luftwaffe circles that they had so far failed to score a single victory, despite being highly experienced. Having made it clear they wanted to actively work for the British against Hitler’s regime, they were given false identities and positions at the Political Warfare Executive. Schmid, Rosenberger and Kantwill took part in various activities including POW interviews and propaganda broadcasts to Germany.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.

Actually he crushed private labor unions and forced all workers to join the largest nationalized trade union ever created in the history of mankind, the 32 million member strong German Labor Front (DAP). Lenin basically did the same thing.

[Aktungbby]

Great dictators think alike !!