This date in history

[Jimbuna]

[Jeff-Groves]

Now that's nomination stuff right there!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

1886 - The British set fire to the White House.

2023 - Millions of Americans wish they would do it again.

Jimbo got it right the first time...no nomination fer U!

[Jeff-Groves]

Foiled by a typo!!!

[Jimbuna]

Dyslexic fingers more like

[Jimbuna]

1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.

1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn 'recourse to war for the solution of international controversies'.

1941 WWII: British Royal Navy captures German U-boat U-570 on its maiden voyage; it is re-flagged as HMS Graph, and used by the British for nearly 2 years.

1942 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the 1st Soviet citizen welcomed at the White House, by Eleanor Roosevelt.

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

1979 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland.

[Jimbuna]

1914 World War I: Battle of Helgoland Bight (North Sea); British fleet decisively beats Germans, nearly 800 die, and over 200 wounded.

1952 German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments.

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech addressing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal.

1979 IRA bomb explodes in Brussels' Great Market.

1981 John Hinckley pleads innocent to attempt to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan.

1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying.

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1910 Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.

1916 General Paul von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff.

1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight.

1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II

1943 Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany.

1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees.

1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan.

1949 USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR

1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq.

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes 2nd and 3rd landfall as a category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.

[Jeff-Groves]

1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan.

2023 Millions of Americans hope the British will liberate the States from The Federal Government.

[Jimbuna]

1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1932 Hermann Goering elected President of the German Reichstag.

1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet.

1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so.

1945 US General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

1993 150,000,000th visitor to the Eiffel Tower.

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1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London's East End.

1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz.

1940 RAF Fighter Command loses 39 aircraft against Luftwaffe's 41

1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.

[Jimbuna]

1914 The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati, Ohio)

1915 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"

1933 US Navy renames NAS Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, California, NAS Moffett Field, in honor of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett; Moffett championed the construction of the base, but died in the crash of airship USS Akron before the base opened.

1939 Adolf Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill through the "Aktion T4 Euthanasia Program," arguing that wartime "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"

1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.

1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig.

1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David.

1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal.

1975 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1939 Adolf Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill through the "Aktion T4 Euthanasia Program," arguing that wartime "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"

He had a personal reason for doing so??!!

One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime’s program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said Tuesday.
The woman, identified only as Aloisia V., was 49 when she was gassed on Dec. 6, 1940, at an institution in the Hartheim castle near the northern Austrian city of Linz, historian Timothy Ryback said.
Ryback, an American historian who now lives in Salzburg and heads the Obersalzberg Institute in Berchtesgaden, Germany, said the details surrounding the woman’s death surfaced last week after Obersalzberg archivist Florian Beierl gained access to her medical file at a Vienna medical institution where she had been treated.
An ink stamp on the file serves as “proof of extermination,” Ryback said. That mental illness flourished in Hitler’s extended family is nothing new — a secret 1944 Gestapo report that has been known for decades described Aloisia’s line of the family as “idiotic progeny,” Beierl said.

Both Ryback and Beierl declined to comment on any implications their findings might have. Wolfgang Eisenmenger, a German expert in forensic medicine who is involved in the research, warned against drawing any conclusions about Hitler’s own mental health.

“An expert on hereditary psychological illnesses could perhaps draw some conclusions from the results of the reconstructed family tree,” Eisenmenger said in a statement on the Obersalzberg Web site. Recently released medical files on Aloisia say she suffered from schizophrenia, depression, delusions and a range of other mental problems, Ryback said. Her treatment included confinement in cage beds, a widespread practice even before Nazi times.

It’s unclear whether Hitler was aware of his relative’s illness and her fate, Ryback said, adding researchers are trying to determine that.

Aloisia was the great-grandchild of the sister of Hitler’s paternal grandmother, meaning she was part of the Schicklgruber side of the family, Beierl said. Her family was close to Hitler’s family, and Hitler’s father helped her father get a job as a civil servant in Vienna, he added. Hitler's father was named Alois.

‘The entire line died out’
Ryback said he and Beierl, who have researched Hitler’s family for five years, kept coming across “cases of either physical or mental disabilities in Hitler’s family.”

The Schicklgruber side of the family was especially hard-hit and “crashed into suicide and mental illness,” he added. “The entire line died out.”

TOO bad Megalomania ie: incl. a wounded WWI veteran, Adolf Shicklgruber, wasn't a gassable offense in 1939...

[mapuc]

Germany was not the first country to use Euthanasia and Eugenic against their own citizens - It was Denmark who already from 1929 had Euthanasia and Eugenic. Euthanasia ended in the middle of the 30's while Eugenic continued up to 1957.

What Germany did was putting it into production.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed.

1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1807 The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

1945 V-J Day, formal Surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of World War II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

1977 One of the great anti-climaxes in sport; 43-year-old transsexual Rene Richards, who fought for over a year for right to play in a major event, is beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade at the US Open.

1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.

1987 Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR