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04-28-24, 12:57 PM | #5131 |
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1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard HMS Endeavour, first lands in Australia at Botany Bay.
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. 1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along US East Coast. 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 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.
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04-29-24, 01:44 PM | #5132 |
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1916 Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising.
1940 Norwegian King Haakon & government flee to Britain. 1945 Conscientious objector Desmond Doss saves 75 wounded soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa at Hacksaw Ridge. Later depicted in the Oscar-winning film "Hacksaw Ridge". 1945 US Army liberates 31,601 people from the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany. 1946 28 former Japanese leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals. 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 begin tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force; agreement outlaws production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
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04-30-24, 01:21 PM | #5133 |
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1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America at Federal Hall in NYC
1916 Germany ratifies bill bringing in Daylight Saving Time - first country in the world. 1920 The British Government ends military conscription. 1940 Air New Zealand then known as TEAL makes its inaugural flight with a flight from Auckland to Sydney. Later becomes 1st airline in the world to boil hot water in-flight to offer customers hot tea and coffee. 1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconsin. 1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms. 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city. 1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) calls for crusade against the Bolsheviks. 1945 Record 48 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month. 1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin.
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05-01-24, 09:53 AM | #5134 |
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1707 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
1840 "Penny Black", the world's first adhesive postage stamp issued by Great Britain. 1915 British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool on its last fateful journey. 1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet. 1923 Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rohm attempt to break up socialist May Day demonstrations, inviting Nazis from as far away as Nuremberg to take part in the violence. 1924 German automobile manufacturers Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie begin their first joint venture (later merge into Mercedes-Benz) 1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City - world's tallest building until the World Trade Center in 1970 1943 German plane sinks the British ship SS Erinpura in the Mediterranean with the loss of 799 lives. 1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight. 1945 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army. 1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government. 1946 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed British supreme commander. 1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.
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05-02-24, 01:22 PM | #5135 |
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1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
1945 Battle of Berlin ends as the Soviet army storms the capital, forcing German commander of the city general Helmuth Weidling to surrender. 1945 More than 1,000,000 German soldiers officially surrender to the Western Allies in Italy and Austria. 1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by British submarine HMS 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.
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05-03-24, 12:54 PM | #5136 |
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1915 Canadian poet and physician John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields" at Ypres on the Western Front.
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. 1945 German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona, laden with prisoners is sunk by the Royal Air Force in the western Baltic Sea, killing 5,800. One of the largest maritime losses of life in World War II. 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. 2001 The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
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05-08-24, 12:04 PM | #5137 |
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1915: a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, out of 2000 on board. The vessel was carrying a secret cargo of 143 tons of ammunition, shrapnell shell casings and percussion fuses into a 'declared unlimited war zone' and was therefore a legitimate militaty target. It's sinking however, with the deaths of American civilians, was a factor in America's eventual entry into WWI on the Allies side.
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06-02-24, 01:00 PM | #5138 |
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1896 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom.
1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno. 1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross. 1924 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens. 1941 WWII: British Royal Navy captures U-110, its 1st German U-boat; after gathering valuable code machinery, they sink the vessel. 1944 Herzogenbusch concentration camp near Vught, Netherlands, is disbanded by Allied forces, one of two SS-run camps outside Germany. 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England. 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy.
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06-03-24, 01:38 PM | #5139 |
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1864 General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of the US Civil War at the Battle of Cold Harbor.
1896 British naval officer David Beatty is seconded to the Egyptian government and appointed second in command of the river flotilla. 1935 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage. 1940 Last British and French troops evacuated from Dunkirk. 1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots. 1946 International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals. 1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing.
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06-07-24, 01:07 PM | #5140 |
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1692 An earthquake in Port Royal kills 3,000 and sinks the cemetery where Henry Morgan was buried into the sea.
1753 British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament with royal assent from King George II (opens in 1759) 1917 The British detonate mines beneath the German-held Messines Ridge, in the Ypres area. 1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state. 1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the 1st king and queen of Britain to visit USA 1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan. 1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island. 1944 British forces attack Bréville in France during the Normandy invasion while other British forces attempt to encircle Caen. 1944 Canadian 50th Division occupies Bayeux during the Normandy invasion. 1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
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06-10-24, 12:33 PM | #5141 |
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1692 The first victim of the Salem witch trials, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft in the colony of Massachusetts.
1768 British customs officials seize John Hancock's ship, "The Liberty", on the suspicion that Hancock had illegally unloaded cargo without paying duties a month earlier. 1770 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to discover the Great Barrier Reef off Australia - by running aground on its coral causing the ship to leak (ship later beached and repaired) 1940 German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker. 1940 Norway surrenders to Nazi Germany after 62 days of fighting. 1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under. 1943 Heinrich Himmler orders the final liquidation of Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland. 1944 Nazi forces carry out a massacre of 642 civilians in the French village Oradour-sur-Glane. 1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze.
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06-11-24, 01:17 PM | #5142 |
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1776 Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members.
1900 David Beatty and 150 men from HMS Barfleur land as part of a force of 2,400 defending Tientsin from 15,000 Chinese troops plus Boxers. 1939 British ruler King George VI and Queen Elizabeth taste their first "hot dogs" at a party at FDR's Hyde Park residence during their US visit. 1963 Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images. 1972 Gun battle between Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries break out in the Oldpark area of Belfast. 1987 Margaret Thatcher is the first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term.
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06-12-24, 12:44 PM | #5143 |
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1917 US Secret Service extends protection of the President to include his family.
1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury. 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam. 1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London. 1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa. 1982 Battle of Mount Longdon Falkland Islands. 2018 Singapore Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump - first time a North Korean leader and an incumbent US President have ever met.
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06-13-24, 11:37 AM | #5144 |
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1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world's oldest still in existence) signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal.
1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries. 1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering. 1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km. 1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea. 1956 The last British troops leave the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt. 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1972 The Irish Republican Army invites British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Willie Whitelaw to 'Free Derry'; Whitelaw rejects offer and reaffirms his policy to not "let part of the United Kingdom ... default from the rule of law" 2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung meets North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
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