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1792 - Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier.
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Titos partisans are formed in 1941 and begin guerilla operations against the axis.
Until 1945 those operations included railway bombings, ambushes, assasinations kindapings, espionage, helping shot down ally pilots, enciting further insurection, raids and general unpleasantry to the ocupiers. In the later years that incuded a freed area with it's own government, it's own airforce and a tank battalion (the famed french resistance was a disorganised rabble in comparison). They tied up several German divisions that could have been efectively used in Russia. 27th April is still a national holliday in the former republics even after the Yugoslav dissolution. ![]() |
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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.
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1777: The revolutionary battle of Ridgefield Connecticutt takes place. On April 27, 1777, American forces under the command of Major General David Wooster attacked the retreating British troops under Major General William Tryon in Ridgefield. In anticipation of Tryon’s return march to Long Island Sound after the April 25/26 attack on Danbury, a important Rebel depot. Wooster, GEN Benedict Arnold (still on our side
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Benito Mussolini. One of the world's most vicious dictators was executed on this day in 1945.
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1770 - Capt James Cook aboad Endeavour lands at Botany Bay in Australia.
1789 - Fletcher Christian leads mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh.
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1707 - English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; the United Kingdom of Great Britain came into being on 1st May.
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1900: Skilled engineer enters legend and immortal song(s). John Luther 'Casey' Jones, 37, a well-regarded engineer, died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi. He stayed at the controls trying desperately to stop the train, The Cannonball Express!
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1939 - Batman comics hit street.
1944 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight. 1961 - Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba.
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1898:Commodore Admiral Dewey issues the 2nd most famous (in American Naval history) Command: "You may fire when you are ready Gridley" and America acquires an empire at Manila Bay.
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1892 - The Red Baron [Manfred von Richthofen] was born today.
1945 - WWII: Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin and General Weidling surrenders. 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 United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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1945 - WWII: 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.
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1979 - Margaret Thatcher 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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1980- Josip Broz Tito died in Lubljana medical center
He died form a gangrene poisoning after a complication with blood flow to his leg. His leg was amputated days prior but it was too late. He was 3 days short from his 88th birthday. Last edited by Betonov; 05-04-15 at 09:16 AM. |
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#735 |
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^HE was a ' man of many parts!'
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