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1939: the USS Squalus sinks off the New Hampshire coast. Squalus sank during a test dive on 23 May 1939. She was raised, renamed, and recommissioned on 15 May 1940 as USS Sailfish. Failure of the main induction valve caused the flooding of the aft torpedo room, both engine rooms, and the crew's quarters, drowning 26 men immediately. Quick action by the crew prevented the other compartments from flooding. Squalus bottomed in 243 ft (74 m) of water.
Squalus was initially located by her sister ship, Sculpin. The two submarines were able to communicate using a telephone marker buoy until the cable parted. Divers from the sub rescue ship Falcon began rescue operations under the direction of the salvage and rescue expert Lt Cmdr Momsen, using the new McCann Rescue Chamber. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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1844 - Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message).
1941 - Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive.
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1986 - 30,000,000 people watch "Live Aid", a benefit concert for the Ethiopian famine.
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1907 - John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], Winterset IA, actor (Green Berets, True Grit) is born.
1927 - Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie. 1982 - British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters & destroyer HMS Coventry were hit in Falkland war: 39 crew members died.
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1940 - British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII.
1941 - German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force.
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1937; the newly completed bridge is opened connecting San Francisco to marin county on Highway 101. Just drove it last night..always fabulous. And sometimes downright stunning
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1431 - Joan of Arc accused of relapsing back into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution.
1936 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers. 1972 - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natlional HQ at Watergate.
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1937: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushes a button( actually a telegraph key) in Washington to signal vehicular traffic could begin crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Today's presidents live with a whole lot more buttons to push!
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1953 - Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition.
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May 29, 1910 pioneer aviator Glenn Curtiss completes the first true cross-country flight from Albany to Manhattan, NY, a distance of 150 miles. Curtiss was going for the $10,000 dollar prize put up by the publisher of the newspaper New York World who was none other then Joseph Pulitzer. Curtiss flew for a total of 2 hours and 30 minutes with an average speed of 54 miles per hour.
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1431 - Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Florida.
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1814: With Ol Boney, 'less able ere he saw Elba',
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70 - Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem.
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1967 - Beatles release Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in US & goes gold
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