This date in history

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1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings.

1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.

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1580 - Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.

1815 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance.

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1939 - Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance.

1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England.

1941 - 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched.

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2015: NASA announces water on Mars. Presently, not in the past this time!

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1914 - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium.

1939 - German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR.

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1399-Richard II of England is deposed. His cousin, Henry of Lancaster, declares himself king under the name Henry IV.

1493-Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain, on his second voyage to the new world.

1789-Congress votes to create a U.S. army.

1939-Germany and the Soviet Union reach an agreement on the division of Poland.

1941-30,000 Jews are gunned down in Kiev when Henrich Himmler sends four strike squads to exterminate Soviet Jewish civilians and other "undesirables."

1943-Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf is published in the United States.

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1789: the US War Department establishes a regular army with a strenghth of 'several hundred men' 1829: London's organized police goes on duty...known as Scotland Yard! 1938: British, French German and Italian leaders conclude the Munich Agreement aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. This eventually leads to:1941: The SS Einsatzgruppen operating in the Ukraine massacres between 50,000 and 96,000 Ukranians (of which 33,771 are Jews), at Babi Yar, a ravine about 30 miles outside of Kiev.
1943: GEN Eisenhower and Marshal Pietro Badaglio sign an armistice aboard HMS Nelson off Malta as Allies recapture Pompeii!

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1918 - WW I: Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line.

1942 - French Government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich.

1943 - Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice.

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1941 - German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins.

1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights.

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1914 - The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth.

1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

1942 - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight.

1946 - 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg.

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1940 - British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.

1941 - Germans launch attack on Moscow.

1942 - "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338.

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1582 - Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries.

1916 - Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured.

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Half the fun of this thread is the coincidental irony of events on a given date and the interrelationship, if any, that may be discerned; preferably in irreverent contradiction to the rôte-learning of our schoolroom youth: In today's paper: 1861

BURLINGTON — A space historian says a Canadian university principal proposed rocket-based space flight 30 years earlier than previously thought.
Historian Robert Godwin says William Leitch of Queen's University in Kingston accurately described the concept of rocket-based space flight in 1861.
Previous histories of space flight have maintained that the first scientific proposal of rocket-powered space travel came at the end of the 19th century by Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and by American Robert Goddard.
Both claimed Jules Verne as their inspiration, but Godwin says Leitch published his thoughts four years before Verne's famous "space gun."
Godwin's findings were published Sunday in "The First Scientific Concept of Rockets for Space Travel."
Godwin says Leitch was a scientist and understood Newton's law of action and reaction, and predicted that a rocket would work more efficiently in the vacuum of space.

1984: The Space-shuttle Challenger blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center with woman astronaut Katheryn D Sullivan and the first Canadian astronaut, Marc Garneau Also a retired military police officer Eh?!!! They should have a Moosehead bottle in this shot: Inspired by a wide variety of sources, including Jules Verne's novels 1902's From the Earth to the Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

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1801-Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland.

1866-The Reno brothers–Frank, John, Simeon and William–commit the country’s first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana netting $10,000.

1927-The first "talkie," The Jazz Singer, opens with popular entertainer Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past.

1941-German troops renew their offensive against Moscow.

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1917 - In the final attack on Third Battle of Ypres, Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele, after 250,000 casualties on both sides.

1918 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die.

1939 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain.

1945 - Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train).