This date in history

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1683: thirteen families arrive in Philadelphia from Krefeld Germany to begin Germantown one of Americas' oldest settlements. Germantown has played a significant role in American history; it was the birthplace of the American antislavery movement, the site of a Revolutionary War battle, and temporary residence of George Washington,1777: When Philadelphia was occupied by the British during the Revolution, British units were housed in Germantown. In the Battle of Germantown, the Yankees attacked this garrison. During the battle, a party of citizens fired on the British troops, as they marched up the avenue, and mortally wounded British Brigadier General Agnew. The Americans withdrew after firing on one another in the confusion of the battle, leading to the determination that the battle resulted in a defeat of the Americans. However, the battle is sometimes considered a victory by Americans. The American loss was 673 and the British loss was 575. [wiki]

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1929: Former interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, one of main figures of the teapot Dome Scandal goes on trial and is convicted of receiving a bribe from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny. Fall serves 9 months of a one year sentence. Deheny was acquitted at his own trial of offering the bribe Fall was accused of taking... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal Conversely, in 1930, Edward L. Doheny was acquitted of paying bribes to Fall. Further, Doheny's corporation foreclosed on Fall's home in Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, because of "unpaid loans" which turned out to be that same $100,000 bribe.

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1952
Bob Horn's Bandstand debuts on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia. Less than four years later, the show will be hosted by Dick Clark and will go on to be one of the most influential US music programs in Rock history.

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1918 - American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans.

1945 - US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada.

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1571: In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a Christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain’s Don Juan de Austria. One of history's (5 IMHO) great naval battles: stopped the strategic naval progression of Islam into the west...Algerian corsairs aside of course. Ottoman forces were decimated-210 ships lost or captured! 1944: Prisoner uprising at Birkenau concentration camp. "For months, young Jewish women, like had been smuggling small amounts of gunpowder from the Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke, a munitions factory within the Auschwitz complex, to men and women in the camp's resistance movement. Under constant guard, the women in the factory took small amounts of the gunpowder, wrapped it in bits of cloth or paper, hid it on their bodies, and then passed it along the smuggling chain. Once she received the gunpowder, Passed to her co-conspirators in the Sonderkommando; using this gunpowder, the leaders of the Sonderkommando planned to destroy the gas chambers and crematoria, and launch the uprising. When the camp resistance warned the Sonderkommando that they were (in due course-every three months-SOP to preserve ghastly secrecy) to be murdered on the morning of 7 October 1944, the Sonderkommando attacked the SS and Kapos with two machine guns, axes, knives and grenades. The SS men suffered 15 casualties of whom about 12 were injured and 3 were killed; one of the killed SS and a Reichsdeutsche Oberkapo were pushed alive into a crematorium oven after being stabbed by a member of the Sonderkommando. Some of the Sonderkommando escaped from the camp for a period, as was planned, but they were recaptured later the same day. Of those who didn't die in the uprising itself, 200 were later forced to strip and lie face down, and then were shot in the back of the head. A total of 451 Sonderkommandos were killed on this day. [wiki] Some were in other Sonderkommando units not involved and every third member was executed as a lesson-the old Roman punishment kicked up 66%: decimatio??!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army) 2003: California voters remove Democratic governor Gray Davis from office in the state’s first successful recall of a sitting governor (only the second successful recall of a governor in US history); a Republican candidate, bodybuilder/actor Arnold Schwarzenegger wins the election to replace Davis 17 days later. Now we only worry about great drought, great quakes and great forest fires. Decimatio Californiano BBY!

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1975 - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize.

2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.

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1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame.

1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops.

1957 - US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.

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1978: Ken Warby of Australia sets the world water speed record, 317.60 mph, at Blowering Dam in Australia; no other human has yet (2013) exceeded 300 mph on water and survived. WARNING MAY BE DISTRESSFULL:

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1915 - Despite international protest, Edith Cavell, and English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners.

1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb.

1945 - Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Zedong.

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1859 - Self-proclaimed Emperor of the USA, Emperor Norton issues edit abolishing the US Congress.

1900 - The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S.Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland.

1901 - Theodore Roosevelt renames "Executive Mansion" "The White House."

2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

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1914 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask.

1925 - Margaret Thatcher [Margaret Hilda Roberts], first female British Prime Minister, known as 'The Iron Lady' is born.

1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.

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1775: Congress lays the foundation for the United States Navy, ordering the construction of a naval fleet. # 1 USS ALFRED, built 1774 (keel laid) at Philadelphia, PA (as HMS Black Prince) is first to be commissioned. 1792: the cornerstone of the executive mansion (the White House) was laid during a ceremony in DC. Election havoc notwithstanding we have faith in the man residing there??!. 1932: President Herbert Hoover and chief justice Chas. Evans Hughes("The Republic endures and this is the symbol of its faith") lay the cornerstone for the US Supreme Court Building in DC. 54 AD Emperor Claudius, possibly poisoned by his fourth wife, Agrippina, dies and is laid to rest (with divine honors-a matter of faith!) in the Mausoleum of #1 emperor, Augustus...himself the cornerstone of the Roman Empire...? Psst; there's gotta be a cornerstone there...somewhere!

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1939 - German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed.

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1066: The Battle of Hastings.

1943: Black Thursday, the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.

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1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile.

1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.

1918 - British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6.