This date in history

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1916 Boeing Model 1 [B & W Seaplane], the 1st Boeing product, flies for the 1st time.

1917 In order to calm troubled relations with Ireland, the British grant amnesty to the Prisoners taken during the Easter Rising of 1916

1940 World War II: France surrenders to NAZI Germany, German troops occupy Paris.

1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann.

1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity.

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1779 Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of France and the USA, starting the Great Siege of Gibraltar which goes on to last 3 years, 7 months and 2 weeks.

1815 French army under Napoleon defeats Prussia in the Battle of Ligny, Napoleon's last military victory.

1922 Irish republicans are beaten in a national election; the vote is in favor of the Treaty of London, which leaves the Irish Free State as a dominion within the British Commonwealth.

1944 George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century America.

1963 Soviet space mission Vostok 6 is launched with Valentina Tereshkova onboard, who becomes the 1st woman in space.

2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.

[Red Devil]

1815 French army under Napoleon defeats Prussia in the Battle of Ligny, Napoleon's last military victory.

You mean they actually had ONE victory ????? Wow!

[Jimbuna]

Napoleons defeats:

Second Bassano (1796)
Caldiero (1796)
Acre (1799)
Aspern-Essling (1809)
Krasnoi (1812)
Leipzig (1813)
La Rothière (1814)
Laon (1814)
Arcis-Sur-Aube (1814)
Waterloo (1815)


Napoleons victories:

Toulon (1793)
Saorgio (1794)
First Dego (1794)
13 Vendémiaire (1795)
Montenotte (1796)
Millesimo (1796)
Second Dego (1796)
Ceva (1796)
Mondovì (1796)
Fombio (1796)
Lodi (1796)
Borghetto (1796)
Lonato (1796)
Castiglione (1796)
Rovereto (1796)
Bassano (1796)
Arcole (1796)
Rivoli (1797)
Mantua (1796–1797)
La Favorite [fr] (1797)
Valvasone (1797)
Tagliamento (1797)
Tarvis (1797)
French invasion of Malta (1798)
Alexandria [fr] (1798)
Chobrakit (1798)
Pyramids (1798)
Cairo (1798)
El Arish (1799)
Jaffa (1799)
Mount Tabor (1799)
Abukir (1799)
Fort Bard (1800)
Combat of Turbigo (1800)
Marengo (1800)
Ulm (1805)
Austerlitz (1805)
Jena-Auerstedt (1806)
Greater Poland Uprising (1806)
Czarnowo (1806)*
Eylau (1807)*
Friedland (1807)
Somosierra (1808)
Teugn-Hausen (1809)
Abensberg (1809)
Landshut (1809)
Eckmühl (1809)
Ratisbon (1809)
Wagram (1809)
Znaim (1809)
Vitebsk (1812)
Smolensk (1812)
Borodino (1812)
Lützen (1813)
Bautzen (1813)
Reichenbach [fr] (1813)
Dresden (1813)
Hanau (1813)
Brienne (1814)
Champaubert (1814)
Montmirail (1814)
Château-Thierry (1814)
Vauchamps (1814)
Mormant (1814)
Montereau (1814)
Berry-au-Bac [fr] (1814)[7]
Craonne (1814)
Reims (1814)
Saint-Dizier (1814)
Ligny (1815)

[Jimbuna]

1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher.

1940 General Charles de Gaulle makes his first speech on the BBC to the French people, since arriving in London, an appeal to defy Nazi occupiers - regarded as the beginning of French Resistance during WWII

1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons.

1944 German submarine U-767 sunk by English Navy destroyers in the English Channel.

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster, charged with treason in England.

1979 US President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear weapons.

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1829 Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, world's first modern police force.

1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France.

1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor.

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act.

1947 First plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California.

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police.

[Red Devil]

1829 Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, world's first modern police force.

And died of wokeism 2020

[Jimbuna]

1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She rules for 63 years till 1901

1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

1945 U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr. approves transfer of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and his specialists to the US

2020 Highest-ever temperature recorded in the Arctic circle, 38C (100F) in Verkhoyansk, Siberia.

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1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)

1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.

1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands.

1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin.

1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa.

1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)

[Jimbuna]

1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

1865 The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender.

1911 King George V crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea.

1939 Princess and future Queen Elizabeth meets future husband Prince Philip of Greece (Midshipman Mountbatten, RN)

1940 France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France.

1941 Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union during WWII, the largest military operation in history.

1943 617 Squadron (Dambusters) attends investiture at Buckingham Palace, Commanding Officer Guy Gibson awarded the Victoria Cross.

1972 The Irish Republican Army announce that it would call a ceasefire from 26 June 1972 provided that there is a "reciprocal response" from the security forces.

1975 Ulster Volunteer Force try to derail a train by planting a bomb on the railway line near County Kildare, Ireland; a civilian who tries to stop them is stabbed-to-death (his actions delay the explosion to let the train pass safely)

1992 Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg, Russia identified as Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

His piles did him in??!!

[Jimbuna]

1940 After conquering France, Adolf Hitler visits Paris and views the Eiffel Tower and the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte.

1942 Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.

1943 RAF discovers Wernher von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde.

1961 The Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes; for international cooperation in scientific research; and does not become the scene or object of international discord, comes into force.

2016 Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union.

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1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Armée numbering half a million begin their invasion of Russia by crossing the Nieman River.

1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol.

1922 Adolf Hitler begins a month long prison sentence for paramilitary operations; he rails against the 'Jewish sell-out' of Germany to the Bolsheviks.

1930 First detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.

1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy, Lithuania, exterminated.

1942 Village of Ležáky, Czechoslovakia destroyed by Nazis after Gestapo finds a radio transmitter believed to have been involved coordinating the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, 33 adults were executed by firing squad on site, and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under.

1948 Soviet Union begins the West Berlin Blockade by stopping access by road, rail and water.

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry.

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1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"

1942 Major General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe.

1947 First version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands.

1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War.

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1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch commanded troops in the field.

1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane.

1929 President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WWI

1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a submarine off NY's Long Island.

1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk.

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict.

1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his third retirement is final (it isn't)

1986 US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack.