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02-17-21, 04:27 PM | #3646 | |||||
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One of the aspects of this thread, started 10/14/2013, was the impact of history on the poster themselves if any. For 171,278 captains: largely descended from libidinous Neanderthals who got lucky with an attractive less-than-willing Cro-Magnons, today is the Day of Days! 1864: Charleston, South Carolina harbor: the theory Works!! A submarine can sink a warship! The W L Hunly goes forth and sinks the USS Housatonic with a black powder spar charge: creating the military concept of 'offset undersea warfare against a greater surface Naval power power. Germany will expend valuable resources to the concept from 1914 to 1945 to gain Kaiser Wilhelm's' and Adolf Hitler's place in the sun and The United States will adapt the lessons learned, and carry the battle to the Japanese Empire after Pearl Harbor and willy nilly by and by a now frigid Houstononic naval enthusiast will create and vôila! here we are: in our Mancaves digesting this post! THe W.L. Hunley never returned from it's mission and thereby hangs a not so great mystery. Submarine warfare, even on its first outing, is DANGEROUS For openers, the Hunley was an unstable platform, and had killed its two previous crews during testing and development incl. the Man himself: WL Hunley. Equipped with a reduction geared cranking system and rudimentary twin-pipe schnorkel device when submerged beneath the surface. to allow air to 8 men hard at work a-crankin', a wave or passing ship's wake could send it to the bottom.. The other great mistake was : Submarine warfare is based on stealth: the Yankee fleet blocking Charleston Harbor was perfectly aware of the existence of the Hunley ie: the element of surprise was lost.
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02-18-21, 01:24 PM | #3647 |
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1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty.
1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum. 1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons. 1915 Germany begins a blockade of Britain. 1916 The last German garrison in the German colony of Cameroons surrenders. 1921 British troops occupy Dublin. 1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on its maiden flight.
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02-19-21, 08:09 AM | #3648 |
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1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first period of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area.
1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance. 1915 British fleet opens fire on Dardanelles coast. 1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin. 1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans. 1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland/ 1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma. 1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines. 1964 UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US
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02-20-21, 01:37 PM | #3649 |
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1938 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany.
1947 Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence. 1947 State of Prussia ceases to exist.
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02-21-21, 01:48 PM | #3650 |
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1916 Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months)
1917 British troopship SS Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 646 die. 1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper to US
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02-22-21, 02:13 PM | #3651 |
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1797 The Last Invasion of Britain, launched by the French during the Revolutionary Wars, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary. 1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia. 1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war. 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 (Operation Wikinger) 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defences collapse. 1944 US Army Air Forces accidentally bomb Dutch town of Nijmegen, around 800 civilians die. 1967 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since WWII
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02-23-21, 01:48 PM | #3652 |
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1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed.
1942 Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California. 1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture. 1998 Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders.
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02-24-21, 01:21 PM | #3653 |
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1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1942 The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, a series of anti-aircraft engagements over the city in response to a rumored but false Japanese attack. It would last until the morning of the following day. 1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer. 2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba due to ill health after nearly fifty years.
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02-25-21, 02:22 PM | #3654 |
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1916 German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I
1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship. 1933 First genuine US aircraft carrier named, USS Ranger. 1939 First Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden. 1964 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] wins his first world heavyweight boxing title when Sonny Liston fails to come out for round 7 at the Convention Center, Miami Beach. 1991 US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
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02-26-21, 02:24 PM | #3655 |
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1797 Bank of England issues first £1 note.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte and his supporters leave Elba to start a 100 day re-conquest of France. 1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast. 1915 Malancourt, Argonnen 1st (German) flame-thrower. 1916 Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930 1924 Trial against Hitler for treason in "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich begins. 1935 German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering. 1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt. 1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb. 1952 PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb.
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02-27-21, 01:40 PM | #3656 |
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1933 The Reichstag, German parliament building, destroyed by fire; possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Martin van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist.
1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese. 1990 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy. 2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor.
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02-28-21, 02:11 PM | #3657 |
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1933 On Adolf Hitler's advice, German President Paul von Hindenburg signs the Reichstag Fire Decree after the building is destroyed by fire in Berlin; this eliminates many civil liberties in Germany.
1967 A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years. 1971 A British soldier dies in Derry after his vehicle had been attacked with petrol bombs (he died as a result of inhaling chemicals from fire extinguishers that were used to put out the fire) 1995 The US Pentagon announces that it monitored Iranian installation of surface-to-air Hawk missiles in the Strait of Hormuz.
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03-01-21, 02:39 PM | #3658 |
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1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbour with approximately 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again.
1913 David Beatty becomes Rear-Admiral Commanding the Royal Navy's 1st Battlecruiser Squadron. 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic. 1939 Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94 1941 Himmler inspects Auschwitz concentration camp. 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat. 1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US
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03-02-21, 02:29 PM | #3659 |
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1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico in Columbia.
1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor. 1943 First transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp. 1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world, with a cargo compartment 37m long. 1969 First test flight of the supersonic Concorde. 1974 Grand jury concludes US President Richard Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up. 1991 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed.
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03-03-21, 12:56 PM | #3660 |
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1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine. Generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.
1942 First combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber. 1945 Winston Churchill visits Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters. 1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted.
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