This date in history

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1936 First flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1944 First US bombing of Berlin.

1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.

1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost.

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1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe.

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1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer.

1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.

1951 The trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins.

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1936 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland.

1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.

1945 Attack on car of Netherlands SS Police Chief Hans Rauter by Dutch resistance, Rauter injured.

1945 US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine.

1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site.

1974 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras.

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1915 First US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned.

1943 335 allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production.

1973 The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries.

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1834 French Foreign Legion is founded.

1862 USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads.

1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.

1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.

1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in the Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1862 USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads.
1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.

1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in the Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.

Big Bang Theory....culminates at Jutland 59 years later; meets Bigger Bang theory with Cold War standoff(MAD: mutual assured destruction) still ongoing 70 years later!... meets No Bang Left...Sayonara BBY

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1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral.

1920 Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by the southern counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year.

1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches.

1944 U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard.

1945 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

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1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.

1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill.

1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule.

2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, will allow Xi Jinping presidency for life.

2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths.

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

One of the aspects of this thread, started 10/14/2013, was the impact of history on the poster themselves...if any.

1664 England's King Charles II Grant's an area of land on the east coast of North 'Merica known as New Netherland to his brother James, the Duke of York...287 Years later to the day, I got born there in Bronxville just outside of The Big Apple! Thanks Chuck!

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1916 French airship mistakenly attacks and sinks British submarine D3 with loss of all hands.

1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships.

1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)

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1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus.

1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months.

1933 Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda.

1943 Failed assassin attempt on Adolf Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight.

1943 Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them in his factory overnight.

2019 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia.

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1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.

1918 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco.

1943 Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated"

2013 Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China.

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44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.

1939 Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates.

1939 Reneging on his pledge in the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler and Germany occupy and annex Czechoslovakia.

1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest.

1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing.

1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War.

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1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelles.

1935 Adolf Hitler orders German re-armament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles.

1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow.

1944 French Vichy Internal minister Pierre Pucheu sentenced to death for treason.

1945 Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.

1955 President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war.

1988 Chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja by Iraqi forces kills 5000 civilians - largest ever chemical weapons attack.