This date in history

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1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul.

2006 WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange.

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1916 Adolf Hitler is wounded in the left thigh by an exploding shell during the Battle of the Somme.

1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London.

1946 Newcastle United equals English Football League record for biggest winning margin in a 13-0 thrashing of Newport in a Division 2 match at St. James' Park; Len Shackleton scores 6, Charlie Wayman 4 for the Toon.

1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament.

1962 "Dr. No", 1st James Bond film based on the novel by Ian Fleming and starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, premieres in London.

1993 Last honour guard at Lenin's mausoleum.

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1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides.

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

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

1939 Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem.

1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"

1944 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea.

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb.

1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole.

1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.

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1915 English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers.

1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters.

1935 Himmler, Hess and Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau.

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums.

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.

1959 Far side of Moon seen for the first time, courtesy of USSR's Luna 3 space probe.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul.

ie: Travelin' P.O.S.H. to see the Pasha??!!

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1918 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.

1941 Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins.

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

1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party.

1962 Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", uncovering sorry state of West German army. Magazine soon accused of treason.

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1781 Americans under George Washington and the French under comte de Rochambeau begin bombardment of Yorktown, the last battle of American Revolutionary War.

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project.

1958 Israeli navy inaugurate its first submarine.

2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons.

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1843: The US Naval Academy is established at Annapolis. Considering that Britannia no longer rules the waves-sending forth new carriers (2)a little short on F-35 B (STOL) Lightnings, at least The US has two carrier groups( out of 10) flaunting it in the South China Sea while China trys to gear up its own carrier fleet(3)....and suffers fom under-engined carrier aircraft...that Academy might be keepin' the 'new normal' in strategic check. Now if only we could revamp the museum'd BB Iowa's(cruise missile equipped of course) ; paint 'em white as Teddy Rooseveldt advocated, and send them back out too... Von C's "whenever possible increase firepower" maxim will be well met.

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1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage.

1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 killed)

1944 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die.

1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world's first major nuclear accident.

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1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum.

1984 First space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)

1992 First three-way US presidential debate (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot)

2018 World's new longest flight flies from Singapore to Newark Airport, New Jersey takes 17 hours 52 mins.

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1910 :President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis, MO. The flight, in a Wright built plane, lasted four minutes....

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1884 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude.

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.

1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII

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1066 Battle of Hastings: William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle.

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

1933 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations.

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

1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed.

1943 600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland.

1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.

1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba.

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1917: Mata Hari refuses a blindfold and blows a kiss to her firing squad executioners as she is executed by the French military for espionage...that's serious panachè BBY!

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

1860 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Abraham Lincoln telling him to grow a beard.

1880 Cologne Cathedral, Germany completed, 633 years after it was begun.

1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6

1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die.