This date in history

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1901: President William McKinley diies from assassination; Theodore Roosevelt becomes President...

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1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow.

1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme.

1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

1940 UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Royal Air Force 11th Fighter Group on what would be the fiercest day of the Battle of Britain.

1940 Battle of Britain Day: climax of the Battle of Britain, tide begins to turn as the Royal Air Force repulses a major Luftwaffe attack, losing 29 aircraft to the Germans' 57-61

1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal.

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched.

1997 Google.com is registered as a domain name.

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1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed.

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled.

1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany.

1974 US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters.

1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.

1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon.

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1859 Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America.

1916 The Red Baron [Manfred von Richthofen], WWI flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die.

1939 Soviet Union invades Eastern Poland allowing Germans to advance West, taking 217,000 Poles prisoner, without a formal declaration of war.

1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain.

1944 Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine.

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1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed.

1939 William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.

1944 HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.

1947 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July.

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1939 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin.

1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.

1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-341

1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War)

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.

1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic.

1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

1959 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland.

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1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US.

1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'

1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland.

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"

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1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested.

1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews.

1944 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting.

1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria.

1957 German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean.

1961 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.

1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.

1985 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent.

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1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested.


1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.

1985 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent.

IN AL THREE CASES, A GREAT RULE OF THE UNIVERSE WOULD PREVAIL: GRAVITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND....

Howard died on July 12, 2002, at his Russian dacha, reportedly from a broken neck after a fall in his home. HIS 24/7 SOVIET PROTECTION HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN..... https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/who-was-5/

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1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall during Salem Witch Trials.

1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

1914 German submarine U-9 sinks 3 British ironclads, Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy 1,459 die.

1943 British midget submarines attack Tirpitz.

1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks.

1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229

1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record).

1975 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco.

1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”

2006 The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.

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1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die.

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich.

1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London.

1941 German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)

1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp.

1942 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad.

1949 US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation.

1950 US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed.

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1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton.

1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight charges of treason in Washington, D.C.

1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death.

1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact.

1990 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty.

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1939 Andorra and Germany sign a treaty ending WW I, as Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra.

1940 German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government.

1944 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem.

1976 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2

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1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.

1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI

1925 Italian submarine "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed.

1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul.

1964 "Gilligan's Island", starring Bob Denver as Gilligan, debuts on CBS

1983 Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error.

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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England.

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.

1941 US President Roosevelt launches the first Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry.

1941 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer).

1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time.

1968 France denies UK entry into common market.