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Old 05-23-20, 02:04 PM   #3271
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1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore.

1939 Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor)

1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary.

1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones.

1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina.
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Old 05-24-20, 01:22 PM   #3272
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1844 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message.

1916 Conscription begins in Britain.

1940 Adolf Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"

1941 German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive.

1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boats in Atlantic Ocean.
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1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report detailing People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over prior two decades.

2009 North Korea conducts its second nuclear test while also conducting several missile tests.
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Old 05-27-20, 01:42 PM   #3274
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1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history.

1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage.

1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII

1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.

1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force.

1942 Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid.

1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
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Old 05-27-20, 04:47 PM   #3275
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1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore.
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Throughout his trial, Kidd maintained his innocence. When he was asked if he had any final words he said: 'I have nothing to say except that I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.' Kidd was hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping, where his body remained strung up in the gibbets for three years to serve as a warning to other would-be pirates.
He was actually hanged three times: 1: the rope broke onlookers pleaded for mercy to no avail; 2: immedite re- hanging was for keeps 3: he was dipped in tar and hung out on the River Thames to deter others from piracy...for three years!
What he needed at his 'trial' and didn't have....found 200 years later
confirming hima 'privateer' and not a 'pirate'..... In truth he was hung four times:'hung out to dry' by his investor-superiors who left him to his fate. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54444/54444-h/54444-h.htm#APPENDIX_D
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Old 05-28-20, 01:41 PM   #3276
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1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution.

1588 Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England.

1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.
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1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition.
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"Well George, We knocked the bastard off."-Sir Edmond Hillary KG ONZ KBE
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1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbour.

1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO.
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Icon9 How to really hve a race riot 101

1921:TULSA OKLAHOMA- a two day riot by white and black mobs leaves portions of Tulsa OK devastated.
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Numerous eyewitnesses described airplanes carrying white assailants, who fired rifles and dropped firebombs on buildings, homes, and fleeing families. The privately owned aircraft were dispatched from the nearby Curtiss-Southwest Field outside Tulsa.
Law enforcement officials later said that the planes were to provide reconnaissance and protect against a "Negro uprising". Law enforcement personnel were thought to be aboard at least some flights.Eyewitness accounts, such as testimony from the survivors during Commission hearings and a manuscript by eyewitness and attorney Buck Colbert Franklin discovered in 2015, said that on the morning of June 1, at least "a dozen or more" planes circled the neighborhood and dropped "burning turpentine balls" on an office building, a hotel, a filling station and multiple other buildings. Men also fired rifles at young and old black residents, gunning them down in the street. ...Losses included 191 businesses, a junior high school, several churches, and the only hospital in the district. The Red Cross reported that 1,256 houses were burned and another 215 were looted but not burned. The Tulsa Real Estate Exchange estimated property losses amounted to US$1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property(equivalent to a total of $32 million in 2019).
Compared to two days in Tulsa, the current situation(99 years later??!!) across America is positively "Minnesta Nice" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
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There were no convictions for any of the charges related to violence. There were decades of silence about the terror, violence, and losses of this event. The riot was largely omitted from local, state, and national histories: "The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private. Blacks and whites alike grew into middle age unaware of what had taken place." It was not recognized in the Tulsa Tribune feature of "Fifteen Years Ago Today" or "Twenty-five Years Ago Today". A 2017 report detailing the history of the Tulsa Fire Department from 1897 until the date of publication makes no mention of the 1921 fire.
The death toll in the hundreds is still undetermined to this day.
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1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.

1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645 in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.

1916 Battle of Jutland: British battle cruiser HMS Invincible explodes, only 6 crew members survive.

1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.

1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons)

1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.
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1944: as a war saving measure on tires, petrol and public transit, Mexico 'officially' abolishes the siesta...Que Lastima!
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1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from USA

1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden.

1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY

1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard.

1944 Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth, England just prior to D-Day.

1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes.

1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"

1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
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1944: as a war saving measure on tires, petrol and public transit, Mexico 'officially' abolishes the siesta...Que Lastima!
^ indeed, i hope they soon reintroduced it in 1945 ..
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1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897

1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno.

1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross.

1944 Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery dine in Portsmouth, England.

1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy.
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