This date in history

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1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel , in London's East End.

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1915 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"

1939 Adolf Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill through the "T4 Euthanasia Program," arguing that wartime "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"

1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig.

1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.

1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal.

1945 V-J Day, formal Surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)

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1942 German troops enter Stalingrad.

1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1945 V-J Day, formal Surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

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1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become first warship to circumnavigate globe,

1878 British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die.

1919 President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.

1939 German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans.

1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada.

1939 Mitford sister and Nazi sympathizer Unity Mitford attempts suicide after Britain declares war on Germany, bullet lodged in her brain eventually kills her in 1948.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)

1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.

1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp.

1945 World War II: Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies.

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1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war.

1923 Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

1939 Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated.

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

1964 Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe)

1980 Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden)

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1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war.

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'

2018 UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirms in parliament two Russian military intelligence officers undertook novichok nerve agent attack, prompts international condemnation.

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1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World.

1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet.

1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London.

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1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy.

1940 Beginning of the Blitz: the German Luftwaffe bomb London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights as the Nazis prepare to invade Britain.

1940 Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England.

1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.

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1664 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers.

1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, sinks off Scotland.

1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1

1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated.

1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII

1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp.

1948 British De Havilland DH108-fighter flies faster than sound.

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1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)

1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes.

1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome.

1945 First "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

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1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers.

1894 London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving.

1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes.

1919 NYC welcomes home General John J. Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

1943 German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of Vatican City.

1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

1948 Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life.

1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish.

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France.

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1941 FDR orders US Navy that any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight.

1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated.

1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island.

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of World War II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal but fails - later he is hanged.

2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people.

2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people.

2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board.

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1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission.

1792 Court martial begins for instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty on board HMS Duke in Portsmouth harbour, presided over by Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood.

1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism.

1941 First German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko).

1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso.

1995 Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.

2001 Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first and only time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.

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122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England.

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton.

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1812 Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it - fire continues to burn for five days.

1814 Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbour.

1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)

1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches.

1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight.

1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1