This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1945 World War II: German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air Force in East Sea, 5,800 killed - one of largest maritime losses of life.

1946 International military tribunal in Tokyo begins.

1947 Japan's post-war constitution goes into effect, granting universal suffrage, stripping Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power and outlawing Japan's right to make war.

Originally Posted by Kaye T. Bai

1707 - England and Scotland join to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would ultimately become the UK.
1778 - U.S. and British forces fight each other at the Battle of Crooked Billet in Pennsylvania.
1862 - The U.S. Army captures New Orleans, Louisiana during the country's civil war.
1884 - Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black baseball player in the U.S.
1898 - The U.S. Navy defeats a Spanish fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay.
1930 - The planet of Pluto is named.
1948 - The country of North Korea is established.
1956 - A polio vaccine becomes available to the public.
1960 - A U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union.
1961 - Cuba becomes a socialist state.
1965 - Chinese and Taiwanese warships battle each other in the Taiwan strait.
1999 - Spongebob Squarepants premieres on the Nickelodeon network.
2003 - The U.S. invasion of Iraq concludes, with the country's Ba'athist regime deposed.
2004 - Several new countries join the European Union.
2010 - A car bomb is discovered in New York City's Time Square and is defused.
2016 - A wildfire starts in Fort McMurray, Canada; it is still burning a year later.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1328 Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.

1707 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila.

1915 British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool.

1915 German submarine torpedoes US tanker Gulflight.

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight.

1945 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army.

1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.

1948 North Korea proclaims itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.

Really?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Really?

Your point?

If it refers to duplication then my response is......been on this thread a looong time and don't see the need to change a daily habit because someone decides to post on an occasional (1014-15) basis (nothing wrong with that though).

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by nippelspanner

1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila.

That's 'rout' not 'route' BBY unless 'purple prose' is 'poetic license'...of course Dewey spoke that (at 05:41 AM!!) that enroute to Manila. He couldn't say "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" as with Farragut at Mobile Bay...as he had carefully chosen the unmined south channel route into Manila Bay...uprooting the Spanish dominion of the Philippines- one of history's most decisive naval battles. < Dewey's monument at Union Square, San Francisco... where I go to the bank ....every other night!Of course ADM Farragut has an album (and a tribute band) named after him; and so lingers longer in the public consiousness: <now that's poetic license!

[Kaye T. Bai]

1865 - The CSA surrenders Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana to the United States.
1871 - The first professional baseball league begins its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1910 - The Canadian navy is founded.
1945 - British soldiers liberate a Nazi concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany.
1946 - U.S. Marines quell a prison riot at Alcatraz, California.
1970 - The Army National Guard kills four people at a university in Kent, Ohio.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 - A British warship is hit by an Argentine missile during the Falklands War.
1990 - Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1998 - The Unabomber is sentenced to life in prison.
2003 - A tornado hits the U.S. state of Kansas.
2013 - Several NATO soldiers are killed in the War in Afghanistan.

[Jimbuna]

1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.

1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.

1917 A flotilla of US destroyer ships arrive in Queenstown, Ireland, to aid in convoying ships to England.

1932 Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion.

1942 Battle of Coral Sea begins (1st naval battle fought solely in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces.

1942 Food 1st rationed in US.

1972 Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.


1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1982 British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Your point?

If it refers to duplication then my response is......been on this thread a looong time and don't see the need to change a daily habit because someone decides to post on an occasional (1014-15) basis (nothing wrong with that though).

My point was reading what people posted right before you?
It's this date in history, so you only need to check if someone already posted or not.
It just seems like cheap copy/paste spam, without even checking the thread.

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

That's 'rout' not 'route' BBY

Tell that to the guy who wrote it, I just quoted him...

[Jimbuna]

1915 German U-20 captures and sinks Britsih schooner Earl of Lathom.

1945 Mauthausen Concentration camp in Austria liberated by US forces from 41st Reconnaissance Squadron.

1945 World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.

1948 First squadron of jet aircraft aboard a carrier (VF-17A with FH-1 Phantoms) on board the light carrier Saipan (CVL 48).

1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers.

1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building.

[Jimbuna]

1840 World's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued in Great Britain.

1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland.

1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die).

1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies.

1945 General Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands.

1945 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).

1954 Roger Bannister of the UK becomes the 1st person to run a 4 minute mile, recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road, Oxford.

[Aktungbby]

[QUOTE=Jimbuna;2482541] 1937: German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die).
[/QUOTE=Werner Doehner] The last survivor's account:

Though it will be 80 years Saturday since the crash that took the lives of his father and sister, the memories of that day have not faded for Werner Doehner.
Doehner, now 88, was just eight years old when he and his parents, brother and sister boarded the ill-fated Hindenburg on their way home from a vacation in Germany, he told the Associated Press in a rare telephone interview from this home in Parachute, Colorado this week.
But, as the Hindenburg approached the Lakehurst Naval Air Station on May 6, 1937, flames began to flicker on top of the ship, quickly fueled into an inferno by the hydrogen that kept the 804-foot-long German passenger airship aloft. The front of the vessel pitched up and the back section pitched down.
“Suddenly the air was on fire,” Doehner told the AP.
The Doehners had gathered with other passengers in the portside dining room to watch the landing maneuver through the big observation windows; As the ship approached the mooring mast and dropped its landing ropes, Werner’s father went downstairs to their cabin on B-deck to get another roll of film for his movie camera. They never saw him again. Werner, his mother and his brother and sister were sitting at a table near a window.
“My mother took my brother and threw him out,” Doehner, the only person left of the 62 passengers and crew who survived the fire that killed his father, sister and 34 others 80 years ago Saturday, told the AP. “She grabbed me and fell back and then threw me out. She tried to get my sister, but she was too heavy, and my mother decided to get out by the time the zeppelin was nearly on the ground.
His mother had broken her hip.
“I remember lying on the ground, and my brother told me to get up and to get out of there,” he said.
Their mother joined them and asked a steward to get her daughter, whom he carried out of the burning wreckage.
A bus took the survivors to an infirmary, where, Doehner said, a nurse gave him a needle to burst his blisters.
From there, the family was taken to Point Pleasant Hospital. Doehner had burns to his face, both hands and down his right leg from the knee, according to the AP.. His mother had burns to her face, both legs and both hands. His brother had several burns on his face and right hand. His sister died early in the morning.
Werner stayed in the hospital for three months before going to a hospital in New York City in August for skin grafts and was discharged in January. Doehner’s family had planned to travel on the airship to Lakehurst, New Jersey then fly to Newark and board a train in nearby New York City to take them home to Mexico City, where Doehner’s father was a pharmaceutical representative. Instead, when what was left of the family returned to Mexico City, they held funerals for Doehner’s father and sister.
Interest in the disaster is as strong as ever. A ceremony commemorating the disaster will take place at the crash site Saturday night, Carl Jablonski, president of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, told the AP.
“The internet and social media has exposed and attracted the interest of a younger generation,” he said. Doehner understands why.
The Hindenburg, Doehner said, is “something you don’t forget.””

The last surviving crewman, Werner Franz, a 14 year old cabin boy, died in 2014 age 92; Werner was most fortunate because he was in the officers' mess cleaning up. Above him was a large tank of water that burst open and drenched him, which protected him a bit from the flames and the heat." Franz kicked the hatch open and watched the ground approach as the airship sank toward the field, and dropped to the ground when it seemed close enough. Hindenburg’s bow rose up momentarily, as seen in films of the crash, allowing Franz to run from the flaming wreckage before it settled to the ground. He emerged from the crash almost completely unharmed. The next day Franz went to the wreck site with a U.S. Navy airship officer, Lieutenant George F. Watson, to search for his pocket watch, a gift from his grandfather. He knew exactly where to look and found the watch.

[Jimbuna]

1915 The German submarine U-20 torpedoes the passenger ship Lusitiania, sinking her in 21 minutes with 1,978 people on board.

1937 The German Condor Legion arrives in Spain to assist Fransico Franco's forces.

1942 In the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japanese and American navies attack each other with carrier-launched warplanes. It is the first time in the history of naval warfare where two fleets fought without seeing each other.Two crucial battles in 1942 marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

1952 In Korea, Communist POWs at Koje-do riot against their American captors.

2000 Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as Russia’s president.

[Jimbuna]

1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean.

1942 Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea.

1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"

1945 V-E Day; WWII ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender. 1945 German General Von Keitel formally surrenders to Marshal Georgy Zhukov and the Soviets in Berlin.

[Jimbuna]

1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England (the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force).

1926 1st flight over the North Pole claimed by Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett. Later discovery of Byrd's diary suggests they may have turned back 150 miles short of the pole due to an oil leak.

1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen.

1945 Norwegian nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling arrested.

1945 World War II: Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Müenchen.

Indeed the capture was two days prior to the code capture of U-110; which often gets all of the credit in movies and TV... after all, weatherships and trawlers are mundane! A useful but short lived victory; Moreover Operation Claymore in Norwegian waters on March 4 1941 had resulted in the capture of the German armed- trawler Krebs recovering its Enigma equipment and codes...the most significant outcome of the raid. The Brits severely damaged the trawler, and killed 14 German sailors, took another 25 prisoner, While the attack boosted British public morale temporarily, the Enigma machine still eluded the British military. The commander of the Krebs, Lieutenant Hans Kupfinger, threw it overboard before he was killed in the raid, but the Brits were able to recover documents that gave clues to the Enigma’s workings. The capture of a set of rotor wheels for an Enigma cypher machine and its code books enabled British intelligence to piece together enough of the German coding system to track German naval activity for about five weeks. German naval codes now read at Bletchley Park, provided the intelligence needed to allow Allied convoys to avoid U-boat concentrations.

The BritishcryptologistHarry Hinsley, then working at Bletchley Park realised at the end of April 1941 that the German weather ships, usually isolated and unprotected trawlers, were using the same Enigma code books as were being used on the heavily armed U Boats. The trawlers, which were transmitting weather reports to the Germans, were in turn being sent naval Enigma messages.Although the weather ships did not transmit enciphered weather reports on Enigma machines, they still needed to have one of the machines on board if they were to decode the Enigma signals transmitted to them. Hinsley realised that if the code books could be captured from one of these vulnerable trawlers, the naval Enigma system could be broken, with British intelligence able to decipher messages to U-boats and discover their locations. The problem remained that if the navy were to attempt to capture one of the weatherships, the German crew would have time to throw their current Enigma settings into the sea before they were boarded. Hinsley instead reasoned that the following month's Enigma settings would be locked in a safe aboard the ship, and could be overlooked if the Germans were forced to hastily abandon ship. On being informed, the Admiralty despatched seven destroyers and cruisers to the northeast of Iceland at the beginning of May 1941. The target was München, one of the weather ships operating in the area. In the course of the raid, the weather ship, and the Enigma settings for June 1941 were captured. As with Krebs, the Müenchen's captain had thrown the Enigma coding machine over the side as HMS Somali approached. ( One may properly conclude that trawler captains were more Enigma security minded than U-boat Kaleuns??!!) ... but he too had left the coding tables for the months of May and June on his desk. These were duly collected by Captain Haines. Some of Muenchen's crew were taken on board Somali, but most were accommodated in Edinburgh. Somali escorted the captured vessel to Scapa. Nestor took Captain Haines back to Scapa at speed and he was immediately flown to London with the vital documents. As a result, naval Enigma messages transmitted during June 1941 could be quickly deciphered. However: Halfway through June 1941 the Germans replaced the bigram tables used in Enigma. This would have resulted in a codebreaking blackout unless further settings could be captured. Hinsley and the Admiralty were concerned that capturing another weather ship might alert the Germans to their vulnerability and cause them to immediately alter them again. It was eventually decided to take the risk and on 25 June 1941 four warships, the light cruiser HMS Nigeria and the destroyersHMS Tartar, HMS Jupiter and HMS Bedouin, were despatched from Scapa Flow to capture the codebooks from Lauenburg, another weather ship operating north of Iceland, which Hinsley had selected...on June 28 the converted trawler Lauenburg was captured in similar fashion-the recovered Enigma material allowed further understanding of the Enigma codes and resulted in faster decoding of encrypted messages, as well as providing an up-to-date set of codes.

Lauenburg sunk by British taskforce. wiki et al http://www.iankitching.me.uk/family/colin/ww2/operation-eb.htm It's amazing to me that: 'twixt the Krebs, U110, Müenchen and the Lauenburg, all taken in a four-month period, German thought did not turn to a complete alteration of their severely compromised code system??!! The more so, as Müenchen had radioed an "enemy in sight" report that enabled yet another targeted weathership to escape: it is likely that the other ship had hastened eastwards on picking up the message.

[Jimbuna]

1801 First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America (1st US foreign war).

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.

1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor.

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

1940 British Local Defence Volunteers forms (later renamed the Home Guard).

1940 World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland.

1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

1968 Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US & North Vietnam.

1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam.