This date in history

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1945: the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, and created trinitite, a new anthropogenic material; the same day the USS Indianapolis left Mare Island to deliver components of the device to a waiting EnolaGay crew on Tinian. The consequence of releasing the nuclear genie out of the bottle would have immediate
disasterous consequences..for Hiroshima and the crew of the Indianapolis on its return voyage. WWII would end, the Cold war would start. 75 years later, one meglomaniac with a bad haircut and his finger on the button keeps another more rotund meglomaniac with a bad haircut in N.Korea barely in check with his finger on the button. Throwing in pandemics, global warming, dwindling resources on an overpopulated planet, methinks the Age of Aquarius (2160 years??) won't get that far...

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1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

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1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia.

1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde.

1945 Potsdam Conference: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold 1st post-World War II meeting.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

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1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.

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1843 The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender.

1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)

1941 British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign.

1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas.

1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue.

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1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops.

1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack.

1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg.

1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna;2684162¸

1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas.

That june 19, 1944 actually.

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

That june 19, 1944 actually.

Quite correct, I should have checked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japane...ier_Taih%C5%8D

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack.

That June 20, 1944 actually.

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Different time zones

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1915 Woodrow Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly'

1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.

1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship (Ostfriesland)

1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp.

1944 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy.

1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Different time zones

Excess Nelson's Blood'll do that to you! do not imbibe when setting the month dials in your favorite wheels!

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1912 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea.

1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp.

2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya.

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1862:Abraham Lincoln presents to his cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation...'cause black lives are gonna matter!

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1942 Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins.

1943 Battle of Kursk, USSR ends in German defeat (6,000 tanks)

1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the French Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II goes on trial.