This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1914 Cavalry battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle of the Silver Helmets")

1918 Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the Western Front.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, lose 31 aircraft.

1941 French Marshal Philippe Pétain gives full support to Nazi Germany.

1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.

1944 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating.

1944 Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender.

1948 Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment.

1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.

1959 First ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island.

1978 China & Japan sign peace treaty.

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1908 King Edward VII of Great Britain meets with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria at Ischl; the King tries to persuade the Emperor to advise Germany against aggressive (anti-British) policies.

1918 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.

1932 Adolf Hitler refuses President von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany.

1940 Battle of Britain: Hermann Goering's "Adlertag" (Eagle Day) offensive happens, intending to destroy the Royal Air Force; 47-48 German aircraft shot down, the RAF loses 25 planes.

1942 The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb.

1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany.

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1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter.

1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone)

1969 British Army deploys on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of Operation Banner.

1980 17,000 workers go on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, marking the beginning of the Solidarity movement.

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1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton, England, with 102 Pilgrims.

1906 King Edward VII of Great Britain visits German Emperor Wilhelm II to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations' naval forces.

1914 Dinant, Belgium, destroyed by German bombs. Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured.

1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.

1940 Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircraft damaged.

1944 German field marshal Günther von Kluge vanishes for one day; he killed himself on the 19th in the aftermath of the attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

1945 Victory over Japan Day, the Japanese surrender and the end of WWII is announced in Japan (due to time zones 14th Aug in the Americas)





1998 Omagh Bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220

[Jimbuna]

1940 45 German aircraft shot down over England.

1943 First Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily).

1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.

1945 Puyi, the last Chinese Emperor and ruler of Manchukuo is captured by Soviet troops.

2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...d-15479619.php

Ecuador's ex-president detained in organized crime probe

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A former Ecuadorian president known for his wild antics has been detained in an organized crime probe as authorities investigate the murder of an Israeli man jailed in a possible COVID-19 medical supplies scandal, the nation’s interior minister said Wednesday.

Heavily armed police burst into Abdalá Bucaram’s home, waking up the 68-year-old in his bed and detaining him under a judge’s order in the port city of Guayaquil, Interior Minister María Paula Romo told an Ecuadorian radio station.

[Jimbuna]

1940 Adolf Hitler orders a total blockade of Great Britain.

1941 German raider Komet attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan.

1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde (development base for the V weapons)

1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.

1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow.

1962 East German border guards shoot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector.

1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship.

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1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

1940 Battle of Britain: The air battle known as "The Hardest Day" occurs; Luftwaffe lose approximately 69 aircraft and the RAF lose 68 in one of the largest ever air battles.

1942 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japanese.

1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia.

1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"

1976 Korean axe murder incident: 2 US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers are killed by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-sung in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

[Jimbuna]

1914 German fleet bombards English coast.

1914 In a message to the Senate, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name'

1915 British liner "SS Arabic" sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident.

1942 Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France.

1942 General Friedrich Paulus orders the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad.

1960 Soviet Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 2 rats, 40 mice, 1 rabbit and fruit flies into orbit, - 1st animals to return alive from orbit.

1981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22

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1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia.

1913 First pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)

1940 First Polish squadrons fight alongside allies in the Battle of Britain.

1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13

2015 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight.

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1808 Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

1879 The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

1945 US President Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program.

1976 "Operation Paul Bunyan" begins in retaliation for the "Korean axe murder incident" 3 days prior. 110 troops, 27 helicopters, 3 B-52 bombers are deployed to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to cut down a poplar blocking the view of UN observers.

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565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness.

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.

Bottom Line: He found himself in 'grave circumstances' and no longer footloose...Truely defeeted nor fancy free! HIS new "digs"....sodaspeke

[Jimbuna]

1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1911 British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany.

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)

1944 US B-24 crashes into school in Freckleton England, 76 killed.

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

[Aktungbby]

79 A.D.:Mt. Vesuvius, long dormant volcano erupted(level 5 volcanology scale- think Mt. St. Helens) destroying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with pyroclastic surges and ash; an estimated 20,000 people died. 410 A.D:. Rome is overrun by the Visigoths, a major event in the fall of the Western Roman Empire...."toga toga BBY!" meets ''Propaganda never goes outta style BBY!'' <1593 years later!