This date in history

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1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.

1917 First night bombing of London by German aircraft.

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.

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 First use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

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

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1884 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.

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

1914 France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace.

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

1940 Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands.

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

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1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead.

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 WWII 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'

1939 J. B. M. Hertzog resigns as South African Prime Minister after losing a vote in parliament on neutrality in WWII

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany.

1946 Amon Göth, former head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, found guilty of imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people, the first conviction of homicide at a war crimes court.

1972 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics.

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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)

1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft.

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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1940 Beginning of the Blitz: the German Luftwaffe bomb London for first 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.

1997 The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.

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

1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

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

1923 Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.

1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII

1944 First V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp.

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

1951 Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco.

1965 A small ad in New York’s Daily Variety attracts 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees"

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1942 : during WWII, a Japanese submarine launched aircraft dropped a pair of incendiary bombs in a failed attempt at igniting a massive forest fire; it was the first aerial bombing of the US by a foreign power. As proven by the present inferno situation in the Western states, the concept was a sound one...

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1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)

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

1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England.

1942 1st 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 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies.

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.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf.

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.

1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.

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

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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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1624 First submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I

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.

1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction.

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

1946 Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels.

1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for the first time at Heathrow airport.

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1942 German forces attack Stalingrad.

1944 Amon Göth removed as head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp by the SS for stealing state property.

1978 First flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet.

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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 Lord Kitchener: "Your country needs you" appears as front cover design for the London Opinion magazine.

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

1939 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow, Orkney.

1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

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Wow. Talk about a strange coincidence.

Both Grace Kelly AND Isadora Duncan.....Sept 14.

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1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme.

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza.

1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts.

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

1940 UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Royal Air Force 11th Fighter Group on what would be the fiercest day of the Battle of Britain.

1940 Battle of Britain Day: climax of the Battle of Britain, tide begins to turn as the Royal Air Force repulses a major Luftwaffe attack, losing 29 aircraft to the Germans' 57-61

1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal.

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs.

1997 Google.com is registered as a domain name.