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.

1826 USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe.

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 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

1939 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 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1954 The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.

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1781 Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)

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.

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

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

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

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

1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops.

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.

1929 French premier Aristide Briand requests a United States of 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'

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.

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The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American Revolutionary War that took place near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781.

The combatants were a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, the Comte de Grasse. The battle was strategically decisive, in that it prevented the Royal Navy from reinforcing or evacuating the besieged forces of Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.

The French were able to achieve control of the sea lanes against the British and provided the Franco-American army with siege artillery and French reinforcements. These proved decisive in the Siege of Yorktown, effectively securing independence for the Thirteen Colonies.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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

"...'cause fire is the devil's only friend"...

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1666 After St Paul's Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, The Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.

1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

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

1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution.

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

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Launched from the IJN submarine I-25, Nobuo Fujita flying his modified float equipped Zero aircraft, dropped two incendiary bombs on an Oregan mountain, Mt Emily in an attempt to start a massive forest fire. The news was suppressed to save morale. It was the first aerial bombing of the US mainland by a foreign power.

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15 September 1942, the Japanese sub I-19 fired one of the most damaging torpedo salvos in the history of submarine warfare. The 6 torpedo spread hit and sank the carrier USS Wasp and the destroyer USS O'Brien while severely damaging the battleship USS North Carolina.

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17 September 1944, operation Market Garden began. Within hours the British at Arnhem would be met by *seasoned* veterans of two SS panzer divisions.

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1630:...the Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston leading to " Boston Bruins, Boston Red Socks, Boston Bruins...and the infamous Boston Tea Party" all of which has a distinct cachet to it! particularly as my bride of 43 years graduated from Boston College(summa cum laude)...which is actually in nearby Chestnut Hill, MA??

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24 September 1940, HMS Wellesley (launched in 1815) became the last British ship of the line to be lost to enemy action when it sank after being hit during a German air-raid. Wellesley participated in the First Opium War and was being used as a training ship at the outbreak of WWII.

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1580 Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the 'Golden Hind'

1665 Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week.

1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI

1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead.

1934 British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched; "wins" Blue Riband for fastest passenger crossing of Atlantic, 1936 & 1938-52; retired in 1967, permanently moored and converted to a hotel in Long Beach, California.

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed.

1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m).

1983 Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error.

1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997

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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England.

1779 John Adams appointed to negotiate Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.

1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank, Scotland.

1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England.

1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time.

1996 In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.

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1066 William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1785 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

1939 German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR

1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.

1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1066 William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

A short trip indeed!!??? The building of the invasion fleet>The fleet sails out. The shields on the stems probably bear the standards of the individual magnates> The fleet sails out. The tapestry’s delineation of horses being transported on board ships that could be rowed is remarkable.>The central part of the fleet with William’s ship. The shields are shown along the gunwale, but on the inside. They are not sitting on the outside as they did, for example, on the small longship, <Disembarkation. The ship is poled the last part of the way to the coast, the mast is laid down and the horses jump over the gunwale down into the shallow water. <The final picture of ships on the tapestry. The invasion fleet is lying at the beach, the masts have been laid down and the decorations on the stems have also been removed.