This date in history

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1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross.

1881 Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed.

1918 Germany's supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice.

1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.

1943 First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".

1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 76

1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closes its bases in Turkey. Offer is rejected and JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.

1972 Guided tours of the former prison at Alcatraz by the National Park Service begin.

2019 Raid by US Special Forces kills ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.

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1881 Gunfight at the OK Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs, between lawmen (including Wyatt Earp) and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton

..."they go in threes!"

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1913 In a speech in Mobile, Alabama, President Woodrow Wilson vows the US will "will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest"

1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine.

1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz.

1962 Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines.

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1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea.

1922 30, 000 Italian fascists conduct the 'March on Rome', leading to the assumption of power by Benito Mussolini.

1943 German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leader Khrushchev suggesting agreement.

1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated.

1971 The British Parliament debates the European Communities principle of membership and votes 356 to 244 in favour of joining, requiring a new law to be drafted and a later final vote on joining.

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the bones were worth more than the hides

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1918 German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution.

1932 French liner Normandie is launched.

1940 Secretary of War Henry L Stimson draws the 1st number - #158 - in the 1st peacetime military draft in US history.

1943 Three allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3

1967 London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.

2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years.

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1784 Napoléon Bonaparte admitted to the elite École Militaire in Paris, the start of his military career.

1939 German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard.

1939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Adolf Hitler deports Jews.

1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen.

1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square as part of de-Stalinization efforts.

1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.

1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.

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1815 Cornishman Sir Humphry Davy patents miner's safety lamp.

1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse.

1918 Spanish Flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week.

1940 Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends with a British victory.

1941 Prior to US joining WWII, German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 120 allied ships this month (659,457 tons)

1943 World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.

1956 Britain and France join Israeli forces in Egypt and begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal.

2011 The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

2011 The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations.

... that was probably a 'global tipping point' we should have paid more attention to...

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1914 German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile.

1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians.

1919 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord.

1941 Japanese naval staff offiicers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbor.

1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean.

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1886 German patent granted to inventor Carl Benz for "vehicle with gas engine operation", the first automobile (No. DE37435C)

1914 Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk.

1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine.

1917 In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay.

1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga in Latvia is destroyed.

1968 A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary is unable to prevent it.

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1534 English parliament passes the Act of Supremacy making Henry VIII and all subsequent monarchs the Head of the Church of England.

1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help.

1918 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors.

1941 Japanese Admiral Osami Nagano presents a complete plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor to Emperor Hirohito.

1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space.

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1862 American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis.

1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally established by Adolf Hitler.

1922 Howard Carter rediscovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt.

1933 Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov defends himself and the ideology of communism against Hermann Goering and his Nazi accusers on charges of setting the Reichstag on fire.

1979 500 Iranian students loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini seize the US Embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages for 444 days.

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain.

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1605 - Around midnight on November 4, 1605, one of the conspirators, Guy Fawkes, was discovered in the cellar of the Parliament building with barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes and other men involved in the plot were tried and executed for treason.
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November!
Here's a new twist for the USA.......
Remember Remember the month of November!
When elections use to be real?

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