This date in history

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

1850: The US Navy abolishes flogging as a form of punishment!]

The cops simply shoot you instead

[Aktungbby]

especially the "black gang" for not shovelling/stoking fast enough!

[Jimbuna]

Ten point infraction for racial slur.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Ten point infraction for racial slur.

Five points! They were usually only sooty Irish!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Five points! They were usually only sooty Irish!

Seven, final offer

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Seven, final offer

2! and a footnote to history: 6 of 8 Chinese black gang stokers aboard Titanic survived the sinking and made it to the Carpathia: "raising a few eyebrows" from the predominantly white survivors. Stoker Fang Lang was found floating on wreckage in the frigid water and taken into the lifeboat by passengers who overruled the coxwain's racial objectons: "Is he worth it!!?". Cold, exhausted: 'He worked like hero' at the oars according to the crewman who'd originally objected to taking him in. Out of 150 black gangers total, only 44 survived! The Chinese survivors were deported immediately after arriving in the US, per the Chinese Exclusion laws at the time... Critical testimony at the enquiry from the few surviving stokers, who manned their 4 hour shifts heroically, then scrambled up several decks to the boat deck gave time approximation to the sinking and boat lowering activity during the disaster.

[Jimbuna]

1829 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital.

1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode killing 286 crew.

1916 American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire.

1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar, near Kiev, 33,771 mostly Jews murdered.

1976 Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Monika

Who else loves history so much and remembers all the important dates?

practically everyone at whether 'immersed' authentically in their respective simulation or not, is a relative history jock to some degree imho; and some of us have degrees! The emphasis in this thread is to spot the arcane and small aspects of timeline history, especially ones that affect one's personal history by which everyone arrives at this point in time in this forum...for example I owe my presence to a 'cuppa Joe': my dad, a engineer/navigator on WWII B-29's and a 1st lLt. was recalled up to fly cannonfodder missions in Korea 1950 against murderous jet Migs. A chemical engineer developing and producing instant coffee by then, his employer got him deferred to help create /develope coffee rations for the military; a "serious morale booster" for every dogface GI I have the deferment application documents. As a result he was married in 1950. I was born in '51...and am savoring my own sacred "cuppa Joe" as I post. Feel free to contribute.

[Jimbuna]

1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany.

1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland.

1940 47 German aircraft shot down above England.

1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine.

1946 22 Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials.

1954 First nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy.

2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.

[Jimbuna]

1914 The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth.

1918 Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

1934 Adolf Hitler expands German army and navy, violating Treaty of Versailles.

1939 Winston Churchill calls Russia a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, first US jet, makes maiden flight.

1946 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg.

1947 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack.

1998 Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

[Jimbuna]

1919 US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1940 17 German aircraft shot down over England.

1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.

1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239

1944 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed.

2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239.

Some discrepancy there: a Ceres class cruiser carried approx 460 crewmen. The casualties listed for HMS Curacao are 337 dead and 101 rescued on a few other sites...2/3 blame to HMS Curacao; 1/3 to Queen Mary which could only proceed rather than become a stationary target if stopped during rescue, loaded with 15,000 troops. The survivors were orderd to remain silent as a matter of national security. Both captains were under differing 'right of way' rule perceptions zig-zagging at very high speed within two cables length (400 meters). Queen Mary's commander when advised of the escort's proximity, assured his exec "these chaps are experienced" and would give way..." In the Carquinez Strait..learning from the mistakes of others-not my own; I simply stay out of everything's way. https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behin...fuse-enemy-sea

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Some discrepancy there: a Ceres class cruiser carried approx 460 crewmen. The casualties listed for HMS Curacao are 337 dead and 101 rescued on a few other sites...2/3 blame to HMS Curacao; 1/3 to Queen Mary which could only proceed rather than become a stationary target if stopped during rescue, loaded with 15,000 troops. The survivors were orderd to remain silent as a matter of national security. Both captains were under differing 'right of way' rule perceptions zig-zagging at very high speed within two cables length (400 meters). Queen Mary's commander when advised of the escort's proximity, assured his exec "these chaps are experienced" and would give way..." In the Carquinez Strait..learning from the mistakes of others-not my own; I simply stay out of everything's way. https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behin...fuse-enemy-sea

You would appear to be correct ....that goes to show what can happen when you take your source from a US site

[Jimbuna]

1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "already broken and will never rise again" in a broadcast to the German people.

1952 First British nuclear test during Operation Hurricane at Monte Bello Island, Australia, UK becomes the world's third nuclear nation.

1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

You would appear to be correct ....that goes to show what can happen when you take your source from a US site

Of course! That was following the Admiralty's explicit orders to keep the casualties reasonably reduced(33%??-reflective of QM's share of blame assessment!) for morale purposes. They certainly need to adjust their thinking in light of the recent US Navy incompetence in collision avoidance... ie: "learning fom the mistakes of others preferably to one's own; is less painful...and I also tend to avoid icebergs in the Carquinez Strait as well!"