This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington.

1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, Stalin uses as excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38.

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

1941 Royal Navy HMS Dorsetshire sinks German refuelling ship Python.

1941 Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war.

1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day).

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1990: Shortly after 11 a.m. 132 feet below the English Channel, workers drill an opening the size of a car through a wall of rock. This was no ordinary hole–it connected the two ends of an underwater tunnel linking Great Britain with the European mainland for the first time in more than 8,000 years. Considering the large refugee camps on the French side and potential sleeper terrorists trying to get into Britain...another security headache imho.

[Jimbuna]

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris.

1805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz.

1941 US Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul.

1941 Japanese Marshal Admiral Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor.

1943 First RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt -Nazi Reich Security Head Office) transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp.

1956 Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba.

1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

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1775 First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred.

1917 The Supreme Allied War Council, meeting at Versailles to define war aim, fails to reach an agreement.

1943 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins.

1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends.

1944 Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over.

[Jimbuna]

1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.

1872 Ship the Mary Celeste is discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean.

1908 The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband.

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st President to travel outside US while in office.

1980 Two months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up.

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1933: national prohibition is finally repealed as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st amendment ...repealing the 18 amendment...Thank god for jack-Mormons...(my inlaws) some of the finer party-animals (and best Mule deer hunting buddies) on the planet!

[Mr Quatro]

[QUOTE=Aktungbby;2450652]1933: national prohibition is finally repealed as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st amendment ...repealing the 18 amendment...Thank god for jack-Mormons...(my inlaws) some of the finer party-animals (and best Mule deer hunting buddies) on the planet! [QUOTE]

Do they drink coffee or tea?

[Von Due]

1917: The Halifax Explosion. The French cargo ship SS Mont Blanc collided with SS Imo in the Halifax harbour. Mont Blanc, carrying high explosives, exploded and caused one of the largest and most devastating man-made explosions ever recorded.

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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Do they drink coffee or tea?

Not if they want to see heaven; However U cannot have a mule-deer hunting camp at 10000 ft in the Uinta Mtns in October(snow and cold) without a big pot 'o'joe at 5:30 AM when the hunt starts(deer can tell time) Since shooting bambi ain't a real interest: I occasionally double as the guest head-chef for about 25 or so for two weeks! http://religionnews.com/2015/05/27/drink-a-coffee-save-your-mormon-soul/ In all fairness, there has been considerable historic leeway amongst the brethren: On a chilly deer hunt at sunrise: sacramental coffee BBY! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/commentary-mormon-ban-on-alcohol-not-always-absolute/2014/01/27/5f196a04-877a-11e3-a760-a86415d0944d_story.html?utm_term=.e2781c52a9ce

[Jimbuna]

1872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise.

1917 The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks).

1940 The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew.

1941 Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu.

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

1941 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward).

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Originally Posted by Von Due

1917: The Halifax Explosion. The French cargo ship SS Mont Blanc collided with SS Imo in the Halifax harbour. Mont Blanc, carrying high explosives, exploded and caused one of the largest and most devastating man-made explosions ever recorded.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2266578&postcount=496 That was a nasty one!

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1941 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward).

Ward's No. 3 4 in gun was removed when she was converted to a high speed transport. It was installed in 1958, the year of the Minnesota Centennial, as a memorial at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, as the men who fired it on 7 December 1941 were members of the Minnesota Naval Reserve. A plaque containing a listing of the Naval Reservists from Saint Paul who served aboard Ward is now displayed in the St. Paul City Hall on the 3rd floor between the council and mayoral offices. The last surviving member of the gun crew from the morning of 7 December, Alan Sanford, died in January 2015 and was interred at Arlington.... At 6:37 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Sanford, an 18-year-old gunner from St. Paul, Minn., was aboard the USS Ward, which was guarding the entrance to Pearl Harbor. Just over an hour before the Japanese aerial attack began, crewmen on the destroyer spotted a Japanese mini-submarine trying to sneak into port on the trail of another U.S. ship.
“We thought it might have been a toy or who knows,” Mr. Sanford recalled in a National Park Service oral-history interview in 1991. “We never heard of or seen anything like a two-man submarine before.” The sailors described it as cylindrical, about 80 feet long, with an oval-shaped conning tower."
Mr. Sanford and the other crewmen on the bow gun fired at a range of about 100 yards. He watched the round leave the barrel and barely miss the conning tower. “I thought if it had another coat of paint on the sub, it might have activated the graze fuze,” which detonates when a shell suddenly slows down, Mr. Sanford said in the park service interview. “That’s how close I think we came.”
A second gun crew on the Ward fired next, punching a four-inch hole in the starboard side of the conning tower as the destroyer steamed past the sub at a range of about 50 yards. The destroyer followed up with four depth charges. Seawater poured in through the shell hole, and the submarine rolled to starboard, and sank in 1,200 feet of water, according to the captain’s report and historians.
“We have attacked, fired upon, and dropped depth charges on a submarine operating in defensive sea areas,” the captain, Lt. W.W. Outerbridge, radioed to his commander, according to his report in the naval archives.
His radio communication, however, failed to prompt an alert that might have left the Navy better prepared for the air attack that followed 75 minutes later. For decades, the Navy doubted the Ward’s report of having sunk the mini-sub, a snub that irked Mr. Sanford. “That bothered dad because he worshiped the commanding officer,” Mr. Sanford’s eldest son, retired Navy Capt. James Sanford, said in an interview at the interment.
In 2002, however, the Ward was vindicated when a team from the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory discovered the sub’s wreckage on the ocean floor. The vessel still had two torpedoes aboard...and a 4' hole in the conning tower. The Japanese had launched five such mini-subs from larger submersibles the day before Pearl Harbor attack, historians say.

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1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron.

1941 Chełmno extermination camp opens, 50 kilometres from Łódź, Poland.

1941 President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

1941 US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II.

1946 US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight.

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1941 Hitler orders US ships are to be torpedoed.

1961 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel.

1990 Lech Walesa wins Poland's 1st direct presidential election in Poland.

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1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divoree Wallis Simpson.

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z ) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die.