This date in history

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1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'

1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party.

1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for first time, at Peenemunde.

1940 German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands.

1942 Col-general Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons)

1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria.

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1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI)

1944 Graf (Count) Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel.

1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!"

1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)

1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane.

1997 United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China.

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1816 French frigate "La Méduse" runs aground under incompetent leadership of aristocrat Viscount of Chaumareys, forcing evacuation of 400 passengers. 150 men, 1 woman are left on "la Machine," a poorly provisioned raft. 13 days later only 15 survivors remain due to starvation, riots, madness, suicide, and cannibalism.

1843 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina.

1943 Lieutenant Charles Hall becomes first African American pilot to shoot down a German plane.

[Wolferz]

1954:
Wolferz was hatched from an egg.

Yes guys and gals, the news of my demise was incorrect!

[Jimbuna]

1913 Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.

1915 After exploding a bomb in US Senate reception room previous day, Erich Muenter, a German instructor at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations.

1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Adolf Hitler.

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628

1947 Soviet Union doesn't participate in Marshall Plan.

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Originally Posted by Wolferz

1954:
Wolferz was hatched from an egg.

Yes guys and gals, the news of my demise was incorrect!

In any case, a date in History, or, at least, in YOUR history.


Best wishes !


Cheers.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

1954:
Wolferz was hatched from an egg.

Yes guys and gals, the news of my demise was incorrect!

Good to see you're still above ground fearless leader! The Bilge could use your August presence. I tried to P.M. this but your message storage is full..delete a few. AKbby

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3 July 1940 ? One month after the joint (French and British armies) fighting in the Dunkirk pocket ("Operation Dynamo"), it's now time for the infamous "Operation Catapult", an attack of the British Navy against the French Navy, in the naval base of Mers El Kébir.

Between 1300 and 1500 French sailors lose their lives there (225 on the battlecruiser "Dunkerque" : very symbolic !).

In the same time, the French "Force X" is captured by the British in Alexandria harbour.

In the same time, the giant submarine-cruiser (the ancestor of the Japanese I-400-class submarines) "Surcouf", named after the famous Captain Robert Surcouf from Saint-Malo, is assaulted in the night by British sailors. 4 men are killed during the inamical boarding : the mecanic officer of the "Surcouf", Yves-Marie Daniel, and 3 British (including the commander of the submarine "Thames), the 2 British officers (Cdr. Sprague and Lt. Griffith) killed by Lieutenant de Vaisseau Bouillaut, the NCO (quartermaster Webb) by the board medic officer, Lieutenant Le Nistour.

Perhaps the English didn't know that sailors never submit their ship under force : on 27th November 1942, the French Fleet scuttled in the port of Toulon to avoid being captured by the German army.

Fortunately, these crimes (or the criminals) didn't go unpunished :

- the submarine "HMS Thames" disappeared one month later, on 3 August 1940

- the destroyer "HMS Escort" was sunk on 11 July 1940 (1 week later, torpedoed by Italian submarine "Guglielmo Marconi")

- the destroyer "HMS Fearless" was sunk on 23 July 1941 (torpedoed by an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79)

-the destroyer "HMS Vortigern" was sunk on 15 March 1942 (torpedoed by the S-Boot "S-104")

- the destroyer "HMS Foresight" was sunk on 12 August 1942 (torpedoed by an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79)

- the destroyer "HMS Wrestler' was sunk on 6 June 1944 (mined off the coast of Juno Beach)

Concerning the majors criminals :

- the aircraft carrier "HMS Ark Royal" was sunk on 14 November 1941 (torpedoed by the German U-Boot U-81). On 6 July 1940, its "Swordfish" planes damaged the battlecruiser "Dunkerque", already grounded on the beach since the first attacks, 2 days earlier.

- the battlecruiser "HMS Hood" was sunk on 24 May 1941 (totally exploded by the German battleship "Bismarck"). It damaged the battlecruiser "Dunkerque". In fact, in Mers El Kébir, it was easier for the "Hood" to fire on immobile targets (with extinguished boilers), some with turrets facing the earth (and not the sea). The "Bismarck" was not such "sitting duck", and the "Hood" learned it the hard way ...

80 years after, a great thought for all these French sailors killed by their "allies". In some cases, isn't necessary to have foes, "allies" are enough ...

These facts are completely forgotten in France. Fortunately for the mythical "Franco-British Friendship" !

My father, Engineers Captain in 1940 and present in Dunkirk (please read here : https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...5&postcount=68) never forgave the English for this attack. As member of the Résistance in the "Réseau Morhange" and in the "Corps Franc Pommiès" (both mainly constituted of French officers) in the south of France (sector of Agen and Toulouse), he had to deal with British "Jedburgh" teams. His relationships were difficult and this trust relative ...

Cheers.

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1826: 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died... 1831: the fifth president, James Monroe, died in NYC at age 73. 1872: the 30th president Calvin (silent Cal) Coolidge is born in Plymouth, Vermont.

[Jimbuna]

1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain.

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.

1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die.

1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die.

1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy.

1944 First Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima.

1945 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.

1954 Meat and all other food rationing officially ends in Britain, nine years after the end of World War II

1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers.

2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan.

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1946: INSPIRES & LEADS DIRECTLY TO THE FIRST MODELLING OF THE BIKINI. On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Réard introduced the bikini at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. A Parisian showgirl named Micheline Bernardini (NOW 92!) modeled the new liberating style. Réard’s bikini, named after the tiny atoll of Bikini where the U.S. tested the atomic bomb, (RÉARD: "BOTH WERE SMALL....AND DEVASTATING") It was made with only 30 square inches of fabric. (CAPABLE OF FITTING IN THE MATCHBOX IN MS. BERNARDINI'S HAND) When Réard planned the launch of his bikini, he could not find a professional model who would wear it. Micheline Bernardini who was used to “baring her assets” as an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, agreed to model Réard’s bikini. I GET A BANG OUT OF AGREEABLE GIRLS IN BIKINIS!

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1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and Vichy government in France.

1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada.

1943 Battle of Kursk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biscay.

1943 US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily.

1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.

[Jimbuna]

1942 Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam.

1943 Second day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 Germans killed.

1943 US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched.

1947 The Ak-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1952 Last tram ride in London.

1957 John Lennon (16) and Paul McCartney (15) meet for first time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner.

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1865 Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln.

1943 Third day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova.

1943 Erich Hartmann shoots down seven Russian aircraft at Kursk.

1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517

1943 German Submarine U-951 sunk by depth charges, off Cape St. Vincent in the North Atlantic.

2005 Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700

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1905 The soldiers of the Russian battleship "Potemkin" who mutinied, surrender to Romanian authorities, who turn ship over to Russian authorities soon after.

1915 The Germans reply to US President Woodrow Wilson's second Lusitania note by saying that Americans may sail on clearly marked neutral ships, but Germany does not deal with Wilson's other demands.

1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve.

1943 British air raid sinks U-232

1947 Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC

1950 General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea.

1950 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea.

1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.

1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join.