This date in history

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

One of the aspects of this thread, started 10/14/2013, was the impact of history on the poster themselves if any.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

^ Two month after that tragedy the wife and I flew to Tenerife.

After umpteen years...I still reflect every time I board an aircraft At least Tenerife now has ground radar for foggy conditions, and aircrew cockpit management protocol now requires pilots-in-command to give greater credence to his right-seat 2nd officer...all gotten at great cost of life.(583)

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1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy.

1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire.

1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London.

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1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

1942 British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea.

1942 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die.

1942 German submarine U-585 sinks.

1945 Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years.

1951 American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang.

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1867 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre.

1939 Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph

1945 A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.

1972 Northern Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is introduced.

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1657 English Parliament makes the Humble Petition to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell offering him the crown: he declines.

1920 British parliament accepts Irish Home Rule law.

1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany.

1951 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea.

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1873 British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die.

1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government.

1933 Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany.

1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted.

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California.

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1801 Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen.

1912 Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.

1917 US President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany.

1935 Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt receives a British patents for RADAR

1982 Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain.

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1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin.

1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that a German invasion is imminent.

1944 British bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz.

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1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford.

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

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1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory.

1943 Allies bomb Mortsel, Belgium's worse lose of life during WWII (936 civilians)

1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat

1944 140 Lancasters bomb aircraft factory in Toulouse.

1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death.

1955 Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1982 Aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes with escort vessels left Portsmouth for the Falkland Islands.

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1916 German parliament approves unrestricted submarine warfare.

1917 US declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1945 Battle of Okinawa: Giant Japanese battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa with orders to beach herself and be destroyed defending the island.

1994 Plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations and sparking the Rwandan Genocide. Those responsible have never been identified.

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30 Scholars' estimate for Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem [or April 3]

1945 Sonderkommando Elbe, special Luftwaffe units designed to destroy Allied planes by ramming them mid-air, are sent on their first and only mission of World War II

1999 The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 Sonderkommando Elbe, special Luftwaffe units designed to destroy Allied planes by ramming them mid-air, are sent on their first and only mission of World War II

15 bombers were attacked in this fashion with 8 destroyed.....

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1983 In front of a live audience of 20 tourists, David Copperfield makes the Statue of Liberty disappear.

1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California. Makes his day.

1990 Norwegian ferry Scandinavian Star catches fire; 159 people die.

1997 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4 Beta.

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1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection.

1917 Battle of Arras begins.

1917 Vimy Ridge in France stormed by Canadian troops.

1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die.

1940 Nazi Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle.

1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.

1963 Winston Churchill becomes first honorary US citizen.