This date in history

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1918 First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kansas; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million.

1936 First flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.

1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

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1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes).

1936 Spitfire makes its first flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton).

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe.

1971 "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones.

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1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle.

1930 Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food.

1964 Boxer Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali.

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1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US.

1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.

1918 President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.

1936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland.

1942 15 Mk-VB Spitfires reach Malta.

1942 First cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee.

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1945: AMERICANS CAPTURE THE LUDENDORFF BRIDGE, THE ONLY BRIDGE STILL STANDING ACROSS THE RHINE CROSS IT FOR TEN DAYS UNTIL ITS COLLAPSE FROM AGE, DEMOLITION AND AIR ATTACKS , SHORTENING WWII CONSIDERABLY. THE FEROCIOUS GERMAN COUNTERATTACK - AS DEPICTED BY A WORLD FAMOUS ARTIST > <

To protect the bridge against aircraft, the Americans positioned the largest concentration of anti-aircraft weapons during World War IIleading to "the greatest antiaircraft artillery battles in American history." The Americans counted 367 different German Luftwaffe aircraft attacking the bridge over the next 10 days. The Americans claimed to have shot down nearly 30% of the aircraft dispatched against them. The German air offensive failed.

PROVES UNAVAILING. HITLER ORDERS THE EXECUTION OF THE BRIDGE COMMANDERS FOR FAILURE TO ACT.... AS A WARNING EXAMPLE TO ALL GERMAN COMMANDS THIS MESSAGE WAS DISPATCHED TO ALL COMMANDS:

... The five guilty officers were condemned to death by court martial, one of them, a captain, in absentia. The sentence was executed against three majors and one lieutenant. The above information is to be communicated to all troops as rapidly as possible and should be considered a warning to everyone. Who does not live in honor will die in shame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Remagen

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1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor.

1959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx's final TV appearance together.

1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history.

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1841 US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free.

1862 USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads.

1935 Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.

1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.

1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.

1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow.

1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended.

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1916: March 9, 1916, began as a raid conducted by Pancho Villa's Division of the North on the small American border town of Columbus, New Mexico, located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the border. The raid escalated into a full-scale battle between Villistas and the US Army. Villa himself led the assault, only to be driven back into Mexico by elements of the 13th Cavalry Regiment stationed at the town. The attack angered Americans and President Woodrow Wilson who ordered the Punitive Expedition in which the US Army invaded Mexico in an unsuccessful attempt to capture General Villa.

In spite of Villa proclaiming that the raid was a success by evidence of captured arms and equipment from the camp, which included over 300 rifles and shotguns, 80 horses, and 30 mules, the raid was a tactical disaster for him with ill-afforded casualties of 90 to 170 dead from an original force that had numbered 484 men,including at least 63 killed in action and at least seven more who later died from wounds during the raid itself. Of those captured during the raid, seven were tried; of those, one sentence was commuted to life in prison; and six were convicted and executed by hanging. Two were hanged on June 9, 1916; four were hanged on June 30, 1916. The sixty-three dead Villa soldiers and all the dead Villa horses that were left behind in Columbus after the raid were dragged south of the stockyards, soaked with kerosene and burned....

8 AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND 11 CIVILIANS WERE KILLED IN THE BATTLE...JEEEZE! SOMETIMES YA REALLY DO NEED A WALL BBY!

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1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral.

1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

1944 U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard.

1945 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley.

1968 North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop.

1975 Dog spectacles patented in England.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1975 Dog spectacles patented in England.

Pet sunglasses system No documents available for this priority number.
Page bookmark US5868104 (A) - Pet sunglasses system Inventor(s): RAMIREZ YOLANDA [US] + (RAMIREZ, YOLANDA) Applicant(s): RAMIREZ, YOLANDA Classification: - international: A01K13/00; A01K29/00; (IPC1-7): A01K29/00 - cooperative: A01K13/00; A01K13/006; A01K29/00
Application number: US19980041427 19980312 Priority number(s): US19980041427 19980312
Abstract of US5868104 (A) A pair of glasses for a small animal is provided including a pair of glasses each having a frame and a lens mounted therein. Each frame has a linear arm having a first end coupled to the frame and extending rearwardly therefrom. An interconnect is connected to an inboard edge of each of the frames which permits the selective distancing thereof.

Nuthin like Brit inspiration! ...and my favorite: http://www.dogica.com/dogglass.html

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1869 The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter.

1915 The British declare a blockade of all German ports.

1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.

1942 First deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

1942 General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia.

1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs.

1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule.

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1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships.

1940 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"

2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

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1933 Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda.

1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight.

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1889 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon."

1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal.

1943 Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated."

1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial.

1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

[...] 1915 German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal. [...].

There is so much more to this, again. Scuttled, after being shelled in neutral waters, still shelled while flying the white flag, Canaris as 1st officer of the SMS »Dresden« making his way back to Germany to become head of the SD later.. some say Churchill used the bombing of Dresden in WW2 as a symbolic revenge against the SMS Dresden "humiliating him" in WW1. Some good history films lately about the story.