This date in history

[Rockstar]

5 July 1937 The Hormel Food Corporation introduces Spam to the market. It was thought that the name comes from a contraction of spiced ham. Hawaii has not been the same since.

[Aktungbby]

/\...now that's Minnysota Nice!

[Jimbuna]

1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

1923 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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

1943 2nd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: 25,000 Germans killed.

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

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

1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.

[Aktungbby]

1976: The United Satetes Military Academy included 119 women cadets for the first time in the class of 1980. 1865: Mary Surratt is the first woman executed by the Federal government, along with Lewis Powell, David Harold and George Atzerodt for the Lincoln assassination...proof-positive: women are oft as "well hung" as men!?? 1948: six female reservists are the first ladies sworn into the regular navy. 1981: President Ronald Reagan announced the nomination of Sandra Day O'Conner to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court(there are currently four!) 1946: Jimmy Carter, age 21, marries Rosalyn Smith, age18, in Plains, Georgia...she would ultimately become the First Lady! Both are still 'above ground' 77 years later!!?....barely!

[Jimbuna]

1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

1807 French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte and Russian Tsar Alexander I meet on a raft in the middle of the Neman River and sign the first Treaty of Tilsit.

1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion.

1943 3rd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: Germans occupy Dubrova Luftwaffe fighter ace shoots down 7 Russian aircraft.

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

1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.

1960 US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands.

1986 Soviet General and spy for the US Dmitri Polyakov arrested in retirement in Russia (executed 1988)

[Rockstar]

Battle of Mametz Wood Jul 7 - Jul 11 1916. Mametz Wood cost Welsh Div about 4,000 men killed or wounded.

Christopher Williams painting "The Welsh at Mametz Wood" portrays brutal hand-to-hand fighting that took place during charge of Welsh Division.

[Jimbuna]

1835 Liberty Bell cracks (again)

1836 Charles Darwin reaches Saint Helena in HMS Beagle and takes up lodgings near the tomb of Napoleon.

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 of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel - Nazi General Model uses last tank reserve.

1947 Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

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

1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.

1971 During street disturbances, British soldiers shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; riots erupt, the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraw from Stormont in protest.

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

[Aktungbby]

1972: The Nixon administration announced a deal to sell $750,000,000 in grain to the Soviet Union. (However the goddamn Soviets were already engaged in secretly buying subsidized American grain, resulting in what critics dubbed "the great grain robbery". ) 1776: Colonel John Nixon gave the first reading of the Declaration of Independence outside the State House(now Indepedence Hall) in Philadelphia.

[Rockstar]

8 July 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay to open Japan to trade. Perry introduced whiskey to the Japanese at a reception and then sent 110 barrels to the emperor. Japanese whisky is now a booming multi-billion dollar industry.

Ya baby!

[Jimbuna]

1776 US Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops in New York.

1900 The Commonwealth of Australia is established by the British House of Commons.

1916 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany.

1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804

1934 SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps.

1943 5th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel - Germans occupy Verchopenje.

1944 U-740 sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.

1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

1971 Henry Kissinger visits the People's Republic of China to negotiate a detente between the US and China.

1972 Springhill Massacre: British snipers shoot dead five Catholic civilians and wounded two others in Springhill, Belfast.

1972 The ceasefire between the Provisional IRA and the British Army comes to an end.

1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe - it does not.

1980 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years.

1982 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London.

[Jimbuna]

1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.

1778 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1940 Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel.

1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish women in Ravensbrück concentration camp, in northern Germany.

1943 6th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel continues.

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

8 July 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo Bay to open Japan to trade. Perry introduced whiskey to the Japanese at a reception and then sent 110 barrels to the emperor. Japanese whisky is now a booming multi-billion dollar industry.
Ya baby!
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And how clever he did it (01:13) :



Yeah right I have a Nikka whisky here indeed

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1835 Liberty Bell cracks (again)

The Original Liberty Bell was cast by...............
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London!!!
Of course they did not stand behind the Bell and make it right.
Pretty much the early example of WalMart practises.

[Aktungbby]

1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton died the next day. I think of poor Hamilton whenever I pay for my Two Buck Chuck Chardonnay at Trader Joes!

[Rockstar]

11 July 1953, Maj. John Bolt shot down two MiGs while flying an F-86E Sabre to become the only U.S. Marine to achieve ace status in two wars and the only Marine jet fighter ace. During WWII, he became an ace as a VMF-214 "Black Sheep". He had 12 total victories during his career.