This date in history

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1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic.

1944 World War II: Top US flying ace Major Pappy Boyington shot down in his Corsair by Japanese Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero (survives as POW)

1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc.

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1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.

1944 Operation Carpetbagger begins (aerial dropping of supplies and weapons to resistance fighters in Europe)

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack.

1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends as the Danish barbers' assistants end a 33 year strike.

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"

2021 1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed.

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1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later exonerated.

1919 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)

1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, starting on the Marin County side.

1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game winning streak.

1981 Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver confesses that he is the "Yorkshire Ripper" and murdered 13 women.

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1933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, starting on the Marin County side.

91 years ago!...and a slightly impeded view of the Marin County side: with latest anti-jump nets in place as of this week to deter suicide jumpers: https://www.kqed.org/news/11971560/s...en-gate-bridge

In 2008, bridge officials began exploring the idea of installing nets, and after settling on a design, officials had to come up with the money to build them. In 2014, Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District officials approved the project for $76 million.
Construction costs have risen to $224 million, Mulligan said. In a lawsuit filed against the district that year, Shimmick Construction Co. and Danny’s Construction Co., the lead contractors on the project, said the nets and other work on the bridge as part of the project would cost about $400 million.
Changes and flaws in the government’s design of the nets and deterioration of the bridge’s maintenance platforms raised the construction price, the companies said. The contractors said they had lost approximately $100 million on the project and spent another $100 million to pay expenses and laborers to ensure its completion.

BOTTOM LINE: they don't call it the Barbary Coa$t for nothing!

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1925 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy.

2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1925 Mussolini forms a cabinet composed entirely of Fascists in Italy.

2021 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence.

...obviously, there are 'Barbary Coasts' along the greasy green banks of the Tiber and Potomac Rivers as well!

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1915 World War I: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed.

1916 In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare.

1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London.

1944 US Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) reports total German victory in the Ardennes.

1953 US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb.

1990 Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far.

1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton.

1999 President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial begins in the US Senate after the House voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

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1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton.

In politics, Denile isn't a rivah in Eejpt; it is a modus operendi along the greasy green banks of the Potomac!

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1790 First US President George Washington delivers the first state of the union address.

1835 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.

1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)

1992 George H. W. Bush becomes ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap.

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1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.

1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.

1806 Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, London.

1868 Last convict ship the Hougoumont arrives in Fremantle, ending 80 years of penal transportation to Australia.

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster military plane.

1943 Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler views the Warsaw Ghetto - ordered deportation of 8,000 Jews.

1972 Retired passenger liner Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour.

2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.

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9th January 1924

USS Tulsa.


Ship Losses:

Adolph (France) The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel 6 nautical miles (11 km) south west of the Scarweather Lightship ( United Kingdom) with the loss of one of her six crew. Survivors were rescued by Devonia ( United Kingdom).
Capitaine Winckler (France) The cargo ship ran aground at Calais, Pas-de-Calais. She was refloated on 23 January.
Feronia (Italy) The cargo ship sank in the Bay of Biscay 150 nautical miles (280 km) off the La Coubre Lighthouse (approximately 45°N 6°W). Her crew were rescued by Ontario ( France).
Mont Rose (France) The cargo ship, which had departed Oran, Algeria for Rouen, Seine-Inférieure on 3 January, issued a distress call in the Atlantic Ocean. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
River Lagan (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was driven ashore at Goodrington Sands, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated on 5 February.
Tasmania (Italy) The cargo ship was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay (44°20′N 11°20′W).[21] Some of the survivors were rescued by Waaldijk ( Netherlands).

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49 BC Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, uttering "alea iacta est" (the die is cast), signaling the start of civil war and his appointment as Roman dictator for life.

1839 First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam, India, arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate]

1917 The Allied Governments respond to US President Woodrow Wilson's December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war.

1925 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed.

1946 UN General Assembly meets for the first time in London.

1971 Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast.

1990 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989

1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins.

1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal.

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1920 French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die.

1957 American plane mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.

1964 First government report by US Surgeon General Luther Terry warning that smoking may be hazardous.

1970 Irish republican political party Sinn Féin party splits between those in favour of abstentionism (of not taking any seats won in the parliaments) and those who were against.

1994 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA

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1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever.

1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in a letter to the newspaper Social Democrat.

1916 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge.

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.

1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

1967 Louisville, Kentucky draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali.

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1908 Henri Farman becomes the first person to fly an observed circuit of more than 1km, winning the Grand Prix d'Aviation.

1915 Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles.

1923 Taking advantage of the chaotic condition of Germany, Hitler stages a demonstration of 5000 storm troopers and denounces the 'November crime'

1942 Allied Conference on war trials at St. James's Palace, London.

1942 Operation Drumbeat (Paukenschlag): German U-boats begin harassing shipping on North American Atlantic coast (198 ships sunk by April)

1942 First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

1943 Adolf Hitler declares "Total War" against the Allies.