This date in history

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1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day.

1942 First US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland.

1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp.

1968 Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die.

1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

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1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.

1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed.

1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland.

1967 A fire in the Apollo 1 Command Module kills astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee during a launch rehearsal.

1968 French submarine Minerve disappears in the Mediterranean with the loss of 52 crew.

1973 US & North Vietnam's William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and military draft.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1968 Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 lost.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1968 French submarine Minerve disappears in the Mediterranean with the loss of 52 crew.

1968 was a bad year for losing submarines...(4 total) Weirdly, our advanced tech has enabled all to be found but the reasons for the sinkings in each case have never been adequately surmised. Bottom line: no matter the technology, submarining is a dangerous business.

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1915 First US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)

1915 The United States Coast Guard is created by merging the US Life Saving Service & the US Revenue Cutter Service.

1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin.

1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland.

1958 The Lego company patents their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

1982 Italian police rescue US Brigadier General James Dozier, held hostage for six weeks by the Red Brigade of Padua, Italy.

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed, including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first teacher in space.

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1595 William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is thought to have been first performed. Officially published early 1597.

1886 Karl Benz patents the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" in Karlsruhe, Germany, the world's first automobile with a burning motor.

1892 The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.

1916 First bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place.

1917 British submarine K13 sank in Gaire Loch, Scotland; 32 of her crew died.

1943 U.S. cruiser "Chicago" is heavily damaged by Japanese bombers on the first day of the Battle of Rennell Island.

1944 285 German bombers attack London.

1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.

2002 US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" an "Axis of Evil", which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

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1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.

1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen.

1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)

1965 State Funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral.

1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed and decapitated after having been dead for two years.

Luckily he was dead...This was certainly a lesson in How not to get ahead in life 101
No doubt, the House of Lords approved it!

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1915 First (German) poison gas attack, against Russians.

1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant shipping.

1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1943 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.

1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June.

1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb.

1985 South African President P. W. Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence.

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On February 1, 1865, the day after Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery, Charles Sumner introduced a motion that made John Stewart Rock the first black attorney to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Rock became the first black person to be received on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.[8] There was much celebration the day he appeared there.

Rock, a passionate abolitionist and civil rights leader, held a strong belief in the dignity and rights of all Americans. Like other abolitionists in the movement, such as George T. Downing and Robert Purvis, John Rock became a renowned public speaker and campaigned for equal rights. He was a part of the National Equal Rights League with other famous abolitionists such as Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, and John Mercer Langston. Rock's speeches soon began to receive positive public reviews, which led him to travel throughout New England and, occasionally, westward. In 1855, Rock took part in the campaign responsible for the legal desegregation of Boston public schools.[10] Although he and other abolitionists were determined to see that equality for black Americans was achieved, there were several significant setbacks in the push for civil rights. The infamous Dred Scott decision was just one example of the rejection of this movement. Dred Scott, a slave, wanted to sue for his freedom, but on March 6, 1857 it was decided that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional, and that African Americans were not intended to be citizens under the law. This established that Scott would not, in fact, receive his freedom. It was the verdict of this important court case that spurred Rock to continue in his pursuit as an abolitionist and later ignited his determination to start a new career. Rock is credited with coining the phrase "black is beautiful" during a speech he gave in Faneuil Hall in March 1858 as a refutation of the Western idea that the physical features of African Americans were unattractive. However, research on Rock's speeches in the Black Abolitionist Digital Archive have shown that he in fact did not say the exact words "black is beautiful", but did speak of the beauty of black people, praising "the beautiful, rich color ... of the negro". Rock's polished speeches were printed in William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator as well as in general newspapers, promoting these central ideas.

Close Enough IMHO!

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1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.

1917 German Großadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war.

1933 German Parliament is dissolved by President Paul von Hindenburg by the request of new chancellor Adolf Hitler.

1942 Second Norwegian government of Vidkun Quisling forms.

1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes.

1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon.

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

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1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)

1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican–American War: US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million.

1944 Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory.

1974 The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.

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1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

1919 The Bolshevik army is defeated in a series of clashes with the White Russians, who are fighting to reclaim the government after the 1917 revolution.

1943 4 chaplains on the SS Dorchester drown after giving up their life jackets to others.

1945 Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.

1962 US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs.

1965 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating in exams.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine.

...precisely 157 years and 14 days after the first USSHousatonic is sunk by the first submarine H. L. Hunley at Charleston harbor....

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1194 100,000 ransom is paid for Richard I, King of England.

1789 First US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice-President.

1938 Adolf Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazis in key posts.

1942 Clinton Pierce becomes first US general wounded in action in WW II

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II

1969 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO

1973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled.

2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.

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1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt.

1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla.

1969 United States population reaches 200 million.

1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War.