This date in history

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1840 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

1906 A British garrison leaves Esquimalt, on the Pacific coast, after a military occupation that began in 1858: the last British soldiers stationed in Canada.

1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" in Berlin, Germany.

1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis.

1940 UK Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city.

1947 First US ballistic missile fired.

1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.

1990 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0

1998 Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.

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1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the English.

1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde - are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana.

1939 Adolf Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland.

1939 Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor)

1940 First great dogfight between Spitfires and Luftwaffe.

1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary.

1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones.

1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.

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1948 Polish war hero Witold Pilecki is executed by communist police after a show trial in Warsaw.

1953 First atomic cannon electronically fired at Frenchman Flat, Nevada.

1961 JFK announces US goal of putting a man on the Moon before the end of decade.

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1431 Hundred Years' War: 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France.

1868 "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states.

1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor.

1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington.

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1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.

1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645 in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.

1916 Battle of Jutland: British battle cruiser HMS Invincible explodes, only 6 crew members survive.

1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.

1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany.

1941 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, in neutral Ireland, claims 38 lives.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons)

1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.

1968 Movie star James Stewart retires from the US Air Force after 27 years of service.

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1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircraft over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden.

1935 Compulsory driving tests and license plates introduced in the United Kingdom.

1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY

1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard.

1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, 13 passengers, included actor Leslie Howard, and 4 crew die.

1944 Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth, England just prior to D-Day.

1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes.

1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"

1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.

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1813 US invasion of Canada halted at Stoney Creek (Ontario)

1918 Battle of Belleau Wood, first US victory of WW I

1941 First US Navy vessel constructed as mine layer, USS Terror (CM-5) launched from the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway.

1944 Operation Overlord: As part of the D-Day landings, the 82nd Airborne Division arrives at the French town of Sainte-Mère-Église.

1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II

1944 German submarines U-955, U-970, U-629 and U-373 sink in Bay of Biscay.

1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.

1985 Body of Nazi concentration camp doctor Dr Josef Mengele located and exhumed.

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1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann.

1967 Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen.

1968 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured.

1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1971 General Officer Commanding the British Army Harry Tuzo, then claims that a permanent military solution to the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland could not be achieved.

1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.

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68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.

1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England.

1910 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends second Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal.

1959 First ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)

1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

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1881 The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice.

1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries.

1920 US Post Office says children cannot be sent by parcel post (after various instances)

1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering.

1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km

1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island.

1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy.

1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks.

1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea.

2000 South Korean President Kim Dae Jung meets leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

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1911: the British ocean liner RMS Olympic, several times the world's largest liner by default, set out on its maiden voyage for New York, arriving on week later. The ship's captain was Edward John Smith who would go on to command RMS Titanic the following year....

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

1911: the British ocean liner RMS Olympic, several times the world's largest liner by default, set out on its maiden voyage for New York, arriving on week later. The ship's captain was Edward John Smith who would go on to command RMS Titanic the following year....

But he didn't have that Ismay idiot on board as he did with Titanic. Smith knew what he was doing and would have sailed further south but the owner, Ismay, was a pratt and ordered that he sail though the icefields, a more direct route.

[Aktungbby]

...and the crow's nest lookouts had no binocs; the sea was glassy smooth(no visible wave action around the iceberg) and there was no moon; all the boilers were'nt lit, so the vessel was hardly setting a speed record thru the icefield; the metallurgical nature of the hull's brittle-in-frigid water steel; combined with a previous coal bunker fire weakening the hull in the area of the berg strike all contributed to the disaster. Most accidents are a culmination of factors from many sources.

[Red Devil]

Indeed. The fire was still burning by the way, and had been before they set sail. The hull by that bunker was severely weakened. Saw a pic of the area on tv.

[Aktungbby]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ary/100410926/

Molony said research suggests the coal fire was burning at over 1800 degrees Fahrenheit and may have warped the steel and made it brittle. The Titanic was designed to sink slowly enough that other ships could reach it and save passengers onboard, but the damage from the fire likely accelerated the ship's sinking.