This date in history

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1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron.

1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine.

1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

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1868 The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1941 Adolf Hitler orders US ships to be torpedoed.

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1926 Second part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published.

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1936 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z ) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die.

1942 An early report the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states.

1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car.

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1936 Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson.

1997 Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

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1792:King Louis XVI went before the Revolutionary Convention to face charges of treason...he was executed the following month! King Donald Trump must have done his homework!!; and has declined to appear before Congress:

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1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)

1946 UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr

2015 COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

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1937 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)

/\ British Vice Admiral Lewis Ayre Gonne Crabbe CB DSO is awarded the US Navy Cross for courageously rescuing USS Panay survivors!

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1939 Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee.

1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.

2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit, during Operation Red Dawn by US forces.

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1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's expedition is the first to each the South Pole.

1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York.

1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea.

2008 President George W. Bush make his fourth and final trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.

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1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death.

1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea.

1917 An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.

1941 German submarine U-127 sinks.

1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens, Heinrich Himmler falls faint.

1941 USS Swordfish becomes first US submarine to sink a Japanese ship.

1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel.

1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms.

1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel.

2006 First flight of the F-35 Lightning II

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1907 As a gesture of the US's new presence as a world power, President Theodore Roosevelt sends the 'Great White Fleet' on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally.

1914 German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.

1944 Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the 'Battle of the Bulge'

2016 US State Department increases reward for information on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to $25 million.

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1903 The Wright brothers make the 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1927 US submarine S-4 sinks after collision killing all 34 aboard.

1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.

1941 German submarine U-31 sunk.

1944 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed.

1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.

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1916 Battle of Verdun, longest of World War I, officially ends in German defeat after nine months of fighting and almost 1 million total casualties.

1941 German submarine U-434 sinks.

1972 US launches Operation Linebacker II, its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam, as negotiations to end the Vietnam War collapse.

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1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

1941 German submarine U-574 sinks.

1941 Adolf Hitler takes complete command of German Army.

1949 Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Gareloch, Scotland.

1984 Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration to transfer Hong Kong back to China in 1997.

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1915 Final withdraw of all allied troops from Anzac Cove.

1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early, having served only nine months of five-year sentence for "Beer Hall Putsch"

1941 First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.

1944 Battle of Bastogne: Germans surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)

1957 Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for National Service.

1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR.

1963 Berlin Wall opens for first time to West Berliners.

1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins.

2007 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.