This date in history

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1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.

1943 German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement.

1971 The British Parliament debates the European Communities principle of membership and votes 356 to 244 in favour of joining, requiring a new law to be drafted and a later final vote on joining.

1971 United Kingdom becomes the 6th nation to have a satellite in orbit with the launch of Prospero.

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1618 English adventurer, writer and courtier Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England.

1863 International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)

1918 German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution.

2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years.

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1918 German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution.

Bringing to fruition, two years belatedly, the tactical victory of Jutland by Jellico ordering a well-considered port turn to cross Scheer's fleet's 'T'; compelling it's return to the jade for the war's duration with the strategic political result: U really can't have the Kaiser's "place in the sun" unless you "rule the waves..."

[Jimbuna]

True that.

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1784 Napoléon Bonaparte admitted to the elite École Militaire in Paris, the start of his military career.

1917 British government gives final approval to Balfour Declaration.

1939 USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Adolf Hitler deports Jews.

1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen.

1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square as part of de-Stalinization efforts.

1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.

1972 Loyalist paramilitaries carry out a raid on Royal Ulster Constabulary station in County Derry, and steal 4 British Army Sterling sub-machine Guns.

1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.

1990 Britain and France complete the "Chunnel" under the English Channel.

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1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse.

1918 Spanish Flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week.

1926 Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot.

1940 Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends with a British victory.

1941 Prior to US joining WWII, German submarine U-552 torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James near Iceland.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 120 allied ships this month (659,457 tons)

1943 World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.

1956 Britain and France join Israeli forces in Egypt and begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal.

1973 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin using a hijacked helicopter.

1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi.

2011 The world population reaches 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1926 Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot.

Ironic considering El Duce "became linched" in turn; errr 'turning his world upside down" alongside his enamorata...soda speke EDIT: technically, the attack at Beersheba was a 'mounted infantry' attack. The troopers were"talkin Turkey" using their bayonets. To have a cavalry attack requires a saber & gallant "beau sabreurs" on steeds...not nags!

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Bringing to fruition, two years belatedly, the tactical victory of Jutland by Jellico ordering a well-considered port turn to cross Scheer's fleet's 'T'; compelling it's return to the jade for the war's duration with the strategic political result: U really can't have the Kaiser's "place in the sun" unless you "rule the waves..."

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

True that.

Sorry but no. "Tactical victory [...] by Jellicoe"? England won "strategically" at the end of the war, but the Grand fleet lost "tactically" in Jutland, by sheer numbers.
Germany could never muster the ship numbers England had at the time worldwide of course, so the designation of the german "fleet in being" is correct. William 2nd loved the navy but he was not as crazy as to challenge England's status worldwide. You may also notice it was not Germany that declared war to England. Even so the outcome of the war was anything but clear, until the US entered the war. And the latter alone sure did not "rule the waves" at the time.
There are a lots of discussions and interpretations but wiki is good enough for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland (see strength and casualties).

[Aktungbby]

I think you're confusing Beaty's tactical defeat at the hands of Hipper's superior ships, gunnery, and better shells wreaking havoc on the Brit Battlecruisers and brittle ineffective shells...such that Beatty was overheard saying "there's something wrong with our ships today." Once out with the main weight of the Jellico portion of the fleet "lighting up his horizon" Scheer opted to leave the scene, remain off the seas rechallenge-wise; and opt for blockade by unlimited submersible warfare...at which the British excelled: lowering Germany's imports necessary to their war effort by over 50%. The greater English casualties in both long tons sunk, amended by later accounting of 3 German scuttled ships withheld to maintain homefront morale; and deaths, notwithstanding, only registered a sense of defeat primarily in nostalgia for not having replicated 1805's climatic battle of Trafalgar...for which Jellico the Cautious was, imho, unfairly replaced by Beatty! Bottom line: any naval engagement that compels your opponent to moor his High Seas fleet for the 2 years war's duration is a victory. Throwing in the added total defeat of Spee at the Falklands in the Pacific...Britainia ruled the waves.

[Jimbuna]

1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine.

1911 The first aerial bomb is dropped by an Italian pilot on Turkish troops in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War.

1914 German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile.

1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians.

1919 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord.

1939 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry.

1941 Japanese naval staff offiicers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbor.

1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean.

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1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help.

1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I

1918 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors.

1941 Hirohito's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails.

1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space.

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1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space.

Alas! a poor Moscow stray, she did not survive but left her 'stamp' on history:

The Soviet scientists had planned to euthanise Laika with a poisoned serving of food. For many years, the Soviet Union gave conflicting statements that she had died either from asphyxia,[20] when the batteries failed, or that she had been euthanised. Many rumours circulated about the exact manner of her death. In 1999, several Russian sources reported that Laika had died when the cabin overheated on the fourth orbit.[4] In October 2002, Dimitri Malashenkov, one of the scientists behind the Sputnik 2 mission, revealed that Laika had died by the fourth circuit of flight from overheating. According to a paper he presented to the World Space Congress in Houston, Texas, "It turned out that it was practically impossible to create a reliable temperature control system in such limited time constraints."[5]

Over five months later, after 2,570 orbits, Sputnik 2 (including Laika's remains) disintegrated during re-entry on 14 April 1958.

Bottom Line: Poor Laika had one of history's worst 'Dog Day Afternoons'... no imho 'bout it!

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Animal cruelty

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1605 Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war.

1941 Japanese naval staff officers Suzuki and Maejima leave Pearl Harbor.

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1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe, on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.

1917 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution.

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev.

1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.

1956 Suez Crisis: British Royal Marines storm Port Said in Egypt amid growing domestic and international opposition to the Anglo-French-Israeli military operation.

1999 Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.