This date in history

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1980: Mae West, famous comedienne passes away, age 87. Famous quotes: "When I'm bad, I'm very good" "...and goodness has nuthing to do with it!" Whatever it is on screen; she had it!

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1869 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving.

1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad.

1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor.

1963 JFK's body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House.

1963 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)

1991 Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies.

2019 Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.

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1874 American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire.

1936 German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for uncovering German re-armament.

1944 US bombers based on Saipan begin first attack on Tokyo.

1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas.

1954 Air Force One, first US Presidential airplane, christened.

1979 US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.

1981 First air-launched cruise missile tested.

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1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States.

1841 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa.

1920 First Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia)

1940 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.

1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco.

1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1975 A loyalist gang nicknamed the "Shankill Butchers" undertakes its first "cut-throat killing"; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast.

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1914 Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die.

1916 Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Woodrow Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'

1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt.

1941 Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbour.

1944 Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria.

1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River.

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1943:HMT ROHNA, a Tyneside steamer and cargo vessel is sunk is sunk of Algiers by Hans Dochtermann in a Heinkel 177A
with a released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side, at the after end of her engine room and Number Six troop deck. Men poured on deck, many of them badly wounded. Of the 1,138 men who were killed, 1,015 were US personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. A further 35 US troops of the 2,000 originally embarked, later died from their wounds. As well as the troops, five of Rohna's officers and 117 of her 195 crew were killed, along with one of her 12 DEMS gunners and one hospital orderly. USS Pioneer rescued 606 survivors. Details of the loss were revealed slowly over time. By February 1944 the US Government had acknowledged that more than 1,000 soldiers had been lost in the sinking of an unnamed troopship in European waters, but it hinted that a submarine was responsible. By June 1945 the US Government had released accurate casualty figures, the ship had been identified as Rohna, and the cause of the sinking had been identified as German bombers, but did not mention that a guided bomb was used. The use of an "aerial glider bomb" was first reported publicly on 14 November 1945 in an account of the battle in the Salt Lake City Tribune. On 9 March 1947 the Chicago Tribune published a complete account of the attack, including the use of a "radio-controlled [sic] glider bomb." In 1948 a history of British India Line in the Second World War was published, stating "the missile was one of the new glider bombs guided by wireless". The US Government officially released the remaining details of the incident, specifically that a radio-controlled glide bomb had been used, in 1967 after the passing of the Freedom of Information Act...In short: "what a fascinating modern age we live in" got 'swept under the carpet' in a temporary coverup !??

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1901 Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain.

1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis cannot seize them.

1944 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed.

1951 First rocket to intercept an airplane at White Sands, New Mexico.

1951 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea.

1967 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time.

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1717 Blackbeard attacks and captures a French merchant slave ship, which he renames as his flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge"

1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution.

1916 First German air attack on London.

1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates.

1919 US-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the first female member of the British House of Commons.

1920 Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.

1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy.

1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death.

1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

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1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii.

1893 Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet.

1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched.

1962 Great Britain & France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner.

1990 UN Security Council approves US-sponsored resolution authorizing the use of force in the Persian Gulf if Iraq does not withdrawal from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991

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1922 First speed test of first genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes and sinks off Yokohama.

1944 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched.

1950 US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb.

1953 French parachutist under Colonel De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu.

1958 First US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine.

1982 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea.

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1878 First White House telephone installed.

1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington.

1922 First skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF

1925 Treaty of Locarno signed.

1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38

1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews.

1941 British cruiser Dorsetshire sinks German supply ship Python.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war.

1943 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.

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1697 St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London)

1804 General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII

1941 US Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul.

1941 Japanese Marshal Admiral Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor.

1976 Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

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1804 General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII

Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head.

Sometimes, if you want the job done right, ya gotta do it yersel!!??

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1917 The Supreme Allied War Council, meeting at Versailles to define war aim, fails to reach an agreement.

1944 Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London.

1967 First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky.

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over.

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1908 The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband.

1915 Frank Friday Fletcher is first US admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor.

1915 Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France.

1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River, China, sinks killing 2,750