This date in history

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1066 William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.

1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

1942 Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad.

1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's

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1829 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital.

1911 Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explodes, sinking her and killing 286 of her crew.

1940 First US merchant ship "Booker T. Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware.

1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar, near Kiev, 33,771 mostly Jews murdered.

1942 French Government in exile of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich.

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1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany.

1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland.

1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine.

1941 German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins.

1946 22 Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials.

1954 First nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy.

1968 First Boeing 747 rolls out.

1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.

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1914 The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth.

1918 Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

1934 Adolf Hitler expands German army and navy, violating Treaty of Versailles.

1939 Winston Churchill calls Russia a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, first US jet, makes maiden flight.

1946 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg.

1947 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1950 South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea.

1952 Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain first atom bomb explosion)

1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack.

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1901 First Royal Navy submarine HMS Holland 1 launched at Barrow-in-Furness.

1904 German General Lothar von Trotha issues order to exterminate Herero people of Namibia, first genocide of the 20th Century, will kill 65,000 Herero and 100,000 of the Nama tribe.

1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239.

1944 Polish resistance fighters capitulate in the Warsaw Uprising, with some 250,000 people killed.

2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11

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1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status.

1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "already broken and will never rise again" in a broadcast to the German people.

1942 Launch of first A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)

1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

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1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul.

1914 Dardanelles: French & British fleet bombards Turkish forts.

1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad.

2006 WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange.

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1916 Adolf Hitler is wounded in the left thigh by an exploding shell during the Battle of the Somme.

1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London.

1942 Budy Massacre at Auschwitz sub-camp, 90 French-Jewish women beaten to death by prison guards.

1943 US air raid on Wake, Japanese execute 98 US prisoners in retaliation.

1946 Newcastle United equals English Football League record for biggest winning margin in a 13-0 thrashing of Newport in a Division 2 match at St. James' Park; Len Shackleton scores 6, Charlie Wayman 4 for the Toon.

1991 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal.

2014 French driver Jules Bianchi collides with recovery vehicle during Japanese Grand Prix, dies 2 days later; first F1 death due to racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)

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1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides.

1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die.

1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain.

1939 Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem.

1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"

1944 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea.

1945 US General Eisenhower welcomed in The Hague (on Hitler's train)

1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine.

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb.

1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole.

1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters.

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1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters.

1919 KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)

1935 Himmler, Hess and Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau.

1940 World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.

1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

1944 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.

1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums.

1950 US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel.

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.

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1918 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.

1941 Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins.

1945 US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada.

1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party.

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1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project.

1958 Israeli navy inaugurates its first submarine INS Tanin.

2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons.

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1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney.

1944 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die.

1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world's first major nuclear accident.

1985 US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody.

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1915 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners.

1923 German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $

1939 Albert Einstein informs FDR of the possibilities of an atomic bomb.

1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England.

1990 UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd says force would be used if Iraq does not withdraw from Kuwait.

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1859 Self-proclaimed Emperor of the USA, Emperor Norton issues edict abolishing the US Congress.

1901 Theodore Roosevelt renames the "Executive Mansion" as "The White House"

1927 Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet.

1941 Soviet government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis forces close in on Moscow.

1984 IRA bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton, where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die.

2000 American destroyer USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.