This date in history

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1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

1945 Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.

2016 Lord Lucan's death certificate is granted, 42 years after he disappeared following the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett.

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02/02/2020:

It’s the date the world has been waiting for, for more than 900 years. Sunday – 02/02/2020 – is the first “global” palindrome since 11/11/1111.
Unlike other palindromic dates, such as 10/02/2001, 2 February, 2020 is considered a global palindrome because it is exactly the same written both in the DD/MM/YYYY format as well as the US standard of MM/DD/YYYY.
And for nations like China, where the year comes first, 2020/02/02 also works.
The next global palindrome will be 12/02/2021, which will be that last for another 1,009 years.

WOW! JUST KNOWING THIS MORE THAN MAKES UP FOR THE 49er's SUPERBOWL DISASTER....now if I can just hang on for another 23 months....I'll have had two palindrome days in one lifetime-something to shoot for indeed!

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1938 Adolf Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazis in key posts.

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II

2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.

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1917 The last of the American troops commanded by General John Pershing leave Mexico; President Carranza will be assassinated within the next year.

1918 First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson.

1931 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 246.08 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida.

1969 US population reaches 200 million.

1981 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with the enemy during the Vietnam War.

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1918:SS Tuscania, a Cunard liner transporting 2000 American troops to Europe during WWI, is torpedoed in the Irish Sea by UB-77 with the loss of more than 200 people. One notable survivor was Harry Truman who died at his Spirit Lake home with his 16 cats on Mt. St. Helens when it erupted in 1980. A monument still exists on the nearby Isle of Islay's Mull of Oa where the bodies washed up; and a commemoration took place on the hundredth anniversary on Islay at the grave of the only American still remaining buried there: pvt Roy Muncaster https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-43948079

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1819 Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading port.

1862 American Civil War: Naval engagement on Tennessee River, USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle.

1919 The first day of the Weimar Republic which, because of its support of the Treaty of Versailles, does not receive proper allegiance from the German nation.

1943 First Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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1845 The Portland Vase, thought to date to the 1st century BC is shattered into more than 80 pieces by a drunken visitor to the British Museum.

1991 The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

1992 Maastricht Treaty signed by 12 countries from the European Community (EC) to create the European Union (EU)

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1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot.

1807 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - first battle Napoleon isn't victorious.

1912 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength.

1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374.

1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

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1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)

1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)

1944 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland.

1945 The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.

1964 First appearance of the Beatles on the "Ed Sullivan Show" draws 73.7 million viewers.

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1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design.

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost'

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.

1916 Military conscription begins in Britain.

1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland.

1947 WWII peace treaties signed.

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1531: Henry VIII is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England many will lose their minds over this ungodly concept-sodaspeke

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1916 Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the US that they will sink any armed merchant ships starting on 1 March.

1943 US General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe; British General Montgomery not best pleased.

1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland.

1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 116 of 156 captured U-boats.

1956 British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier.

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1915 Adolf Hitler receives the relatively common Iron Cross second class for bravery in World War I

1915 World War I: Kaiser Wilhelm approves the strategic bombing of London's docks.

1935 First secret demonstration of radio signals detecting aircraft by Robert Watson-Watt at Daventry, England.

1938 The first 'Kindertransport' carrying Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany arrives in Britain.

1942 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest to Germany in a dash up the English Channel.

1973 First US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines.

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1633: Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of supporting Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the sun instead of the other way around...he will be found guilty and confined to house arrest! But telescopes will be named after him-so much for heresy! The Holy See still does not appreciate being told it's got it..."backwards"

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1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy.

1942 Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled.

1945 Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die.

1988 European Community plans removal of internal boundaries on Jan 1, 1992