This date in history

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1797 The Battle of Cape St Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself.

1912 First US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut.

1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders.

1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed.

1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in the White House.

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1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die.

1933 President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survives assassination attempt but Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak is mortally wounded, he would die on March 29.

1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched.

1942 German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery.

1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin in the largest raid by the RAF against the city.

1944 Allies begin attack on Axis held Monte Cassino monastery, Italy.

1952 King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.

1971 After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons pence & shilling system for decimal currency.

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1916 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships.

1916 The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania.

1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus.

1940 British search plane finds German supply ship Altmark, used to accommodate allied sailors from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee, off Norway.

1942 Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive.

1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip.

2006 The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

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1942 Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive.

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1864 During the American Civil War, the Union blockade ship, USS Housatonic is attacked and sunk in Charleston S.C. harbor by the CSS HL Hunley. This is the first attack of its kind and proves two things: it works against the blocade strategy!... and it's dangerous to submarine crews; the Confederate vessel failed to return from the mission, sinking with all eight hands..still manning their cranks < when found 136 years later. like the fatal 'circle torpedoes' of WWI and II; the explosive charge of the too-close spar torpedo's blast probably caused the crew to die from brain trauma.

It is virtually impossible to know how powerful the Hunley's torpedo blast was, even with the amount of black powder used. The blast can also change with how tightly the powder is packed and how fine the grains are, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command. Replicating the black powder explosion, Lance said, was the trickiest part of the experiment.
So Lance lowballed it, testing several blasts in the process. She concluded that the shock wave would have instantly killed those aboard the Hunley, based on her calculations and a wealth of prior air blast experiments on large animals.
"Any explosive we've seen in the field ... would definitely create a lethal wave," Lance said.
"These types of injuries are not subtle," she added. "The damage is immediate. a gold pocket watch that belonged to the Hunley's captain, Lt. George Dixon. The watch had stopped at 8:23, about the time of the Hunley's attack, historians believe.
"Most importantly, it appears it didn't wind down naturally," according to a 2007 update by a research partnership known as the Hunley Project. "Something traumatic -- perhaps water, a shock wave, or some other intervening force -- caused it to stop at that precise time.""

https://www.vernianera.com/Hunley/reconstruction.html https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/detail.asp?ship_id=CSS-HL-Hunley-1863

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1940 Altmark Incident: Crew of the British destroyer "Cossack" board German "Altmark" in Jøssingfjord, Norway, releasing 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass.

1972 British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market.

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1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.

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1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance.

1944 823 British bombers attack Berlin.

1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland.

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.

1964 UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US.

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1938 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany.

1942 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers, becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.

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1916 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months)

1917 British troopship SS Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 646 die.

1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper to US.

1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured.

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1909 Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia.

1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war.

1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578.

1967 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since WWII.

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1909 Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia.

AND AT ONE MY FAVORITE (HONEYMOON) LOCATIONS MONTERY BAY

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1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed.

1942 Japanese submarine fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California.

1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

1991 US President George H. W. Bush gives Iraq a 24-hour deadline to withdraw from Kuwait or face a ground war.

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1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

A PHOTO SHOP JOB FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY'S BENEFIT; THIS IS THE REAL FLAG RAISING:...WHICH WAS THEN FURLED AS THE SECOND FLAG WENT UP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima

The Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, had decided the previous night that he wanted to go ashore and witness the final stage of the fight for the mountain. Now, under a stern commitment to take orders from Howlin' Mad Smith, the secretary was churning ashore in the company of the blunt, earthy general. Their boat touched the beach just after the flag went up, and the mood among the high command turned jubilant. Gazing upward, at the red, white, and blue speck, Forrestal remarked to Smith: "Holland, the raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years".

Forrestal was so taken with fervor of the moment that he decided he wanted the Second Battalion's flag flying on Mt. Suribachi as a souvenir. The news of this wish did not sit well with 2nd Battalion Commander Chandler Johnson, whose temperament was every bit as fiery as Howlin Mad's. "To hell with that!" the colonel spat when the message reached him. The flag belonged to the battalion, as far as Johnson was concerned. He decided to secure it as soon as possible, and dispatched his assistant operations officer, Lieutenant Ted Tuttle, to the beach to obtain a replacement flag. As an afterthought, Johnson called after Tuttle: "And make it a bigger one."

ADMITTEDLY THOUGH THE SECOND PHOTO IS MORE....STATUESQUE! THE FIRST FLAG RAISING WAS THE BIG MORALE BOOSTER THOUGH:

The raising of the national colors immediately caused a loud cheering reaction from the Marines, sailors, and coast guardsmen on the beach below and from the men on the ships near the beach. The loud noise made by the servicemen and blasts of the ship horns alerted the Japanese, who up to this point had stayed in their cave bunkers. Schrier and his men near the flagstaff then came under fire from Japanese troops, but the Marines quickly eliminated the threat.

POOR LITTLE NIPPERS....HAD TO KNOW THE JIG WAS UP WHEN THE INVASION FLEET HORNS WENT OFF!

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