This date in history

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory.

"WHAT a fascinating modern age we live in" https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lan...cunningham.pdf photo: pg. 80

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1412 The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.

1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Moscow.

1913 British House of Commons accepts Home Rule for Ireland (but the Great War gets in the way of it happening)

1917 "Zimmermann Telegram" is sent from Germany to Mexico, stating in the event of the US entering World War I on the allied side, Mexico would be given Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Intercepted by British intelligence and partially deciphered by the next day. It's release in March shifts US public opinion in favour of war against Germany.

1918 Austria and Germany are disrupted by strikes as people express impatience with leaders continuing the war.

1944 General Eisenhower takes command of Allied Invasion Force in London.

1945 Adolf Hitler moves into the Fuhrerbunker, his underground bunker in Berlin.

1957 3 B-52s leave California for first non-stop round world flights.

1957 Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool, England, home of The Beatles' first appearance.

2001 US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.

2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.

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1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander.

1912 Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

1929 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"

1944 British corvette HMS Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean.(other sources state 19th)

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.

1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by Soviet secret police in Hungary.

1951 China refuses ceases-fire in Korea.

1955 US Submarine Nautilus begins first nuclear-powered test voyage.

1961 Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Patrice Lumumba.

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War.

2007 Doomsday Clock set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's first nuclear test.

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1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony.

1919 The Paris peace conference (aka the Versailles peace conference) opens to draw up the treaties formally ending the Great War (WWI)

1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege would not be fully lifted until a year later.

1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets.

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21 jan 1921 the first Hot Dog stand was placed in Copenhagen. You could only get a red crispy sausage with bread and mustard.

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1942: a German Uboat sinks the Canadian liner RMS Lady Hawkins off Cape Hatteras NC (a serious 'zone of death for shipping)killing 251 people; 71 survived.

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1915 World War I: 4 people in Norfolk are killed in the 1st German Zeppelin air raid attack on the United Kingdom.

1940 The Three Stooges film "You Nazty Spy!" about the Nazis released with the disclaimer "Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle."

1947 SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392

1977 US President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)

1981 US & Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages.

1983 Klaus Barbie, SS chief in Lyon in Nazi-occupied France, arrested in Bolivia.

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1887: the US Senate approves an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base!!?? One wonders, in hindsight, if it had remained only a lease, instead of a dastardly coup of the independent nation of Hawaii by the greedy Dole-led Americans, creating a U S territory in the mid-Pacific, the Empire of Japan would have attacked...54 years later

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1841 China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War.

1879 British troops under Lord Chelmsford make camp at Isandlwana.

1936 Edward VIII succeeds British King George V

1942 Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee Conference in Berlin to organize the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews.

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.

2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president.

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1919 Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Féin creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence.

1943 Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Royal Navy, promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

1944 447 German bombers attack London.

1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg.

1954 USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched on the Thames River in Connecticut.

1977 US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

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1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain.

1879 Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa.

1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.

2020 China locks down the city of Wuhan and its 11 million people, in an effort to control COVID-19 with a then official death toll of 17 and over 500 people ill.

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1795 War of the First Coalition: French cavalry captures 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns near the port of Den Helder - rare instance of cavalry capturing a fleet.

1920 Dutch refuse to turn over ex-Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany to allies.

1945 World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.

1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War.

2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in Federal Bureau of Investigation custody.

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41 Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after the later's assassination by officers of the Praetorian Guard.

1915 German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland.

1916 The Military Service Bill, calling for conscription of men for war services, passes in the British House of Commons.

1943 Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death.

1943 Jewish patients, nurses and doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.

2017 President Trump withdraws the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)

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1848: James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutters Mill in northern California precipitating the 49er gold rush. 1970: AktungBBY, age 19, drives mom, siblings and Coco the English Springer in Country Squire wagon with trailer to California from Minnesota to join Dad in San José CA...1200 miles in pursuit of fortune-and eventual longhaul trukkin' career!. 1908: Boy Scout movement is formed by Robert Baden Powell.... 1963: following in Life Scout Dad's footsteps, AKBBY joins and becomes...a Tenderfoot ...the highest rank he'll ever attain at anything but at least I'm still "Brave, Clean! and Reverent" !

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1840 American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent.

1939 1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi.

1955 Russia ends state of war with Germany.

1969 US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris.

1971 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Amin.

1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia.