This date in history

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1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights: British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada.

1884 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude.

1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.

1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII

1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains, (passengers eat crash victims to survive, 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later)

1987 First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

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1912: shot in the chest in Milwaukee, Theodore Roosevelt still gives a scheduled speech. 1947: Chuck Yeagaer becomes the first pilot to break the sound barrier in a Bell XS-1 over Muroc Dry Lake CA! 1939: Gunther Prien infiltrates Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands Scotland and sinks the battleship HMS Royal Oak; 833 of 1200 seamen perish.

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1066 Battle of Hastings: William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who is killed in the battle.

1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

1933 Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations.

1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed.

1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed.

1943 600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland.

1943 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during assault on Schweinfurt.

1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba.

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1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrives on island of St Helena to begin his exile.

1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI at Vincennes near Paris.

1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6

1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ

1940 -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed.

1940 London's Waterloo Station bombed by German luftwaffe.

1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die.

1956 First plane to land safely on water - Pan Am Flight 6 San Francisco to Honolulu, all 24 passengers and 7 crew survive.

1967 The Motherland Calls, a monumental statue commemorating the battle of Stalingrad completed in Volgograd, Russia, then the World's tallest statue designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich.

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1813 Battle of Leipzig, largest battle in Europe prior to WWI, Napoleon's forces defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia.

1940 Warsaw Ghetto is formed by German Governor-General Hans Frank.

1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz.

1946 10 Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg war trials, including Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Alfred Jodl.

1962 Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

1964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power.

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1943 Burma railway completed, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers for use of the Japanese army.

1933 Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1941 USS Kearney becomes the first US destroyer torpedoed in World War II, while the country is still neutral.

1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631

1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers.

2017 Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting.

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1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million.

1919 David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby.

1931 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.

1942 Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed.

2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.

2013 Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria.

2017 US congresswoman Frederica Wilson says President Donald Trump said to bereaved army family of Sgt. La David Johnson "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway"

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1781 British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends.

1812 Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow.

1950 UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.

1951 US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany.

1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's first landing in NYC.

1987 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf.

2016 Third US Presidential debate: Donald Trump notably refuses to say if he will accept the result of election during debate with Hillary Clinton at Nevada University, Las Vegas.

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1918 In order to secure an armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions.

1921 Germany and Allies comes to an agreements over reparation payments in a meeting at Wiensbaden.

1944 US forces under General Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte.

1987 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis.

2011 The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.

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1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.

1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War.

1917 First Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command.

1944 US troops capture Aachen, first large German city to fall.

1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons.

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1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

1962 Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis.

1981 US national debt tops $1 trillion.

1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.

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1911 First aerial reconnaissance mission is flown by an Italian pilot over Turkish lines during the Italo-Turkish War.

1942 German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad.

1944 Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's flagship the heavy cruiser Atago sinks during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

1954 Britain, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany.

2001 The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.

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1910: BLANCHE S SCOTT BECOMES THE FIRST WOMAN TO SOLO IN AN AIRCRAFT
<"DON'T ASK HOW OLD I AM I'VE BEEN 29 FOR YEARS" On September 6, 1948, Scott was once again achieving distinction. On a flight with pilot Charles E. Yeager in a TF-80C, she became the first American woman to ride in a jet. For the pleasure of his passenger, Yeager included some snap rolls and a 14,000 foot dive. SOME GALS WILL DO ANYTING TO TO LEAVE A STAMP ON HISTORY!

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1911 Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.

1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.

1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks.

1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines.

1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba.

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1415 Battle of Agincourt: Henry V's forces defeat larger French army and the longbow defeats the armoured knight.

1854 The infamous "Charge of the Light Brigade" during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War results in over 100 killed.

1962 US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"

1971 United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People's Republic of China.

2017 Chinese Premier Xi Jinping unveils his new ruling council in the Great Hall of the People, none of the five are young enough to succeed him.