This date in history

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1941 First ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan.

1942 First powered flight of V-1 'buzz bomb', Peenemunde, Germany.

1943 US President FDR appoints General Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied forces.

1946 US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazis" amnesty.

1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek.

1992 US President George H. W. Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger for Iran-contra affair.

2001 "Time Magazine" names New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani 'Person of the Year', for leadership after 9/11 attacks.

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1066 William the Conqueror is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, completing the Norman conquest of England.

1899 Shelling on besieged Ladysmith during the Boer War includes one shell containing a plum pudding.

1914 Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place on the battlefields of WWI between British and German troops. Instead of fighting, soldiers exchange gifts and play football.

1926 Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan assumes the throne upon his father, Emperor Yoshihito's, death.

1932 During King George V's Christmas dinner speech his chair collapses.

1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th red-nosed reindeer.

1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong.

1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan.

1942 Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death.

1969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor.

1979 Soviet forces invade Afghanistan to prop up the Communist government, beginning a disastrous and failed ten-year war.

1989 Show trial of Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on charges of genocide and personal enrichment. The couple are found guilty and executed by firing squad the same day.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1989 Show trial of Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on charges of genocide and personal enrichment. The couple are found guilty and executed by firing squad the same day.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech.

Commie Dictatorship rule #1: Never lose your 'appeal'! Rule #2: Know when to get outta Moscow! A.D. 336: the first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome. I'd imagine there was a Bacchanal or two....'Toga Toga' BBY

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1914 US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea, on the same day Germans announce they will treat food as contraband, subject to seizure; weakens America's protest.

1918 After spending Christmas with American troops in France, President Wilson goes to London for preliminary discussions about the forthcoming peace conference.

1941 Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"

1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst.

1964 Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley claim last victim.

1968 Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge.

1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction.

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1923 Emperor Hirohito of Japan narrowly evades an assassination attempt by a Korean independence activist, Lee Bong-chang.

1942 First Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use.

1979 After invading Afghanistan two days earlier Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul, killing President Hafizullah Amin.

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1979 After invading Afghanistan two days earlier Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul, killing President Hafizullah Amin.

Considering that Amin had his own predecessor murdered following a shootout at the palace, pissing off Moscow who was displeased with American educated Amin...no surprise. The Soviets had poisoned his Coca-Cola, and even attempted a sniper attack. All male family members and Amin's son were also killed. When cautioned by Moscow on his brutality, Amin, who kept s picture of Stalin on his desk, responded "It was Comrade Stalin who taught us how to govern a backward country." Bloody wogs all...and if Russia can't handle it, what are we doing there??!!

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1065 Westminster Abbey in London consecrated.

1915 The British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones.

1934 Film "Bright Eyes" premieres starring Shirley Temple and featuring the song "On the Good Ship Lollipop"

1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea.

1972 Martin Bormann's skeleton is found in Berlin.

2005 A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.

2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children.

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1612: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observes the planet Neptune but mistakes it for a star...Neptune is officially discovered in 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle rule# 1 of astronomy: when it comes to telescopes, size matters!

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1860 The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.

1934 Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Treaty of 1930

1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype.

1940 Worst German air raid on London as over 10,000 bombs including the 1st incendiary bombs are dropped on the city as part of the Blitz.

1944 Belgian Nazi Leon Degrelle sentenced to death.

1944 General Eisenhower's train returns to Versailles.

1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu.

2016 US President Barack Obama retaliates against Russia for hacking American computer systems and trying to influence the 2016 presidential election by ejecting 35 Russian spies and imposing sanctions.

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1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype.

Would put paid to Dönitz's strategic concept of Atlantic warfare-the longest ongoing battle of WWII...

Originally Posted by AKBBY
platform is a platform... and a B-24 Liberator with 10 centimeter radar and four depth charges set shallow or even an outdated Swordfish torpedo plane(crippled Bismark) is a better platform.

Bad Guy #1- my late uncle (just died 3 months ago; age 95) flew these bad boys!

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1915 Cromarty Harbour, Scotland - British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die.

1941 In an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament Winston Churchill states Britain will never surrender to "Hitler and his Nazi gang" and that "they have asked for total war. Let us make sure they get it". Afterwards Yousef Karsh captures him in his famous photograph, "The Roaring Lion".

1959 George Washington, first ballistic missile submarine commissioned.

1972 US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks.

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1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1946 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion.

1967 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump the Caesar's Palace Fountain, Las Vegas, breaking his pelvis, femur, wrist, hip and both ankles.

1968 First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)

1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US

1986 Russian TU-144 flies for first time faster than sound.

1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President.

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1801 The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1877 Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India.

1910 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to rear-admiral.

1917 T. E. Lawrence joins the forces of the Arabian sheik Feisal al Husayn, beginning his adventures that will lead him to Damascus by October, 1918

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to full admiral.

1934 Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".

1946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god.

1957 George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

1958 European Economic Community, better known as the European Common Market starts operation.

1962 Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful.

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1941 The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.

1942 The 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals.

1942 The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

1944 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

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1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic.

1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)

1944 Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.

1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France.

1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc.

1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.