This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1853 Commodore Matthew Perry and four US Navy vessels visit Japan to force them to open up to American trade and end their policy of isolation.

1916 First cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany.

1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804

1943 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje.

1943 British air raid sinks U-435

1944 U-740 sunk by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft.

1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

1951 US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany.

1982 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London.

2017 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaims victory over Islamic State forces in Mosul.

[Jimbuna]

1778 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1940 Battle of Britain begins as German forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel.

1943 6th day of battle at Kursk.

1943 US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)

1944 German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

[Aktungbby]

1859: Big Ben, the geat bell inside the London clock tower, chimed for the firstime. 1804: Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in Weehawken, New Jersey...1995: The UN designated "safe haven" of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovinia fell to Bosnian Serb forces...who then executed more than 8000 Muslim men and boys.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

1995: The UN designated "safe haven" of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovinia fell to Bosnian Serb forces...who then executed more than 8000 Muslim men and boys.

As far as i know what the Serbs did in Vukovar and Srevenica, apart from all those rape concentration camps, has never really been put before trial.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Catfish

As far as i know what the Serbs did in Vukovar and Srevenica, apart from all those rape concentration camps, has never really been put before trial.

I suspect the real issue revolves around the 576,000 critical virgin shortage for all the martyrs in paradise...at 72 per!??

[Jimbuna]

1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam.

1940 Marshall Philippe Petain, French hero of World War I, becomes head of the Vichy collaborationist government of France.

1943 7th day of battle at Kursk.

1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon.

1995 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam. [...]

Not really

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Not really

Not sure what you mean Kai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rufiji_Delta

[Jimbuna]

1918 Japanese battleship Kawachi explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed.

1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles.

1948 First jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)

1957 First President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.

[Aktungbby]

2003: the USS Ronald Reagan, the first carrier named for a living President, is commissioned at Norfolk, VA. A minor technical point imho; Mr. Reagan, suffering from Alzheimers for 10 years, died in June 2004...I doubt he knew.

[Jimbuna]

1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany.

1955 The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London.

1985 "Live Aid" concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London) and John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia) raises over $70 million for African famine relief.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam. [...]
Not sure what you mean Kai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rufiji_Delta

Maybe lacking english skills, but the "cruiser Koenigsberg sinking off Dar-es-Salam" sounded like it sank off the coast on sea, and not inland so to speak

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Catfish

Maybe lacking english skills, but the "cruiser Koenigsberg sinking off Dar-es-Salam" sounded like it sank off the coast on sea, and not inland so to speak

Yep, I see what you mean

[Jimbuna]

1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is first US ship to bombard Japan.

1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)

1967 The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits.

1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release "Linux" soon afterwards.

[Jimbuna]

1815 Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

1915 The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US

1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens.

1963 Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding.

1980 Billy Carter, the brother of US President Jimmy Carter, registers as a foreign agent of the Libyan government after it was revealed they paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars.