This date in history

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1919 The first day of the Weimar Republic which, because of its support of the Treaty of Versailles, does not receive proper allegiance from the German nation.

1935 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for first time.

1943 First Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

1958 21 dead in air crash at Munich-Riem Airport; 8 players and 3 staff are from the Manchester United football team.

1959 First successful test-fire of Titan ICBM

1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel.

1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one.

1983 Trial of former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie begins in France for war crimes during World War II

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1783 Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months.

1845 The Portland Vase, thought to date to the 1st century BC is shattered into more than 80 pieces by a drunken visitor to the British Museum.

1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189

1920 Admiral Kolchak surrenders to Bolshevik troops and is executed.

1991 The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

1992 Maastricht Treaty signed by 12 countries from the European Community (EC) to create the European Union (EU)

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1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot.

1807 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - first battle Napoleon isn't victorious.

1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374

1918 "Stars & Stripes,", weekly US armed forces newspaper, first published.

1920 Bolshevik troops capture Odessa, bringing an end to foreign involvement in the resistance against Bolshevik rule.

1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort.

1942 Nazi architect Albert Speer appointed Minister of Armaments by Adolf Hitler after death of Fritz Todt in a plane crash.

1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

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1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)

1922 World War Foreign Debt Commission is established by Congress to settle the problem of Allied war and postwar loans.

1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)

1944 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland.

1945 The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway.

1961 The Beatles first gig at Liverpool's Cavern Club; they would play there nearly 300 times over the next two years.

1983 Belgium buys 44 F-16s

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1906 British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days, renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design.

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson warns Germany that the US will hold it 'to a strict accountability' for 'property endangered or lives lost'

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.

1916 Military conscription begins in Britain.

1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland.

1947 WW II peace treaties signed.

1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel.

1972 Two British soldiers are killed in a land mine attack near Cullyhanna, County Armagh; an IRA member is shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with RUC officers.

1975 The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire.

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1916 Germany and Austria-Hungary notify the US that they will sink any armed merchant ships starting on 1 March.

1929 Vatican City, the world's smallest country, is made an enclave of Rome.

1943 US General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe; British General Montgomery not best pleased.

1944 U-424 sunk off Ireland.

1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 116 of 156 captured U-boats.

1956 British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier.

1998 KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview.

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1915 Adolf Hitler receives the relatively common Iron Cross second class for bravery in World War I

1915 World War I: Kaiser Wilhelm approves the strategic bombing of London's docks.

1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean.

1935 First secret demonstration of radio signals detecting aircraft by Robert Watson-Watt at Daventry, England.

1942 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest to Germany in a dash up the English Channel.

1999 US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial.

2013 North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, saying it was a nuclear device that could be weaponized.

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1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy.

1942 Hitler's Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, is cancelled.

1945 Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die.

1945 USSR captures Budapest, after a 49-day battle in which 159,000 die.

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1920: the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago; its first president was Maude Wood Parks. My mom, a "rabid Republican" was a lifelong member and state chapter president!

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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.

1876 Alexander G. Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor.

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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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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.

U should contact Pusser's Rum and get them to relabel their product slightly to :"Jervis' Blood" he does not get enough credit IMHO! A new portrait of Lord Nelson, by painter Leonardo Guzzardi, was recently discovered scars and all! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...all-180967205/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucking_the_monkey

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1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched.

1942 German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery.

1942 British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.

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.

1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.

1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends.

1998 The Angel of the North, a large-scale steel sculpture 20 m (66 ft) tall by Antony Gormley is installed at Gateshead, northern England.

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1659 First known cheque written (£400), now on display at Westminster Abbey.

1861 Abraham Lincoln stops his train at Westfield on his way to Washington to thank 11-year old Grace Bedell in person for her advice to grow a beard to gain more votes.

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 Egyptian 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 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.

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.

1992 Ethiopia finds the remains of former Emperor Haile Selassie on the grounds of the Imperial Palace, under the private lavatory of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who overthrew the Emperor.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1992 Ethiopia finds the remains of former Emperor Haile Selassie on the grounds of the Imperial Palace, under the private lavatory of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who overthrew the Emperor.

One could infer: Mr. Mariam did not think too highly of Mr. Selassie....

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1815 Treaty of Ghent ratified by the US Senate and signed by President James Madison ending War of 1812, over a month after it was signed in Europe.

1915 Edward Stone, fst US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded.

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 a cutlass.

1972 British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market.