This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1944 Charles de Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.

1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII

1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior.

[Jimbuna]

1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.

1939 Erich Warsitz in a Heinkel He-178 makes the first manned jet-propelled flight.

1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)

1942 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the 1st Soviet citizen welcomed at the White House, by Eleanor Roosevelt.

1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender.

1979 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of them children by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland.

[Jimbuna]

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed.

1939 Gen Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") becomes commander of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division.

1952 German and Israel reach accord about recovery payments.

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech addressing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed.

With 3 cruisers and three torpedo boats lost...it certainly took a considerable Bight out of the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet initiative vventuring out to engage the Grand Fleet!

[Jimbuna]

1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion.

1916 Transport ship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide; 1,000 die.

1943 Danish Navy scuttles its warships so as not to be taken by Germany.

1945 General MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan.

1949 USSR performs its first nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR

1953 USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb.

1962 US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba.

[Jimbuna]

1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time.

1914 First German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed.

1918 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia.

1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet.

1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so.

1945 General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan.

[Aktungbby]

1986: 82, incl. 15 0n the ground, people are killed when an Aeromexico jetliner and a small private plane collided over Cerritos California. The passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea, causing the ex WWII hospitalship! SS Berlin, to sink; 448 (of 1243 aboard)people reportedly died. Both captains were convicted of criminal negligence and imprisioned. http://odessareview.com/30-years-sin...iral-nakhimov/

[Jimbuna]

1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London's East End.

1929 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years.

1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)

1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris.

[Jimbuna]

1915 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"

1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig.

1939 Adolf Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill through the "T4 Euthanasia Program," arguing that wartime "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"

1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.

1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal.

1950 Thirteen North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines.

1975 Gunsmoke goes off the air.

[Aktungbby]

1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out in Aktung's favorite year!

[Jimbuna]

1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1945 V-J Day, formal Surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of World War II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

[Jimbuna]

1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.

1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada.

1939 German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)

1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease.

1941 First use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)

1944 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp.

1945 Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies.

[Jimbuna]

1914 France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace.

1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen, Germany.

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

[Jimbuna]

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war.

1915 Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership.

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands, we stand'

1946 Amon Göth, former head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, found guilty of imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people, the first conviction of homicide at a war crimes court.

1961 JFK begins underground nuclear testing.

1979 Earl of Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey.

[Jimbuna]

1776 1st (failed) submarine attack: David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY

1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft.

1939 World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.