This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers.

1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

1934 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces.

1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death.

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands.

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 and U-106.

1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed).

1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

1961 The Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club.

2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.

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1876: Famed scout, frontiersman and lawman, 'Wild Bill' Hickock, playing poker in a Deadwood, South Dakota's Saloon #10, is shot dead while playing poker, ALLEGEDLY holding aces and eights: thereafter known as " the deadman's hand" ... https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-jackmccall/

[Jimbuna]

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates.

1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)

1943 General Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice.

1972 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.

[Jimbuna]

1914 WWI: German army shoots Belgian priests and burns down village of Battice.

1914 WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany.

1914 WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war.

1914 German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast.

1914 WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of war on Germany.

1914 US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI.

1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann.

1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US.

1943 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada.

1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1914 WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of war on Germany.

Originally Posted by SEVERALSOURCES

The title page of the "London Opinion" in 1914 for the first time printed images showing popular by its command posts in colonial wars War Minister Lord Kitchener. The advertising psychologically pioneering subject of fixing the viewer with the look in perspective enlarged outstretched forefinger was copied in several countries - the most successful in the United States and the Soviet Union. Kitchener represented a return to the military victories of the colonial era. The fact that Kitchener's name was not used in the poster demonstrates how easily he was visually recognized. David Lubin opines that the image may be one of the earliest successful celebrity endorsements as the commercial practice expanded greatly in the 1920s. It continues to be considered a masterful piece of wartime propaganda as well as an enduring and iconic image of the war.

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

[Eisenwurst]

On 5th August 1944, the biggest breakout of pow's in WW2 occured in Cowra NSW Australia.

A series of massed Banzai charges overwhelmed the guards, and a mass breakout into the surrounding countryside happened.



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-...rs-on/11367316

[Aktungbby]

/\ Perhaps they remake The Gleat Escape!

[Eisenwurst]

There was a 3 part mini series made in 1984, pre CGI.

This is a short clip from it.

[Jimbuna]

1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)

1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising.

1963 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

from which originated the Gaelic expression: A man of many parts...

[Jimbuna]

1914 Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210

1942 Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

PUTTING 'PAID' TO GEN CURTIS LEMAYS BELIEF THE WAR COULD BE WON FROM THE AIR ALONE...

The Joint Target Group compiled a list of the 22 most
important industrial cities in Japan. The new directive was
issued to LeMay on April 3. Top priorities were Nakajima -
Mushimo and Mitsubishi - both at Nagoya. Also listed were
urban areas of Tokyo, Kawasaki, Nagoya, and Osaka.(43) The
Joint Target Group based their selection on the premise that
the home islands would be invaded. LeMay's fire attacks had
been so successful in March however, that some of Arnold's
staff believed the war could be won exclusively from the
air. LeMay did. In April he wrote in a private letter, "I
consider that for the first time strategic air bombardment
faces a situation in which its strength is proportionate to
the magnitude of the task. I feel that the destruction of
Japan's ability to wage war lies within the capability of
this command."

BY THE TIME HIROSHIMA SUFFERED HISTORY'S FIRST BIG BANG THEORY THE DAMAGE HAD BEEN DONE...

[Jimbuna]

1914 Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece.

1914 Lord Kitchener says "Your country needs you" poster spreads over UK.

1954 Englishman Roger Bannister beats Australia’s John Landy in the mile at the Empire Games in Vancouver; first time 2 men run a mile in less than 4 minutes in the same race.

1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt.

1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield.

[Jimbuna]

1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges.

1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.

1942 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379

1945 US, USSR, Britain and France sign Treaty of London which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war leaders.

1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.

1953 Soviet leader Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb.

[Jimbuna]

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St Helena on board British ship the Northumberland.

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.

1914 German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham.

1915 British naval officer David Beatty is confirmed in the rank of vice-admiral.

1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki.