This date in history

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1858: Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the Union!

[Jimbuna]

1941 First Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England.

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1995 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1941 First Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England.

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

glad you said F because the first me190 was shot down in sept 40. And it was mossad who captures Eichmann

[Jimbuna]

1916 James Connolly and Sean McDermott are executed following their involvement in the Easter Rising in Dublin.

1937 Coronation of King George VI of Great Britain (and his other realms and territories beyond the sea) at Westminster Abbey, London.

1940 Nazi blitzkrieg and conquest of France begins with the crossing of the Muese River.

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender.

2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

[Jimbuna]

1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia.

1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement of the American Civil War, Private John Jefferson Williams of B Company, 34th Regiment Indiana Infantry is last man killed.

1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain.

1915 US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to 'pacify exited public opinion', according to Bryan.

1916 Lafayette Escadrille, an American air force unit under French command comprised of volunteers to fight for France, see first combat at the Battle of Verdun.

1946 US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.

1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons.

1949 First British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its first test flight.

1981 Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.

[Jimbuna]

1890 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to sub-lieutenant.

1938 England soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3

1940 British Local Defence Volunteers forms, an armed citizen militia designed to support the British Army during the Second World War. It is later renamed the Home Guard.

1943 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.

1944 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler.

1945 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human.

1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human.

/\ ya bugger! Ya missed the most important event on this date...considering the state we're all in; and a Brit one at that: 1796: English physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-tear-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter...He noted a lot of gorgeous dairymaids escaped getting the disease; and the rest is history. ...and I'm out the door for Moderna booster #4...and a flu shot: not in the same shoulder this time! And I suspect I could use a good dose of J.G. Hamilton's 1945 plutonium to boot...against whatever wannabe Warsaw Pacter Putin has in mind, injected into my arse jus' 2 gain obtain another 20 miserable years on the wobbling mudball!

[Jimbuna]

1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

1911 The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.

1914 US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off'

1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the Squalus.

1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463

1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and King George VI discuss the plan for D-Day.

1957 Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

1971 Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast.

[Red Devil]

1971 Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast.

1971 Terrorist (and murderer) is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast when he opened fire on them.

[Jimbuna]

1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs.

1943 SS General Jürgen Stroop orders the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, ending a month of Jewish resistance. 13,000 Jews have died, about half burnt alive or suffocated, German casualties less than 300

1969 US nuclear submarine Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.

1988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant.

[Jimbuna]

1919 UK War Department orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.

1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway.

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler.

1943 The Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

1949 British government recognises Republic of Ireland (previously Irish Free State)

1961 Fidel Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers.

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce)

1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce)

Provisional IRA (PIRA) gun happy kids playing with guns

[Jimbuna]

1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy.

1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea.

1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

2020 US President Donald Trump confirms he is taking controversial drug hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19

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1931 Cruiser Deutschland launched in Kiel.

1941 New German battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.

1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)

1943 Churchill pledges Britain's full support to US against Japan.

1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy.

1967 USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space.

1981 5 British Army soldiers are killed when their armoured vehicle is ripped apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh.

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1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy.


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