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09-17-22, 06:12 PM | #4291 |
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1939 Soviet Union invades Eastern Poland allowing Germans to advance West, taking 217,000 Poles prisoner, without a formal declaration of war.
They make a habit of that. Didn't they also invade Finland on the sly, and Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Lithuania to mention but a few.
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09-17-22, 07:34 PM | #4292 | |||
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Under the guns of the Red Baron #1
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09-18-22, 01:42 PM | #4293 |
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1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed.
1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers. 1947 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July. 1973 German FR & German DR admitted to UN 1976 Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
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09-18-22, 04:03 PM | #4294 |
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When did his name change from Mao Tse Tung??
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09-18-22, 04:34 PM | #4295 |
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The western Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Chinese: 'Mao Tsê Tung' begun and used even by the PRC Foreign Ministry, began to change with the advent of Mao's The Little Red Book and the adoption and use of Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of Mandarin Chinese?!! Both are still in use today. and we will all be using one form or the other after our inevitable indoctrination.
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09-18-22, 06:36 PM | #4296 | |
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09-19-22, 08:08 AM | #4297 |
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1893 New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote.
1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France. 1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341 1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.
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09-20-22, 01:46 PM | #4298 |
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1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland.
1860 First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) 1939 British navy captures German U-27 boat. 1943 Liberator bomber sinks U-338 1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US 1946 Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe' 1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland. 1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification. 2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"
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09-21-22, 11:25 AM | #4299 |
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1915 Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600
1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews. 1944 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting. 1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria. 1961 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter. 1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs at the RAF airfield near Eglinton, County Londonderry; the terminal building, two aircraft hangars and four planes are destroyed. 1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Both pilots eject safely, but three people killed and several injured when one of the aircraft destroys 3 dwellings.
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09-22-22, 09:03 AM | #4300 |
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1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the (then) longest reigning monarch in British history.
1914 British cruisers, the Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue, were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 9. 1,459 die. 1943 British midget submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz. 1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks next day. 1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229 1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under the Pole (record) 1975 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco. 1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
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09-26-22, 09:46 AM | #4301 | |
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1954: the Japanese ferry, ToyaMaru, sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Straight. More than 1150 passengers are lost.
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09-26-22, 12:52 PM | #4302 |
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1580 Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.
1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI 1934 British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched; "wins" Blue Riband for fastest passenger crossing of Atlantic, 1936 & 1938-52; retired in 1967, permanently moored and converted to a hotel in Long Beach, California. 1938 Adolf Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudetenland. 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed. 1944 World War II: Battle of Arnhem ends in Allied failure as German forces link up on both sides of the Lower Rhine river and mop up last British resistance. 1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul. 1960 Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations. 1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (Washington, D.C. to Paris) in record-breaking time (3h33m). 1983 Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging supposed missile attack from the US an error. 2017 Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving - last country in the world to do so.
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09-27-22, 11:33 AM | #4303 |
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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England.
1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain. 1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launched at Clydebank, Scotland. 1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance. 1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England. 1940 Nazi Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis) 1941 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer) 1941 US President Roosevelt launches the 1st Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry. 1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time. 1956 Great Britain commences 'Operation Buffalo' testing four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga, South Australia. 1968 France denies UK entry into common market. 1982 Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again" with Sean Connery playing James Bond for the final time. 1991 US President George H. W. Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert.
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09-28-22, 10:58 AM | #4304 |
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1066 William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1785 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) 1939 German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR 1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.
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09-28-22, 11:12 AM | #4305 |
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1066 William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
True. it never was the Battle of Hastings. I think maybe the victorians twisted it like they did with most history. It was the Battle of Pevensea, and nearby to here is a place called Battle. Nowadays migrants land here in the search for the land of milk and honey.
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