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03-15-23, 01:09 PM | #4531 |
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Extradite Deez Nutz in your mouth Commissioner Mark Rowley you fascist pig. Make 1984 fiction again. |
03-15-23, 01:48 PM | #4532 |
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"ET TU Rockfish?"
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03-15-23, 02:35 PM | #4533 |
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44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.
1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea. 1916 General Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico. 1922 France, which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials as payment. 1939 Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates. Germany occupies and annexes Czechoslovakia reneging on the Munich Agreement. 1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest. 1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War. 2019 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.
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03-17-23, 01:25 PM | #4534 |
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432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA 1965 Beatles announce their second film is titled "8 Arms to Hold You" ; later changed to "Help!" 1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor. 1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister, the first and only female to hold the office. 1995 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.
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03-17-23, 07:36 PM | #4535 |
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1995 Sinn Féin leader, and Terrorist and leader of the 'belfast brigade' Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C. America supported terror on UK streets
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03-18-23, 02:32 PM | #4536 |
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1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.
1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass where the Italian dictator agrees he will, in due course, join Germany's impending war effort in the west. 1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, which was charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II 1943 British merchant vessel "Canadian Star" is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by German U-boat U-221, 34 die with 54 survivors. 1945 US Army Air Force completes largest bombing raid on Berlin Germany: Over 1200 bombers drop 3,000 tons of explosives . 1965 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination. 1972 Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy"
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03-19-23, 11:40 AM | #4537 | |
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A man of God at the gates of hell...
1945 Essex class carrier USS Franklin is struck by a Japanese dive bomber causing massive damage. The second largest loss of crew After USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.
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03-19-23, 02:31 PM | #4538 |
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1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor.
1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence. 1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane. 1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy) 1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan. 1945 Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories. 2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.
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03-19-23, 02:51 PM | #4539 |
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20 years ago today shock and awe bombardments began. Coalition forces would invade Iraq the following day.
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03-20-23, 02:09 PM | #4540 |
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1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.
1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable. 1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed. 1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines. 1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks. 1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded.
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03-20-23, 08:36 PM | #4541 |
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1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines.
Interesting item I saw on some war online site. The white house warned McArthur that a jap fleet was heading his way and to be ready. He not only was not ready but did very little. Not an american plane took off to attack the fleet and the troops were unprepared.
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03-21-23, 01:20 PM | #4542 |
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1933 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public.
1939 Nazi Germany demands the return of Danzig (Gdańsk) from Poland. 1943 Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails. 1945 1st Japanese kamikaze "flying bombs" (MXY-7 Ohka) attack Okinawa. 1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed. 1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall. 2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.
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03-22-23, 09:07 AM | #4543 |
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2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.
And the world did nothing, again. We are governed by wimps
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03-22-23, 09:42 AM | #4544 |
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1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed.
1917 The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia. 1941 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II 1944 American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin. 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler. 1979 Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague.
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03-22-23, 10:50 AM | #4545 |
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1979 terrorists assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague.
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