This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France.

1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury.

1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam.

1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London.

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1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1920 Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post.

1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering.

1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km.

1956 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control.

2000 President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

[Jimbuna]

1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Newfoundland.

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would die within its walls).

1940 German U-47 sinks SS Balmoralwoodl.

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary.

1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict.

[Betonov]

1868, birth of Karl Landstein in Wien, Austria-Hungary.

He is noted for having distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and having identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937, thus enabling physicians to transfuse blood without endangering the patient′s life.
From 1908 to 1920 Landsteiner was prosector at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna and in 1911 he was sworn in as an associate professor of pathological anatomy. During that time he discovered – in co-operation with Erwin Popper – the infectious character of poliomyelitis and isolated the polio virus.

Received a well deserved Nobel prize in 1930

1 billion lives saved and counting

[Jimbuna]

1940 World War II: France surrenders to NAZI Germany, German troops occupy Paris.

1982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.

2015 Real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for US President.

[Jimbuna]

1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French.

[Aktungbby]

^ Actually the French struck the Allies...and then piecemeal chaos and one of history's 'what ifs' ensued. Essentially, The Iron Duke said 'nay" to Ney??!!

Fighting started late in the afternoon on 15 June when the Elba squadron, a small Polish lancer unit consisting of only 109 men and officers, tried to attack the allied forces from the direction of Frasnes.

Sir John Kincaid, 95th Foot was there...making it a family affair! (highly regarded firsthand account): <My late Mom's side of the clan of course! http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/BATTLE_OF_QUATRE_BRAS.htm

[Jimbuna]

1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II.

1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.

1940 Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon).

1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falkland Islands.

[Jimbuna]

1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher.

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales.

1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons.

1944 German submarine U-767 sunk by English Navy destroyers in the English Channel.

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.

IT will end on a high note!

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

IT will end on a high note!

Well played sir!

[Jimbuna]

1829 Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies).

1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories.

1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor.

1944 World War II: First day of the 2 day Battle of the Philippine Sea, US naval forces defeat Japanese fleet.

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1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas.

1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews.

1943 German round up Jews in Amsterdam.

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services.

1991 The Bundestag (German parliament) decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

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1782: Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States...featuring the Bald EagleBen Franklin in particular in a letter to his daughter:

For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping & robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country…
“I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.”

1966: The Beatles release Yesterday and Today With the original album jacket the resulting outcry compels a more conventional cover: hastily stuck on over the butcher cover. A mint copy (the holy grail of record collecting?!!) of the Beatles’ infamous “butcher” cover, still in the shrink wrap, has fetched a staggering $15,000 on EBay in 2013...In 2016, an original mint condition stereo copy of Yesterday and Today in shrink wrap was sold for a record (no pun intended) $125,000! A few Capitol record executives kept some of the objectionable cover albums in their personal collections and release them as the market dictates ...'scarcity creates value'??!! if not good taste ! For U old time vinyl fanatic$$: http://diffuser.fm/i-thought-i-bought-a-beatles-butcher-cover-but-i-really-bought-an-obligation/ PS: if anyone finds his, I expect a 10% cut!

[Jimbuna]

1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War).

1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands.

1942 Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa.

1982 John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity.

1992 Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham & Allan Lamb.