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Jimbuna · 05-14-20, 01:57 PM

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

1927 Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.

1940 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England.

1940 Luftwaffe bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany.

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 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.

1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes.

1986 Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary.

mapuc · 05-14-20, 02:14 PM

Don't like to post comment in Jim's great thread, which is his.

I felt that the creation of Israel is also an important thing, whether you support Israel or not.

Because on this day 14 May 1948 in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years

Markus

Aktungbby · 05-14-20, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapuc

Don't like to post comment in Jim's great thread, which is his.

I felt that the creation of Israel is also an important thing, whether you support Israel or not.

Because on this day 14 May 1948 in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years

Markus

YOU DAMNED DRUNK DANE!!??

I'LL NOT TOLERATE SOME MOROSE DANISH MUNCHING MORON GIVING CREDIT FOR MY AWARD WINNING THREAD TO AN ENGLISHMAN!

IT WAS A GREAT POST HOWEVER!

mapuc · 05-14-20, 04:18 PM

I'm terrible sorry. It was not my intention to do so.

A great thanks to the creator of this fabulous thread shall also be given.

Markus

Aktungbby · 05-14-20, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapuc

I'm terrible sorry. It was not my intention to do so.

A great thanks to the creator of this fabulous thread shall also be given.

Markus

OF COURSE I DEIGNED TO THINK OTHERWISE; WITHOUT THE 'ELEMENT OF INTENT' THERE CAN BE NO CRIME!

...OCCASIONALLY I THINK IT'S JIMBUNA'S THREAD TOO!

Aktungbby · 05-15-20, 10:05 AM

1930:Registered nurse, Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, goes on duty aboard an Oakland-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Transport, a forerunner of United Airlines. This will give rise to the literary classic:Coffee, Tea, or Me!

Jimbuna · 05-15-20, 01:07 PM

1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

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'

1917 The first officer's training camp is opened in the US, as the country prepares for war.

1921 British Legion formed to care for ex-servicemen.

1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders.

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.

Jimbuna · 05-16-20, 02:32 PM

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.

1944 First of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.

Aktungbby · 05-17-20, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the beast

He force-fed his second wife...Ouch.
Well, I am not good at England's history in those days.

1536:Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of Henery VIII to Anne Bolyn to be invalid after she failed to pruduce a male heir; already condemned falsely for treason, Ms. Tudor(wife #2!)

was beheaded at the Tower of London 2 days later...talk about having a wicked spousal 'beef' resulting in 'judicial murder' ie: "it's good to be king" and saves on alimony!
I'd consider that a divorce!

Jimbuna · 05-17-20, 01:49 PM

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

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler.

1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th

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.

Jimbuna · 05-18-20, 01:40 PM

1917 First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, is ordered to France.

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

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

Jimbuna · 05-19-20, 01:55 PM

1568 English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Mary, Queen of Scots.

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.

1959 The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed.

Jimbuna · 05-20-20, 01:23 PM

1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.

1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty.

1918 First electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)

1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.

Jimbuna · 05-21-20, 12:22 PM

1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II

1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia.

1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.

1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title.

1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores.

1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands.

Jimbuna · 05-22-20, 01:37 PM

1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" in Berlin, Germany.

1933 First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by Aldie and John Mackay saw "something resembling a whale"

1947 First US ballistic missile fired.

05-14-20, 01:57 PM	#3256
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1890 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to sub-lieutenant. 1927 Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg. 1940 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England. 1940 Luftwaffe bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany. 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 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise. 1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes. 1986 Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

05-15-20, 10:05 AM	#3261
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,857 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	1930:Registered nurse, Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, goes on duty aboard an Oakland-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Transport, a forerunner of United Airlines. This will give rise to the literary classic:Coffee, Tea, or Me! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

05-15-20, 01:07 PM	#3262
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman. 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' 1917 The first officer's training camp is opened in the US, as the country prepares for war. 1921 British Legion formed to care for ex-servicemen. 1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders. 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. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

05-16-20, 02:32 PM	#3263
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	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. 1944 First of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

05-17-20, 01:49 PM	#3265
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway. 1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler. 1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th 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. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

05-14-20, 02:14 PM	#3257
mapuc Fleet Admiral Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 17,885 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Don't like to post comment in Jim's great thread, which is his. I felt that the creation of Israel is also an important thing, whether you support Israel or not. Because on this day 14 May 1948 in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years Markus

05-14-20, 04:18 PM	#3259
mapuc Fleet Admiral Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 17,885 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	I'm terrible sorry. It was not my intention to do so. A great thanks to the creator of this fabulous thread shall also be given. Markus

05-18-20, 01:40 PM	#3266
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1917 First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, is ordered to France. 1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy. 1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

05-19-20, 01:55 PM	#3267
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1568 English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Mary, Queen of Scots. 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. 1959 The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost. 1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII held in Westminster Abbey, has one of the largest assemblages of European royalty. 1918 First electrically propelled warship (New Mexico) 1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II 1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia. 1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured. 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title. 1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores. 1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" in Berlin, Germany. 1933 First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by Aldie and John Mackay saw "something resembling a whale" 1947 First US ballistic missile fired. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)