This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt.

1914 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI

1941 The first Jeep is produced.

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383

1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested.

1944 Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe.

1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's

1958 US atomic submarine USS Nautilus begins first transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine"

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt. It took the French awhile to 're-Orient' their naval strategy after this debacle < the explosion of French flagship Orient; Momentarily stopping the battle: everyone at the battle who saw it remembered this moment for the rest of their lives! Shortly after the battle, Nelson was presented with a coffin carved from a piece of the main mast of Orient, which had been taken back to England for this purpose, he was put inside this coffin after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar.

1914 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI

AHEM! That is a damn lie

One aspect of the war is the close connection among the three principal monarchs of the age, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany; King George V of England; and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. In fact, they were all cousins with each other: Wilhelm and George were first cousins, George and Nicholas were also first cousins, and Wilhelm and Nicholas were third cousins. All three men were also fifth cousins, being equal descendants of King George II of England.*

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brook...p-world-war-i/ They should perhaps rename WWI "Cousin Cousin"!!

[Jimbuna]

1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson further decimates the French fleet.

1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers.

1914 Great Britain mobilizes.

1916 Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

1934 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces.

1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences General Charles de Gaulle to death.

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands.

1943 Armed revolt by 800 prisoners at Treblinka Extermination Camp: crematorium destroyed; 200 escape the compound, but only 100 survive.

1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.

[Jimbuna]

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates.

1914 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German Army leading to their invasion hours later.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina.

1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I

1914 British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time."

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)

1943 General Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice.

1958 USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole.

[Jimbuna]

1914 Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany.

1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann

1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US

1943 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada.

1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified.

1972 Uganda dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda.

[Jimbuna]

1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown, the first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire.

1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)

1918 World War I: the last German air raid on England occurs, with four Zeppelin airships dropping bombs in the Midlands and North East England.

1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising.

1992 4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, acquitted on charges of beating Rodney King, are indicted on civil rights charges.

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1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.

1914 French cavalry enters Belgium.

1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege, 9 killed.

1914 Serbia declares war against Germany.

1914 Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I

1942 Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine sinks U-210

1942 Hermann Goering proclaims occupied areas "thoroughly empty to plunder"

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

[Jimbuna]

1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle's French government in exile.

1954 Englishman Roger Bannister beats Australia’s John Landy in the mile at the Empire Games in Vancouver; first time 2 men run sub-4 minute mile in the same race.

1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt.

1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield.

[Jimbuna]

1786 US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America.

1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.

1942 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in US executed in Washington, D.C.

1942 British Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus sinks U-379

1945 US, USSR, Britain and France sign Treaty of London which sets down procedures for the Nuremberg war trials of Nazi leaders.

1945 USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.

1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.

[Jimbuna]

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.

1914 German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham.

1915 British naval officer David Beatty is confirmed in the rank of vice-admiral.

1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city.

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President.

2020 Disputed Belarusian presidential election sees long time dictator Alexander Lukashenko officially win 80% of the votes but unofficially lose 60-70% of the votes to main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Sparks widespread protests in Belarus and international condemnation.

[Jimbuna]

1628 Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm, killing 30

1776 American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany.

1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali.

1943 US General George S. Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"

1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots.

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito's status remains unchanged.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt.

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383

French have never won a battle v the English, probably explains why they hate us so much.


Sunderland RAAF
Sunderland RAF

[Jimbuna]

1942 British aircraft carrier HMS Eagle hit by 4 German torpedoed and sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, 81 miles south of Mallorca.

1944 Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz.

1945 Allies refuse Japan's offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status.

1988 Al-Qaeda formed at a meeting between Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Dr Fadl in Peshawar, Pakistan.

2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

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1918 WWI: Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the Western Front.

1941 French Marshal Philippe Pétain gives full support to Nazi Germany.

1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.

1945 Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.

it reappeared in 2055 in the middle of the Woke Navy.