This date in history

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1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded.

1949 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days.

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1919 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary.

1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army.

1950 US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe.

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1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army.

Uranus!!! Pure Soviet Propaganda no IMHO 'bout it! Many a kraut Frontkämpfer must have puckered below his gunbelt and known his sorry expendible aß was in a frigid General Winter sling: Leck mich im Arsch meets Hände Hoch!! and taking live prisoners was'nt big on the Russian Army's '42 to-do list! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia...%20of%20Russia.

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1815 Second Treaty of Paris: France and her allies agree France will pay indemnities after Battle of Waterloo, ending the Napoleonic Wars.

1917 1st successful tank use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines.

1941 German "auxiliary cruiser" (armed merchant raider) Kormoran sinks near Australia.

1944 1st Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)

1945 The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers.

1995 Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview.

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1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with Britain.

1916 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.

1918 The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)

1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

2002 NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

2017 Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's parliaments during impeachment proceedings.

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1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.

1942 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man.

1943 British RAF begins air bombing of Berlin, Germany.

1963 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister.

2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

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1869 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving.

1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad.

1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor.

1963 JFK's body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House.

1963 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)

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1936 German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for uncovering German re-armament.

1944 US bombers based on Saipan begin 1st attack on Tokyo.

1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas.

1954 Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened.

1971 American "Dan Cooper" hijacks plane, extorts $200,000 ransom before jumping out of plane over Washington State, never seen again.

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1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in the United States.

1940 First flights of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1944 A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.

1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco.

1957 US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech.

1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

1969 John Lennon returns OBE to protest against UK's support for Vietnam War.

1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21

1975 A loyalist gang nicknamed the "Shankill Butchers" undertakes its first "cut-throat killing"; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast.

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1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so the Germans cannot seize them.

1944 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed.

1945 Trial against Dutch Fascist NSB leader Anton Mussert begins (later convicted and executed by firing squad)

1951 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea.

1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany.

1967 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time.

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1919: American born Lady Astor is the second woman elected and seated to Parliament. Her anti-Catholic, anti-semitic, pro-prohibitionist viewpoints Yanked not a few stodgy Brit chains in her 26 year tenure in office. Ultimately she was a liability to her party.

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1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution.

1916 1st German air attack on London.

1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates.

1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy.

1958 US reports first full-range firing of an Intercontinental ballistic missile.

1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution.

In the Brit commonlaw parlance of the times, they "pleaded their bellies"! I plead mine every day; usually squirming into an ever-tightening pair of jeans... but alas there's no reprieve!

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1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia.

1917 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims.

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet.

1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched.

1961 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone.

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1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops.

1922 First speed test of first genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho.

1924 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama.

1944 Biggest and last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched.

1958 First US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine.

1982 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea.