This date in history

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1879 Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa.

1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.

1943 Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion of Sicily for July 10th

1944 Allied forces begin landing at Anzio on the Italian mainland.

1959 USAF concludes that less than 1% of UFOs are unknown objects.

1963 Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.

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1795 War of the First Coalition: French cavalry captures 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns near the port of Den Helder - rare instance of cavalry capturing a fleet.

1945 Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.

1950 Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel.

1962 British intelligence officer Kim Philby defects to USSR

1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War.

1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.

2020 China locks down the city of Wuhan and its 9 million people, in a belated but ultimately successful effort to control the city's COVID-19 epidemic.

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1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day. Referred to as Invasion Day by some First Nations people.

1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead)

1942 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland.

1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp.

1972 Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute - world's highest fall without a parachute.

1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

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1915 First US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)

1942 WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland.

1953 19-year old Derek Bentley is hanged in Wandsworth Prison, London, controversially convicted of the murder of a police officer. He was pardoned on 30th July 1998.

1980 USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.

1982 Italian police rescue US Brigadier General James Dozier, held hostage for six weeks by the Red Brigade of Padua, Italy.

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, with all 7 crew members killed, including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first teacher in space.

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1916 First bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place.

1917 British submarine K13 sank in the Gareloch, Scotland; 32 of her crew died.

1943 HMNZS Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal.

1943 U.S. cruiser "Chicago" is heavily damaged by Japanese bombers on the first day of the Battle of Rennell Island.

1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.

2002 US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" an "Axis of Evil", which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

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Just in the News, it was fifty years ago in Derry when soldiers opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry on 30 January 1972; which was later called "Bloody sunday".
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-60130409

Does he really think this will be forgotten? I do not trust the idea that this is done to "calm down everyone"
https://latestpagenews.com/news/bloo...tors-get-away/

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1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.

1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen.

1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)

1943 Six British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight.

1943 Adolf Hitler promotes Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th Army, to Field Marshal in the hope that he will not surrender.

1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die.

1965 State funeral for Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's largest ever state funeral.

1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'

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1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ships.

1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1943 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.

1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June.

1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland.

1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb.

1957 Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.

1972 British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling to House of Commons on 'Bloody Sunday', "The Army returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs"

1983 In an effort to reduce driving deaths, a new law in UK requires drivers and front-seat passengers to wear seatbelts.

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1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.

1917 German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unrestricted submarine warfare against allied shipping.

1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police.

1933 German Parliament is dissolved by President Paul von Hindenburg by the request of new chancellor Adolf Hitler.

1942 Second Norwegian government of Vidkun Quisling forms.

1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier.

1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes.

1958 Manchester United beats Arsenal, 5-4 at Highbury in the team's last game on British soil, 5 days prior to the plane crash at Munich airport that killed 7 players.

1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon.

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

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1887: Punxsutawney Pennsylvania holds its first Groundhog Day festival. Today the groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, saw his shadow. IE:...damn! six more weeks of winter!!

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1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)

1901 Queen Victoria's Funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.

1933 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Reichstag (Parliament)

1943 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II

1944 Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory.

1954 President Eisenhower announces the detonation of the world's first hydrogen bomb (tested in 1952)

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1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

1945 Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.

1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR

1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California.

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Originally Posted by JIMBUNA

1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

That would be the second vessel named Housatonic sunk by submarine: the first was sunk by the CSS Hunley 53 years earlier Rule 1 of submarine warfare...DO NOT name your ship "Housatonic"

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1935 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for first time.

1943 First Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel.

1971 The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the 'Troubles'

1971 Bernard Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast.

1971 James Saunders (22), a member of the IRA, is shot and killed by the British Army during a gun battle near the Oldpark Road, Belfast.

1983 Trial of former Gestapo commandant Klaus Barbie begins in France for war crimes during World War II

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1783 Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months.

1962 US President JFK begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports.

1991 The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.

1992 Maastricht Treaty signed by 12 countries from the European Community (EC) to create the European Union (EU)