This date in history

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1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.

1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI

1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed.

1969 The Beatles release "Abbey Road" album, their final recordings as a quartet.

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1066 William the Conqueror's troops set sail from Normandy for conquest of England.

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.

1938 British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank, Scotland.

1939 Warsaw surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance.

1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England.

1940 Nazi Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)

1941 Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general (Gruppenfuehrer)

1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time.

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1928 Scottish medical researcher, Alexander Fleming, discovers penicillin the first effective antibiotic. Considering my arrival a mere 23 years later, one serious gunshot wound ( incl.1 month in traction with pneumonia!!; a childhood meningitis attack; a wrestling-mat staph infection(entire team!)in high school; a cardiac birth defect requiring antibiotics for all dental work; a recent 8 hr. ER diverticulosis(age 70?!!) attack requiring IV antibiotics; and a wicked recent boatdock arsenic-wood sliver accident to my ungloved hand...I'm particularly grateful...and still here...having only to contend with Covid, global warming and impending WWIII!!??

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1066 William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.

1850 US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment.

1939 German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR

1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.

1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's

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1829 The first units of the London Metropolitan Police appear on the streets of the British capital.

1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine begins, 33,771 mostly Jews murdered.

1972 Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations.

1984 Elizabeth Taylor undergoes rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic.

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1938 Treaty of Munich signed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. Chamberlain infamously declares "Peace for our time" on his return to London.

1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland.

1939 Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.

1946 Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials.

1954 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy.

1977 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

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1914 The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth.

1918 World War I: Combined Arab and British force under the Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence captures Damascus from the Turks.

1934 Adolf Hitler expands German army and navy, violating Treaty of Versailles.

1939 Winston Churchill calls Russia a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight.

1947 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day)

1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa.

1950 South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea.

1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack.

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1940 British liner Empress, loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk.

1942 RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of US troops, slices cruiser HMS Curacao in half, killing 239

2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

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1941: Adolf Hitler declares in a speech that Russia had been "broken" and would "never to rise again!" "Ach du Liebe!"...1944: U.S. Army troops crack the Seigfried line north of Aachen, Germany... did the German commander think :Aachen du Leibe!

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1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

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^ Ach du Liebe!

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1914 Dardanelles: French & British fleet bombards Turkish forts.

1940 French Vichy regime proclaims end of "Statute of the Jews"

1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad.

2006 WikiLeaks is launched, created by internet activist Julian Assange.

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2020 US President Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while still infectious with COVID-19 and returns to the White House.

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1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die.

1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain.

1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"

1944 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea.

1945 US General Eisenhower welcomed in The Hague (on Hitler's train)

1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb.

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1915 English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers.

1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters.

1919 KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)

1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

1944 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.

1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums.

1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn.

2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.