This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652.

1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals.

[Jimbuna]

1836 Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas.

1914 US President Wilson orders the US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; this will lead to the interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping to bring the US into the war.

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe.

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'Where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1836 Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas.

Yea! The great State of Texas born of men that had to become men in times of trouble

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe

Boo! The mistakes that men make live on forever, even unto this day with today's enemy being taken to lightly

[Catfish]

Well it was yesterday, but still: Beryl Marham flies from England to Canada in a one-engined tiny Vega Gull:

"On 4 September 1936, she took off from Abingdon, England. After a 20-hour flight, her Vega Gull, The Messenger, suffered fuel starvation due to icing of the fuel tank vents, and she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada (her flight was, in all likelihood, almost identical in length to Mollison's). In spite of falling short of her goal, Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop from east to west. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer."



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham

[Aktungbby]

^ Good that! I actually read her book, 1942's. West With the Night Her character is featured in the movie Out of Africa (what aerial photog/music! ) The lady knew how to 'get around'! She also became the first licensed female racehorse trainer in Kenya; and rapidly becoming a successful and renowned figure among the racing community of Kenya. Finch Hatton began a love affair with Beryl Markham, who was working as a race-horse trainer in Nairobi and the surrounding area. This relationship inspired Markham to take up flying; later, she would become known as a pioneer flyer herself (however, Markham attributed her interest in flying to her association with famed pilot Tom Campbell Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Campbell_Black) ...Lady's choice in 'affairs' always!

Originally Posted by wiki

She befriended the Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) during the years that Baroness Blixen was managing her family's coffee farm in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi. When Blixen's romantic connection with the hunter and pilot Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) was winding down, Markham started her own affair with him. He invited her to tour game lands on what turned out to be his fatal flight, but Markham supposedly declined because of a premonition of her flight instructor, British pilot Tom Campbell Black. Largely inspired by Tom Campbell Black, with whom she had a long-term affair, Markham took up flying. She worked for some time as a bush pilot, spotting game animals from the air and signaling their locations to safaris on the ground. She also mingled with the notorious Happy Valley set.

Too bad about the substitute for Ms Markham: Finch Hatton's Gypsy Moth took off from Voi airport, circled the airport twice, then plunged to the ground and burst into flames. Finch Hatton and his Kĩkũyũ servant Kamau were killed.

[Jimbuna]

1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World.

1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft.

1939 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II.

[Jimbuna]

1812 Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov.

1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy.

1940 German Luftwaffe blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights.

1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

[Aktungbby]

1533: Elizabeth Tudor was born at Greenwich Palace

...I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England

Kinda' set the tone: "the lady was not for turning" and kept her headsman well employed for 45 years...this being a naval forum: England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth with one of the greatest military victories in English history.
Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era.

[Jimbuna]

1664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (New York) to 300 English soldiers.

1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, sinks off Scotland.

1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1.

1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated.

1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp.

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged.

[Rhodes]

1966 - on Thursday, September 8:

Aired for the first time!

[Jeff-Groves]

1965 - on Thursday, September 8:
A small ad in New York’s Daily Variety on this day attracted 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first "manufactured" boy band –The Monkees.

[Aktungbby]

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged.

A samurai who fails at suicide??!! Should B everyone's first clue ...he's incompetent....EDIT: perhaps everyone's 'last clue' would be more accurate. How un-Bushido!

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

1966 - on Thursday, September 8:

Aired for the first time!

beat me to it. I actually watched the show when it was on the air in 66-69. I have been re-watching episodes on Netflix, for a 50 year old show, it has held up surprisingly well.

[Susexx]

1941 - The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

1965 - on Thursday, September 8:
A small ad in New York’s Daily Variety on this day attracted 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first "manufactured" boy band –The Monkees.

Were they considered a "boy band?" The roots of boy bands are The Jackson 5 and The Osmonds.
For those who don't know, The Monkees were formed for the show. They only later developed into an actual band.