This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1932 Emperor Hirohito of Japan narrowly evades an assassination attempt by a Korean independence activist, Lee Bong-chang.

1942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use.

1943 German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea.


1983 Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1948 State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence.

Strange that as when I referred to it as Eire when stationed in N Ireland, I was told No, Its Ireland. And that was by an irishman. I've heard it a few times since.

[Jimbuna]

1915 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones.

1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea.

1972 2 people are killed in a Loyalist bomb attack on the village of Belturbet, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland.

1972 Kim Il-song becomes president of North Korea.

1972 Nazi leader Martin Bormann's skeleton and remains are found in Berlin.

2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1915 Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones.

2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children.

Egad! Nuthing like post-Nativity "cannon fodder" planning to maintain or to re-constitute collapsing/failed empires!

[Jimbuna]

1170 English Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket assassinated before the high altar of Canterbury Cathedral by four knights.

1860 The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.

1939 First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype.

1940 Worst German air raid on London as over 10,000 bombs including the 1st incendiary bombs are dropped on the city as part of the Blitz.

1944 Belgian Walloon Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle sentenced to death.

1944 General Eisenhower's train returns to Versailles.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Egad! Nuthing like post-Nativity "cannon fodder" planning to maintain or to re-constitute collapsing/failed empires!

I resemble that remark. THe empire did not collapse, it 'diversified'

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

I resemble that remark. THe empire did not collapse, it 'diversified'

...or got amalgamated, subsumed, or reaffiliated like any ol' grenadier regiment!

[Red Devil]

Grenadier!!!! No need to be insulting.

I was in the First Royal Tank Regiment

[Jimbuna]

1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR

1941 In an emotional speech to the Canadian Parliament Winston Churchill states Britain will never surrender to "Hitler and his Nazi gang" and that "they have asked for total war. Let us make sure they get it".

1972 US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks.

[Aktungbby]

1813: British troops burn Buffalo, New York in the War of 1812... given the current frigid state of affairs in that blizzard-beleaguered city (37 dead in autos & snowdrifts so far) this holiday season, 'twould be really nice if the Redcoats could return to light a few major conflagrations right about now!

[Jimbuna]

1775 Battle of Quebec: American Continental Army led by Richard Montgomery is defeated trying to take the British stronghold of Quebec City in the American Revolutionary War, General Montgomery is killed and Benedict Arnold is injured.

1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1942 Battle of the Barents Sea between British Navy and German Kriegsmarine off North Cape, Norway.

1945 Ratification of United Nations Charter completed.

1946 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II

1958 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista tells his Cabinet he is fleeing the country.

1974 Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac.

1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US

1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President.

[Jimbuna]

1801 The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1852 National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds.

1892 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station - it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people.

1910 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to rear-admiral.

1917 T. E. Lawrence joins the forces of the Arabian sheik Feisal al Husayn, beginning his adventures that will lead him to Damascus by October, 1918

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to full admiral.

1934 Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".

1946 Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god.

1958 European Economic Community, better known as the European Common Market starts operation.

1962 Beatles' Decca Records audition is unsuccessful - they are told “guitar groups are on the way out..."

[Jimbuna]

1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Florida, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)

1941 The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.

1942 The 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals.

1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

[Jimbuna]

1777 General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.

1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic.

1925 Benito Mussolini dissolves the Italian parliament and proclaims himself dictator of Italy, taking the title "Il Duce" (the Leader)

1944 Top Ace Major Pappy Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Japanese Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.

1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits France.

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, injuring over 60 people.

1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc

1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.

[Jimbuna]

1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack.

1951 Korean War: Chinese forces recapture Seoul.

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"

2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.

2021 1st Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82 year old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed.