This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1916 The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania.

1916 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships.

1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus.

1940 British search plane finds German supply ship Altmark, used to accommodate allied sailors from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee off Norway.

1942 Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive.

1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.

[Aktungbby]

1916 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships.

I've noticed of late: a great deal of "diplomacy " involves rejecting or reserving so-called rights...IE: China has recently rejected our right to shoot down its spy balloons over US territory and so forth under there right of 'force majeure" formerly known as 'right of 'innocent passage'??!

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Post any interesting event that happens on or near today's date. Since we're all the end-users of the historic events that get us to the moment of posting in this forum, try to point out how such an event may have personally affected, afflicted, or otherwise influenced your existence on the spinning mudball...humor is emphasized??!

A case in point:1864: The Union ship, USS Housatonic is sunk by an electrically detonated spar-charge of a black-powder device in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina by the Confederate hand-cranked submarine, HL Hunley, in the first naval attack of its kind; the Hunley also sank with all 8 crew members. Submarine warfare evolved from this precise moment in time...factoring hugely in 2 global world wars, and an ongoing nuclear 'cold war'; ultimately giving rise to a 100,000+ membership global forum: ...and here I've been for a decade, at the keyboard, posting in this and other threads...

[Red Devil]

Happy Forumday Achtung

[Jimbuna]

1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty.

1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.

1943 German Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbells demands "total war" from German citizens in speech at Berlin Sportpalast.

2014 Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days in the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych.

[Jimbuna]

1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance.

1915 British fleet opens fire on Dardanelles coast.

1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin.

1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans.

1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland.

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines.

1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatles wigs to the US

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma.

'Let's "Nippon these" bellowed one 'croc' to another...!

[Jimbuna]

1916 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months)

1917 British troopship SS Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 646 die.

1945 Battle of Monte Castello (Italy): Allied forces, including the first land battle of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, defeat Germans after three months of fierce fighting in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains.

1965 Civil rights activist and Muslim minister Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in New York City.

1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado.

[Jimbuna]

1797 The Last Invasion of Britain, launched by the French during the Revolutionary Wars, begins near Fishguard, Wales.

1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary.

1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia.

1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph

1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine warfare.

1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578

1942 World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defences collapse.

1967 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since WWII.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

'Let's "Nippon these" bellowed one 'croc' to another...!

Now that's a takeaway!!

[Jimbuna]

1836 Alamo besieged for 13 days until March 6 by Mexican army under General Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed.

1918 First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.

1942 Japanese submarine I-17 fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California.

1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

1991 US President George H. W. Bush gives Iraq a 24-hour deadline to withdraw from Kuwait or face a ground war.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 US Marines raise American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Pulitzer Prize winning photo of which by Joe Rosenthall later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.

... and dispatched his assistant operations officer, Lieutenant Ted Tuttle, to the beach to obtain a replacement flag. As an afterthought, Johnson called after Tuttle: "And make it a bigger one."

PICs or it didn't happen! https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...postcount=3134

When it comes to victorious flag raising on mountain tops..."size matters!"

[Red Devil]

th guy on this side of the camera is, if I recall correctly, Ira Hayes, (I could be wrong). there was a docum on Discovery a couple of years ago about him. He was an indian.

[mapuc]

There is a famous movie called Flag of our Fathers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_..._Fathers_(film)

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

th guy on this side of the camera is, if I recall correctly, Ira Hayes, (I could be wrong). there was a docum on Discovery a couple of years ago about him. He was an indian.

Ira Hayes is in the right background and is one of the gents raising the vertical flag. The group in the foreground is lowering the first smaller flag. The famous photo had just been taken seconds before by another photographer.