This date in history

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

why does this Nazi collaborator and a person who shipped jews top their death become a hero?????

After the war, Pétain was tried and convicted for treason. He was originally sentenced to death, but due to his age and World War I service his sentence was commuted to life in prison. His journey from military obscurity, to hero of France during World War I, to collaborationist ruler during World War II, led his successor Charles de Gaulle to write that Pétain's life was "successively banal, then glorious, then deplorable, but never mediocre".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_P%C3%A9tain

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1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent.

1918 Japanese battleship KAWACHI explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed.

1948 First jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

After the war, Pétain was tried and convicted for treason. He was originally sentenced to death, but due to his age and World War I service his sentence was commuted to life in prison. His journey from military obscurity, to hero of France during World War I, to collaborationist ruler during World War II, led his successor Charles de Gaulle to write that Pétain's life was "successively banal, then glorious, then deplorable, but never mediocre".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_P%C3%A9tain

thanks, he should have been hung

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1837 Queen Victoria is first monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace.

1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949

1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 lost by Germany.

1953 Battle of the Kumsong River begins - last major battle of the Korean war.

1955 The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London.

1976 Court martial begins in USSR for Valery Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)

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1933 All non-Nazi parties are banned in Germany.

1933 Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses.

1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is first US ship to bombard Japan.

1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)

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1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia.

1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde.

1945 Potsdam Conference: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill hold first post-World War II meeting.

1948 US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen encounters children in at Templehof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, giving him the idea to drop candy in 'Operation Little Vittles'

1998 Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

It was not only launched from russian-separatist-controlled territory, it was launched by those separatists, directed by FSB officer Igor Girkin.
And nothing happened.

In a post on VKontakte, Russia's largest social media site, which has since been taken down, separatist leader Igor Girkin, aka Strelkov, wrote:
"In the vicinity of Torez, we just downed a plane, an AN-26. It is lying somewhere in the Progress Mine. We have issued warnings not to fly in our airspace. We have video confirming. The bird fell on a waste heap. Residential areas were not hit. Civilians were not injured."
The entry was quickly deleted, but screenshots exist.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48691488

[Jimbuna]

^ I vaguely knew two of the passenger victims.

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1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.

1947 King George VI signs Indian Independence Act.

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.

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1915 Woodrow Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly'

1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.

1919 Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam.

1920 Irish Nationalist and Loyalists engage in street fighting over the issue of Irish independence from Britain, though Loyalist are reinforced by 1500 British Auxiliaries and 5800 British troops.

1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship.

1944 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy.

1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

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1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain)

1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher.

1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy.

1943 1st warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer.

1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III

1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)

1944 World War II: Operation Spring - one of Canada's bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed.

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1914 Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrive from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens.

1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer").

1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII

1945 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum.

1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled.

1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb.

1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat.

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1586 Walter Raleigh brings the first tobacco to England from Virginia.

1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY

1941 German army enters Ukraine.

1944 First British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)

1953 North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel.

1956 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings in 4th Test at Manchester; best return ever in Test cricket; bettered in 2nd innings 10-53

1972 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.

1987 First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.

2002 A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an airshow at Lviv, Ukraine, killing 85 and injuring more than 100 in the largest airshow disaster in history.

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1914 Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of WWI

1914 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow.

1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians.

1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender.

1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9

2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

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1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines.

1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover.

1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders.

1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin.

1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134

1973 Led Zeppelin has more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel.

1975 Ford became 1st US President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.