This date in history

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1919 - The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands.

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1611: English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people are is set adrift in Hudson's Bay by mutineers aboard his ship Discovery; His fate is still unknown.

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1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II.

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1944-In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.

1952-The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on Yalu River, Korea.

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1974 - 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space.

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1314: During the First War of Scottish Independence the two-day battle of Bannockburn takes place. Exceptionally long for a medieval battle, Robert the Bruce is victorious over Edward II who flees the field. A complete rout following the departure of the king: Out of 16,000 infantrymen, this would give a total of about 11,000 killed. The English chronicler Thomas Walsingham gave the number of English men-at-arms who were killed as 700, while 500 more men-at-arms (nobles)were spared for ransom. The Scottish losses appear to have been comparatively light, with only two knights among those killed.
It's arguable whether the Battle of Bannockburn settled all that much.
Despite the outcome, Robert the Bruce had to wait another 14 years for the king's son, Edward III, to recognize him as the rightful king of an independent Scotland...he then died the next year.

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1509 - Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's forces invade Russia crossing the Neman River.

2012 - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time.

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1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed.

1950 - Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades South Korea.

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Considering that Custer's 1874 Black Hills expedition-with regimental band and photography wagon- and the discovery that some of the largest gold deposits in America were there; coupled with President Grant's option to murder native Americans in violation of treaty to lessen an economic depression, all led to the Gibbon/ Terry/Crook invasion of Sioux territory culminating in the the Battles of the Rosebud(Crook) and Little Bighorn(Custer's regiment of Terry's advance). This poster sold (and is available in reprint) more Budweiser beer than there was gold in them-thar hills. imho!) Besides not bringing the Gatling guns, Lt.Col. Custer also didn't have the 7th Cavalry's famous band or the photography wagon with him on the 1876 expedition to the Little Big Horn- the slowdown from added baggage might have saved his life....)Custer was probably doomed from a week before when Gen Crook's column was turned back at the Rosebud, 6/17, by a strong and determined large force of Sioux led by Crazy Horse. Crook did not report this defeat, or his decision to halt and return to his base at Ft Fetterman, to the other two columns of Terry and Gibbon. The Native American forces were better armed and certainly in practice with a new fighting style in massive force when Custer arrived a week later... The Terry/Gibbon column would unite and arrive two days later to bury the dead and turn reality into legend to cover the ineptitude of the generalship. The big plan gone awry:

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed.

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Just for Ol George:


That is a depressing/miserable battlefield.

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What really happened at he Little Big Horn! (it's U-Cranks Birthday) actually filmed near TLBH At his prior victory at the massacre of peaceful Arapaho and Cheyanne on the Washeta, 1868, "Custer did have the regimental band during the attack. As soon as "Charge!" was played the band did strike up "Gary Owen." But unlike Hollywood portrayals, the band played only halfway through the first stanza. The instruments froze up because of the bitter cold. Latter in the day when the command left the village area, the band played "I Will Be Glad to Get Out of the Wilderness". Major Elliot and his small scouting command were massacred on that occasion by Indians rushing from encampments all along the Washta.. Nine years later at TLBH, Ol' George, making several of the same mistakes as at the Washeta, became his own Major Elliot and had no band to give a toot!

That is a depressing/miserable battlefield.

Indeed!

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Just for Ol George:


That is a depressing/miserable battlefield.

Most fitting Anze

I'll make your day Jason and let the typo stand

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1857 - The first 62 recipients are awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean war by Queen Victoria.

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1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict.

1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.

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1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London.

1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI.

1919 - Treaty of Versailles, ending WW I and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.