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Old 12-01-21, 11:13 AM   #4006
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1768 The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway (rediscovered 1974)

1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington.

1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war.

1943 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Old 12-03-21, 12:09 PM   #4007
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1983: thousands of people died when water was accidentally introduced during cleaning and renovation of a tank containing 42 tons of methyl isocyanate at a Union Carbide subsidiary plant in Bhopal, India. The water caused the tank to pressurize and rupture. The exact casualties my never be ascertained; 8, 000 died within two weeks and another 8,000 have since died from gas related diseases. 574,366 other victims suffered injuries! 7 Indian employees were convicted of "death by negligence" and fined approx $2,000 apiece, the maximum under Indian law... The event is considered one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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Old 12-04-21, 07:06 AM   #4008
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1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.

1915 Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France.
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Old 12-06-21, 11:14 AM   #4009
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1865 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery.

1917 French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, Canada killing 1,700

1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.

1941 Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore.

1962 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program.
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Old 12-06-21, 12:16 PM   #4010
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I always thought Thanksgiving in the USA was like UK's Harvest Festivals???
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1917 The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks)

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.

1941 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)

1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time.
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Old 12-07-21, 11:48 AM   #4012
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1941 1st Japanese midget submarine (No. 20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward)
...with Minnesota gunners who put one thru the conning tower; certainly not "Minnesota Nice" on the "Day of Infamy"! < and the gun that done it on the Minnesota state capitol grounds!
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Old 12-08-21, 10:35 AM   #4013
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1914 Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron.

1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine.

1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

1966 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space.
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Old 12-11-21, 08:11 AM   #4014
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1913 "Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum.

1936 Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson.

1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
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2000 US Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, settling the recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush's favor and thus handing him the presidency.

2015 COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels.

2019 British General Election won by Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in landslide win with 80 seat majority. Scottish National Party also wins 48 of 59 seats in Scotland.
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1774 First incident of American Revolution - 400 New Hampshire militiamen successfully attack Fort William and Mary.

1812 The French invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, officially ends with the French having lost as many as 530,000 people.

1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York.

1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea (sank next day)

1944 US Congress establishes rank of General of Army (5-star General)

1952 UN Troops kill 82 North Korean POWs during a prison camp riot in Pongam-do, South Korea.

2008 President George W. Bush make his fourth and final trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.
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1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death.

1941 German submarine U-127 sinks.

1941 Nazis transfers 100 Czech citizens, Heinrich Himmler falls faint.

1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US submarine to sink a Japanese ship.

1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms.

1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel.

1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages.

2006 First flight of the F-35 Lightning II
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1907 As a gesture of the US's new presence as a world power, President Theodore Roosevelt sends the 'Great White Fleet' on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally.

1944 Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the 'Battle of the Bulge'

1944 German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 die)

1969 British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty.
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1900 1st prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy.

1903 The Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1922 Last British troops leave Irish Free State.

1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.

1944 Three US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed.

1957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.

1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.
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1941 Adolf Hitler takes complete command of German Army.

1942 Robert Stroud "Birdman of Alcatraz" is transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.

1949 Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Gareloch, Scotland.

1958 First radio broadcast from space, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower Christmas message "to all mankind, America's wish for peace on Earth and goodwill to men everywhere"

1984 Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration to transfer Hong Kong back to China in 1997
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