This date in history

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1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election.

1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates.

1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons.

1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.

1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference in Iran to map out strategy.

1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death.

1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons.

I'd imagine she "Yanked" a few Parliamentarian chains during her tenure in office! Particularly half-American Winston Churchill's: when he wondered what disguise to wear to a masquerade ball, she retorted: "Why don't you just come sober Prime Minister!"

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1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia.

1917 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims.

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet.

1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched.

1951 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada.

1952 US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war.

1961 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone.

1963 LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK

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OTD in 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Shinano was torpedoed and sunk by USS Archerfish (SS-311) just 10 days after being commissioned. The Shinano was the largest carrier built at that time and remains the largest warship to be sunk by a submarine.

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^ that put a halt to any Shenanogans the warship could have promulgated!

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1922 Adolf Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich, Germany.

1924 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano.

1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

1944 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched.

1958 1st US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine.

1982 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

NOVEMBER 1942

Atlantic

Allied Convoy Routes - New fast (F) and slow (S) convoys started in October and November between the UK and North African ports - UK out (KMF and KMS) and Home to UK (MKF and MKS). From April 1943 these convoys sailed to and from the Gibraltar area mainly with OS and SL-convoyed ships.

15th - The Germans reacted to the 'Torch' landings on French North Africa by concentrating U-boats off Morocco and to the west of Gibraltar. A number of empty transports were sunk, and on the 15th escort carrier "AVENGER" sailing with return convoy MKF1 was torpedoed by "U-155" and went down off the Strait of Gibraltar. Only 12 men survived. That same day, destroyer "Wrestler" also with MKF1 sank "U-411". Over the next few days US destroyers accounted for "U-173" and the RAF for "U-98".

Attacks on UK/North America Convoy ONS144 - Slow convoy ONS144 was heavily attacked in the mid-Atlantic and lost five ships. Escort was provided by the British B6 group composed largely of Norwegian-manned corvettes. On the 18th the Norwegian "MONTBRETIA" was lost to "U-624" or "U-262", but two days later Norwegian sister-ship "Potentilla sank "U-134".

21st - Aircraft of 817 Squadron from fleet carrier "Victorious" accounted for "U-517" southwest of Ireland.

Arctic Convoys - Archangel to Loch Ewe, Scotland convoy QP15 with 28 ships loses two to U-boat attack.

Battle of the Atlantic - World-wide losses in tonnage due to Axis submarines were the highest of any month of the war - 119 ships of 729,000 tons, mostly in the Atlantic. By year's end, submarines in 1942 accounted for 1,160 ships of 6,266,000 tons or a monthly average of 522,000 tons. Losses in the North and South Atlantic made up most of this total. To deal with this grave threat, a Cabinet Anti-U-boat Warfare Committee (not the 1941 Battle of the Atlantic Committee) was formed under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It saw the first need as closing the mid-Atlantic gap once and for all. Steps were taken to further expand Coastal Command and speed up the introduction of VLR aircraft. Adm Sir Max Horton, commander of home-based submarines since 1940 and a World War 1 submariner himself, succeeded Adm Noble as C-in-C, Western Approaches.

Monthly Loss Summary
- 93 British, Allied and neutral ships of 567,000 tons in the Atlantic from all causes, 1 escort carrier, 1 destroyer and 1 corvette
- 7 U-boats including one by US aircraft off Iceland, and one possibly by the RAF in the North Atlantic

https://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsUboats3.htm

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

1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38

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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1942: an artificially created self sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago. 80 years later: with 'fatboy' in N. Korea, Premier Xi in China building hundreds of missiles in silos, and Vlad the disPutin' mulling over using 'nukes' in Ukraine; the big bang appears ever more imminent...

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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.

1791 Britain's "The Observer" is first published, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world.

1908 The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband.

1915 Frank Friday Fletcher is first US admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor.

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France.

1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River, China, sinks killing 2,750

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1908 The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband.

...that didn't last much past 1914...(unrestricted submarine warefare)and now we have games!

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1952: the Great Smog of London descends on the British capital; the unusually thick fog, which contained toxic pollutants, lasted 5 days and caused thousands of deaths. TODAY'S NEWS: Iran announces the disbanding of its so-called morality police and is considering the altering the requirement that women wear hijab head-coverings in public...

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1933 Prohibition ends in the US when 21st Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, 18th Amendment repealed (5:32 PM EST)

1941 US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor.

1945 Flight 19 the "Lost Squadron" of 5 torpedo bombers and 14 airmen is lost east of Florida in the supposed Bermuda Triangle.

1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl.

1958 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.

1974 Final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC TV

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1240 Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an 8 day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city only 2,000 survive.

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.

1938 French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)

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

1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson confers Presidential Medal of Freedom on 31 recipients selected by JFK, including: contralto Marian Anderson; diplomat Ralph Bunche; cellist Pablo Casals; Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter; labor leader George Meaney; architect Mies van der Rohe; pianist Rudolf Serkin; writers E. B. White and Thorton Wilder; and painter Andrew Wyeth; as well as posthumously to JFK himself, and Pope John XXIII

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1917 The USA's 42nd 'Rainbow' Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks)

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

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

1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time.