This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.

1940 Benito Mussolini and Italy join Adolf Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain.

1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin.

1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified.

1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

1977 Vietnam hands over MIA to US

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1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan.

1945 Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories.

1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the U.K.

2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, without United Nations support and in defiance of world opinion.

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1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.

1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable.

1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's first aircraft carrier.

1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

1934 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany.

1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines.

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1933 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public.

1939 Nazi Germany demands the return of Danzig (Gdańsk) from Poland.

1943 Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler fails.

1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea.

1962 Yogi the bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military testing ejection seats.

1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.

1984 Soviet submarine crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan.

1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide.

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.

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1918: during WWI Germany launches its Spring Offensive on the Western Front hoping to break through the Allied lines ahead of the American reinforcements which will turn the tide against the Kaiser's "place in the sun"...initially successful, the offensive eventually petered out.

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1941 James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II

1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children.

1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin.

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.

1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone.

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1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

1945 Battle of Okinawa: US Navy ships bomb the Japanese island of Okinawa in preparation for the Allied invasion; it would become the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II

1945 Lt. Gen. Miles Dempsey becomes the first British commander to cross the Rhine during the Allied invasion of Germany.

1957 US army sells last homing pigeons.

2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

2016 GPR investigation of Shakespeare's tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford concludes the Bard's skull probably has been stolen.

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1975: in a small Ohio arena, little known Chuck Wepner(81) the Bayonne Bleeder, faced Mohammed Ali, World heavyweight champion(not 81) in what should have been a push over.....it wasn't! < Ali takes an 8-count in the ninth) for nearly all 15 rounds till the ref stopped it with 19 seconds: TKO victory to Ali. https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2015/03/muhammad_ali_vs_chuck_wepner_t.html The brutal fight spawned a Hollywood franchise as a broke actor, Sylvester Stallone, watching the fight on pay-per-view in LA, 'was struck like lightning from a Greek god in the sky' with an inspiration: and was inspired to write a screenplay, 1976's Oscar-winning movie: Rocky! Rocky, made for about $1.1 million, debuted Dec. 3, 1976. It grossed about $225 million worldwide, won the Academy Award for Best Picture Best director and Berst film editing... and spawned five sequels- $1.7 billion gross. For years, Stallone referred to Wepner as the catalyst for his films and used his name to promote them. Wepner filed a $15 million federal lawsuit in 2003, alleging that Stallone had misappropriated his name. Three years later they settled amicably out of court, the terms undisclosed. <Chuck in Jersey vs Rocky in Philly>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_(film_series)

[Mr Quatro]

Wow! Never knew this ... what a story

1976's Oscar-winning movie: Rocky! Rocky, made for about $1.1 million, debuted Dec. 3, 1976. It grossed about $225 million worldwide, won the Academy Award for Best Picture Best director and Best film editing... and spawned five sequels- $1.7 billion gross.

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1916 German submarines torpedo the unarmed French cross-channel packet 'Sussex'

1942 US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionage.

1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)

1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin.

1944 RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall broken by pine trees and soft snow, suffers only a sprained leg.

1945 Operation Varsity: In the largest one-day airborne operation of all time, British, US & Canadian paratroopers land east of the Rhine in Northern Germany.

1949 SS police chief in the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauter's request for a pardon denied, executed by firing squad.

1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1982 US submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.

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1915 First submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21

1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop claims his first victory, shooting down and mortally wounding German Leutnant Theiller.

1960 First guided missile launched from nuclear powered submarine (Halibut)

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1942 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps.

1944 705 British bombers attack Essen.

1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed.

1945 British premier Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)

1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms.

1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

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1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid.

1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years.

1941 Adolf Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)

1942 -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire.

1945 British premier Winston Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine.

1945 Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.

1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.

1977 583 die in aviation's worst ever disaster when two Boeing 747s collide at Tenerife airport in Spain.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid fever.

too bad we can't round up all the 'corona Mary's' and put them in quaratine 105 years later....

[Jimbuna]

1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy.

1942 -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck.

1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire.

1945 Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London.

1946 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.