This date in history

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23 July 1945, USS Barb "sank" a train when a landing party went ashore at Karafuto, Japan, and planted the sub's scuttling charges on a track. As the party returned to the sub, the explosives detonated and wrecked a train. A silhouette of a train was added to the Barb's battle flag.

[Rockstar]

24 July 1940 A little girl donating money. Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 flown by Oberleutnant Bartels and "finished" by Spitfires.

[Jimbuna]

1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots.

1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers.

1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (till 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people.

1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam.

1969 At 12:51 EDT, Apollo 11 returns to Earth, after taking the first astronauts to the moon and returning them safely.

1985 French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

2019 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals "Nature" and "Nature Geoscience"

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25 July 1932, The Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed, effective for three years. On May 5, 1934, it was extended to December 31, 1945. The Soviets broke the agreement when they invade Poland on September 17, 1939.

[Jimbuna]

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.

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.

1959 SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.

1961 In a speech, US President John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO

1963 US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty.

2000 Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.

[Jimbuna]

1914 First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain in state of readiness as threat of war in Europe grows.

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.

[Jimbuna]

1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia.

1866 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship.

1944 1st 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.

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

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1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia.

The red man's vengeance: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/n...obacco-smoking

The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year, including around 1.2 million deaths from exposure to second-hand smoke (1).

All forms of tobacco are harmful, and there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco. Cigarette smoking is the most common form of tobacco use worldwide. Other tobacco products include waterpipe tobacco, various smokeless tobacco products, cigars, cigarillos, roll-your-own tobacco, pipe tobacco, bidis and kreteks.

Over 80% of the 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest. Tobacco use contributes to poverty by diverting household spending from basic needs such as food and shelter to tobacco.

The economic costs of tobacco use are substantial and include significant health care costs for treating the diseases caused by tobacco use as well as the lost human capital that results from tobacco-attributable morbidity and mortality.

I just took my wife to see Oppenheimer. yesterday ...a movie with everyone smoking:<movie he died at age 67 of throat cancer...<the real man

[Jimbuna]

1588 English set alight eight fireships, with pitch, brimstone, gunpowder and tar, and cast them downwind towards the closely anchored vessels of the Spanish Armada, scattering the armada.

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

1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead.

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

1944 Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy.

1945 "Elevator girl" Betty Lou Oliver survives falling 75 stories after fog causes a US bomber plane to crash into the Empire State Building, breaking the cables supporting the elevator she was operating. This remains a world record for the longest survived elevator fall.

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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1588 The "Invincible" Spanish Armada is sighted approaching England, several skirmishes follow forcing the invading fleet to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland.

1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover.

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

1948 King George VI opens the XIV Summer Olympic Games at Wembley Stadium in London.

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

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1957 Jimbuna's Mother gave birth to one of the most prolific posters at SubSim.

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1825 Malden Island is discovered in the central Pacific by British warship HMS Blonde.

1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot.

1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey.

1937 Russian Politburo issues NKVD Order no. 00447, to repress former kulak and anti-soviets, 269,100 to be arrested, 76,000 to be shot. Part of the Great Purge.

1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-58. 880 of the crew died, many after being attacked by sharks, the inspiration for the movie Jaws.

1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escapes down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff.

1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow.

1966 FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, England: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany, 4-2 after extra time.

1976 4 Protestant civilians were shot dead at a pub off Milltown Road, Belfast; the attack was claimed by the Republican Action Force.

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1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize.

1919 The Weimar Constitution establishing the German Republic is adopted.

1941 U-boats sink and damage 21 allied ships this month (80,521 tons)

1945 Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.

1970 Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy (started 1740)

1972 Operation Motorman: the British Army use 12,000 soldiers supported by tanks and bulldozers to re-take the "no-go areas" controlled by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland comes to an end, longest-running British Army operation ever.

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1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system.

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt.

1914 British Grand Fleet reaches Scapa Flow.

1914 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI

1933 Death penalty for anti-fascists in Germany.

1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin.

1943 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 & U-383

1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested.

1944 Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe.

1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's

1958 US atomic submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st transit of North Pole "Operation Sunshine"

1974 China's People's Liberation Army Navy, put into service ChangZheng 1, their first nuclear-powered submarine.

1977 Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles.

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1798 Battle of the Nile: British Admiral Horatio Nelson forces the remnants of the French fleet to surrender, concluding a decisive victory for the British who capture or destroy 11 French ships of the line and 2 frigates.

1914 British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey famously remarks "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time."

1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War I

1934 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)

1936 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, first of 4 gold medals at the Games.

1943 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice.

1958 USS Nautilus reaches North Pole, 1st submarine to achieve submarine transit of North Pole.

1972 US Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union to limit the use of missile systems capable of defending against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.