This date in history

[Rockstar]

[Aktungbby]

"ET TU Rockfish?"

[Jimbuna]

44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome.

1916 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea.

1916 General Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.

1922 France, which up until now has insisted on currency for all WWI reparation payments from Germany, now accepts raw materials as payment.

1939 Adolf Hitler summons Czech President Emil Hácha to a meeting in Berlin and informs him of the impending attack by Germany; Hácha suffers a heart attack and later capitulates. Germany occupies and annexes Czechoslovakia reneging on the Munich Agreement.

1940 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest.

1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War.

2019 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.

[Jimbuna]

432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)

1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA

1965 Beatles announce their second film is titled "8 Arms to Hold You" ; later changed to "Help!"

1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor.

1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th Prime Minister, the first and only female to hold the office.

1995 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C.

[Red Devil]

1995 Sinn Féin leader, and Terrorist and leader of the 'belfast brigade' Gerry Adams visits the White House in Washington, D.C. America supported terror on UK streets

[Jimbuna]

1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes, 640 killed.

1940 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass where the Italian dictator agrees he will, in due course, join Germany's impending war effort in the west.

1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, which was charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

1943 British merchant vessel "Canadian Star" is torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic by German U-boat U-221, 34 die with 54 survivors.

1945 US Army Air Force completes largest bombing raid on Berlin Germany: Over 1200 bombers drop 3,000 tons of explosives .

1965 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination.

1972 Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy"

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1945 Essex class carrier USS Franklin is struck by a Japanese dive bomber causing massive damage. The second largest loss of crew After USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.

Before dawn on 19 March 1945, Franklin, which had maneuvered to within 50 miles (80 km) of the Japanese mainland, closer than any other U.S. carrier during the war, launched a fighter sweep against Honshū and later a strike against shipping in Kure Harbor. The Franklin crew had been called to battle stations twelve times within six hours that night and Gehres downgraded the alert status to Condition III, allowing his men freedom to eat or sleep, although gunnery crews remained at their stations. A single Yokosuka D4Y dive bomber approached Franklin without being detected by American forces. As Franklin was about halfway through launching a second wave of strike aircraft, the Japanese dive bomber pierced the cloud cover and dropped two semi-armor-piercing bombs before the ship's anti-aircraft gunners could fire. The damage analysis came to the conclusion that the bombs were 550 pounds (250 kg).[8] Accounts differ as to whether the attacking aircraft escaped or was shot down...At the time she was struck, Franklin had 31 armed and fueled aircraft warming up on her flight deck, and these planes caught fire almost immediately. The 13 to 16 tons of high explosives aboard these planes soon began detonating progressively, and although "Tiny Tim" air-to-surface rockets were loaded aboard Vought F4U Corsairs, their three-point, nose up attitude allowed most of the rockets to fly overboard when their engines ignited.[8] The hangar deck contained planes, of which 16 were fueled and 5 were armed. The forward gasoline system had been secured, but the aft system was operating. The explosion on the hangar deck ignited the fuel tanks on the aircraft, and a gasoline vapor explosion devastated the deck. The twelve "Tiny Tim" rockets aboard these planes ricocheted around the hangar deck until their 138 lb (63 kg) warheads detonated. Only two crewmen survived the fire in the hanger deck. A recent count by Franklin historian and researcher Joseph A. Springer brings total 19 March 1945 casualty figures to 807 killed and more than 487 wounded. Franklin had suffered the most severe damage and highest casualties experienced by any U.S. fleet carrier that survived World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Franklin_(CV-13) <Although wounded by one of the explosions after the attack, Chaplain O'Callahan moved about the exposed and slanting flight deck, administering the last rites to the dying, comforting the wounded, and leading officers and crewmen into the flames to carry hot bombs and shells to the edge of the deck for jettisoning. He personally recruited a damage control party and led it into one of the main ammunition magazines to wet it down and prevent its exploding. For this action he received the Navy Cross, which he publicly refused (the only man to do so in World War II). At the time, it was speculated that O'Callahan was offered the Navy Cross in lieu of the Medal of Honor since his heroic actions on USS Franklin highlighted perceived lapses in leadership by the ship's commanding officer, Captain Leslie E. Gehres, which reflected poorly on the Navy. President Harry Truman intervened after the resulting public outcry and the Medal of Honor was awarded to O'Callahan on January 23, 1946. He was the first Naval Chaplain so decorated.

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1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor.

1863 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000. Wreck discovered exactly 102 years later by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence.

1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane.

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.

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.

[Rockstar]

20 years ago today shock and awe bombardments began. Coalition forces would invade Iraq the following day.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

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

1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks.

1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded.

[Red Devil]

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

Interesting item I saw on some war online site. The white house warned McArthur that a jap fleet was heading his way and to be ready. He not only was not ready but did very little. Not an american plane took off to attack the fleet and the troops were unprepared.

[Jimbuna]

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.

1945 1st Japanese kamikaze "flying bombs" (MXY-7 Ohka) attack Okinawa.

1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.

1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall.

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.

[Red Devil]

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation.


And the world did nothing, again. We are governed by wimps

[Jimbuna]

1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed.

1917 The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia.

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

1944 American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin.

1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler.

1979 Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague.

[Red Devil]

1979 terrorists assassinates Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague.