This date in history

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by me: today!

Weirdly, my 'daily astrology horoscope' reads thusly:

YIPES! What a thing to read over my morning cuppa-joe!

1942: The SS Struma, a charter ship carrying nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania to British-mandated Palestine, was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Black Sea. All but one of the refugees perished. Struma monument in Ashdod, Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struma_disaster

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1993: a truck bomb built by Islamic terrorists exploded in the parking garage of the North Tower of the New York World Trade center, killing six people and injuring more than a thousand others. The bomb failed to topple the North Tower into the South Tower as the terrorists had hoped. Eight years later, persistence and a better plan paid off; both towers were destroyed...from the top down, not the bottom up...

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1925 Adolf Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich.

1933 Nazi Germany's parliament building "The Reichstag" is destroyed by fire; possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe.

1942 Battle of Java Sea began: 13 US warships sunk and 2 Japanese.

1989 German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland.

1990 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy.

2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor.

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1915 WWI: After the French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region, they gain a few hundred yards - at the cost of 50,000 casualties.

1844 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials.

1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool, England closes.

1967 A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years.

1971 A British soldier dies in Derry after his vehicle had been attacked with petrol bombs (he died as a result of inhaling chemicals from fire extinguishers that were used to put out the fire)

[Red Devil]

1966 Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool, England closes.

Opened in 1957. Cavern closed 1973. Later reopened. Then closed again in 1989. It has been reopened since 1990 but not in the original place, but across the road. It is thriving as a 'contemporary music venue' whatever that means. During covid Cavern closed.

https://www.cavernclub.com

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28 Feb 1983


Final episode of M*A*S*H


40 Years ago


Hows that for feeling old?

[Red Devil]

Good grief - 40 YEARS!!!

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Originally Posted by Red Devil

Good grief - 40 YEARS!!!

The first episode was aired 50 years 5 months, and 12 days ago.


Yikes!!

[Jimbuna]

1913 David Beatty becomes Rear-Admiral Commanding the Royal Navy's 1st Battlecruiser Squadron.

1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic.

1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat.

1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic.

1945 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces success of Yalta Conference.

1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US

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1962: Wilt "the Stilt" Chamberlin scores 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a winning game against the New York Knicks; a record that still stands 61 years later. When he did it there was no '3 point shot'! IMHO he's got my GOAT vote 'till someone equals or tops that mark. I cannot believe, with the 3 point field goal now in vogue, that it hasn't been done yet. Amazingly, the score 169-147 still stands as the biggest combined (316) score record; and Chamberlain also set the record for most free throws in a single game. He was not a particularly good freethrower.

[Jimbuna]

1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.

1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor.

1915 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts.

1965 US Air Force begins Operation Rolling Thunder, a three year sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world, with a cargo compartment 37m long.

1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years.

1991 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed.

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1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine. Generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.

1942 1st combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber.

1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy.

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1801 Thomas Jefferson is the first US President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

1945 United Kingdom's Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.

1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost.

1972 Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130

[Red Devil]

1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

What he actually said we 'you'd think ..............etc But people are often misquoted in the media, especially those who are looking for sales grabbing headline

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Originally Posted by Red Devil

1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

What he actually said we 'you'd think ..............etc But people are often misquoted in the media, especially those who are looking for sales grabbing headline

I only took it as an insult only 'cause it offended my Messiah complex!??