This date in history

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1915 Canadian physician Cluny MacPherson first presents his gas mask invention to the British War Office.

1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks.

1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbour.

1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.

1940 The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland.

1960 US atomic submarine USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

1969 In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children"

1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam.

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1921 The Allied Supreme Council warns Germany to pay reparations or the entire Ruhr Valley will be occupied; Germany agrees.

1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England.

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1995 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

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1995 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

That might have been a mistake in Ukraine's case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrain...t%20the%20time.

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1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey.

1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Adolf Hitler's deputy.

1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz.

1944 German police arrest Dutch resistance member Gerrit van der Veen and later execute him.

1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)

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1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia.

1915 US Secretary of State Bryan sends a note to Germany demanding that Germany disavow the attacks on the Lusitania and make immediate reparations; however, the note is written only to 'pacify exited public opinion', according to Bryan.

1916 Lafayette Escadrille, an American air force unit under French command comprised of volunteers to fight for France, see first combat at the Battle of Verdun.

1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons.

1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its 1st test flight.

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1890 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to sub-lieutenant.

1940 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England.

1940 British Local Defence Volunteers forms, an armed citizen militia designed to support the British Army during the Second World War. It is later renamed the Home Guard.

1940 Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany.

1943 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur sinks off the coast of Queensland after being struck by torpedo fired by Japanese submarine; 268 of 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard die.

1944 General Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler.

1945 Kamikaze Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise.

1945 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1) with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge. Stevens lives another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human.

1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania.

1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship.

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1804: the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest sets out from camp near present-day Hartford, Illinois.

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1886 British sailor David Beatty is promoted to midshipman.

1914 US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off'

1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the Squalus.

1943 Halifax bombers sink U-463

1944 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery, Winston Churchill and King George VI discuss the plan for D-Day.

1957 Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

1971 Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast.

1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

1976 The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks.

1986 Former President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri is sentenced to 12 years in prison for mishandling the Falkland Islands War.

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1922 White Star Liner Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage, from Southampton, England to New York City.

1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs.

1943 SS General Jürgen Stroop orders the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, ending a month of Jewish resistance. 13,000 Jews have died, about half burnt alive or suffocated, German casualties less than 300

1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut.

1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco.

1991 Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress.

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1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling, the national-socialist party of Norway.

1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler.

1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

1944 US General Dwight Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5

1949 British government recognises Republic of Ireland (previously Irish Free State)

1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce)

1973 Five British Army soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby-trap bomb in Omagh, County Tyrone.

1974 Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explode four bombs in Republic of Ireland, killing 33 civilians, wounding 300 (highest number of casualties in a single incident during "The Troubles")

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1917 First units of the American Expeditionary Force, commanded by General John J. Pershing, are ordered to France.

1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy.

1965 Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names for Star Trek Captain; they include Kirk.

1974 India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.

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1941 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis.

1941 New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.

1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)

1943 Churchill pledges Britain's full support to US against Japan.

1959 The USS Triton, the first submarine with two nuclear reactors, is completed.

1962 Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to JFK before 15,000 attendees, accompanied by jazz pianist Hank Jones, at Madison Square Garden, NYC

1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy.

1967 USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space.

1981 5 British Army soldiers are killed when their armoured vehicle is ripped apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb near Bessbrook, County Armagh.

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1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic.

1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman.

1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II

1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia.

1944 WWII: West Loch Disaster - explosion during munition loading kills at least 160 sailors, injures nearly 400, destroys six ships and damages 3 piers and several buildings at Pearl Harbor U.S. Naval Base in Oahu, Hawaii; details were kept classified until the early 1960s

1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured.

1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)

1966 A "loyalist" group calling itself the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores.

1969 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.

1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, to repel Argentine military invasion.

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1927: Charles A. Lindburgh lands his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight Across the Atlantic Ocean in 33.5 hours...1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Ireland about 15 hours after departing Newfoundland....ie less fanfare but in half the time!!?

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Charles Lindbergh took off from New York.
Just a wee bit farther.


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