This date in history

[Jimbuna]

1815 Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

1915 The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a New York City subway; an examination of its content reveals extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US

1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens.

1941 Britain's MAUD Report edited by physicist James Chadwick approved, concludes an atomic bomb is feasible.

1980 Billy Carter, the brother of US President Jimmy Carter, registers as a foreign agent of the Libyan government after it was revealed they paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

15 July 1940, The British Home Office banned fireworks, flying kites, and flying balloons.


I wonder if that ban was officially rescinded or people just eventually started using them again?

....who needed fireworks anyway?!! The Luftwaffe provided those sufficintly, hitting even Windsor Castle enabling Queen mother Elizabeth to quip: "I'm glad we were bombed. We can look the 'East(London) End' in the eye!"

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Since Teuterberger Wald(9AD), two ocean-oriented world wars, to the present day NATO/Russo situation; it's generally better to keep Krauts constantly 'monitored'....

It is "Teutoburger Wald" you barbarian. I wasn't aware of any 'merican "culture" during roman times.. and the whole area of german tribes was never conquered by the romans (other than "France" of the time). Later there even were german "Caesars" (=Kaisers) of the Holy Roman Reich of german nation.
Anyway.. you MOBs can stick it where the sun don't shine

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Catfish

It is "Teutoburger Wald" you barbarian. I wasn't aware of any 'merican "culture" during roman times.. and the whole area of german tribes was never conquered by the romans (other than "France" of the time). Later there even were german "Caesars" (=Kaisers) of the Holy Roman Reich of german nation.
Anyway.. you MOBs can stick it where the sun don't shine

I only did that post to keep U occupied...as for"where the sun don't shine"; today is the 'aphelion of the sun' ie: the furthest point in earth's orbit circumference from ol' sol...so this is indeed a good day to 'stick it' where it don't shine!

[Aktungbby]

1790: a site along the greasy green banks of the malaria infested Potomac River was designated for the permanent seat of the United States government; ultimately becoming Washington D.C. What a 'capital' idea!

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1862 David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project.

1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb.

1946 US court martial sentences 46 members of the SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau.

1969 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon.

1990 Ukraine declares independence.

[Rockstar]

17 JULY 1944, The Liberty ship A. E. Bryan exploded while loading ammunition and explosives at Port Chicago, California, United States, taking with her the Victory ship Quinalt Victory berthed nearby. Ninety-seven men on the two ships were vaporized and even a 12 ton locomotive on the dockside vanished without trace. In total, 320 men were killed and 390 injured. More than 200 of the dead were black sailors being used as loaders. Later many sailors refused to work until safety was improved. Fifty were court martialed, convicted of mutiny and jailed. A public outcry led to their release, but they were still deprived of all veteran's benefits for the rest of their lives. The last surviving "mutineer" Freddy Meeks was finally pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Four years later he died, aged 83.

75 years after the Port Chicago explosion of 17 Jul 1944, by act of Congress, all 50 African-American sailors charged with mutiny following their refusal to resume loading munitions (all of whom had passed away) were fully exonerated of all charges and their records restored.

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1858 Recovery of the bell of HMS Lutine from ship's wreck, hung from rostrum in Lloyd's of London's Underwriting Room.

1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia.

1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde.

1948 US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen encounters children in at Templehof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, giving him the idea to drop candy in 'Operation Little Vittles'

1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall.

1975 Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce.

1981 Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another.

1998 Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died.

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

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1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"

1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California.

1942 Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.

1947 King George VI signs Indian Independence Act.

1972 Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army.

1977 Vietnam becomes a member of the UN

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army.

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1843 The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender - they decline.

1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)

1941 British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign.

1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas.

1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue.

1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada.

1976 British rock group Deep Purple disbands.

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1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops.

1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster.

1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn.

1941 The Guinea Pig Club forms, made of severely injured airmen treated by Archibald McIndoe at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, England.

1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg.

1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack.

1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.

1994 Alexander Lukashenko is inaugurated as the first president of Belarus.

1994 Supreme Leader of North-Korea, Kim Il-sung is placed in a public Mausoleum at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun.

2000 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.

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1915 Woodrow Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed 'deliberately unfriendly'

1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.

1919 Anthony Fokker establishes his new aircraft company, the Dutch Aircraft Factory in Amsterdam.

1920 Irish Nationalist and Loyalists engage in street fighting over the issue of Irish independence from Britain, though Loyalist are reinforced by 1500 British Auxiliaries and 5800 British troops.

1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship.

1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

1944 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy.

1955 USS Seawolf launched, 1st submarine powered by liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor.

1959 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, named, Camden NJ

1997 The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday, setting sail for the first time in 116 years.

[Rockstar]

22 July 1975, The U.S. House of Representatives votes 407-10 to restore former Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s U.S. citizenship.

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1912 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea.

1940 Dutch Prime minister Dirk Jan De Geer meets Adolf Hitler seeking peace talks.

1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp.

1975 US House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee.

2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya.

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1777 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply US with munitions.

1942 Adolf Hitler's Directive number 45: order for army to advance on Stalingrad.

1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of the French Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II goes on trial.

1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage.

1971 The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people.

1973 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.