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05-29-23, 08:13 AM | #4651 |
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1903, actor and entertainer Bob Hope, born Leslie Townes Hope, is born in London, England
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05-29-23, 11:13 AM | #4652 |
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1916 Official flag of President of the United States adopted.
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd 1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition. 1972 The Official IRA announce a ceasefire.
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05-30-23, 10:17 AM | #4653 |
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1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, is burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
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05-30-23, 11:51 AM | #4654 |
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In 1381, the Peasants’ Revolt in England begins with riots in Kent and Essex over tax increases to fund coastal defenses. Wat Tyler leads the rebels in a march on London where they burn homes and property of those they deem wealthy.
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05-30-23, 12:34 PM | #4655 | |
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there was a chain of thought, that the english did not burn her but spirited her away, probably never know now
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05-30-23, 01:10 PM | #4656 |
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1431 Hundred Years' War: 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France.
1842 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria. 1868 "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states. 1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. 1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbour. 1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington.
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05-30-23, 04:08 PM | #4657 |
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1922: The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. President Abraham Lincoln's son, 78 year-old Robert Todd Lincoln, was in attendance.
1982: Spain joins NATO
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05-30-23, 06:34 PM | #4658 |
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In 1911 Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 auto race in his Marmon Wasp car. He averaged 74.6 miles per hour. The average speed today is 190 miles per hours.
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05-31-23, 07:49 AM | #4659 |
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1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.
1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645 in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI 1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk. 1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany. 1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons) 1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.
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05-31-23, 02:11 PM | #4660 |
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1223, Genghis Khan's Mongol armies led by Subutai defeat several Rus' principalities, including Kiev, in the Battle of Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.
1578: King Henry III of France lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf, which is the oldest bridge of Paris, France. The bridge was completed in 1607. 1819, Poet Walt Whitman is born in West Hills, New York. He incorporated transcendentalism and realism into his work. In addition, he is often called the father of free verse. 1902, The Treaty of Vereeniging is signed, ending the Second Boer War between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, on one side, and the United Kingdom on the other. The treaty ensured British control of SouthAfrica. 1910, British doctor Elizabeth Blackwell, who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S., dies at the age of 89. 1940, US Ambassador to Argentina Norman Armour and US Minister in Uruguay Edwin Wilson meet in Montevideo and request Sec of State Hull ask FDR to send warships to South America as a show of force to prevent Uruguay from joining Germany.
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06-01-23, 10:04 AM | #4661 |
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1943: a civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during WWII, killing all 17 people aboard it, including actor Leslie Howard.
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06-01-23, 11:16 AM | #4662 |
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1 June 1944, Italy. The first German Panther tank (No. 211) to be captured intact.
Eventually sent to U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen Maryland to undergo trials and evaluation.
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06-01-23, 01:29 PM | #4663 |
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1861 1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House, Virginia.
1864 Confederate cruiser Georgia sold to a British merchant in Liverpool. 1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed serving with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire. 1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircraft over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden. 1935 Compulsory driving tests and license plates introduced in the United Kingdom. 1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard. 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, 13 passengers, included actor Leslie Howard, and 4 crew die. 1944 Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth, England just prior to D-Day. 1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes. 1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war" 1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
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06-01-23, 04:01 PM | #4664 |
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1 June 1495. A Tironensian monk named John Cor is the first known person to make a batch of Scotch.
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06-02-23, 08:09 AM | #4665 |
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1896 Italian engineer and inventor Guglielmo Marconi applies for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy in the United Kingdom.
1902 British naval officer David Beatty is appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno. 1917 Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircraft as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross. 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
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