This date in history

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

...as several hundred conscript-cannonfodder Russians R currently finding out;..having dug trenches in and around Chernobyl's highly toxic Red Forest, where even Ukraine powerplant workers are not permitted in the current re-Stalinization attempt ongoing in Eastern Europe. They are reported under treatment in Gorpet, Bylorussian hospitals for acute radiation sickness.

Just watched a prog on PBS America this afternoon, interviewing those who took part. It was made by an Israeli company. Back to Chernobyl.

The boss of the roof clearance told of the first two fire machines to the plant, all the crews were very soon dead. An official said to him, Why are you only doing 2-3 mins on the roof? So he told him the facts. The official said This bloody army is a mess. The man boss replied, the Army is not in a mess, this is your fault, you are the mess. The man also said that the water cascading over the reactor had to be stopped because a hydrogen reaction would take place and 'half the Ukraine' would vanish in the detonation. He said his men were heroes, saved the whole world from contamination. A doctor told how she did 36 abortions, all stages of development because the babies had form changing characteristics, deformities and worse.

The list went on and on - the number one cock up was the reactor design, it was pathetically inadequate. And they didnt bother to build a retainer, like all western reactors. Civilians talked of a lovely city with all mod cons, and they were really happy in Pripyat. Because the SU and Russia have lived life of lies for so long, they tried to hush it up. One official when asked by a civilian what had happened his reply was straight from the Kremlin Book of Replies. We are the greatest country in the world, we must catch up with America and beat them!!!

[Kapitan]

On this day in 1986 Chernobyl reactor 4 exploded

In 2017 yours truly got to visit the place and I do believe I did a write up for it on here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313...57679461271885

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

On this day in 1986 Chernobyl reactor 4 exploded

In 2017 yours truly got to visit the place and I do believe I did a write up for it on here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313...57679461271885

good grief! You brave man. A million thanks for the images

[Aktungbby]

1521: after a dangerous passage thru a dangerous straight at the tip of South America, now named after him, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives assaulting the Phillipine beach at Mactan...and reportedly eaten. Now that's what I'd call "dire straits"!!?

[Jimbuna]

1865 Steamboat "SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800 of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.

1933 Adolf Hitler authorizes creation of Ministry of Aviation, in part to revive the German Luftwaffe, under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering.

1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

1943 Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there to gain information about the Holocaust.

1945 Italian partisans capture Benito Mussolini at Dongo (Lake Como)

1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)

1986 Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident

2011 U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate.

2018 Historic Korean summit, the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons.

[Jimbuna]

1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia.

1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific.

1939 Adolf Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect.

1940 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Höss (not Hess, different Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz.

1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats off Slapton Sands, Devon.

1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO

1956 Last French troops leave Vietnam.

1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.

1973 Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974)

1986 Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event.

[Jimbuna]

1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America.

1920 The British Government ends military conscription.

1940 Air New Zealand then known as TEAL makes its inaugural flight with a flight from Auckland to Sydney. Later becomes 1st airline in the world to boil hot water in-flight to offer customers hot tea and coffee.

1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms.

1945 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) calls for crusade against the Bolsheviks.

1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin.

1945 Record 48 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.

1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his new wife Eva Braun in the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin as the Red Army captures the city.

1975 North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.

1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London.

1989 World Wide Web (WWW) is first launched in the public domain by CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

1993 The World Wide Web source code is released by CERN, making the software freely available to all.

[Red Devil]

I was under the impression that the WWW was invented to allow the US Forces to instanteously talk to each other around the world. We did however, invent the first computer. In the 30s on paper and early 40s became reality.

[Jimbuna]

1707 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

1840 "Penny Black", the world's first adhesive postage stamp issued by Great Britain.

1915 British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool.

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

1923 Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rohm attempt to break up socialist May Day demonstrates, inviting Nazis from as far away as Nuremberg to take part in the violence.

1937 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, banning travel on belligerent ships and imposes an arms embargo on warring nations.

1943 German plane sinks the British ship SS Erinpura in the Mediterranean with the loss of 799 lives.

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight.

1945 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army.

1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.

1946 Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery appointed British supreme commander.

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.

Anyone see Bridge of Spies, its about the follow on from this. Excellent film

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

Anyone see Bridge of Spies, its about the follow on from this. Excellent film

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpos...postcount=4135

[Aktungbby]

^Video no longer available??!! "Contents blocked by Fox in this country..."

[Jimbuna]

1916 At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare.

1917 A flotilla of US destroyer ships arrive in Queenstown, Ireland, to aid in convoying ships to England.

1932 Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion.

1942 Battle of Coral Sea begins (1st naval battle fought solely in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces.

1945 German forces in Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands surrender unconditionally to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Luneburg Heath.

1948 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Nazi SS officer in the Netherlands Hans Rauter of Crimes against Humanity (executed 24 March 1949)

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1982 British destroyer HMS Sheffield hit by Exocet rocket off Falkland Islands: 20 of her crew died.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

This song was banned during her administration

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

This song was banned during her administration

I sincerely doubt it. It was written in 1959 but there is nothing in it to cause MT to ban it. The BBC were the usual 'banners' in the UK; not politicians. I do know it was a plaguerism from ancient days in the Bible. Written by Pete Seager after an argument with his publisher. One of the most blatant BBC bans was Eve of Destruction by Barry Maguire. Helped it become an iconic hit of the era.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Maggies famous 'this lady is not for turning' statement has nothing at all to do with music, or the banning of certain songs. False facts - no truth, did not happen