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Subject: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/10 at 1:02 pm
November 30th 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/10 at 1:19 pm
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Nostalgic on 12/07/10 at 2:13 am
November 30th 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The things you learn in this site ...
I didn't know they were married that far back ...
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/10 at 7:45 am
1940 - Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/10 at 3:08 am
1940 – World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/29/10 at 3:25 am
1940 – World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/02/11 at 3:06 am
1941 – World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/11 at 11:44 am
1941 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/11 at 2:14 pm
1941 - In England, the four-day Anglican gathering known as the Malvern Conference opened. It was presided over by Archbishop William Temple.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/09/11 at 3:35 am
1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/09/11 at 3:35 am
1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/16/11 at 4:21 am
1941 - War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/16/11 at 4:22 am
1941 - US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/11 at 12:10 pm
1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/18/11 at 12:21 pm
1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/20/11 at 2:14 pm
1941 – A Nazi officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/11 at 12:15 am
1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/11 at 1:34 am
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/28/11 at 1:03 pm
1941 – French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/21/11 at 3:31 pm
1941 - US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/23/11 at 12:20 pm
1941 – Plutonium was first chemically identified by chemist Glenn T. Seaborg and his team at the University of California, Berkeley.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/25/11 at 1:05 pm
1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/26/11 at 7:08 am
1941 - Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/04/11 at 1:41 am
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/11/11 at 12:45 pm
1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/11 at 2:39 pm
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/11 at 5:33 am
1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/11 at 5:50 am
1941 - Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra recorded "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/11 at 1:23 pm
1941 – The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/11 at 4:53 am
1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/28/11 at 1:28 pm
1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/11 at 12:05 pm
1941 – The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/11 at 12:05 pm
1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/11 at 2:39 pm
1941 - Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/11 at 12:06 pm
1941 – The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/11 at 12:07 pm
1941 – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/11 at 3:09 am
1941 - Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/11 at 3:09 am
1941 - Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/03/11 at 3:09 am
1941 - Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/06/11 at 12:16 pm
1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/10/11 at 2:24 am
1941 – World War II: The Independent State of Croatia was established, with Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić as head of the puppet government of the Axis powers.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/11 at 1:56 pm
1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Rommel attacks Tobruk.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/11 at 12:56 pm
1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/11 at 12:40 am
1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/19/11 at 2:06 pm
1941 - Robert F. Wagner, Sr. introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate stating that U.S. policy should favor the "restoration of the Jews in Palestine." The resolution was supported by 68 Senators.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/11 at 1:38 pm
1941 - Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/21/11 at 12:39 pm
1941 – Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/11 at 5:35 am
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:30 pm
1941 – World War II: German troops enter Athens.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/27/11 at 12:30 pm
1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Dave on 04/27/11 at 10:48 pm
November 30th 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
SWEET!! I used to live in Greenwich! Did they gat married at that church on Greenwich Ave?
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/11 at 1:50 am
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:48 am
1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/11 at 1:49 am
1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/11 at 1:06 am
1941 – The German Luftwaffe launch a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/11 at 2:40 pm
1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/20/11 at 12:41 pm
1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/24/11 at 12:23 pm
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:26 pm
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/11 at 12:27 pm
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/30/11 at 1:40 am
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/01/11 at 12:17 pm
1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/01/11 at 12:17 pm
1941 – The Farhud, a pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/11 at 1:02 pm
1941 – World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/11 at 1:00 pm
1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/11 at 2:13 am
1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovenia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:12 pm
1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/11 at 2:12 pm
1941 – German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/11 at 3:57 am
1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:59 am
1941 – World War II: Montenegrins start a popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak), the first one in Axis-controlled countries.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:08 am
1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/11 at 11:54 am
1941 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/11 at 2:24 pm
1941 – World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/27/11 at 12:47 pm
1941 – Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/11 at 4:56 am
1941 – The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring ordered SS General Reinhard Heydrich to settle "the final solution of the Jewish question".
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/11 at 1:19 am
1941 – World War II – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/11 at 12:21 pm
1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/11 at 1:15 pm
1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/29/11 at 1:05 am
1941 – Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia liberated from Soviet occupants.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/03/11 at 2:22 am
1941 - 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/03/11 at 2:23 am
1941 - KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/05/11 at 12:15 pm
1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/08/11 at 1:35 am
1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/16/11 at 2:05 am
1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/17/11 at 5:39 am
1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/11 at 12:59 pm
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/23/11 at 12:12 pm
1941 – World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/11 at 3:15 pm
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/30/11 at 1:37 am
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/11 at 2:55 am
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/08/11 at 1:30 am
1941 – World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/09/11 at 2:23 am
1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:32 am
1941 – Armed insurgents from the People's Liberation Army of Macedonia attacked Axis occupied zones in the city of Prilep, beginning the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:06 am
1941 – For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/11 at 7:06 am
1941 – German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/20/11 at 1:26 am
1941 – World War II: German soldiers began a massacre of thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in Nazi-occupied Serbia.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 12:44 am
1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/11 at 11:33 pm
1941 – World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the Wehrmacht from capturing Moscow.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 2:45 am
1941 – Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 9:50 am
1941 - Cole Porters musical "Let's Face It," premieres in NYC
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:33 am
1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/11 at 1:33 am
1941 – 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/31/11 at 2:21 am
1941 – More than 101 crew members of the USS Reuben James perished when their vessel became the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action during World War II after it was torpedoed by the German submarine U-552.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:45 pm
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 12:49 pm
1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 11:47 pm
1941 – World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/11 at 11:47 pm
1941 – World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/11 at 4:02 am
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 1:38 pm
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarine U-81 sustained on November 13.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/11 at 1:38 pm
1941 – World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murdered 9000 Jews in a single day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/11 at 1:59 am
1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/11 at 12:16 pm
1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/11 at 2:00 pm
1941 – Pacific War: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/11 at 2:00 pm
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/11 at 12:45 pm
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/11 at 12:46 pm
1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/11 at 11:46 am
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/11 at 11:35 am
1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/11 at 11:49 am
1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. and the Republic of China declare war against Japan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/11 at 11:49 am
1941 – Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7 in the United States.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/11 at 1:27 pm
1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/11 at 1:27 pm
1941 – World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/11 at 2:52 am
1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/11 at 2:52 am
1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/11/11 at 6:30 am
1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/11 at 1:06 am
1941 – At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish race.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/11 at 1:44 pm
1941 – World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/11 at 1:44 pm
1941 – World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/11 at 1:44 pm
1941 – World War II: UK declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/11 at 1:44 pm
1941 – World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/11 at 2:46 pm
1941 – World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/11 at 11:57 am
1941 – Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/11 at 12:51 pm
1941 – World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/11 at 11:36 pm
1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/11 at 1:20 am
1941 – Second World War: Three Italian Royal Navy manned torpedoes detonated limpet mines on British Royal Navy ships, sinking two battleships.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/11 at 11:44 am
1941 – World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/11 at 1:15 am
1941 – World War II: The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, popularly known as the Flying Tigers, engaged in its first combat missions.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/11 at 1:43 am
1941 – World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/11 at 1:50 am
1941 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/11 at 1:29 pm
1941 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/26/11 at 2:59 am
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/01/12 at 3:49 am
1942 – The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/02/12 at 3:05 am
1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/02/12 at 3:05 am
1942 – World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by Japanese forces
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/07/12 at 8:01 am
1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/12/12 at 1:13 pm
1942 – World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/13/12 at 1:04 pm
1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/13/12 at 1:04 pm
1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/12 at 12:14 pm
1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Muslickz on 01/30/12 at 1:47 pm
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Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/12 at 1:32 pm
1942 – Second World War: Allied forces retreated from British Malaya to Singapore, ceding control of the country to Japan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/14/12 at 1:56 am
1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/17/12 at 11:05 pm
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among Chinese Singaporeans.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/12 at 5:42 am
1942 – A book-burning was held and politicians were arrested in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as part of a simulated Nazi invasion
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/12 at 5:43 am
1942 – World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/12 at 5:43 am
1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/20/12 at 3:44 am
1942 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/12 at 5:57 am
1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 26, 1942.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/03/12 at 5:24 am
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/12 at 4:14 am
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/12 at 1:05 pm
June 22nd 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/12 at 7:49 am
June 23rd 1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/12 at 7:49 am
June 23rd 1942 – World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/12 at 1:12 pm
1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/23/12 at 3:55 am
October 23rd 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces began their ill-fated attempt to recapture Henderson Field from the Americans.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/23/12 at 3:56 am
October 23rd 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/23/12 at 3:56 am
October 23rd 1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii").
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/26/12 at 3:24 am
October 26th 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/12 at 5:48 am
October 29th 1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: warped on 11/01/12 at 6:26 am
70 years ago today, it was November 1, 1942.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Howard on 11/04/12 at 2:12 pm
70 years ago today, it was November 1, 1942.
So what actually happened? ???
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: warped on 11/04/12 at 2:18 pm
So what actually happened? ???
My post meant nothing, I was just being silly.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/12 at 2:19 am
So what actually happened? ???
My post meant nothing, I was just being silly.
Something must had happened somewhere!
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: warped on 11/05/12 at 8:10 am
Something must had happened somewhere!
70 years ago today, someone 30 years ago said something must had happened somewhere 40 years earlier.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/12 at 10:13 am
70 years ago today, someone 30 years ago said something must had happened somewhere 40 years earlier.
November 1st 1942 was the 10th day of battle at El Alamein.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/12 at 11:46 am
November 11th 1942 – World War II: The Allies defeated the Axis at the Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt, turning the tide in the North African Campaign by ending Axis hopes of taking control of the Suez Canal and thus gaining access east to the Middle Eastern oil fields.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/01/13 at 10:18 pm
February 2nd 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/03/13 at 7:39 am
February 3rd 1943 – The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/06/13 at 6:58 pm
February 7th 1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/13 at 10:35 pm
February 14th 1943
– World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
– World War II: Tunisia Campaign – General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/15/13 at 11:21 pm
February 16th 1943
– World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
– World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/13 at 12:25 am
February 19th 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/13 at 6:43 pm
February 20th 1943 – The Saturday Evening Post published the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, some of the most widely distributed paintings ever produced, in support of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms".
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/21/13 at 10:15 pm
February 22nd 1943 – World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/22/13 at 7:18 pm
February 23rd 1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/13 at 12:08 am
March 5th 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/13 at 2:38 am
March 13th 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi German troops began liquidating the Jewish Ghetto in Kraków, Poland, sending about 8,000 Jews deemed able to work to the Plaszow labor camp with the rest either killed or sent to Auschwitz.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/13 at 4:31 am
March 14th 1943 – World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/13 at 3:16 am
March 15th 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/13 at 11:32 am
March 19th 1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/21/13 at 5:09 am
March 21st 1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/22/13 at 6:46 am
March 22nd 1943 – World War II: The entire population of the village of Khatyn in Belarus was burnt alive by Nazi German forces, with participation from their Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/27/13 at 5:03 am
March 27th 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands – In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/13 at 5:51 am
April 8th 1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/13 at 11:03 am
April 13th 1943:
– The neoclassical Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., was formally dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
– World War II: German news announced the discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile and the USSR.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/19/13 at 4:05 am
April 19th 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, sparking the first mass uprising in Poland against the German occupation.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/30/13 at 5:32 am
April 30th 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/11/13 at 4:11 am
May 11th 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/13 at 4:17 am
May 13th 1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/13 at 7:35 am
May 14th 1943 – Second World War: The Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/13 at 4:11 am
May 15th 1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/13 at 4:10 am
May 16 1943:
– Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
– Royal Air Force Dambusters embarked on a raid to deploy bouncing bombs on German dams in Operation Chastise during the Second World War.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/17/13 at 4:21 am
May 16th 1943
– The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
– World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/22/13 at 4:38 am
May 2nd 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/24/13 at 4:24 am
May 24th 1943 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/13 at 4:30 am
June 3rd 1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/12/13 at 4:36 am
June 12th 1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/20/13 at 4:12 am
June 20th 1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/13 at 4:47 am
July 1st 1943 – Tokyo City was dissolved, with its territory divided into the special wards of the newly created Tokyo Metropolis.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/13 at 4:57 am
July 9th 1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/13 at 4:24 am
July 11th 1943 – In a massive ethnic cleansing operation, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacked various Polish villages in the Volhynia region of present-day Ukraine, killing the Polish civilians and burning those settlements to the ground.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/13 at 4:24 am
July 11th 1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/13 at 4:26 am
July 24th 1943 – Second World War: RAF Bomber Command began Operation Gomorrah, the strategic bombing of Hamburg, Germany, eventually killing at least 50,000 and leaving over a million others homeless.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/25/13 at 4:26 am
July 25th 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/13 at 1:07 am
August 23rd 1943 – World War II: The decisive Soviet victory in the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative for the rest of the war.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/03/13 at 4:25 am
September 3rd 1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/06/13 at 4:05 am
September 6th 1943 – A group of businessmen in Monterrey, Mexico, founded the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, now one of the largest universities in Latin America.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/07/13 at 4:53 am
September 7th 1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/07/13 at 4:54 am
September 7th 1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/12/13 at 6:40 am
September 12th 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/17/13 at 11:50 am
October 17th 1943 – The Holocaust: Three days after a successful revolt by inmates, Sobibor extermination camp in eastern Poland was closed.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/13 at 5:04 am
October 19th 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/13 at 4:04 am
October 21st 1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/13 at 2:03 am
October 22nd 1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/23/13 at 11:51 pm
October 24th 1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/13 at 11:13 pm
October 31st 1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/13 at 3:38 am
November 1st 1943 – World War II: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/13 at 3:38 am
November 1st 1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/06/13 at 2:46 am
November 6th 1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/13 at 2:01 pm
December 2nd 1943 – World War II: The Luftwaffe conducted a surprise air raid on Allied ships in Bari, Italy, sinking 18 ships and releasing one ship's secret cargo of mustard gas.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/13 at 1:46 am
December 4th 1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/04/13 at 1:55 am
December 4th 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/13 at 2:10 am
December 5th 1943 – World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/13/13 at 3:07 am
December 13th 1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/13 at 8:43 am
December 15th 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain Campaign.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/14 at 3:47 pm
January 3rd 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/04/14 at 5:38 am
January 4th 1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/14 at 1:55 am
January 17th 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/18/14 at 5:14 am
January 18th 1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/18/14 at 5:15 am
January 18th 1944 – Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/14 at 3:33 am
January 22nd 1944 – World War II: The Allies commenced Operation Shingle, an amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/27/14 at 3:35 am
January 27th 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive successfully lifted the Siege of Leningrad, 872 days after it began.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/14 at 3:08 am
January 29th 1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/14 at 3:09 am
January 29th 1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/14 at 3:56 am
January 30th 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/14 at 3:57 am
January 30th 1944 – World War II: American troops land on Majuro.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/14 at 8:28 am
January 31st 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/14 at 8:28 am
January 31st 1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/23/14 at 5:06 am
February 23rd 1944 – The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/14 at 4:08 am
February 24th 1944 – Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/14 at 5:36 am
March 1st 1944 – World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio in New Guinea.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/14 at 2:49 am
March 5th 1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoşani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/10/14 at 3:04 am
March 10th 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/14 at 3:11 am
March 19th 1944 – World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/14 at 3:09 am
March 24th 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/14 at 4:14 am
April 1st 1944 – Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/04/14 at 2:32 am
April 4th 1944 – World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 04/04/14 at 12:33 pm
April 4th 1944 – World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
That date was written in shorthand as 4/4/44!
Too bad something tragic occurred on that day, however. :(
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/14 at 5:11 am
April 5th 1944 – World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/14 at 2:06 am
April 25th 1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/14 at 1:40 am
April 29th 1944 – Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into the Auvergne, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local maquis group
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/11/14 at 4:38 am
May 11th 1944 – World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/18/14 at 5:13 am
May 18th 1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/18/14 at 5:13 am
May 18th 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/21/14 at 6:36 am
May 21st 1944 - German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'God alone protects; otherwise there is nothing.'
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/22/14 at 3:45 am
May 22nd 1944 - The Gospel Mission of South America was founded by William M. Strong in Concepcion, Chile. An interdenominational Protestant missions agency, its headquarters moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1975.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/14 at 3:47 am
May 29th 1944 - German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter: 'We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize His presence, not in unsolved problems, but in those that are solved.'
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/14 at 7:02 am
June 4th 1944 – A United States Navy task group captured German submarine U-505, the first warship to be captured by U.S. forces on the high seas since the War of 1812.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/14 at 1:48 am
June 5th 1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/14 at 2:15 am
June 5th 1944 - German Lutheran theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.'
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/06/14 at 12:25 am
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, led to the restoration of the French Republic, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/14 at 4:05 am
June 9th 1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/14 at 4:05 am
June 9th 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/14 at 2:20 am
june 10th 1944 – World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/14 at 2:21 am
June 10th 1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/14 at 2:21 am
June 10th 1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/11/14 at 3:51 am
June 11th 1944 – USS Missouri (BB-63) the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/12/14 at 3:59 am
June 12th 1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/14 at 4:04 am
June 13th 1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/14 at 4:05 am
June 13th 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/17/14 at 5:12 am
June 17th 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/14 at 3:31 am
June 19th 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/20/14 at 3:24 am
June 20th 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/20/14 at 3:25 am
June 20th 1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/14 at 4:09 am
June 25th 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/14 at 4:10 am
June 25th 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/14 at 4:10 am
June 25th 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/14 at 3:18 am
July 3rd 1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/14 at 4:12 am
July 21st 1944 – World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/14 at 4:13 am
July 21st 1944 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/14 at 5:40 am
July 26th 1944 – World War II: the Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/14 at 5:41 am
July 26th 1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/27/14 at 4:38 pm
July 27th 1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/14 at 4:34 am
August 5th 1944 – World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/14 at 4:34 am
August 5th 1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/14 at 4:34 am
August 5th 1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/21/14 at 11:52 am
August 21st 1944 – Delegations from Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, met at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. to discuss the formation of the United Nations.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/14 at 2:24 am
August 22nd 1944 – World War II: Wehrmacht infantry carried out an assault operation against the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari Valley on the Greek island of Crete.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/14 at 5:50 am
August 28th 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/14 at 4:01 am
September 4th 1944 – World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/04/14 at 4:01 am
September 4th 1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/14 at 3:56 am
October 16th 1944 – Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 11/07/14 at 12:53 pm
November 7, 1944: FDR was elected to the presidency for a 4th and final time.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/14 at 6:01 pm
I missed this date!
On 20 October 1944, troops of Krueger's Sixth Army landed on Leyte, while MacArthur watched from the light cruiser USS Nashville. That afternoon he arrived off the beach. The advance had not progressed far; snipers were still active and the area was under sporadic mortar fire. When his whaleboat grounded in knee-deep water, MacArthur requested a landing craft, but the beachmaster was too busy to grant his request. MacArthur was compelled to wade ashore.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Douglas_MacArthur_lands_Leyte1.jpg
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/14 at 4:16 pm
December 16th 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/15 at 2:53 am
January 3rd 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/24/15 at 9:24 pm
January 25tn 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/25/15 at 6:40 pm
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/25/15 at 6:40 pm
1945 – World War II: Audie Murphy in action that will later win him the Medal of Honor.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/03/15 at 3:13 am
February 3rd 1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/03/15 at 9:13 pm
February 4th 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/04/15 at 8:49 pm
February 5th 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/15 at 8:35 pm
February 9th 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/15 at 8:26 pm
February 13th1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/15 at 8:27 pm
February 13th 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/15 at 8:27 pm
February 14th 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/15 at 8:27 pm
February 14th 1945 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/15 at 8:28 pm
February 14th 1945 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/15 at 8:29 pm
February 14th 1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/15 at 5:47 am
February 19th 1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/23/15 at 12:49 am
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/23/15 at 12:50 am
1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/15 at 2:44 am
1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/03/15 at 2:17 am
1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/03/15 at 2:18 am
1945 – World War II: A former Armia Krajowa unit massacres at least 150 Ukrainian civilians in Pawłokoma, Poland.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/03/15 at 2:18 am
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/09/15 at 12:13 pm
1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/15 at 4:45 am
1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/26/15 at 3:04 am
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 04/12/15 at 11:24 am
April 12, 1945: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt passed away, with Harry Truman (who had been elected VP five months earlier, the fourth time that FDR had been elected to the presidency) taking over. FDR was the most recent sitting president of the US to die a natural death, a cerebral hemorrhage. :\'(
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/15 at 7:19 am
1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/15 at 4:41 am
1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/15 at 4:41 am
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/20/15 at 4:41 am
1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/15 at 2:40 am
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/15 at 2:38 am
1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamasheesha.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/15 at 10:51 am
1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/15 at 10:51 am
1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/15 at 10:52 am
1945 – World War II: The Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/15 at 10:52 am
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/15 at 10:52 am
1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/15 at 10:52 am
1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/29/15 at 10:53 am
1944 – World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to become a liaison between London and the local maquis group.
1945 – World War II: The German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
1945 – World War II: The Captain-class frigate HMS Goodall (K479) is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
Busy day for World War II
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 04/30/15 at 1:51 pm
Busy day for World War II
The very next day (30 April 1945), Hitler, knowing full well that the end was near, took his own life.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Howard on 04/30/15 at 3:15 pm
The very next day (30 April 1945), Hitler, knowing full well that the end was near, took his own life.
Didn't he commit suicide? ???
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/30/15 at 3:25 pm
The very next day (30 April 1945), Hitler, knowing full well that the end was near, took his own life.
Didn't he commit suicide? ???
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/15 at 5:12 am
1945 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/15 at 5:12 am
1945 – World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/15 at 5:12 am
1945 – World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/15 at 5:13 am
1945 – World War II: Yugoslav Partisans free Trieste.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Howard on 05/01/15 at 6:59 am
It was cyanide then to end it all he shot himself along with Eva Braun.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/15 at 4:37 am
1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/15 at 4:37 am
1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/15 at 4:39 am
1945 – World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/15 at 4:39 am
1945 – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/15 at 4:18 am
1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/15 at 4:19 am
1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/15 at 4:26 am
1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/15 at 12:56 am
May 8th 1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/15 at 12:56 am
May 8th 1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/15 at 12:56 am
May 8th 1945 – Dissolution and surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/15 at 12:57 am
May 8th 1945 – End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/15 at 12:57 am
May 8th 1945 – The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 05/08/15 at 1:20 pm
May 8th 1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
May 8th 1945 – Dissolution and surrender of Nazi Germany and all its forces.
A key event in WWII.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/09/15 at 3:15 am
May 9th 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/09/15 at 3:15 am
May 9th 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/15 at 3:44 am
May 12th 1945 – Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/22/15 at 8:15 am
May 22nd 1945 – Operation Paperclip: United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/23/15 at 7:28 am
May 23rd 1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/23/15 at 7:29 am
May 23rd 1945 – World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/15 at 1:04 am
May 29th 1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/05/15 at 4:42 am
June 5th 1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/15 at 4:58 am
June 10th 1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/15 at 5:38 am
June 18th 1945 – William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/20/15 at 5:06 am
June 20th 1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/15 at 3:42 am
June 22nd 1945 – The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/15 at 12:55 pm
June 22nd 1945 – The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
http://www.history.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/okinawa.jpg
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/26/15 at 9:33 am
June 26th 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/15 at 1:41 am
June 29th 1945 – Carpathian Ruthenia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/15 at 3:20 am
July 16th 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/15 at 3:21 am
July 16th 1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/15 at 12:47 am
July 17th 1945 – Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman, leaders of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States respectively, met in Potsdam to decide what should be done with post-war Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/15 at 3:12 am
July 23rd 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/15 at 2:57 am
July 26th 1945 – The Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, replacing Winston Churchill as Prime Minister with Clement Attlee.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/15 at 3:20 am
July 26th 1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/15 at 3:21 am
July 26th 1945 – HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/15 at 3:21 am
July 26th 1945 – The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/15 at 3:22 am
July 26th 1945 – The Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, replacing Winston Churchill as Prime Minister with Clement Attlee.
July 26th 1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
July 26th 1945 – HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
July 26th 1945 – The US Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
All on the same day!
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/15 at 4:30 am
July 28th 1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/15 at 4:15 am
July 30th 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/15 at 6:22 am
August 2nd 1945 – World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/15 at 3:39 am
August 6th 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 08/14/15 at 1:49 pm
August 14, 1945: Japan accepted the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor recorded the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
...and American actor Steve Martin was born.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/15 at 5:55 am
August 14, 1945: Japan accepted the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor recorded the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
With remembrance services beingheld world wide.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 08/16/15 at 6:31 pm
August 16, 1945:
An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.
Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.
The National Representatives' Congress, the precursor of the current National Assembly of Vietnam, convenes in Sơn Dương.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/17/15 at 3:03 am
August 17th 1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/18/15 at 3:37 am
August 18th 1945 – Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/19/15 at 2:36 am
August 19th 1945 – During the August Revolution against French colonial rule, the Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh took control of Hanoi in northern Vietnam.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/21/15 at 12:54 pm
August 21st 1945 – Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/15 at 3:57 am
August 23rd 1945 – Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc "About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War".
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/15 at 6:01 am
September 1st 1945 - Philadelphia Phillies' Vince DiMaggio ties National League record with fourth grand slam of season.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/03/15 at 5:27 am
September 3rd 1945 – A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/07/15 at 1:12 am
September 7th 1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/09/15 at 3:06 am
September 7th 1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/10/15 at 4:12 am
September 10th 1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated in a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death in Phoenix, Arizona.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/11/15 at 5:01 am
September 11th 1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang, Sarawak, in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/15 at 2:58 am
September 18th 1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/15 at 5:47 am
September 22nd 1945 - Stan Musial gets five hits off five pitchers on five consecutive pitches
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/16 at 4:56 am
January 17th 1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/19/16 at 6:34 am
January 19th 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 01/19/16 at 6:17 pm
January 19th 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals
Also, American singer Dolly Parton was born! :D
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/16 at 7:44 am
January 22nd 1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/16 at 8:38 am
January 22nd 1946 – In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh is the prime minister.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/25/16 at 10:02 am
January 25th 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/01/16 at 12:07 pm
February 1st 1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/01/16 at 12:43 pm
February 1st 1946 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/08/16 at 7:50 am
February 8th 1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/10/16 at 3:14 am
February 10th 1946 - Jackie Robinson and Rachel Isum were married.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/16 at 3:17 am
February 12th 1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/16 at 4:36 am
February 12th 1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/14/16 at 8:10 am
February 14th 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/15/16 at 4:05 am
February 15th 1946 - Edith Houghton, at age 33, was signed as a baseball scout by the Philadelphia Phillies becoming the first female scout in the major leagues.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/15/16 at 7:17 am
February 15th 1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/18/16 at 1:58 am
February 18th 1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/16 at 5:09 am
February 19th 1946 - Danny Gardella became the first major league player to go to the Mexican League.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/16 at 3:49 am
February 24th 1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 02/26/16 at 2:07 am
February 26th 1946 – Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/16 at 10:32 am
March 1st 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/16 at 3:11 am
March 2nd 1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/09/16 at 4:29 am
March 9th 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/11/16 at 3:09 am
March 11th 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/18/16 at 1:30 am
March 18th 1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/21/16 at 12:57 am
March 21st 1946 - The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington. Washington was the first black player to join a National Football League team since 1933.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/21/16 at 1:38 am
March 21st 1946 - The first Mexican League baseball game was played.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/24/16 at 3:56 am
March 24th 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/29/16 at 5:56 am
March 25th 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/30/16 at 3:39 am
March 30th 1946 - Maurice "The Rocket" Richard scored his first of three overtime goals in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/16 at 6:44 am
April 7th 1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/16 at 3:09 am
April 8th 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/16 at 6:44 am
April 18th 1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/16 at 1:14 am
April 25th 1946 – Naperville train disaster kills 47 in Naperville, Illinois.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/16 at 4:25 am
May 5th 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/06/16 at 7:13 am
May 6th 1946 - The New York Yankees became the first major league baseball team to travel by plane.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/16 at 3:38 am
May 7th 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/16 at 4:20 am
May 8th 1946 – Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/09/16 at 12:18 am
May 9th 1946 - "NBC's Hour Glass" premiered. It was the first hour long entertainment show.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/09/16 at 4:09 am
May 9th 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/16 at 5:09 am
May 10th 1946 - The Boston Red Sox won their 15th straight game.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/16 at 12:09 pm
May 10th 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 05/10/16 at 7:01 pm
May 10th 1946 - The Boston Red Sox won their 15th straight game.
May 10th 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
...and singer Donovan Leitch, simply known as Donovan, was born.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/11/16 at 12:50 am
May 11th 1946 – The United Malays National Organisation is created.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/16 at 7:11 am
May 16th 1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opened on Broadway.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/16 at 12:33 pm
May 16th 1946 - Jack Mullin showed the world the first magnetic tape recorder.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/17/16 at 8:31 am
May 17th 1946 - U.S. President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/28/16 at 3:35 am
May 28th 1946 - The first night game at Yankee Stadium I took place. The Senators beat the Yankees 2-1.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/16 at 2:54 am
June 9th 1946 - Mel Ott (with the New York Giants) became the first manager to be ejected from a doubleheader (both games).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/16 at 8:27 am
June 9th 1946 – King Ananda Mahidol is found shot dead in his bedroom, Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/16 at 2:18 pm
June 10th 1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/18/16 at 2:57 pm
June 18th 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/22/16 at 2:40 pm
June 22nd 1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/16 at 4:06 am
June 23rd 1946 – The National Democratic Front wins a landslide victory in the municipal elections in French India.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/16 at 4:20 am
June 23rd 1946 – The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/27/16 at 5:41 am
June 27th 1946 – In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/16 at 2:13 pm
June 29th 1946 - British authorities arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to end alleged terrorism.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 07/06/16 at 12:18 pm
July 6th, 1946:
Three famous American men were born:
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the U.S. (2001-09)
Sylvester Stallone, actor
Fred Dryer, football player-turned-actor
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/03/16 at 12:55 am
August 3rd 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/16 at 12:32 am
August 25th 1946 - Ben Hogan won the PGA in Portland, OR. It was his first major golf title.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/16 at 4:32 am
August 31st 1946 - Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/02/16 at 3:04 am
September 2nd 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/06/16 at 5:43 am
September 6th 1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/13/16 at 3:36 pm
September 13th 1946 - Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox) hit his only inside-the-park home run.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/16 at 1:56 am
September 15th 1946 - A Brooklyn Dodgers-Chicago Cubs game was called when players, umpires and fans were attacked by gnats.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/16 at 4:10 am
September 19th 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/16 at 5:54 am
September 20th 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/20/16 at 7:44 am
September 20th 1946 - WNBT-TV in New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. Scenes from "The Jolson Story" were shown.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/16 at 3:20 am
September 24th 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/16 at 7:44 am
September 24th 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/29/16 at 3:59 am
September 29th 1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" debuted on CBS Radio.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/16 at 6:19 pm
October 1st 1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/16 at 6:33 pm
October 1st 1946 – Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/16 at 5:41 am
October 22nd 1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/23/16 at 2:28 am
October 23rd 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly convenes for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 11/03/16 at 7:01 pm
November 3rd 1946 - The Constitution of Japan is adopted through Emperor's assent.
It would be enacted exactly half a year later, as a new constitution for a post-war Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/16 at 3:36 am
November 11th 1946 - The New York Knickerbockers (later the Knicks) played their first game at Madison Square Garden. New York lost the game 78-68 to Chicago.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/16 at 6:26 am
November 19th 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/23/16 at 3:13 am
November 23rd 1946 – French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/16 at 6:44 am
November 29th 1946 – The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/16 at 3:26 am
December 7th 1946 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/16 at 6:08 am
December 9th 1946 – The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/16 at 6:18 am
December 9th 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
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Written By: nally on 12/11/16 at 10:58 pm
December 11th 1946: The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/31/16 at 2:57 am
December 31st 1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/01/17 at 5:16 am
January 1st 1947 – The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/01/17 at 6:02 pm
January 1st 1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/06/17 at 10:31 pm
January 6th 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/10/17 at 11:55 pm
January 11th 1947 - "Murder and Mrs. Malone" debuted on ABC radio.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 01/22/17 at 9:11 pm
January 22nd 1947 - KTLA became the first commercial television station in Los Angeles.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 02/27/17 at 2:26 pm
February 27th 1947: United Nations Security Council Resolution 19 is adopted.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/17 at 9:27 pm
March 17th 1947 – First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/17 at 2:46 am
March 20th 1947 - A blue whale weighing 180-metric tons was caught in the South Atlantic.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/17 at 12:49 am
April 15th 1947 - Jackie Robinson played his first major league baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Previously he had only appeared in exhibition games.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 04/15/17 at 2:19 pm
April 15th 1947 - Jackie Robinson played his first major league baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Previously he had only appeared in exhibition games.
A very historical event in sports history, indeed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/17 at 8:02 am
April 16th 1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/17 at 4:32 pm
April 16th 1947 – Texas City disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 04/16/17 at 7:00 pm
Two notable celebs were born 70 years ago today:
Gerry Rafferty (UK singer), now deceased (as of 2011). :\'(
Kareem Abdul-Jabaar (American basketball player), still alive.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/17 at 10:27 pm
May 1st 1947 – Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/17 at 6:34 am
May 3rd 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/24/17 at 7:19 am
June 24th 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/17 at 1:59 am
June 25th 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/04/17 at 6:58 pm
July 4th 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: nally on 07/22/17 at 2:55 pm
July 22nd 1947:
The Flag of India is adopted.
American singer Don Henley and American actor Albert Brooks are both born.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/17 at 12:26 am
August 10th 1947 - William Odom completed an around-the-world flight. He set the solo record by completing the flight in 73 hours and 5 minutes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/14/17 at 5:31 pm
August 14th 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/17 at 4:20 pm
August 15th 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
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Written By: nally on 08/15/17 at 6:57 pm
August 15th 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
Also on that day, India officially gained its independence... just a few minutes after the day officially began (in that time zone).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/17 at 7:47 am
August 22nd 1947 - First college team to beat an NFL team (All Stars-16, Chicago Bears-0).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/17 at 7:14 am
September 1st 1947 - New York Giants' 183-185 home run of year breaks New York Yankees' mark of 182 in 1936.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/13/17 at 12:29 pm
September 13th 1947 - NBC voted to ban crime shows before 9:30pm.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/18/17 at 6:18 am
September 18th 1947 - Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, NY. It was the first country show at the venue.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/17 at 1:17 am
September 26th 1947 - Happy Chandler announces Ford and Gillette to sponsor World Series.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/29/17 at 7:47 am
September 29th 1947 - Dizzy Gillespie gave his first Carnegie Hall concert.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/17 at 12:57 pm
October 2nd 1947 - The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/04/17 at 2:43 pm
October 4th 1947 - First telescope lens 200 inches (508cm) in diameter completed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/17 at 9:12 am
October 6th 1947 - New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/17 at 3:35 pm
October 6th 1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/08/17 at 1:36 pm
October 8th 1942 - The US War Production Board orders the nation's gold mines closed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/17 at 7:32 am
October 13th 1947 - The Toronto Maple Leafs lost to a group of NHL All-Stars in the first official All-Star Game.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/17 at 3:11 pm
October 24th 1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/25/17 at 12:06 pm
October 25th 1947 - The Army football team was defeated by Columbia 21-20. The team had gone unbeaten in 32 games that spanned four seasons. They had earned two national titles in the same time frame.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/27/17 at 4:55 am
October 27th 1947 - "You Bet Your Life," the radio show starring Grouch Marx, premiered on ABC. It was later shown on NBC television.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/17 at 5:15 am
November 1st 1947 - The famous racehorse Man o' War died.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/18 at 6:48 pm
April 28th 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/30/18 at 4:57 pm
April 30th 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/18 at 5:06 pm
May 1st 1948 - 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4; this is Arcaro's fourth win.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/07/18 at 1:56 pm
May 7th 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/18 at 11:57 am
May 15th 1948 – Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/09/18 at 3:38 pm
June 9th 1948 – Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
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Written By: nally on 06/18/18 at 10:48 am
June 18th 1948: Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/21/18 at 12:53 pm
June 21st 1948 - The first network telecast of political conventions took place.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/18 at 2:26 pm
July 18th 1948 - Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits four home runs in a game.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/15/18 at 3:12 am
August 15th 1948 - CBS-TV inaugurated the first nightly news broadcast with anchorman Douglas Edwards.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/18 at 4:17 pm
October 11th 1948 - Cleveland Indians beat Boston Braves, four games to two in 45th World Series.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/18 at 1:37 pm
October 24th 1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time. It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
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Written By: nally on 12/20/18 at 6:35 pm
December 20th 1948: In the Indonesian National Revolution, The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly-formed Republic of Indonesia.
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Written By: nally on 01/10/19 at 6:37 pm
January 9 through 12, 1949: The Los Angeles area is hit with a massive snow storm.
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Written By: AmericanGirl on 01/10/19 at 7:18 pm
January 9 through 12, 1949: The Los Angeles area is hit with a massive snow storm.
:o
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Written By: nally on 01/10/19 at 11:54 pm
:o
Yeah, that kind of thing doesn't often happen in the greater L.A. area, except usually in the mountainous areas (since they are at a higher elevation). I should know, I've lived in the greater area my whole life.
Here is a webpage about the storm, complete with frontpage coverage on the L.A. Times: https://todaypast.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/jan-11-1949-the-great-la-snow-storm/
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Written By: nally on 01/26/19 at 10:57 am
January 26th 1949: The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first light.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/19 at 7:33 am
February 24th 1949 - V-2/WAC-Corporal first rocket to outer space, White Sands, New Mexico, 400km.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/02/19 at 12:45 pm
March 2nd 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/08/19 at 12:39 pm
March 8th 1949 – President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor of Annam Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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Written By: nally on 03/25/19 at 11:06 am
March 25th 1949: The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000 people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/17/19 at 11:44 am
April 17th 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
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Written By: nally on 04/17/19 at 12:56 pm
April 17th 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
Easter Sunday that year.
That was also the date of my maternal grandparents' wedding. (Of course both are now deceased -- in fact they were married for 36 years before Grandpa passed away in 1985 -- but the point is that today would be their 70th anniversary.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/19 at 10:46 am
April 28th 1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/19 at 3:29 pm
1949 - Philadelphia Athletics' Elmer Valo is first American League player to hit two bases-loaded triples in a game.
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Written By: nally on 05/11/19 at 2:03 pm
May 11th 1949: Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/19 at 2:22 am
May 12th 1949 – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/19 at 6:10 am
May 12th 1949 – Cold War: The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/20/19 at 3:54 pm
May 20th 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/23/19 at 7:03 am
May 23rd 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
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Written By: nally on 06/08/19 at 5:08 pm
June 8th 1949: George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
Amazing; that novel looks 35 years into the future, and now the titular year is 35 years in the past!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/10/19 at 8:46 am
June 8th 1949: George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
Amazing; that novel looks 35 years into the future, and now the titular year is 35 years in the past!
One book I have got round to reading, in fact I never seen the film of it.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/15/19 at 4:07 am
June 14th 1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/19 at 3:45 am
July 10th 1949 - The first practical rectangular television was presented. The picture tube measured 12 by 16 and sold for $12.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/21/19 at 2:57 pm
August 21st 1949 - New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies on a forfeit, due to fan's throwing debris.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/22/19 at 1:44 pm
August 22nd 1949 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/19 at 9:39 am
August 25th 1949 - RCA announced the development of a compatible color TV system.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/19 at 11:04 am
August 25th 1949 - NBC Radio debuted "Father Knows Best". The show went to TV in 1954.
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Written By: nally on 08/28/19 at 6:48 pm
One book I have got round to reading, in fact I never seen the film of it.
Interesting. O0
August 28th 1949 - The Greek Army captured Mount Gramos from the Communists.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/30/19 at 7:39 am
August 30th 1949, Hank Williams went into Herzog Studio in Cincinnati to record 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'. Williams wrote the song originally intending that the words be spoken rather than sung. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/19 at 10:43 am
August 31st 1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/13/19 at 10:37 am
September 13th 1849 - In Hastings, NY, The first recorded death in a boxing match occurred after Chris Lilly knocked out Tom McCoy. McCoy died a short time later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/19 at 9:36 am
September 15th 1949 - "The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC. Clayton Moore was the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels was Tonto.
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Written By: nally on 09/21/19 at 11:07 pm
September 21st 1949: The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
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Written By: nally on 09/23/19 at 4:42 pm
September 23rd 1949:
US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation.
American rocker Bruce Springsteen is born.
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Written By: nally on 09/27/19 at 10:36 pm
September 27th 1949:
Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/29/19 at 1:56 pm
September 27th 1949:
Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
...and two days later.
September 29th 1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/19 at 6:53 am
October 6th 1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Japanese wartime propaganda broadcaster Tokyo Rose) sentenced to ten years and $10,000 fine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/19 at 7:07 am
October 6th 1949 - The "Ed Wynn Show" became the first regularly scheduled network show to be broadcasted from the West Coast of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/19 at 8:29 am
October 6th 1949 - The Allies end the Berlin airlift.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/19 at 9:39 am
October 6th 1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/19 at 4:21 pm
October 16th 1949 – Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/19 at 3:01 pm
November 2nd 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/19 at 11:01 am
November 26th 1949 - India's Constituent Assembly adopted the country's constitution. The country became a republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/19 at 7:32 am
December 8th 1949 - Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" premieres at Ziegfeld Theater in New York City for 740 performances.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/10/20 at 10:36 am
January 10th 1950 - Ben Hogan appeared for the first time in a golf tournament since an auto accident a year earlier. He tied ‘Slammin’ Sammy Snead in the Los Angeles Open, however, Hogan lost in a playoff.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/21/20 at 5:35 pm
January 21st 1950 – American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
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Written By: nally on 01/21/20 at 11:10 pm
January 21st 1950 – American lawyer and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
Also on that day: singer Billy Ocean was born!
(He would have most of his musical success during the 1980s.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/20 at 10:42 am
January 30th 1950 - NBC-TV debuted "Robert Montgomery Presents." The show lasted for seven seasons.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/12/20 at 10:58 am
February 12th 1950 - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/25/20 at 2:10 pm
February 25th 1950 - "Your Show of Shows" debuted on NBC.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/12/20 at 12:36 pm
March 12th 1950 - US Congress charters the Girl Scouts of the USA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/20 at 4:21 pm
March 13th 1950 - General Motors reports 1949 net earnings of US$656,434,232 (record).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/16/20 at 12:39 pm
March 16th 1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/20 at 11:55 am
March 17th 1950 - Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced that they had created a new radioactive element. They named it "californium". It is also known as element 98.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/20 at 12:55 pm
March 19th 1950 - City College of New York defeats Bradley 69-61 to win the NIT championship.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/23/20 at 6:45 am
March 23rd 1950 - "Beat the Clock" premiered on CBS-TV.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/28/20 at 8:41 am
March 28th 1950 - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: City College of New York beats Bradley 71-68; CCNY becomes first to win NCAA and National Invitation Basketball in same year.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/30/20 at 5:14 am
March 30th 1950 - Phototransistor invention announced, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/30/20 at 6:08 am
March 30th 1950 - U.S. President Truman denounced Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/20 at 8:28 am
April 9th 1950 - Bob Hope made his first television appearance on "Star-Spangled Review" on NBC-TV.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/26/20 at 12:42 pm
April 26th 1950 - Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Maryland is run.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/20 at 9:33 am
May 5th 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King of Thailand.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/20 at 8:06 am
May 10th 1950 - First Netherlands-US telex is sent.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/20 at 12:36 pm
May 12th 1950 - The American Bowling Congress abolished its white males-only membership restriction after 34 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/19/20 at 2:03 pm
May 19th 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
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Written By: nally on 05/21/20 at 1:06 pm
The following events occurred on May 21st 1950:
The first group of Iraqi Jews arrived in Tel Aviv, marking the beginning of Operation Ezra and Nehemiah. Over the following year, until the halt of the exodus from Iraq on July 18, 1951, more than 100,000 of the refugees would resettle in Israel.
Cuzco, Peru, suffered an earthquake that killed 129 people, injured 300, and destroyed 90% of the structures in the one-time capital of the Inca Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/25/20 at 1:12 pm
May 25th 1950 - Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in New York City, New York.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/20 at 6:32 am
May 27th 1950 - Frank Sinatra made his TV debut on NBC's "Star-Spangled Review".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/20 at 10:39 am
May 29th 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/20 at 10:52 am
June 3rd 1950 – Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/08/20 at 5:20 am
June 8th 1950 - Boston Red Sox beats Saint Louis Browns 29-4.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/11/20 at 7:40 am
June 11th 1950 - Ben Hogan returned to tournament play after a near fatal car accident. He won the U.S. Open.
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Written By: nally on 06/27/20 at 11:48 am
June 27th 1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
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Written By: nally on 06/28/20 at 11:41 am
June 28th 1950: During the Korean War, South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing at least 60,000 suspected North Korean sympathizers. :(
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/29/20 at 3:17 pm
June 29th 1950 – Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorized a sea blockade of Korea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/20 at 8:33 am
July 16th 1950 - The largest crowd in sporting history was 199,854. They watched Uruguay defeat Brazil (2-1) in the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/20 at 4:17 am
August 20th 1950 – Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Nakdong River and assault the city of Taegu.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/31/20 at 11:52 am
August 31st 1950 - Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game off of four different pitchers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/23/20 at 3:33 pm
September 23rd 1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/20 at 12:51 pm
September 24th 1950 – The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/07/20 at 3:53 am
October 7th 1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/20 at 4:51 pm
November 8th 1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/20 at 2:58 pm
November 17th 1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/20 at 3:03 am
November 19th 1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/25/20 at 11:17 am
November 25th 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/20 at 1:19 pm
December 2nd 1950 – Korean War: Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ends, with a decisive Chinese victory; UN forces were completely expelled from North Korea.
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Written By: mercuryse7entenorsea on 12/10/20 at 5:18 pm
December 10, 1950: Bertrand Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought".
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Written By: mercuryse7entenorsea on 12/21/20 at 11:33 pm
December 21, 1950: General Douglas MacArthur ordered the censorship of all news reports concerning the Korean War, with his office to provide official clearance before news reports, magazine articles, photographs and films, or broadcasts could be released to the world press. Prohibited news included any criticism of the American and United Nations soldiers and commanders, or their handling of the war, and all correspondents were put under the jurisdiction of the United States Army, with punishments for violation of the order ranging from suspension of privileges, to trial by court martial. United Press reporter Peter Webb was one of the first to be punished, after failing to clear a report about the death of General Walker with MacArthur's headquarters; he was detained for 18 hours before being released. The Daily Dispatch of London would comment that the only thing that could officially be said about the United Nations troops was that they were in Korea.
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Written By: nally on 12/26/20 at 9:38 pm
December 26th 1950 - The new Headquarters of the United Nations building opened at 760 East 42nd Street in New York (now 760 United Nations Plaza). Secretary General Trygve Lie and most of his staff of 3,000 employees had previously been working at quarters leased from at the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
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Written By: nally on 12/27/20 at 1:06 pm
December 27th 1950 - The United States began designating large areas of airspace over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico with the classification Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) for any place "within which the ready identification, location, and control of aircraft is required in the interest of national security". From then on, all domestic and foreign flights would be required to file flight plans. Any incoming foreign aircraft was required to give their position to controllers when aircraft were "not less than one hour cruising distance via the most direct route, from the United States".
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Written By: nally on 01/02/21 at 12:44 pm
One day late... January 1st 1951, Patti Page's hit song "Tennessee Waltz" enjoys its first week as the No. 1 single, on Billboard and Cashbox charts, in the United States.
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/02/21 at 5:04 pm
On this date: January 2nd, 1951, a young couple who knew each other in high school, both students at USC in L.A. went to Las Vegas to elope. She was 20 and he was 18. After they got married, they were in the airport at lunch time when everyone left the slot machines. The two of them went down the line and the machines hit. They won about $8 and in those days, that was enough for them to go out to dinner for their first meal as husband and wife.
Those two went on to have 6 kids (their last one was Yours Truly). They divorced about 25+/- years later. She remarried but he never did even though he had a long-time significant other. Neither one of them are still with us. :\'( :\'( :\'(
Cat
Subject: Re: 70 Years Ago Thread
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/04/21 at 12:32 pm
On this date: January 2nd, 1951, a young couple who knew each other in high school, both students at USC in L.A. went to Las Vegas to elope. She was 20 and he was 18. After they got married, they were in the airport at lunch time when everyone left the slot machines. The two of them went down the line and the machines hit. They won about $8 and in those days, that was enough for them to go out to dinner for their first meal as husband and wife.
Those two went on to have 6 kids (their last one was Yours Truly). They divorced about 25+/- years later. She remarried but he never did even though he had a long-time significant other. Neither one of them are still with us. :\'( :\'( :\'(
Cat
How much is $8 worth in today's value?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/04/21 at 12:32 pm
January 4th 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
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Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/05/21 at 2:34 pm
How much is $8 worth in today's value?
Roughly about $82.23 (according to Google). Definitely enough for a really nice dinner.
Cat
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Written By: mercuryse7entenorsea on 01/10/21 at 11:12 pm
January 10, 1951: 1st jet passenger trip made
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/27/21 at 3:38 pm
January 27th 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/09/21 at 9:36 am
February 9th 1951 – Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/25/21 at 10:55 am
February 25th 1951 – The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
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Written By: nally on 02/27/21 at 12:30 pm
February 27th 1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
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Written By: nally on 03/03/21 at 1:31 pm
March 3rd 1951 - Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/31/21 at 5:01 pm
March 31st 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/05/21 at 4:05 pm
April 5th 1951 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/11/21 at 4:26 pm
April 11th 1951 – Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/11/21 at 4:27 pm
April 11th 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
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Written By: nally on 04/17/21 at 11:12 am
April 17th 1951: The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/13/21 at 7:36 am
May 13th 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
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Written By: nally on 05/16/21 at 4:26 pm
May 16th 1951 - The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/18/21 at 8:40 am
May 18th 1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/23/21 at 2:32 am
May 23rd 1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China.
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Written By: nally on 06/14/21 at 11:43 pm
June 14th 1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/17/21 at 5:51 am
June 17th 1941 - WNBT-TV in New York City, NY, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the U.S.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/25/21 at 8:49 am
June 25th 1951 - The first commercial color TV program was a show presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV's at the time.
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Written By: nally on 07/04/21 at 10:07 am
July 4th 1951: William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain later won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Written By: nally on 07/26/21 at 11:05 pm
July 26th 1951: Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
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Written By: nally on 09/04/21 at 11:25 am
September 4th 1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
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Written By: mercuryse7entenorsea on 09/18/21 at 12:20 pm
September 18, 1951: "A Streetcar Named Desire", directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, is released
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Written By: nally on 10/03/21 at 1:23 pm
October 3rd 1951 - the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" occurred at the Polo Grounds in New York City. It was a walkoff home run hit by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca. It is especially remembered from the call of announcer Russ Hodges, who repeatedly yelled, "The Giants win the pennant!" several times in succession after the play.
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Written By: nally on 10/15/21 at 11:09 pm
October 15th 1951, the sitcom I Love Lucy premiered on primetime television.
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Written By: mercuryse7entenorsea on 11/11/21 at 12:45 pm
November 11, 1951: Juan Perón is re-elected president of Argentina.
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Written By: nally on 12/17/21 at 10:41 pm
November 11, 1951: Juan Perón is re-elected president of Argentina.
The very same day, American TV host Marc Summers was born. O0
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Written By: nally on 12/17/21 at 10:41 pm
December 17th 1951, The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
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Written By: nally on 12/24/21 at 2:40 pm
December 24th 1951, the African country Libya became independent; Idris I was proclaimed as its king.
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Written By: nally on 01/14/22 at 7:49 pm
January 14th 1952: NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
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Written By: nally on 02/06/22 at 10:11 pm
6 February 1952: Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/07/22 at 9:51 am
6 February 1952: Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
O0
We are watching all the celebrations on television.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/22 at 2:21 am
March 15th 1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
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Written By: nally on 03/27/22 at 5:47 pm
March 27th 1952 - The American musical romantic comedy film Singin' In The Rain (directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds) premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Two weeks later, it would get released to the rest of the USA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/11/22 at 12:44 pm
April 11th 1952 – Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/22 at 12:39 pm
April 15th 1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
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Written By: nally on 04/28/22 at 11:01 pm
April 28th 1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to focus on campaigning in the 1952 United States presidential election.
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Written By: nally on 05/02/22 at 11:11 pm
May 2nd 1952 - A De Havilland Comet (the world's first commercial jet airliner) makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/22 at 5:23 am
May 3rd 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/22 at 2:36 pm
May 3rd 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/05/22 at 2:50 pm
May 5th 1952 – Queen Elizabeth II took up residence at Buckingham Palace.
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Written By: nally on 05/07/22 at 3:12 pm
May 7th 1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
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Written By: nally on 06/01/22 at 11:27 pm
June 1st 1952 - Navigation opens on the Volga–Don Canal, connecting the Caspian Sea basin with that of the Black Sea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/22 at 2:46 am
July 3rd 1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/22 at 2:54 pm
July 3rd 1952 – The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress.
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Written By: nally on 07/07/22 at 8:34 pm
July 7th 1952 - The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
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Written By: nally on 08/11/22 at 7:59 pm
August 11th 1952: Hussein bin Talal, was proclaimed king of Jordan on 11 August 1952, succeeding to the throne three months before his 17th birthday.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 09/01/22 at 5:53 am
September 1st 1952 - Atlantic Records bought Ray Charles' contract from Swingtime Records, where Charles had been recording in the mellower, bluesy style of Nat King Cole and Charles Brown.
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Written By: nally on 09/15/22 at 11:17 pm
15 September 1952 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
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Written By: nally on 10/15/22 at 11:47 pm
October 15th 1952, the children's novel Charlotte's Web by E.B. White was published.
Happy 70th birthday to a classic kiddie novel!!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/22 at 2:55 pm
October 15th 1952, the children's novel Charlotte's Web by E.B. White was published.
Happy 70th birthday to a classic kiddie novel!!
One of my sister's favourite book, and I never read it or seen the film.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/04/22 at 2:57 pm
November 4th 1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
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Written By: nally on 11/04/22 at 7:47 pm
One of my sister's favourite book, and I never read it or seen the film.
I read the book and studied it (in grade school) and saw a play based on it.
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Written By: nally on 11/04/22 at 7:49 pm
November 4th 1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
Also on that day, Dwight Eisenhower was elected to the Presidency. His running mate, Richard Nixon, became one of the youngest people ever elected as Vice President, at 39 years of age. (He would turn 40 a week and a half before being sworn into the office of VP in January of 1953.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/14/22 at 1:31 am
November 14th 1952 – The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express. The chart, described as a top 12 although the first one actually listed 15 records due to tied positions, was the creation of the paper's advertising manager, Percy Dickins, who compiled it by telephoning around 20 major record stores and aggregating their sales reports. He would continue to personally oversee the compilation of the chart well into the 1960s. Al Martino's single "Here in My Heart" was the first number one.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/05/22 at 6:05 am
December 5th 1952 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimated 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/10/23 at 4:09 am
January 10th 1953 - Jo Stafford was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Belong To Me'. Originally a singer with Tommy Dorsey until 1942, Stafford was the first female to have a No.1 on the UK singles Chart.
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Written By: nally on 01/13/23 at 11:37 pm
January 10th 1953 - Jo Stafford was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Belong To Me'. Originally a singer with Tommy Dorsey until 1942, Stafford was the first female to have a No.1 on the UK singles Chart.
Also, American rock singer Pat Benatar was born. O0
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Written By: nally on 01/13/23 at 11:38 pm
January 13th 1953, the 3rd NBA All-Star Game was played, at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, home of the Fort Wayne Pistons. The final score was West 79, East 75.
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Written By: nally on 01/14/23 at 6:01 pm
January 14th 1953 – Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/23 at 2:49 am
January 17th 1953 - American jazz singer Kay Starr (Katherine Starks) was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Comes A Long A Love'. Starr was born on an Indian reservation in Oklahoma; her father was a full-blooded American Indian and her mother Irish
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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/19/23 at 1:03 pm
January 19th 1953 – Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
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Written By: Voiceofthe70s on 01/19/23 at 1:12 pm
January 19th 1953 – Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
They didn't technically show her giving birth, mind you. Maybe this should be rephrased to say "almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into the episode where Lucy has a baby".
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Written By: nally on 01/19/23 at 8:04 pm
They didn't technically show her giving birth, mind you. Maybe this should be rephrased to say "almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into the episode where Lucy has a baby".
That is correct; in fact, the episode was filmed about two months in advance. It just happened to air on the very day that Lucille Ball gave birth to son Desi Jr in real life.
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Written By: nally on 01/20/23 at 7:40 pm
January 20th 1953 - Dwight Eisenhower took office as the 34th U.S. President.
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Written By: nally on 01/29/23 at 5:25 pm
January 29th 1953 - First movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/28/23 at 4:07 pm
February 28th 1953 – James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
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Written By: nally on 03/26/23 at 10:46 am
March 26th 1953 – Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
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Written By: nally on 04/03/23 at 10:36 pm
April 3rd 1953 - TV Guide published its inaugural issue. The cover was a photo of Lucille Ball's infant son, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/13/23 at 5:02 pm
April 13th 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/23 at 4:30 am
April 15th 1953 - WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/25/23 at 8:53 am
April 25th 1953 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
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Written By: nally on 04/29/23 at 11:22 am
April 29th 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
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Written By: nally on 05/04/23 at 10:04 pm
May 4th 1953 - Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Old Man and the Sea.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/18/23 at 11:13 am
May 18th 1953 – Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
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Written By: nally on 05/29/23 at 10:25 am
May 29th 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/02/23 at 7:14 am
June 2nd 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation and one of the first major international events to be televised.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/23 at 1:31 pm
June 3rd 1953 - Elvis Presley graduated from J.C. Hulmes High School in Memphis; his graduation photo shows him to have a split curl in the middle of his forehead, later to become his trademark. He was the first member of his family to graduate high school.