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Wednesday, December 01, 2021
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| 1501 | Lucrezia Borgia & Alfonso d'Este wed, and really do live happily ever after |
| 1935 | Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
| 1941 | Luzon: Philippine 91st Div collapses, unhinging the Bambam-Gapan line |
| 1941 | Japanese troops occupy Kuantan, on the east coast of Malaya. |
| 1943 | RN sends large squadron from Britain for the British Far Eastern Fleet. |
| 1943 | Bougainville: Fijian troops reconnoiter behind Japanese lines. |
| 1944 | U.S. Army aircraft attack Japanese shipping in the Manila Bay area. |
| 1959 | USS George Washington commissioned, first ballistic missile sub |
| 1972 | Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks |
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| 1145 | Pope Eugene III calls for a Second Crusade |
| 1640 | Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule |
| 1742 | Tsarina Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia |
| 1821 | Santo Domingo proclaims independence from Spain |
| 1822 | Battle of Monrovia: Americo-Liberians defeat local tribes |
| 1822 | Dom Pedro I crowned Emperor of Brazil |
| 1842 | The Somers Mutiny: a midshipman and two sailors hanged |
| 1896 | Armored cruiser Brooklyn commissioned |
| 1917 | British capture Ramalah, Palestine |
| 1918 | Serbian-Croatian-Slovene kingdom of Yugoslavia proclaimed in Belgrade |
| 1933 | Rudolf Hess & Earnest Rohm become ministers in Hitler's government |
| 1937 | Japan recognizes Franco's Nationalists as the government of Spain |
| 1939 | SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews |
| 1941 | Subs Argonaut & Trout take station off Midway, Triton & Tambor off Wake |
| 1941 | Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organized |
| 1942 | Gasoline rationing begins in the US |
| 1942 | Papua: Australians capture Gona Village. |
| 1942 | Papua: LtGen Eichelberger is put in command of the Buna-Gona operation |
| 1943 | FDR, Churchill, & Stalin agree to Operation Overload |
| 1943 | 5th Marine Div begins organizing at Camp Pendleton, California. |
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| 1773 | Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge enlists in a militia light dragoon company |
| 1777 | British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 |
| 1800 | Hohenlinden: Moeau's French ambush the Austrians, crushing them. |
| 1804 | Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French |
| 1805 | Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz |
| 1815 | Fourth Battle of the Isonzo ends (from Nov 10) |
| 1848 | Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria & King of Hungary |
| 1852 | Second French Empire established, under (Louis) Napoleon III |
| 1914 | Austrian army captures Belgrade, Serbia, after several tries |
| 1941 | HMS Prince of Wales & Repulse ("Force Z") arrive at Singapore |
| 1941 | Roosevelt asks Japan to clarify its intents with regard to Fr Indochina |
| 1941 | Hawaii Recon aircraft ordered to search 400 miles, NW to S only. |
| 1941 | First Air Fleet at 43 N, 158 30' E, c. 3,200 miles NW of Pearl Harbor |
| 1941 | British declare a state of emergency in Malaya |
| 1942 | Enrico Fermi achieves the first sustained nuclear chain reaction, in Chicago |
| 1942 | Italian blockade runner Orseolo arrives at Kobe from Bordeaux. |
| 1942 | Papua: Eichelberger relieves cdrs of 32nd Div and several subordinate units. |
| 1942 | Papua: Japanese at Buna beat off another American attack. |
| 1942 | Papua: Despite Allied air power, Japanese reinforcements land near Buna |
| 1944 | Chaing Kai-shek again rejects proposals to arm Communist against Japan. |
| 1971 | Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah, & Umm-ak-Qiwain form the United Arab Emirates |
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