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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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YearEvent
1715"The Fifteen" - The first Jacobite Rebellion begins
1776David Bushnell's Turtle attempts a submarine attack on HMS Eagle, NY
1808Gioacchino Murat lands at Gaeta to assume the throne of Naples
1862Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1863Confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC, ending 59 day Union siege
1886Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
1900Anglo-Boer War: Buller captures Lydenburg
1901Leon Czologosz shoots President McKinley in Buffalo, NY
1914Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1918US Navy 14-inch rail guns open fire on the Western Front
1924Mussolini evades assassination atempt
1928USSR signs Briand-Kellogg Pact, agrees war is naughty
1939South Africa declares war on Germany
1939First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
1940Charles F. Hughes (DD-428) commissioned (LtCdr. G. L. Menocal)
1940Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1941Nazis restrict Jews of Vilna, Poland, to a ghetto
1941All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1942Japanese occupy Efogi on the Kokoda Trail, 50 miles from Port Moresby
1943Japanese CA Nachi survives torpedo from Halibut off Japan.
1944Netherlands: German Fifteenth Army evacuates Zealand
194416 U.S. carriers strike Japanese held islands in the western Carolines
1976Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25
1983USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1988Crippled Soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
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Date
Sep 07, 2010
YearEvent
1303The Colonna capture Pope Boniface VIII, a Caetani, at Anagni
1664Peter Stuyvesant surrenders Nieuw Amsterdam to the English fleet
1714Treaty of Baden: French retain Alsace, Austria gets right bank of Rhine
1776David Bushnell's sub Turtle tries to destroy HMS Asia, in New York harbor
1812Battle at Borodino: Napoleon gains a Phyrric victory over Kutusov
1814USS Wasp captures HMS Avon
1822Pedro I, son of King Joao VI of Portugal, declares Brazil independent
1860Garibaldi and "The Army of the South" enter Naples
1862Stonewall Jackson writes a pass so he can attend divine services.
1901Anglo-Boer War: Smuts cuts up 17th Lancers at Elands River Poort
1940German Air Force begins first of 57 nights of raids on London
1942Battle of Alam Halfa, Rommel's attempt to reach the Nile is frustrated.
1943Heavy fighting on Vella Lavella.
1943Heavy fighting around Lae.
1947Hindus & Muslims battle in New Delhi
1950Communist government closes all monasteries in Hungary
1956Bell X-2 sets unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+
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YearEvent
1141Battle of Samarkand
1380Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars
1495Ferrantino II lays siege to French-held Gaeta (falls Nov 18)
1565Turkish siege of Malta broken by a Spanish squadron from Naples
1664Peter Stuyvesant surrenders Niewe Amsterdam to the English
1760French surrender Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst
1796Battle of Bassano: French beat Austrians
1855Crimean War: Assault on the Malakof Bastion
1863Texans repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX
1863Battle of Telford's Depot,TN
19237 USN DDs ground at Point Honda, Ca, due to a navigational error
1939German panzers reach outskirts of Warsaw
1939FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1941Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated
1942Japanese open 5 battalion attack on Aussies at Egofi, the Kokoda Trail
1942Japanese destroyer squadron shells Tulagi.
1942700 Marine Raiders raid Tasimboko, Guadalcanal, in the Japanese rear
1943U.S. destroyers bombard Lae to support Australian 9th Div.
1943Italy surrenders to Allies in WW II
1944Russian troops reach Bulgaria, which promptly declares war on Germany
1945US troops land in Korea to assume occupation duties
1948British De Havilland 08 fighter flies faster than sound
1951Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries at San Francisco
1954Southeast Asia Treaty Organization formed by the Treaty of Manila
1954SE Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed
1962Chinese troops invade India
1991Macedonia declares independence from Yugoslavia