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Topic: On this day

Posted by: Professer

Subject: On this day
Date: Jan 18 08

Heres novel idea of what happened on this day back in time.

Remember that todays 18th January tomorrow is 19th and so on.



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romeomikegolf

216 BC: The Carthiniginian general Hannibal annihilates a Roman army at the Battle of Cannae, killing 60,0000.

Reply #681. Aug 02 11, 12:32 AM

REDVIKING57


1990 - 100,000 Iraqi troops invade Kuwait,sparking the 1st.Gulf War.

Reply #682. Aug 02 11, 6:16 AM

boxjaw

1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident. US naval units engage North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Expanding the presence of the US in Southeast Asia.

Reply #683. Aug 02 11, 9:39 AM

romeomikegolf

1958: The nuclear-powered submarine USS 'Nautilus' makes the first submerged crossing of the North Pole.

Reply #684. Aug 03 11, 1:17 AM

REDVIKING57


1914 - Germany declared war on France.

Reply #685. Aug 03 11, 5:20 AM

boxjaw

1934 - Hitler merges the offices of President and Chancellor and becomes the supreme leader of Germany.

Reply #686. Aug 03 11, 11:01 AM

romeomikegolf

1944: Diarist Anne Frank and her family, in hiding in Amsterdam, are betrayed and sent to concentration camps.

Reply #687. Aug 04 11, 1:35 AM

boxjaw

1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel is opened. Connecting Greenwich and London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Reply #688. Aug 04 11, 7:55 AM

REDVIKING57


1966 - "We're now bigger than Jesus" - so said John Lennon,in an interview on a US radio station. Consequently, Beatles records were banned in many US states. No wonder those four cheeky Scousers didn't make much of themselves!

Reply #689. Aug 04 11, 8:41 AM

boxjaw

:^P

Reply #690. Aug 04 11, 3:23 PM

romeomikegolf

1583: The first English colony in North America is founded at St John's Bay, Newfoundland, by Humphrey Gilbert.

Reply #691. Aug 05 11, 12:36 AM

boxjaw

1957 - American Bandstand debuts on ABC television.

Reply #692. Aug 05 11, 7:39 AM

romeomikegolf

1890: Murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair, at Buffalo, US.

Reply #693. Aug 06 11, 12:41 AM

REDVIKING57


1945 - The Atomic Bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

Reply #694. Aug 06 11, 5:09 AM

romeomikegolf

1964: US congress approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, increasing American military involvement in Vietnam.

Reply #695. Aug 07 11, 1:14 AM

boxjaw

:^)

Reply #696. Aug 07 11, 11:51 AM

romeomikegolf

1974: Richard Nixon becomes the first US president to resign, facing impeachment over the Watergate scandal.

Reply #697. Aug 08 11, 3:42 AM

boxjaw

1963 - Great Train Robbery occurs at Ledburn, England. 2.6 million Pounds is stolen. Most of it never recovered.

Reply #698. Aug 08 11, 6:51 AM

boxjaw

1945 - Fat Man is dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. 40,000 people are killed the day of the destruction.

Reply #699. Aug 09 11, 9:26 AM

romeomikegolf

48 BC: Julius Caesar defeats Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus, giving Caesar absolute control of Rome.

Reply #700. Aug 09 11, 10:19 AM

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