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A great thread here Alan! As has been said, short and to the point and a very helpful pointer to use for 'further information'  23rd Feb 1938
Bombs dropped on Japan by 12 Chinese Fighter planes.Never heard of that one - so the Yanks weren't the first with the Dolittle Raid after all!  Mind you, the Chinese probably didn't have so far to go! Keep these coming! Robin. First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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26th Feb 1871
Preliminary peace treaty signed in Versailles between France and Russia
26th Feb 1935
Luftwaffe founded, becoming the 3rd military service, navy and army being the other two.
26th Feb 1936
Political leaders assassinated in Tokyo as Japanese military conduct a coup.
26th Feb 1941
East Africa capital Somali taken by the British
26th Feb 1945
War against Germany and Japan declared by Syria.
26th Feb 1952
Great Britain developed its own atomic bomb
26th Feb 1972
Luna 20 recovered by the Soviets, contains a cargo of moon rocks
26th Feb 1991
Kuwait is liberated.
26th Feb 1993
World Trade Center rocked by a bomb.
26th Feb 2011
Shuttle Discovery docks with the Space Station for the last time.
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Alan
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27th Feb 1700
Pacific Island of New Britain is discovered
27th Feb 1918
The Hospital ship Glenart Castle reportedly sinks in the Bristol Channel after being torpedoed.
27th Feb 1942
German radar station at Bruneval, France raided by British Commandos.
27th Feb 1963
10,000 troops to remain in Cuba according to the Soviet Union
27th Feb 2012
Bin Laden’s compound is demolished by Pakistan.
Regards
Alan
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27th February 1962 – Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm. 27th February 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". On the bench 1/350 Revell Tirpitz Platinum Edition (Pontos PE and Wooden deck) plus extra Eduard PE set and extra MK1 door sets.
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magpie1832 wrote: 1991 – Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". I was born.   Happy Birthday!!! 
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28th Feb 1900
British troops in Laydsmith, South Africa are relieved after a 119 day siege by the Boers
28th Feb 1922
Egypt gains its independence from Britain
28th Feb 1936
Order is restored in Tokyo by the Japanese Army, officers involved in a coup are arrested.
28th Feb 1945
US Tanks cross the Erft River.
28th Feb 1986
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme shot dead in Stockholm
28th Feb 1991
The Gulf war ends
28th Feb 1993
Bitter gun battle occurs in Waco Texas
28th Feb 1994
4 Serb aircraft shot down over Bosnia by US warplanes.
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Alan
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Leap Year!!!
29th Feb 1856
Russo-Turkish War ceases.
29th Feb 1944
Invasion of the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea begins with Operation Brewer. Fierce battles occur between US and Japanese forces.
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Alan
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1st Mar 1815
1500 men march on Paris, led by Napoleon.
1st Mar 1871
Franco-Prussian War – German troops enter Paris
1st Mar 1935
Luftwaffe officially established.
1st Mar 1936
Hoover Dam is completed.
1st Mar 1941
The Axis is joined by Bulgaria
1st Mar 1942
Japanese forces land on Java
1st Mar 1943
Bombing raids on European railway lines conducted by the RAF
1st Mar 1954
US tests a hydrogen bomb.
Regards
Alan
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2nd Mar 1865
General Robert E Lee’s plea for peace talks rejected by Prsident Abraham Lincoln who demands an unconditional surrender.
2nd Mar 1943
900 tons of bombs dropped on the centre of Berlin by the RAF.
2nd Mar 1945
US Flag raised on Corregidor in the Philippines.
2nd mar 1951
The K1 submarine designed to hunt enemy submarines in launched by the US Navy.
2nd Mar 1965
Rolling Thunder begins with US and South Vietnamese planes conducting bombing missions inside North Vietnam
2nd Mar 1969
Concorde has it’s maiden flight.
Regards
Alan
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3rd Mar 1931
The Star-Spangled Banner established as the U.S. National Anthem.
3rd Mar 1939
Gandhi begins a fast in Bombay. Protests against the states autocratic rule
3rd Mar 1941
The Axis rule in Bulgaria is denounced by Moscow
3rd Mar 1942
The industrial suburbs of Paris endure raids by the RAF
3rd Mar 1945
War against the Axis is declared by Finland
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Alan
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4th Mar 1461
Duke of York is proclaimed King Edward IV after Henry VI is deposed.
4th Mar 1904
100,000 Japanese advance in Korea and Russian troops retreat towards the Manchurian border
4TH Mar 1936
Hindenburg makes it’s first official flight in Germany
4th Mar 1944
US Forces bomb Berlin for the first time.
4th Mar 1970
French submarine ‘Eurydice’ sinks in the Mediterranean killing 57.
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Alan
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5th Mar 1793
Liege recaptured as Austrian troops crush the French.
5th Mar 1905
Mukden in Manchuria sees the Russians begin to retreat.
5th Mar 1918
Capital of Russia no longer Petrograd, now Moscow
5th Mar 1943
15 & 16 year olds called up for military service in Germany due to war losses.
5th Mar 1953
Joseph Stalin dies.
Regards
Alan
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Enjoying these please keep them up, Also the day of the Bostern Masicre and the day of Churchills famous 'iron curtain ' speech Jase “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Thanks Jase, pleased you're enjoying the updates... Will try to keep them going but realistically they can only be done for a year otherwise it's likely we'd just be repeating the posts all over again..... .. At least they would always be there for members to refer to just to remind them of key events as each day passes.... Regards Alan
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Maybe next year do this day in aviation? Or somthing Airfix say today is the anaversery of the first flight of the spitfire, which i dident know “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Alan Very interesting indeed. Always more interested myself in anything pre 19?? Been learning quite a bit looking at your posts. Happy Modelling
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birdaj2 wrote:Alan
Very interesting indeed. Always more interested myself in anything pre 19??
Been learning quite a bit looking at your posts.
Thanks Tony, pleased you're finding this thread interesting... and learning something at the same time we'll take as a bonus eh...... Regards Alan
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6th Mar 1936
The Alamo falls after 13 days of fighting.
6th Mar 1899
Aspirin is patented.
6th Mar 1916
Fort Douamont in France is recaprtured by the Allies during the Battle of Verdun.
6th Mar 1928
3,000 dead, 50,000 fleeing after a Communist attack on Beijing.
6th Mar 1943
Essen and Krupp in the Ruhr are bombed by the RAF
6th Mar 1945
General Courtney Hodges, First Army captures Cologne.
6th Mar 1965
3,500 US troops to be sent to Vietnam,
6th Mar 1987
Herald of Free Enterprise, a British ferry capsizes off the coast of Zeebrugge, Belgium, 188 die.
Regards
Alan
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322 BC
Aristotle Dies
7th Mar 1799
2000 Albanian prisoners in Palestine massacred by Napoleon’s men.
7th Mar 1849
The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved
7th Mar 1876
A patent is granted to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone
7th Mar 1904
Russian town of Vladivostok bombed by the Japanese
7th Mar 1912
Heri Seimet, French aviator flies non-stop from London to Paris is 3 hours.
7th Mar 1933
Monopoly is invented.
7th Mar 1935
Auto speed record of 276.8mph set my Malcolm Campbell in Florida
7th Mar 1936
The Treaty of Versailles violated by German military forces entering the Rhineland.
7th Mar 1942
Japanese troops land on New Guinea
7th Mar 1971
1000 US planes bomb Cambodia and Laos
7th Mar 1979
Jupiter is reached by Voyager 1,
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Alan
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