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7th Jun 1498
Christopher Columbus departs on his third exploration voyage.
7th Jun 1546
War between France and England ends with the Peace of Ardes.
7th Jun 1775
The United Colonies change their name to the United States.
7th Jun 1914
The Panama Canal sees its first vessel pass through.
7th Jun 1942
Islands of Attu and Kiska, Aleutian Islands are invaded by the Japanese.
7th Jun 1981
Iraq’s only nuclear reactor is destroyed by Israeli F-16 fighter bombers.
Regards
Alan
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8th Jun 452
Italy is invaded by Atilla the Hun
8th Jun 793
Northumbrian coast of England is invaded by the Vikings
8th Jun 1866
Region of Holstein is annexed by Prussia.
8th Jun 1965
Commanders in Vietnam are authorised by Lyndon Jonson to commit US Ground forces to combat.
8th Jun 1967
USS Liberty, a surveillance ship is attacked by Israeli airplanes killing 34 crewmen.
8th Jun 1995
Capt Scott O’Grady, US Air Force pilot is rescued by US Marines in Bosnia.
Regards
Alan
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9th Jun 1790
Civil war breaks out in Martinique
9th Jun 1863
The largest cavalry battle of the Civil War occurs with the clash of Union and Confederate cavalries at the Battle of Brandy Station.
9th Jun 1923
The military overthrows the Bulgarian government.
9th Jun 1942
Japanese high command announces The Midway Occupation operations have been temporarily postponed.
9th Jun 1945
Japanese premier declares Japan will fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.
9th Jun 1959
USS George Washington, the first ballistic missile carrying submarine is launched.
Regards
Alan
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10th Jun 1776
A committee is appointed to write the Declaration of Independence.
10th Jun 1801
War is declared on the US by Tripoli.
10th Jun 1898
US Marines land in Cuba
10th Jun 1909
The SOS Signal is transmitted for the first time when the Cunard Liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.
10th Jun 1940
The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.
10th Jun 1943
Round the clock bombing of Germany by the Allies begins
10th Jun 1944
The US VII and V corps link up and begin moving inland from the Normandy beaches.
10th Jun 1948
News is released that the sound barrier has been broken.
10th Jun 1985
Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days.
Regards
Alan
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11th Jun 1509
Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon.
11th Jun 1770
Capt James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
11th Jun 1798
Malta is taken by Napoleon Bonaparte.
11th Jun 1915
Cameroon is taken by British troops.
11th Jun 1934
The Geneva Disarmament Conference ends in failure
11th Jun 1940
British fortress at Malta is bombed by the Italian Air Force.
11th Jun 1943
Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after heavy bombing
11th Jun 1944
Japanese airfields on Guam, Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands attacked by US Carrier based aircraft.
Regards
Alan
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12th Jun 1812
Russia is invaded by Napoleon Bonaparte.
12th Jun 1918
An American unit carries out the first aircraft bombing raid in France.
12th Jun 1937
During purges in the Soviet Union, eight of Stalin’s generals are sentenced to death.
12th Jun 1942
The oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania are bombed for the first time by American bombers.
12th Jun 1991
Mount Pinatubo begins erupting after 600 years
Regards
Alan
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13th Jun 1920
The US Post Office rules children may not be sent by parcel post..
13th Jun 1923
A trade barrier between occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany is set by the French.
13th Jun 1940
Paris is evacuated as the Germans advance on the city.
13th Jun 1943
German spies are soon captured after landing on Long Island, New York.
13th Jun 1944
First V1 buzz bomb hits London.
Regards
Alan
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14th Jun 1645
Cromwell’s army routs the king’s army at Naseby
14th Jun 1789
Capt Bligh arrives in Timor in a small boat after being forced to leave his ship HMS Bounty when the crew mutinied.
14th Jun 1940
Paris is occupied by German forces.
14th Jun 1944
Mainland Japan is bombed for the first time by B-29 bombers.
14th Jun 1945
The British liberate Burma
14th Jun 1982
The Falkland Islands war ends with the surrender of Argentina to the British.
14th Jun 1995
2000 people taken hostage in a hospital in Russia by Chechen rebels.
Regards
Alan
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15th Jun 1215
Magna Carta is signed by King John
15th Jun 1381
Peasant revolt is crushed in London
15th Jun 1864
Battle for Petersburg begins
15th Jun 1904
On New York’s East River 1,021 lose their lives when fire breaks out aboard the paddle steamer General Slocum.
15th Jun 1940
The Germans capture the French fortress of Verdun.
15th Jun 1944
US Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific.
Regards
Alan
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16th Jun 1815
At the Battle of Ligny Napoleon defeats the Prussians.
16th Jun 1864
The siege of Petersburg and Richmond begins.
16th Jun 1925
Proposal by Germany for a security pact is accepted by France.
16th Jun 1940
French Chief of State asks for an armistice with Germany.
16th Jun 1952
Diary of Anne Frank is published in the US.
Regards
Alan
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17th Jun 1579
San Francisco Bay is claimed by Sir Francis Drake
17th Jun 1775
Bunker Hill outside of Boston is taken by the British after a costly battle.
17th Jun 1799
Italy is incorporated into Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire
17th Jun 1912
In Friedrichshafen the German Zeppelin SZ111 burns in its hanger
17th Jun 1926
If Germany is allowed to join the League of Nations Spain threatens to leave.
17th Jun 1940
Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia are occupied by the Soviet Union.
17th Jun 1944
French troops land on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean
Regards
Alan
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I really enjoy this thread, well done Alan.
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18th Jun 1667
London is threatened when the Dutch fleet sails up the Thames river.
18th Jun 1812
The War of 1812 begins with the US declaring war against Great Britain.
18th Jun 1815
Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.
18th Jun 1918
On the Western Front the largest counter attack against the German army is launched by Allied forces.
18th Jun 1928
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
18th Jun 1944
The German lines are broken by the US First Army on the Cotentin Peninsula, cutting off the German held port of Cherbourg
18th Jun 1945
Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao island.
Regards
Alan
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Nemesis wrote:I really enjoy this thread, well done Alan. Thanks Nem, pleased you're enjoying it. Will try to keep it going and in time as much as possible.... Regards Alan
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240 BC
Eratosthenes estimates the Earths circumference using two sticks.
19th Jun 1821
The Greeks are defeated by the Ottomans at the Battle of Dragasani.
19th Jun 1867
The Mexican Emperor Maximilian is executed.
19th Jun 1885
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City.
19th Jun 1944
US Carrier based aircraft shatter the Japanese carrier forces in the Battle of the Marianas.
19th Jun 1961
Kuwait regains its independence from Britain.
Regards
Alan
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20th Jun 1756
150 British solders held in the Black Hole cell of Calcutta, very few survive.
20th Jun 1837
Victoria is crowned Queen of England, she is 18 years old.
20th Jun 1898
US Navy seizes the island of Guam while on route to the Philippines to fight the Spanish.
20th Jun 1923
France announces it will seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts.
20th Jun 1963
The hot line is established between the Washington and Moscow.
20th Jun 1999
The NATO bombing campaign of Yugoslavia is officially ended.
Regards
Alan
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21st Jun 1915
Poison gas is used for the first time by Germany in the Argonne Forest.
21st Jun 1919
Germans scuttle their fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland
21st Jun 1942
Rommel captures the city of Tobruk in North Africa
21st Jun 1945
Japanese surrender to American troops in Okinawa.
21st Jun 1963
France announces it will withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.
Regards
Alan
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22nd Jun 1772
In England Slavery is outlawed.
22nd Jun 1807
In a provocation leading to the War of 1812, British seamen board the USS Chesapeake.
22nd Jun 1915
Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
22nd Jun 1933
Hitler bans political parties n Germany.
22nd Jun 1940
An armistice is signed between France and Germany at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
22nd Jun 1941
Germany invades the Soviet Union, code named Bararossa.
22nd Jun 1942
Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia River is shelled by a Japanese submarine.
22nd Jun 1980
A partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan is announced by the Soviet Union.
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Alan
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23rd Jun 1700
As part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet…
23rd Jun 1758
French are defeated at Krefeld, Germany by British and Hanoverian armies.
23rd Jun 1760
Prussians are defeated by Austrian forces at Landshut, Germany.
23rd Jun 1934
Italy gains the right to colonize Albania by defeating the country.
23rd Jun 1944
In one of the largest air stress of WWII the US sends 761 bombers to bomb refineries at Ploiesti, Romania.
Regards
Alan
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24th Jun 1314
Robert the Bruce leads Scottish forces in an overwhelming victory against king Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn.
24th Jun 1340
French fleet is defeated by the English at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
24th Jun 1812
Napoleon invades Russia by crossing the Neman River.
24th Jun 1910
Korea is invaded by the Japanese army.
24th Jun 1931
A treaty of neutrality is signed between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan.
24th Jun 1940
An armistice with Italy is signed by France.
24th Jun 1943
Muelheim, Germany is hammered by Royal Air Force bombers in a drive to cripple the industral base of the Ruhr.
24th Jun 1948
The Berlin Blockade begins.
24th Jun 1955
US Navy patrol plane is shot down over the Bering strait by Soviet MIGs
Regards
Alan
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