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On this day in military history...
1959 The revolutionary Fidel Castro takes the oath as Cuban premier in Havana. His policy of giving the land back to the people infuriates the USA as much of the land is owned by the United fruit company (Del Monte) with a large number of senators on the Board of directors. Cuba would go on to have the most educated population of any country in the world and lead the world in in cures for some forms of meningitis.
1945 American paratroopers land on Corregidor, in a campaign to liberate the Philippines.
1942 Tojo outlines Japan's war aims to the Diet, referring to "new order of coexistence" in East Asia.
1940 The British destroyer HMS Cossack rescues British seamen from a German prison ship, the Altmark, in a Norwegian fjord.
1865 In the U.S.A., Columbia, in South Carolina, surrenders to Federal troops.
1862 Fort Donelson in Tennessee falls to Grant's Federal forces.
1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur attacks the Tripoli pirates in response to their attack and burning of the USS Philadelphia.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in Military history....
1955 Britain announces its ability to make hydrogen bombs.
1945 Gen. MacArthur's troops land on Corregidor in the Philippines.
1944 U.S forces land on Eniwetok atoll in the South Pacific.
1919 Germany signs an armistice giving up territory in Poland.
1865 The South Carolina capital city, Columbia, is destroyed by fire as Major General William Tecumseh Sherman marches through.
1864 The Confederate submarine 'Hunley' sinks the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1964 The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba.
1962 Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated.
1945 U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima.
1944 The U.S. Army and Marines invade Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
1943 German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa.
1935 Rome reports it is sending troops to Italian Somalia.
1865 Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson.
1813 Czar Alexander enters Warsaw at the head of his Army.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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I wont get chance in the morning as I am up early to drive to south wales
so here it is half hour early  On this day in Military history.....
1944 The U.S. Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force begin "Big Week," a series of heavy bomber attacks against German aircraft production facilities, much of which has now been moved underground.
1942 Port Darwin, on the northern coast of Australia, is bombed by the Japanese.
1917 American troops are recalled from the Mexican border.
1915 British and French warships begin their attacks on the Turkish forts at the mouth of the Dardenelles, in an abortive expedition to force the straits of Gallipoli.
1408 The revolt of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, against King Henry IV, ends with his defeat and death at Bramham Moor.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1943 German troops of the Afrika Korps break through the Kasserine Pass, defeating U.S. forces.
1942 Lt. Edward O'Hare downs five out of nine Japanese bombers that are attacking the aircraft carrier USS Lexington.
1918 The Soviet Red Army seizes Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine
1906 Russian troops seize large portions of Mongolia.
1864 Confederate troops defeat a Union army sent to bring Florida into the union at the Battle of Olustee.
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat the Russians in the Battle of Growchow.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1974 A report claims that the use of defoliants by the U.S. has scarred Vietnam for a century.
1951 The U. S. Eighth Army launches Operation Killer, a counterattack to push Chinese forces north of the Han River in Korea.
1944 Hideki Tojo becomes the chief of staff of the Japanese army.
1918 Combined Allied forces (British troops and the Australian mounted cavalry) capture the city of Jericho in Palestine
1916 The battle of Verdun begins with an unprecedented German artillery barrage of the French lines.
1905 The Mukden campaign is launched during the Russo-Japanese War.
1862 The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico.
1849 In the Second Sikh War, Sir Hugh Gough's well placed guns win a victory over a Sikh force twice the size of his at Gujerat on the Chenab River, assuring British control of the Punjab.
1797 Trinidad in the West Indies surrenders to British forces.
1744 The British blockade of Toulon is broken by 27 French and Spanish warships attacking 29 British ships.“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Thanks glad you find them interesting and may even entice you to find out more - before you know it you will be building a model of a US civil war submarine  “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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On this day in Military history....
1991 French forces unofficially start the Persian Gulf ground war by crossing the Saudi-Iraqi border.
1945 U.S. Marines plant an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
1945 General Eisenhower opens a large offensive in the Rhineland.
1944 American bombers strike the Marianas Islands bases, only 1,300 miles from Tokyo.
1942 A Japanese submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, the first Axis shells to hit American soil.
1836 The Alamo is besieged by Santa Anna.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1991 General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition army, sends in ground forces during the Gulf War.
1945 U.S. forces liberate prisoners of war in the Los Baños Prison in the Philippines
1944 Merrill's Marauders, a specially trained group of American soldiers, begin their ground campaign against Japan into Burma.
1912 Italy bombs Beirut in the first act of war against the Ottoman Empire.
1895 The Cuban War of Independence begins.
1813 Off Guiana, the American sloop Hornet sinks the British sloop Peacock.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1944 U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam.
1943 U.S. troops retake the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia from the German Afrika Corps, where they had been defeated five days before.
1916 German troops seize Fort Douaumont, the most formidable of the forts guarding the walled city of Verdun, France, four days after launching their initial attack. The Battle of Verdun will become the longest and bloodiest conflict of World War I, lasting 10 months and resulting in over 700,000 total casualties.
1865 General Joseph E. Johnston replaces John Bell Hood as Commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
1862 Confederate troops abandon Nashville, Tennessee, in the face of Grant's advance.
1862 The ironclad Monitor is commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
1836 Samuel Colt patents the first revolving cylinder multi-shot firearm
1831 The Polish army halts the Russian advance into their country at the Battle of Grochow.
1781 American General Nathaniel Greene crosses the Dan River on his way to attack Cornwallis
1779 The British surrender the Illinois country to George Rogers Clark at Fort Sackville Vincennes. This marks the beginning of the end of British domination in America's western frontier.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1945 Syria declares war on Germany and Japan.
1943 U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven.
1936 Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders.
1917 U.S. President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships.
1916 General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun.
1901 Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking.
1871 France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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See more at: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history
1991 Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army.
1963 The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba
1942 British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast.
1905 The Japanese push Russians back in Manchuria and cross the Sha River
1865 Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers attack Hickman, Kentucky, shooting women and children.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1994 U.S. warplanes shoot down four Serb aircraft over Bosnia in the first NATO use of force in Yugoslavia.
1946 The U.S. Army declares that it will use V-2 rocket to test radar as an atomic rocket defense system.
1945 U.S. tanks break the natural defense line west of the Rhine and cross the Erft River.
1863 Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister, Georgia.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1992 Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Moslems vote for Bosnian independence.
1943 The British RAF begins strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.
1942 Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.
1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
1935 Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.
1871 German troops enter Paris, France, during the Franco-Prussian War.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1968 The siege of Khe Sanh ends in Vietnam, the U.S. Marines stationed there are still in control of the mountain top.
1965 More than 150 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes bomb two bases in North Vietnam in the first of the "Rolling Thunder" raids.
1945 MacArthur raises the U.S. flag on Corregidor in the Philippines.
1943 The center of Berlin is bombed by the RAF. Some 900 tons of bombs are dropped in a half hour.
1865 President Abraham Lincoln rejects Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plea for peace talks, demanding unconditional surrender.
1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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1945 Finland declares war on the Axis.
1942 The RAF starts bombing raids on the industrial suburbs of Paris.
1940 A Nazi air raid kills 108 on a British liner in the English Channel.
1918 The Soviets and Germany sign a peace treaty at Brest-Litovsk depriving the Soviets of White Russia
1878 Russia and the Ottomans sign the treaty of Stenafano, granting independence to Serbia.
1863 President Abraham Lincoln signs the conscription act compelling U.S. citizens to report for duty in the Civil War or pay $300.00.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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I wonder if those that stumped up $300 actually managed ot avoid conscription..
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Tomick wrote:I wonder if those that stumped up $300 actually managed ot avoid conscription.. It was a lot of money so only the very wealthy could really avoid conscription but the conscription act was clever because it compelled the wealthy to support the war by funding it. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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