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8TH Mar 1862
Ironclad CSS Virginia is launched.
8th Mar 1917
Start of the Russian Revolution
8th Mar 1921
Dusseldorf occupied by French troops
8th Mar 1941
Martial law is proclaimed in Holland
8th Mar 1942
Rangoon, Burma captured by Japanese troops
8th Mar 1943
American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville attacked by Japanese forces.
8th Mar 1965
4000 US Marines, the first US combat troops in Vietnam land at Da Nang.
8th Mar 2001
Donald Campbell’s boat Bluebird retrieved from Coniston Water where it had been since his death in 1967
8th Mar 2014
Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 227 people on board went missing.
Regards
Alan
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9TH Mar 1734
Danzig in Poland taken by the Russians
9th Mar 1796
Napoleon and Josephine de Beauharnais are married in Paris
9th Mar 1862
Battle between ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia ends in a draw.
9th Mar 1915
Grondno on the Eastern Front is taken by the Germans
9th Mar 1920
Allied forces move into Dusseldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort
9th Mar 1964
The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line
9th Mar 1986
The Challenger crew compartment and the remains of the astronauts are found by Navy divers.
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Alan
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In the Battle of Aequsa 50 Cathaginian ships sunk by the Roman fleet.
10th Mar 1806
At the Battle of Laon, France, Napoleon is defeated.
10th Mar 1902
British General Methuen plus 200 men are captured by the Boers of South Africa.
10th Mar 1927
Hitler permitted to speak in public after Prussia lifts it ban.
10th Mar 1943
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel called back from Tunisia by Hitler
10th Mar 1945
Tokyo attacked by American B-29 bombers killing 100,000
10th Mar 1953
USS Missouri fires 998 rounds after being fired upon by North Korean gunners at Wonsan.
10th Mar 1966
The Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley is captured by the North Vietnamese.
10th Mar 1975
South Vietnamese city of Ban Me Thout attacked by the North Vietnamese. Seen as a major loss to South Vietnam.
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Alan
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11th Mar 1923
The Transport Ship Alexander sinks between Salamis and Piraeus with the loss of 150.
11th Mar 1931
Work starts on the Boulder Dam, approval for its build was given in 1928.
11th Mar 1941
The Lend-Lease Act was authorised by President Franklin Roosevelt allowing supplies to be sent to the Allies.
11th Mar 1985
New Soviet Leader, Mikhail Gorbachev is announced.
11th Mar 1993
North Korea withdraws from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
11th Mar 2004
A Terrorist attack occurs in Spain killing 191. 4 trains in the Madrid area attacked using 10 bombs.
11th Mar 2011
Japan is rocked by a massive earthquake and tsunamis causing a vast amount of damage. Thousands lose their lives.
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Alan
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12th Mar 1879
The British Zulu War begins.
12th Mar 1930
Gandhi begins a 200 mile protest march in defiance of British imposed salt tax.
12th Mar 1933
The swastika and the empire banner to be flown side by side on the order of President Paul von Hindenburg.
12th Mar 1938
The Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany is formed. German troop enter Austria with firing a shot.
12th Mar 1945
Anne Frank dies of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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Alan
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13th Mar 1881
Czar Alexander II is assassinated near his palace.
13th Mar 1915
A British force is repelled by the Germans at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
13th Mar 1936
Work on the Boulder Dam is complete ahead of schedule.
13th Mar 1941
Hitler calls for the invasion of the Soviet Union.
13th Mar 1943
Japanese attack on Hill 700 in Bougainville ends
13th Mar 1996
16 children and their teacher are massacred in Dunblane Primary School.
13th Mar 2006
Work begins on the construction of the 9/11 memorial.
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Alan
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14th Mar 1757
Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad on board HMS Monarch for neglect of duty.
14th Mar 1804
Johann Strauss, violinist and composer was born this day.
14th Mar 1879
Albert Einstien, mathematician was born.
14th Mar 1915
German battleship Dresden is sunk by the British navy off the Chilean coast.
14th Mar 1939
Republic of Czechoslovakia dissolved by the Nazis
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Alan
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High ranking Roman Senators assassinate Julius Ceasar
15th Mar 1904
The Japanese shell Port Arthur in Korea killing 300 Russians.
15th Mar 1916
Thousands of American soldiers sent into Mexico in the hope of capturing Pancho Villa
15th Mar 1917
Czar Nicholas II is forced to abdicate.
15th Mar 1949
Clothes rationing in GB ends.
15th Mar 1955
The first self-guided missile is unveiled by the US Air Force.
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Alan
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16th Mar 1907
The Glasgow shipyards complete the cruiser Invincible
16th Mar 1913
The US Battleship Pennsylvania is launched.
16th Mar 1926
The first liquid fuelled rocket is launched.
16th Mar 1935
The Versailles treaty is violated by Adolf Hiltler ordering a German rearmament.
16th Mar 1968
Massacre of 200-500 villagers at My Lai 4 in the northernmost region of South Vietnam was conducted by US troops.
16th Mar 1985
Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.
16th Mar 1988
Gunman kills 3 and injured at least 50 by opening fire and throwing grenades at mourners who were attending a funeral at Milltown Cemetery, Northern Ireland.
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Alan
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17th Mar 1891
British steamer Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar
17th Mar 1930
The Mob boss Al Capone is released from jail.
17th Mar 1944
Vienna is bombed by the US 8th Air Force.
17th Mar 1966
Hyrodgen Bomb found by a US Submarine off the coast of Spain, some 2,500ft down on the sea bed. The bomb had fallen from a B52 bomber after colliding with a KC135 refueling jet.
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Alan
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I love these facts and dates Alan!  Was that H-Bomb the one that was recovered by the first black American Master Diver? I've seen the film but I can't remember the title!  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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Plymouth57 wrote:I love these facts and dates Alan! Was that H-Bomb the one that was recovered by the first black American Master Diver? I've seen the film but I can't remember the title! Robin Hi Robin, am pleased you are enjoying these snippets from the past. I think the film you may be referring to is 'Men of Honour', the story of the first black American to become a Master Diver and was also an amputee.... Great film..... Regards Alan
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18th Mar 1913
Greek King Georg 1 is assassinated.
18th Mar 1916
Russia loses 100,000 men with an attack at Lake Naroch, countering the Verdun assault.
18th Mar 1917
US ships City of Memphis, Vigilante and Illinois are sunk without warning by the Germans.
18th Mar 1922
Gandhi is sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for civil disobedience.
18th Mar 1943
Gafsa in Tunisia is taken by American forces.
18th Mar 1944
Russians reach the Romanian border.
18th Mar 1965
Alexei Leonov exits his Voskhod 2 space craft while in orbit and becomes the first man to spacewalk.
18th Mar 1969
Operation Menue, the secret bombing of Cambodia is authorised by President Nixon.
18th Mar 1971
1000 South Vietnamese soldiers airlifted out of Laos by US Helecopters.
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Alan
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19th Mar 1702
Anne Stuart succeeds to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland on the death of William III.
19th Mar 1903
The Cuban treaty is ratified by the US Senate gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
19th Mar 1920
The Versailles Treaty is rejected for the second time by the US Senate.
19th Mar 1932
The Sydney Harour Bridge is officially opened, the 4th longest spanning-arch bridge in the world.
19th Mar 1935
23 killed as the British fire on 20,000 Muslims in India.
19th Mar 1936
A pact of assistance with Mongolia against Japan is signed by the Soviet Union.
19th Mar 1944
The German 352nd Infantry Division deploys along the coast of France.
19th Mar 1945
USS Carrier Franklin is attacked by Japanese aircraft killing about 724 of her crew. Ship limped back to Pearl Harbour.
19th Mar 1981
During a routine test on space shuttle Columbia 1 person is killed and 2 others are injured
19th Mar 1982
Argentines land on South Georgia, a colony of the Falkland Islands.
19th Mar 2003
President Bush announces Operation Iraqi Freedom has begun to oust Saddam Hussein and eliminate Iraq’s ability to develop weapons of mass destruction.
19th Mar 2008
Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader steps down.
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Alan
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20th Mar 1413
Henry V succeeds Henry IV of England
20th Mar 1760
349 building destroyed in the Great Fire of Boston.
20th Mar 1815
Napoleon Bonaparte begins his 100 day rule on entering Paris.
20th Mar 1932
The Graf Zepplin makes the first flight to South America on a regular schedule.
20th Mar 1940
An all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt is conducted by the RAF.
20th Mar 1943
Rommel’s forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa are attacked by the Allies.
20th Mar 1945
Madalay, Burma is liberated from the Japanese by British troops.
20th Mar 2003
Baghdad is hit by American missiles outlining the start of the US led campaign to oust Saddam Hussein.
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Alan
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21st Mar 1788
Majority of New Orleans is destroyed by fire.
21st Mar 1858
The British siege of Lucknow is lifted ending the Indian Mutiny,
21st Mar 1918
The Germans launch the Michael offensive, otherwise knowns as the First Battle of the Somme.
21st Mar 1945
Allied bombers begin 4 days of heavy raids over Germany.
21st Mar 1960
69 people killed and 180 are wounded in a hail of submachinegun fire when Afrikaner police open fire on unarmed African demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville.
21st Mar 1963
Alcatraz prison closes
21st Mar 1969
An underground nuclear test is conducted in Nevada.
21st Mar 1984
Soviet submarine crashes into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.
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Alan
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22nd Mar 1901
Japan announces it will keep Russia from encroaching on Korea
22nd Mar 1907
Russian troops evacuate Manchuria in the face of Japanese forces.
22nd Mar 1915
Night raids are carried out on the Paris Railway station by a German Zepplin
22nd Mar 1935
Persia is now named Iran
22nd Mar 1946
First rocket build by the US reaches a height of 50 miles
22nd Mar 1974
A new truce with the US and South Vietnam is proposed by the Viet Cong.
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Alan
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23rd Mar 1657
England forms and alliance with France against Spain
23rd Mar 1903
The Wright brothers obtain an airplane patent.
23rd Mar 1909
The magnetic South Pole is found by Ernest Shackleton
23rd Mar 1919
Benito Mussolini establishes the Fascist Party
23rd Mar 1942
The Anadamn Islands in the Indian Ocean is occupied by the Japanese
23rd Mar 1983
Ronald Reagan proposes the US develop the SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative.
23 Mar 2001
The Mir space station ends 15 years in space
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Alan
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24th Mar 1904
Seven Russian ships sunk as the Japanese blockade Port Arthur
24th Mar 1940
The British Ship Lochassator reported sunk in the Scandinavian Peninsula after striking a German mine.
24th mar 1944
Nazi’s execute 300 civilians as a reprisal for the murder of 32 German Soldiers by Italian Resistance in Rome.
24th Mar1958
Elvis Presley is inducted as a private in the US Army.
24th Mar 1999
NATO commences air strikes against Serbian forces in Kosovo.
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Alan
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25th mar 1813
First US Flag in battle is flown by the USS Essex
25th Mar1879
Kingdom of Liuqiu (Ryukyu) islands is invaded by Japan.
25th Mar 1915
US F-4 sinks off the Hawaiian coast marking the first submarine disaster.
25th Mar 1931
50 killed, many assaulted including Mahatma Gandhi as riots break out in India.
25th Mar 1941
Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers
25th mar 1970
First supersonic flight made by Concorde.
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Alan
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