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26th Mar 1799
Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine.
26th Mar 1827
Ludwig Van Beethoven dies in Vienna
26th Mar 1918
The Germans take the French town of Noyon, Roye and Lihons.
26th Mar 1942
Jews being sent to Auschwitz, Poland
26th Mar 1954
Second H-Bomb in four weeks detonated by the US in the Marshall Islands.
26th Mar 1969
Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 is launched.
Regards
Alan
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27th Mar 1802
The French Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Amiens
27th Mar 1836
Texan rebels at Goliad are massacred by the Mexican army.
27th Mar 1933
In New York 55.000 people protest against Hitler
27th Mar 1941
Japan begins spying on the US Fleet at Pearl Harbour with the arrival of Tokeo Yoshikawa in Oahu, Hawaii.
27th Mar 1942
Nazi submarine base at St Nazaire, France is raided by the British.
27th Mar 1945
Gestapo shoots forty Jewish policemen in the Riga, Latvia ghetto. Thousands of Jews are murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Eisenhower declares German defenses on the Western Front have been broken.
27th Mar 1952
38th parallel in Korea, the original dividing line between the two Koreas is reached by elements of the US Eighth army.
27th Mar 1980
Mount St helens erupts blasting a mushroom cloud over most of the state of Washington. This is a pre-curser to the major eruption.
27th Mar 1968
Yuri Gagarin dies during a training flight.
27th Mar 1977
A KLM 747 jumbo crashes into a Pan Am 747 jumbo while taking off at an airport in the Canary Islands, 582 passengers and crew are killed.
27th Mar 1994
The Eurofighter makes its inaugural test flight.
Regards
Alan
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Hi Alan. Very interesting Post. Ian Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood. Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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ian smith wrote:Hi Alan. Very interesting Post. Ian Hi Ian, happy to see you are finding these posts interesting... Regards Alan
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28th Mar 1854
War on Russia is declared by Britain and France.
28th Mar 1930
Constantinople is renamed to Istanbul and Angora is renamed Ankara.
28th Mar 1933
A ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools is ordered by the Nazis.
28th Mar 1939
Madrid falls to Francisco Franco bringing an end to the Spanish Civil War.
28th Mar 1941
At the Battle of Cape Matapan the Italian fleed is routed by the British.
28th Mar 1942
A German dry dock in France is rammed by a British ship HMS Capbeltown. The ship explodes knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.
28th Mar 1945
The last of the V2 rockets is launched against England.
28th Mar 1969
Dwight Eisenhower dies of heart failure.
28th Mar 1979
Radiation is released at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station.
28th Mar 1991
95 Liverpool fans die in the Hillsborough Disaster.
28th Mar 1999
A US Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down during NATO air strikes in northern Yugoslavia.
Regards
Alan
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29th Mar 1879
British troops repulse a major attack by Zulu’s in northwest Zululand.
29th Mar 1913
German government raises taxes in order to finance a new military budget
29th Mar 1936
The Ethiopian city of Harar is firebombed by Italy.
29th Mar 1941
Five Italian warships are sunk by the British off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean.
29th Mar 1951
Gen Douglas MacArthur’s offer for a truce in Korea is rejected by the Chinese.
29th Mar 1967
France launches its first nuclear submarine.
29th Mar 1973
The last US troops withdraw from South Vietnam.
Regards
Alan
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30th Mar 1916
172 killed at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico by the bandit Pancho Villa
30th Mar 1936
A construction program to build 38 warships is announced by Britain
30th Mar 1941
Rommel begins the Afrika Korps first offensive against British forces in Libya.
30th Mar 1944
Palau near the Philippines is attacked by the US Fleet.
30th Mar 1945
The Red Army advances into Austria
30th Mar 1972
Hanoi crosses the DMZ, launching its heaviest attack in four years.
30th Mar 1981
Ronald Reagan is shot in Washington DC.
30th Mar 2002
The Queen Mother dies in her sleep at the age of 101.
Regards
Alan
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31st Mar 1889
The Eiffel Tower officially opens.
31st Mar 1939
Both Britain and France agree to support Poland If Germany threatens to invade.
31st Mar 1941
A counter offensive by the Germans gets underway in North Africa
31st Mar 1948
The Soviets begin controlling western trains headed towards Berlin.
31st Mar 1991
The Warsaw Pact comes to an end.
Regards
Alan
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1st Apr 1918
The RAF is formed.
1st Apr 1920
The German Workers Party is renamed Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party. (Nazis)
1st Apr 1924
Hitler receives a 5 year sentence for the Beer Hall Putsch.
1st Apr 1942
A partial convoy system in the Atantic is started by the US Navy.
1st Apr 1945
Invasion of Okinawa gets underway by US Forces.
1st Apr 1948
The Berlin Airlift begins
1St Apr 1954
US Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado.
Regards
Alan
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I have to say if I was build the DeAg DC 3 Berlin Airlift would be the livery i would be trying to replicate http://www.coventryteleg...oventry-airport-5384624
Jase “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain
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2nd Apr 1801
Nelson lands in Copenhagen at the Battle of Copenhagen, 12 British ships engage Danish ships and a truce was agreed upon between Nelson and the Danish commander.
2nd Apr 1917
Congress is presented with a declaration of war against Germany by President Woodrow Wilson.
2nd Apr 1941
Rommel resumes his advance into Cyrenaica, modern-day Libya.
2nd Apr 1944
The Soviets enter Romania, one of Germany’s allied countries.
2nd Apr 1958
National Advisory Council on Aeronautics is now known as NASA.
2nd Apr 1982
British owned Falkland Islands is invaded by Argentina.
2nd Apr 2013
North Korea announces plans to restart activities at the Yongbyon nuclear facility.
Regards
Alan
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3rd Apr 1862
Washington DC abolishes slavery
3rd Apr 1882
Jesse James is shot and killed by his cousin Bob Ford
3 Apr 1942
The US and Filipino troops at Bataan are on the receiving end of an all out assault by the Japanese.
3rd Apr 1948
President Truman signs the Mashall Plan to revive war-torn Europe.
Regards
Alan
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4th Apr 1581
Francis Drake complete his journey to circumnavigate the world.
4th Apr 1917
US Senate votes to enter WW1 on the Allied side.
4th Apr 1918
The Battle of the Somme ends
4th Apr 1933
The Akron, a dirigible airship crashed in New Jersey kill 73 people.
4th Apr 1941
Rommel captures the town of Benghazi, North Africa from the British
4th Apr 1949
NATO treaty is signed.
Regards
Alan
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5th Apr 1843
Hong Kong is proclaimed a British colony by Queen Victoria
5th Apr 1908
Russians retreat as the Japanese army reaches the Yalu River
5th Apr 1930
Ghandi makes salt in India rather than buy from the British
5th Apr 1941
In preparation for Germany’s invasion of the Balkans German commandos secure docks along the Danube
5th Apr 1955
Winston Churchill retires as Prime Minister
5th Apr 1999
Libya surrenders two suspects in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
Regards
Alan
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6th Apr 1814
Napoleon abdicates at Fontainebleau. Granted a sovereignty in the Island of Elba and a pension from the French government, He is permitted to keep the title of emperor.
6th Apr 1938
US recognizes Nazi Germany’s conquest of Austria.
6th Apr 1941
Yugoslavia invaded by Germany, 17,000 civilian killed.
6th Apr 1941
Greece invaded by Germany.
Regards
Alan
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7th Apr 1906
Mount Vesuvius erupts, liquid lava flows down the hillsides burning homes.
7th Apr 1933
Prohibition ends in the US.
7th Apr 1943
In North Africa British and US armies link up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar creating a solid line against the German army.
7th Apr 1945
The Yamato is sunk during the Battle for Okinawa.
7th Apr 1968
At Hockenheim, motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed during a Formula Two race.
7th Apr 2001
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes off for the red planet.
7th Apr 2011
85 year old British man Anthony Smith sailed across the Atlantic with a crew of three on a 12 meter long raft made of pipes
Regards
Alan
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8th Apr 1939
Albania is invaded by Italy.
8th Apr 1942
A rail link to the besieged city of Leningrad is opened by the Soviets.
8th Apr 1962
Bay of Pigs invaders get thirty years imprisonment in Cuba
8th Apr 2013
Baroness Margaret Thatcher dies at the age of 87.
Regards
Alan
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Oh Alan, you are bringing back, may I say some memory's very interesting reading keep it going. Regards Trev Work in progress: Tombstone (Scratch) - San Francisco 2. -The Mayflower ( scratch by plan).
OcCre- Santa-Maria (Kit).
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I haven't commented on these posts before but I have been reading them and find them very interesting! Keep them coming
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Hi Trev, Dave. Pleased you're enjoying reading these little snippets of information relating to the past. I deliberately keep them short just to highlight key events in our past and if members want more info then they can simply search the web.... .. Am going to strive to keep these going at least until I think they are no longer of interest to members.... .. Regards Alan
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