On this day in history.

[Andy_Ross]

1932 A mass trespass by thousands of ramblers, led by Benny Rothman, took place on Kinder Scout in the Peak District.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1800 The Library of Congress was officially founded as U.S. President John Adams

 

[Andy_Ross]

1898 Spanish–American War started

 

[P.J. Denyer]

1943 Tiger 131, the first example of the fearsome new German tank to be captured by the Allies, who seized it during fierce fighting in the Tunisian desert.

Running this summer at Bovington Museum Tankfest

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Apparently Trump's brokered a long overdue peace deal for WWII, but we're going to have to give that tank back to Germany.

Along with Poland, Belgium, France and [Checks Notes] Kent.

 

[arthwollipot]

1915 Troops from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) land on beaches in the Dardanelles, beginning what was eventually an unsuccessful invasion of the Turkish peninsula.

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.

 

[lionking]

1918 German World War I fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France by Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown.

It was most likely an Australian gunner on the ground, but nobody will ever know for sure.

 

[lionking]

1915 Troops from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) land on beaches in the Dardanelles, beginning what was eventually an unsuccessful invasion of the Turkish peninsula.

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.

I know we honour Anzac Day, quite rightly, But the ANZAC troops made up about 9,000 of the 70,000 from 12 countries who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula that day. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but Australia’s casualty rate was horrific, with 8,700 killed before the allies withdrew in late 1915.

 

[SteveAitch]

Also some interesting people have it as a birthday...

1653 - Oliver Cromwell
1873 - Walter de la Mere
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald
1933 - Jerry Leiber
1935 - April Ashley
1944 - Len Goodman
195? - some internet smartarse
1964 - Andy Bell & Fiona Bruce

and many,many more

 

[catsmate]

1915 Troops from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) land on beaches in the Dardanelles, beginning what was eventually an unsuccessful invasion of the Turkish peninsula.

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.

The Toughs and the Toffs, including a few people from my alma mater, who'd like to remind you there were others present.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

1916 In Dublin, Irish nationalists, led by Patrick Pearse, launched the Easter Rebellion against British rule

Reading Nevil Shute's autobiography, the story took a quite unexpected weird swerve as his father was Secretary of the Post Office in Dublin in 1916.
"How was your day at work, dad?"

 

[catsmate]

Reading Nevil Shute's autobiography, the story took a quite unexpected weird swerve as his father was Secretary of the Post Office in Dublin in 1916.
"How was your day at work, dad?"

It also caused the end of Dublin Standard Time.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1915 2nd Lt. Rhodes-Moorhouse of the Special Reserve Flying Corps became the first airman to win the Victoria Cross.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1976 The death of Sid James

 

[Andy_Ross]

1986 Reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union catches fire.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1994
Nelson Mandela wins the presidency in South Africa’s first multiracial elections.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1937 The Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1865 Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to General William T. Sherman.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1514 Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn.

 

[Puppycow]

The birthday of Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, in the year 121.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

The birthday of Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, in the year 121.

Oh bugger, I forgot to send him a card!