On this day in history.

Andy_Ross said:
Bismarck sunk by gunfire from the Battleships Rodney and Prince Of Wales.

IN depth video on Bismarck's attempt to break out in to the Atlantic and why it was always doomed.


Video on how Bismarck could have been improved over it's mediocre design.


Video on the speed Rodney achieved to catch Bismarck

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You forgot HMS Leviathan's part in the battle.

 
1948 The British Citizenship Act conferred the status of British subjects on all Commonwealth citizens.
 
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between the United States and Mexico comes into force, giving California, Nevada, Utah, and most of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona to the USA
 
2024 Jury in New York City finds former US President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts
 
1987 The North American Philips Company unveils the compact disc video format
 
1982 Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre defeat Argentine troops at Top Malo House.
 
1916 The Battle of Jutland

My Great Uncle was in the battle aboard Queen Elizabeth.
 
1962 Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his crimes against humanity.
 
1859 The clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament was started
 
1838 The last battle on English soil took place at the Battle of Bosenden Wood between soldiers and agricultural peasants led by Cornish wine merchant Sir William de Courtenay and were protesting against the poverty of their lives.
 
1910 Union of South Africa declares independence from the United Kingdom
 
1868 Dr. James Moore wins the first recorded bicycle race over 2 km at Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris
 
1868 The first meeting of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in Manchester.
 
1896 Marconi applies in the UK, for the first ever patent for a system of wireless telegraphy
 
Andy_Ross said:
1989 Chinese soldiers are blocked by citizens in Tiananmen Square.
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I think there was a trivia question on this. The guy who stood in front of a tank, whom to this day I still believe is just called Tank Man.
 
1916 World War I: British General Lord Kitchener drowned when HMS Hampshire hit a mine off the Orkney Islands during a storm and sank en route to Russia.
 
1944 Rome entered by Allied troops without a fight.
 
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1963 Secretary of State for War, John Profumo resigned, admitting he lied to Parliament about his relationship with a call girl, Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet spy.
 
1944 French town of Benouville was the first place to be liberated from German occupation when British paratroopers seized control of a vital canal bridge in advance of the main Allied D-Day landings.
 
1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe
 
1967 Six-Day War begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria
 
1981 AIDS epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles
 
1844 The Factory Act in Britain restricted female workers to a 12-hour day; children between eight and 13 years were limited to six-and-a-half hours.
 
1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s prophetic novel of a world ruled by Big Brother, was published.
 
1962 The Beatles had an audition for EMI record producer George Martin
 
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