On this day in history.

1999 HM The Queen gave permission for Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly to wear insignia of the Argentine Orden de Mayo granted by Argentina for Jolly’s life saving care to Argentine casualties as well as British during the Falklands, he was the only person decorated by both sides
 
1939 King George VI became the first British monarch to visit the United States of America.
 
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the New World along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands
 
1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
 
1982 Ten Peruvian Mirage fighters, painted in Argentine livery fly to Jujuy in Argentina to replace lost aircraft.
With them is a Peruvian C-130 Hercules, repainted and re-registered to look like a civilian transport carrying aircraft technicians, 12 AS30 missiles and aircraft spares.

Peru paid around $2 million per Mirage. Argentina paid them $55 million for the ten aircraft.
The war finished just seven days after they arrived.
 
1982 Two Argentinian Learjet photo and signals reconnaissance planes are spotted over Pebble Island at an altitude of 36,000 ft. At 45 nm range they are over the theoretical maximum 40 mile range of HMS Exeter's Sea Darts and think they are safe. Exeter fires two missiles, the first missile passing between the two aircraft and the second hitting Learjet T-23 commanded Vicecomodoro Rodolfo Manuel de la Colina blowing it's tail off. It took over two minutes to fall to the ground killing all 7 crew.
 
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1982 Gurkha soldiers in action for the first time. a twenty-man patrol moves to clear Egg Harbour House, a farm where an Argentine unit has based itself on the British flank with SAM-7 missiles.
Surrounded and ordered to surrender, the Argentines refuse until a Gurkha NCO, Sukrim Rai, draws his Kukri knife. Lieutenant Ugarte and his men surrender without firing a shot.
 
793 First Viking raid on the abbey at Lindisfarne. This is commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
 
1924 The last sighting of English climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine; 800 feet from the summit of Mount Everest
 
1982 Fifty British servicemen killed in an Argentine air attack on the assault ships Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram anchored at Bluff Cove.
Sir Galahad was hit by two or three bombs, which exploded and started fires.
The fires quickly began to burn out of control. The main evacuation of the injured and wounded was organised and carried out by the ship's Royal Marine detachment. The Marines organised the launch of life rafts from the bow of the ship, whilst at the same time marshalling helicopters for personnel to be winched clear. Immediate first aid was given to those most seriously wounded.

There is still controversy as to why the troops weren't disembarked on arriving at the anchorage given the known vulnerability of anchored and immobile ships to air attack close in to the mountains and hills.
 
1999 Ex-cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken was jailed for 18 months after admitting he lied during a libel action.
 
1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives
 
OT for Andy_Ross: I'm betting that you've read Logistics in the Falklands War, by Kenneth L. Privratsky.

I'm also betting that many here would like It. Privratsky covers a great many topics. Not that particular kukri maybe, but about everything else.
 
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OT for Andy_Ross: I'm betting that you've read Logistics in the Falklands War, by Kenneth L. Privratsky.

I'm also betting that many here would like It. Privratsky covers a great many topics. Not that particular kukri maybe, but about everything else.
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No I didn't know it existed until your post.

Not something I'm partiularly interested in to be honest.
 
Andy_Ross said:
No I didn't know it existed until your post.

Not something I'm partiularly interested in to be honest.
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Me neither, until Ian McCollum on Forgotten Weapons gave it a plug. It's a dry-sounding topic but a page-turner when you open it.

Over & out. Clear ether.
 
I watched part of his Falklands video but to be honest lost interest after about 10 minutes.
 
1983 Thatcher's Conservative Party won a landslide second term election victory.
 
2014 The death of the comedian, actor and writer Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall

 
1904 Musicians who left the Henry Wood Orchestra after a disagreement, formed the London Symphony Orchestra.
 
1898 An agreement was signed under which Hong Kong was leased to Britain, by China, for a period of 99 years.
 
1667 The Raid on the Medway a decisive victory for the Dutch in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The Dutch bombarded and then captured the town of Sheerness, sailed up the Medway to Chatham, burned ten ships and towed away HMS Unity and HMS Royal Charles.
 
68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging
 
721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats a Umayyad Muslim army at the Battle of Toulouse, halting Arab expansion in Western Europe
 
1965 A de Havilland jet airliner made the first fully automatic landing, relying entirely on instruments, at Heathrow Airport.
 
1719 The Battle of Glen Shiel, in the West Highlands of Scotland between British troops defeat an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards. It was the last battle with foreign troops on mainland Great Britain.
 
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1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples
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Now under attack by the Thomas contingent of the supremes. My erstwhile local lawyer, Catherine Roraback, argued the case, basing it on the principle of privacy.

It's hard to believe, but getting easier these days, that until that decision, it was a felony for a doctor to recommend or prescribe birth control in Connecticut. The good old days.
 
1982 Major assaults on the outer ring of Argentine defences around Stanley.
42 Commandoo at Mount Harriet, 3 Para at Mount Longdon, and 45 Commando at Two Sisters.
 
1770 Captain James Cook, in his ship Endeavour, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef Repairs were carried out on the beach taking 7 weeks. Cook claimed the entire coastline he had just explored as British territory.
 
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