On this day in history.

1897 English physicist J.J. Thomson announced that he had discovered the electron
 
1900 William McKinley signed the Hawaiian Organic Act, which made Hawaii a territory of the United States.
 
1821 The first iron steamship, Aaron Manby, named after the proprietor of the Staffordshire ironworks at which she had been made, was completed and after trials on the River Thames made her maiden voyage across the Channel.
 
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1943 - the corpse of "Major William Martin," probably actually that of Glyndwr Michael, was released by HMS Seraph and found by a Spanish fisherman. Faked papers on his body formed the basis of the strategic deception Operation Mincemeat, to divert Axis attention away from the planned invasion of Sicily.

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An amazing story, there was a shortage of cloth for underwear at the time and someone in the dept had to donate a pair!
 
On this day in 1982 a very dear friend of mine was born; on this day in 1997 I got engaged; and on this day in 1945 Hitler blew his own brains out. So a toast to all of those.
 
George Washington inaugurated as first president of the United States in 1789. Oh how far we've come....
 
1328 The Wars of Scottish Independence ended. England recognized the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
 
1707 The Act of Union joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
 
1840 The first British Penny Black stamp went on sale. Invented by Rowland Hill, it was the world’s first adhesive postage stamp
 
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1982 British planes attacked two airstrips near Port Stanley.

I was somewhere between Ascension Island and the Falklands at the time, escorting the Carriers.
 
2015 The death of Geoff Duke, aged 92. Six World Championships and six Isle of Man Senior TT races.

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1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway (Kent) was opened. Sometimes referred to colloquially as the Crab and Winkle Line, it was the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets. It used cable haulage by stationary steam engines over much of its length, with steam locomotives restricted to the level stretch.
 
1952 Newcastle United became the first team since 1891 to win two FA Cups in succession by beating Arsenal 1-0.
 
1968 The first heart transplant in Britain was carried out at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London.
 
1471 The Battle of Tewkesbury, a significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Edward IV defeated a Lancastrian Army and killed Edward, Prince of Wales.
 
1675 King Charles II ordered the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
 
1945 World War II: The North Germany Army surrendered to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
 
1982 Twenty sailors were killed when the destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile
 
1904 The United States takes over the construction of the Panama Canal
 
this is a fun one!

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Stock market tumble on May 5, 1893, triggers Panic of 1893, sending K

On May 5, 1893, the New York stock market tumbles, setting off a panic that sweeps across the United States and crashes onto the Pacific Northwest. King County and the Puget Sound region plunge into
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Stock market tumble on May 5, 1893, triggers Panic of 1893, sending King County and the Puget Sound region into a four-year depression.​

 
1760 The first public hanging took place at Tyburn in London.
Earl Ferrers was executed after being convicted of murdering his valet.
He was the first to be hanged by the new 'drop' which had just been introduced in the place of the cart, ladder and three-cornered gibbet.
 
1967 The first ever all-British designed and built satellite, Ariel 3, was successfully launched into orbit from the United States
 
1980 The SAS stormed the terrorist-occupied Iranian Embassy at Knightsbridge in London.
 
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