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On this day in history.

TDIH for May 20th

1498
Vasco da Gama reaches India

1506
Christopher Columbus dies

1774
British Parliament adopts the Coercive Acts in response to the Boston Tea Party

1862
President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act

1873
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans

1927
Charles Lindbergh takes off across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis

1937
Amelia Earhart begins her ill-fated around the world flight (Oakland, California USA)

1940
Germans break through to English Channel at Abbeville, France

1946
English poet W.H. Auden becomes a U.S. citizen

1969
Battle for Hamburger Hill ends after 10 grueling days

1989
Sunday Silence wins Preakness Stakes by a nose

1996
Supreme Court defends rights of gays and lesbians in Romer v. Evans

1998
Frank Sinatra is laid to rest

2005
Convicted sex offender Mary Kay Letourneau marries former victim

2007
The Simpsons airs 400th episode
 
jeremyp said:
I love the way that when he said "unfortunately", the audience was already laughing at the punchline he hadn't yet delivered.
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I think they were just laughing at his delivery.
Like Eric Morecambe he just makes people laugh. (well for me anyway)
 
TDIH for May 21st

1539
Black Spanish explorer Estevan is reported killed

1542
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto dies in American wilderness

1758
Lenape Indians abduct Mary Campbell from western Pennsylvania

1881
American Red Cross founded

1901
Connecticut enacts first speed-limit law

1911
French troops occupy Fez, sparking second Moroccan Crisis

1924
Murderers Leopold and Loeb gain national attention

1927
Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight

1932
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make solo, nonstop transatlantic flight

1940
Nazis kill unfit people in East Prussia

1942
Thousands of Jews die in Nazi gas chambers; IG Farben sets up factory

1956
United States drops hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll

1960
Huge earthquake hits Chile

1969
Donald Crowhurst disappears during a round-the-world race (Pacific Ocean)

1992
Long Island Lolita is arrested

1997
Avian flu kills young boy

1999
Soap star Susan Lucci wins first Emmy after 19 nominations

2000
Former president James Garfield's spine put on display
 
1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman

After which she sprinted right to the bathroom.
 
TDIH for May 22nd

1455
The War of the Roses begins

1781
Patriot siege of Ninety Six, South Carolina begins

1802
First Lady Martha Washington dies

1843
A thousand pioneers head West as part of the Great Emigration

1856
Southern congressman beats Northern senator with a cane in the halls of Congress

1859
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, is born

1939
The Pact of Steel is signed; the Axis is formed

1958
Jerry Lee Lewis drops a bombshell in London

1972
President Nixon arrives in Moscow for historic summit

1979
David Booth dreams of a fiery plane crash. Three days later... (Cincinnati, Ohio USA)

1981
Atlanta child murderer is traced using rare nylon fiber

1990
South Yemen and North Yemen are unified as the Republic of Yemen

2002
Chandra Levy's remains found

2004
Controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 wins Palme d'Or prize

2004
George W. Bush recovers from bicycle accident

2017
Manchester Arena bombed during Ariana Grande concert
 
1843: The first major wagon train departed Independence, Missouri, with 700 to 1,000 migrants bound for Oregon.

Thus birthing the American Hippie.
 
 
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The Hood going under. The result was twofold. One, Bismarck became one of the more overrated battleships in history, and two, it pissed off the Royal Navy. It's always bad idea to piss off the Royal Navy. The new footage from the Magellan expedition shows just how brutal their vengeance was on Bismarck.

 
 
1982, the loss of HMS Coventry to a complex and well executed attack.

Paired with HMS Broadsword Coventry was positioned to the North West of the islands as bait to draw attacks away from the moored ships and landings in San Carlos Water.
In their position, close to land, with not enough open sea between her and the coast, her Sea Dart missiles would be less effective. Broadsword was armed with the Sea Wolf missile. New in service and a very advanced and effective short range anti-aircraft and anti-missile system and could defend Coventry from close in aircraft.
The two ships then came under attack by two waves of Argentine A-4 Skyhawks. They flew so low that Coventry's targeting radar could not distinguish between them and the land and failed to lock on. Broadsword attempted to target the first wave with her Sea Wolf missile system but also failed to lock on.
Of the bombs released, one bounced off the sea and struck Broadsword's flight deck and, though it failed to explode, wrecked the ship's Westland Lynx helicopter.
The second wave Skyhawks headed for Coventry 90 seconds later at a 20-degree angle to her port bow. Still unable to gain a missile lock, Coventry launched a Sea Dart missile in an attempt to distract them and turned hard to starboard to reduce her profile.
On Broadsword the Sea Wolf system had been reset and successfully acquired the attacking aircraft, but was unable to fire as Coventry's turn took her directly into the line of fire. This sealed Coventry's fate, she was struck by three bombs just above the water line on the port side.
One of the bombs destroyed the computer room and operations room, incapacitating all the senior officers.
The other entered the forward engine room, exploding beneath the junior ratings dining room where the first aid party was stationed, and the ship immediately began listing to port.
This hit caused critical damage as it breached the bulkhead between the forward and aft engine rooms, exposing the largest open space in the ship to uncontrollable flooding.
Two hits virtually anywhere else might have been survivable but within 20 minutes Coventry had been abandoned and had completely capsized and sank shortly after.

19 crew died a died and 30 were injured



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