On this day in history.

[Andy_Ross]

1897 English physicist J.J. Thomson announced that he had discovered the electron

 

[Andy_Ross]

1900 William McKinley signed the Hawaiian Organic Act, which made Hawaii a territory of the United States.

 

[Andy_Ross]

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.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1980 Armed terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London

 

[P.J. Denyer]

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.

Dave

An amazing story, there was a shortage of cloth for underwear at the time and someone in the dept had to donate a pair!

 

[P.J. Denyer]

1900 William McKinley signed the Hawaiian Organic Act, which made Hawaii a territory of the United States.

Trump wants to emulated this one with Canada and Greenland

1945 Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin.

Canada and Greenland wouldn't mind Trump emulating this one instead. (Would anyone?)

 

[malbui]

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.

 

[Trebuchet]

I walked out the gate at Boeing for the last time as an employee, 2010.

 

[Andy_Ross]

On Hitler topping himself.

 

[PitPat]

George Washington inaugurated as first president of the United States in 1789. Oh how far we've come....

 

[EHocking]

That was the guy that once declared “I cannot tell a lie…”, yeah?

Your presidents really have come a long way.

 

[PitPat]

The cherry tree asked him to do it.

 

[EHocking]

Could have just peed on it. Apparently that’s a presidential thing . . .

 

[P.J. Denyer]

The cherry tree asked him to do it.

It was a very bad cherry tree, it had MS-13 carved on a branch. In code, but "GW 4 MD" means MS-13 as this mezzotint proves.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1328 The Wars of Scottish Independence ended. England recognized the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1707 The Act of Union joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

 

[Andy_Ross]

1840 The first British Penny Black stamp went on sale. Invented by Rowland Hill, it was the world’s first adhesive postage stamp

 

[Andy_Ross]

1916 The end of the Easter Rising in Ireland

 

[P.J. Denyer]

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.

Good thing that's all done, dusted and dealt with then.. [Ducks]

 

[Andy_Ross]

1982 British planes attacked two airstrips near Port Stanley.

I was somewhere between Ascension Island and the Falklands at the time, escorting the Carriers.