He had discovered that he had been selected for the squad when he read it in a newspaper.ġ958: The USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on the control of Germany.ġ960: Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of the Ivory Coast.ġ961: The RAF begins airlifting supplies to desperate flood victims in Somalia.ġ962: The first test flight of the Boeing 727.ġ965: Up to 25,000 people demonstrate in Washington D.C.
On the same day, Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle.ġ944: 4,000 shells detonate in an RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, destroying the village of Hanbury and killing at least 70 people.ġ951: Ceasefire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea.ġ953: Playwright Eugene O’Neill dies of cerebellar cortical atrophy at 65.ġ956: American Al Oerter wins his first of four consecutive men’s discus gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics.ġ957: Bobby Robson makes his England debut against France at Wembley, scoring twice in the 4-0 victory.
On the same day, the USSR begins a counter offensive, causing Germany to retreat.ġ942: The French navy at Toulon scuttles its ships and submarines so the Nazis can’t seize them.
1295: Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending the authorities of its representatives.ġ382: The French army defeats the Flemish army at the Battle of Westrozebeke, Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde is killed and his corpse displayed.ġ493: Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule.ġ495: Scottish king James IV receives Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne.ġ701: Astronomer Anders Celsius is born in Sweden.ġ807: The Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for Brazil to escape Napoleon’s invading troops.ġ826: John Walker invents the friction match in England.ġ868: General George A Custer’s troops attack a group of Native American Indians at Washita River, Oklahoma, killing their chief Black Kettle.ġ895: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize in his will.ġ896: “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss debuts in Frankfurt.ġ901: Prince Ito of Japan goes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain.ġ912: The Albanian National Flag is adopted.ġ916: Hartlepool United’s Victoria Ground is bombed by two German zeppelins.ġ919: Composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski resigns as Polish Prime Minister.ġ926: Italy and Albania sign a peace treaty.ġ932: Poland and the USSR sign a non-aggression treaty.ġ934: Bank robber Baby Face Nelson (Lester Gillis) is killed in a shoot-out with the FBI.ġ941: British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk.
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