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14/01

1639 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted.
1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany.
1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.
1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden.
1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome.
1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1939 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
1951 - The National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los Angeles, California).
1952 - The Today show premieres on NBC.
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15/1



1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
1759 - The British Museum opens.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal.
1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).
1951 - Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1967 - Super Bowl I is played -- The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.


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16/1


27 BC - Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.
1362 - One of the North Sea's greatest stormtides ever destroys the island of Strand with the city of Rungholt.
1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1581 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
1761 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York.
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1795 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.
1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna.
1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed.
1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1919 - The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States.
1938 - Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine

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17/1

1562 - Huguenots were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain.
1773 - Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.
1781 - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
1819 - Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Colombia.
1852 - United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal.
1873 - First Battle of the Stronghold in the US Modoc War.
1893 - American sugar planters overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii.
1899 - United States takes possession of Wake Island.
1912 - Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed.
1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1945 - Soviets occupy Warsaw.
1945 - Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.
1945 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
1946 - The UN Security Council holds its first session

[Ambrogio]

Occupazione di Varsavia e inizio sgombero campo di Auschwitz:
ci sarebbe molto da dire.

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In Origine postato da Ferruccio
Occupazione di Varsavia e inizio sgombero campo di Auschwitz:
ci sarebbe molto da dire.

forse intendi dire che i sovietici aspettarono un po' ad entrare perchè un repulisti da parte dei tedeschi gli veniva comodo?

[Ambrogio]

In Origine postato da durrutibus
forse intendi dire che i sovietici aspettarono un po' ad entrare perchè un repulisti da parte dei tedeschi gli veniva comodo?

Anche.I Russi restarono al di la' della Vistola finche le SS ebbero annientato gli insorti polacchi di Varsavia che erano per lo piu'' anticomunisti e dunque per i russi erano un pericolo.

Sull'ingresso dei russi ad Auschwitz : trovarono o non trovarono le camere a gas ? Per la Pravda di quei giorni nessuna camera a gas.Ma allora......................?

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In Origine postato da Ferruccio
Anche.I Russi restarono al di la' della Vistola finche le SS ebbero annientato gli insorti polacchi di Varsavia che erano per lo piu'' anticomunisti e dunque per i russi erano un pericolo.

Sull'ingresso dei russi ad Auschwitz : trovarono o non trovarono le camere a gas ? Per la Pravda di quei giorni nessuna camera a gas.Ma allora......................?

sulla seconda parte del tuo post preferisco non intervenire. si è già detto troppo.

sulla prima ritengo sia assolutamente plausibile, alla luce di quanto scoperto a katyn in particolar modo.

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350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.
532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1520 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
1535 - Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro.
1670 - Henry Morgan captures Panama.
1701 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands."
1861 - Georgia joins the Confederacy.
1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany becomes the first German Emperor.
1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship
1919 - World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles, France.
1919 - Bentley Motors is founded.
1939 - Louis Armstrong records "Jeepers Creepers."
1943 - World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad.
1943 - The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto

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19/1

1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England which makes Normandy a part of England.
1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres.
1839 - British East India Company captures Aden.
1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome.
1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service (Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas Edison.
1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1915 - George Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915 - German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1935 - Coopers Inc sold the world's first briefs.
1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
1941 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
1949 - Cuba recognises Israel.