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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Sun Sep 02, 2018 9:51 am

2 September, 1918: Large breakthrough, again, by Canadian forces along the Western front. BEF beat 66 German divisions causing losses of 115,600 men, i9n the last 10 days.
In Petrograd, the Tcheca (a forerunner to the later KGB of lore) announce 512 executions as immininet, kicking off the first round of red terror.

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the Battle of Actium kicked off the era of Roman Emperors in 31 BC;
a fire in a bakery started the Great London Fire of 1666;
we were still celebrating victories in 1914, notably at Tannenberg on 2 Spetember; Hindenburg laid the grounds for his legendary status pulling off a very unexpected victory;
and V-Day in the Pacific, with the signing of Japan's unconditional surrender aboard USS Miossouri
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:10 am

3 Spetember, 1918 - Foch orders continuous attacks against German lines. Ldendorff calls on German soldiers ohn home leave not to talk defeatisgt; go figure. Meanwhile, the canadia Cops loses almost 6000 men in the first three days of September.


Happy 1717th birthday, Republic of San Marino! It's good to know Republics can survive that long, and we love to play you at footy.
1933, end of the first Reichsparteitag of the NSDAP in Nuremberg.
1939 Declaration of War by the UK and France, against Germany. On the same day, a British passenger ship, the Athenia, is torpedoed off Rockall island in the North Atlantic; it sinks a day later, with 116 loss of life. The German commander attacked the ship presuming it transported troops and was armed. When he found out his error, he made off without giving or sending for assistance. German propaganda later said that the ship had been sabotaged at the behest of, of course, winston Churchill. Now where am I constantly hearing that kind of story nowadays?
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:00 pm

Fake news! False flag attack!
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:44 pm

And Theresa May ordered the Novitchok on Ali Baba.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Tue Sep 04, 2018 4:16 pm

4 Sepetmber 1918 - Rolling back through Flandres and Eastern France.

476 Depositionand banning of the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus (what a fitting name!) by Odoaker. Conventionally, this marks the end of the West Roman Empire. It was about time, I guess.
Another bad day, culturally: In 1949, one Hertha Heuwer is reputed to have invented the Currywurst, an abominable creation sliced bratwurst, ketchup and curry powder. If you come to Berlin, have one (best with "Pommes rot-weiß", fries soaked in ketchup and mayonnaise) to learn how bad we really eat.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:03 am

September 5, 1918 - Somewhat slower gains for the Allied Forces along the western front.
Royal Canadaian Naval Air Services founded. Happy 100 th!

322 BC Battle of Krannon, paving the way for Macedonian dominance of Greece.
1800 One of Britain's many conquests: Malta
1972 Beginning of the Black September commano during the Olympci Games in Munich: 2 people killed, 11 Israeli hostages taken
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:59 am

September 6, 1918: BEF Howitzers have deployed over 8.3 million rounds of ammuniotion.
A large triangular part of the Flandres front is "rectified" meaning the German troops leave it.

1930 - First presentation of Gödel's incompleteness theorem, in Königsberg, East Prussia.
1953 - First Bundestag election in the newly founded FRG; the first chancellor will come from the Christian Democratic Union, and they will be the "Chancellor election Union" for all but 20 year's of the Republic's history
1991 - Leningrad --> St. Petersburg
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Sep 06, 2018 8:24 am

Arneb wrote:A large triangular part of the Flandres front is "rectified" meaning the German troops leave it.

It does sound better in German.
Sir, the Germans are rectifying their front line!
What does that mean?
They've fucked off!
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:56 pm

I think "straightening" or "straightening out" is probably closer, but that's the word that came to my mind. dictcc doesn't carry "Frontbegradigung".

7 September 1918. Very little movement on the Western front. Germany receives a first tranche of 12.5 million poung Sterling as war reparations from Russia. Yeah, we did exactly in Brest-Litowsk what the the evil West later did in Versailles.

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Happy 191st, August Kékulé, discoverer of the aromatic bond in benzene
Happy 107th, Todor Zhivkov (Heid? Richard_A? Ring any bells, that one?)
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Sat Sep 08, 2018 9:16 am

8 September 1918 - The past month brought 150,000 POW, 2,000 cannon and 13,000 MG. Germans "straighten out" - evacuate - a bulge in the front at St. Mihiel.

Happy 940th, Duchy of Andorra!
Happy 27th, Macedonia, or whatever they'll agree to call you.
1926 the German Reich is accepted into the League of Nations. It ended soon, and it didn't end well.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Sun Sep 09, 2018 3:37 pm

09 September 1918 - U 92 sunk in the North Sea. 2 French Deputies killed while visiting the front. Two German counterattacks thwarted at Laffaux

1543 - Crowning of Mary Queen of Scots, at the tender age of 9 months.
1850 - Happy birthday, California, as the 31st State of the Union
1914 - The German Reischskanzler, v. Bethmann-Hollweg, publishes his Septemberprogramm, an informal catalogue of war goals. Well, we know how that turned out. I wonder why Boris Johnson hasn't yet jumped on the opportunity to call the EU a Septemberprogramm made real. He is really leaving out all the goodies.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:13 am

10 September 1918 - The Kaiser meets workers in a Krupp steel factory and is greeted by utter silence. Several divisions are stationed around Berlin for fear of unrest.
One more U boat down, UB83, by water bombs from destroyer Ophelia.

1981 - Picasso's Guernica finally arrives in Spain, as per the will of the painter. He had bequeathed the work to Spain in case there would be a democracy again.
1989 - Founding of the New Forum, in East Berlin. It was one of the central organizations of the peaceful revolution of that year.
2008 - A hell machine in Geneva starts producing mini black holes in order to destroy the world according to the reptilians' plans. Or maybe it will just find the Higgs boson.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:24 am

Arneb wrote:One more U boat down, UB83, by water bombs from destroyer Ophelia.

"On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping, White Ophelia floats like a great lily;" Rimbaud. I wouldn't have thought naming a ship after someone who drowned herself was a good idea, but what do I know.

2008 - A hell machine in Geneva starts producing mini black holes in order to destroy the world according to the reptilians' plans. Or maybe it will just find the Higgs boson.

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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:55 am

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Arneb wrote:One more U boat down, UB83, by water bombs from destroyer Ophelia.

"On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping, White Ophelia floats like a great lily;" Rimbaud. I wouldn't have thought naming a ship after someone who drowned herself was a good idea, but what do I know.


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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:59 am

One of the main shipbreaking yards was in Inverkeithing conveniently just round the corner from the Home Fleet base in Rosyth. Some would say that that is the nice part of Inverkeithing.

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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:48 pm

Sure looks like a top holiday location.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:15 pm

What's got seventeen legs and forty three teeth?
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The methadone queue in Inverkeithing.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:22 am

11 September, 1918 - Nothing truly ground-shaking, but King Albert of Belgium agrees to lead the campaign in Flandres.

And, 17 yars ago today, the 21st century began.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:21 am

Arneb wrote:11 September, 1918 - Nothing truly ground-shaking, but King Albert of Belgium agrees to lead the campaign in Flandres.

In some ways this was a very important moment. The Belgian Army had done very little up until this point since King Albert was very conscious that with 95% of his country under German control he wouldn't receive any more troops. He felt he had to keep his army in being and that one bad offensive could destroy his army. Up until September 1918 he resisted all the pleading of the British and French to use his army in attack but by this point Albert started to realise that the allies might be able to win a military victory, he had always thought it would have to be a political settlement. By agreeing to attack in Flanders Albert added about 100,000 more troops to the allied attacks.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:43 am

Wow, that was more significant than it sounded. Thanks!
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:00 am

12 September 1918 - Beginning of the battle of St. Mihiel. 264,000 Allied Forces make headway against 75000 defenders. 100,000 rounds of Phosgene are fired, 9000 German troops are gassed, 50 of whom die.
More than 1500 planes take part in the attack.

490 BC - the battle of Marathon possibly took place on this date.

This 12 September was important for our German history in some ways:
1932 Chancellor von Papen is removed from office by a vote of no confidence in the Reichstag, and Pres. Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag. The subsequent general election in November leads to the 7th Reichstag during which Hitler becomes Chancellor in January 1933.
1944 The London Protocol. The four Allied Nations determine the future administrative sectors for Germany and Berlin.
1989 Founding of Demokratie Jetzt!, another important part of the citizen movement of the GDR.
1990 Signing of the 2+4 Treaty: Germany is fully sovereign again after more than 45 years.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:54 am

September 12th, 1942 - Sinking of RMS Laconia by U-156. The aftermath is known as the Laconia incident and is worth a read.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:33 am

Oh, and:

September 12th, 1885 - record scoring football match as Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36 - 0 in the Scottish Cup. There were also 5 disallowed goals. Record wasn't beaten until 2002, in dubious circumstances. John Petrie scored 13 goals in that match, still a world record (although equalled by an Aussie in 2001). At the same time that all happened, another match only 12 miles away in the same competition finished 35 - 0.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:34 pm

Lianachan wrote:September 12th, 1942 - Sinking of RMS Laconia by U-156. The aftermath is known as the Laconia incident and is worth a read.

Hey, for once we weren't the bad guys. One likes to pick out those instances, because there were so few of them.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:54 am

13 September, 1918 - Not looking good for us on the Western front, to no-one's surprise (at least today).
But here is an interesting bit: Marshall Foch delivers a memorandum to George Clemenceau about "The Bombardment of Inner Germany". Although not entirely new, bombardments behind the front with possible civilian targetsis is going to be the Next Big Thing.

In other news, important treaties and their ends on this date:
1968 - Albania quits the Warsaw Pact. Since You Don't Quit the Warsaw Pact, that was a bold move.
1990 - Shortly before reunification, (West) Germany and the USSR sign a treaty of cooperation and nonanggression. It regulates the withdrawal of over 300,000 men and lots of gear - among them , nuclear warheads. It went largeley without a glitch and ended 31 August, 1994, helped along by 15 billion DM. Boy were we lucky!
1993 Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat sign the Oslo accord in Wahsington, patted on the shoulder profusely and made to shake hands by Bill Clinton. Boy did we have hopes.
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