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[Rob]

It was a truly hideous event with terrible mutilations carried out on the victims, beggars belief when you read about it. An official inquiry condemned the commanding officer outright and his career came to a halt, but no one went to prison.

Rob

 

[GICOP]

I seem to reall seeing a famous (some would say an infamous) painting of that outrage Martyn - so I looked it up and found it.

Later, said to be innaccurate - it does show vividly - part of the horrible story. jb

It was a truly hideous event with terrible mutilations carried out on the victims, beggars belief when you read about it. An official inquiry condemned the commanding officer outright and his career came to a halt, but no one went to prison.

Rob

That's the one

Cheers

Martyn

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 30/11/1854.....Peter Lalor is elected to lead the gold-diggers in the movement that would become the Eureka Stockade......The Eureka Stockade was the 1854 miners' uprising on the goldfields of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Peter Lalor was an Irish immigrant, born on 5 February 1827, who initially worked on the construction of the Melbourne - Geelong railway line, but soon joined the gold rush and began mining in the Ovens Valley, and then in Ballarat.

Conditions on the Australian goldfields were already harsh, with many people squeezed into over-crowded dustblowls on the fields, and competition was rife for the best diggings. Over-priced goods and equipment from traders, coupled with excessively high cost of mining licences, exacerbated discontent and unrest, particularly when miners were subjected to frequent, surprise checks of their licences. Previous delegations for miners' rights had met with resistance from the Victorian government, so on 30 November 1854, Lalor was elected as a more militant leader. The result was the Eureka Stockade.

 

[Rob]

29th November 1940 , Liverpool.

Luftwaffe launches heavy raid on Liverpool Docks but many residential areas hit too. A direct hit on a technical school by a parachute mine brings the three story building crashing down onto a shelter below where 300 people were sheltering. The bomb penetrated into the basement bursting the boilers and flooding the area with boiling water and steam. 166 adults and children are scalded to death or crushed to death. Churchill calls it 'the worse single ( civilian) incident in the War '

Rob

 

[GICOP]

30/11/1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris

In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris)

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 1/12/1942.....H.M.A.S Armidale sunk.....H.M.A.S Armidale was sunk by Japanese aircraft near Timor. As the Armidale sank Able Seaman Teddy Sheean fired at the attacking bombers until he was lost with his ship.

On this day 1/12/1951.....Air battle over Sunchon, North Korea.....In this, the largest air-to-air battle fought by the R.A.A.F during the Korean war, 77 Squadron Meteors met between 40-50 Chinese Mig-15s. The fight precipitated a change from air interception to a ground attack role for No. 77 Squadron.

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 2/12/1914.....First Australian military aircraft despatched to war.....Australian aircraft and their crews left to form the 'Mesopotamian Half Flight', fighting in what is now Iraq. Many were captured at the fall of Kut in 1916.

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 3/12/1915.....Siege of Kut begins in Mesopotamia.....Nine members of the Australian Flying Corps serving with 30 Squadron, R.F.C, became trapped in Kut with the forces of Major General Charles Townsend when the town was besieged by the Turks. The Kut garrison surrendered in April 1916.

On this day 3/12/1914.....First A.I.F disembarked in Egypt.....Though many had expected to go to Britain, after Turkey's entry into the war the first Australian troops were sent to Egypt to protect the vital Suez Canal.

On this day 3/12/1954..... No 77 Squadron R.A.A.F returns from Korea..... 77 Squadron achieved a high level of operational performance throughout the war, flying Mustangs and then Meteors.

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 5/12/1990.....Royal Australian Navy involvement in the Persian Gulf approved......Approval given by the Australian Government for the Royal Australian Navy's involvement in the Persian Gulf. Ultimately eight Australian ships served in the gulf.
Wayne.

 

[GICOP]

THE SHANGANI PATROL


4/12/1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 5/12/1939.....First official R.A.A.F operation of the Second World War.....A Sunderland aircraft of No 10 Squadron R.A.A.F, flew on the first official operation of the Second World War. This was the beginning of six years of war for 10 Squadron, which flew as part of R.A.F Coastal Command continuously against U-boats in the battle of the Atlantic.

On this day 5/12/1950..... Evacuation of Chinnampo Korea.....H.M.A.Ships Bataan and Warramunga took part in evacuating Chinnampo, which involved operating in the very shallow waters of the Taedong river estuary at night.

 

[Rob]

5th December 1941. Moscow Russia.

The Russians under Georgy Zhukov launch massive counter attack against the Germans with the main part of the attack falling on Army Group center.


5Th December 1952 London.

The Great Smog

On the 5th December 1952 in cold windless conditions and with the air full of pollutants from coal burning fires a great Smog descended upon London. It caused havoc on the transport network with people abandoning vehicles and heading into the Underground. Lasting from the 5th to the 9th the Smog was responsible for 4,000 premature deaths and a further 8,000 over the coming weeks. It was the worst air pollution incident in the History of the United Kingdom. The Smog even seeped into theaters, cinemas and restaurants causing these places to shut. Full of ash people often fought for breath in the dense smog where in some places visibility was less than one metre , in some places people could barely see their feet and this led to many accidents as people fell of kerbs etc. The smog led to the clean air act of 1956 which replaced coal fires with coke and gas, it did not however stop one more bad smog event exactly ten years later in December 1962.

Rob

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 6/12/1951.....H.M.A.S Sydney begins its second patrol off Korea.....Sydney's aircraft were used to protect South Korean-held islands on Korea's nort-west coast.
Wayne.

 

[GICOP]

DROPPIN WELL DISCO BOMBING

6/12/1982 – The Irish National Liberation Army bombed a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. It killed eleven soldiers and six civilians.

 

[Rob]

DROPPIN WELL DISCO BOMBING

6/12/1982 – The Irish National Liberation Army bombed a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. It killed eleven soldiers and six civilians.

R.I.P

Rob

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 7/12/1915.....Evacuation of ANZAC forces from Gallipoli begins.....Though the Gallipoli campaign had failed British Imperial forces at least planned and executed the evacuation without loss.
Wayne.

 

[Rob]

7th December 1941, Hawaii .

Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies at the same time (December 8 in Asia).

United States losses in the surprise attack were as follows;

4 battleships sunk
3 battleships damaged
1 battleship grounded
2 other ships sunk
3 cruisers damaged
3 destroyers damaged
3 other ships damaged
188 aircraft destroyed
159[3] aircraft damaged
2,402 killed
1,247 wounded

Although a costly , treacherous attack on the United States it brought America into the War and four years later victory was achieved.

My deepest respect goes out to all those Pearl Harbour veterans still alive today and to all those who lost their lives that day, you sacrifice eventually helped rid the world of the detestable Nazi and Japanese regimes and ensure freedom for millions.

Rob

 

[TomNT]

On this day the 9th of December 1942, Australian troops occupy Gona, New Guinea. The Japanese withdrawal from the Kokoda Trail enabled the allies to plan the encirclement of important Japanese positions in the Buna, Sanananda and Gona beachhead. Gona was the first of the three to fall to the allies after weeks of heavy fighting.

Tom

 

[waynepoo]

On this day 10/12/1941.....H.M Ships Repulse and Prince of Wales sunk..... The sinking of these powerful warships by I.J Navy torpedo bombers off Mayaya came as a shock to those who had under-estimated Japan's ability and had relied on the imagined impregnable Singapore naval base.The sinkings heralded the singificance of air power in the Pacific war.
Wayne.

 

[GICOP]

10/12/1898 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.