This Day in History

[lordroel]

This day in History will be a chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

November 16th

1798: British seamen board the U.S. frigate Baltimore and impress a number of crewmen as alleged deserters, a practice that contributed to the War of 1812.

1813: The British announce a blockade of Long Island Sound, leaving only the New England coast open to shipping.

1821: Trader William Becknell reaches Santa Fe, N.M., on the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1846: General Zachary Taylor takes Saltillo, Mexico.

1864: Union General William T. Sherman departs Atlanta and begins his "March to the Sea."

1892: King Behanzin of Dahomey (now Benin), leads soldiers against the French.

1902: A cartoon appears in the Washington Star, prompting the Teddy Bear Craze, after President Teddy Roosevelt refused to kill a captive bear tied up for him to shoot during a hunting trip to Mississippi.

1907: The Indian and Oklahoma territories are unified to make Oklahoma, which becomes the 46th state.

1913: Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's 7-part novel Remembrance of Things Past, is published.

1920: Metered mail is born in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney Bowes postage meter.

1945: Eighty-eight German scientists, holding Nazi secrets, arrive in the United States.

1948: President Harry S Truman rejects four-power talks on Berlin until the blockade is removed.

1953: The United States joins in the condemnation of Israel for its raid on Jordan.

1955: The Big Four talks, taking place in Geneva on German reunification, end in failure.

1960: After the integration of two all-white schools, 2,000 whites riot in the streets of New Orleans.

1965: In the last day of the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division repulse NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley.

1967: U.S. planes hit Haiphong shipyard in North Vietnam for the first time.

1979: American Airlines is fined $500,000 for improper DC-10 maintenance.

1982: The space shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight.

1989: Salvadoran Army death squad kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

1992: Eric Lawes, while using a metal detector to search for a friend's lost hammer near Hoxne, Suffolk, England, discovers the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold ever found in Britain, and the largest collection of 4th and 5th century coins found anywhere within the bounds of the former Roman Empire.

1997: Pro-democracy Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng released from prison after 18 years, for health reasons.

[lordroel]

November 17th

375: Enraged by the insolence of barbarian envoys, Valentinian, the Emperor of the West, dies of apoplexy in Pannonia in Central Europe.

1558: Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of England.

1558: The Church of England is re-established.

1636: Henrique Dias, Brazilian general, wins a decisive battle against the Dutch in Brazil.

1796: Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near the Alpine River, Italy.

1800: The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convenes for the first time in Washington, D.C.

1842: A grim abolitionist meeting is held in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, after the imprisonment of a mulatto named George Latimer, one of the first fugitive slaves to be apprehended in Massachusetts.

1862: Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign.

1869: The Suez Canal is formally opened.

1877: Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia.

1885: The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria.

1903: Vladimir Lenin’s efforts to impose his own radical views on the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits the party into two factions, the Bolsheviks, who support Lenin, and the Mensheviks.

1913: The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

1918: Influenza deaths reported in the United States have far exceeded World War I casualties.

1918: German troops evacuate Brussels.

1931: Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clipper.

1941: German Luftwaffe general and World War I fighter-ace Ernst Udet commits suicide. The Nazi government tells the public that he died in a flying accident.

1951: Britain reports development of the world’s first nuclear-powered heating system.

1965: The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley, almost wiping them out.

1967: The American Surveyor 6 makes a six-second flight on the moon, the first lift-off on the lunar surface.

1970: The Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touches down on the moon.

1980: WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station.

1986: Renault President Georges Besse is shot to death by leftists of the Direct Action Group in Paris.

1989: A student demonstration in Prague is put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29.

1993: The US House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.

1993: Gen. Sani Abacha leads a military coup in Nigeria that overthrows the government of Ernest Shonekan.

2000: Controversial President of Peru Alberto Fujimori is removed from office.

[lordroel]

November 18th

1477: William Claxton publishes the first dated book printed in England. It is a translation from the French of The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosopers by Earl Rivers.

1626: St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome is officially dedicated.

1861: The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia.

1865: Mark Twain's first story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

1901: The second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty is signed. The United States is given extensive rights by Britain for building and operating a canal through Central America.

1905: The Norwegian Parliament elects Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway. Prince Charles takes the name Haakon VII.

1906: Anarchists bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

1912: Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire.

1921: New York City considers varying work hours to avoid long traffic jams.

1928: Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie, the first animated talking picture.

1936: The main span of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is joined.

1939: The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus.

1943: RAF bombs Berlin, using 440 aircraft and losing nine of those and 53 air crew members; damage to the German capital is light, with 131 dead.

1949: The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days.

1950: The Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts.

1968: Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon.

1978: Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones leads his followers to a mass murder-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after cult member killed Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California.

1983: Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

1984: The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine.

1991: The Croatian city of Vukovar surrenders to Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces after an 87-day siege.

1993: Twenty-one political parties approve a new constitution for South Africa that expands voter rights and ends the rule of the country's white minority.

2002: UN weapons inspectors under Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.

2003: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional; the legislature fails to act within the mandated 180 days, and on May 17, 2004, Massachusetts becomes the first US state to legalize same-sex marriage.

[lordroel]

November 19th

1620: The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod.

1828: In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31.

1861: Julia Ward Howe writes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near Washington.

1863: Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.

1885: Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza.

1873: James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation.

1897: The Great "City Fire" in London.

1905: 100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks.

1911: New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.

1915: The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers.

1923: The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.

1926: Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union.

1942: Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad.

1949: Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco.

1952: Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe.

1969: Apollo 12 touches down on the moon.

1973: New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years.

1976: Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail.

1981: U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil.

1985: US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time.

1985: In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco.

1990: Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning Girl You Know Its True album.

1996: Canada's Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril arrives in Africa to lead a multinational force policing Zaire.

1998: US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.

2010: New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed.

[lordroel]

November 20th

269: Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor's bodyguard.

1695: Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush.

1700: Sweden's 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva.

1903: In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell.

1914: Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War.

1928: Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole).

1931: Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.

1943: U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific.

1945: The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.

1947: Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.

1950: U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria.

1955: The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.

1962: President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.

1967: U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.

1971: The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.

1974: The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.

1978: South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.

1981: Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.

1992: Fire in England's Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages.

1998: First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

2008: Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system.

[lordroel]

November 21st

1620: Leaders of the Mayflower expedition frame the "Mayflower Compact," designed to bolster unity among the settlers.

1783: Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes make the first free-flight ascent in a balloon to over 500 feet in Paris.

1789: North Carolina ratifies the Constitution, becoming the 12th state to do it.

1855: Franklin Colman, a pro-slavery Missourian, guns down Charles Dow, a Free Stater from Ohio, near Lawrence, Kansas.

1864: From Georgia, Confederate General John B. Hood launches the Franklin-Nashville Campaign into Tennessee.

1904: Motorized omnibuses replace horse-drawn cars in Paris.

1906: In San Juan, President Theodore Roosevelt pledges citizenship for Puerto Rican people.

1907: Cunard liner Mauritania sets a new speed record for steamship travel, 624 nautical miles in a one day run.

1911: Suffragettes storm Parliament in London. All are arrested and all choose prison terms.

1917: German ace Rudolf von Eschwege is killed over Macedonia when he attacks a booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives.

1918: The last German troops leave Alsace-Lorraine, France.

1927: Police turn machine guns on striking Colorado mine workers, killing five and wounding 20.

1934: A New York court rules Gloria Vanderbilt unfit for custody of her daughter.

1934: Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes premieres at New York's Alvin Theatre.

1949: The United Nations grants Libya its independence by 1952.

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the air quality act, allotting $428 million for the fight against pollution.

1970: U.S. planes conduct widespread bombing raids in North Vietnam.

1985: US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard arrested for spying and passing classified information to Israel; he received a life sentence on Nov. 1, 1987.

1986: The Justice Department begins an inquiry into the National Security Council into what will become known as the Iran-Contra scandal.

1995: The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio; the agreement, formally ratified in Paris on Dec. 14, ends the three-and-a-half year war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2006: Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel assassinated in Beirut.

[lordroel]

November 22nd

1220: After promising to go to the aid of the Fifth Crusade within nine months, Frederick II is crowned emperor by Pope Honorius III.

1542: New laws are passed in Spain giving Indians in America protection against enslavement.

1757: The Austrian army defeats the Prussians at Breslau in the Seven Years War.

1847: In New York, the Astor Place Opera House, the city's first operatic theater, is opened.

1902: A fire causes considerable damage to the unfinished Williamsburg bridge in New York.

1915: The Anglo-Indian army, led by British General Sir Charles Townshend, attacks a larger Turkish force under General Nur-ud-Din at Ctesiphon, Iraq, but is repulsed.

1919: A Labor conference committee in the United States urges an eight-hour workday and a 48-hour week.

1928: British King George is confined to bed with a congested lung; the queen is to take over duties.

1935: Pan Am inaugurates the first transpacific airmail service from San Francisco to Manila.

1936: 1,200 soldiers are killed in a battle between the Japanese and Mongolians in China.

1942: Soviet troops complete the encirclement of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.

1948: Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam requests admittance to the UN.

1963: Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.

1964: Almost 40,000 people pay tribute to John F. Kennedy at Arlington Cemetery on the first anniversary of his death.

1973: Great Britain announces a plan for moderate Protestants and Catholics to share power in Northern Ireland.

1980: Eighteen Communist Party secretaries in 49 provinces are ousted from Poland.

1982: President Ronald Reagan calls for defense-pact deployment of the MX missile.

1986: Justice Department finds memo in Lt. Col. Oliver North's office on the transfer of $12 million to Contras of Nicaragua from Iranian arms sale.

1988: First prototype of B-2 Spirit strategic stealth bomber unveiled for public viewing.

1989: Lebanese President Rene Moawad killed when a bomb explodes near his motorcade in West Beirut.

1990: Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirms the end of her premiership by withdrawing from the leadership election of the Conservative Party.

1995: The first feature-length film created entirely with computer generated imagery - Toy Story - premiers.

2004: The Orange Revolution, protesting a primary election believed to have been rigged, begins in the Ukraine. On Dec 26 Ukraine's Supreme Court orders a revote.

2005: Angela Merkel becomes the first woman ever to be Chancellor of Germany; the former research scientist had previously been the first secretary-general of the Christian Democratic Union.

2008: Hamas and Israel begin a cease-fire following eight days of violence and 150 deaths.

[lordroel]

November 23rd

534 : Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.

1174: Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.

1248: The city of Seville, Spain, surrenders to Ferdinand III of Castile after a two-year siege.

1785: John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress for the second time.

1863: Union forces win the Battle of Orchard Knob, Tennessee.

1863: The Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most decisive battles of the American Civil War, begins (also in Tennessee).

1903: Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his American debut in a Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's Rigoletto.

1904: Russo-German talks break down because of Russia's insistence to consult France.

1909: The Wright brothers form a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of their airplanes.

1921: President Warren G. Harding signs the Willis Campell Act, better known as the anti-beer bill. It forbids doctors to prescribe beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt recalls the American ambassador from Havana, Cuba, and urges stability in the island nation.

1934: The United States and Great Britain agree on a 5-5-3 naval ratio, with both countries allowed to build five million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three. Japan will denounce the treaty.

1936: The United States abandons the American embassy in Madrid, Spain, which is engulfed by civil war.

1941: U.S. troops move into Dutch Guiana to guard the bauxite mines.

1942: The film Casablanca premieres in New York City.

1943: U.S. Marines declare the island of Tarawa secure.

1945: Wartime meat and butter rationing ends in the United States.

1953: North Korea signs 10-year aid pact with Peking.

1968: Four men hijack an American plane, with 87 passengers, from Miami to Cuba.

1980: In Europe's biggest earthquake since 1915, 3,000 people are killed in Italy.

1981: US Pres. Ronald Reagan signs top secret directive giving the CIA authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1990: The first all-woman expedition to South Pole sets off from Antarctica on the part of a 70-day trip; the group includes 12 Russians, 3 Americans and 1 Japanese.

1992: The first Smartphone, IBM Simon, introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2005: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected president of Liberia; she is the first woman to lead an African nation.

2006: In the second-deadliest day of sectarian violence in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war, 215 people are killed and nearly 260 injured by bombs in Sadr City.

2009: The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines.

2010: Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.

2011: Yemeni President Ali Abullah Saleh signs a deal to to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity; the agreement came after 11 months of protests.

2015: Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

[stevep]

Nov 23, 2018 10:19:04 GMT lordroel said:

November 23rd



1934: The United States and Great Britain agree on a 5-5-3 naval ratio, with both countries allowed to build five million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three. Japan will denounce the treaty.

  Got to question this one I'm afraid.

  That ratio was sent at the original Washington Treaty Agreement in 1921-22, for capital ships.  Confirmed at the 1st London Conference in 1930 when cruisers were also limited in numbers but Japan rejected a renewal of the treaty in 35 IIRC although they didn't formally withdraw until 36 I think.  Tonnage was far less than 5 million however in total let alone new builds.  [Not sure if the USN would total 5 million tons now with its number of very large CVNs and SSBNs plus all the support and supply ships].

[lordroel]

Nov 23, 2018 10:45:35 GMT stevep said:

Nov 23, 2018 10:19:04 GMT lordroel said:

November 23rd



1934: The United States and Great Britain agree on a 5-5-3 naval ratio, with both countries allowed to build five million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three. Japan will denounce the treaty.

  Got to question this one I'm afraid.

  That ratio was sent at the original Washington Treaty Agreement in 1921-22, for capital ships.  Confirmed at the 1st London Conference in 1930 when cruisers were also limited in numbers but Japan rejected a renewal of the treaty in 35 IIRC although they didn't formally withdraw until 36 I think.  Tonnage was far less than 5 million however in total let alone new builds.  [Not sure if the USN would total 5 million tons now with its number of very large CVNs and SSBNs plus all the support and supply ships].

Well i got it from a page which i then update using wiki, but looking at the Washington Naval Treaty wiki article i get this:

The scrapping of existing or planned capital ships to give a 5:5:3:1.75:1.75 ratio of tonnage with respect to Britain, the United States, Japan, France and Italy respectively.

[stevep]

Nov 23, 2018 10:49:54 GMT lordroel said:

Nov 23, 2018 10:45:35 GMT stevep said:

  Got to question this one I'm afraid.

  That ratio was sent at the original Washington Treaty Agreement in 1921-22, for capital ships.  Confirmed at the 1st London Conference in 1930 when cruisers were also limited in numbers but Japan rejected a renewal of the treaty in 35 IIRC although they didn't formally withdraw until 36 I think.  Tonnage was far less than 5 million however in total let alone new builds.  [Not sure if the USN would total 5 million tons now with its number of very large CVNs and SSBNs plus all the support and supply ships].

Well i got it from a page which i then update using wiki, but looking at the Washington Naval Treaty wiki article i get this:

The scrapping of existing or planned capital ships to give a 5:5:3:1.75:1.75 ratio of tonnage with respect to Britain, the United States, Japan, France and Italy respectively.

  Yes that was the initial treaty in 1921-22.  Initially Britain had slightly more with 22 ships to the US 20 and the Japanese 14 until the Nelson and Rodney was built, replacing 4 older ships.  Cruisers and CVs were formally defined to prevent anybody building what was effectively a BB but calling it something else.  New cruisers couldn't be larger than 10,000 tons or have guns larger than 8" and CVs similarly couldn't have guns larger than 8" or be larger than 22,000 tons and there were also tonnage limits for them.   [The 8" limit for CV was because the US had already started converting two Lexington hulls to CVs and was fitting 8" guns to them.]  Other than the two Nelsons no new BBs were allow for a ten year building holiday.

  At London in 1930, probably because of the ongoing depression and the strength of disarmament feelings the building holiday was extended for BBs for another 5 years and total numbers cut to 15:15:9 for the big three - France and Italy having never built up to their limits.  Also at US insistence the total number of cruisers was capped at I think it was 80 for UK and US. 

  At London in 35 I think it was new construction of BBs was allowed to replace existing ships but tonnage was still limited to 35,000 tons per ship and largest gun to 16".  [Britain had tried to argue for a 14" upper limit which is why the KGV class were constructed with such guns, as unlike the US Britain couldn't afford to wait for new 16" turrets and resultant design changes when this was rejected],  Also limits on total numbers of cruisers were relaxed.  Japan objected to the continued lower total tonnage but didn't formally declare its withdrawal from the limitations until the following year.  They had already decided to build the Yamato class, 72,000 ton and 9x18" anyway.

  I don't know where your source got the 5 million tons as limitations were on individual categories, i.e. capital ships, CVs and cruisers but never destroyers but were no where near that sort of level.

[lordroel]

Nov 23, 2018 11:07:32 GMT stevep said:

Nov 23, 2018 10:49:54 GMT lordroel said:

Well i got it from a page which i then update using wiki, but looking at the Washington Naval Treaty wiki article i get this:

The scrapping of existing or planned capital ships to give a 5:5:3:1.75:1.75 ratio of tonnage with respect to Britain, the United States, Japan, France and Italy respectively.

  Yes that was the initial treaty in 1921-22.  Initially Britain had slightly more with 22 ships to the US 20 and the Japanese 14 until the Nelson and Rodney was built, replacing 4 older ships.  Cruisers and CVs were formally defined to prevent anybody building what was effectively a BB but calling it something else.  New cruisers couldn't be larger than 10,000 tons or have guns larger than 8" and CVs similarly couldn't have guns larger than 8" or be larger than 22,000 tons and there were also tonnage limits for them.   [The 8" limit for CV was because the US had already started converting two Lexington hulls to CVs and was fitting 8" guns to them.]  Other than the two Nelsons no new BBs were allow for a ten year building holiday.

  At London in 1930, probably because of the ongoing depression and the strength of disarmament feelings the building holiday was extended for BBs for another 5 years and total numbers cut to 15:15:9 for the big three - France and Italy having never built up to their limits.  Also at US insistence the total number of cruisers was capped at I think it was 80 for UK and US. 

  At London in 35 I think it was new construction of BBs was allowed to replace existing ships but tonnage was still limited to 35,000 tons per ship and largest gun to 16".  [Britain had tried to argue for a 14" upper limit which is why the KGV class were constructed with such guns, as unlike the US Britain couldn't afford to wait for new 16" turrets and resultant design changes when this was rejected],  Also limits on total numbers of cruisers were relaxed.  Japan objected to the continued lower total tonnage but didn't formally declare its withdrawal from the limitations until the following year.  They had already decided to build the Yamato class, 72,000 ton and 9x18" anyway.

  I don't know where your source got the 5 million tons as limitations were on individual categories, i.e. capital ships, CVs and cruisers but never destroyers but were no where near that sort of level.

My source for this thread would be: On This Day In History. What Happened Today In History

[stevep]

Nov 23, 2018 11:11:02 GMT lordroel said:

Nov 23, 2018 11:07:32 GMT stevep said:

  Yes that was the initial treaty in 1921-22.  Initially Britain had slightly more with 22 ships to the US 20 and the Japanese 14 until the Nelson and Rodney was built, replacing 4 older ships.  Cruisers and CVs were formally defined to prevent anybody building what was effectively a BB but calling it something else.  New cruisers couldn't be larger than 10,000 tons or have guns larger than 8" and CVs similarly couldn't have guns larger than 8" or be larger than 22,000 tons and there were also tonnage limits for them.   [The 8" limit for CV was because the US had already started converting two Lexington hulls to CVs and was fitting 8" guns to them.]  Other than the two Nelsons no new BBs were allow for a ten year building holiday.

  At London in 1930, probably because of the ongoing depression and the strength of disarmament feelings the building holiday was extended for BBs for another 5 years and total numbers cut to 15:15:9 for the big three - France and Italy having never built up to their limits.  Also at US insistence the total number of cruisers was capped at I think it was 80 for UK and US. 

  At London in 35 I think it was new construction of BBs was allowed to replace existing ships but tonnage was still limited to 35,000 tons per ship and largest gun to 16".  [Britain had tried to argue for a 14" upper limit which is why the KGV class were constructed with such guns, as unlike the US Britain couldn't afford to wait for new 16" turrets and resultant design changes when this was rejected],  Also limits on total numbers of cruisers were relaxed.  Japan objected to the continued lower total tonnage but didn't formally declare its withdrawal from the limitations until the following year.  They had already decided to build the Yamato class, 72,000 ton and 9x18" anyway.

  I don't know where your source got the 5 million tons as limitations were on individual categories, i.e. capital ships, CVs and cruisers but never destroyers but were no where near that sort of level.

My source for this thread would be: On This Day In History. What Happened Today In History

  OK thanks.  I dropped them a line to let them know and see if they get back to me.

[lordroel]

November 24th

380: Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

1190: Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.

1227: Polish Prince Leszek the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.

1248: In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.

1359: Peter I of Cyprus ascends to the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus abdicates.

1429: Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.

1542: The English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss in England.

1859: Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a single day.

1863: In the Battle Above the Clouds, Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces take Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee.

1864: Kit Carson and his 1st Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, attack a camp of Kiowa Indians in the First Battle of Adobe Walls.

1874: Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire.

1902: The first Congress of Professional Photographers convenes in Paris.

1912: Austria denounces Serbian gains in the Balkans; Russia and France back Serbia while Italy and Germany back Austria.

1927: Federal officials battle 1,200 inmates after prisoners in Folsom Prison revolt.

1938: Mexico seizes oil land adjacent to Texas.

1939: In Czechoslovakia, the Gestapo execute 120 students who are accused of anti-Nazi plotting.

1944: American B-29s flying from Saipan bomb Tokyo.

1949: The Iron and Steel Act nationalizes the steel industry in Britain.

1950: UN troops begin an assault into the rest of North Korea, hoping to end the Korean War by Christmas.

1961: The United Nations adopts bans on nuclear arms over American protests.

1963: Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department.

1977: Greece announces the discovery of the tomb of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.

1979: The United States admits that thousands of troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.

1992: US Congress passes the Brady Bill requiring a 5-day waiting period for handgun sales; the bill is named for Pres. Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was left partially paralyzed by a bullet during an assassination attempt on Reagan.

1995: Ireland votes 50.28% to 49.72% to end its 70-year-old ban on divorce.

2012: A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills over 110 people.

2013: Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

2015: A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.

2015: A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.

2015: An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.

2016: The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.

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November 25th

2348 BC: Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.

1034: Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.

1120: The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.

1177: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.

1343: A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.

1487: Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England. The new consort of King Henry VII travelled by barge from Greenwich to the Tower of London, whence she processed the day before the ceremony to the royal palace, and on to Westminster Abbey for her coronation, which was conducted by John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury.

1491: The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.

1510 : Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.

1667: A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.

1678: Trunajaya rebellion: After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assaulted the rebel stronghold of Kediri.

1755: King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.

1758: French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.

1759: An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.

1783: American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1795: Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.

1826: The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.

1833:A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.

1839: A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.

1863: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

1864: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.

1876: Colonel Ronald MacKenzie destroys Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife's village, in the Bighorn Mountains near the Red Fork of the Powder River, during the so-called Great Sioux War.

1901: Japanese Prince Ito arrives in Russia to seek concessions in Korea.

1914: German Field Marshal Fredrich von Hindenburg calls off the Lodz offensive 40 miles from Warsaw, Poland. The Russians lose 90,000 to the Germans' 35,000 in two weeks of fighting.

1918: Chile and Peru sever relations.

1921: Hirohito becomes regent of Japan.

1923: Transatlantic broadcasting from England to America commences for the first time.

1930: An earthquake in Shizouka, Japan kills 187 people.

1939: Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim.

1946: The U.S. Supreme Court grants the Oregon Indians land payment rights from the U.S. government.

1947: The Big Four meet to discuss the German and European economy.

1951: A truce line between U.N. troops and North Korea is mapped out at the peace talks in Panmunjom, Korea.

1955: The Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation in interstate travel.

1963: The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

1964: Eleven nations give a total of $3 billion to rescue the value of the British currency.

1986: As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department's findings concerning the Iran-Contra affair; secretary Fawn Hall smuggles important documents out of Lt. Col. Oliver North's office.

1987: Typhoon Nina sticks the Philippines with 165 mph winds and a devastating storm surge and causes over 1,030 deaths.

1992: Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to partition the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, beginning Jan. 1, 1993.

2008: Sri Lanka is hit by Cyclone Nisha, bringing the highest rainfall the area had seen in 9 decades; 15 people die, 90,000 are left homeless.