Today In History

6 years 5 months ago - 6 years 5 months ago #487 by Nikita
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October 26, 1597


At the Battle of Myeongnyang , admiral Yi Sun-sin, leading a Korean fleet of 13 vessels, crushes a Japanese naval force of 333 vessels including 133 warships.



" The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists. "

Admiral Yi Sun-sin
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6 years 5 months ago #488 by Nikita
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October 27, 1981


The Soviet Whiskey-class submarine S-363 runs aground the Swedish coast, about 10 km close to the Swedish naval base of Karlskrona.

The resulting international incident is often nicknamed as the Whiskey on the rocks incident .



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6 years 5 months ago - 6 years 5 months ago #489 by Nikita
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October 29, 1959


The first episode of The Adventures of Asterix , called Asterix the Gaul, is released on the #1 of the comics Pilote . :wave:



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6 years 5 months ago - 6 years 5 months ago #490 by Nikita
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October 31, 1968


After two years and seven months of intense bombing over North Vietnam, more than the sum of every WW2 air bombings, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson orders to stop Operation Rolling Thunder .



On the American side, with more than 1000 casualties killed, wounded or captured and more than 900 lost aircrafts, Operation Rolling Thunder is considered as a strategic failure, having failed to complete its planned objectives. A CIA report will state Operation Rolling Thunder as the most ambitious, the most expensive and the most unefficent operation in History.
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6 years 5 months ago #491 by Sqdn. Ldr. Ted Striker
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6 years 5 months ago - 6 years 5 months ago #492 by Nikita
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November 11, 1918



At 11:00 am, during the last fights in Dom-le-Mesnil and on captain Lebretton's order, private Octave Delaluque, 9th company, 415th regiment, 163th infantry division, sounds this armistice bugle.

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