1918 Great Britain - Royal Air force is Founded
1918 : The Royal Air force is founded in England, this is truly an amazing piece of History as the first flight was only made 8 years before by Wilbur and Wright and for countries around the World to set up a separate arms of the Forces shows how important politicians believed the aircraft would become as a part of the military.
The aircraft in use in 1918 when the RAF started included the Sopwith Pup, Bristol F2B Fighters, Sopwith Camels and Royal Aircraft Factory SE5's
1933 Germany - Persecution of Jews
1933 : Nazi Germany begins the persecution of German Jews by declaring a boycott of Jewish owned businesses
1945 U.S.A. - US Forces Land on Okinawa
1945 : The United States Tenth Army commanded by Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. land on Okinawa, main island of the Ryukyus, 362 miles from the Japanese home islands.
The Occupation of Island of Okinawa was considered crucial if there is to be an invasion of the Japanese mainland and during the campaign the U.S. Navy sustained greater casualties in this operation than in any other battle of the war and it was not until on about June 21st , ( 11 weeks ) that the main battles for the Island ended. ( In the event the Nuclear Bombs changed military strategy. )
1946 U.S.A. - Hawaii Earthquake and Tsunami
1946 : A major undersea earthquake measuring 7.4 magnitude in the north pacific ocean caused a Tsunami that by the time it reached Hawaii some 2,400 miles away and travelling at 500 miles per hour, only 4 1/2 hours after the quake waves reaching 60ft in height hit coastal areas of Hawaii causing the deaths of 150 + . This Tsunami prompted the setting up of the U.S. to establish the Seismic SeaWave Warning System to help in evacuation but any similar occurrence today would be even more devastating as can be shown with the damage and loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina where the warning was greater than 6 hours.
1970 U.S.A. - AMC Gremlin
The AMC group introduced one of the first sub compact cars way back in 1970 before many realized gas prices would be a critical factor in future car buying, the car was called the Gremlin and cost $1879. Car imports were just starting to have an impact on the US market including the Volkswagen Beetle and the new generation of Japanese imports like the Datsun.
1970 U.S.A. - Cigarette Advertising Banned
1970 : President Nixon signed into law the banning of cigarette advertising on television and radio.
1983 UK - CND Peace Demonstrators
1983 : Tens of thousands of CND peace demonstrators form a human chain stretching 14 miles across Southern England from the American airbase at Greenham Common, via the Aldermaston nuclear research centre and ending at the ordnance factory in Burghfield.
1990 UK - Strangeways Prison
1990 : A thousand prisoners run amok in Strangeways Prison in Manchester in a violent riot setting fire to the chapel and gymnasium, and a number of prison cells, the inmates are protesting the primitive conditions and severe overcrowding.
The riot at Strangeways lasted 25 days the longest in British penal history.
1991 U.S.A. - Riverboat Gambling
1991 : Iowa becomes one of the first states to allow riverboat gambling .
1999 Europe - The Euro
1999 : Eleven countries in the European Union adopted the Euro as a common currency as the dream of monetary union became reality.
1999 U.S.A. - Melissa" e-mail virus
1999 : David Smith is arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 million computers worldwide and caused more than $80 million in damage.
Melissa is classified as a computer worm and shut down Internet mail systems that got clogged with infected e-mails propagating from the worm. Melissa was spread via the word processors Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000 through the use of an inbuilt macro in the template and could mass-mail itself from e-mail client Microsoft Outlook 97 or Outlook 98.
1999 Great Britain - Minimum Wages
1999 : Britain introduces the first ever legally binding minimum rate of pay. From This Day all adults must be paid at least £3.60 an hour and workers under the age of 22 must get no less than £3 an hour.
I have created a small chart below giving an idea of some of the yearly earnings based ( equiv in US Dollars ) on minimum wage for an Adult Working Full Time in that country in 2007. If the figures depend on State of Province or by trade and profession we have taken the lowest figure paid.
2000 UK - Enigma Machine Stolen
2000 : The Enigma wartime coding machine used by the Germans to cipher messages during World War II is stolen from the Bletchley Park Museum in Buckinghamshire, south-east England.
The Enigma code created by the machine was thought by the Germans to be unbreakable but British mathematicians, scientists and agents stationed at Bletchley Park succeeded in cracking the Enigma code - a cipher with 150 million million million possible combinations which the Germans thought was unbreakable.
2001 Yugoslavia - Slobodan Milosevic
2001 : Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been arrested and taken to prison. The charges include corruption and theft of state funds and he is also wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
2003 Iraq - Jessica Lynch
2003 : Jessica Lynch is rescued from a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, where she had been held prisoner since her unit was ambushed nine days earlier.
This story has created a great deal of controversy over the years with conflicting reports of what happened during her time in captivity and her rescue, so only the basic facts are included here she was injured, captured by Iraq Forces and rescued.
2006 Great Britain - Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) is launched
2006 : Britain's agency for targeting major criminals such as drug-smugglers, people-traffickers and fraudsters comes into force today. S.O.C.A. has been called Britain's equilavent of the F.B.I., and will be using work from the police, customs and immigration services in its operations. Starting with just over four thousand officers, it will be using Britain's existing and newly formed European legal powers to fight crime. S.O.C.A. will be Britain's first non-police law-enforcement agency.
2008 United States - Hillary Clinton compares herself to Rocky
2008 : Hillary Clinton goes to Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania primary. "Let me tell you something," she told her audience. "When it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people." The Pennsylvania primary temporarily revived her campaign, and she continued by telling her them that "I know what it's like to stumble. I know what it means to get knocked down. But I've never stayed down, and I never will."
2009 United States - The Postal Service announces its Simpsons’ stamps
2009 : The U.S. Postal Service has said that it will be making stamps that feature the Simpsons characters Homer, Marge, Maggie, Bart and Lisa. The first class stamps will be available to see at http://www.usps.com on April 9th , which is also the date on which they can be bought at the counter.
2009 NATO Albania and Croatia join
2009 : Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and ending of the Balkan conflict, NATO continues to grow with the addition of Albania and Croatia bring the total states who are now members to 28.
2012 UBurma - Aung San Suu Kyi Wins By-Election in Burma
2012 : Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the oppositional party the National League for Democracy, won a by-election for parliament in Burma, and key test of the country's recent democratic reforms. The party had not been able to compete in elections since 1990. Suu Kyi had been under house arrest for nearly twenty years after the military took control of the country after the 1990 elections and she refused to participate in a 2010 election because she thought it would not be democratic.
2013 United States - US City of Stockton Declares Bankruptcy
2013 : The US city of Stockton in California filed bankruptcy and a federal judge approved the request after a three day trial, making the city of 290,000 the largest US city to enter bankruptcy protection.
2014 Japan - Japan Raises Sales Tax
2014 : Japan raised it sales tax for the first time in seventeen years. The sales tax would be raised from five percent to eight percent and then to ten percent by October 2015. The move was thought of as a necessary step in managing public debt.
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