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  1. Evil Jimmy Krankie

    Evil Jimmy Krankie Well-Known Member

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    12th November, 1928

    The British ocean liner SS Vestris sank in the western Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 111 lives. There were 13 children on board. Tragically none survived.
     
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    1919 The first flight from England to Australia started at Hounslow, with Ross and Smith in a Vickers Vimy. They landed safely on 13th December 1919

    1944 The RAF launched 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sank the German battleship Tirpitz, the last of the major German battleships.
     
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    1970 The Bhola Cyclone hits East Pakistan, killing hundreds of thousands people. The tragedy is credited with starting a chain of events which led to the creation of modern day Bangladesh. My eldest brother who was with the Sappers at the time, was part of the British Task Force sent from Singapore
     
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    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    i know the 1944 one well i practice that bombing run regularly when i have a biggie to drop on a paper boat in the porcelain....<laugh><laugh>
     
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    November 12th, 1933
    The first photo claiming to be of the Loch Ness Monster is taken by Hugh Gray
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    12th November, 1964. A legend is born.

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    1660 John Bunyan got nicked for preachng without a licence and served 12 years in jail for it.
     
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    1926 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
     
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    1928 was the debut for Mickey Mouse ...

    ... now managing a L1 football club on the NE Coast.
     
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    13th November, 1642.

    The Battle of Turnham Green was fought in the first English civil war.

    Strategically it was a win for the Parliamentarians but classed as tactically indecisive.

    Let’s call it score draw.
     
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    November 13th, 1941

    The pride of the British Fleet the aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by a German U-boat.

    (Oh, in 1970 my little sister was born)
     
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    1940. Disney released their third animated movie, Fantasia.
     
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