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On 14th December 1932, Great Britain was to pay its debt borrowed during WW1, to the United States the amount of $95,550,000 in gold, the payment was to be brought to New York as promised by Neville Chamberlain!
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On the 15th December 1791 the United States Bill of Rights becomes law.
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States are known as " the Bill of Rights " They became law after the State of Virginia ratified the amendments! |
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The Boston Tea Party, on 16th December 1773 in an incident at Boston Harbour, American rebels disguised as native American Indians threw 342 chests of British Tea into the harbour!
This act paved the way for the American Revolution! |
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On this day 17th December 1843, Charles Dicken's publishes a new book, he calls it " A Christmas Carol "
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On this day, 18th December 1865, by proclamation of the US Secretary of State, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery, officially entered into force, having been ratified on the 6th December...
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China invades Tibet on 19th December 1950, forcing the spiritual leader the Dalai Lama ( Tenzin Gyatso )to leave Tibet!.
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On this day in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive element radium, a silvery white metal that would go on to be used as a cure for cancer.
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On this day 21st December 1988, terrorists destroyed a Pan Am airliner mid-air over Lockerbie in Scotland, all 258 souls on board lost their lives.
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22nd December 1952, the first Corvette, a production ready prototype is completed.
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On this day in history, 25th December 2,021years ago, according to your beliefs, a child was born in Bethlehem, they called him Jesus, again depending on your beliefs, that's why ya got a holiday today, so respect it.
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On this day in history, 27th January, Captain Cook woke up with a monumental hangover........
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It was actually yesterday 30th that British Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civilian march through Bogside, Nth Ireland.
26 civilians lost their lives. I will not go any further into the politics, but just another day in the past! |
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At 7.05 am, 53 year ago today the Melbourne bound Southern Aurora plowed head on into a northbound freight train.
9 people were killed and 117 injured. ![]() The site today is a pleasant spot with a memorial by the railway crossing featuring the pictures above just up the road from my place. ![]() Most of the freght train wreckage was buried in the fields beside the line, I often wondered what it would be like to dig up one of the many Valiants destroyed by the fire which followed. ![]() Interesting youtube film note the northbound "Spirit of Progress" passing through at the end.
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A little off topic, but about 1976 a mate of mine who was a Mercantile Agent, asked me if I could fabricate a removable jib to fit a D7 Bulldozer, I said yes if you have material and welding gear, when I asked what it was for he replied, I got a good tip about a dump in the NT, when the Americans dug a big hole and tipped crates of Harley Davidson WLA's in it!.....after WW2
I never got to do it, couldn't get backers he said, he added there may be whole fighter planes crated too!...... ![]() Last edited by slowsnake; 07-02-2022 at 12:09 PM. Reason: AUTOSPELL |
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From buried in the ground, to old warehouses full of em just out of Darwin, to stacked crates in an old shearing shed, to Maurie Quincey Honda have 20 of them stacked in his garage at home… It’s feckin balony.. It’s FALSE, It’s UNTRUE, It’s CRAP.. And total BS!…
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https://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/dumped.htm A lot of those stories also tie in the story of the Brisbane line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisba...the%20Japanese.
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Prove me wrong!......
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On this day (or perhaps the 15th, there are conflicting dates) in 1962, six members of the Red Sales aerobatic team were tragically killed near Dutson whilst training for an upcoming show.
Red Sales Training Accident – East Sale (Four Aircraft/Six Crew) Thursday 16 August 1962 was a black day for the RAAF when six pilots and four aircraft from The Red Sales aerobatic team were lost at RAAF East Sale, Vic. while training for Air Force week celebrations. When Group Captain Peter Henderson (CO RAAF East Sale) returned from the UK in 1961 he marvelled at the RAF aerobatic teams. He conceived the notion that the RAAF should have a jet based aerobatic team using pilots from the Central Flying School, RAAF East Sale Vic. The team would be known as The Red Sales using four De-Havilland T-33 Vampires. The red derived from the aircraft nose colour and sales from East Sale. Training commenced under the command of Flt. Lt. Jim Rhind (RAF) and making their debut on 14 June 1962 as part of No 22 Navigator Course Graduation Ceremony at East Sale. Through July & August the team flew four practice displays under the command of Flt. Lt. Reg Jones in preparation for their first public performance scheduled for 16th September 1962. Unfortunately the Red Sales never made their public debut because they were all tragically lost on their fifth training flight. The team were performing a low level barrel roll in diamond formation when then impacted the ground about 50m on the southside of Dutson Road with the leading three aircraft careering across the road and disintegrating in an adjoining property. The fourth aircraft crashed about 600m with the loss of all four aircraft & six occupants. Newspaper reports of the day include descriptions of the planes crashing in a sheet of flame as well as a passing sedan having a swerve to miss the aircraft as they ploughed across the road. At least one plane apparently tried to avoid the crash by breaking formation and attempting to gain height. Killed were Flight Lieutenants Reg Jones (30), Alec Young (30), Mike Dunbar (31), Peter Hearnden (28), Marty Burke (28) & Flying Officer Don Gow (27). In October 1962 a court of inquiry found that the altitude of the leader was too low to commence the barrel roll. with the rest of the team basically "following the leader" And another report: The monument commemorates members of the Red Sales Aerobatic Team of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) who were killed in an accident in August 1962. The cross was restored and rededicated and in 1988 the monument was relocated to the Red Sales Memorial Park. The Red Sales team was practising for a RAAF Open Day Display and four aircraft struck the ground almost simultaneously in the final stages of completing a lowlevel barrel roll. They crashed in close proximity to each other in a shallow dive and at an estimated speed of over 300 knots. The No 3 in the formation struck the ground slightly ahead and approximately 150 metres to the port side of the others. On impact, three aircraft exploded - wreckage and debris was scattered over a distance of approximately half a mile. The wreckage of No 3 in the formation was not as completely disintegrated as the others as it had 'levelled out' just prior to impact. All four pilots were staff members of the Central Flying School (CFS), as well as members of the aerobatic team. Additionally, two other CFS staff members were flying as passengers: one as an observer, nominated to eventually replace one of the team members; the other to assist with operation of one aircraft's ancillary controls where the pilot was flying from the right seat. All pilots were very experienced.
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I see the world's population is expected to pass 8 billion people today.
The population is expected to top out at 12 billion around 2100. India is predicted to overtake China as the most populous country some time next year. A future world superpower in the making, IMHO. The older I get, the more convinced I am that the world is overpopulated. I also believe that this planet would be a much better place without human beings.
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Watching the Population Clock this morning and the numbers of Births VS Deaths surprised me, about 2:1...maybe not surprised, but watching the real figures update in realtime was a bit eye-opening I guess. How have we not already overrun our world? Or have we? Whats the worlds perfect population number? Groups study the most stupid of things, so someone must have done a study on this. |
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Today marks 25 years since an explosion at Esso's Longford gas plant in Victoria tragically took the lives of two people and injured eight others.
https://news.cfa.vic.gov.au/news/25t...-gas-explosion I was not in Victoria at that time, as I had just started wort in Sydney, so was not directly impacted. My ex-wife (then girlfriend) was still in Sale waiting for me to find a house to live in in Sydney, so was impacted. Most of the residents in Sale had gas water heating, so those with electric water heating became the centre of attention for bathing reasons. An ex-defence colleague of mine was one of those who was injured in this disaster. He carries the scars with him every day.
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Wiki maybe right or the story is made up one who knows.But Esso big bosses didn’t like production being slowed,so the mainenance people were told to not take the recommendation to check and maybe replace valves at 10 year periods seriously and the underlings being too gutlee to stand up,and tell them it had to be done,for fear of losing their jobs,found it easier to put lives at rusk,now we all know what happened
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