🗓️ Echo This Day – December 26, 1943 World War II: In the Battle of Cape Gloucester, American and Australian forces bombarded Japanese positions on New Britain in the Territory of New Guinea while U.S. Marines invaded from two sides of the island. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisda

🗓️ Echo This Day – December 17, 1939 World War II: After sustaining moderate damage in the Battle of the River Plate two days earlier, the German cruiser Graf Spee was scuttled by its commander, Hans Langsdorff, to avoid its internment by Uruguay. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisdV

🗓️ Echo This Day – November 29, 1947 The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in Mandatory Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisdY

🗓️ Echo This Day – November 05, 1995 Aline Chrétien (pictured) thwarted André Dallaire's attempt to assassinate her husband, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, by locking the bedroom door in 24 Sussex Drive, their official residence in Ottawa. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisdW

🗓️ Echo This Day – October 14, 2011 Michael Woodford was dismissed as the CEO of the optics manufacturer Olympus after uncovering internal financial misconduct, escalating the corporate scandal into one of the largest in Japanese business history. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisd

🗓️ Echo This Day – September 11, 1941 In Des Moines, Iowa, American aviator Charles Lindbergh delivered an antisemitic speech (reporting pictured) accusing Jews of controlling the media and manipulating the United States into joining World War II. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisdk

🗓️ Echo This Day – September 07, 2011 Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, crashed on take-off near Yaroslavl, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 44 of the 45 people on board. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisdM

🗓️ Echo This Day – September 02, 1967 Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand (pictured). #EchoThisDay #History #onthisdk

🗓️ Echo This Day – August 02, 1932 At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics. #EchoThisDay #History #onthisdq

Historical Event on April 01: 2011: After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers. #Historact #HistoryToday #OnThisD…

On This Day: 2020, Hong Kong–based writer and publisher Gui Minhai, known for writing about Chinese Communist Party politicians, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for intelligence violations. For more information visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai #OnThisD

On This Day: 1997, Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell. For more information visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roslin_In… #OnThisD

On This Day: 1940, The official premiere of Paul Creston's Saxophone Sonata took place at the Carnegie Chamber Hall, with saxophonist Cecil Leeson, who commissioned the work, and Creston on piano. For more information visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cres… #OnThisD

@ESPNcricinfo That defeat was a complete disaster for Sri Lanka. A performance so poor it left them with no hope heading into the final. India made them look helpless. #OnThisD

@ESPNcricinfo That match was a humiliation for Sri Lanka — the lowest performance to be put into a final. India showed no mercy, dominating every aspect of the game. It was a masterclass in cricket, while Sri Lanka was left scrambling for answers. #OnThisD

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