[K3PZN-List] Trivia question for CW Ops

Scott, KB3JQQ kb3jqq at yahoo.com
Sat May 9 16:32:19 EDT 2009


> I only know the answer because I saw it posted on another
> list ... so I won't give it away.  
> 
> Hint to all: I will clarify it is related to today's
> date.  

One of these from wikipedia?


1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces. 
1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder. 
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. 
1942 – Holocaust: The SS murder 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported. 
1945 – World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. 
1945 – World War II: General Alexander Löhr, commander of German Army Group E in Topolšica signs the unconditional surrender of German occupying forces in former Yugoslavia ending World War II in Slovenia. 
1945 – World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana. 
1945 – World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. 
1945 – World War II: Vidkun Quisling is arrested in Norway. 
1945 – World War II: The Red Army enters Prague (capitulation of Nazi occupation troops). 
1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day. 
1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British. 



      


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