[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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