(1941) Tuskegee Airmen squadron is activatedFounded: 1941
Ceased operation: 1946
Force: United States Army Air Corps
Parent organization: United States Army Air Corps
(1941) Germany and Italy declare war on the United States
Adolf Hitler delivers a speech at the Kroll Opera House to the men of the Reichstag on the subject of Roosevelt and the war in the Pacific, declaring war on the United States. Next to Hitler in the government benches (from right to left) are Joachim von Ribbentrop, Erich Raeder, Walther von Brauchitsch, Wilhelm Keitel, Wilhelm Frick and Joseph Goebbels. In the second row (from right to left) are Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Walther Funk, Richard Walther Darré, Bernhard Rust, Hanns Kerrl, Hans Frank, Julius Dorpmüller, Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Fritz Todt. In the third row (from right to left) are Alfred Rosenberg, Otto Meißner and Johannes Popitz.
(1941) Japanese warplanes attack Pearl Harbor in HawaiiDate: Dec 07, 1941
(1932) Australia’s Sydney Harbour Bridge opensAddress: Cumberland Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000
Opened: Mar 19, 1932
Length: 3,770 feet (1,149 m)
Width: 161 feet (49 m)
Longest span: 1,650 feet (503 m)
Clearance below: 161 feet (49 m)
(1941) Tuskegee Airmen squadron is activatedThe Tuskegee Airmen /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/ is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks and other support personnel for the pilots.
All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Moton Field, the Tuskegee Army Air Field, and were educated at Tuskegee University, located near Tuskegee, Alabama; the group included five Haitians from the Haitian Air Force (Alix Pasquet, Raymond Cassagnol, Pelissier Nicolas, Ludovic Audant, and Eberle Guilbaud). There was also one pilot from Port of Spain, Trinidad, Eugene Theodore.
Although the 477th Bombardment Group trained with North American B-25 Mitchell bombers, they never served in combat. The 99th Pursuit Squadron (later, 99th Fighter Squadron) was the first black flying squadron, and the first to deploy overseas (to North Africa in April 1943, and later to Sicily and Italy). The 332nd Fighter Group, which originally included the 100th, 301st, and 302nd Fighter Squadrons, was the first black flying group. The group deployed to Italy in early 1944. In June 1944, the 332nd Fighter Group began flying heavy bomber escort missions, and in July 1944, the 99th Fighter Squadron was assigned to the 332nd Fighter Group, which then had four fighter squadrons.
The 99th Fighter Squadron was initially equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter-bomber aircraft. The 332nd Fighter Group and its 100th, 301st and 302nd Fighter Squadrons were equipped for initial combat missions with Bell P-39 Airacobras (March 1944), later with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts (June–July 1944), and finally with the aircraft with which they became most commonly associated, the North American P-51 Mustang (July 1944). When the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group painted the tails of their P-47s and later, P-51s, red, the nickname “Red Tails” was coined. The red markings that distinguished the Tuskegee Airmen included red bands on the noses of P-51s as well as a red rudder; the P-51B and D Mustangs flew with similar color schemes, with red propeller spinners, yellow wing bands and all-red tail surfaces.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces. During World War II, black Americans in many U.S. states were still subject to the Jim Crow laws[N 1] and the American military was racially segregated, as was much of the federal government. The Tuskegee Airmen were subjected to discrimination, both within and outside the army.
(1953) The Oscars are first broadcast on TVDate: Mar 19, 1953
(1962) Bob Dylan’s first album is releasedRelease year: 1962
Genre: Blues / Folk, Contemporary Folk
Label: Columbia
Artist: Bob Dylan
(1877) Crazy Horse’s last standDate: Jan 08, 1877
(1941) Hearst retaliates against ‘Citizen Kane’IMDB:www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467
Release date: Sep 05, 1941 (United States)
Director: Orson Welles
Estimated budget: $839,727 USD
Screenwriters: Orson Welles · Herman J. Mankiewicz · John Houseman · Mollie Kent · Roger Q. Denny
Awards: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
(1946) Elvis gets his first guitarIMDB:www.imdb.com/name/nm0000062
Website: elvis.com
Lived: Jan 08, 1935 – Aug 16, 1977 (age 42)
Height: 6′ 0″ (1.82 m)
Spouse: Priscilla Presley (m. 1967 – 1973)
Partner: Linda Thompson (1972 – 1976)
Children: Lisa Marie Presley (Daughter)
Buried: Graceland
(1994) Russian cosmonaut blasts off for a long, long flightBorn: Apr 27, 1942 (age 74) · Tula, Russia
Space agency: Russian Federal Space Agency
Space missions: Soyuz TM-7 · Soyuz TM-6 · Soyuz TM-18 · Soyuz TM-20 · MirHighlights
- 1964: Polyakov dedicated himself to the field of space medicine in 1964 after the flight of the first physician in space, Boris Yegorov, aboard Voskhod 1.
- 1972: Polyakov was selected as a cosmonaut in Medical Group 3 on March 22, 1972.
- 1988: His first flight into space occurred on Soyuz TM-6 in 1988.
- 1994: Polyakov completed his second flight into space in 1994–1995, spending 437 days in space between launching on Soyuz TM-18 and landing on TM-20, setting the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by an individual in human history.
- 1995: On January 9, 1995, after 366 days in space, Polyakov formally broke the spaceflight duration record previously set by Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov six years earlier.
- 1995: He returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-20 on March 22, 1995.
- 1999: Polyakov’s record for longest cumulative time in space of 678 days over two missions stood until surpassed in 1999 by cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev with a total of 747 days in space during three different missions.
