160 years ago - 7 May 1864 - clipper ship City of Adelaide launched
ABOUT THE CITY OF ADELAIDE
The Clipper Ship City of Adelaide is the world's oldest clipper ship. Built in Sunderland, England, and launched on 7 May 1864.
City of Adelaide was built by William Pile, Hay and Co. for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. Between 1864 and 1887 the ship made 23 annual return voyages from London and Plymouth to Adelaide, South Australia. During this period she played an important part in the immigration of Australia.
On the return voyages she carried passengers, wool, and copper from Adelaide and Port Augusta to London.
Heritage Tourism Workshop: City of Adelaide Clipper Ship
Department for Environment and Water
9 Jun 2016
Heritage Tourism Workshop - Wednesday 20th April 2016
Seven Minute Grabs on Heritage Tourism - Peter Christopher
10. City of Adelaide Clipper Ship - How does maritime promote itself using the City of Adelaide Clipper Ship story
Clipper Ship's Final Voyage. Stage #4 June 13 -16 2024
edster
5 Jul 2024
The 1864 clipper ship City of Adelaide is about to embark on her final "sailing" to a new & permanent home, where she will become the main attraction in the proposed Maritime Village.
The move exercise was planned as a 4 day event, but due to each days schedule running so smoothly, actual time incurred was substantially less.
80 years ago - 20 July 1944 - Failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler
The 20 July plot was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and leader of Nazi Germany, and overthrow the Nazi regime on 20 July 1944. The plotters were part of the German resistance, mainly composed of Wehrmacht officers.[1][2] The leader of the conspiracy, Claus von Stauffenberg, planned to kill Hitler by detonating an explosive hidden in a briefcase. However, due to the location of the bomb at the time of detonation, the blast only dealt Hitler minor injuries. The planners' subsequent coup attempt also failed and resulted in a purge of the Wehrmacht.
50 years ago - 20 July 1974 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus[26][a] began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of recurrent violence perpetrated against Turkish Cypriots by the Greek majority, and in response to a Greek junta-sponsored Cypriot coup d'état five days earlier, it led to the Turkish capture and occupation of the northern part of the island.[34]
The coup was ordered by the military junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard[35][36] in conjunction with EOKA B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed Nikos Sampson.[37][38] The aim of the coup was the union (enosis) of Cyprus with Greece,[39][40][41] and the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus to be declared.[42][43]
Russia Attacked Our Party And The Nation On This Day In 2016 - It was this day, the Friday after the Republican Convention in 2016, when Russia launched its massive - and successful - intervention in our election on behalf of Trump. For a reminder of what happened here’s a passage from a 2018 Washington Post story: https://substack.com/redirect/6ca77d05- ... JYSA_bLgx0
On a late July day in 2016, Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president, stood at a lectern in Florida, next to an American flag, and urged a U.S. adversary to become involved in the election campaign and find tens of thousands of emails wiped from the server of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
“Russia, if you’re listening,” he said at a news conference at one of his resorts, “I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”
That same day, July 27, several Russian government hackers launched an attack against the email accounts of staffers in Clinton’s personal office, according to a sweeping indictment Friday by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. At or around the same time, the hackers also targeted 76 email addresses used by the Clinton campaign, investigators said.
The remarkable timing of the Russian attempt on Clinton’s servers is just one of the new details revealed in the indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers, who Mueller alleges hacked the email accounts and computers of Democratic officials and organizations in an audacious effort to influence the U.S. election.
Although the broad outlines of the hacking and influence campaign have been widely reported, the indictment describes for the first time the identities, techniques and tactics of the operation to disrupt American democracy.
It includes details on how the Russians, using an encrypted file with instructions, delivered their trove of hacked emails to WikiLeaks, the online anti-secrecy organization led by Julian Assange that became the main platform for the Russians to display their trove of hacked emails.
The indictment also reflects an aggressive but somewhat inartful operation in which hackers used the same computer servers to launder money by using the online currency bitcoin as they did to lure their victims and to register sites they used for hacking.
The hackers worked for the spy agency called the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, or GRU, the indictment said.
They also allegedly targeted a state election board, identified by U.S. officials as Illinois. The Russians stole information about 500,000 voters, including names, addresses, partial Social Security numbers, dates of birth and driver’s license numbers, according to the indictment.
