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I'm a little amused by the tank nerd discussion about tank-on-tank warfare because that is a historical anomaly. Significant tank-on-tank battles have been rare. Outside of the handful of 75mm Sherman on Panzer engagements in France, the most common winner of the tank-on-tank battle is the one that had the first opportunity to aim its shot.

This is somewhat analogous to the battleship -v- battleship battles.  I think there were seven in WW 2, maybe 8, out of hundreds or thousands of other engagements.

The Bismark is the most famous, but that probably only happened because of biplanes.

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Birthdays
1833 Benjamin Harrison
1942 Isaac Hayes
1948 Robert Plant- -Zepplin,M-A-N!!!


Events
480 BC Battle of Thermopylae: In one of history's most famous last stands, 7,000 warriors from an alliance of Greek states led by Leonidas I block the pass of Thermopylae for a week against an invading Persian army under Xerxes I, estimated at 120,000 to 300,000

1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers: Major General "Mad Anthony" Wayne defeats a joint British-Native American force at Fallen Timbers, Ohio in the final battle of the Northwest Indian War

1882 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow

1888 In an epic first-round US men's singles tennis match, Palmer Presbrey takes 80 games to defeat T.S. Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4

1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to stay in Australia

1913 First pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)

1915 Chicago White Sox acquire "Shoeless" Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500; Jackson becomes involved in the "Black Sox Scandal" in 1919

1920 First US radio station, 8MK (WWJ) in Detroit, begins daily broadcasting

1920 American Allen Woodring wins the 200 m wearing borrowed shoes at the Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium

1940 British PM Winston Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

1974 Nolan Ryan's pitch is measured at a record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)

1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst, Massachusetts, keeps a frisbee aloft for 15.2 seconds

1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is the first to complete a solo ascent of Mt Everest

1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia finishes a 3,875-mile, 51-day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle

2019 NASA confirms a mission to Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa to search for alien life, launching in 2025