9th July
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On this day in military history…

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  • 1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard Explodes and sinks at Scapa Flow from internal defective Cordite killing 804 crew
  • 1943 Operation Husky first landings at night in Scicily by 82nd airborne and 101 paratroopers see them scattered by navigational errors resulting in many of troops drowning
  • 1973 President of Rwanda Gregoire Kayibanda is overthrown in a military coup organised by his deputy political colleagues
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