Manurewa RSA

25/09/2024

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The Manurewa RSA has three purposes:
SUPPORT - the health and well-being of our members.

COMMEMORATION - of ANZAC Day, Remembrance Day, and other key events.

EDUCATION - on how military service shapes and contributes to our society.

15/01/2023

As it faces reinventing itself to attract younger veterans, the Returned and Services Association president Sir Wayne Shelford says the organisation is also facing financial struggles.

11/07/2021

06/04/2021

Poppy Appeal collecting in Manurewa: 16, 17, 18 April. A donation can be made to the Volunteer Poppy Collectors in Manurewa. If unable to make a donation to a Poppy Appeal collector: Text A Poppy is a donation of $3.00.
Will show on your phone: which you can show to a Poppy Appeal Collector to collect a poppy.

01/04/2021

25/10/2020

22/04/2020

08/04/2020

Handy information for note

24/02/2020

Today in history...
0786
Pepin the Short of Gaul dies. His dominions are divided between his sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman.

1525
In the first of the Franco-Habsburg Wars, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V captures the French king Francis I at the Battle of Pavia, Italy.

1538
Ferdinand of Hapsburg and John Zapolyai, the two kings of Hungary, conclude the peace of Grosswardein.

1803
Chief Justice John Marshall, by refusing to rule on the case of Marbury vs. Madison, asserts the authority of the judicial branch.

1813
Off Guiana, the American sloop Hornet sinks the British sloop Peacock.

1821
Mexico gains independence from Spain.

1836
Some 3,000 Mexicans launch an assault on the Alamo with its 182 Texan defenders.

1895
The Cuban War of Independence begins.

1908
Japan officially agrees to restrict emigration to the U.S.

1912
The Jewish organization Hadassah is founded in New York City.

1912
Italy bombs Beirut in the first act of war against the Ottoman Empire.

1914
Civil War soldier Joshua Chamberlain dies.

1916
A film version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea opens in New York.

1921
Herbert Hoover becomes Secretary of Commerce.

1928
The New Gallery of New York exhibits works of Archibald Motley, its first show to feature a black artist.

1944
Merrill's Marauders, a specially trained group of American soldiers, begin their ground campaign against Japan into Burma.

1945
U.S. forces liberate prisoners of war in the Los Baños Prison in the Philippines.

1947
Franz von Papen is sentenced to eight years in a labor camp for war crimes.

1959
Khrushchev rejects the Western plan for the Big Four meeting on Germany.

1968
North Vietnamese troops capture the imperial palace in Hue, South Vietnam.

1972
Hanoi negotiators walk out of the peace talks in Paris to protest U.S. air raids on North Vietnam.

1991
General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition army, sends in ground forces during the Gulf War.

19/02/2020

Today in history
1478
George, the Duke of Clarence, who had opposed his brother Edward IV, is murdered in the Tower of London.

1688
Quakers in Germantown, Pa. adopt the first formal antislavery resolution in America.

1813
Czar Alexander enters Warsaw at the head of his Army.

1861
Jefferson F. Davis is inaugurated as the Confederacy's provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala.

1861
Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first King of Italy.

1865
Union troops force the Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson, N.C.

1878
The bitter and bloody Lincoln County War begins with the murder of Billy the Kid's mentor, Englishman rancher John Tunstall.

1885
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is published in New York.

1907
600,000 tons of grain are sent to Russia to relieve the famine there.

1920
Vuillemin and Chalus complete their first flight over the Sahara Desert.

1932
Manchurian independence is formally declared.

1935
Rome reports sending troops to Italian Somalia.

1939
The Golden Gate Exposition opens in San Francisco.

1943
German General Erwin Rommel takes three towns in Tunisia, North Africa.

1944
The U.S. Army and Marines invade Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.

1945
U.S. Marines storm ashore at Iwo Jima.

1954
East and West Berlin drop thousands of propaganda leaflets on each other after the end of a month long truce.

1962
Robert F. Kennedy says that U.S. troops will stay in Vietnam until Communism is defeated.

1964
The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba.

1967
The National Art Gallery in Washington agrees to buy a Da Vinci for a record $5 million.

1968
Three U.S. pilots that were held by the Vietnamese arrive in Washington.

1972
The California Supreme Court voids the death penalty.

1974
Randolph Hearst is to give $2 million in free food for the poor in order to open talks for his daughter Patty.

1982
Mexico devalues the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.

16/02/2020

Today in history:

1760
Cherokee Indians held hostage at Fort St. George are killed in revenge for Indian attacks on frontier settlements.

1804

Military History Magazine
US Navy lieutenant Steven Decatur leads a small group of sailors into Tripoli harbor and burns the USS Philadelphia, captured earlier by Barbary pirates.

1862
Fort Donelson, Tennessee, falls to Grant's Federal forces, but not before Nathan Bedford Forrest escapes.

1865
Columbia, South Carolina, surrenders to Federal troops.

1923
Bessie Smith makes her first recording "Down Hearted Blues."

1934
Thousands of Socialists battle Communists at a rally in New York's Madison Square Garden.

1937
Dupont patents a new thread, nylon, which will replace silk in a number of products and reduce costs.

1940
The British destroyer HMS Cossack rescues British seamen from a German prison ship, the Altmark, in a Norwegian fjord.

1942
Tojo outlines Japan's war aims to the Diet, referring to "new order of coexistence" in East Asia.

1945
American paratroopers land on Corregidor, in a campaign to liberate the Philippines.

1951
Stalin contends the U.N. is becoming the weapon of aggressive war.

1952
The FBI arrests 10 members of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.

1957
A U.S. flag flies over an outpost in Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

1959
Fidel Castro takes the oath as Cuban premier in Havana.

1965
Four persons are held in a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell and the Washington Monument.

1966
The World Council of Churches being held in Geneva, urges immediate peace in Vietnam.

1978
China and Japan sign a $20 billion trade pact, which is the most important move since the 1972 resumption of diplomatic ties.