Action of 22 January 1783 England. Kergariou himself moved to England five years later at the outbreak of the French Revolution; in 1795, he was part of a Royalist band supported by the British government and took part in the attempted Invasion of France in 1795. At the Battle of Quiberon, Hoche's troops captured him; the Revolutionaries sentenced him to death and shot him. Action of 22 January 1783 The Action of 22 January 1783 was a single ship action fought off the Chesapeake Bay during the American War of Independence. The British frigate "Hussar", under the command of Thomas McNamara Russell, captured the French
Black Thursday (1960 Rome Olympics) 21st anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland. 1 September in the Olympic Stadium was viewed at the time as a disaster for the United States, but in other Olympic events that day the Americans triumphed and, on subsequent days in the Olympic stadium, some limited success was restored to their track and field team. Black Thursday (1960 Rome Olympics) Black Thursday was the phrase coined by Oscar Fraley, to describe the failings of the fancied American favourites in their track and field events on Thursday 1 September 1960, at the Rome Olympics. The two most notable failures that day were