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doedrikthe2nd
Sweden981 Posts
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
Picked interesting stuff on random mostly. 1700 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva. 1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. 1902 - Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris. This one is interesting since I'm a cyclist and think that the tour the france blows pretty much compared to the other big tours who are better in every way ecept price money. The tour sucks. 1945 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. 1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (in 1995 localized fighting resumed). I have to friends that lived in zambia for a couple of years. 2003 - Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation. TL.net style. Notable births: 1937 - Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier 1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997) 1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician. Deaths: 1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892) 20th november is also the "Transgender Day of Remembrance" whoo hoo. | ||
Jelly
United Kingdom137 Posts
1853 - Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine. 1968 - Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score. And some others.. WOW Edit; My birthdays on national hugging day :D | ||
ShAsTa
Belgium2841 Posts
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. 1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross. 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or Black Tuesday, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. 1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. 1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight. 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. 1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton). 2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. | ||
to miss the mark
Bosnia-Herzegovina1381 Posts
* 1932 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri. * 1934 - US: Anarchist conference at Stelton, N.J., August 10-11 * 1948 - Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone. * 1969 - A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. * 1971 - Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. * 1981 - The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted. * 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony. * 2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space. * 2005 - Lee Seung Seop dies from exhaustion in South Korea after playing the computer game StarCraft continuously for 49 hours. * 2006 - Chelsea FC captain John Terry is named as the new successor to David Beckham as the England captain. FA = Has decapitated son? | ||
BlackJack
United States9727 Posts
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merz
Sweden2760 Posts
* 1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. * 1547 - Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. * 1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland. * 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity. * 1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. * 1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia. * 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. * 1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast. * 1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. * 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway. * 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: France surrenders, ending the war. * 1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States. * 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. * 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. * 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. * 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard. * 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court. * 1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa. * 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco. * 1918 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground. * 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I. * 1932 - Japan occupies Shanghai. * 1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and by a group of Cambridge University Students and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement of the formal Indian Independence Act 1947 during WWII * 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion. * 1938 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont. * 1938 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195. * 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road. * 1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef. * 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister. * 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades. * 1986 - Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard, including Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space. Failure blamed on leaking Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. * 1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. * 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines. * 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92. * 2004 - September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly. [edit] Births * 1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509) * 1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) * 1582 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621) * 1600 - Pope Clement IX (d. 1669) * 1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) * 1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687) * 1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691) * 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774) * 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775) * 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761) * 1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774) * 1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749) * 1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830) * 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860) * 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892) * 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885) * 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904) * 1853 - José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895) * 1857 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (d. 1898) * 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954) * 1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940) * 1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953) * 1880 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970) * 1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962) * 1886 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973) * 1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982) * 1890 - Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963) * 1891 - Bill Doak, baseball player (d. 1954) * 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947) * 1897 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986) * 1910 - John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973) * 1910 - Arnold Moss, American character actor (d. 1989) * 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956) * 1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993) * 1923 - Ivo Robić, Croatian singer (d. 2001) * 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996) * 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001) * 1929 - Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist * 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist * 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970) * 1935 - David Lodge, English author * 1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer * 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director * 1938 - Leonid Zhabotinsky, Russian weightlifter * 1941 - Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985) * 1944 - John Tavener, English composer * 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician * 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer * 1948 - Charles Taylor, former leader of Liberia * 1950 - Barbi Benton, American actress * 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain * 1951 - Brian Bilbray, American politician * 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut * 1954 - Rick Warren, pastor and author * 1959 - Randi Rhodes, American personality * 1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm) * 1959 - Frank Darabont, American filmmaker * 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer * 1962 - Sam Phillips, American singer * 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter * 1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill) * 1968 - Rakim, American rapper * 1969 - Kathryn Morris, American actress * 1969 - Linda Sanchez, American politician * 1969 - Mo Rocca, Writer and comedian * 1972 - Nicky Southall, English footballer * 1974 - Tony Delk, American basketball player * 1974 - Jermaine Dye, baseball player * 1975 - David Zingler, American writer * 1975 - Junior Spivey, Baseball player * 1976 - Mark Madsen, American basketball player * 1976 - Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot) * 1976 - Emiko Kado, wrestler (d. 1999) * 1977 - Daunte Culpepper, American football player * 1977 - Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC) * 1977 - Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira) * 1977 - Takuma Sato, Japanese formula one driver * 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer * 1978 - Jamie Carragher, English footballer * 1978 - Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer * 1979 - Pixie, English model * 1979 - Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder * 1980 - Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys) * 1981 - Rick Razzano, American football player * 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor * 1984 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player * 1986 - Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete [edit] Deaths * 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742) * 1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031) * 1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247) * 1443 - Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France * 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491) * 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier * 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547) * 1613 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545) * 1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550) * 1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619) * 1672 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588) * 1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611) * 1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator * 1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia, (b. 1672) * 1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684) * 1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769) * 1864 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799) * 1903 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847) * 1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819) * 1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846) * 1918 - John McCrae Canadian poet, "In Flander's Fields" (b. 1872) * 1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859) * 1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driber (b. 1909) * 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865) * 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908) * 1950 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883) * 1953 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876) * 1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891) * 1963 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884) * 1965 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888) * 1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867) * 1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896) * 1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910) * 1983 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890) * 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: o Greg Jarvis (b. 1944) o Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) o Ronald McNair (b. 1950) o Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946) o Judith Resnik (b. 1949) o Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939) o Michael J. Smith (b. 1945) * 1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911) * 1991 - Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903) * 1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916) * 1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1940) * 1996 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914) * 1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918) * 1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908) * 2001 - Curt Blefary, baseball player (b. 1943) * 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907) * 2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927) * 2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923) * 2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923) * 2004 - Don Stansauk, professional wrestler (b. 1936) * 2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944) * 2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973) * 2006 - Yitzchak Kadouri, Jewish rabbi (b. around 1900) * 2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929) | ||
chicken`
Germany3478 Posts
* 1443 - Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja, in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag. * 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. * 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence. * 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. * 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez. * 1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed * 1821 - Panama Independence Day. Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia. * 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. * 1862 - American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates. * 1895 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours. * 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland. * 1907 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. * 1912 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. * 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading. * 1919 - Lady Astor is elected to be the first female to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.She was not the first to be elected.That was Countess Markievicz. * 1920 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens. * 1920 - Kilmichael Ambush Battle of the Irish War of Independence * 1925 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM. * 1942 - In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people. * 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy. * 1944 - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans. * 1958 - Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community. * 1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France. * 1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars. * 1964 - Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that US President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam. * 1965 - Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam. * 1969 - The final episode of BBC soap-opera The Newcomers is broadcast. * 1969 - The Rolling Stones release the album Let It Bleed. * 1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal. * 1975 - As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes. * 1979 - The Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board. * 1979 - Billy Smith becomes the first goalie in NHL history to score a goal in a game. * 1980 - Mark Morris, choreographer, puts on the Mark Morris Dance Group's first show at the Merce Cunningham Studios. * 1982 - Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade. * 1984 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made honorary citizens of the United States. * 1987 - South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board. * 1987 - Tawana Brawley is allegedly raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in Wappingers Falls, New York. * 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power. * 1990 - Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to The Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time. John Major is elected her successor. * 1994 - Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994). * 1994 - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium. * 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a highway bill that ends the federal 55 mph speed limit. * 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo. * 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. * 2000 - The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment. * 2002 - 13 people are killed in a hotel bombing in Mombasa. * 2004 - Male Po'o-uli dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda before it could breed, making the species most in all probability extinct. * 2005 - The Official Opposition (Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party, and Bloc Québécois) bring down the 38th Minority Liberal Government of Canada in a vote of non-confidence forcing immediate campaigning for the 39th Federal Election. mh t,t | ||
SolaR-
United States2685 Posts
* 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum. Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is killed. * 69 - Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne. * 1028 - Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans. * 1205 - Battle of Adrianople between Bulgars and Crusaders. * 1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne. * 1632 - Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. * 1699 - Khalsa. Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi Calendar. * 1775 - The first abolition society in the North America is established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. * 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary. * 1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse. * 1846 - The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival. * 1849 - Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader. * 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California. * 1864 - Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement. * 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. * 1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell. * 1881 - Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, Texas. * 1890 - The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States at their meeting in Washington. Known originally as the International Bureau of American Republics, William Elleroy Curtis becomes its first director. * 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies. * 1912 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning. * 1915 - The Turks invade Armenia. * 1927 - The first Volvo car premieres, in Gothenburg, Sweden. * 1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic. * 1935 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl. * 1935 - Babe Ruth plays his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. In this year - his last year of pro ball in the major leagues - he is playing for the Boston Braves, not his old team the Red Sox. In this season, Ruth plays 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring. * 1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later. * 1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organisation that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April 6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation Castigo. * 1944 - Huge explosion rocks the Bombay harbour killing 300 and causing a loss of 20 million pounds at that time. See: Bombay Explosion (1944). * 1945 - Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascistic occupation. * 1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex. * 1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. * 1962 - Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France. * 1964 - A Delta rocket's third-stage motor prematurely ignites in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3. * 1968 - At the Academy Awards, a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand results in the two sharing the Best Actress Oscar; Hepburn also becomes the only actress to win three Best Actress Oscars. * 1970 - One of Apollo 13's oxygen tanks explodes, causing a cancelled moon mission. The explosion occurrs on April 13th in several time zones. * 1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people. * 1986 - 2.2 lb (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded. * 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II. * 2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy. | ||
shimmy
Poland997 Posts
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GTR
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to miss the mark
Bosnia-Herzegovina1381 Posts
On September 09 2006 07:04 MyCube wrote: I posted this post. Haooy Birthday GTR! | ||
XDawn
Canada4040 Posts
* 1290 BC - Seti I, Pharaoh of Egypt dies. Ramesses II becomes Pharaoh of Egypt. * 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron. * 687 - St. Sergius I becomes Pope. * 1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia. * 1791 - The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia legislature. * 1818 - Irwin County, Georgia is created. * 1891 - James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players. * 1913 - Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. * 1939 - Gone with the Wind premiers in Atlanta, Georgia. * 1945 - Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan. * 1960 - King Baudouin of Belgium marries Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón in Brussels. * 1961 - In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. * 1965 - Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Also the release of The Sound of Music. * 1976 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN. * 1993 - History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. * 1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released. * 1994 - Palau becomes a member of the UN. * 1995 - The European Communities Court of Justice passes the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another. * 1997 - A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85. * 2002 - The digital radio station BBC7 is launched by the comedian Paul Merton. * 2005 - The 43rd known Mersenne prime is discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper & Dr. Steven Boone of USA, participants of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search distributed computing project. The prime number is the largest known Mersenne prime at the time of its discovery, and is more than nine million digits long. * 2005 - Latvia edits its constitution to ban equal marriage rights to gays and lesbians. * 2005 - Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the cancellation of the external debt to the IMF. | ||
CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11564 Posts
On September 09 2006 07:04 MyCube wrote: I posted this post. Happy Birthday 1547 - Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. | ||
Penguin
Australia388 Posts
2001 - George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States. and so forth, for alot of the previous US presidents, i guess this day is the traditional day when they are "inaugurated" | ||
Stim_Abuser
United States1277 Posts
june 1st 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky. 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress 1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor ( my favorite actor ) | ||
Shymon
United States620 Posts
1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt. which is odd since one of my hobbies is target archery, go figgure. | ||
Sadist
United States7020 Posts
fucking sweet | ||
QuietIdiot
7004 Posts
* 672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope. * 847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope. * 1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei. * 1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily. * 1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus. * 1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno. * 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31. * 1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703. * 1785 - The University of Georgia is founded. * 1825 - U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." * 1870 - The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University. * 1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. * 1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded. * 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined. * 1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway. * 1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti. * 1926 - John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast. * 1939 - United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France. * 1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna. * 1943 - World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven. * 1944 - World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted. * 1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp. * 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats. * 1967 - Project Apollo: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center. * 1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space. * 1969 - The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000KVA was completed and placed in operation. * 1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War, Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. * 1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. * 1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump. * 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. * 1996 - Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day. * 1997 - It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis. * 1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. * 2001 - Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado. * 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000. jan.27 | ||
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