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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/09 at 1:29 am
July 9th 1540 – Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/09 at 1:44 am
July 9th 1900 – Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: danootaandme on 07/09/09 at 5:38 am
1893 Daniel H Williams performs "world's 1st successful heart operation"
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/09 at 2:12 am
July 10th 1553 – Four days after the death of her predecessor, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey was officially proclaimed Queen of England, beginning her reign as the "The Nine Days' Queen".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/09 at 2:12 am
July 10th 1796 – German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/09 at 2:13 am
July 10th 1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of the British Raj, founded Fort William College in Fort William, India, to promote Bengali, Hindi and other vernaculars of the subcontinent.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/09 at 2:20 am
July 10th 1976 – An industrial accident in a chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy, resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/09 at 2:21 am
July 10th 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/09 at 1:43 am
July 11th 1804 – U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/09 at 1:43 am
July 11th 1921 – The Irish War of Independence ended with a truce between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Irish Republican Army, resulting in negotiations that eventually led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the establishment of the Irish Free State.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/09 at 1:43 am
July 11th 1960 – American author Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, featuring themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence in the American Deep South, was first published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/11/09 at 9:49 pm
JULY 11TH ...The day E.B. White [author of Charlotte's Web} was born.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/11/09 at 9:52 pm
July 11,1946 - Dean Martin recorded his first four songs......the rest,as they say.........is History.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/09 at 2:52 am
July 11,1946 - Dean Martin recorded his first four songs......the rest,as they say.........is History.
We already have a thread/topic for music history at Rock/Pop Music History on the More Than A Decade board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/09 at 2:53 am
July 12th 1543 – King Henry VIII of England married Catherine Parr his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/09 at 2:53 am
July 12th 1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was passed, a law that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/09 at 2:53 am
July 12th 1862 – The Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government, was first authorized by the U.S. Congress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/09 at 2:53 am
July 12th 1979 – The Gilbert Islands gained independence from the United Kingdom and became known as Kiribati.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/09 at 12:56 am
July 13th 1643 – English Civil War: Royalists defeated the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Roundway Down near Devizes in central Wiltshire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/09 at 12:57 am
July 13th 1772 – Under the command of explorer James Cook, HMS Resolution set sail from Plymouth, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/09 at 12:57 am
July 13th 1863 – Three days of rioting began (pictured) in New York City by opponents of new laws passed by the United States Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/09 at 1:54 am
July 13th 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/09 at 1:00 am
July 14th 1698 – The Darien scheme began with five ships departing Leith to establish a Scottish colony on the Isthmus of Panama.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/09 at 1:00 am
July 14th 1791 – The Priestley Riots began to drive out Joseph Priestley and other religious Dissenters out of Birmingham, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/09 at 1:01 am
July 14th 2003 – The U.S. Government admitted the existence of Area 51, the secretive military airfield in Nevada that has become a focus of various UFO and conspiracy theories, conceding that the U.S. Air Force does have an "operating location" there.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/14/09 at 1:31 am
July 14th 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 1:11 am
July 15th 1240 – Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeated the Swedes on the Neva River near Ust-Izhora, present-day Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 1:11 am
July 15th 1823 – A fire, accidentally started by a workman who was repairing the lead of the roof, destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The church would later be restored by 1840.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 1:12 am
July 15th 1974 – Greek-sponsored nationalists overthrew Makarios III, President of Cyprus, in a coup d'état and replaced him with Nikos Sampson.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 11:41 pm
July 16th 1945 – Manhattan Project: "Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion, was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 11:42 pm
July 16th 2004 – Chicago's Millennium Park, currently the world's largest rooftop garden, opened.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 11:47 pm
July 16th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/09 at 11:47 pm
July 16th 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/16/09 at 5:59 pm
July 16,1918 - Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/16/09 at 6:00 pm
July 16,1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," was first published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/16/09 at 6:35 pm
July 16,1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," was first published.
Great book. Enjoyed the read.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:42 am
July 16,1918 - Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Wikipedia has it as today July 17th.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:46 am
July 17th 1917 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:47 am
July 17th 1995 – The Nasdaq Composite index closed above the 1,000 mark for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:47 am
July 17th 1979 – Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 1:48 am
July 17th 1975 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/17/09 at 4:57 pm
I'll double check My source....
Wikipedia has it as today July 17th.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/17/09 at 4:58 pm
July 17,1941 - The longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games !!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/17/09 at 5:00 pm
July 17,1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 11:36 pm
July 18th 64 – The Great Fire of Rome started among the shops around the Circus Maximus, eventually destroying four of fourteen Roman districts and severely damaging seven others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 11:37 pm
July 18th 1863 – American Civil War: Led by Union Army Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal African American military unit, spearheaded an assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 11:37 pm
July 18th 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a tidal channel, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/09 at 11:39 pm
July 18th 1968 – The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/18/09 at 11:16 am
July 18,1964 - Pete Rose, of the Cincinnati Reds ,hit the ONLY grand slam home run of his career.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/18/09 at 1:07 pm
July 18,1964 - Pete Rose, of the Cincinnati Reds ,hit the ONLY grand slam home run of his career.
Pete Was a great player and competitor, has the most hits ever. One of those guys from the big red machine ( Morgan, Perez, Bench, Foster)
I wish he were in the hall of fame. He belongs.
In 1978 he had that 44 game hitting streak.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Womble on 07/18/09 at 1:09 pm
July 18, 1969 - After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/09 at 5:10 pm
July 18th 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, United States Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a tidal channel, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign worker.
July 18, 1969 - After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
Snap!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:18 am
July 19th 1916 – World War I: Australian forces engaged the Germans at the Battle of Fromelles in France, described as "the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history" since 5,533 Australian soldiers were eventually killed, wounded or taken prisoner in the failed operation.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:18 am
July 19th 1848 – The two-day Women's Rights Convention, the first women's rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:19 am
July 19th 1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:19 am
July 19th 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:19 am
July 19th 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 2:21 am
July 19th 1879 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/19/09 at 8:23 am
July 19,1860........Lizzie Borden was born
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/19/09 at 8:26 am
July 19,1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/09 at 1:54 pm
July 19,1860........Lizzie Borden was born
"Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one."
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/20/09 at 1:35 pm
June 20, 1969.
Man walks on the moon for the first time.
Possibly the most significant event of the 20th century.
Neil Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and into history as the first human to set foot on another world. It was then that he uttered his famous line "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" six a half hours after landing. Aldrin joined him, describing the view as "Magnificent desolation"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Ap11-s69-31740.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 2:05 pm
June 20, 1969.
Man walks on the moon for the first time.
Possibly the most significant event of the 20th century.
Neil Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and into history as the first human to set foot on another world. It was then that he uttered his famous line "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" six a half hours after landing. Aldrin joined him, describing the view as "Magnificent desolation"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Ap11-s69-31740.jpg
I was there in front of a black and white tv!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/20/09 at 2:18 pm
I was there in front of a black and white tv!
So was I..but a different TV. (altho still black and white)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 2:19 pm
So was I..but a different TV. (altho still black and white)
As a young kid I was amazed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/20/09 at 2:24 pm
As a young kid I was amazed.
So was I and sp were my friends, many of us wanted to grow up and become astronauts during that time period. I had my "Major Matt Mason" toys and hoped to go to the moon or even Mars. Anything was possible back them when you dreamed about outer space.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 2:28 pm
June 20, 1969.
Man walks on the moon for the first time.
Possibly the most significant event of the 20th century.
Neil Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and into history as the first human to set foot on another world. It was then that he uttered his famous line "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" six a half hours after landing. Aldrin joined him, describing the view as "Magnificent desolation"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Ap11-s69-31740.jpg
The actual moon walk took placed at 2:56am (UTC) on July 21st.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/20/09 at 2:30 pm
The actual moon walk took placed at 2:56am (UTC) on July 21st.
I remember it was late at night where we lived.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 2:32 pm
I remember it was late at night where we lived.
I am trying to reflect on the event. I can recall watching something on the tv at school.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 2:58 pm
June 20, 1969.
Man walks on the moon for the first time.
Possibly the most significant event of the 20th century.
Neil Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and into history as the first human to set foot on another world. It was then that he uttered his famous line "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" six a half hours after landing. Aldrin joined him, describing the view as "Magnificent desolation"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Ap11-s69-31740.jpg
Google have got into the act now!
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm66/Phil_O-Sopher/moonlanding09.gif
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 3:24 pm
July 20th 1927 – Five-year-old Michael I became King of Romania upon the death of his grandfather Ferdinand I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 3:25 pm
July 20th 1944 – Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt by German Resistance member Claus von Stauffenberg, who hid a bomb inside a briefcase during a conference at the Wolfsschanze military headquarters in East Prussia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 07/20/09 at 4:43 pm
June 20, 1969.
Man walks on the moon for the first time.
Possibly the most significant event of the 20th century.
Neil Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and into history as the first human to set foot on another world. It was then that he uttered his famous line "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" six a half hours after landing. Aldrin joined him, describing the view as "Magnificent desolation"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Ap11-s69-31740.jpg
My Parents were married 2 months later. :)
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/20/09 at 5:47 pm
I am trying to reflect on the event. I can recall watching something on the tv at school.
Streets full of people, all alone
Roads full of houses never home
Church full of singing out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon
Jonathan King 1965
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 1:00 am
July 21st 1944 – World War II: American troops landed on Guam to liberate it from Japanese control.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 1:01 am
July 21st 1925 – Creation–evolution controversy: High school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution in class.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 1:01 am
July 21st 1403 – Forces under Henry IV of England defeated a rebel army led by Henry 'Hotspur' Percy at the Battle of Shrewsbury in what is now Battlefield, Shropshire, England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 1:02 am
July 21st 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 1:02 am
July 21st 1545 – The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/21/09 at 1:04 am
July 21st 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
http://api.ning.com/files/yud0fex47QNVPA3SnOQE42drJo1HXOPu3Os*KTS7r8JlkmQaH7HntPbybUD-t7dznII5NhIfOJfbgSjg3vfPLtvrIW1dBpfj/NeilArmstrongMoon.jpg
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/imagecache/news/files/031006_aldrin.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 1:16 am
http://api.ning.com/files/yud0fex47QNVPA3SnOQE42drJo1HXOPu3Os*KTS7r8JlkmQaH7HntPbybUD-t7dznII5NhIfOJfbgSjg3vfPLtvrIW1dBpfj/NeilArmstrongMoon.jpg
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/imagecache/news/files/031006_aldrin.jpg
Now the conspiracy nerks will be looking closely at this pictures for evidence?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/21/09 at 1:20 am
Now the conspiracy nerks will be looking closely at this pictures for evidence?
Guess I better now reveal to them that it's actually Don Knotts in the 2nd photo :D
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 7:28 am
Guess I better now reveal to them that it's actually Don Knotts in the 2nd photo :D
How can you tell?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 7:30 am
Guess I better now reveal to them that it's actually Don Knotts in the 2nd photo :D
How can you tell?
Who is Don Knotts?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 7:32 am
Who is Don Knotts?
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c56/jerico6/DonKnotts.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 12:42 pm
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c56/jerico6/DonKnotts.jpg
Thanks for the picture, but what has he done in life?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 3:36 pm
Thanks for the picture, but what has he done in life?
Three's Company,Barney Fife from The Andy Griffin Show,did commercials,advertisements,small parts on family shows during the late 80's and early 90's.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/09 at 3:39 pm
Three's Company,Barney Fife from The Andy Griffin Show,did commercials,advertisements,small parts on family shows during the late 80's and early 90's.
...not much in the UK
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 07/21/09 at 3:43 pm
...not much in the UK
No I'm afrad not,his health was failing.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 12:53 am
July 22nd 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon was elected the first Protector of the Holy Sepulchre in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 12:53 am
July 22nd 1793 – Two days after becoming the first recorded European to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico, Scottish-Canadian explorer Alexander MacKenzie reached the westernmost point of his journey and inscribed his name on a rock.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 12:54 am
July 22nd 1812 – Peninsular War: An Anglo-Portuguese force led by Arthur Wellesley inflicted a severe defeat on Marshal Auguste de Marmont and his French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 12:54 am
July 22nd 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces unsuccessfully attacked Union troops at the Battle of Atlanta.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 12:57 am
July 22nd 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed in Japan's imperial conquest of the country in the Second World War
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/22/09 at 1:03 am
How can you tell?
Isn't it obvious? :D
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 07/22/09 at 6:25 am
Isn't it obvious? :D
He's easy to spot.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/09 at 6:45 am
He's easy to spot.
Not with me.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 3:15 am
July 23rd 1793 – After a siege of 18 weeks, French troops in Mainz surrendered to Prussian forces, effectively ending the Republic of Mainz, the first democratic state on the current German territory.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 3:15 am
July 23rd 1881 – The International Federation of Gymnastics, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded in Liège, Belgium.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 3:16 am
July 23rd 1995 – Hale-Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the twentieth century, was discovered by two independent observers, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, at a great distance from the Sun.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 3:16 am
July 23rd 1984 – Vanessa Williams resigned as Miss America in scandal after Penthouse magazine published nude photos of her that were taken two years prior.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 3:18 am
July 23rd 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/09 at 3:19 am
July 23rd 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/23/09 at 5:34 pm
July 23,1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. They divorced in 1996.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 2:26 am
July 24th 1567 – Mary Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate the Scottish throne and was replaced by her one-year-old son James.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 2:26 am
July 24th 1967 – During a speech in Montreal, French President Charles de Gaulle declared "Long live free Quebec!", a statement that was interpreted as support for Quebec independence from Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/09 at 2:28 am
July 24th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/24/09 at 5:04 pm
35 years ago today....
July 24,1974..............
Death Wish w/ Charles Bronson was released in Theatres.
http://chasness.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/death_wish.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/24/09 at 5:08 pm
July 24th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Less problems coming back than Apollo 13.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 07/24/09 at 5:26 pm
July 24,1866 - Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/25/09 at 1:58 am
July 25th 1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to Dover, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/25/09 at 1:59 am
July 25th 1792 – French Revolutionary Wars: Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick issued the Brunswick Manifesto to the population of Paris, promising vengeance if King Louis XVI and other members of the French Royal Family were harmed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/25/09 at 1:59 am
July 25th 1567 – Caracas, today the capital and largest city of Venezuela, was founded as Santiago de Leon de Caracas by Spanish explorer Diego de Losada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/25/09 at 1:59 am
July 25th 1536 – Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded Santiago de Cali in present-day western Colombia while on his search for the mythical city of El Dorado.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/25/09 at 2:00 am
July 25th 1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/09 at 3:27 am
July 26th 1908 – Unable to use the services of U.S. Secret Service agents as investigators because of a federal law, U.S. Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte established what is now known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation to organize his own staff of special agents.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/09 at 3:32 am
July 26th 1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
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Written By: danootaandme on 07/26/09 at 7:07 am
1948 Pres Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment & opportunity" in the armed forces
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/27/09 at 2:23 am
July 27th 1865 – A group of Welsh settlers arrived at Chubut Valley in Argentina's Patagonia region.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/27/09 at 2:23 am
July 27th 1949 – The de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production, made its maiden flight.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/27/09 at 2:23 am
July 27th 1953 – An armistice was signed to end hostilities in the Korean War, officially making the Division of Korea indefinite by creating an approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide demilitarized zone running across the Korean Peninsula.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/27/09 at 2:25 am
July 27th 1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
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Written By: Howard on 07/27/09 at 7:18 am
July 27th 1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4053d_merrie-melodies-a-wild-hare-1940_shortfilms
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Written By: danootaandme on 07/27/09 at 10:12 am
1962 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:08 am
July 28th 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Joseph Bonaparte suffered 7,270 casualties while Sir Arthur Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish army had 6,700 at an inconclusive battle in Talavera, Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:08 am
July 28th 1942 – World War II: Intending to increase Soviet morale and patriotism, Joseph Stalin issued Order No. 227, ordering troops "Not a step back!" (not to retreat) without an order or be subject to a military tribunal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:08 am
July 28th 1976 – An earthquake measuring at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale, one of the deadliest in history, flattened Tangshan, China, killing at least 240,000 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:09 am
July 28th 1990 – Alberto Fujimori took office as President of Peru, becoming the first person of Japanese descent to be the head of government of a Latin American nation.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:09 am
July 28th 1996 – The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, USA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:09 am
July 28th 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced an end to its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland to create a United Ireland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:10 am
July 28th 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:10 am
July 28th 2005 – A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 1:13 am
July 28th 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
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Written By: Frank on 07/28/09 at 2:29 am
July 28th 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
Thomas is related to Oliver?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 2:35 am
Thomas is related to Oliver?
Good question
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 2:36 am
Thomas is related to Oliver?
The Lord Protector of England, Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), was descended from Thomas Cromwell's sister Catherine Cromwell. Oliver was Thomas's great-great-grandnephew.
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Written By: Frank on 07/28/09 at 3:01 am
The Lord Protector of England, Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), was descended from Thomas Cromwell's sister Catherine Cromwell. Oliver was Thomas's great-great-grandnephew.
Thanks for your research.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/28/09 at 3:02 am
Thanks for your research.
No problem, it should be something that I sholud already know.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:32 am
July 29th 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched Charles, Prince of Wales, marry Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:32 am
July 29th 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:33 am
July 29th 1947 – ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, was turned on in its new home at the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, remaining in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:34 am
July 29th 1858 – Japan reluctantly signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, an Unequal Treaty giving the United States various commercial and diplomatic privileges.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:34 am
July 29th 1014 – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Forces of the Byzantine Empire defeated troops of the Bulgarian Empire at the Battle of Kleidion in the Belasica Mountains near present-day Klyuch, Bulgaria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:34 am
July 29th 1565 – The widowed Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:35 am
July 29th 1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/29/09 at 1:37 am
July 29th 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:35 am
July 30th 1756 – Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace, a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:37 am
July 30th 1825 – Malden Island, now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:37 am
July 30th 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces failed to break Confederate lines by exploding a large mine under their trenches at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:37 am
July 30th 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:39 am
July 30th 1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid to provide federal health insurance for the elderly and for low income families, respectively.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:40 am
July 30th 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the South Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 2:40 am
July 30th 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/30/09 at 3:13 am
July 30th 1966 - England win the World Cup in football, beating Germany 4-2.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/09 at 12:24 am
July 31st 1667 – The Second Anglo-Dutch War between England and the United Provinces ended with the signing of the Treaty of Breda in the Dutch city of Breda.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/09 at 12:25 am
July 31st 1703 – English writer Daniel Defoe was placed in a pillory for seditious libel after publishing a pamphlet politically satirising the High Church Tories.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/09 at 12:25 am
July 31st 1999 – NASA's Lunar Prospector was deliberately crashed into the Shoemaker crater near the moon's south pole in an unsuccessful attempt to detect the presence of water
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/09 at 12:25 am
July 31st 2006 – Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/09 at 12:26 am
July 31st 2007 – The Troubles: Operation Banner, the name for the British armed forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/31/09 at 12:27 am
July 31st 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 4:28 am
August 1st 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 4:29 am
August 1st 1834 – Slavery was officially abolished in the majority of the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 4:29 am
August 1st 1927 – In the Nanchang Uprising, the first major engagement in the Chinese Civil War, Communist forces seized control over the entire city of Nanchang from the Kuomintang.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 4:29 am
August 1st 1944 – World War II: The Polish Home Army began the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw against the Nazi occupation of Poland, a rebellion that lasted 63 days until it was quelled by the Germans.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 4:30 am
August 1st 1981 – The American cable television network MTV made its debut with the music video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 4:31 am
August 1st 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 4:32 am
August 1st 1907 – First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
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Written By: danootaandme on 08/01/09 at 5:55 am
1619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia(1 year before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth)
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Written By: danootaandme on 08/01/09 at 5:56 am
1914 Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
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Written By: danootaandme on 08/01/09 at 5:57 am
1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
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Written By: Howard on 08/01/09 at 5:57 am
August 1st 1981 – The American cable television network MTV made its debut with the music video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
Wow,28 years ago. :o
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/01/09 at 7:11 am
Wow,28 years ago. :o
Oh yes and MTV has gone totally downhill now.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/09 at 4:24 am
August 2nd 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, overrunning the Kuwaiti military within two days, and eventually sparking the outbreak of the Gulf War seven months later.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/09 at 4:24 am
August 2nd 1903 – In present-day Republic of Macedonia and Greece, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization started the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/09 at 4:25 am
August 2nd 1870 – Tower Subway, one of the world's first underground tube railways, opened beneath the River Thames in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/09 at 4:26 am
August 2nd 1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
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Written By: Howard on 08/02/09 at 6:58 am
Oh yes and MTV has gone totally downhill now.
and I hate it with a a passion.
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Written By: Michael C. on 08/02/09 at 7:03 am
Aug.2,1921 - Eight White Sox players were acquitted of throwing the 1919 World Series.
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Written By: Michael C. on 08/02/09 at 7:06 am
Aug.2,1943 - The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy.
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Written By: Frank on 08/02/09 at 9:23 pm
1972 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
I remember coming home from school and instead of watching sitcom reruns, watergate was on TV. That must have been in '73 or early '74 I guess.
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Written By: Frank on 08/03/09 at 1:06 pm
Yankees star Thurman Munson died in a plane accident 30 years ago yesterday. (Aug 2, 1979)
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Written By: ninny on 08/03/09 at 2:19 pm
– Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
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Written By: Frank on 08/03/09 at 2:26 pm
– Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
oh oh, I sense bad thing will happen now...
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Written By: ninny on 08/03/09 at 5:59 pm
oh oh, I sense bad thing will happen now...
Let's hope not.
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Written By: Michael C. on 08/03/09 at 6:12 pm
:o
Well......it can't be good..............
oh oh, I sense bad thing will happen now...
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Written By: Frank on 08/03/09 at 6:16 pm
:o
Well......it can't be good..............
Like it was said in the Simpsons: " No one who speaks German could be an evil man."
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Written By: Michael C. on 08/03/09 at 6:17 pm
Great new Biography on Him ,out now....
http://blog.nj.com/mets/2009/07/large_munson_cover.JPG
Yankees star Thurman Munson died in a plane accident 30 years ago yesterday. (Aug 2, 1979)
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Written By: Frank on 08/03/09 at 6:22 pm
Great new Biography on Him ,out now....
http://blog.nj.com/mets/2009/07/large_munson_cover.JPG
Thanks, I'll read that at some point. I know Reggie and him did not get along too well. (Reggie has that effect on people)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/09 at 1:20 am
August 4th 1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA, an incident that became a cause célèbre and entered into pop culture and folklore.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/04/09 at 1:21 am
August 4th 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: A combined Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles captured Gibraltar from Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/09 at 12:58 am
August 5th 642 – King Penda of Mercia defeated and killed King Oswald of Northumbria at the Battle of Maserfield, traditionally believed to have been fought in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/09 at 12:59 am
August 5th 1583 – Explorer Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/09 at 12:59 am
August 5th 1858 – American businessman and financier Cyrus West Field and his colleagues completed the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/09 at 12:59 am
August 5th 1962 – Actress and model Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, an event that has become the center of one of the most debated conspiracy theories.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/09 at 1:00 am
August 5th 1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:34 am
August 6th 1538 – Spanish Conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded a European urban settlement in what is today Bogotá, Colombia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:34 am
August 6th 1806 – The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved by its last emperor Francis II during the aftermath of the War of the Third Coalition.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:35 am
August 6th 1991 – British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:36 am
August 6th 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:37 am
August 6th 1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/06/09 at 12:37 am
August 6th 1909 – Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
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Written By: Frank on 08/06/09 at 3:15 pm
August 6, 1945.
First atomic bomb falls in Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 1:37 am
August 7th 1461 – Ming Chinese general Cao Qin staged a failed coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 1:38 am
August 7th 1679 – Le Griffon, a brigantine by René-Robert de LaSalle, became the first sailing ship to navigate the upper Great Lakes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 1:38 am
August 7th 1782 – The Badge of Military Merit, the original Purple Heart, was established as a military decoration in the Continental Army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 1:39 am
August 7th 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 1:39 am
August 7th 1947 – An expedition led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on his raft, the Kon-Tiki, completed a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 1:43 am
August 7th 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 1:16 am
August 8th 1969, 11.35am. Appointment with photographer Iain MacMillan at EMI Studios, for the photographic session for the `Abbey Road' cover. After this, Paul chooses out of the 6 pictures taken the best one for the LP.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:35 am
August 8th 1786 – Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat completed the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc in the Alps, one of the highest mountains in Europe.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:35 am
August 8th 1870 – Liberal radicals in Ploieşti, Romania revolted against Romanian Domnitor Carol I, only to be arrested the next day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:36 am
August 8th 1918 – The Battle of Amiens (1918) began in Amiens, France, marking the start of the Allied Powers' Hundred Days Offensive through the German front lines that ultimately led to the end of World War I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:36 am
August 8th 1963 – In one of the largest robberies in British history, a gang of 15 train robbers stole £2.6 million in bank notes at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:36 am
August 8th 1988 – The 8888 Uprising, a series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party in Burma, began.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:38 am
August 8th 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:39 am
August 8th 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
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Written By: Frank on 08/08/09 at 12:21 pm
August 8, 2008 - Opening ceremonies of the Beijing summer Olymics. Who will ever forget the impressive displays on that day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 12:24 pm
August 8, 2008 - Opening ceremonies of the Beijing summer Olymics. Who will ever forget the impressive displays on that day.
Has it been already a year now?
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Written By: Frank on 08/08/09 at 12:29 pm
Has it been already a year now?
Yes, already.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 12:30 pm
Yes, already.
..and that little girl miming?
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Written By: Frank on 08/08/09 at 12:32 pm
..and that little girl miming?
She mimed it on Aug 8th, 2008. But she was cute
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Written By: Frank on 08/09/09 at 12:38 am
August 9th, 1969 : Five people, including actress Sharon Tate, were found murdered in the wealthy Bel Air suburb of the city Los Angeles, California, Cult leader Charles Manson and several of his followers were later convicted of the killings.
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Written By: Frank on 08/09/09 at 12:38 am
9th August 1945 : The United States dropped its second atomic bomb killing more than 70,000 people in Nagasaki, Japan. The first bomb had been dropped 3 days earlier on Hiroshima and soon after the second bomb Japan surrendered.
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Written By: Frank on 08/09/09 at 12:39 am
August 9th 1974 : Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president of the United States after the Watergate Affair and President Richard Nixon resigns.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:29 am
August 9th 1969 – Followers of cult leader Charles Manson brutally murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others in her Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles home.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:30 am
August 9th 1942 – British Raj authorities arrested Mahatma Gandhi and various leaders of the Congress Party, beginning the suppression of the Quit India Movement.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:30 am
August 9th 1173 – The construction of a campanile, which would eventually become the Leaning Tower of Pisa, began.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:31 am
August 9th 48 BC – Julius Caesar and the Populares defeated Pompey and the Optimates at the Battle of Pharsalus, solidifying his control over the Roman Republic.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:34 am
August 9th1902 – Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/09/09 at 2:34 am
August 9th 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
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Written By: danootaandme on 08/09/09 at 5:48 am
1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
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Written By: Frank on 08/09/09 at 7:41 pm
August 9th 1969 – Followers of cult leader Charles Manson brutally murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others in her Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles home.
There was this guy at out Church, a few years back, who looked a little like Charles Manson.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:14 am
There was this guy at out Church, a few years back, who looked a little like Charles Manson.
Can I assume that Charles is still locked up for his crimes?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:15 am
August 10th 1628 – The Swedish warship Vasa sank after sailing less than a nautical mile into her maiden voyage from Stockholm on her way to fight in the Thirty Years' War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:16 am
August 10th 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, today the basis of the Prime Meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:17 am
August 10th 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, today the basis of the Prime Meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London.
Oh mon seigneur!
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:17 am
August 10th 1846 – The United States Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 08/10/09 at 2:17 am
Can I assume that Charles is still locked up for his crimes?
is he still alive?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:17 am
August 10th 2006 – British police arrested 25 people suspected in an alleged terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives carried on board at least 10 airliners travelling from the UK to the United States and Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:18 am
is he still alive?
That is what I should had asked first.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 2:20 am
August 10th 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 7:27 am
Can I assume that Charles is still locked up for his crimes?
Yes.http://foolmoon.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/download/Number/6071/filename/45656646.jpg
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 7:27 am
is he still alive?
Yes He is.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 7:37 am
Yes He is.
Still serving time?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 7:52 am
Still serving time?
for the rest of his life.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 7:53 am
for the rest of his life.
With the key thrown away?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 08/10/09 at 7:54 am
With the key thrown away?
He's never going to get parole.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/10/09 at 8:08 am
He's never going to get parole.
How old is he now?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 08/10/09 at 11:52 am
He's 75 now.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Michael C. on 08/10/09 at 8:32 pm
Interestingly enough......
August 10,1977 - The "Son of Sam," David Berkowitz, was arrested in Yonkers, NY. Berkowitz, a postal employee, had shot and killed six people and wounded seven others.
August 10th 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 08/11/09 at 1:33 am
Aug 11, 1964: Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in New York City