Today is Tuesday, May 30th, the 121st day of 2007.  There are 244 days left in the year.



Today’s Highlight in History:

On May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey gave the command, “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley,� as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.



On this date:

In 1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.

In 1786, Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro� premiered in Vienna.

In 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition opened to the public in Chicago.

In 1907, singer Kate Smith was born in Washington D.C.

In 1931, New York’s 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated.

In 1945, a day after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Admiral Karl Doenitz effectively became sole leader of the Third Reich with the suicide of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels.

In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-Two reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

In 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.
(They divorced in 1973.)

In 1967, Anastasio Somoza Debayle became president of Nicaragua.

In 1982, the 1982 World’s Fair opened in Knoxville, Tennessee.

May 01, 1840 - The Penny Black the first official adhesive postage stamp, was issued in the United Kingdom.

Today is Tuesday, May 30th, the 121st day of 2007.  There are 244 days left in the year.

On the contrary, today is May 1st. Where do you get your info from? ??? ??? I seem to notice a lot of boo boo's lately. :-\\


In sports...
1991 - Nolan Ryan, 44, pitches the final no-hitter of his career, on the same day Rickety Henderson breaks the stolen bases record.

May 1st 1751 - The first cricket match is played in America.

May 5, 1945:

German Army in The Netherlands capitulates, effectively ending a war that lasted for nearly five years (the Nazis entered our country on May 10, 1940).
For the next couple of days, skirmishes occur troughout the country though. The city of Den Helder for instance wasn't liberated until May 7, 1945.

May 05, 1789 - French Revolution: The Estates-General convened in Versailles to discuss a financial crisis in France.

1834 Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz

1864 Battle of Wilderness VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)

1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee

1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)

May 05, 1891 - The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

Today's Highlight in History:

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

On this date:

In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena.

In 1862, Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla.

In 1891, Carnegie Hall (then named "Music Hall") had its opening night in New York City.

In 1925, John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

In 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces landed on the Philippine island of Corregidor.

In 1955, West Germany became a sovereign state.

In 1955, the baseball musical "Damn Yankees" opened on Broadway.

In 1980, a siege at the Iranian embassy in London by armed men demanding the release of political prisoners in Iran ended as British commandos and police stormed the building. Nineteen hostages were rescued; two others had already been killed by their captors; four of the five hostage-takers were also killed.

In 1981, Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in his 66th day without food.

In 1985, President Reagan kept a promise to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl by leading a wreath-laying ceremony at the military cemetery in Bitburg.

May 05, 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins.

Today is Wednesday, May 9, the 129th day of 2007. There are 236 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:


On May 9, 1961, Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.


On this date:


In 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "Join or die."


In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly over the North Pole.


In 1936, Italy annexed Ethiopia.


In 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.


In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved the pill Enovid as safe for birth control use.


In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.


In 1978, the bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who had been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.


In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section to collapse.


In 1982, the musical "Nine," inspired by Federico Fellini's film "Eight and a-Half," opened on Broadway.


In 1987, 183 people were killed when a New York-bound Polish jetliner crashed while attempting an emergency return to Warsaw.


Ten years ago: During a visit to a rainforest in Costa Rica, President Bill Clinton urged nations not to sacrifice their environment in pursuit of economic gain.


Five years ago: Following the example set by Illinois, Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening suspended all executions in his state while a study was done on whether the death penalty was being meted out in a racially discriminatory way. A remote-controlled mine exploded during a military parade in a Russian town near Chechnya, killing 43 people. Veteran Mexican musician Juan Gabriel won four awards, including top songwriter, at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Miami Beach, Fla.


One year ago: Freed by rescuers drilling round-the-clock by hand, two men walked out of an Australian mine where they had been trapped for two weeks by an earthquake. (The joy over the survival of Brant Webb and Todd Russell was tempered by the loss of Larry Knight, who died in the same rock collapse.)

May 09, 1945 - End of World War II in Europe: The signing of a second German Instrument of Surrender by General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, specifying the military surrender of all German forces to the high commands of the Soviet Army and Allied Expeditionary Force, was announced.

Today is Thursday, May 10, the 130th day of 2007. There are 235 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:

On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.


On this date:

In 1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.

In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.

In 1865, Union forces captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, Ga.

In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.

In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.

In 1940, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.

In 1968, preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.

In 1977, actress Joan Crawford died in New York.

In 1994, Nelson Mandela took the oath of office to become South Africa's first black president.

In 1994, the state of Illinois executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.

Ten years ago: President Clinton signed modest drug-fighting and trade agreements with Caribbean leaders in Barbados. Lebanese of all faiths welcomed Pope John Paul II on his first visit to their country. A powerful earthquake in northeastern Iran claimed at least 2,400 lives.

Five years ago: A tense 39-day-old standoff between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ended with 13 suspected militants flown into European exile and 26 released into the Gaza Strip. Cuban activists delivered more than 11,000 signatures to the National Assembly demanding a referendum on broad changes in the socialist system, an unprecedented challenge to Fidel Castro's 43-year rule. NBA owners approved the Hornets' move to New Orleans, ending the team's 14-year era in Charlotte.

One year ago: Daniel Biechele, a former rock-band manager whose pyrotechnics caused a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people, was sentenced to four years in prison. Former New York Times executive editor A.M. Rosenthal died at age 84. British movie director Val Guest died in Palm Desert, Calif., at age 94.

May 10, 1503 - Christopher Columbus and his crew became the first Europeans to visit the Cayman Islands.

Today's Highlight in History:

On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

Is the golden spike still there?

Is the golden spike still there?


No,  it never really stayed because it would have been stolen. I'm not sure what was done with it.....time to google

No,  it never really stayed because it would have been stolen. I'm not sure what was done with it.....time to google
It is now is located at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

Another self serving waste(like father like son)

1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panamá

May 11, 1812 - British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons.

1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented

1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia

May 12, 1926 - A general strike by the trade unions in the United Kingdom ended after nine days.

1643 Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists

1981 Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square

1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11

May 13, 1917 - Our Lady of Fatima: Three children reportedly experienced a Marian apparition near Fátima, Portugal.

On May 13, 2000, 22 people were killed and 947 injured when a fireworks depot in the town of Enschede (The Netherlands) caught fire and subsequently exploded.

The biggest blast was heard as far as 60 km from the scene. It wiped out an entire neighbourhood, destroying or damaging some 2,000 homes.

Read more, watch the actual video footage or pictures of the aftermath: Vuurwerkramp (Wikipedia) or BBC news

May 13, 1848 - Maamme, the national anthem of Finland, was performed for the first time.

1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown VA

1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany

1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested

1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square

May 15, 1525 - Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.

Today is Thursday, May 17, the 137th day of 2007. There are 228 days left in the year.



Today's Highlight in History:


On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, which found that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.



On this date:


In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree located on what is now Wall Street.


In 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run; the winner was Aristides.


In 1937, Teddy Hill and His Orchestra recorded "King Porter Stomp" for RCA Records in New York; one of the featured musicians was a newcomer, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.


In 1938, Congress passed the Second Vinson Act, providing for a strengthened U.S. Navy.


In 1939, Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Quebec on the first visit to Canada by reigning British sovereigns.


In 1940, the Nazis occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War II. In 1946, President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying but not preventing a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.


In 1973, the Senate began its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.


In 1980, rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami's Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa, Fla., acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.


In 1987, 37 American sailors were killed when an Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf. (Iraq and the U.S. called the attack a mistake.)



Ten years ago: Rebel leader Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Russia's Mir space station got a new oxygen generator and a fresh American astronaut, courtesy of the space shuttle Atlantis. Silver Charm won the Preakness, two weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby. (However, Silver Charm failed to win the Belmont Stakes.)



Five years ago: Former President Jimmy Carter ended a historic visit to Cuba sharply at odds with the Bush administration over how to deal with Fidel Castro, saying limits on tourism and trade often hurt Americans more than Cubans. Joe Black, the first black pitcher to win a World Series game, for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952, died in Scottsdale, Ariz., at age 78.



One year ago: The FBI began digging at a Michigan horse farm in search of the remains of former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa; the two-week search yielded no evidence. It was announced that Paul McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, had agreed to separate. Broadway producer Cy Feuer died at age 95.

May 17, 1943 - World War II: RAF Dam Busters successfully deployed bouncing bombs on German dams in Operation Chastise.

May 19, 1993... the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed over the 3,500 mark for the first time ever. Now, 14 years later, it's a tad more than 10,000 points above that level!! :o

May 20, 1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issued the first modern atlas.

May 27th... 70 years ago, in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was opened to traffic.

1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage

1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated

1863 1st black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate

May 29, 1953 - New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

May 31, 1859: The chimes from Big Ben were heard for the first time in London

June 01, 1967 - The Beatles release their landmark Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the UK, the next day it is released in the United States.

June 01, 1967 - The Beatles release their landmark Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the UK, the next day it is released in the United States.


They've been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile  :)

June 03, 1940 - World War II: The remaining Allied forces protecting the Dunkirk evacuation surrendered, giving the Germans a tactical victory in the Battle of Dunkirk.

1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination

June 08, 1887 - Herman Hollerith received a patent for his punch card calculator.

1969 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones drowns to death at 25
1971 Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris

1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North

1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)

1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech

1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)

July 04 1776: United States Declaration of Independence. United States officially declares independence from the British Empire.

1827 Slavery abolished in NY

1863 The Fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris

1946 Philippines gains independence from US

^ There seems to be a connection.

July 04 1862 – In a rowing boat travelling on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow, Lewis Carroll told Alice Liddell and her sisters a story that would eventually form the basis for his children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (illustration of Alice pictured), first published exactly three years later.

^ There seems to be a connection.



A history teacher of mine once commented that July was the month of revolution.  Something about the warm weather and people just being fed up.  Take note, Bastille Day is the 14th of July.

A history teacher of mine once commented that July was the month of revolution.  Something about the warm weather and people just being fed up.  Take note, Bastille Day is the 14th of July.
When was there a Full Moon in July 1776?

July 05, 1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.

1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency

1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
Still trading its business today

July 05, 1937 - The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend.

1699 Capt William Kidd arrested in Boston

1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

1957 Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet each other for the first time.

7/7/1777: The Battle of Hubberton. The only battle of the American Revolution that was fought in Vermont and it was the first time that Old Glory was brought into battle.



Cat

July 7th 1937 – In the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, a battle marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan's Imperial Japanese Army defeated the Republic of China's National Revolutionary Army on Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge.

It's Ringos birthday http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/birthday.gif

It's Ringos birthday http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/birthday.gif
So it is, Happy Birthday Ringo!

1972 Billie Jean King beats Evonne Goolagong to win Wimbeldon

1973 Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert

1978 Martina Navratilova captures Wimbledon defeating Chris Evert

1990 Martina Navratilova beats Zina Garrison for rec 9th Wimbeldon title

2007 Venus Williams wins 4th Wimbledon

July 25

1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot made the first crossing of the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from Les Barraques near Calais in France to Dover, England.

1959 – First crossing of the English Channel by a hovercraft, crossing from France to the UK on the 50th anniversary of Bleriot's cross Channel flight.

1953 Armistice signed ending Korean War

1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries

1962 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia

1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment

1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese

1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US

27 July 1949 – The de Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, made its maiden flight.

September 3, 2007



In 1658, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died.

In 1783, The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.

In 1929, The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 381.17, it's pre-Crash high.

In 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.

In 1658, Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died.

In 1783, The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.

In 1929, The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 381.17, it's pre-Crash high.

In 1943, The British 8th Army invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signed a secret armistice with the Allies.

In 1967, Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.

In 1970, Hall-of-fame football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57.

In 1976, The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.

In 1978, Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1991, Movie director Frank Capra died at age 94.

In 1994, China and Russia pledged they would no longer target nuclear missiles at or use force against each other.

In 1997, Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. His conviction was overturned in 1999.

In 2001, Movie critic Pauline Kael died at age 82.

In 2001, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bud Smith became the 16th rookie in modern history to throw a no-hitter, blanking San Diego 4-0.

In 2005, In 1189, England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.

September 3rd 1939 - World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, starting the Allies.

September 7 - Brazil Declared Independence from Portugal on this date in 1822. It was declared by Dom Pedro I,son of the King of Portugal and the first Brazilian Emperor,but the independence act was not recognized until August 29,1825.

September 7, 1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other British cities and towns for 57 consecutive nights.

September 10:

1813 – War of 1812: An American fleet led by Oliver Hazard Perry scored a decisive victory over Great Britain’s Royal Navy at the Battle of Lake Erie in Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay, Ohio.

September 11...


...well, who can forget?

September 11, 1297 – First War of Scottish Independence: The Scots defeated English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on the River Forth near Stirling.

September 11...


...well, who can forget?

Interestingly enough, the day of the attacks was also on a Tuesday, just like it is this year!

Interestingly enough, the day of the attacks was also on a Tuesday, just like it is this year!
It is down to the Leap Year of 2004. It has been six years since 2001, plus the extra day for the Leap Year makes 7, therefore the same day.

It is down to the Leap Year of 2004. It has been six years since 2001, plus the extra day for the Leap Year makes 7, therefore the same day.

Exactly! There's a pattern for how often the date repeats, which can easily be figured out. :)

As I stated in another thread: Sept. 11, 1973: Salvador Allende was overthrown by Gen. Augusto Pinochet in a coup in Chile and became a nasty dictator.



Cat

September 12, 1683 – Great Turkish War: Polish troops led by John III Sobieski joined forces with a Habsburg army to defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna.

September 13, 1956 – IBM unveiled the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.

September 13, 2007


Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 13, 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

On this date:
In 1759, during the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.

In 1803, Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia.

In 1851, American medical pioneer Walter Reed was born in Gloucester County, Va.

In 1857, Milton S. Hershey, founder of the candy empire that bears his name, was born in Dauphin County, Pa.

In 1907, the RMS Lusitania arrived in New York, completing its maiden voyage from England.

In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

In 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.

In 1977, conductor Leopold Stokowski died in Hampshire, England, at age 95.

In 1989, Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti.

In 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

Ten years ago: Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.

Five years ago: President Bush said it was “highly doubtful� that Saddam Hussein would comply with demands that he disarm and avoid a confrontation with the world community. And he mocked Democrats and other lawmakers who wanted U.N. action before a congressional vote on confronting Saddam.

One year ago: Gunman Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire in a cafeteria at Dawson College in Montreal, Canada, slaying one student and wounding 19 before killing himself. Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died in Austin, Texas, at age 73.

September 13;

1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

1899 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.

1906 - First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.

September 14;

1812 – The French invasion of Russia: Following the Battle of Borodino seven days earlier, Napoleon and his Grande Armée captured Moscow, only to find the city deserted and burning.

September 15;

1835 – Aboard the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands, where he further developed his theories of evolution.

September 17:

2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality found dead in her flat. (b. 1960)

September 18:

1970 - Jimi Hendrix found dead in his basement in London.

September 21:

1745 – The Jacobite Risings: Jacobite troops led by Charles Edward Stuart defeated the Hanoverians at the Battle of Prestonpans in Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland.

September 25th:

1066 – Harold Godwinson of England defeated Harald Hardråde of Norway in Yorkshire at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of Viking invasion of England.

1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper,

September 25th:

1976 - The rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.

September 27th:

1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the first train on opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first railway to use steam locomotives and carry passengers.

September 28th:

1066 - William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.

September 29th:

1829 – British Home Secretary Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police of Greater London, also known as the Met.

September 30th:

1980 – Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology.

October 1st:

331 BC – Alexander the Great of Macedon defeated Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Gaugamela, and was subsequently crowned "King of Asia" in a ceremony in Arbela.

On this date 20 years ago, the Los Angeles area felt an earthquake that had been centered in nearby Whittier.

October 2nd:

1941 – World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive against Moscow, starting the three-month long Battle of Moscow.

October 3rd:

1995 - O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.

October 5th 1930:

The British airship R101 crashed in France en route to India on its maiden voyage, killing 48 passengers and crew.

October 6th 1927:

The first successful feature sound film The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released.

October 7th 3761 BC:

The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar.

October 7, 2001: Barry Bonds hits his 73rd home run of the year, on the final day of the regular season. That home run would set the record for homers in a single season by a player.

October 8th:

1871 – Two historic fires, the Great Chicago Fire and Wisconsin's Peshtigo Fire, broke out in the U.S. Midwest.

1985 – The musical Les Misérables, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, opened in London's Barbican Centre, starting its run as the longest-running West End musical in history.

1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles

October 8th:

2003 - Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes the Governor of California. Previous Governer Gray Davis is ousted three years before the official end of his office term as a result.

October 9th:

1919 – The Black Sox Scandal: The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series Major League Baseball championship, 5 games to 3, over "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the Chicago White Sox, many of whom were later found to have lost intentionally.

October 10th:

1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780: One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record struck the Caribbean, killing at least 22,000 people over the next several days.

October 11th:

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The British Royal Navy defeated American ships at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain, but gave American forces enough time to prepare their defenses for the Saratoga campaign.

1983 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

October 12th 1928

An iron lung medical ventilator, designed by Philip Drinker and colleagues at Children's Hospital, Boston, was used for the first time in the treatment of polio victims.

October 13th 1917

An estimated 100,000 people in the Cova da Iria fields near Fátima, Portugal witnessed "The Miracle of the Sun." 

October 14th 1926:

The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.

October 14th 1066

Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.

October 15th 1987

The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people.

1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

    The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations" (i.e. inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement).

Rights were not restored until the Interstate Commerce clause of 1964

October 16th 1987

Karol Józef Wojtyła, a cardinal from Kraków, Poland, became Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope since the 16th century and the first ever from a Slavic country.

1869 Hotel in Boston becomes the 1st to have indoor plumbing

October 16th 1662

King Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France for £40,000.

1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities

1967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue

October 17th 1979

Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

October 15th 1987

The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people.

Exactly one year later, Kirk Gibson hit a walk-off, two-run, pinch-hit homerun to beat the Oakland A's, 5-4, in Game One of the '88 World Series.

October 17, 2004:

The Red Sox, down 3 games to none in the American League Championship Series, rallied to win Game Four over the Yankees. The Red Sox would continue to fight back, eventually winning the series.

October 18th 1922:

The British Broadcasting Company was founded by a consortium to establish a network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service in the United Kingdom.

1648 1st US labor organization forms (Boston Shoemakers)

October 18th 1871:

Death of Charles Babbage (my avatar), English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)

October 19th 1987

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6% on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in stock market history.

October 19th 1987

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6% on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in stock market history.

Darn, you beat me to it. I was just about to say that it dropped a whopping 508 points, which at the time was the biggest one-day point drop. I even watched a special on CNBC the other day about the October '87 stock market crash. :o

October 20th 1973 - The Saturday Night Massacre: President Nixon fires Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.

October 20, 1988...the L.A. Dodgers won their last World Series to date, defeating the Oakland A's 4 games to 1, with the clinching game in Oakland. Pitcher Orel Hershiser was named series MVP.

October 21st 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: The British Royal Navy led by Lord Nelson defeated Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and his combined French and Spanish navy at the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain's Cape Trafalgar.

October 21st 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: The British Royal Navy led by Lord Nelson defeated Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and his combined French and Spanish navy at the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain's Cape Trafalgar.


Horatio Nelson killed at the Battle of Trafalgar

1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm the Pentagon
                (those were the days)

1966 Aberfan - I don't know why but I remember when this happened and it has haunted me.

On Friday, October 21, 1966, at 09:15, colliery waste tip number 7 (containing unwanted rock from the local mine) slid down Merthyr Mountain. As it collapsed, it destroyed 20 houses and a farm before going on to demolish virtually all of Pantglas Junior School and part of the separate senior school. The pupils had just left the assembly hall, where they had been singing "All Things Bright and Beautiful", when a great noise was heard outside. Had they left for their classrooms a few minutes later, the loss of life would have been significantly reduced, as the classrooms were on the side of the building nearest the landslide.

In total, 144 people were killed, 116 of whom were children, most of them between the ages of seven and 10. Five teachers were also killed in the accident. Only a handful of children were rescued from the rubble.

Lord Robens of Woldingham, chairman of the National Coal Board (NCB), did not rush to the scene; he instead went to accept an appointment as chancellor of the University of Surrey. Subsequently, he misrepresented the cause of the slide to the community and falsely claimed that nothing could have been done to prevent it.

At the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster, the NCB was found responsible for the disaster, due to "ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communication". Its instability was known, both to colliery management and to tip workers, but very little was done about it. Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council and the National Union of Mineworkers were cleared of any wrongdoing. No NCB employee was sacked, demoted or even disciplined.

1966 Aberfan - I don't know why but I remember when this happened and it has haunted me.

On Friday, October 21, 1966, at 09:15, colliery waste tip number 7 (containing unwanted rock from the local mine) slid down Merthyr Mountain. As it collapsed, it destroyed 20 houses and a farm before going on to demolish virtually all of Pantglas Junior School and part of the separate senior school. The pupils had just left the assembly hall, where they had been singing "All Things Bright and Beautiful", when a great noise was heard outside. Had they left for their classrooms a few minutes later, the loss of life would have been significantly reduced, as the classrooms were on the side of the building nearest the landslide.

In total, 144 people were killed, 116 of whom were children, most of them between the ages of seven and 10. Five teachers were also killed in the accident. Only a handful of children were rescued from the rubble.

Lord Robens of Woldingham, chairman of the National Coal Board (NCB), did not rush to the scene; he instead went to accept an appointment as chancellor of the University of Surrey. Subsequently, he misrepresented the cause of the slide to the community and falsely claimed that nothing could have been done to prevent it.

At the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster, the NCB was found responsible for the disaster, due to "ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communication". Its instability was known, both to colliery management and to tip workers, but very little was done about it. Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council and the National Union of Mineworkers were cleared of any wrongdoing. No NCB employee was sacked, demoted or even disciplined.
A day I remember too, being told at school all about this. Bringing home the idea that the class and myself were at the same age.

October 22nd 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced on television that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.

October 22nd 2008- Philip Eno is awarded an MBE for his services to 'Postwhoredom' !  :D ;D

October 22nd 2008- Philip Eno is awarded an MBE for his services to 'Postwhoredom' !  :D ;D
Not quite?

Not quite?


Not quite ? .... the '?' suggests there's some doubt ? Yes ... ANYTHING is possible in this life . Well, almost anything !  ;D

Not quite ? .... the '?' suggests there's some doubt ? Yes ... ANYTHING is possible in this life . Well, almost anything !  ;D
The day has yet to arrive...

The day has yet to arrive...


So .... you won't turn her 'majesty' down .... should she decide to honour you thus ?

So .... you won't turn her 'majesty' down .... should she decide to honour you thus ?
So in the mean time.

1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas

October 23rd 1906 – Early flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont flew the 14-bis aircraft for 60 metres (200 ft) at a height of two to three metres (10 ft).

1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica

1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica



I doubt he so much 'agreed' as much as more likely had his arm twisted !  :D ;D

October 24th 1929 – The Great Depression: The New York Stock Exchange crashed on "Black Thursday", setting off a chain of bankruptcies and triggering a worldwide economic depression.

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1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese

October 25th 1875 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

This music was played at the concert I attended last night

October 25th 1875 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

This music was played at the concert I attended last night


Symphony Hall.  Small, just the right size for that kind of concert.


http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~scchen/public/pics/2004%20Spring%20Michael%20Visit/Symphony%20Hall%204.jpg

1854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War)

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)

October 25th 1945 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.

October 26th 1863 – The Football Association, the oldest governing body in football, was founded at a pub in London's Great Queen Street.

1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)

October 27th 1904 – The New York City Subway, one of the most extensive public transportation systems in the world, opened with its first segment running between New York City Hall and Harlem.

October 28th 1886 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, to commemorate the centennial of the United States Declaration of Independence.

October 29th 1998 – After more than three decades, 77-year old John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-95, to study the effects of space flight on the elderly.

1929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"

1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted

October 30th 1938 – The radio drama The War of the Worlds, based on the science fiction novella by English writer H. G. Wells, frightened many listeners in the United States into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.

October 30th 1862 Dr. Richard Gatling patents a machine gun

October 31st 1517 – According to traditional accounts, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses onto the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands

October 31st 1926 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.

October 31st 1926 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.


Wasn't that turned into a movie with Tony Curtis ?

I believe Rudolf Valentino also died in 1926.

Wasn't that turned into a movie with Tony Curtis ?

I believe Rudolf Valentino also died in 1926.
That was, and isn't it strange for Harry Houdini to die on Halloween?

That was, and isn't it strange for Harry Houdini to die on Halloween?


I seem to remember he was into 'seances' ... 'is there anybody there' ... so ... combined with Halloween departure ... quite spooky !

I seem to remember he was into 'seances' ... 'is there anybody there' ... so ... combined with Halloween departure ... quite spooky !
Indeed, HH even asked for a seance to held on the anniversary of his death, in an attempt to contact him in the after-life. It was given up after a while, they did not have a ghost of a chance contacting him or anyone.

Indeed, HH even asked for a seance to held on the anniversary of his death, in an attempt to contact him in the after-life. It was given up after a while, they did not have a ghost of a chance contacting him or anyone.


'Ghost of a chance' ? Very droll.  ;D

I seem to remember he was into 'seances' ... 'is there anybody there' ... so ... combined with Halloween departure ... quite spooky !


I think he did believe in the seances, but he was also very sceptical of the people involved in that trade.  He and Arthur Conan Doyle used to go around exposing them as frauds

November 1st 1512 – Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo finished repainting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in fresco.

1787 1st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens

1938 Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico

November 1st 1520 – Portuguese maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European expedition to navigate the Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.

November 2nd 1795 – French Revolution: Under the terms of a new constitution that was ratified during the aftermath of the Reign of Terror and the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction, the Directory succeeded the National Convention as the executive government of France. 

November 3rd 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit. 

November 3rd 1900 - The first U.S. automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (New York City)

1888 Jack the Ripper kills last victim

1992 Bill Clinton elected US President

1888 Jack the Ripper kills last victim

Mary Jane Kelly was murder on 9th November 1888 (it was the Friday night of the following mornings' The Lord Mayor's Show)

Mary Jane Kelly was murder on 9th November 1888 (it was the Friday night of the following mornings' The Lord Mayor's Show)


oops

oops
BTW, the last known ripper victim, there may had been others.

November 3, 2001 (which was also a Saturday, just like today)...in Game 6 of the World Series, the Arizona Diamondbacks trounced the New York Yankees, 15-2, to force a decider the next day. Arizona scored a whopping 8 runs in the 3rd inning! :D

November 3rd 1948 – The Chicago Tribune newspaper published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman upset heavily favored Governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the U.S. presidential election.

November 3rd 1948 – The Chicago Tribune newspaper published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman upset heavily favored Governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the U.S. presidential election.

A very famous headline indeed.

November 4th 1890 – London's City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened, running a distance of 5.1 km (3.2 mi) between the City of London and Stockwell.

1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)

10 years ago on this date,A woman was dumped at the alter and was found by this doctor who met her 8 years ago and now is married 2 girls.

November 5th 1605 – The Gunpowder Plot: Thomas Knyvet arrested explosives expert Guy Fawkes and foiled Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament in London during the State Opening.

November 4th 1890 – London's City & South London Railway, the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened, running a distance of 5.1 km (3.2 mi) between the City of London and Stockwell.


Also for November 4th...

2001 (which also fell on a Sunday, just like this year): The Arizona Diamondbacks rally in the 9th inning from a 2-1 deficit and win Game 7 of the World Series, for their first ever World Series championship. NYY closer Mariano Rivera had been all set to close it out...but every batter he faced reach base.

November 5, 1996: Bill Clinton was reelected President of the U.S., defeating Republican challenger Bob Dole (a Senate leader from Kansas) and Ross Perot (who was running for the second time, this time as a member of the Reform Party).

November 6th 1860 – Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican Party candidate to win the U.S. presidential election.

1860 Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill-Rep) elected 16th President

1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate President (only made it for 4)

1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators

November 6th

1913 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

Nov. 6, 1984...Ronald Reagan was reelected President of the U.S., carrying all but 1 state (Minnesota, I believe, which went to his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale). Reagan, who was 73, became the oldest person ever to be elected to the presidency.

November 7th 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

November 7, 2000...in one of the most controversial elections in U.S. Presidential history, George W. Bush and Al Gore battled it out to become the next President. By the end of the day, neither one of them was announced the winner, as neither one attained the required 270 electoral votes to win. The state of Florida was up for grabs. (It eventually went to G.W.) 8-P

November 7, 2000...in one of the most controversial elections in U.S. Presidential history, George W. Bush and Al Gore battled it out to become the next President. By the end of the day, neither one of them was announced the winner, as neither one attained the required 270 electoral votes to win. The state of Florida was up for grabs. (It eventually went to G.W.) 8-P
Was that the election of the "chards"?

Was that the election of the "chards"?

Yes, the "chads"...dimpled chads, hanging chads...this and that. 8-P

1962    Richard M. Nixon, having lost California's gubernatorial race, held what he called his "last press conference," telling reporters, "You won't   
            have Nixon to kick around anymore."

1972    President Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.

November 8th 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that is known today as X-rays.

1793 Louvre in Paris, opens

1864 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President

1960 JFK (MA-D-Sen) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President

It was something during the evening or night of November 8th (1888) the last known victim of Jack The Ripper was murdered.

It was something during the evening or night of November 8th (1888) the last known victim of Jack The Ripper was murdered.


www.shadowsinthedarkradio.com/shows/2007/11/08.html

www.shadowsinthedarkradio.com/shows/2007/11/08.html
A man of good taste

http://www.casebook.org/images//malcolm/pic1.jpg

1960 JFK (MA-D-Sen) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President


One of the closest elections in Presidential history.

In 1988, Vice President George Bush Sr (R) beats Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis (D) for President...by a much larger margin.

In 2005, California had a "special election" in which voters rejected eight proposed ballot measures, four of which were supported by the Governator.

November 9th 1872 – The Great Boston Fire began, eventually destroying over 750 buildings and causing US$73.5 million in damages in Boston, Massachusetts.

It was something during the evening or night of November 8th (1888) the last known victim of Jack The Ripper was murdered.
Today (November 9th 1888) the corpse of the last known victim of Jack The Ripper was discovered.

November 10th 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street debuted on the National Educational Television network in the United States.

November 10th 1871 – "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" – Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley located missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.

Remembrance Day (Nov. 11) - Several nations celebrate, in some way, the end of World War I, the ceasefire of which went into effect at 11:00am CET on this day in 1918.

November 11th 1880 – Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne.

November 12th 1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

November 13th 2000 – Joseph Estrada became the first President of the Philippines to be impeached after he was accused of taking a sum of 400 million pesos in bribes from illegal gambling sources.

November 14th 1940 – World War II: Coventry Cathedral and much of the city centre of Coventry, England were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz. 

1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)

November 14th 1889 – Nellie Bly, reporter for the New York World, departed on her successful attempt to travel Around the World in Eighty Days, eventually completing her journey in only seventy-two days.

1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published

November 14th 1973 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. (also November 14th is Charles, Prince of Wales' birthday)

November 15th 1971 – Intel released the 4004 4-bit central processing unit, the world's first single-chip microprocessor, capable of executing approximately 60,000 instructions per second

1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check

November 15th 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.

November 15th 1889 - Brazil is declared a Republic by Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

November 16th 1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.

1990 Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial


he is right

1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.

November 17th 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the start of the Elizabethan era.

November 18th 1626 – St. Peter's Basilica, one of four major basilicas of Rome, was consecrated on the anniversary of that of the previous church in 326.

1967 - Beatles and Co. was renamed Apple Music Limited.

November 18th 1928 – Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first completely post-produced synchronized sound animated cartoon, was released.

November 18th 1928 – Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first completely post-produced synchronized sound animated cartoon, was released.
that's important history  :) 

that's important history  :) 
We would we be without Mortimore Mouse?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_20_years_later_tawana_brawley_has_turned.html?ref=rss

Tawana Brawley (20 years later).

1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"

November 18th 1307 – William Tell, a legendary marksman in Switzerland, is said to have successfully shot an apple on the head of his son with a single bolt from his crossbow.

My dads birthday, he would have been 97.

November 18, 1985: The comic strip "Calvin & Hobbes" debuts in newspapers. :)

November 19th 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is one of the most quoted speeches in United States history.

November 19th 1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

November 19th 1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

November 19th 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is one of the most quoted speeches in United States history.

"Fourscore and seven years ago...."

Given its short length, and its beauty, it gives me chills reading the last bit.I think we can spare the space just this once

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Given its short length, and its beauty, it gives me chills reading the last bit.I think we can spare the space just this once

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I do not think I have ever read that before, I will have to read it again to appreciate it more.

November 20th 1947 - The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.

I do not think I have ever read that before, I will have to read it again to appreciate it more.


It helps to read a bit about the battle of Gettysburg to set the scene.  It was a horrific battle, but sadly not the worst.

1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany

1272  Edward I proclaimed King of England

November 20th 2007 - All discs carry the info for 15m children on Child Benefit go missing

November 20th 2007 - All discs carry the info for 15m children on Child Benefit go missing


:o

:o
Heads will roll?

November 20th 2007 - All discs carry the info for 15m children on Child Benefit go missing

That happened/happens today? :o

That happened/happens today? :o
Yes, it is huge news over here.

November 21st 1783 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes made the first successful untethered flight by humans in a hot air balloon, which was constructed by the Montgolfier brothers.

November 21st 1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

November 22nd 1869 – The Cutty Sark, one of the last sailing clippers ever to be built, was launched at Dumbarton in Scotland.

On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. At his death, the 35th president was 46 years old and had served less than three years in office.

On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. At his death, the 35th president was 46 years old and had served less than three years in office.
A very sad day, especially when it did happen.

November 23rd 1644 – John Milton published Areopagitica, arguing for the right to free speech and against publication censorship during the English Civil War.

1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)

Novenber 23rd 1963 – The BBC television series Doctor Who premiered with William Hartnell in the titular role.

On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. At his death, the 35th president was 46 years old and had served less than three years in office.


Would he have served more in office if he hadn't been shot?

Would he have served more in office if he hadn't been shot?
History has it he was a very popular man.