This date in history

[Mr Quatro]

In 2017, the first day of the Chinese New Year is on Saturday, 28 January, initiating the year of the Rooster. The New Year festival is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as ancestors.

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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

In 2017, the first day of the Chinese New Year is on Saturday, 28 January, initiating the year of the Rooster. The New Year festival is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as ancestors.

The question begs:...Who R they deifying??!!

[Jimbuna]

1595 William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is thought to have been first performed. The play was officially published in early 1597.

1916 1st bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place.

1917 British submarine K13 sank in Gaire Loch, Scotland; 32 of her crew died.

1943 New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal.

1944 USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.

2002 US President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address describes "regimes that sponsor terror" an "Axis of Evil", which includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

[Jimbuna]

1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.

1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor.

1862 USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched.

1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen.

1939 Hitler threatens the Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament).

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean.

1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die.

1945 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied POWs from Japanese at Cabanatuan.

1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse.

1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Largest ever state funeral.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.

An most amusing and bizarre tale of travail and....Skullduggery! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell's_head The 'head of State!!??' We all should look this good after 356 years...incl. after 25 years spiked atop Westminster Hall!

[Jimbuna]

1915 First (German) poison gas attack, against Russians.

1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ships.

1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

1940 40 U-boats sunk this month (111,000 ton).

1941 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton).

1942 62 U-boats sunk this month (327,000 ton).

1943 39 U-boats sunk this month (203,100 ton).

1943 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.

1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June.

1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland

[Jimbuna]

1587 Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head. The execution is captured by photographer Eddie Adams and becomes an anti-war icon.

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

[Jimbuna]

1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

1901 Queen Victoria's funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel.

1943 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II.

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1932: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) is released on this date The song became famous, Ellington wrote, "as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time."[

[Jimbuna]

1917 US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

1945 Almost 1,000 Flying Fortresses drop 3,000 tons of bombs on Berlin.

1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9).

[Jimbuna]

1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt.

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211: Septimus Severus age 64 dies: Roman Emperor from 193 to 211. He seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors. He conquered all of Mesopotamia and made the farthest forays into England, conquering almost the entire island. Under his reign, Rome was the largest it would ever be. He strengthened Hadrian's Wall and reconquered the Southern Uplands up to the Antonine Wall, which was also enhanced. Severus then thrust north with his army across the wall into enemy territory. Retracing the steps of Agricola over a century previously, Severus rebuilt and garrisoned many abandoned Roman forts along the east coast, including Carpow which could house up to 40,000 soldiers. Severus' campaign was cut short when he fell fatally ill. He withdrew to Eboracum (present day York) and died there . Although his son Caracalla continued campaigning the following year, he soon settled for peace. The Romans never campaigned deep into Caledonia again: they soon withdrew south permanently to Hadrian's Wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus

[Jimbuna]

1917 Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration.

1918 1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson.

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1897: Bill to change the value of π is introduced:
The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most notorious attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat. Despite its name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. However, the bill does imply various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2.
The bill never became law, due to the intervention of Professor C. A. Waldo of Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote. π= 3.2??!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Billno! no! no! it's: Fortunately cooler heads prevailed :

...the bill was brought up and made fun of. The Senators made bad puns about it, ridiculed it and laughed over it. The fun lasted half an hour. Senator Hubbell said that it was not meet for the Senate, which was costing the State $250 a day, to waste its time in such frivolity. $erious Pie imho He said that in reading the leading newspapers of Chicago and the East, he found that the Indiana State Legislature had laid itself open to ridicule by the action already taken on the bill. He thought consideration of such a proposition was not dignified or worthy of the Senate. He moved the indefinite postponement of the bill, and the motion carried.

Thank god for Sen Hubbel and C.A. Waldo ...and 'punnin' Joe Hill?? (4 any Utah traditional songsters reading this post)

[Jimbuna]

1778 France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris the first US treaty.

1943 First Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne.