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:hmmm::timeout:Post any interesting event that happens on or near today's date. Since we're all the end-users of the historic events that get us to the moment of posting in this forum, try to point out how such an event may have personally affected, afflicted, or otherwise influenced your existence on the spinning mudball...humor is emphasized??!:D :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Tango589]

Hide under the duvet until it's all over. Still, only 1hr 12mins to go...

Wait, what was that apocalyptic klonk above your head, it's not the roof falling in is it?

No, you're ok, it was just a fat sea gull landing on the loose chimney stack.

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[Tango589]

Yeah, it's good luck if it doesn't land on you! :doh:

[Madox58]

1958. privateer is born.
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[August]

1958. privateer is born.
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Same day the British were wiped out at Islandlwana. Coincidence?

[RickC Sniper]

1958. privateer is born.
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Happy Birthday!

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On this date Bob Keesham, Captain Kangaroo, died 10 years ago; age 76...the only man most of us really trusted...:Kaleun_Salute:

[Wolferz]

On this date Bob Keesham, Captain Kangaroo, died 10 years ago; age 76...the only man most of us really trusted...:Kaleun_Salute:

I never trusted him because he always had that shifty Mister Greenjeans hanging around. Not to mention his snobiness with the mentally handicapped Mister Moose and the mute Bunny Rabbit too. He seemed to have complete dis -R E S P E C T for his elders by always waking Grandfather Clock. I hear BR got a new gig whispering sweet nothings into the ear of Nelson Mandela's statue.:up: Which was heard muttering... "Could somebody get this little pecker out of my ear?"

And the cartoons just plain sucked, when the captain wasn't clowning around with the rest of the retards that is.

[Wolferz]

Who gave you the trivia calendar?:D

[Tango589]

The man is a Hamms swillin' fountain of useless information BBY!:haha:

[Wolferz]

The man is a Hamms swillin' fountain of useless information BBY!:haha:

That's a symptom, not an excuse.:O:

[Tango589]

^:har::har:

[Admiral Lutjens]

THIS day in history"

1986 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986) – Voyager 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2) passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus).

Laugh if you thought it was hilarious. Say that out loud, and slow. :har:

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That's why they built Saturns...better marketing ploy!:up:

[Wolferz]

That's why they built Saturns...better marketing ploy!:up:

Chevrolet Nova. Grand plan was to market them in Mexico...
Until they figured out No Va was Spanish for "Won't go":haha:

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On this date in history: 1649; annointed King Charles I is beheaded:/\\chop for treason just outside Parliament...a practice sadly gone lacking. His last thoughts must have been on his Great Auntie, Elizabeth I, who established the precedent of royal executions when she signed the death warrant for her anointed cousin (Charles paternal grandmother) Mary, Queen-of-Scots, executed 1587. Nothing like a little regal stare decises in British common law!:dead: 1862: the Monitor is launched from the Continental Iron Works of Greenpoint NY...the British navy begins remodeling anew...as the old expression "Not worth a continental is reviewed....Hmmm, turrets and armor...ya think! Strangely, the German observers picked up on the extensive use of railroads in the Civil War, welded it to Von Clausewitz...and lost two two-front world wars to the Royal Navy!:doh: 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany...democracy in action!!? The first episode of the Lone Ranger and Tonto is aired on radio...Move over Old Shatterhand and Winnetou!(written in the 1890's and read by every young German, including young Adolf). Fiery steed Silver replaces Hatatitla (Lightning) and the silver-bullet revolvers replaced redoubtable rifles: Bärentöter and Henrystützen!:rock: 1962: The Flying Wallendas discover gravity is not their friend at the State Fair in Detroit Michigan:doh:; 1948: Nathuram Godse kills one of the better men on the planet: Mohandas K. Gandhi,(Inshallah BBY!) and it's now a nuclear mess between India and Pakistan to boot. We moderate very discreetly from Diego Garcia. :down: 1968: the TET offensive; a massive surprise attack, all-out offensive began against South Vietnam...the beginning of the end for the post-colonial American empire.:dead: That's how it all looks in hindsight; 2014-today: I'm off to shoot my Henrystützen .44 mag. "golden boy"...one of the Sioux/Cheyenne positions at Little Big Horn ain't called "Henry Hill' fer nuthin...is it Winnetou?!:DHOKA HEY!

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1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
thx bby. I was going to post it yesterday but couldn't find the topic. (so much spam on subsim and the mods are sleeping:O:)

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THE OFFICIAL BIRTH OF SUBSIM!!! 1917: Germany declares "a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare"...The game(as we luv it) is on! All :subsim:ers can have the day off...sort of like opening of deer season in Utah. Without the Kaiser's brilliant "politics by other means", there IS no US:doh:...oh and 1606: poor Guy Fawkes is executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot against good King James I...his "politics by other means" having failed! 1865: GEN R. E. LEE is appointed General-in-Chief of all Confederate armies...as "politics by other means" are about to fail...1929: Leon Trotsky is trotted out of the Soviet Union...his "Politics by other means " having failed...They will fail more in Mexico City when he's really axed from the party:dead: 1958: The US successfully launches its first satellite into orbit; the Explorer I...move over Comrade Sputnik!;:o 1961; NASA launches HAM(what was he drinkn'?) the CHIMP into orbit for 16.5 minutes of primate glory:up:...No monkeying around now Comrade Sputnik!:huh: 1971: Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off for the moon(ALICE!) on Apollo 14...game long over Comrade Sputnik:doh: 1990: McDonald's opens it's first fast food restaurant in Moscow...Кетчуп с фри? Move over Napoleon and Adolf...what "politics by other means" is really all about...he who eats last eats best! :yeah: hey! what's on the Soyuz menu today... Comrade Sputnik!? :salute:and thanks for leading the way too!:rock:von Clauscewitz ON WAR: "All warfare is politics by other means"...

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1865

[TarJak]

Now that is history. :up:

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1507:

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1865:

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Actually Aktungbby the Sultana disaster was more likely due to the boilers exploding. I'll let this quote on both theories do the rest of the talking though. The official cause of the Sultana disaster was determined to be mismanagement of water levels in the boiler, exacerbated by the fact that it was severely overcrowded and top heavy. As the steamship made her way north following the twists and turns of the river, she listed severely to one side then the other. Her four boilers were interconnected and mounted side-by-side, so that if the ship tipped sideways, water would tend to run out of the highest boiler. With the fires still going against the empty boiler, this created hot spots. When the ship tipped the other way, water rushing back into the empty boiler would hit the hot spots and flash instantly to steam, creating a sudden surge in pressure. This effect of careening could have been minimized by maintaining high water levels in the boilers. The official inquiry found that the ship's boilers exploded due to the combined effects of careening, low water level, and a faulty repair to a leaky boiler made a few days earlier.

In 1888, a St. Louis resident named William Streetor claimed that his former business partner, Robert Louden, made a death bed confession of having sabotaged Sultana by a coal torpedo. Louden, a former Confederate agent and saboteur who operated in and around St. Louis, had the opportunity and motive to attack it and may have had access to the means. (Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, the inventor of the coal torpedo, was a former resident of St. Louis and was involved in similar acts of sabotage against Union shipping interests.) Supporting Louden's claim are eyewitness reports that a piece of artillery shell was observed in the wreckage. Louden's claim is controversial, however, and most scholars support the official explanation

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YUP!

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The Mutiny of the HMS Bounty!

[Wolferz]

Mister Christian just wanted some Strawberries and cream.

Cap'n Blye was less than accommodating on that request.:haha:

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Mister Christian just wanted some Strawberries and cream.:haha:
Some serious strawberries and cream indeed! Brando directed; acquired the small archipelago of Teti'aroa; and married the co-star Tarita...

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1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies in his second exile, aged 51, on the island of St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic. 1862 a bigger celebration in California than in Mexico actually?? CINCO DE MAYO holiday! celebrating the defeat of Napoleon III's occupying French forces at the Battle of Puebla!

[Wolferz]

Maybe Lincoln was in cahoots with the three countries that invaded Mexico. Looking to weaken them enough for an annexation perhaps? :hmmm:
It could also be why he took one to the cranium.

Nothing wrong with revisionist history.:03:

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1954:

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The RMS Lusitania is sunk this date in 1915

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1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.

1945 - US president Harry S Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.

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1960: Nuclear powered USRN TRITON SSRN 586 circumnavigates the world completely submerged! http://cprr.org/Museum/images/I_ACCEPT_the_User_Agreement/See_PERMISSIONS.gif

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1944 - A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.


1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

[Jimbuna]

1310 - Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.

1647 - Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam.

1778 - William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69

1970 - Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise

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1858: Minnesota, Land of Sky Blue Waters, becomes the 32nd state in the Union;

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1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on King John; leads to Magna Carta

1670 - Frederick Augustus I/ August II, the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)

1864 - J.E.B. Stuart [James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart] kia (aged 31)

1959 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor's (27) marries for the 4th time to entertainer Eddie Fisher (30)

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1937 - Britain's King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1940 - The Nazi conquest of France began with the German army crossing Muese River.

1942 - The Soviet Army launched its first major offensive of World War II and took Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine from the German army.

1943 - The Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.

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1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on King John; leads to Magna Carta
Indeed! Been to Runnymede where it was signed; a required stop for any history student of Democracy!:up: Required Reading SIRE!

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1943 - The Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.
The Pharaohs could 'rest easy'!

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1912 - Royal Flying Corps was established in England.

1940 - Winston Churchill made his first speech as the prime minister of Britain.

[Jimbuna]

1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside

1573 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord dies (b. 1521)

1643 - Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population

1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins

1992 - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time

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Good picks Sirs!

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1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins A serious case of Mañana there Patrón!

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1940 - The Netherlands surrendered to Nazi Germany.

1942 - The British, while retreating from Burma, reached India.

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1264 - Battle of Lewes, 2nd Barons' War: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats English King Henry III

1643 - Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4

1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.

1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine

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1796: English physician Edward Jenner, his eye ever on the ladies, notes that dairy maids aren't prone to smallpox-and invents "vaccination" by practicing on young eight year old James Phipps using cowpox matter.

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1643 - Louis XIV becomes King of France aged 4 The SUN KING Indeed! :sunny:

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884 - Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded, 5,000 slaughtered ; ends the peasants' uprising

1565 - Henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam

1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan

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1930: http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=church_fredericksburg_04 (http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=church_fredericksburg_04) .

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1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.

1929 - The first Academy Awards were held in Hollywood.

2005 - Sony Corp. unveiled three styles of its new PlayStation 3 video game machine.

[Jimbuna]

1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England

1691 - Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason

1941 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

1975 - Junko Tabei from Japan becomes 1st woman to reach summit of Mt Everest

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1929 - The first Academy Awards were held in Hollywood. Indeed! one of television's better:nope: entertainments:

[CCIP]

2010 - the untimely passing of Ronnie James Dio after a short battle with cancer. Besides being one of rock's greatest voices and kindest souls in the business, his greatest claim to fame is popularizing the :rock: gesture we all know and love today! Still miss him a lot, hard to believe he's gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDJMc8Ah8o

:rock: DIO :rock:

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2010 - the untimely passing of Ronnie James Dio after a short battle with cancer. Besides being one of rock's greatest voices and kindest souls in the business, his greatest claim to fame is popularizing the :rock: gesture we all know and love today! Still miss him a lot, hard to believe he's gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDJMc8Ah8o

:rock: DIO :rock:

One of my favorites too!(Black Sabbath-post Ozzie) But can't give full credit for the gesture down Neal's way-that's already claimed!:timeout:"Hook 'em horns!" Texas Longhorns style.

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That's why I said "popularized" :yep: Definitely a well-known sign in Texas :rock:

And yes, Dio was also the man who proved that Sabbath without Ozzie was not only possible but awesome! Little wonder that they continued playing together as Heaven & Hell even after Ozzie returned, and indeed Dio's final concert appearance was with them.

Some bitter irony, I'm sure, in the fact that while Ozzie drank, smoked and drugged himself silly for decades and fought with everyone - yet he's still around and kicking unrepentantly; while Ronnie who was known for his clean, healthy lifestyle and modest, professional attitude is gone :nope:

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Some bitter irony, I'm sure, in the fact that while Ozzie drank, smoked and drugged himself silly for decades and fought with everyone - yet he's still around and kicking unrepentantly; while Ronnie who was known for his clean, healthy lifestyle and modest, professional attitude is gone :nope: Indeed,

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218 - 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1620 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)

1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface

1969 - Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus

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1940 - Germany occupied Brussels, Belgium and began the invasion of France.

1973 - The US Senate Watergate Committee began its hearings.

2006 - The U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany was sunk about 24 miles off Pensacola Beach. It was the first vessel sunk under a Navy program to dispose of old warships by turning them into diving attractions. It was the largest man-made reef at the time of the sinking

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2006 - The U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany was sunk about 24 miles off Pensacola Beach. It was the first vessel sunk under a Navy program to dispose of old warships by turning them into diving attractions. It was the largest man-made reef at the time of the sinking

Indeed, there is a pretty cool video of her contained in the link below:

http://www.floridapanhandledivetrail.com/oriskany.html

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1943: The Memphis Belle is the first American bomber to complete 25 missions over Europe!

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1619 - Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison

1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France

1860 - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president

1970 - Beatles' last released LP, "Let It Be" released in US

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1942 - New York ended night baseball games for the duration of World War II.

1944 - Monte Cassino, Europe's oldest Monastic house, was finally captured by the Allies in Italy.

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1944 - Monte Cassino, Europe's oldest Monastic house, was finally captured by the Allies in Italy.

I once knew a guy who led a section of the Poles on the second and final Polish assault...he became a dentist in my area after the war :salute:

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Just out of curiosity, I checked; the abby has been destroyed quite a few times in it's very long history since being the site of a temple to Apollo; notably by Lombards in 581 and Saracens in 884!

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1643 - The French army defeated a Spanish army at Rocroi, France.

1856 - US Senator Charles Sumner spoke out against slavery.

1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.

1943 - Winston Churchill told the US Congress that his country was pledging their full support in the war against Japan.

2005 - "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" brought in 50.0 million in its opening day.

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1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.When you do that in Rome, STAY OUT OF THE FORUM!

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1506 - Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir

1568 - English Queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary

1865 - President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia

1967 - USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space

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1690 - England passed the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.

1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.

1941 - Germany invaded Crete by air.

1942 - Japan completed the conquest of Burma.

1993 - The final episode of "Cheers" was aired on NBC-TV.

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1293 - Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed

1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta, India

1927 - Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)

1990 - Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space

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1932; Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic.

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1990 - Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space

Indeed! "The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves!" -Julius Caesar

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1840 - New Zealand was declared a British colony.

1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo non-stop air plane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.

1968 - The nuclear-powered US submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

1982 - The British landed in the Falkland Islands and fighting began.

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1799 - Mary Anning was born!

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685 - Battle of Nechtansmere/Dun Nechtain: Picts beat Northumbrians

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1471: the most pre-imminent victim of the Wars of the Roses dies, age 49; an anointed king of England...and France, at times insane for 39 years, Henry VI.

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1892 - Dr. Washington Sheffield invented the toothpaste tube.

1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact of Steel."

1986 - Sylvester Stallone agreed to a 10-picture, six-year deal with United Artists. He signed for a reported $15 million for each film.

1990 - Microsoft released Windows 3.0.

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1903 - Launch of the White Star Liner SS Ionic.

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1843: A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missourii (http://www.history.com/topics/missouri).

[Oberon]

http://rjspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Oregon-Trail.jpg

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All that so Mcbee can get Starbucks before going to work in the morning.:D

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1934 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934) – The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake La.

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All that so Mcbee can get Starbucks before going to work in the morning.:D

Starbucks...the source of most cases of dysentery :)

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1430 - Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne & sold to the English

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1706; the battle of Ramillies in the War of Spanish Succession is won by the Duke of Marlborough.


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1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the US began service.

1878 - The first American bicycle race was held in Boston.

1881 - About 200 people died when the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sank near London, Ontario.

1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.

1994 - The four men convicted of bombing the New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

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1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.

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1844: Sam Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"

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585 BC - The first known prediction of a solar eclipse was made in Greece.

1895 - Oscar Wilde, a playwright, poet and novelist, was convicted of a morals charge and sentenced to prison in London.

1977 - "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" opened and became the largest grossing film to date.

1983 - "The Return of the Jedi" opened nationwide. It set a new record in opening day box office sales. The gross was $6,219,629.

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1720 - The Ship "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, bringing Europe's last major plague outbreak. Kills around 100,000

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1953: The first atomic cannon, ATOMIC ANNIE, is fired in Nevada.

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1660 - King Charles II of England landed at Dover after being exiled for nine years.

1736 - The British and Chickasaw Indians defeated the French at the Battle of Ackia.

1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.

1998 - The Grand Princess cruise ship made its inaugural cruise. The ship measured 109,000 tons and cost approximately $450 million, making it the largest and most expensive cruise ship ever built.

[Rhodes]

Also at 26 of May:

1897 - Dracula by Bram Stoker is publish!

1907 - Marion Robert Morrison is born, best know as John Wayne!

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1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy

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An update just in from today's paper: Richard III, found hastily buried in 2012, without coffin or shroud, under a present day parking lot over the old Greyfriars Church,. will be buried in the city of Leicester where he was dragged after his death at Bosworth-Britain's High Court has ruled. Distant relatives had pressed for internment at York where the late king "had strong ties"! "It is time for King Richard to be given a 'dignified reburial and finally laid to rest' the judges said. I love my history and the ol' hunchback just won't go away! He certainly had strong ties here! His hands were still tied and he suffered from scoliosis-a hunchback indeed! DNA evidence from two descendants proved the last Plantagenet king's identity beyond doubt. Crippled or not, even his Tudor foes admitted he died bravely "amid the press of his enemies".

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1941: On May 27, 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck
On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).

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1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in England

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1533 - England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1940 - During World War II, Belgium surrendered to Germany.

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1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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1588: Alonso Perez de Gúzman 7th Duke of Medina-Sidonia sets sail with an Armada for England;

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1592 - At the Battle of Sacheon the Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese army that outnumbers it nearly 3 to 1.

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The RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the St Lawrence river

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1652 - Battle of Goodwin Sands, off Folkestone, Kent: English 'General at Sea' Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp

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1883 - Twelve people were trampled to death in New York City in a stampede when a rumour that the Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing occurred.

1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

1998 - A powerful earthquake hit northern Afghanistan killing up to 5,000.

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1431 - Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

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THe beginning of the end in the 20th century and it ain't over yet! 1913: the end of the first Balkan War- leads almost directly to WW .

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1431 - Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Indeed! a nineteen brave French girl changed the course of history.

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1859: a moment in TIME! The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high St. Stephen's Tower, rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time.

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1916: Jutland! the biggest battle between two main fleets in modern history-a tactical win to the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet but a strategic if costly victory for the Royal Navy. The resource allocation and national spending on the great vessels comes head to head on one day.

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Jutland ranks with Trafalgar, 1805, as one of history's decisive encounters.

I would argue against that actually - it was almost decisive, but did virtually nothing to shift the actual power balance. It was a fine day of great bravery and tragedy for both sides, but it did little to change the course of the war and rather little was learned from it at the time. I think a better title for Jutland is the "greatest naval battle that could've been".

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Duly considered:up: with Dreadnaught and Castles of Steel thrown into the argument. Hindsight prevails and Germany and its hope of global power and expansion were shut down at Jutland. No world sea power, no anything else...the land war (trenches) should have stopped right then and there as a tactical exercise in futility for the next two years 1916-1918 after the strategic issue at sea was resolved in a day in 1916. But governments and the men in them seldom see other than the moment they are in, or as Churchill, largely responsible for the buildup of dreadnaughts, said in The River War: "every soldier sees a battle along his particular gunsight." Political and military myopia in war is not uncommon; but it is the greatest killer. The German Navy, as with France, Holland and Spain in previous centuries, simply could not surmount the tremendous geopolitical position of England which covers all major rivers out of Europe and the North Sea. Throwing in the classic removal of the Royal Navy to safety at Scapa Flow at the outset of WWI completely threw off the German battle timetable plan of 1914 to draw the British into a main fleet engagement. All battles...and wars take place in two mediums: time and terrain-England controlled both at sea where it counted most strategically and Germany could only resort to offset warfare ie submarines, a poor second choice in both world wars especially as it politically alienated the USA. And if your tactics and strategy aren't carrying out your political aims, you need to be not doing the war past the point where it has become unfeasible! Von C. in a nutshell! :salute:

[CCIP]

I think the trouble, though, is that it was in many ways a foregone conclusion before a shot had even been fired. Everyone involved with the German High Seas Fleet, with the possible exception of the Kaiser, knew that a direct confronation would be futile. Scheer was not seeking a decisive battle against the Grand Fleet at Jutland, and knew to get out as soon as he saw it about to happen. Start to end, the entire thing revolved around trying to trap and destroy a smaller RN unit to improve their balance, and in that sense the Germans almost succeeded at Jutland, with the way Beatty's ships got hit. But it wasn't the first or last time they tried that in the war.

I suppose yes, Jutland proved that German ambitions were and would continue to be futile in open confrontation with the British fleet, but it was basically proving something very self-evident. Putting those dreadnoughts in water was a way of proving that it's wet too, I guess.

On the upside, I still think that Hipper's "death ride" was the single finest action of the dreadnought era :yep::salute:

[Jimbuna]

I think the trouble, though, is that it was in many ways a foregone conclusion before a shot had even been fired. Everyone involved with the German High Seas Fleet, with the possible exception of the Kaiser, knew that a direct confronation would be futile. Scheer was not seeking a decisive battle against the Grand Fleet at Jutland, and knew to get out as soon as he saw it about to happen. Start to end, the entire thing revolved around trying to trap and destroy a smaller RN unit to improve their balance, and in that sense the Germans almost succeeded at Jutland, with the way Beatty's ships got hit. But it wasn't the first or last time they tried that in the war.

I suppose yes, Jutland proved that German ambitions were and would continue to be futile in open confrontation with the British fleet, but it was basically proving something very self-evident. Putting those dreadnoughts in water was a way of proving that it's wet too, I guess.

On the upside, I still think that Hipper's "death ride" was the single finest action of the dreadnought era :yep::salute:

Pretty much concur....the outcome from the link below, a good reference site relating to the battle:

The most far reaching result of Jutland was that it convinced Scheer and the German Naval staff that the only way of gaining naval victory was via unrestricted submarine warfare, and not by defeating the British in battle. The Germans had fought Jutland as well or better than could be expected, whilst the British could be expected to perform better next time, and yet nothing had changed. However it was not the German submarine blockade of Britain but the British blockade of Germany, maintained under the guns of the Grand Fleet, that eventually did most to bring the war to an end.

http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/outcome.html

[Jimbuna]

1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)

[Jimbuna]

193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated.

[BossMark]

1533 - Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s new queen, was crowned.

1939 - The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York.

1941 - The German Army completed the capture of Crete as the Allied evacuation ended.

1943 - During World War II, Germans shot down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London.

1944 - The French resistance was warned by a coded message from the British that the D-Day invasion was imminent.

[Jimbuna]

1944 - The French resistance was warned by a coded message from the British that the D-Day invasion was imminent.

Shortly before the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, Radio Londres broadcast the first stanza of Paul Verlaine's poem "Chanson d'automne" to let the resistance know that the invasion would begin within 24 hours.

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.
Blessent mon cœur d'une langeur monotone ("wound my heart with a monotonous languor") was the specific call to action.

[Jimbuna]

1495 - First written record of Scotch Whisky appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller.

[Herr-Berbunch]

1974 - Flixborough disaster, the UK's biggest peacetime explosion until Buncefield a few years ago. :o

[Jimbuna]

1944 - Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth

[BossMark]

1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.

1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.

[Aktungbby]

1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.

1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.

Alas; poor Robespierre couldn't handle his suicide pistol very well and went to the :/\\chop slightly the worse for wear- considering his instigation of the Terror: "what goes around...occasionally comes down on ya!":dead: The Third Maratha War proved what the British knew by that time and provided an excellent training ground for the young Arthur Wellesley.

[BossMark]

1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.

1918 - The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany.

1923 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote.

[Jimbuna]

1083 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral

[BossMark]

1615 - The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell to shogun Ieyasu after a six month siege.

1647 - The British army seized King Charles I and held him as a hostage

1918 - French and American troops halted Germany's offensive at Chateau-Thierry, France.

1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France.

1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific.

[Jimbuna]

781 BC - Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse

[BossMark]

1595 - Henry IV's army defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Fontaine-Francaise.

1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity.

1940 - During World War II, the Battle of France began when Germany began an offensive in Southern France.

1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans.

1944 - The first B-29 bombing raid hit the Japanese rail line in Bangkok, Thailand.

[Jimbuna]

1661 - Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

[BossMark]

1882 - The first electric iron was patented by H.W. Seely.

1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.

1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.

1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.

[Jimbuna]

1664 - New Amsterdam renamed New York

[Biggles]

June 6th, 1523 (Julian), Gustav Wasa is proclaimed new king of Sweden, which starts the end of the Danish led Kalmar Union. Partly because of this, this day is the National Day of Sweden.

Also, this happened some time later:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s100000/s190062.jpg

God Bless.

[STEED]

D-Day is over now, The Battle for Normandy has begun.

Bad Month for Hitler as this was the first blow the next will be on June 23rd when the Russian's unleash Operation Bagration.

Almost forgot...Colossus Mk2 computer was up and running for D-Day.

[Jimbuna]

1944 - Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux

[BossMark]

0452 - Italy was invaded by Attila the Hun.

0793 - The Vikings raided the Northumbrian coast of England.

1786 - In New York City, commercially manufactured ice cream was advertised for the first time.

[Aktungbby]

...

[Jimbuna]

793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert's monestary on Lindisfarne

1944 - 1st SS-Panzer Korps counter attacks at Normandy
Allies occupy Port-en-Bessin Normandy
Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
General Montgomery lands in Normandy, sets up HQ in Chateau de Creully

[Rockstar]

on this day in history. Last week I awoke at 7:00 AM, took a leak and got dressed. Several mminutes later I went down stairs to the kitchen and cooked an excellent 3 egg beef sausage and cheese omelet. Afterwards I brushed my teeth and went to work.

[Schöneboom]

1967 - During the Six-Day War, USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli jets and torpedo boats in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula. 34 crew members killed, 171 wounded.

[Aktungbby]

[QUOTE=Aktungbby;2206397]Indeed!

[BossMark]

1934 - Donald Duck made his debute in the Silly Symphonies cartoon "The Wise Little Hen."

1940 - Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.

1943 - The withholding tax on payrolls was authorized by the U.S. Congress.

1945 - Japanese Premier Kantaro Suzuki declared that Japan would fight to the last rather than accept unconditional surrender.

[Jimbuna]

68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.

[Jimbuna]

1940 - French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 - German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 - German 5th Armoured division occupies Rouen
1940 - Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940 - Norway surrenders to Nazis
1940 - Canada declares war on Italy
1943 - FDR becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country during wartime
1944 - Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France

[Mr Quatro]

The six day war may have started on June 5th, but it ended today June 10th

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War)

The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

[BossMark]

1915 - British troops took Cameroon in Africa.

1937 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.

1940 - The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.

1942 - The US and the Soviet Union signed a lend lease agreement to aid the Soviets in their effort in World War II.

1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.

1993 - Steven Spielberg's movie "Jurassic Park" opened.

[Jimbuna]

1901 - Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1939 - King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1961 - "Winston Churchill" last airs on ABC-TV

[Mr Quatro]

1939 - King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party


Any guess as to what their initial reaction was to eating their first hot dog or what the dog consisted of, pork, chicken, turkey or beef or heaven forbid the first three in one hot dog?

[BossMark]

1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.

1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.

1918 - The first air plane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.

1981 - "Raiders of the Lost Ark" opened in the U.S.

1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia.

[Jimbuna]

1777 - Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit

1866 - US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)

1917 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.

1942 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island

1944 - Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks

[BossMark]

1789 - Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrived in Timor in a small boat.

1841 - The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.

1900 - Hawaii became a US territory.

1907 - Women in Norway won the right to vote.

1917 - General John Pershing arrived in Paris during World War I.

1940 - The Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland.

1940 - German troops entered Paris. As Paris became occupied loud speakers announced the implementation of a curfew being imposed for 8 p.m.

1944 - Sixty B-29 Superfortress' attacked an iron and steel works factory on Honshu Island. It was the first U.S. raid against mainland Japan.

1945 - Burma was liberated by Britain.

2014 - England and Leeds Rhinos captain Kevin Sinfield receives an MBE

[Jimbuna]

1775 - US Army founded

1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico

1934 - Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary

1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France

[BossMark]

1215 - King John of England put his seal on the Magna Carta.

1917 - Great Britain pledged the release of all the Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.

1940 - The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.

1944 - American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II.

1982 - In the capital city of Stanley, the Falklands war ended as Argentine troops surrendered to the British.

[Jimbuna]

1389 - Battle of Kossovo; Turks defeat Serbs

1804 - 12th amendment to the US constitution ratified; deals with manner of choosing president

1864 - US Congress passes legislation equalizing pay for Black soldiers

1982 - Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat

[BossMark]

0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.

1487 - The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.

1815 - Napoleon defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, Netherlands.

1940 - Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of the Vichy government of occupied France.

1972 - Ulrike Meinhof was captured by West German police in Hanover. She was co-founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group and the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion).

[Jimbuna]

1745 - British fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River

1815 - Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia

1900 - In China, a fire is set by Boxers, virtually destroying the Western Quarter and spreading to engulf many Chinese landmarks

1924 - South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7

1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners

[BossMark]

1579 - Sir Francis Drake claimed San Francisco Bay for England.

1775 - The British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston.

1917 - The Russian Duma met in a secret session in Petrograd and voted for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army.

1940 - The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

1940 - France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.

1944 - French troops landed on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

1944 - The republic of Iceland was established.

[Jimbuna]

1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat Cornish rebels led by Michael An Gof.

1837 - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

1885 - Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

1917 - British king George V takes the name Windsor

1982 - President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat

[Jimbuna]

1178 - Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation)

1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"

1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason

2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.

[Sailor Steve]

1621 The first duel in America took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.

1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain.

1873 Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a U.S. President.

1927 The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s "Spirit of St. Louis."

1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano was found guilty on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution.

1942 The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.

1948 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

1953 Seventeen major-league baseball records were tied or broken in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers.

1959 A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.

1959 The first telecast received from England was broadcast in the U.S. over NBC-TV.

1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1996 Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas.

1998 The Boston Globe asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.

1999 Walt Disney's "Tarzan" opened.

2000 In Algiers, Algeria, the foreign ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a preliminary cease-fire accord and agreed to work toward a permanent settlement of their two-year border war.

2002 In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.


2014 Sailor Steve fell victim to the CopyPasta fad. :dead:

[Sailor Steve]

Oh yeah - today is Paul McCarney's 72nd birthday. :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

1829 - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"

1917 - King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor

1988 - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long

[BossMark]

0451 - Roman and Barbarian warriors brought Attila's army to a halt at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.

1756 - In India, 150 British soldiers were imprisoned in a cell that became known as the "Black Hole of Calcutta."

[TarJak]

http://images.colourbox.com/thumb_COLOURBOX5254976.jpg

[Jimbuna]

1632 - Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area

1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol

1941 - German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas

1963 - Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income

[Aktungbby]

1813: The French are defeated at Vitoria Spain

[Jimbuna]

1547 - Great fire in Moscow

1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)

1913 - Tiny Broadwick is first woman to parachute from an airplane

[BossMark]

1772 - Slavery was outlawed in England.

1911 - King George V of England was crowned.

1915 - Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.

1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.

1946 - Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.

[Jimbuna]

168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War.

1812 - Upon learning of plans by the Americans to execute a surprise attack, Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn the British troops, which results in a British surprise victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams

1815 - 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

1865 - 1st class cricket debut of Dr W G Grace

[Aktungbby]

2013: 34-year-old aerialist Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk a high wire across the Little Colorado River Gorge

[Aktungbby]

1314: Bannockburn

[Rhodes]

http://sm1.imgs.sapo.pt/mb/a/b/5efb0b360726e1f86d7d6054563d8e721b30c9.jpg
This guy is "born"!

[Aktungbby]

1812: Napoleon invades Russia with the Grande Armee

[BossMark]

1314 - Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.

1340 - The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.

1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.

1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy.

[Jimbuna]

1397 - Sultan Bajezid I releases captured crusaders for ransom

1540 - English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court

1917 - Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol

1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight

[Aktungbby]

1509: Henry VIII is crowned king and wife #1 Catherine of Aragon crowned Queen Consort.

[Aktungbby]

1864: On this day, troops begin digging a tunnel toward the Rebels at Petersburg,

[BossMark]

1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.

1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.

1920 - The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.

1941 - Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.

1999 - Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.

[Betonov]

1991- Slovenia formaly declares independence.

[Jimbuna]

1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon

1863 - US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive

1920 - League of Nations places Internationall Court of Justice in Hague

1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)

[Aktungbby]

1498: The first toothbrush is invented.

[Jimbuna]

1483 - Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England

1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

1909 - Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London

1917 - 1st US Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I

1968 - Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

[Aktungbby]

1483 - Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England

BRIEFLY! :woot:http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2014/5/23/1400839833718/Richard-IIIs-remains-were-012.jpg

[Jimbuna]

1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain

1759 - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec

1893 - Great stock crash on NY stock exchange

1905 - Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"

1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict

[Aktungbby]

1950 - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict 2014: Democracy in action! http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/ows_139458088510270.jpg

[Armistead]

Truman orders troops to Korea

Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

[Jimbuna]

1119 - Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeats French Crusaders

1762 - 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)

1820 - Tomato is proven non-poisonous

1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan

1904 - The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks

1948 - US/British airlift to West Berlin begins

[Aktungbby]

1953: workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assemble the first Corvette, a two-seater sports car that would become an American icon.
http://mng-lang.smugmug.com/photos/i-fsppjRq/0/L/i-fsppjRq-L.jpg 1914: the other famous car: A 1910 Gräf und Stift Double Phaeton with license plate A111118??? ie Armistice 11 11 18 !? to the mystically inclined! http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/files/2013/04/Franz_Ferdinand_Automobile_AB.jpg

[Wolferz]

1953: workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assemble the first Corvette, a two-seater sports car that would become an American icon.
http://mng-lang.smugmug.com/photos/i-fsppjRq/0/L/i-fsppjRq-L.jpg 1914: the other famous car: A 1910 Gräf und Stift Double Phaeton with license plate A111118??? ie Armistice 11 11 18 !? to the mystically inclined! http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/files/2013/04/Franz_Ferdinand_Automobile_AB.jpg

Anybody here ever drive a '53 Corvette?
This guy has.:yeah:

I'm not brave enough to even attempt starting that Phaeton. I like my arms intact.:timeout:

[Aktungbby]

Anybody here ever drive a '53 Corvette?
This guy has.:yeah:

I'm not brave enough to even attempt starting that Phaeton. I like my arms intact.:timeout:

Posted with U in mind Ol' Pard'!:salute: Gavrilo Princep's arm was certainly INTACT! http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/25/article-1061691-02CB09A700000578-66_468x316.jpgAnd on his statue too: revealed only yesterday in honor of his cult matyrdom as a Bosnian hero against Austro-Hungarian tyranny! What a century does to one's historic perspective!!??:hmmm: http://centenarynews.com/media/uploads/tbldata_news/3rgjmfzyyz13ppk3oa3g_thumb.PNG

[Sailor Steve]

Anybody here ever drive a '53 Corvette?
This guy has.:yeah:
A guy who lived across the street from me had one, and had owned it since his teens (he was about my age). He didn't let me drive it, but he did take me for a spin in it once. My dad had a '58, but I was too young to drive at the time.

I'm not brave enough to even attempt starting that Phaeton. I like my arms intact.:timeout:
My ex-brother-in-law owned a 1926 Model 'T' Ford, which he had restored himself. He taught me how to start it, and how to drive it. Loads of fun.

[Wolferz]

Posted with U in mind Ol' Pard'!:salute: Gavrilo Princep's arm was certainly INTACT!
Well, he was taking a life or two. Not cranking the Archduke's car to life.:O:

You'd think that Kennedy would have learned an important lesson about convertibles from that event.

[BossMark]

1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America.

1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.

[Jimbuna]

512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.

[Aktungbby]

1954: The atomic energy commission votes against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information. A bit closing the barn door after the horse (Trinity and the Manhattan Project) IMHO " We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita); Vishnu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu) is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.":nope:

[Aktungbby]

Posted a tad early...because "tomorrow is another day"-Scarlett O'Hara http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIpNvvVN13Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIpNvvVN13Y); Countless men in man-caves learn "Frankly my dear...not to give a damn!' :O: 1936: Gone with the Wind is published. 1934: Hitler purges his own NAZI party in the Night of the Long Knives; Hundreds are killed. 1876: Having got a little too far west, the survivors of Custer's seventh cavalry reach the steamboat Far West for transport back to Ft Abraham Lincoln. The vessel, shown below as fitted in 1876, was the true hero of the disaster under able Captain Grant Marsh and covered the 710 mile trip in 57 hours. Life for a steamboat was short on the brutal, lethal and untamed Missouri and this custom-built 20" draft-190' vessel hit a snag and sank in 1883 near St Charles on the Missouri River. http://steamboats.com/jpgs/fw-09.jpg

[BossMark]

1097 - The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum.

1841 - The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train.

1934 - Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives."

1971 - The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. The three cosmonauts were found dead inside.

[Jimbuna]

350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.

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1200: In China, sunglasses are invented :cool: :|\\ :sunny: 1887: Clay Allison, gunfighter, dies in a wagon accident in Pecos, Texas. Reburied in 1975, his tombstone reads ""Gentleman and Gunfighter" who "never killed a man that did not need killing.":hmmm: Now that's the Code of the West! 1898; Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders take San Juan Hill in Cuba in the Spanish American War. Teddy is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously in 2001-recieved by his great-grandson Tweed Roosevelt.http://www.burnpit.us/sites/default/files/roosevelt_103_02.jpg 1916: 07:30 AM the Battle of the Somme begins...

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1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg begins

1915 - Leutnant Kurt Wintgens scores the first aerial victory with a synchronised machine gun on his Fokker Eindecker.

1916 - First day of the Battle of the Somme, 19,000 British soldiers are killed and 40,000 wounded.

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70 - Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem

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Agfa-Gevaert is "born"!

For the west-german New-Agfa that caused the buying up of smaller manufacturers competing with overseas company doing the same in Germany. And striving for a final solution for their legal issues with their "mother", the east-german Old-Agfa. Which themselves were interested in such settlement too.

But this would not be enough. So the idea came up again to form an alliance with their major european competitor: the belgian Gevaert.
Both companies were of about equal size, both in a strong process of growth. The same time they differed in the markets they meanwhile got their stronghold: Agfa was strongest with consumers, Gevaert with non consumer markets.

In secrecy forms of collaboration were devised which ended in the merger of the two in 1964. Due to the legal situation then in Europe the founding of two new companies on shares was planned: Agfa-Gevaert AG and Gevaert-Agfa NV. Two entities in which Agfa and Gevaert put their plants whereas the shares of each entity were split 50/50.

Together a much stronger No. 2 in the western world emerged, gaining 25% of the production of Kodak.
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1867- Canada becomes a nation.

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1867- Canada becomes a nation.

1980: O Canada proclaimed the national anthem....1946: Things go BOOM...the first Bikini Atoll test....:nope: I had mushrooms with pot roast last night but still ponder many 60's school hallway drills with my head between my legs-sitzkreig if ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z29H_AX-jTs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z29H_AX-jTs) and the aftermath; as yet unresolved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlcOfit78c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlcOfit78c) You'll love the hokey propaganda from an era of 'true belief'!

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963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.

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1926: The United States Army Air Corps is created. 1937: Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific Ocean while attempting the first round the world trip along the equator-probably without a Link 12 bubble sextant... 1982: Larry Walters of San Pedro California uses a lawn chair with 45 helium filled balloons to rise to 16,000 feet and lands eight miles away in Long Beach. "After 45 minutes in the sky, he shot several balloons, and then accidentally dropped his pellet gun overboard. He descended slowly, until the balloons' dangling cables got caught in a power line, causing a 20-minute blackout in a Long Beach neighborhood. Walters was able to climb to the ground. The lawn chair used in the flight was reportedly given to an admiring boy named Jerry, though Walters regretted doing so when the Smithsonian Institution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution) asked him to donate it to its museum. :salute:Twenty years later, Larry, by then an adult, sent an email to Mark Barry, a pilot who had documented Walters's story and dedicated a website to it, and identified himself. The chair was still sitting in his garage, attached to some of the original tethers and water jugs used as ballast. The chair is now on loan to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, on exhibition through 2014." Lawnchair Larry" died, sadly, in 1993 at age 44. A former truck driver and security officer like myself, who dared 'rise above it all-California style' he crosses my thoughts often to this day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters) . As to the Army Air Corps: My gratitude! My dad, a Pratt chemistry-math engineer grad, signed up for the army after Pearl Harbor along with his classmates. In its wisdom, the army assigned them to chemical weapons ie flame throwers for use against pillboxes-an expendable one-way-trip up the beach to a pillbox slit-and a preferred Jap sniper's target, especially in the Pacific Island campaigns. The heavens opened!: My dad, after basic, transferred to the Air Corps; completed OCS and became an Engineer/Navigator (Short crews in Ferry Command) on B25's and 29's rising to 1st Lt. He never saw any of his classmates again... His offices in the 40's: The navigation station http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Boeing_B-29_Nav.jpg/271px-Boeing_B-29_Nav.jpgand the engineer station on B-29's http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Boeing_B-29_FEPanel.jpg/271px-Boeing_B-29_FEPanel.jpg The top gun turret came and went; the navigation dome (sextants) stayed...the Link model 12 bubble sextant, obviously the 'weapon of choice' across the wide Pacific; and used on the Enola Gay too. The devil is in the details:hmmm: and Nav math is a lot of details: 5 degrees of variation can be the difference between Howland island or(possibly) ditching at Gardiner Island 500 miles away(Earhart?)...-thanks Dad!:salute: http://www.collectair.com/images/linka12.jpg

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683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope

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General Lee, I have no brigade!

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^That's Armistead in the picture not Pickett!:D" As soldiers straggled back to the Confederate lines along Seminary Ridge, Lee feared a Union counteroffensive and tried to rally his center; Pickett was inconsolable. When Lee told Pickett to rally his division for the defense, Pickett allegedly replied, "General Lee, I have no division." Pickett's official report for the battle has never been found. It is rumored that Gen. Lee rejected it for its bitter negativity and demanded that it be rewritten, and an updated version was never filed." Not without a (very) dry wit of his own as other post war Confederates commented on the war: Asked by reporters why Pickett's Charge failed, Pickett frequently replied: "I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.":hmmm: General Lee lost 23 battle flags in Pickett's Charge -- more than he had lost in the previous 14 months combined. IMHO: it should have been called Longstreet's Charge; but he successfully shifted responsibility-and blame-to his artillery chief, Col Alexander, and wrote better postwar accounts in defense of his actions as R.E.Lee's "old War Horse"... Pickett, who wrote none, died in 1875. In the end, the man who knew best, said it best, to returning Gen. Cadmus Wilcox: "It has all been my fault"- R.E. Lee http://www.mwclarkson.com/2013/07/the-man-who-lost-gettysburg/ (http://www.mwclarkson.com/2013/07/the-man-who-lost-gettysburg/) http://july1863.homestead.com/files/pickettcharge4.giffrom the 300' Cyclorama painting at Gettysburg Museum-the 'High water mark of the Confederacy' at the wall 6/3/1863. A day's simple plan-the flank attacks having failed-break their center:http://www.thomaslegion.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mapofpickettscharge1863.gif

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1917: On July 4, U.S. troops make their first public display of WWI, marching through the streets of Paris to the grave of the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and general of the American Revolutionary army. 1826: Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die. 1831: President James Monroe, the last US president who was a Revolutionary veteran dies...they go in threes on the fourth?! At least his Doctrine endures!:timeout:

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836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples

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1802: the United State Military Academy at West Point opens; 1863: The Siege of Vicksburg ends: "The Father of Waters (Mississippi) flows unvexed once more"; 1872: Calvin Coolidge the 30th president gets it right and is BORN-Unlike some presidents, “Silent Cal” Coolidge wasn’t known for making memorable statements. The most famous quote associated with him is a line about business being the business of America.
That line is often cited “The business of America is business” or “The business of the American people is business.” In fact, both of those versions are misquotes. They aren’t radically different from what he actually said, which was “the chief business of the American people is business.” Yeah BBY-'Monkey business"! 1960; the fifty star flag recognizing Hawaiian statehood is unfurled- President Clinton later issues an official apology to the Native Hawaiians in 1993 for our annexation in 1893- essentially pineapple fueled 'monkey business'. At least President Grover Cleveland was an outspoken anti-imperialist and thought Americans had acted shamefully in Hawaii. He withdrew the annexation treaty from the Senate and ordered an investigation into potential wrong doings but the business of Manifest Destiny overruled... and I need a good vacation spot (Kauai) to escape all these California tourists!:doh:

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1806 - A Spanish army repelled the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1940 - During World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in France broke diplomatic relations.

1941 - German troops reached the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.

1943 - The battle of Kursk began as German tanks attack the Soviet salient. It was the largest tank battle in history.

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1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England.

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1483 - King Richard III of England was crowned.

1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA and deported back to England.

1777 - British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.

1917 - During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.

1942 - Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

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1535: Sir Thomas More is executed for treason for failing to sign Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy. At one point Lord Chancellor of England: A man of character, More had charm, unfailing humor, piercing wit, and a fearlessness that enabled him to jest even on the scaffold. His Utopia (http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/utopia.html) (published in Latin) is a picture of an ideal state founded entirely on reason.:timeout: His wit is immortal: at the scaffold he said to the attending officer: "You must help me to go up (the steps to the block) as for my coming down, I may shift for myself!":huh: 1944: Georges Mandel, France's minister of colonies and vehement opponent of the armistice with Germany, is executed in a wood outside Paris by collaborationist French. Mandel escaprd to Morocco, where he was arrested and sent back to France and imprisoned. He handed over to the Germans, and put in concentration camps in Oranienburg and Buchenwald. On July 4, 1944, he was shipped back to Paris, where the French paramilitary pro-Vichy "Milice", took him out to a wood and shot him. As he was being handed over to his countrymen by the German SS, he said: "To die is nothing. What is sad is to die without seeing the liberation of the country and the restoration of the Republic.":huh: 1998: Leonard Frank Sly passes away. AKA Roy Rogers set the standard for the Code of the West, not the least of which was staying married to Dale Evans! The star of 87 movies and a TV show; with his band, The Sons of the Pioneers: what all-American boy didn't have Tumblin' Tumbleweeds, Ghostriders in the Sky and a Palomino steed in his own fantasy inventory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQc5gDXQGIs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQc5gDXQGIs) 'Happy Trails' to you' ol' Pard!:salute: http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-100714-Roy-Rogers-auction/2332_1.grid-5x2.jpg

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1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.

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1483 - King Richard III of England was crowned.

1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA and deported back to England.

1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.http://captainkidd.org/wpimages/wpe3446e83_05.jpg https://www.piratedocuments.com/Images/Documents/capt_kidd_1695_gr_550w.jpg
Poor Captain Kidd was wrongfully executed in a political trial because he could not produce the above privateer documents (Conveniently misplaced for over 200 years) at at his London trial without which he was deemed an outright pirate; after which he was executed by hanging and then hung in chains, tarred, in a Thames estuary for three years, until nothing but bones were left. He should be granted a posthumous pardon. He never betrayed his political financial backers and maintained his innocence to the end. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Hanging_of_William_Kidd.jpg/250px-Hanging_of_William_Kidd.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hanging_of_William_Kidd.jpg) Richard III was just rediscovered, hastily buried, this year in Leicester-battle scarred, spine curved (scoliosis-Shakespeare got it right) and still bound at the wrists. His lower legs are missing from a previous excavation, He will reburied as befits an annointed king of England. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2014/5/23/1400839833718/Richard-IIIs-remains-were-012.jpg Richard "the Lionheart" is or was buried in three places: Richard's heart was buried at Rouen in Normandy, the entrails in Chalus (where he died), and the rest of his body was buried at the feet of his father at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou...the family plot if you will...Richard I was never a big-hearted guy-even less so now... http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66122000/jpg/_66122318_fig1b.jpg<the heart of the Lionheart autopsied for poison two yaers ago-no poison found.

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1124 - Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders

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1865: "Three men and a Lady" The lady is usually right!? in this case also the first woman executed in the US as one of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators. Photographed by Scotsman Alexander Gardiner. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/21/article-2162460-13B5020F000005DC-476_964x783.jpg1919: The first transcontinental Motor Convoy in which a US Army convoy crossed the United States departs Washington D.C. The trip ended September 6 1919 in San Francisco! Thank God for the interstate! I've done it (with a co-driver in '78) in big-rigs in less than 3 days-Gotta have fresh strawberries in the Big Apple! 1937: the Second Sino-Japanese War goes full scale as Imperial Japanese forces attack the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing-WW II starts! After the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941, the war merged into the greater conflict of WWII as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It also made up more than 50% of the casualties in the Pacific War if the 1937–1941 period is taken into account.?!! First built in 1189 and in its present form since 1698- the first shots 'heard round the world' of WWII were fired here 77 years ago... http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/china/beijing/photos/marco-polo-bridge01.jpgthe bridge on the Yongding River is a landmark and houses a war museum at one end. The skirmish is well remembered in China!

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951 - Paris is founded

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1663: King Charles II grants a Royal Charter to Rhode island(success:up:) 1776: Col. John Nixon reads the Declaration of Independence publically in front of Independence Hall, Philadelphia for the first time (relative success:up:) 1853: Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Yedo Bay, Japan to initiate diplomatic and trade relations with Japan. I own two Subaru Forresters and two Toyotas and have loved a Honda '76 CVCC...and sushi:up:(big success) 1919: President Woodrow Wilson arrives home from the Versailles Peace Conference to big welcome in the 'Big Apple':down:(failure) 1947: Demolition begins to make way for the United Nations Headquarters in the 'Big Apple'- should have been Bin Laden's preferred target!:down: (Failure) 1950: President Harry S. Truman appoints General Douglas MacArthur...Commander in Chief of United Nations Forces in Korea-sacking him 9 months later (failure:down:) Versailles was a truce, The DMZ in Korea is a truce...:hmmm: :/\\!! Both haunt us to this day from the middleast to the orient!:down: PS: 1889: First publication of the Wall Street Journal in the 'Big Apple"(success:up:) Any financial decisions made by me ba$ed on it...:down::wah:!

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1755 - General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia. He died on July 13.

1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain.

1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act of the British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.

1922 - Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 meters freestyle in less than a minute.

1943 - American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily.

1947 - The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.

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455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

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1540: Henry VIII has his marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled-a cheaper (Catherine of Aragon, Rome and the Act of Supremecy etc). and less 'messy' method (Ms Boleyn) of getting rid of unwanted spouses -what a learning curve!!! His foot armor with cod piece reveals all http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/02/article-1134222-0345BD54000005DC-996_224x507.jpg and was actually closely examined/consulted in the development of astronaut space suits. Anne was a 'lucky gal'; ol' Hank VIII, even with the cod piece off, was unable to 'consummate' the marriage-grounds for annulment-by church rules. Following the annulment of their marriage, Anne was given a 'generous settlement' by the King- to maintain cordial German foreign relations:hmmm:, and thereafter referred to as the King's Beloved Sister. She lived quietly in England, long enough to see the coronation of Bloody Queen Mary-Henry's first daughter, for whom my 2nd favorite drink is named?! outliving the rest of Henry's wives.:woot: Daughter #2, Elizabeth I followed her half-sister, Mary, to the throne, and England's Golden Age ensued- Clearly lionesses ultimately ran the Tudor Pride. Anne died in 1557 at the ripe old age of 41 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.http://bestbloodymaryrecipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bloody-mary-recipe-193x300.png (http://bestbloodymaryrecipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bloody-mary-recipe.png) Bloody Mary-with full regalia:up:

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1679 - The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.

1776 - The statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City.

1778 - In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declared war on England.

1940 - The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.

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48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.

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48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.

INDEED! the coolness of the man stands out here! From Wikipedia; " Pompey mounted an attack of six legions against Caesar's well fortified entrenched line where it joined the sea(its weak point) and where Caesar's IX legion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_IX_Hispana) was stationed. Heavily outnumbering the Caesarian troops, the Pompeian army broke through the weakened fortifications, causing this segment of Caesar's force to pull back from the onslaught. Caesar swiftly reinforced the breach with twelve cohorts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohort_(military_unit)) under Antony and then counterattacked, re-securing part of the wall and pushing Pompey's forces back. Although Caesar's counterattack was initially successful, Pompey's forces were simply too numerous and they began to outflank Caesar's right wing. This buckled as it was threatened from the rear, and as the wing collapsed, Caesar's army began to rout. At first Caesar personally tried to stem the retreat, but then realized the potentially disastrous danger his army faced and instead began to co-ordinate the withdrawal of his army.
Pompey ordered a halt, believing that Caesar had been decisively beaten, and also suspecting a trap. According to Plutarch, Caesar remarked on that decision saying, "Today the victory had been the enemy's, had there been any one among them to take it.":03:
Caesar next captured the town of Gomphi, allowing his men to resupply and rest and then moved towards Pharsalus, where the decisive Battle of Pharsalus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pharsalus) would soon be fought." Exactly one month August (8/9/48 BC) later at Pharsalus, in Greece, Pompey would be decisively defeated by an army 1/2 half his size. Utterly routed, Pompey would flee to Egypt and a swift death from beheading. Less than 4 years later, Caesar himself would be assassinated (Beware the Ides of March) on 3/15/44 BC-falling dead ...at the foot of Pompey's statue!:hmmm: Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the self taught Confederate 'wizard of the saddle' said it best; "When ya got 'em on the run, keep up the skeer' " Pompey failed of this rule of war and it cost him his life and Rome her Republic...http://media1.shmoop.com/media/images/original/caesar-death.jpgPompey ( without a toga)...at the worst 'toga party' in history! "ET tu Brute"?!:huh: 1890: Wyoming becomes the 44th state of the Union. Having been the first to grant the vote to women in 1869, mostly to lure marriageable females to the ''wild west' then a territory; this marks the official end of the American Republic - We is a Democracy fer sure NOW BBY!:woot:http://www.statueofliberty.org/photos/statue_of_liberty_01s.jpg (http://www.statueofliberty.org/Statue_of_Liberty_Picture_01.html)Lady? Liberty:rock:

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The battle of Northampton 1460.

Yorkist victory. Blast. :nope:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Northampton_(1460)

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1708 - The French were defeated at Oudenarde, Malplaquet, in the Netherlands by the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy.

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1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.

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1804: Alexander Hamilton killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. We live in a political dreamscape envisioned by Jefferson perhaps... but an economy designed by Hamilton. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/US10dollarbill-Series_2004A.jpg/220px-US10dollarbill-Series_2004A.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US10dollarbill-Series_2004A.jpg) 1914: George Herman "Babe" Ruth debuts as a Red Sox pitcher and defeats Cleveland 4-3...One hundred years ago TODAY! by 1920 he is a Yankee and Yankee Stadium IS The House the Babe Built! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Babe_Ruth_Red_Sox_1918.jpg/220px-Babe_Ruth_Red_Sox_1918.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Babe_Ruth_Red_Sox_1918.jpg) 1798: The United States Marine Corps is re-established formally by Congress...Semper Fidelis 'Leathernecks'!:salute:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/USMC_War_Memorial_Night.jpg/220px-USMC_War_Memorial_Night.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USMC_War_Memorial_Night.jpg)

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1109 - Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli

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1984: Walter Fritz Mondale, Senator from Minnesota, (You Bitcha?) announces his choice for Vice President: Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York And US Rep. in Congress as well as representative to the United Nations. The First woman to run on a major party ticket. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/GeraldineFerraro.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeraldineFerraro.jpg) 1543: Henry VIII marries the his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr. She played well above par; neither divorced(1) beheaded (2) dead in child birth(1) or annulled (1); she out-lived Ol' Hank. The three short years of her reign as queen left their indelible mark on English history however: " She was also the most-married English queen, with four husbands, and the first English queen to be titled "Queen of Ireland". Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with Henry's three children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England) and Edward (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England), both of whom became English monarchs. (Along with 'Bloody Mary') She was extremely influential in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Succession_Act) in 1543 that restored both his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth (both had been declared bastards), to the line of succession to the throne." Better than the vote-IT'S GOOD TO BE QUEEN! if, as in an above post, 'Lionesses ran the Tudor pride', Ms Parr was the Lioness-in-chief!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Catherine_Parr_from_NPG.jpg/220px-Catherine_Parr_from_NPG.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Catherine_Parr_from_NPG.jpg)1690: William of Orange(Holland)- William III of England, defeats James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland. William III had married James II's daughter Mary (also his cousin-keep-it in the family!) and they both succeeded to the throne in 'the Glorious Revolution' which had deposed daddy, James II, a Catholic. Mary II, a Protestant: "Mary wielded less power than William when he was in England, ceding most of her authority to him, though he heavily relied on her. She did, however, act alone when William was engaged in military campaigns abroad, proving herself to be a powerful, firm, and effective ruler." The joint reign is oft referred to as William and Mary. By which in 1693, the College of William And Mary was founded at Williamsbug VA-America's second oldest institution. Ever the mark of success: defeat your rival for the throne ...and start a school!:up: It ain't always what you know or how you choose to pray, it's sometimes who you marry-in this case, a Protestant Queen of England!http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/1662_Mary_II.jpg/220px-1662_Mary_II.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1662_Mary_II.jpg)

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1537 - Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf of Francisco Pizarro

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1174 - William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

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100 BC: Julius Gaius Caesar is born: Great movies(Cleopatra and the TV mini-series Rome), one Shakespeare play, the month of July, Siege warfare (Alesia), mass slaughter, and other Gauling episodes of history ensue; Rome becomes an Empire instead of a Republic; The Rubicon River is crossed and the "die is cast"- not to include reading Caesar's Commentaries and thinking of myself in the third person...all over a glass of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Rubicon Cabernet Sauvignon' from his Napa winery just up the road. I have two glasses on the Ides of March! :hmmm: 1772: James Cook, a Yorkshire sailor navigator and cartographer extraordinaire, begins his Second Voyage of Discovery to the Pacific and circumnavigates the globe. A perilous Antarctic voyage with icebergs and Maori Cannibals, Cook only lost four men to disease by his rigorous health practices aboard his two vessels to prevent scurvy." Cook was in no doubt that the principal cause of the health of his crews was owing to regular doses of malt, and woe betide the sailor who refused it! In a paper delivered to the Royal Society he said of malt, 'This is without doubt one of the best antiscorbutic [effective against scurvy] sea-medicines yet found out; and if given in time will, with proper attention to other things, I am persuaded, prevent the scurvy from making any great progress for a considerable time'." Cook not only conquered the Pacific he conquered the greatest killer of sailors, Scurvy-a problem even later for U-Boats on extended patrols. The secret to good healthy sailing-Eat your (fresh) vegetables:up: ...and stay away from cannibals-lest YOU become the fresh vegetable!:oops::dead:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Cook%27sSecondVoyage53.png/600px-Cook%27sSecondVoyage53.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cook%27sSecondVoyage53.png)1863: the largest civil unrest in American history apart from the Civil War itself begins in New York City-The Draft Riots. Several regiments from the battle of Gettysburg are diverted to maintain order. The Draft Act, perceived as discriminatory towards the lower classes (ethic Irish) and the Emancipation Proclamation, which threatened jobs from newly freed slaves, triggered extensive damage and casualties. "The exact death toll during the New York Draft Riots is unknown, at least 120 civilians were killed. In all, eleven black men were lynched over five days. The riots forced hundreds of blacks to flee the city. Violence by longshoremen against black men was especially fierce in the docks area." -wikipedia.
The most reliable estimates indicate that at least 2,000 people were injured and 8,000 wounded, but this figure is not widely accepted. Total property damage was about $1–5 million ($19.2 million – $95.8 million, adjusted for inflation)." New York ain't called the Big(rotten)Apple fer nuthin'!:nope:

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1789: BASTILLE DAY! Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and completely dismantle the 10-story Bastille, a royal fortress and grim symbol of the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution. After protracted negotiations and bloody fighting, the Swiss Guards and the bastille's governor are killed by the revolutionaries in a frenzy of... justifiable homicide. 1099: During the First Crusade, Christian knights from Europe, led by Led by Raymond of Toulouse, Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert of Flanders, and Bohemond of Otranto, take the city of Jerusalem after a 7 week siege and begin massacring the city's Muslim and Jewish population. "GOD WILLS IT"!-justifiable homicide. Having achieved their goal, the leaders established five small Christian states in the region under the rule of the leaders of the crusade. 1881: Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Wm. Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. Ambushed in the dark, the Kid passes into Western Lore. Pat Garret is exonerated in a subsequent inquest: justifiable homicide.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Billy_the_Kid_corrected.jpg/220px-Billy_the_Kid_corrected.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Billy_the_Kid_corrected.jpg) 1918: 2nd Lt Quentin Roosevelt, 95th Aero Squadron with one victory to his credit, is shot down in combat in his Nieuport 28 over the Marne by Sgt. Karle Emil Gräper of Jasta 50. It is Gräper's only victory of the war over the youngest son of the famous president, naturalist-author, and Rough Rider. Young Roosevelt is buried with full military honors by the Germans out of respect for the greatly admired ex-president. Death in aerial combat- justifiable homicide. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Quentin_Roosevelt_Grave_France.jpg Quentin's remains have since been moved to the American Cemetery above Omaha Beach-next to his brother, General Theodore Roosevelt, the oldest soldier(56) and only general in the first wave to land on D-Day-with a cane!-and recipient of the Medal of Honor-posthumously, after a heart attack-for his actions at Utah Beach-he was buried on Bastille Day 1944. :timeout: His own son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt, landed at Omaha- the only father-son team on the beaches on 6/6/44.

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1799: The French soldiers under Napoleon in Egypt discover the Rosetta Stone, which proves instrumental in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The study, collection, and fascination with Egyptology becomes the rage and still is to this day. The enigma machine of archeology if ever! Written in three languages including ancient Greek, the clues to all Egyptian hieroglyph inscriptions were made possible. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Copy_of_Rosetta_Stone.jpg/640px-Copy_of_Rosetta_Stone.jpg 1941: master spy Juan Pujol Garcia, nicknamed "Garbo," sends his first communique to Germany from Britain. The Germans knew him as "Arabel," whereas the English knew him as Garbo. Garcia was a British double agent. His penchant for creating false agents and convincing Hitler that the D-Day landing were a diversionary attack-the real landing would be the Pas de Calais- made him the master disinformation ace of WWII...so much so that Hitler, while visiting occupied France, awarded Garcia the Iron Cross-2nd class for his service to the fatherland. That same year, 1944, Garcia received his true reward, the title of MBE—Member of the British Empire—for his service to the England and the Allied cause. This ingenious Spaniard had proved to be one of the Allies' most successful counterintelligence tools.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Joan_pujol_garcia.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joan_pujol_garcia.jpg) Mr Garcia-perhaps the only person decorated by both sides in WWII! 1862: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. "Similar in design and appearance to the more famous CSS Virginia (Merrimack), the vessel was completed by early July. Setting sail with a crew of 100 sailors and 60 soldiers(to help man the guns) the Arkansas steamed to Vicksburg, where ADM Farragut's gunboats were rapidly dominating the river from New Orleans northward. At the mouth of the Yazoo River on July 15, 1862, the Arkansas engaged with the three Union ships sent to intercept the ironclad. After fighting through these ships, the Arkansas headed for the bulk of Farragut's fleet. It then sailed through the flotilla, damaging 16 ships. The engagement temporarily shifted Confederate fortunes on the Mississippi..." When yer only up against one fleet ya only need one iron-clad!:woot: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/CSS_Arkansas_2.jpg

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463 - Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius

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1808: Lewis and Clark, the dynamic duo of the Journey of Exploration and Discovery of the Louisiana Purchase, help form the, Missouri Fur Company-Life become miserable for Indians and beaver generally.:down: 1769: Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, founds the first Catholic mission in California on the site of present-day San Diego. For the native Americans life becomes exceeding miserable...:down: 1945: the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, NM. "we are become death the destroyer of worlds"-Oppenheimer. I sit in school hallways thru the 50's and 60's practicing kissing my gandu farewell...life is miserable.:down: 1940: Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain, WWI hero, becomes prime minister of the Vichy government of France. "Ils ne passeront pas!" becomes Oops! Life becomes "Le miserable':|\\ 1935: The world's first parking meter, known as Park-O-Meter No. 1, is installed Oklahoma City, OK.; whether in big rigs or autos, in New York or San Francisco, with one of the world's largest quarter collections just for the lebenstraum meter-wise... life is mi$erable:down: (Been towed twice and the fine is over $200+) http://theexpiredmeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/park-o-meter.jpg (http://theexpiredmeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/park-o-meter.jpg)Park-o-meter #1 only took nickles:up:

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855 - St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope

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1918 - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46
1918 - Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 17
1918 - Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last Tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 - Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Trupp, lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Russian_Imperial_Family_1911.jpg/800px-Russian_Imperial_Family_1911.jpg All in all: a clean sweep and the family, as was the custom with communist executions, was not charged for the bullets!:timeout: Bullet fees are still assessed (allegedly) in Iran and China:yep:

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King George V reviews the Royal Navy at Spithead in 1914, the last review before the outbreak of the First World War.

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1330 - Battle of Velbuzd

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532 - Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle

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1941: Joltin' Joe's 56 game hitting streak ends!
"In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_(baseball)). According to the Official Baseball Rules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Baseball_Rules), such a streak is ended when a player has at least 1 plate appearance and no hits. A streak shall not be terminated if all official plate appearances result in a base on balls, hit by pitch, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. The streak shall terminate if the player has a sacrifice fly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_fly) and no hit."
Joe DiMaggio holds the Major League Baseball record with a streak of 56 consecutive games in 1941 which began on May 15 and ended July 17. DiMaggio hit .408 during his streak (91 for 223), with 15 homeruns and 55 RBI's. Pete Rose 1978 and Willie Keeler 1898 are a distant tie at 44 apiece. http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/0/3/8/66613038/cuts/AP154868377968_q67ksxwu_mnlma7l5.jpg DiMaggio excelled at other diamond sports as well. After Marilyn Monroe's death in 1962, DiMaggio never remarried, and when he passed away in 1999, his last words were said to be, "I'll finally get to see Marilyn." Now that is really 'Keepin' yer eye on the ball' IMHO:rock: