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Jimbuna · 04-06-15, 06:27 AM

1889 - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time.

1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I.

1980 - Post It Notes, introduced.

Betonov · 04-06-15, 01:48 PM

1941, Germany bombs Belgrade and begins it's invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia. With help from some allies that are to dispicable to mention by name.

Jimbuna · 04-07-15, 11:23 AM

1964 - IBM announces the System/360.

Jimbuna · 04-08-15, 05:47 AM

1766 - 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain.

1879 - Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time.

1913 - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing).

1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue.

Jimbuna · 04-09-15, 06:32 AM

1865 - US Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.

1945 - Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel.

Aktungbby · 04-09-15, 10:01 AM

1682: French explorer Robert de la Salle claims the Mississippi River basin for France. Eventually this leads to greatest real estate deal in American history...the Louisiana Purchase!

Jimbuna · 04-10-15, 05:04 AM

1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage.

1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced.

1970 - Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles.

Aktungbby · 04-11-15, 12:18 AM

1815: Mt Tambora explodes on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. one of the most powerful in recorded history and classified as a VEI-7 event. The eruption resulted in a brief period of significant climate conditions that consistently led to various cases of extreme weather. The eruption column lowered global temperatures, and some experts believe this led to global cooling and worldwide harvest failures, sometimes known as the Year Without a Summer. It is believed that from the eruption and subsequent starvation 71,000 people were killed as a direct result of the explosion- approx. 4 times the power of Krakatoa's blast. This climate anomaly has been blamed for the severity of typhus epidemics in southeast Europe and the eastern Mediterranean between 1816 and 1819. The climate changes disrupted the Indian monsoons, caused three failed harvests and famine contributing to the spread of a new strain of Cholera originating in Bengal in 1816. Many livestock died in New England during the winter of 1816–1817. Cool temperatures and heavy rains resulted in failed harvests in Britain and Ireland. Families in Wales travelled long distances as refugees, begging for food. Famine was prevalent in north and southwest Ireland, following the failure of wheat, oat , and potato harvests. The crisis was severe in Germany, where food prices rose sharply and demonstrations in front of grain markets and bakeries, followed by riots, arson, and looting, took place in many European cities. It was the worst famine of the 19th century and genuine 'volcanic winter'.[wiki]http://www.wired.com/2015/04/tambora-1815-just-big-eruption/ Compared to Tambora, Mt St Helens, a VEI 5 (as was Vesuvius)...was a burp...

Jimbuna · 04-11-15, 08:36 AM

1814 - Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba.

1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.

1961 - Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel.

Jimbuna · 04-12-15, 08:57 AM

1204 - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople.

1961 - Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1).

Aktungbby · 04-13-15, 09:44 AM

1912: With the growing recognition of the potential for aircraft as a cost-effective method of reconnaissance and artillery observation, the Committee of Imperial Defence established a sub-committee to examine the question of military aviation in November 1911. On 28 February 1912 the sub-committee reported its findings which recommended that a flying corps be formed and that it consist of a naval wing, a military wing, a central flying school and an aircraft factory. The recommendations of the committee were accepted and on 13 April 1912 King George V signed a royal warrant establishing the Royal Flying Corps.

'Through adversity to the stars'

Jimbuna · 04-13-15, 10:00 AM

1866 - Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage) was born.

Jimbuna · 04-14-15, 05:52 AM

1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater.

1912 - RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland.

Aktungbby · 04-14-15, 04:37 PM

2010: the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano erupts in Iceland! spreading an ash cloud over the North Atlantic and Europe! AktungBBY, visiting his daughter at her studies in Galway, Eire, has a blast. Unable to depart at Shannon Airport for a week-PLAN A- due to the pumice dust affecting jet engines-the hotel across from the Shannon Airport declared all stranded travelers 'ad hoc refugees' and extended our 1-night stay w/o raising the rates and fed us handsomely to boot! Best plan 'B' time I ever had! I and my Kindle closed the bar every night.

Jimbuna · 04-15-15, 06:48 AM

1912 - RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on.

2013 - 3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

04-06-15, 06:27 AM	#691
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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1964 - IBM announces the System/360. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1766 - 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain. 1879 - Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time. 1913 - Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing). 1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-09-15, 06:32 AM	#695
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1865 - US Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. 1945 - Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-09-15, 10:01 AM	#696
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,918 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	1682: French explorer Robert de la Salle claims the Mississippi River basin for France. Eventually this leads to greatest real estate deal in American history...the Louisiana Purchase! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

04-06-15, 01:48 PM	#692
Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	1941, Germany bombs Belgrade and begins it's invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia. With help from some allies that are to dispicable to mention by name.

04-10-15, 05:04 AM	#697
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage. 1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced. 1970 - Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-11-15, 12:18 AM	#698
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,918 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	1815: Mt Tambora explodes on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. one of the most powerful in recorded history and classified as a VEI-7 event. The eruption resulted in a brief period of significant climate conditions that consistently led to various cases of extreme weather. The eruption column lowered global temperatures, and some experts believe this led to global cooling and worldwide harvest failures, sometimes known as the Year Without a Summer. It is believed that from the eruption and subsequent starvation 71,000 people were killed as a direct result of the explosion- approx. 4 times the power of Krakatoa's blast. This climate anomaly has been blamed for the severity of typhus epidemics in southeast Europe and the eastern Mediterranean between 1816 and 1819. The climate changes disrupted the Indian monsoons, caused three failed harvests and famine contributing to the spread of a new strain of Cholera originating in Bengal in 1816. Many livestock died in New England during the winter of 1816–1817. Cool temperatures and heavy rains resulted in failed harvests in Britain and Ireland. Families in Wales travelled long distances as refugees, begging for food. Famine was prevalent in north and southwest Ireland, following the failure of wheat, oat , and potato harvests. The crisis was severe in Germany, where food prices rose sharply and demonstrations in front of grain markets and bakeries, followed by riots, arson, and looting, took place in many European cities. It was the worst famine of the 19th century and genuine 'volcanic winter'.[wiki]http://www.wired.com/2015/04/tambora-1815-just-big-eruption/ Compared to Tambora, Mt St Helens, a VEI 5 (as was Vesuvius)...was a burp... __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 04-11-15 at 12:28 AM.

04-11-15, 08:36 AM	#699
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1814 - Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba. 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan. 1961 - Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-12-15, 08:57 AM	#700
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1204 - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople. 1961 - Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1). __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-13-15, 09:44 AM	#701
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,918 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	happy birthday! Per ardua ad astra 1912: With the growing recognition of the potential for aircraft as a cost-effective method of reconnaissance and artillery observation, the Committee of Imperial Defence established a sub-committee to examine the question of military aviation in November 1911. On 28 February 1912 the sub-committee reported its findings which recommended that a flying corps be formed and that it consist of a naval wing, a military wing, a central flying school and an aircraft factory. The recommendations of the committee were accepted and on 13 April 1912 King George V signed a royal warrant establishing the Royal Flying Corps. 'Through adversity to the stars' __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

04-13-15, 10:00 AM	#702
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1866 - Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage) was born. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater. 1912 - RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

04-14-15, 04:37 PM	#704
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,918 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Upon the old sod stood I as Vulcan is a strange god 2010: the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano erupts in Iceland! spreading an ash cloud over the North Atlantic and Europe! AktungBBY, visiting his daughter at her studies in Galway, Eire, has a blast. Unable to depart at Shannon Airport for a week-PLAN A- due to the pumice dust affecting jet engines-the hotel across from the Shannon Airport declared all stranded travelers 'ad hoc refugees' and extended our 1-night stay w/o raising the rates and fed us handsomely to boot! Best plan 'B' time I ever had! I and my Kindle closed the bar every night. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

04-15-15, 06:48 AM	#705
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,344 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1912 - RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on. 2013 - 3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)