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This Day in History
1885
The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere. 1928 Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. 1944 The Republic of Iceland was established. 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools. 1972 Burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, DC, started the Watergate political scandal. 1994 O. J. Simpson's slow-speed chase by the police, watched by millions on TV, ended in his arrest. 2002 Australian scientists announced that they had "teleported" a laser beam—breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location. I find this last one very interesting.:alien: |
Actually they transported a single photon.
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1966 my sister was born
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1862
Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories. 1987 The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well. 2002 Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai was sworn in. |
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Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" was released in the U.S. 43 years ago today. :devil: |
March 14, 1910
Lakeview Oil Company was drilling for oil in Kern County, California, expecting natural gas and a bit of oil. At 2440 feet pressurized oil blew through the well casing. And continued to do so for 544 days. The gusher was finally brought under control in September of 1911. Initial flow was 18,800 barrels per day, peaking at 90,000 per day. Total = 9,400,000 barrels (1,200,000 tons), of which less than half was recovered. The event is known as The Lakeview Gusher. |
April 10, 837
Halley's Comet comes to within 3.2 million miles of Earth. 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time, one day after surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General U.S. Grant. 1925 "The Great Gatsby" is published. 1970 Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, announces he is leaving the band. 1992 Sam Kinison is killed in a head-on crash near Needles, California. |
April 10, 1976
I was in a muther-fucking school bus accident, as reminded by a schoolmate on bacefook. |
Damn. Did you make it?
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April 11, 1965
Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak - 47 tornadoes strike the states of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, killing 271 people, and injuring 1,500. 137 of those dead, and 1,200 of those injured were in Indiana. 1970 "Houston, we've had a problem." - The Apollo 13 Accident |
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Well, that don't sound fun at all.
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April 14, 1828
Noah Webster copyrights his American Dictionary of the English Language. 1846 The Donner Party departs Springfield, Illinois headed for California. Some of them got hungry. Damn hungry. 1860 The first Pony Express (founded (in part) by my homeboy Alexander Majors) rider reached San Francisco. 1865 Abe Lincoln takes in a show. 1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight occurs in El Paso, Texas. 1912 The RMS Titanic, touted as unsinkable, proves otherwise. 1956 Videotape is first demonstrated. 1999 The costliest Australian natural disaster, a hailstorm, strikes Sydney, dishing out A$2.3 billion in insured damages. Births Christiaan Huygens-1629; Anne Sullivan-1866; John Gielgud-1904; Rod Steiger-1925; Loretta Lynn-1932; Pete Rose-1941; Ritchie Blackmore-1945; Deaths John Singer Sargent-1925; Richard Hickock (of 'In Cold Blood' infamy)-1965; Burl Ives-1995; Don Ho-2007; Percy Sledge-2015 |
April 15, 1802
William Wordsworth takes a walk with his sister, Dorothy, and is inspired to write "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud". 1817 The American School For The Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, is founded in Hartford, Connecticut. 1861 President Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to stop the insurrection that became the Civil War. 1865 President Lincoln dies a day after being shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes President. 1892 General Electric is formed. 1912 The Titanic sinks the day after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. 1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. 1945 Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. 1952 The B-52 Stratofortress makes its maiden flight. 1964 The first Ford Mustang rolls off the showroom floor. 2013 Two bombs explode near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Births Leonardo da Vinci-1452; Joseph Seagram-1841;Thomas Hart Benton-1889; Percy Shaw-1890; Corrie ten Boom-1892; Nikita Krushchev-1894; Roy Clark-1933; Dave Edmunds-1944; Michael Kamen-1948; Heloise-1951; Emma Thompson-1959; songwrite Linda Perry-1965; Samantha Fox-1966; Seth Rogen-1982 Deaths Abraham Lincoln-1865; Wallace Beery-1949; Jean-Paul Sartre-1980; Corrie ten Boom-1983; Pol Pot-1998; Joey Ramone-2001 |
Is music ok for this thread?
Hope so; April 17th 1960: At age 21, Eddie Cochran was killed, in the UK, when a taxi he was riding in struck a lamp post on Rowden Hill, Chippenham, Wiltshire -- the taxi driver was convicted of "dangerous driving", fined £50, disqualified from driving for 15 years and imprisoned for six months Plus, in a way of introduction (and proof that I am not a BOT/Spammer), my name is Randall, from Fort Worth TX. Have a great day! rgb |
April 17, 1397
Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time. 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches New York harbor. 1861 Virginia votes to secede. 1897 The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident 1937 Daffy Duck makes his first appearance, in "Porky's Duck Hunt". 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion 1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. 1970 The best friend I've ever had was born. Apollo 13 returns, safely, to Earth. 2013 An explosion at a fertilizer warehouse in West, Texas kills 15, wounds 160. Births Alexander Cartwright-1820; J.P.Morgan-1837; Thornton Wilder-1897; Nicolas Nabokov-1903; William Holden-1918; Harry Reasoner-1923; Don Kirshner-1934; Paul Thomas-1947; Rowdy Roddy Piper-1954; Sean Bean-1959; Boomer Esiason-1961; Maynard James Keenan-1964:devil:; John-1970; Ruffian (race horse)-1982; Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice)-1974 Deaths Benjamin Franklin-1790; George Jennings (invented the flush toilet, God bless him)-1882; Eddie Cochran-1960; Felix Pappalardi-1983; Dick Shawn-1987; Linda McCartney-1998; Kitty Carlisle-2007 |
April 19, 1770
Lt. James Cook sights the east of coast of what would become known as Australia. 1951 Gen. Douglas MacArthur retires from the military. 1971 Charles Manson is sentencd to death fro the Tate-LaBianca murders. 1985 ATF and FBI agents lay siege to The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later. 1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short on The Tracey Ullman Show. 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47. 1993 The 51 day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas ends when fire breaks out in one of the buildings. 81 are killed. South Dakota governor George Mickelson is killed, along with seven others, when a state-owned plane crashes near Dubuque, Iowa. 1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168 people. 1997 Fire breaks out in Grand Forks, North Dakota, which is inundated by the Red River Flood. Eleven buildings are destroyed. 2011 Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, a title he'd held since July 1961. 2013 Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. Births Ole Evinrude-1877; Eliot Ness-1903; Jack Roush-1942; Tim Curry-1946; Ashley Judd-1968; Jesse James (bike builder)-1969 Deaths Lord Byron-1824; Charles Darwin-1882; Pierre Curie-1906; Jim Corbett-1955; David Koresh, George Mickelson-1993; Ruth Hussey-2005; Allan Arbus (Dr. Sidney Freedman on MASH), Al Neuharth, Tamerlan Tsarnaev-2013; Freddie Gray-2015 |
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April 20, 1861
Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the U.S. Army to command the forces of the state of Virginia. 1918 The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, shoots down his final victim. 1945 Adolf Hitler makes his final trip to the surface from the Fόhrerbunker. It is his 56th birthday. 1946 The League of Nations is offically dissolved. 1972 Apollo 16 lands on the moon. 1999 Columbine high school shooting kills 13, and injures 21. 2007 Johnson Space Center shooting 2010 The semi-submersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes and burns. Oil spills for six months. Births Adolf Hitler-1889; Bruce Cabot-1904; Lionel Hampton-1908; John Paul Stevens-1920; George Takei-1937; Jamie Gillis-1943; Veronica Cartwright-1949; Jessica Lange-1948; Luther Vandross-1951; Clint Howard-1959; Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf-1962; Andy Serkis-1964; Mike Portnoy-1967 Deaths Chief Pontiac-1769; Bram Stoker-1912; Steve Marriott, Don Siegel-1991; Benny Hill-1992; Christopher Robin Milne-1996; Rick Rude, Seρor Wences-1999 |
April 22, 1970
The first Earth Day is celebrated. 1977 For the first time, optical fiber is used to carry live telephone traffic. 1993 Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released. 2008 The last F-117 Nighthawk in service is retired. Births Immanuel Kant-1724; Vladimir Lenin-1870; Nicola Sacco-1891; Vladimir Nabokov-1899; J. Robert Oppenheimer-1904; Eddie Albert1906; Yehudi Menuhin-1916; Charles Mingus-1922; Bettie Page, Aaron Spelling-1923; Glen Campbell-1936; Jack Nicholson-1937; Steve Fossett-1944; John Waters-1946; Peter Frampton-1950; Paul Carrack-1951 Deaths Henry Royce-1933; Earl Hines-1983; Ansel Adams-1984; Richard Nixon-1994; Erma Bombeck-1996; Linda Lovelace-2002; Pat Tillman-2004; Richie Havens-2013 |
April 23, 1985
Coca Cola has the biggest brainfart ever, and reformulates its product and releases it as "New" Coke. Yeah, that lasted three months. 2005 The first YouTube video is uploaded, entitled "Me, At The Zoo". Births James Buchanan-1791; Stephen Douglas-1813; Shirley Temple-1928; Halston, Jim Fixx-1932; Roy Orbison-1936; Lee Majors-1939; Sandra Dee-1942; Hervι Villechaize ("De plane! De plane!")-1943; Narada Michael Walden-1952; James Russo-1953; Tony Atlas-1954; Timothy McVeigh-1968; and just for Sheldon, John Cena-1977 Deaths Bill Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes-1616; William Wordsworth-1850; Alferd (no, not Alfred) Packer-1907; Charles Dawes-1950; William Hartnell (Dr. Who)-1975; Buster Crabbe-1983; Otto Preminger-1986; Johnny Thunders-1991; Cesar Chavez-1993; Howard Cosell, John C. Stennis-1995; James Earl Ray-1998; David Halberstam, Boris Yeltsin-2007 |
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can one of you Brits get your hands on one of these 2# coins for me? |
Those are 2 of 3 different coins. Which do you want? Click on the image to order all 3 from the Royal Mint.
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Oh. I thought the crown was the back. I want the skull. Thanks!
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Cool, the Queen and her mother.
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He could get this nice shiny limited edition version and have it welded onto his Harley's gas tank, maybe one on each side.
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Nah, silver matches, gold clashes.
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And it is the Pound Sterling, not the Pound Carat. I suppose silver is more authentic too.
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April 25, 1847
The last survivors of The Donner Party leave the wilderness. 1859 Ground is broken for the Suez Canal. 1898 The U.S. declares war on Spain. 1915 The Battle of Gallipoli begins. 1916 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time. 1944 The United Negro College Fund is established. 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson describe the structure of DNA. 1954 The first practical solar cell is demonstrated. 1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping. 1960 The USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1961 Robert Noyce patents the integrated circuit. 1983 Pioneer 10 travels beyond the orbit of Pluto. Yuri Andropov invites 11-year old Samantha Smith to visit the Soviet Union. 2015 Nepal is hit with a 7.8 earthquake that kills over 9,000 people. Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Births Oliver Cromwell-1599; Guglielmo Marconi-1874; Edward R. Murrow-1908; Ella Fitzgerald-1917; Albert King-1923; Paul Mazursky-1930; Meadowlark Lemon-1932; Jerry Leiber-1933; Al Pacino-1940; Stu Cook-1945; Steve Ferrone-1950; Joe Buck-1969; Tim Duncan-1976 Deaths 12th Dalai Lama-1875; Art Fleming, Ginger Rogers-1995; Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes-2002; Bobby Pickett-2007; Bea Arthur-2009 |
April 26, 1777
Sixteen year old Sybil Ludington rides forty miles to alert Colonial forces to the approach of the British. 1865 Presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union forces. 1933 The Gestapo is established. 1962 Ranger 4, the first U.S. spacecraft to reach another celestial body, crashes into the far side of the moon. 1966 An earthquake destroys most of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 1986 The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes and burns, resulting in the world's worst nuclear power plant accident. 1989 A tornado strikes Bangladesh, killing 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving almost 80,000 homeless. It is the world's deadliest tornado. 1991 A tornado outbreak sees 70 tornadoes form over the central U.S.. Births Marcus Aurelius-121; John James Audubon-1785; Frederick Law Olmsted-1822; Rudolf Hess-1894; Charles Francis Richter-1900; Carol Burnett-1933; Gary Wright-1943; Jet Li-1963 Deaths John Wilkes Booth-1865; Gypsy Rose Lee-1970; Jim Davis-1981; Count Basie-1984; Broderick Crawford-1986; Lucille Ball-1989; A. B. Guthrie, Jr.-1991; George Jones-2013; Jayne Meadows-2015 |
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Practical. When telling the story, if they say Sybil Ludington the response is, Who? Saying Paul Revere who everybody knows, they aren't interrupted and get on with it. Besides, it's in the national interest to promote a hero, instead of heroin. That shit's bad for kids, and other living things. :haha:
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Hey, I like John Cena!
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Not like Sheldon!
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April 28, 1503
Battle of Cerignola, the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder (as opposed to black powder). 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty, Lt. Bligh and 18 others are set adrift, while the remaining crew return, temporarily, to Tahiti. 1869 Chinese and Irish laborers lay ten miles of railroad track in one day, a record that remains unbroken today. 1881 Billy The Kid escapes from the Lincoln County, New Mexico jail. 1932 A vaccine for yellow fever is announced. 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress are executed by firing squad. 1947 Thor Heyerdahl, and five crew, set out from Peru on the Kontiki, to prove ancient Peruvians could have settled in Polynesia. 1952 Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. U.S. occupation of Japan ends. 1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction to the U.S. Army. He is stripped of his boxing championship and license. 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. 1988 Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, to her death, when part of the 737's fuselage separates mid-flight. 1994 Former CIA officer/analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to espionage. 2001 Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist. Births James Monroe-1758; Lionel Barrymore-1878; Jan Oort-1900; Oskar Schindler-1908; Ferruccio Lamborghini-1916; Harper Lee-1926; James Baker-1930; Tariq Aziz-1936; Saddam Hussein-1937; Ann-Margret:joylove:-1941; Terry Pratchett-1948; Bruno Kirby, Indian Larry-1949; Jay Leno-1950; Chuck Leavell, Mary McDonnell-1952; Hal Sutton-1958; Elena Kagan-1960; John Daly-1966 Deaths John "Jack" Russell-1883; Benito Mussolini-1945; Ed Begley (Sr.)-1970; Tommy Caldwell-1980; Steve Currie-1981; Ken Curtis-1991; Jim Valvano-1993; Rory Calhoun-1999; Dabbs Greer, Tommy Newsom-2007; Vern Gosdin "The Voice"-2009; Jack Ely-2015 |
April 29, 1770
James Cook arrives at Botany Bay, Australia. 1945 The concentration camp at Dachau is liberated by U.S. troops. 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: U.S. troops begin evacuating U.S. citizens from Saigon. 2004 After 107 years of production, Oldsmobile builds its final car. Births William Randolph Hearst-1863; Duke Ellington-1899; Hirohito-1901; Lonnie Donegan-1931; Rod McKuen, Willie Nelson-1933; Otis Rush-1935; Bernard Madoff-1938; Tommy James, Johnny Miller-1947; Dale Earnhardt, Sr.-1951; Jerry Seinfeld-1954; Daniel Day-Lewis, Timothy Treadwell-1957; Jay Cutler-1983 Deaths J. B. Lenoir-1967; Alfred Hitchcock-1980; Mike Royko-1997; Amarillo Slim-2012; Bob Hoskins-2014; Calvin Peete-2015 |
April 30, 1492
Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. 1789 George Washington takes the Presidential Oath of Office and becomes the first President of the United States. 1803 The U.S. purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15,000,000, doubling the size of the nation. 1812 The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state, Louisiana. 1900 Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory. Casey Jones drives his train through a thirty foot ditch. 1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. 1975 The Peoples Army of Vietnam captures Saigon. 2009 Chrysler files Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Births Alice B. Toklas-1877; Al Lewis-1923; Michael Waltrip-1963; Johnny Galecki-1975; Kunal Nayyar-1981 Deaths Casey Jones-1900; Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun-1945; Alben W. Barkley-1956; George Balanchine, Muddy Waters-1983; Sergio Leone-1989; Darrell Sweet-1999; Tom Poston-2007; Ben E. King-2013 |
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May 2, 1885
The magazine 'Good Housekeeping' goes on sale for the first time. 1918 General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company. 1952 The De Havilland Comet, the world's first jet airliner, makes its maiden flight. 1955 Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1969 The Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City. 1982 Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. 1986 The city of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the nuclear power plant there explodes and burns. 2000 President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. 2011 Osama bin Laden is killed by U.S. Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Births 1729 Catherine the Great; 1859 Jerome K. Jerome; 1892 Manfred von Richthofen 'The Red Baron'; 1903 Dr. Benjamin Spock; 1907 Pinky Lee; 1922 Roscoe Lee Browne; 1929 Link Wray; 1936 Engelbert Humperdinck; 1945 Judge Dread (No, really); 1945 Bianca Jagger; 1946 Lesley Gore, David Suchet; 1947-James Dyson; 1948 Larry Gatlin; 1950 Lou Gramm; 1951 John Glascock; 1955 Donatella Versace; 1962 Big Boss Man; 1967 Mika Brzezinski; 1972 Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson; 1975 David Beckham; 1985 Lily Allen, Kyle Busch Deaths 1519 Leonardo da Vinci; 1880 Eberhard Anheuser; 1957 Joseph McCarthy; 1972 J. Edgar Hoover; 1984 Jack Barry; 1990 David Rappaport; 1999 Oliver Reed; 2006 Louis Rukeyser; 2009 Jack Kemp; 2010 Lynn Redgrave; 2011 Osama bin Laden; 2012 Junior Seau; 2014 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.; 2015 Ruth Rendell |
May 3, 1715
A total solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Edmund Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy. 1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city. 1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. 1937 Gone With The Wind wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 1952 The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time. 1973 The 108-story Sears Tower, in Chicago, is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. 1978 The first spam email is sent . 1987 Bobby Allison crashes at Talladega Superspeedway, leading NASCAR to develop restrictor plates for the Daytona, and Talledega races the next year. 1999 An F5 tornado strikes southwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, producing a wind speed of 301 mph (+/- 20 mph), the highest wind speed ever recorded. It is one of 66 tornadoes that day. 2000 Geocaching becomes a thing. 2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses. Births 1849 Jacob Riis; 1874 Franηois Coty; 1879 Fergus McMaster; 1903 Bing Crosby; 1906 Mary Astor; 1917 Betty Comden; 1919 Pete Seeger; 1921 Sugar Ray Robinson; 1928 Dave Dudley; 1932 Robert Osborne; 1933 James Brown, Brother Stair; 1934 Frankie Valli; 1935 Ron Popeil; 1944 Pete Staples; 1947 Doug Henning; 1951 Christopher Cross; 1953 Bruce Hall; 1975 Willie Geist; 1975 Christina Hendricks; 1981 J. Tillman Deaths 1972 Bruce Cabot; 1986 Robert Alda; 1996 Jack Weston; 2006 Earl Woods; 2007 Wally Schirra; 2011 Jackie Cooper |
May 4, 1776
Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. 1814 Napolιon Bonaparte arrives at the island of Elba, to begin his exile. 1904 Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce meet in Manchester, England. 1932 Al Capone begins serving an 11-year prison sentence for tax evasion. 1953 Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man And The Sea" wins the Pulitzer Prize. 1959 The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held. 1961 American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. 1970 Four dead in O-hi-o: The Ohio Nat'l Guard opens fire on students protesting the war in Vietnam, killing four and wounding nine. 1979 Margaret Thatcher, "The Iron Lady", becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1988 Tons of stored Space Shuttle fuel detonate in a gigantic explosion during a fire at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada, near Henderson, Nevada. Video 2007 Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. 95% of the city is leveled. The tornado was part of the May 2007 tornado outbreak. Births 1796 Horace Mann; 1916 Richard Proenneke; 1919 Dory Funk; 1923 Ed Cassidy; 1928 Thomas Kinsella, Hosni Mubarak; 1929 Audrey Hepburn; 1939 Paul Gleason; 1940 Robin Cook; 1941 George Will; 1942 Nickolas Ashford; 1953 Pia Zadora; 1959 Randy Travis, Bob Tway; 1972 Mike Dirnt; 1978 Erin Andrews; 1989 Rory McIlroy Deaths 1975 Moe Howard; 1980 Josip Broz Tito; 1987 Paul Butterfield; 2009 Dom DeLuise; 2012 Adam Yauch |
May 5, 1260
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. 1494 Christopher Columbus lands at Jamaica. 1821 Napoleon dies, in exile, on the island of St. Helena. 1865 The first train robbery in the United States takes place, in North Bend, Ohio. 1866 Memorial Day is first celebrated in the United States, in Waterloo, New York. 1905 Fingerprints are used as evidence for the first time. 1920 Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. 1925 John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. 1934 The first Three Stooges short is released. 1961 Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space. 1965 The Warlocks, later known as The Grateful Dead, make their first public appearance, in Menlo Park, CA. 1973 Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in 1 minute 59 2⁄5 seconds, a record that still stands. Births 1813 Sψren Kierkegaard; 1818 Karl Marx; 1830 John B. Stetson (the hat guy); 1864 Nellie Bly; 1901 Blind Willie McTell; 1914 Tyrone Power; 1926 Ann B. Davis (Alice on the Brady Bunch); 1934 Ace Cannon; 1942 Tammy Wynette; 1943 Michael Palin; 1944 John Rhys-Davies; 1944 Roger Rees; 1945 Kurt Loder; 1948 Bill Ward:devil:; 1988 Adele Deaths 1821 Napoleon; 2008 Irv Robbins (co-founded Baskin-Robbins); 2015 Craig Gruber (bassist for Rainbow and Elf) |
May 6, 1840
The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom. 1861 Arkansas secedes from the Union. 1877 Oglala Lakota chief Crazy Horse surrenders to U.S. troops. 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public. 1910 George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of Edward VII. 1915 Babe Ruth hits first major league home run. 1935 Works Progress Administration is created. First flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. 1937 The Hindenburg catches fire at Lakehurst, New Jersey and is destroyed in less than 60 seconds. 36 people die. 1940 John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" wins the Pultizer Prize. 1941 Bob Hope performs his first USO show. 1945 Axis Sally delivers her last broadcast. 1954 Roger Bannister runs the mile in under four minutes. 1989 Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, opens, igniting the coaster wars. 1994 The Channel Tunnel opens. Paula Jones files a sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. After missing for 8 days, former CIA director William Colby's body is found. 2013 Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Their captor is taken into custody. Births 1856 Sigmund Freud, Robert Peary; 1895 Rudolph Valentino; 1903 Toots Shor; 1913 Stewart Granger; 1915 Orson Welles; 1931 Willie Mays; 1945 Bob Seger; 1950 Jeffery Deaver, Robbie McIntosh; 1953 Tony Blair; 1960 Roma Downey; 1961 George Clooney Deaths 1862 Henry David Thoreau; 1902 Bret Harte; 1910 Edward VII; 1919 L. Frank Baum; 1952 Maria Montessori; 1983 Kai Winding; 1987 William J. Casey; 2004 Barney Kessel |
May 7, 1718
The city of New Orleans is founded. 1763 Odawa war chief Pontiac attempts to seize Fort Detroit from the British, leading to Pontiac's War. 1824 World premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna. 1840 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history. 1915 The RMS Lusitania is sunk by the German sub U-20, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. 1942 During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between the warring ships. 1974 Willy Brandt resigns as West German Chancellor. 1976 The Honda Accord is officially launched. 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. 2000 Russia inaugurates Vladimir Putin as President. 2004 American businessman Nick Berg, is beheaded by Islamic militants. 2007 The tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. Births 1812 Robert Browning; 1833 Johannes Brahms; 1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; 1885 George "Gabby" Hayes; 1892 Archibald MacLeish; 1892 Josip Broz Tito; 1901 Gary Cooper; 1909 Edwin H. Land (co-founded Polaroid Corp.); 1919 Eva Perσn; 1922 Darren McGavin (Kolchak: The Night Stalker); 1923 Anne Baxter; 1930 Totie Fields; 1933 Johnny Unitas; 1946 Bill Kreutzmann, Jerry Nolan; 1948 Susan Atkins (follower of Charles Manson); 1950 Randall "Tex" Cobb (boxer), Tim Russert; 1951 Bernie Marsden; 1961 Phil Campbell (Motorhead); 1965 Owen Hart (wrestler); 1968 Traci Lords; 1969 Eagle-Eye Cherry Deaths 1896 H. H. Holmes (serial killer); 1998 Eddie Rabbitt; 2000 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; 2007 Yahweh ben Yahweh; 2011 Seve Ballesteros; 2013 Ray Harryhausen |
This is a fine public service you're performing Grav. Bravo.
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I thought maybe it was too much. Too many links?
But, :D. Also, I don't know a lot of 'foreign' history, and may not see the significance of some people or happenings that affect(ed)/effect(ed) other countries. At least someone reads it. |
I admit the subject is interesting, but the formatting puts me off. It would be easier to read if the event were on the same line as the year. But no need to do extra work just for me.
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it's a buffet, choose what you want to consume.
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Onward then...
May 8, 1794 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, branded a traitor, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day. 1861 - Richmond, Virginia is named capital of The Confederate States of America. 1877 - The first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is held at Gilmore's Gardens, in New York, New York. 1886 Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pelιe erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast. 1912 Paramount Pictures is founded. 1919 Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I. 1927 Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Franηois Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. 1933 Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast. 1941 The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby. 1945 - Victory In Europe Day (V-E Day) combat ends in Europe. Thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1973 A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants. 1976 The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain. 1978 The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. 1980 The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox. 1984 The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Thames Barrier is officially opened. Births 1720 William Cavendish; 1847 Oscar Hammerstein I; 1884 Harry S. Truman; 1895 Fulton J. Sheen; 1906 Roberto Rossellini; 1911 Robert Johnson; 1919 Lex Barker; 1926 David Attenborough, Don Rickles; 1937 Thomas Pynchon; 1940 Peter Benchley, Ricky Nelson, Toni Tennille (Capt & Tennille); 1941 James Traficant; 1943 Paul Samwell-Smith; 1944 Gary Glitter, Bill Legend; 1950 Robert Mugge; 1953 Billy Burnette, Alex Van Halen; 1955 Stephen Furst ('Flounder' from "Animal House"); 1956 Jeff Wincott; 1957 Bill Cowher; 1958 Lovie Smith; 1960 Eric Brittingham; 1961 Bill de Blasio; 1964 Bobby Labonte; 1973 Marcus Brigstocke; 1975 Enrique Iglesias; 1977 Joe Bonamassa Deaths 1794 Antoine Lavoisier; 1880 Gustave Flaubert; 1903 Paul Gauguin; 1947 Harry Gordon Selfridge; 1982 Neil Bogart, Gilles Villeneuve; 1984 Lila Bell Wallace (co-founded Reader's Digest); 1985 Karl Marx; 1988 Robert A. Heinlein; 1994 George Peppard; 1999 Dirk Bogarde; 1999 Dana Plato ("Diff'rent Strokes"); 2008 Eddy Arnold; 2012 Maurice Sendak; 2013 Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor on "The Young and the Restless"); 2014 Roger L. Easton (co-inventor of GPS) |
May 9
1662 - Mr. Punch, of Punch and Judy, makes his first recorded appearance. 1763 - Chief Pontiac's siege of Fort Detroit begins. 1877 - An 8.8 earthquake off Peru kills 2,541 people, some as far away as Hawaii, and Japan. 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine. 1945 World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France. The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation. 1958 The film "Vertigo" has its world premiere in San Francisco. 1960 The United States FDA announced it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid for birth control, making it the first oral contraceptive pill. 1980 In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die. Births 1801 Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood; 1837 Adam Opel; 1860 J. M. Barrie; 1873 Anton Cermak; 1874 Howard Carter (found King Tut's tomb); 1882 Henry J. Kaiser; 1918 Mike Wallace "The Grand Inquisitor"; 1921 Daniel Berrigan; 1936 Terry Downes, Albert Finney, Glenda Jackson; 1937 Sonny Curtis, Dave Prater (Sam & Dave); 1940 James L. Brooks ("The Simpsons" producer); 1942 John Ashcroft, Tommy Roe; 1944 Richie Furay; 1945 Steve Katz; 1946 Candice Bergen; 1949 Billy Joel; 1950 Tom Petersson; 1960 Tony Gwynn; 1962 Dave Gahan; 1984 Prince Fielder Deaths 1914 C. W. Post (cereal guy); 1968 Harold Gray (created "Little Orphan Annie"); 2010 Lena Horne; 2012 Vidal Sassoon; 2013 George M. Leader (36th Governor of Pennsylvania) |
May 10
28 B.C. - The first recorded observation of a sunspot, by Chinese Han Dynasty astronomers. 70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem. 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king. 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cαdiz, Spain for his first voyage to the New World. 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there. 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. 1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France. 1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public. 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia. American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6. 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike. 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States. 1904 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company. 1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island. 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. 1972 – First flight of the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (a.k.a. "Warthog").:devil: 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. 2002 – F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow. 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 meters) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. 2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Births 1838 – John Wilkes Booth; 1899 – Fred Astaire; 1902 – David O. Selznick; 1909 – Maybelle Carter "Mother Maybelle"; 1922 – Nancy Walker; 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford; 1940 – Wayne Dyer; 1946 – Donovan, Graham Gouldman, Dave Mason; 1955 – Mark David Chapman; 1957 – Sid Vicious; 1958 – Rick Santorum; 1960 – Bono; 1965 – Linda Evangelista; 1975 – Hιlio Castroneves; 1978 – Kenan Thompson Deaths 1774 – Louis XV of France; 1798 – George Vancouver (namesake of Vancouver Island, and Vancouver, British Columbia); 1818 – Paul Revere; 1863 – Stonewall Jackson; 1977 – Joan Crawford; 1994 – John Wayne Gacy; 1999 – Shel Silverstein; 2010 – Frank Frazetta; 2012 – Carroll Shelby; 2015 – Chris Burden |
May 11
Only 227 days til Christmas. 1820 HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched. 1846 President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the MexicanAmerican War. 1907 Thirty-two Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. 1910 An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. 1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. 1942 William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power. 1949 Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, for the second time. Israel joins the United Nations. 1960 In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. 1972 The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle. 1984 Eight people perish in a fire at Six Flags Great Adventure's Haunted Castle. 1985 Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. 1987 Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. 1996 After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board. The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest. 2010 David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after elections produced a hung parliament. 2014 Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into the stand by police officers attempting to defuse a hostile incident. Births 1799 John Lowell, Jr. (Lowell Institute); 1811 Chang and Eng Bunker; 1875 Harriet Quimby; 1888 Irving Berlin; 1904 Salvador Dalν; 1911 Phil Silvers; 1918 Richard Feynman; 1920 Denver Pyle; 1927 Mort Sahl; 1932 Valentino Garavani; 1934 Jim Jeffords; 1941 Eric Burdon:devil:; 1946 Robert Jarvik; 1947 Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers Band); 1953 David Gest; 1959 Martha Quinn; 1964 Tim Blake Nelson; 1982 Cory Monteith; 1989 Cam Newton Deaths 1889 John Cadbury; 1891 Edmond Becquerel; 1979 Lester Flatt; 1981 Bob Marley; 1985 Chester Gould (created "Dick Tracy"); 2001 Douglas Adams; 2003 Noel Redding; 2006 Floyd Patterson |
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I've been onboard the QE2.
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The QE II is very impressive, had a chance to take the tour when my mother and brother sailed to England on her. My father flew over and met them, because he had sailed on the QE I, along with a shitload of other GIs, and didn't like it one damn bit. :lol:
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I've walked alongside the QEII.
It was docked at the time. |
May 12
1926 The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. 1932 Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home. 1935 Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling. 1937 The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey. 1942 World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507. 1957 Alfonso de Portago crashes during the Mille Miglia, killing himself, his co-driver, Ed Nelson and ten spectators five of whom were children. 1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners. 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fαtima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Marνa Fernαndez y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow". 1986 NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration. 1989 The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline, damaged by earth moving equipment during crash clean-up, explodes killing two more people. 2008 An ~8.0 earthquake occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud. 2015 A train derailment in Philadelphia kills 8 people and injures over 200. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake and six major aftershocks hit Nepal, killing over 200 people. Births 1820 Florence Nightingale; 1850 Henry Cabot Lodge; 1889 Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank); 1907 Katharine Hepburn; 1911 Charles Biro (Daredevil Comics); 1918 Mary Kay Ash, Julius Rosenberg; 1925 Yogi Berra; 1928 Burt Bacharach; 1935 Felipe Alou; 1936 Tom Snyder; 1937 George Carlin; 1942 Billy Swan; 1945 Ian McLagan; 1948 Steve Winwood; 1950 Bruce Boxleitner, Gabriel Byrne, Billy Squier; 1958 Eric Singer (KISS drummer); 1959 Ray Gillen, Ving Rhames; 1961 Billy Duffy; 1962 Emilio Estevez; 1966 Stephen Baldwin; 1968 Tony Hawk; 1969 Kim Fields ('Tootie' from "Facts of Life"); 1970 Jim Furyk, Samantha Mathis, Mike Weir; 1978 Jason Biggs Deaths 1864 J. E. B. Stuart; 1925 Amy Lowell; 1944 Max Brand; 1957 Erich von Stroheim; 1992 Robert Reed (father on "The Brady Bunch"); 2000 Adam Petty; 2001 Perry Como, Alexei Tupolev (designed the Tu-144); 2014 H. R. Giger |
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