The Cellar - View Single Post

Gravdigr · 02-21-2017, 02:31 PM

February21

Today is International Mother Language Day, promoting awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. PFFT. You want linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism go to Wal-Mart.

Events

1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.

1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.

1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.

1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.

1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.

1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.

1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.

1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.

1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.

1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.

1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.

1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.

1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.

1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.

1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Births

1794 – Antonio López de Santa Anna; 1893 – Andrés Segovia; 1903 – Anaïs Nin; 1915 – Ann Sheridan; 1924 – Robert Mugabe; 1925 – Sam Peckinpah; 1927 – Erma Bombeck; 1933 – Nina Simone; 1934 – Rue McClanahan; 1943 – David Geffen; 1946 – Tyne Daly; 1946 – Alan Rickman; 1949 – Larry Drake; 1955 – Kelsey Grammer; 1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter; 1961 – Christopher Atkins; 1963 – William Baldwin; 1964 – Mark Kelly, Scott Kelly; 1977 – Kevin Rose; 1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt; 1986 – Charlotte Church; 1987 – Ellen Page; 1996 – Sophie Turner

Deaths

1965 – Malcolm X; 1974 – Tim Horton; 2008 – Ben Chapman (The Creature in The Creature From The Black Lagoon)

02-21-2017, 02:31 PM	#580
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	February21 Today is International Mother Language Day, promoting awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. PFFT. You want linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism go to Wal-Mart. Events 1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. 1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. 1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. 1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing. 1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue. 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated. 1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. 1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. Births 1794 – Antonio López de Santa Anna; 1893 – Andrés Segovia; 1903 – Anaïs Nin; 1915 – Ann Sheridan; 1924 – Robert Mugabe; 1925 – Sam Peckinpah; 1927 – Erma Bombeck; 1933 – Nina Simone; 1934 – Rue McClanahan; 1943 – David Geffen; 1946 – Tyne Daly; 1946 – Alan Rickman; 1949 – Larry Drake; 1955 – Kelsey Grammer; 1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter; 1961 – Christopher Atkins; 1963 – William Baldwin; 1964 – Mark Kelly, Scott Kelly; 1977 – Kevin Rose; 1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt; 1986 – Charlotte Church; 1987 – Ellen Page; 1996 – Sophie Turner Deaths 1965 – Malcolm X; 1974 – Tim Horton; 2008 – Ben Chapman (The Creature in The Creature From The Black Lagoon) __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.