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    Posted: December/21/2008 at 5:08pm
We can thank PMBug for this "brainwave" as he says that we Aussies, should get on the same time level as you folks. As we are way ahead of you timewise(something like  14 hours), I can look into my Crystal ball and inform those behind the times.
 
Now, today(your time) 
 Dec 21 - 1620 - The Pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth Rock aboard the Mayflower.


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 Ahhh.....I looked into my crystal ball today and........................
 
1814- Dec 24 - US-British War ends with Treaty of Ghent.


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December 25 - 1066
                              William of Normandy is crowned King.
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I guess there have been no events since the 25th in the history of the world!!!Big%20smile

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Today%20in%20History  December 28 Yesterday
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1065

Westminster Abbey consecrated.

1832

John C. Calhoun became the first vice president in U.S. history to resign from office.

1846

Iowa became the 29th state in the United States.

1869

William F. Semple patented chewing gum.

1895

The Lumiere Brothers gave the first commercial movie show at the Grand Cafe in Paris.

1937

Composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.

1945

Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.

1981

Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, was born in Norfolk, Va.


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Flotown.........you were saying?????LOL
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Today%20in%20History  December 29 Yesterday
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1170

Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by four knights acting under the orders of Henry II.

1845

Texas became the 28th state in the United States.

1851

The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) opened in Boston.

1890

The last major battle of the Indian Wars, at Wounded Knee Creek, took place with hundreds of Indian men, women, and children massacred.

1937

The Constitution of Ireland, changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect.

1940

During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London.

1989

Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.

1996

A peace agreement was signed, ending 36 years of conflict in Guatemala.

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That was an update for you Flo!.........Hug
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Okay I like it since I have my degree in History Edu.  

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December 30 - 1922
                        USSR established.
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Originally posted by tm274 tm274 wrote:

 
December 30 - 1922
                        USSR established.


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I consider it a GIFT...!!!!Tongue
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Today%20in%20History  December 31

1879

Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.

1938

The first breath test for drivers, "drunkometer," was introduced in Indianapolis.

1946

President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.

1961

The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than 12 billion in foreign aid.

1963

Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formally dissolved.

1964

The al-Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat launched their first terrorist raid on Israel.

1987

Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's president.

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Would you know that the first DrunkOMeter was used on Dec 31st!! Man thus Cops must have made their ticket quotas that night!  LOL
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1901 - 1st Jan -:
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The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state Jan 22 1997
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 Jan 26 - 1788  - AUSTRALIA DAY     Australia
                
 
                              First fleet arrived and set up a settlement in Sydney Cove.





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Today%20in%20History  January 27 Yesterday
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1880

Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.

1944

The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad.

1945

The Russians liberated Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews.

1951

The U.S. Air Force started atomic testing in the Nevada desert.

1967

The Apollo I fire killed astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.

1973

Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.

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Hey........wake up you lot!!!!!!(I been awake all day waiting for ya to wake up)
 
Feb 23 1836
Start of the Siege of the Alamo.
 
 
Q ...fer youse all..............who were the "main" Masons?
 
Q......And who said......."You may all got to Hell and I will go to Texas".
 
 
I hope a boy from Oz doesn't have to give you the answers.LOL
 


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A.   James Bonham, James Bowie, Davey Crokett, Almeron Dickinson & William Travis.
Mason who were at the Alamo.
 
A.   Davey Crockett
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Originally posted by De Darrah De Darrah wrote:

A.   James Bonham, James Bowie, Davey Crokett, Almeron Dickinson & William Travis.
Mason who were at the Alamo.
 
A.   Davey Crockett
 
 
Correct but for one...........Santa Anna.
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February 25th

1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces Gregorian Calendar

1868 Andrew Johnson impeached by US House of Representatives (later acquited by US Senate)

1981 Prince Charles & Lady Di engaged (did I really have to say that?)

1989 Ayatollah Khomeini puts Fatwa with a reward of $3M for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses". Funny thing is Khomeini is now dead and Rushdie isn't.
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March 6 - 1836
        The Alamo falls.   Only 6 survivors.
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March 7

In 1994, the Supreme Court, in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.

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Susan B. Anthony
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"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Thus Susan B. Anthony began her address before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives on March 8, 1884. In her statement printed in the 1884 document Congressional Action in the First session of the 48th Congress, 1883, 1884, Anthony argued for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came sixteen years after legislators had first introduced a federal woman's suffrage amendment.

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Amerigo%20Vespucci A baby born in Florence, Italy on this day in 1451 was destined to
become one of the world’s most famous explorers. Amerigo Vespucci was a merchant and an outfitter of ships, a job that introduced him to Christopher Columbus.

Their stars would cross again in 1507 when a German map maker honored Amerigo Vespucci by naming the new continent on his maps, America. The mapmaker had not heard of Columbus’ discovery at the time. So Columbus got the credit for the discovery; but the discovery bore the name of Vespucci ... forever.

In reality, Vespucci had participated in two major expeditions between the years 1499 and 1502, to the coast of South America. There he discovered the Amazon and Plate Rivers. Vespucci thought he had discovered a new continent ... or a New World.

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- Congress contracted with Simeon North of Berlin, CT for 500 horse pistols, costing the government $6.50 each. Horse pistols, for those of you born after 1800, were large pistols that used to be carried by -- you guessed it -- horsemen.
 
1934 - Yuri Gagarin  was born
Russian cosmonaut: the first man to travel in space; killed plane crash Mar 27, 1968.
 
First Ford Mustang SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: First Ford Mustang", url: "http://www.k-grayengineeringeducation.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/09/engineering-education-today-in-history-blog-first-ford-mustang/" });
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Today in History - March 9, 1964 - First Ford Mustang rolls off assembly line. Ford sold 22,000 of the sporty car on the first day of sales in April 1965. The Mustang was one of the most successful product launches in automotive history with over one million units sold in its first 18 months. The craze continues today as new models capture America’s youthful spirit.

The very first Mustang - the 1962 Mustang I Concept - made its debut in October 1962, and its name was a tribute to the legendary North American P51 Mustang fighter plane from World War II. The first regular production Mustang that rolled off the assembly line on March 9, 1964 was a Wimbledon White convertible with a 260-cubic inch V-8. Mustang is currently at its fifth generation since 2005.



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In honor of some of the best cookies out there.............

On March 12, 1912, Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Ga., founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America.


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1879  -     Physicist Albert Einstein is born.

1790  -     Captain William Bligh arrives back in London a year after the Mutiny on the Bounty, in which he was cast off his own boat.




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1743

The first town meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts, at Faneuil Hall.

1794

The cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney.

1923 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding became the first Chief Executive to pay taxes and account for his income. Harding’s tax bill amounted to nearly $18,000.

1950

The FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list made its debut.

March 14th 1836    HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
March 14th 1954    Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
March 14th 1956    Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
March 14th 1960    Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
 
 


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15th March - 44BC
Julius Caesar is assassinated in Rome.
 
It was mentioned that his mother said..........."Julie..........don't go!"Wink


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Beware the Ides of March.     Et tu, Brute?
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March 17th 0461    St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)

March 17th 1521    Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines

1762

The first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in New York City.

On March 17, 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.
 
 
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
SWALLOW DAY
  This is St. Joseph’s Day, the day that those little birds known as swallows traditionally return to the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California. Every March 19th since 1776 (with very few exceptions), the birds come back to usher in spring in this Southern California seaside town.

While their return is an annual tourist attraction, some in the community have gotten a bit fed up with the mess left behind when the birds migrate in the fall (October 23rd, St. John’s Day). It is costing the quaint town of San Juan Capistrano, in Orange County, California, a lot of money to clean up historic, old buildings where the swallows return to roost year after year.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929–68, American clergyman and civil-rights leader, b. Atlanta, Ga., grad. Morehouse College (B.A., 1948), Crozer Theological Seminary (B.D., 1951), Boston Univ. (Ph.D., 1955). The son of the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, King became (1954) minister of the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. He led the black boycott (1955–56) of segregated city bus lines and in 1956 gained a major victory and prestige as a civil-rights leader when Montgomery buses began to operate on a desegregated basis.

King organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which gave him a base to pursue further civil-rights activities, first in the South and later nationwide. His philosophy of nonviolent resistance led to his arrest on numerous occasions in the 1950s and 60s. His campaigns had mixed success, but the protest he led in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 brought him worldwide attention. He spearheaded the Aug., 1963, March on Washington, which brought together more than 200,000 people. The protests he led helped to assure the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The following year King and the SCLC led a campaign for African-American voter registration centered on Selma, Ala. A nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery was attacked by police who beat and teargassed the protestors, but it ultimately succeeded on the third try when the National Guard and federal troops were mobilized. The events in Selma provoked national outrage, and months later aroused public opinion did much to precipitate passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

King's leadership in the civil-rights movement was challenged in the mid-1960s as others grew more militant. His interests, however, widened from civil rights to include criticism of the Vietnam War and a deeper concern over poverty. His plans for a Poor People's March to Washington were interrupted (1968) for a trip to Memphis, Tenn., in support of striking sanitation workers. On Apr. 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel (since 1991 a civil-rights museum).

James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the murder and was convicted, but he soon recanted, claiming he was duped into his plea. Ray's conviction was subsequently upheld, but he eventually received support from members of King's family, who believed King to have been the victim of a conspiracy. Ray died in prison in 1998. In a jury trial in Memphis in 1999 the King family won a wrongful-death judgment against Loyd Jowers, who claimed (1993) that he had arranged the killing for a Mafia figure. Many experts, however, were unconvinced by the verdict, and in 2000, after an 18-month investigation, the Justice Dept. discredited Jowers and concluded that there was no evidence of an assassination plot.

King wrote Stride toward Freedom (1958), Why We Can't Wait (1964), and Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967). His birthday is a national holiday, celebrated on the third Monday in January. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, carried on various aspects of his work until her death in 2006. She also wrote My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. (1969, rev. ed. 1993).

See biographies by K. L. Smith and I. G. Zepp, Jr. (1974), S. Oates (1982), and M. Frady (2001); D. J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross (1986); M. E. Dyson, I May Not Get There with You (2000); S. Burns, To the Mountaintop (2004); F. Sunnemark, Ring Out Freedom! (2004); T. Branch, America in the King Years (3 vol., 1988–2006).

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April 12 -1861

             American Civil War begins, with Confederate forces firing on Ft. Sumter.
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April 14 - 1865
  "Honest" Abe Lincoln is assassinated in the Ford theatre by John Wiles Booth. 
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April 27th 1521    Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50
1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party on December 16)
1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1956 Heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
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WOODY WOODPECKER DAY
http://www.universalstudios.com/woody/ On this, his birthday, we pay tribute to the man who created the fun-loving, slightly manic bird he called, Woody Woodpecker. Cartoonist Walter Lantz was born on this day in 1900 in New Rochelle, New York.

Many remember Walter Lantz only for Woody; however, one of his most famous moments was the creation of an animated opening sequence for Universal Studio’s first, major musical, The King of Jazz in 1930.

Lantz’ Woody Woodpecker made his first appearance in the 1940 film, Knock, Knock. He became so popular that his wacky laugh and taunting ways were celebrated in The Woody Woodpecker Song. By 1948, Lantz and his studio were celebrating the hit record success of that song, too.

Walter Lantz put several more decades of wonderful cartoon characters and films under his belt before he was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. It was 1979 when he was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Oscar ceremonies.

Walter Lantz has left us and many generations to come with a lifetime of enjoyment; one can still see Woody Woodpecker in cartoons on television. You’ll recognize that zany laugh anywhere!

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1789 George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.

1803 The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

1812 Louisiana became the 18th state.

1859 The novel "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens was first published in serial form in a literary magazine.

1900 Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory.

1900 Train engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers. (The event was immortalized in song.)
1945 Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker.


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Michael (Whacko) Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley.Confused
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1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
 
1925 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
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1788 Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.

1868 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana.

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1305: Scottish nationalist William Wallace is executed in London as a traitor against King Edward I of England. He is tried in Westminster Hall, and promptly hanged and quartered.

1926: Silent film idol Rudolph Valentino dies unexpectedly at the age of 31, sending hundreds of thousands of his fans into public mourning.
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Not forgetting that after centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupts on this day in 79 A.D. in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands.
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September 1st 1666    Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed
September 1st 1730    Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read
September 1st 1831    Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle
September 1st 1849    California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
September 1st 1867    Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
September 1st 1890    1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
September 1st 1905    Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
September 1st 1906    British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea
September 1st 1945    Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
September 1st 1951    US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
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A bit of useless trivia...but I wan't to be the first........!!
At 09:09:09 today......Wednesday, it will be..................wait...!
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It's still 8th of September here... so...
On this day, 18 years ago, The Republic of Macedonia, after a referendum, declared independance from the former Yugoslav federation.
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Oct 5.. i was born!! Big%20smile

 
 

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Oct 19, 1781
Lord Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington in Yorktown, VA, marking the end of the war of Independence.
The irony is that, had Cornwallis waited a "little" longer, he may have won as reinforcements were on the way.
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