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Topic: This day in History..!
Posted By: tm274
Subject: This day in History..!
Date 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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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/23/2008 at 5:27pm
 Ahhh.....I looked into my crystal ball today and........................
 
1814- Dec 24 - US-British War ends with Treaty of Ghent.


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/24/2008 at 4:09pm
 
December 25 - 1066
                              William of Normandy is crowned King.


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Posted By: Flotown79
Date Posted: December/28/2008 at 6:42pm
I guess there have been no events since the 25th in the history of the world!!!Big%20smile

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Posted By: edwmax
Date Posted: December/28/2008 at 7:54pm
ref: http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory - http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

Today%20in%20History  December 28 http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/December-27 - Yesterday
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/December-29 - Tomorrow

1065

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0851951.html - Westminster Abbey consecrated.

1832

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0809884.html - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president in U.S. history to resign from office.

1846

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108213.html - Iowa became the 29th state in the United States.

1869

William F. Semple patented chewing gum.

1895

The http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830608.html - Lumiere Brothers gave the first commercial movie show at the Grand Cafe in http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0837642.html - Paris .

1937

Composer http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0841218.html - Maurice Ravel died in Paris at age 62.

1945

Congress officially recognized the http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101053.html - Pledge of Allegiance .

1981

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




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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/28/2008 at 8:02pm
Flotown.........you were saying?????LOL

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Posted By: edwmax
Date Posted: December/29/2008 at 11:12am
Today%20in%20History  December 29 http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/December-28 - Yesterday
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/December-30 - Tomorrow

1170

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0848526.html - Thomas Becket , Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by four knights acting under the orders of http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0823366.html - Henry II .

1845

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108277.html - 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 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0825127.html - Indian Wars , at http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0852763.html - Wounded Knee Creek , took place with hundreds of Indian men, women, and children massacred.

1937

The Constitution of http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107648.html - Ireland , changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect.

1940

During http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001288.html - World War II , Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London.

1989

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0822989.html - Vaclav Havel was elected president of http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107456.html - Czechoslovakia .

1996

A peace agreement was signed, ending 36 years of conflict in http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107596.html - Guatemala .



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Posted By: edwmax
Date Posted: December/29/2008 at 12:14pm
That was an update for you Flo!.........Hug

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Posted By: Flotown79
Date Posted: December/29/2008 at 1:23pm
Okay I like it since I have my degree in History Edu.  

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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/29/2008 at 4:50pm
 
December 30 - 1922
                        USSR established.


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Posted By: edwmax
Date Posted: December/29/2008 at 7:18pm
Originally posted by tm274 tm274 wrote:

 
December 30 - 1922
                        USSR established.


Yes, but that is tomorrow! TM......... Yer, looking in the future again....LOL


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/29/2008 at 10:33pm
 
I consider it a GIFT...!!!!Tongue


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Posted By: edwmax
Date Posted: December/31/2008 at 5:54pm
Today%20in%20History  December 31 http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/December-30 - http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/January-1 -

1879

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0816770.html - Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.

1938

The first breath test for drivers, " http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0417245.html - drunkometer ," was introduced in Indianapolis.

1946

President http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760617.html - Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0852743.html - World War II .

1961

The http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0831964.html - Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than 12 billion in foreign aid.

1963

Central African Federation of http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0841738.html - Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formally dissolved.

1964

The al-Fatah guerrillas of http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0804490.html - Yasser Arafat launched their first terrorist raid on http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107652.html - Israel .

1987

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0834332.html - Robert Mugabe sworn in as http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108169.html - Zimbabwe's president.



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Posted By: edwmax
Date Posted: December/31/2008 at 5:57pm
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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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/31/2008 at 6:01pm
 
 
1901 - 1st Jan -:
     Commonwealth of Australia established.


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Posted By: travelinman
Date Posted: January/22/2009 at 7:49pm
The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state Jan 22 1997


Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: January/25/2009 at 4:43pm
  http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxpt442YYAU">Australia         
 Jan 26 - 1788  - AUSTRALIA DAY     http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxpt442YYAU">Australia
                
 
                              First fleet arrived and set up a settlement in Sydney Cove.





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Posted By: edwmax
Date Posted: January/27/2009 at 4:56am
Today%20in%20History  January 27 http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/January-26 - Yesterday
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/January-28 - Tomorrow

1880

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0816770.html - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.

1944

The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0843135.html - Leningrad .

1945

The Russians liberated http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0837039.html - 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 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0835339.html - Nevada desert.

1967

The http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001364.html - Apollo I fire killed astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.

1973

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0850869.html - Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.



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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: February/23/2009 at 6:01am
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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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: February/23/2009 at 2:12pm
A.   James Bonham, James Bowie, Davey Crokett, Almeron Dickinson & William Travis.
Mason who were at the Alamo.
 
A.   Davey Crockett


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: February/23/2009 at 4:24pm
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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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: February/23/2009 at 4:47pm
I wasn't thinking about the other side.  Sorry bout that.

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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: February/25/2009 at 12:26am
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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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: March/04/2009 at 4:42pm
March 6 - 1836
        The Alamo falls.   Only 6 survivors.


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Posted By: Flotown79
Date Posted: March/07/2009 at 3:16pm
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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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: March/08/2009 at 12:15pm

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?ammem/suffrg:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28cph+3a52783%29%29:displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3a52783">Portrait%20of%20Susan%20B.%20Anthony
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/suffrg:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28cph+3a52783%29%29 - Susan B. Anthony
S. A. Taylor, photographer, circa 1880-1906.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html - "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 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/nawbib:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28rbnawsa+n8338%29%29 - 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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In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: March/09/2009 at 2:31pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci">
 
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. http://www.sonsofitaly.org/amerigov.html - 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.

March 9
1799
- 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/" });
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?id=99DFEBF7-FF23-4D1A-A48A-08DD76062FC6">Photo%20of%20early%20Mustang%20with%20designers http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?id=05BE183F-5175-4F7F-9E5C-A9DF6D75C319">Photo%20of%201971%20Mustang http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?id=7761E97E-949F-4782-9505-FACB249E7AB1 -
http://stage.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?id=B2DB828F-6F37-4336-9504-909B60274831">Ford%20Mustang%20Photo http://images.smete.org/Resource_Images/5C7444F8-AF24-4CC0-A699-E8ABADEE6FF2/Diesel_s.jpg -

Today in History - March 9, 1964 - http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/learning_resource/summary/?id=B2DB828F-6F37-4336-9504-909B60274831 - 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 Beer there is Freedom
In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: Flotown79
Date Posted: March/12/2009 at 9:53am
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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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: March/14/2009 at 5:26am
14 March

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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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: March/14/2009 at 12:14pm

1743

The first town meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts, at http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0818231.html - Faneuil Hall .

1794

The http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0813755.html - cotton gin was patented by http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0852161.html - 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 http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/10-8-99askeds.html - “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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In Beer there is Freedom
In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: March/14/2009 at 6:25pm
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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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: March/15/2009 at 1:03pm
Beware the Ides of March.     Et tu, Brute?

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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: March/17/2009 at 2:16pm

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 http://www.infoplease.com/spot/stpatsday1.html - St. Patrick's Day parade was held in http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A0835508.html - 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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In Beer there is Freedom
In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: March/19/2009 at 2:06pm
Thursday, March 19, 2009
SWALLOW DAY
  This is St. Joseph’s Day, the day that those little birds known as http://www.sjc.net/swallows/index.html - swallows traditionally return to the http://www.hrh.servsite.com/danapoint/hist2.htm - 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 http://www.missionsjc.com/swallowsfest.html - 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.

1931

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108242.html - Nevada state legislature legalized gambling.



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In Beer there is Freedom
In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: April/04/2009 at 7:05pm

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 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0930631.html - 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 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0850869.html - 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 http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0827676.html - 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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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: April/12/2009 at 6:32pm

 

April 12 -1861

             American Civil War begins, with Confederate forces firing on Ft. Sumter.


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: April/13/2009 at 6:32pm
April 14 - 1865
  "Honest" Abe Lincoln is assassinated in the Ford theatre by John Wiles Booth. 


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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: April/27/2009 at 8:18pm
April 27,
 
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
Monday, April 27, 2009
WOODY WOODPECKER DAY
http://www.universalstudios.com/woody/">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, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Woodpecker - Woody Woodpecker . Cartoonist http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/profiles/woody/ - 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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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: April/30/2009 at 7:04pm
April 30
 
Brother George Washington
 
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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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: May/25/2009 at 6:54pm
May 26 - 1994
Michael (Whacko) Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley.Confused


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Posted By: Inquirisophus
Date Posted: June/02/2009 at 7:36am
June 2:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1844 - 1844 – The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMCA - Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - London .
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925 - 1925 – The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Corporation - Chrysler Corporation is founded by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Percy_Chrysler - Walter Percy Chrysler .


Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: June/25/2009 at 2:39pm
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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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: June/25/2009 at 6:30pm
I was gonna mention Custer yesterday.....but my CB is missing.Confused

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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: August/23/2009 at 8:19pm
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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In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: August/23/2009 at 11:02pm
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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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: September/01/2009 at 2:03pm
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
September 1st 1979    Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: September/08/2009 at 7:16pm
 
A bit of useless trivia...but I wan't to be the first........!!
At 09:09:09 today......Wednesday, it will be..................wait...!
                                    09:09:09 090909
 
Useless, isn't it!LOL


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Posted By: canuck
Date Posted: September/08/2009 at 9:40pm
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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Posted By: Inquirisophus
Date Posted: October/05/2009 at 8:48am

Oct 5.. i was born!! Big%20smile

 
 


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: October/19/2009 at 6:41pm
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.
Here's (drum roll please)"yours" truly at such said site.Big%20smile


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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: October/20/2009 at 10:42am
October 20th 1864    Lincoln formaly establishes Thanksgiving as a natl holiday
October 20th 1888    Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
October 20th 1944    US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to Philippines
                                                                        October 20th, 19?? Woodland California  -
                                                                        De Darrah made her very first appearance.
October 20th 1965    Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday"
October 20th 1973    Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House


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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: October/20/2009 at 6:20pm
Many Happy Returns, De. Have a Great Day.

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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: October/20/2009 at 6:42pm
Oct 20 - 1818
US/Britain establish 49th parallel as Canadian/US border.


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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: October/20/2009 at 7:00pm
Originally posted by daves daves wrote:

Many Happy Returns, De. Have a Great Day.
 
Thank you daves, you're the only one to catch that bit of history.  Consider yourself partly redeemed for that BLONDE offense. Smile


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: October/20/2009 at 7:12pm
I was gonna mention it.........but I'm not in the doghouse..........like some.!LOL

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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: October/24/2009 at 9:57pm
St Crispin's Day, October 25, 1415. The English King Henry V overwhelms a massive force of French knights at the Battle of Agincourt.

This is part of Henry's speech to his "band of brothers" just before the battle (from Shakespeare's Henry V):

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.




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Posted By: canuck
Date Posted: November/09/2009 at 10:07pm
In 1989 - the fall of the Berlin wall!
I was 10 and I remember watching it on TV. I still remember exact details of that night.
All over Eastern Europe at the time there was a feeling of excitement, fear, confusion, worry... Everyone knew that it was the end of an era, but no one knew what was coming next.


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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: December/07/2009 at 5:27pm
On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. More than 2,300 Americans were killed.
 
1787 Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1796 Electors chose John Adams to be the second president of the United States.

1836 Martin Van Buren was elected the eighth president of the United States.

1842 The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.

1963 Videotaped instant replay was used for the first time in a live sports telecast during the Army-Navy football game on CBS.

1972 America's last moon mission was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from Cape Canaveral.

1982 A U.S. prisoner was executed by injection for the first time, in Huntsville, Texas.
2001 Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.
2004 Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.


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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: December/08/2009 at 11:11pm
1980 Rock musician John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by Mark David Chapman. The former Beatle was 40.
1995 The Grateful Dead announced they were breaking up after 30 years of making music. The news came four months after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia.


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In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/27/2009 at 5:35pm
December 28 - 1065. Westminster Abbey opens in London.

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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: December/31/2009 at 9:06pm
AULD LANG SYNE DAY

http://www.redhotjazz.com/lombardoinfo.html">Guy%20Lombardo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Lombardo - Guy Lombardo and his http://www.redhotjazz.com/lombardo.html - Royal Canadians played http://wilstar.net/xmas/auldlangsyne.htm - Auld Lang Syne as a New Year’s Eve song for the first time on this night in 1929. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csf1Q9aSR7A - Auld Lang Syne had been the band’s theme song long before 1929. However, this night was the start of a New Year’s Eve tradition as Lombardo’s famed orchestra played at the Hotel http://www.bigbandsandbignames.com/GuyLombardo.html - Roosevelt Grill in New York City to usher in the new year.

Where did it Auld begin? Scottish poet http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/langsyne.html - Robert Burns said he heard an old man singing the words, and wrote them down; but Burns is considered the original author. The literal translation means “old long since”; less literal: “days gone by”.

 
http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1862/december_31_1862_55162.html - 1862 President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union

http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1862/december_31_1862_55164.html - 1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC

1879  /ce6/people/A0816770.html - Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.

http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1923/december_31_1923_83668.html - 1923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester



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In Water there is Bacteria"
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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: January/25/2010 at 10:23pm
    January 26.  http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYAU">Australia  
      AUSTRALIA DAY!!!!!!!!! http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYAU">Australia





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Posted By: De Darrah
Date Posted: January/25/2010 at 11:12pm
Happy OZ Day 

   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Gday%20Mate   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Shrimp%20On%20The%20Barbie   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Didgeridoo   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Shark   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Kangaroo   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Sydney%20Opera%20House   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Ayers%20Rock   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Wool%20Production   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Crocodile  
http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNman000">Australia


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Posted By: YoungBlood
Date Posted: February/04/2010 at 5:58am
Bringing this thread back from the dead, as I am a history major [for now] and I find threads like these enlightening.

February 4th

Events
2004 - Facebook is founded
1992 - A Coup d'etat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Venezuelan_coup_d%C3%A9tat_attempts - is led by Hugo Chavez Frias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez_Fr%C3%ADas - , against Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez
1945 - The Yalta Conference begins
1801 - John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States
1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

Births
1976 - Cam'Ron
1973 - Oscar de la Hoya
1962 - Clint Black
1959 - Lawrence Taylor
1948 - Alice Cooper
1947 - Dan Quayle
1913 - Rosa Parks

Deaths
1987 – Liberace



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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: April/24/2010 at 7:16pm
April 25th..........ANZAC Day
Anzac tradition born on this day, April 1915, when forces of Australian New Zealand Army Corp(ANZAC) stormed the beaches at Gallipoli.
It's a solemn day here in Oz and Newealand and many turn out for the "dawn services" in each capital city, to pay homage.


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Posted By: Flotown79
Date Posted: May/04/2010 at 3:13pm
Today is Respect for Chickens Day!!!

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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: May/04/2010 at 6:26pm
Originally posted by Flotown79 Flotown79 wrote:

Today is Respect for Chickens Day!!!

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Posted By: Flotown79
Date Posted: May/04/2010 at 9:50pm
I now have in my possession a magic crystal ball.  My magic crystal ball tells me that tomorrow is not only Cinco de Mayo but it is also..................................................................................

International Midwives Day.

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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: May/04/2010 at 11:42pm
  "I now have in my possession a magic crystal ball"
 
 
Haaaa...but is it an original?????Tongue  http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYAU">Crystal%20Ball  
 
 
 
 
Pssst..........you don't get a refund on el cheapo's.


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Posted By: mm00re
Date Posted: May/05/2010 at 10:09am
I'll stick with Cinco de mayo which in my native language means, Mexican food for lunch!

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Posted By: Flotown79
Date Posted: May/05/2010 at 9:32pm
Originally posted by tm274 tm274 wrote:

  "I now have in my possession a magic crystal ball"
 
 
Haaaa...but is it an original?????Tongue  http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSYYYYYYYYAU">Crystal%20Ball  
 
 
 
 
Pssst..........you don't get a refund on el cheapo's.


Since I have been accused of having a knock-off crystal ball I will prove the powers and the quality of Made in USA.

Oh http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNfox000">Crystal%20Ball , oh http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNfox000">Crystal%20Ball .  Please inform this and other  non believers that tomorrow is International No Diet Day!!!

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Posted By: Stuntman98
Date Posted: May/19/2010 at 2:07pm
This Day in History....
 
T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name. The legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar succumbed to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days before.


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Posted By: Tensolator
Date Posted: May/26/2010 at 9:25am
2000 At Yankee Stadium the game against Boston is delayed when a fan falls from the upper deck and remains motionless for five minutes on the screen behind home plate. The 24-year old man suddenly sits up and raises both arms high, and then is promptly arrested on a disorderly conduct charge.
LOL

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Posted By: Tensolator
Date Posted: June/03/2010 at 11:24pm

 Today, in today's history, the gutless wonder, who is known as Bud Selig chose not to do the right thing and acknowledge that Gallaraga of the Tigers threw  a perfect game last night, but was thwarted by the flawed call of an umpire. What ever happened to just doing what's right?

For something that is actually important, the "crackdown" at Tianemmen Square began after 100,000 university students protested.  This happened in 1989.  Yep, it seems like yesterday.


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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: August/18/2010 at 5:45pm
This is more of a this week in history.

This week we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Burke and Wills expedition to explore Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria (ie South to North). http://www.burkeandwills.net.au/ - http://www.burkeandwills.net.au/




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Posted By: Stuntman98
Date Posted: September/13/2010 at 2:31pm
To all my Military Brethren:
 

On this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America's national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." The poem, originally titled "The Defence of Fort McHenry," was written after Key witnessed the Maryland fort being bombarded by the British during the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the sight of a lone U.S. flag still flying over Fort McHenry at daybreak, as reflected in the now-famous words of the "Star-Spangled Banner": "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."

Francis Scott Key was born on August 1, 1779, at Terra Rubra, his family's estate in Frederick County (now Carroll County), Maryland. He became a successful lawyer in Maryland and Washington, D.C., and was later appointed U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

On June 18, 1812, America declared war on Great Britain after a series of trade disagreements. In August 1814, British troops invaded Washington, D.C., and burned the White House, Capitol Building and Library of Congress. Their next target was Baltimore.

After one of Key's friends, Dr. William Beanes, was taken prisoner by the British, Key went to Baltimore, located the ship where Beanes was being held and negotiated his release. However, Key and Beanes weren't allowed to leave until after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry. Key watched the bombing campaign unfold from aboard a ship located about eight miles away. After a day, the British were unable to destroy the fort and gave up. Key was relieved to see the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry and quickly penned a few lines in tribute to what he had witnessed.

The poem was printed in newspapers and eventually set to the music of a popular English drinking tune called "To Anacreon in Heaven" by composer John Stafford Smith. People began referring to the song as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson announced that it should be played at all official events. It was adopted as the national anthem on March 3, 1931.

Francis Scott Key died of pleurisy on January 11, 1843. Today, the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1914 is housed at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.



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Posted By: Stuntman98
Date Posted: October/06/2010 at 9:31am
1965   Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador


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S.S. Sons of Light No.77
P.M. Pride of The Walton No.110
MWPHGL Washington
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SPAIN MILITARY CONSISTORY #99 AASR,PHA


Posted By: Tensolator
Date Posted: October/09/2010 at 4:52pm
Che Guevara is executed, 1967.
 


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Posted By: kjack
Date Posted: October/30/2010 at 9:40pm
1974 - Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa ZaireOuch

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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November/01/2010 at 10:11am
November 1st, 1938
 
Seabiscuit races against Triple Crown winner War Admiral in the Pimlico Special in Baltimore, Maryland and won the match race. It is estimated over 40 million listened to the match on the radio.


Posted By: farmerjoe
Date Posted: November/19/2010 at 10:20pm
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania

In 1959, Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.

In 1990, the pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the "Girl You Know It's True" album.


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Posted By: Tar Heel 357
Date Posted: November/20/2010 at 2:35am
1923 - Garrett Morgan patents the three-position traffic light
1945 - Nuremberg trials begin
1947 - Princess Elizabeth marries Philip Mountbatten
1969 - Seymour Hersch files follow-up to My Lai Story


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Posted By: YoungBlood
Date Posted: November/22/2010 at 12:46am
November 22, 1963
President Kennedy is shot by Oswalt


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Sir Knight - Feb 26, 201


Posted By: daves
Date Posted: November/22/2010 at 4:58pm
Originally posted by YoungBlood YoungBlood wrote:

November 22, 1963
President Kennedy is shot by Oswalt


"And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”


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Posted By: Tar Heel 357
Date Posted: November/27/2010 at 2:07pm
November 27:
 
1786 - Robert Burns postpones emigration to Jamaica
1940 - Bruce Lee is born
1965 - Gordie Howe scores his 600th goal
1965 - Pentagon calls for troop increase in Vietnam


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Posted By: ABrother
Date Posted: June/18/2011 at 1:49am
June 18, 1812: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-of-1812-begins - War of 1812 begins
June 18, 1983: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-american-woman-in-space - First American woman in space


Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: June/18/2011 at 3:12am
Originally posted by ABrother ABrother wrote:

June 18, 1812: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-of-1812-begins - War of 1812 begins
June 18, 1983: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-american-woman-in-space - First American woman in space
 
 
NOPE....not gunna say it.........!!!!!   Monkey shake


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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: June/18/2011 at 4:54am
I'm surprised at you, TM, you left out the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo by Wellington in 1815.

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Posted By: ABrother
Date Posted: June/19/2011 at 8:52am
Originally posted by tm274 tm274 wrote:

Originally posted by ABrother ABrother wrote:

June 18, 1812: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-of-1812-begins - War of 1812 begins
June 18, 1983: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-american-woman-in-space - First American woman in space
 
 
NOPE....not gunna say it.........!!!!!   Monkey shake
 
In 1983 the first American woman in space was Sally Ride. I think you are thinking about the Space Shuttle Challenger that blew up in January of 1986. Her name was Christa McAuliffe.


Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: June/19/2011 at 6:38pm
Originally posted by ABrother ABrother wrote:

Originally posted by tm274 tm274 wrote:

Originally posted by ABrother ABrother wrote:

June 18, 1812: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-of-1812-begins - War of 1812 begins
June 18, 1983: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-american-woman-in-space - First American woman in space
 
 
NOPE....not gunna say it.........!!!!!   Monkey shake
 
In 1983 the first American woman in space was Sally Ride. I think you are thinking about the Space Shuttle Challenger that blew up in January of 1986. Her name was Christa McAuliffe.
 
 
Nope......was thinking.......how many times we wanna send them into space.LOL


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: June/24/2011 at 8:42pm
June 25th - 1876:
     Custer got whupped at the Little Big Horn.


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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: July/04/2011 at 7:22pm
July 4

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson bought his first thermometer and signed the Declaration of Independence.

He noted cloudy skies and 76°F at 2pm that day in Philadelphia.


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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
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Posted By: jaya
Date Posted: August/05/2011 at 7:38pm

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861, which included the first-ever federal personal income tax, a 3-percent levy on incomes above $800 (however, no income tax ended up actually being collected under this law).

In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Admiral David G. Farragut led his fleet to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala.

In 1969, the U.S. space probe Mariner 7 flew by Mars, sending back photographs and scientific data.


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Posted By: tm274
Date Posted: December/20/2011 at 6:33pm
Dec 20  1860- South Carolina secedes from Union.
 
 
 
 
 
I can see 'Bug walking around with his SC flag. Big smile


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Posted By: daves
Date Posted: December/21/2011 at 12:37am
1620 - Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock

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