Halloween, I don't know. Probably something bad, hang on. Ok, River Phoenix died on the night I turned two. That's just off the top of my head.
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Saladin surrendered Acre to the Crusaders on July 12, 1191.
The United States invaded Canada on July 12, 1812.
The Rolling Stones perform their first concert on July 12, 1962.
I was born on July 12, 1988.
The United States invaded Canada on July 12, 1812.
The Rolling Stones perform their first concert on July 12, 1962.
I was born on July 12, 1988.
December 16th:
Beethoven is born, Boston Tea Party, and only a day off from the Wright Bro's flight.
Beethoven is born, Boston Tea Party, and only a day off from the Wright Bro's flight.
6th July:
1189 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
1535 - Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.
1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French navy are defeated by the British Royal Navy.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
1920 - Test and first use of radio compass in aircraft off Norfolk, VA
1923 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed
1939 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1189 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
1535 - Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason by King Henry VIII after refusing to agree to Henry's decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.
1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French navy are defeated by the British Royal Navy.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
1920 - Test and first use of radio compass in aircraft off Norfolk, VA
1923 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed
1939 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
ha this thread is awesome ive compiled a list over the years:
April 19th
Revolutionary War begins
Bram Stoker died
Oklahoma bombing
Cult burned out in Waco
Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada (i did a report in 5th grade)
(after this is from wikipedia)
Belgium became a kingdom
LSD is taken deliberately for the first time
Bay of Pigs invasion ends successfully
Charles Manson is sentenced to death
Most recent pope is elected
The Simpsons premiers as a short
And Tim Curry, Paloma Picasso, Suge Knight, and Hayden Christenson (whooo...) were born on the 19th
Charles Darwin and Pierre Curie died on the 19th
very interesting...
April 19th
Revolutionary War begins
Bram Stoker died
Oklahoma bombing
Cult burned out in Waco
Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada (i did a report in 5th grade)
(after this is from wikipedia)
Belgium became a kingdom
LSD is taken deliberately for the first time
Bay of Pigs invasion ends successfully
Charles Manson is sentenced to death
Most recent pope is elected
The Simpsons premiers as a short
And Tim Curry, Paloma Picasso, Suge Knight, and Hayden Christenson (whooo...) were born on the 19th
Charles Darwin and Pierre Curie died on the 19th
very interesting...
Significant ones for mine (IMO) September 14th:
1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1959 The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1997 Google first registers the domain google.com
2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2010 Visitor posting - Halo reach released (Xbox 360)
As an aside, am I the only one that thinks the visitor postings, for the most part, are really lame? For example I had one that says this "Robin born. My pet is a parrot named Oscar - India"
Congratulations?
1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1959 The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
1997 Google first registers the domain google.com
2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2010 Visitor posting - Halo reach released (Xbox 360)
As an aside, am I the only one that thinks the visitor postings, for the most part, are really lame? For example I had one that says this "Robin born. My pet is a parrot named Oscar - India"
Congratulations?
18th April - Albert Einstein died. David Tennant was born.
EDIT: Also these happened.
EDIT: Also these happened.
1025 Boleslaw Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
1775 American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1797 The Battle of Neuwied ? French victory against the Austrians.
1831 The University of Alabama is founded.
1848 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1857 Released "The Spirits Book", which marked the birth of Spiritualism in France, by Allan Kardec.
1880 An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1899 The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by Earthquake.
1906 The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco, California.
1906 The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1923 Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built," opens.
1924 Simon & Schuster publishes the first Crossword puzzle book.
1930 BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya bombed.
1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1949 The aircraft carrier USS United States (CVA-58) is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, the United States is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
1954 Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1955 Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1958 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1974 The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port.
1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
1981 The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game was suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
1983 A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1992 General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
1996 In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
2007 A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
1775 American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1797 The Battle of Neuwied ? French victory against the Austrians.
1831 The University of Alabama is founded.
1848 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1857 Released "The Spirits Book", which marked the birth of Spiritualism in France, by Allan Kardec.
1880 An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1899 The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by Earthquake.
1906 The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco, California.
1906 The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1923 Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built," opens.
1924 Simon & Schuster publishes the first Crossword puzzle book.
1930 BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya bombed.
1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1943 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1949 The aircraft carrier USS United States (CVA-58) is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, the United States is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
1954 Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1955 Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1958 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1974 The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port.
1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
1981 The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game was suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
1983 A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1992 General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
1996 In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
2007 A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
june 6, d-day.
also know as the big fail day for the americans XD sheesh d-day was such a fail
hi lads, lets all go the the wrong damn beach!, bomb the beaches in the wrong places, FAIL to hit anything of relevance realy, and make craters in the sand underwater so our men and tanks suddenly sink without a trace XD.
that last bit about the sinking tanks was a little something my grandad told me, i had a laugh about it. he also thought the bombers were having a bit too much alcahol pre-mission XD
the french still complain to this day that the allies bombed the shit out of prime meat cows, and not german bunkers XD. ( ofcourse, that gives rise to the mg42'guys having a field day( well, not realy, they hated their job it seems). and everyone coming off the boats, a realy. realy. bad one.
but it started the true liberation of europa, so its a good date to be born on
also know as the big fail day for the americans XD sheesh d-day was such a fail
hi lads, lets all go the the wrong damn beach!, bomb the beaches in the wrong places, FAIL to hit anything of relevance realy, and make craters in the sand underwater so our men and tanks suddenly sink without a trace XD.
that last bit about the sinking tanks was a little something my grandad told me, i had a laugh about it. he also thought the bombers were having a bit too much alcahol pre-mission XD
the french still complain to this day that the allies bombed the shit out of prime meat cows, and not german bunkers XD. ( ofcourse, that gives rise to the mg42'guys having a field day( well, not realy, they hated their job it seems). and everyone coming off the boats, a realy. realy. bad one.
but it started the true liberation of europa, so its a good date to be born on
21st of november 1980- A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history. so yeah. not great.
February 22: George Washington was born.
I knew that one, but the others are new...
-Ramses II became pharaoh
-Indians introduced the pilgrims to popcorn
-Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America
-Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I
-Arthur T. "Bomber" (or "Butcher" by some airmen) Harris becomes British Air Marshall in World War II
And that's just a few of them.
I think it would have been a true failure if the invasion was pushed back to the sea. It came close at Omaha, but in the end the Americans were able to push through. So it was in fact a success, though it most certainly could have gone much smoother.
Also, the defenses at Utah and Omaha were stronger than at Gold, Juneau and Sword.
Just something to consider. Nothing personal, I just get a little peeved when people make sweeping generalizations about major historical events.
I knew that one, but the others are new...
-Ramses II became pharaoh
-Indians introduced the pilgrims to popcorn
-Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America
-Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I
-Arthur T. "Bomber" (or "Butcher" by some airmen) Harris becomes British Air Marshall in World War II
And that's just a few of them.
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy," remember?thahat said:june 6, d-day.
also know as the big fail day for the americans XD sheesh d-day was such a fail
hi lads, lets all go the the wrong damn beach!, bomb the beaches in the wrong places, FAIL to hit anything of relevance realy, and make craters in the sand underwater so our men and tanks suddenly sink without a trace XD.
I think it would have been a true failure if the invasion was pushed back to the sea. It came close at Omaha, but in the end the Americans were able to push through. So it was in fact a success, though it most certainly could have gone much smoother.
Also, the defenses at Utah and Omaha were stronger than at Gold, Juneau and Sword.
Just something to consider. Nothing personal, I just get a little peeved when people make sweeping generalizations about major historical events.
30th of October...
1945 Henry Winkler (The Fonz) is born.
1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1945 Henry Winkler (The Fonz) is born.
1945 Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
# 1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the red flag over the Reichstag building.
# 1945 Germany surrenders; end of the Third Reich.
# 1945 Munich is captured by Patch's 7th Army unit.
FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
# 1945 Germany surrenders; end of the Third Reich.
# 1945 Munich is captured by Patch's 7th Army unit.
FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
