Today in History!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by Cousi » Mon Mar 18, 2019 2:00 pm

I realize this is late, but belated happy birthday to you mom, Pilot!

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Post by n11pilot » Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:36 am

Cousi wrote:
Mon Mar 18, 2019 2:00 pm
I realize this is late, but belated happy birthday to you mom, Pilot!

Thank you! You aren't late at all, we celebrated Sunday for family convenience but the actual day is the 20TH. I will convey your wishes tomorrow when I call her.

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1279 - A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.

1571 - Spanish troops occupied Manila.

1628 - The Massachusetts colony was founded by English colonists.

1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor.

1687 - French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no proof that la Salle's last words were,"Good help is so hard to find."

1702 - Upon the death of William III of Orange, Anne Stuart, the sister of Mary, succeeds to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1863 - The Confederate blockade runner and commerce raider SS Georgiana destroyed near Charleston, SC on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, and medicines then valued over $1,000,000.

1865 - The Battle of Bentonville took place. The Confederates retreated from Greenville, NC.

1917 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Adamson Act that made the eight-hour workday for railroads constitutional.

1920 - The U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty for the second time maintaining an isolation policy.

1945 - About 800 people were killed as Japanese kamikaze planes attacked the U.S. carrier Franklin off Japan.

1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his "Nero Decree" which ordered the destruction of German facilities of any kind that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.

1963 - In Costa Rica, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight Communism.

1981 - During a test of the space shuttle Columbia two workers were injured and one was killed.

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141 - The 6TH recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took place.

1413 - Henry V took the throne of England upon the death of his father Henry IV. This King was known for being brave, likable, fair and a great knight. Not to mention that his victory over French forces at the battle of Agincourt inspired one of Shakespeare's most butt kicking plays.

1525 - Paris' parliament began its pursuit of Protestants.

1602 - United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms.

1616 - Walter Raleigh was released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana.

1760 - The great fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.

1792 - In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine. Interestingly while the guillotine became famous during the Reign of Terror in France the machine had been adopted with alacrity by the German NAZIs generations later. Today the main advocates of the head chopper seem to be ANTIFA radicals who routinely use its reputation in attempts to intimidate voices of reason with being,"Dragged from your home and guillotined". This humble, amateur historian has the honor of being so threatened. 8-)

1800 - Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London.

1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule.

1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.

1865 - A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was ruined when Lincoln changed his plans and did not appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, DC.

1890 - German Emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

1900 - US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an 'open door' policy in China have essentially accepted his stand.

1906 - In Russia, army officers mutiny at Sevastopol.

1915 - The French called off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front.

1922 - The USS Langley was commissioned. It was the first aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy.

1933 - The first German concentration camp was completed at Dachau.

1940 - The British Royal Air Force conducted an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany.

1952 - The U.S. Senate ratified a peace treaty with Japan.

1976 - Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her role in the hold up of a San Francisco Bank.

1980 - The U.S. made an appeal to the International Court concerning the American Hostages in Iran.

1990 - Namibia became an independent nation ending 75 years of South African rule.

1995 - In Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others were sickened when packages containing the nerve gas Sarin was released on five separate subway trains. The terrorists belonged to a doomsday cult in Japan.

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1349 - 3,000 Jews were killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany.

1556 - Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake at Oxford after retracting the last of seven recantations that same day.

1788 - Almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were destroyed.

1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.

1804 - Napoleonic Code adopted in France, stresses clearly written and accessible law.

1858 - British forces in India lift the siege of Lucknow, ending the Indian Mutiny.

1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa. "Doctor Livingstone I presume...."

1905 - Sterilization legislation was passed in the State of Pennsylvania. The governor vetoed the measure. This was "Eugenics" an attempt to keep mentally and physically "Unfit" people from reproducing.

1918 - During World War I, the Germans launched the Somme Offensive.

1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

1941 - The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, fell to the British.

1945 - During World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.

1965 - The U.S. launched Ranger 9. It was the last in a series of unmanned lunar explorations.

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1622 - First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed.

1630 - The first legislation to prohibit gambling was enacted. It was in Boston, MA.

1638 - Anne Hutchinson, a religious dissident, was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1765 - The Stamp Act was passed. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists. It was repealed on March 17, 1766.

1775 - Edmund Burke presented his 13 articles to the English parliament.

1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1794 - The U.S. Congress passed the Slave Trade Act which prohibited carrying the slave trade from the US to any other country or place.

1871 - William Holden of North Carolina became the first governor to be removed by impeachment.

1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris.

1901 - Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.

1904 - The first color photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1905 - Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.

1907 - Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces.

1915 - A German zeppelin made a night raid on Paris railway stations.

1935 - In New York, blood tests were authorized as evidence in court cases.

1946 - The first U.S. built rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere reached a height of 50-miles.

1965 - U.S. confirmed that its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong. The weapons in this case were herbicides designed to deny cover to Vietcong troops the most famous of which was "Agent Orange".

1982 - The Space Shuttle Columbia was launched into orbit on mission STS-3. It was the third orbital flight for the Columbia.

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1026 - Koenraad II crowned himself king of Italy.

1066 - The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took place.

1490 - 1ST dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah", a code of Jewish religious law is published.

1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favor of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war.

1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.

1808 - Napoleon's brother Joseph took the throne of Spain.

1835 - Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales, in the Andes.

1857 - Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City.

1889 - U.S. President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization.

1903 - The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent.

1909 - British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.

1909 - Theodore Roosevelt began an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

1919 - Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

1919 - 8TH Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky.

1933 - The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers.

1934 - The U.S. Congress accepted the independence of the Philippines in 1945.

1942 - During World War II, the U.S. government began evacuating Japanese-Americans from West Coast homes to detention centers.

1951 - U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.

1965 - America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3.

1983 - U.S. President Reagan first proposed development of technology to intercept enemy missiles. The proposal became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and "Star Wars."

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1550 - France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne.

1603 - Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.

1629 - In Virginia, the first game law was passed in the American colonies.

1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings. This act proved so offensive to the American colonists that when independence was secured and the Constitution established the 3RD Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights prohibiting such quartering in peace time.

1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.

1837 - Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote.

1882 - In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus).

1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.

1920 - The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at Morehead City, NC.

1927 - Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.

1944 - In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.

1947 - The U.S. Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms.

1988 - Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pled innocent to Iran-Contra charges.

1999 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.

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421 - The city of Venice was founded.

1306 - Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland.

1609 - Henry Hudson left on an exploration for Dutch East India CO.

1634 - Lord Baltimore founded the Catholic colony of Maryland.

1655 - Puritans jailed Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland. This is considered by some to be the last battle of the English Civil War.

1774 - English Parliament passed the Boston Port Bill. This act closed the Port of Boston and demanded that the residents pay for the tea dumped in the harbor at the Boston Tea party of 1773. Seems unreasonable, it's not like they dumped coffee. 8-)

1776 - The Continental Congress authorized a medal for General George Washington.

1807 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of 120 Pounds per slave introduced for ship captains.

1813 - The frigate USS Essex flew the first U.S. flag in battle in the Pacific.

1865 - During the American Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman in Virginia.

1879 - Japan invaded the kingdom of Liuqiu (Ryukyu) Islands, formerly a vassal of China.

1901 - The Mercedes was introduced by Daimler at the five-day "Week of Nice" in Nice, France.

1905 - Russia received Japan's terms for peace.

1909 - In Russia, revolutionary Popova was arrested on 300 murder charges.

1911 - In New York City, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.

1915 - 21 people died when a US Navy F-4 submarine sank off the Hawaiian coast.

1940 - The U.S. agreed to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.

1953 - The USS Missouri fired on targets at Kojo, North Korea.

1960 - A guided missile was launched from a nuclear powered submarine for the first time.

1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters took Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.

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Re: Today in History!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by Cousi » Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:52 pm

I feel like I need to just add a response so you know I'm reading. I have nothing to add, just letting you know I'm here. 8-)

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