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

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

Post by n11pilot » Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:07 am

AeroDillo MkII wrote:
Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:30 am
Yeah, but you don't understand.

This time it's gonna work.

Dillo, are you quoting Bloomberg? :D

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Post by n11pilot » Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:18 am

1142 - Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah. Please note that this date is speculative based on study of oral tradition.

1823 - Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French forces entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero.

1852 - The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of the U.S. Congress.

1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.

1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086). If this name sounds a bit familiar it is because John is the son of Frank Lloyd Wright.

1935 - The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1946 - Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year.

1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. A noted growth spurt for big government.

1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike. This event is considered by some to be the first meaningful crack in the armor of the Soviet Union.

1990 - U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf.

1990 - East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.

1991 - Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to secede.

1994 - Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century.

1998 - A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known target.

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Post by n11pilot » Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:33 am

1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

1799 - The Bank of Manhattan Company opened in New York City, NY. It was the forerunner of Chase Manhattan.

1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.

1810 - The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by John J. Wood.

1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.

1922 - The first daily news program on radio was "The Radio Digest," on WBAY radio in New York City, NY.

1939 - World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig.

1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David.

1945 - V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan).

1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.

1985 - The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast.

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Post by n11pilot » Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:28 am

31 BC - Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.

1192 - Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade.

1666 - The Great Fire of London broke out. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral. Only 6 people were killed.

1775 - Hannah, the first American war vessel was commissioned by General George Washington.

1789 - The U.S. Treasury Department was established. I think they made a musical about this and a guy named Hamilton.

1792 - September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1864 - Union General William T Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during the Savannah Campaign of the Civil War. Note: There is some dispute about who started the burning of Atlanta. Some historians now believe that the fire may have actually been started by retreating Confederate troops destroying military stores.

1901 - Theodore Roosevelt, then Vice President, said "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair.

1930 - The "Question Mark" made the first non-stop flight from Europe to the U.S. The plane was flown by Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

1961 - The U.S.S.R. resumed nuclear weapons testing. Test ban treaty negotiations had failed with the U.S. and Britain when the three nations could not agree upon the nature and frequency of on-site inspections.

1963 - The integration of Tuskegee High School was prevented by state troopers assigned by Democrat Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Wallace had the building surrounded by state troopers.

1969 - NBC-TV canceled "Star Trek." The show had debuted on September 8, 1966.

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Post by n11pilot » Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:22 am

301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus. San Marino is a micro state totally surrounded by Italy.

1189 - England's King Richard I was crowned in Westminster.

1783 - Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America. Hooah!

1833 - The first successful penny newspaper in the U.S., "The New York Sun," was launched by Benjamin H. Day.

1900 - With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa.

1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

1943 - Italy was invaded by the Allied forces during World War II.

1954 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.

1976 - The U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

1988 - Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War.

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Post by n11pilot » Tue Sep 04, 2018 12:20 pm

476 - Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional end of the Western Roman Empire. In truth the Western Roman Empire had been a mere shadow since the sack of the city of Rome in 410AD.

1609 - English navigator Henry Hudson began exploring the island of Manhattan.

1682 - English astronomer Edmond Halley observes the comet named after him.

1781 - Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula," which translates as "The Town of the Queen of Angels."

1825 - New York Governor Clinton ceremoniously emptied a barrel of Lake Erie water in the Atlantic Ocean to consummate the "Marriage of the Waters" of the Great Lakes and the Atlantic.

1862 - General Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederate troops during Maryland Campaign of the Civil war.

1882 - Thomas Edison's Pearl Street electric power station began operations in New York City. It was the first display of a practical electrical lighting system.

1885 - The Exchange Buffet opened in New York City. It was the first self-service cafeteria in the U.S.

1886 - Geronimo, and the Apache Indians he led, surrendered in Skeleton Canyon in Arizona to Gen. Nelson Miles.

1917 - The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.

1923 - The first American dirigible, the "Shenandoah," began its maiden voyage in Lakehurst, NJ.

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

Post by Blackthorn » Tue Sep 04, 2018 4:29 pm

Fascinating as always, Pilot! This world has had some interesting things happen over time.
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything….Albert Einstein

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

Post by n11pilot » Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:05 pm

Blackthorn wrote:
Tue Sep 04, 2018 4:29 pm
Fascinating as always, Pilot! This world has had some interesting things happen over time.

Many thanks, my friend! I agree the world has been through a lot and the funny thing is if you look hard enough you can see the same mistakes played out over and over again.

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

Post by n11pilot » Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:22 am

1666 - Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed.

1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. I hope Jerry Brown doesn't read this. ;)

1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.

1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.

1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

1839 - The First Opium War begins in China.

1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was killed by the bayonet of a U.S. soldier. The chief allegedly resisted confinement to a jail cell.

1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.

1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed by Russia and Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War. The settlement was mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in New Hampshire. President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in mediating this treaty.

1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people.

1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.

1958 - Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" was published for the first time in the U.S.

1983 - U.S. President Reagan denounced the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean Air Lines. Reagan demanded that the Soviet Union pay reparations for the act that killed 269 people.

1984 - The space shuttle Discovery landed after its maiden voyage.

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

Post by Cousi » Wed Sep 05, 2018 7:27 pm

1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress.

1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.

1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
That's a lot of revolution type things on one particular day.

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