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

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Post by n11pilot » Sun Dec 23, 2018 12:46 pm

962 - Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist.

1688 - King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange.

1783 - George Washington returned home to Mount Vernon, after the disbanding of his army following the Revolutionary War.

1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government. About two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.

1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.

1834 - English architect Joseph Hansom patented his 'safety cab', better known as the Hansom cab. Writers of Victorian era fiction have been forever grateful.

1852 - The Theater of Celestial John opened on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, CA. It was the first Chinese theater in the U.S.

1880 - Thomas Edison incorporated the Edison Electric Light Company of Europe.

1888 - Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping. It's the thought that counts.

1913 - The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve Banks.

1919 - The first ship designed to be used as an ambulance for the transport patients was launched. The hospital ship was named USS Relief and had 515 beds.

1922 - The British Broadcasting Corporation began daily news broadcasts.

1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.

1942 - Bob Hope agreed to entertain U.S. airmen in Alaska. It was the first of the traditional Christmas shows.

1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor.

1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. They had been found guilty of crimes against humanity.

1953 - Soviet secret police chief Lavrenti Beria and six of his associates were shot for treason following a secret trial.

1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans.

1970 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for original One World Trade Center (North Tower) took place. The South Tower's ceremony took place on July 19, 1971.

1986 - The experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1997 - Terry Nichols was convicted by a Denver jury on charges of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the 1995 federal building bombing in Oklahoma City. The bomb killed 168 people.

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1565 - Compromise of the Nobles in Habsburg Netherlands closes against inquisition.

1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.

1818 - Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.

1828 - William Burke who, with his partner William Hare, dug up the dead and murdered to sell the corpses for dissection, went on trial in Edinburgh.

1851 - A fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, destroying about 35,000 volumes.

1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed what they termed "A private social club" in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan. Truth be told it was more of an anti-social club.

1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.

1914 - In World War I, the first air raid on Britain was made when a German airplane dropped a bomb on the grounds of a rectory in Dover. The first attempt was three days prior but the bombs fell harmlessly into the sea. Both raids were conducted by Imperial German Navy float planes.

1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord.

1944 - A German submarine torpedoed the Belgian transport ship S.S. Leopoldville with 2,235 soldiers aboard. About 800 American soldiers died. The soldiers were crossing the English Channel to be reinforcements at the battle that become known as the Battle of the Bulge.

1979 - Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the country's Marxist government.

1997 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," was sentenced by a French court to life in prison for the 1975 murders of two French investigators and a Lebanese national.

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1492 - First Spanish settlement La Navidad (modern Mole-Saint-Nicolas) in the New World is founded by Christopher Columbus.

1776 - The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.

1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason. Thousands cheered, well, they should have.

1917 - During World War I, the U.S. government took over operation of the nation's railroads.

1941 - Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.

1943 - The German battle cruiser Scharnhorst was sunk in the North Sea, during the Battle of North Cape.

1947 - Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths.

1956 - Fidel Castro attempted a secret landing in Cuba to overthrow the Batista regime. All but 11 of his supporters were killed.

1991 - The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out of existence.

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1512 - Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World. The laws were intended to look after the physical and spiritual welfare of the Indians particularly those around the Caribbean. The effects were at best mixed.

1657 - Flushing Remonstrance petition signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland protesting ban on Quaker worship.

1703 - The Methuen Treaty was signed between Portugal and England, giving preference to the import of Portuguese wines into England.

1831 - Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution.

1845 - Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth for the first time. The event was the delivery of his own child in Jefferson, GA.

1900 - Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles that could be seen. Thus winning the judgmental pain award with sanctimonious clusters in perpetuity.

1927 - Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party. But Stalin kept picking on him............sorry.

1945 - International Monetary Fund formally established by 29 member countries based on ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes.

1949 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands granted sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule.

1979 - After invading Afghanistan two days earlier Soviet forces pull off a coup in Kabul, killing President Hafizullah Amin.

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Post by AeroDillo MkII » Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:11 pm

n11pilot wrote:
Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:37 pm
1900 - Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles that could be seen. Thus winning the judgmental pain award with sanctimonious clusters in perpetuity.
Virtue through nagging? :shock:

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Post by Cousi » Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:48 pm

Carrie Nation was a real piece of work. You have to look her up. Zealot doesn't begin to cover it.

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Post by Blackthorn » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:33 pm

AeroDillo MkII wrote:
Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:11 pm
n11pilot wrote:
Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:37 pm
1900 - Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles that could be seen.
That would be dangerous, with me around. :shock: :o
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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Post by AeroDillo MkII » Fri Dec 28, 2018 12:31 am

Almost like the social-justice types are mentally ill. Or something. :?

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Post by n11pilot » Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:14 pm

AeroDillo MkII wrote:
Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:11 pm
n11pilot wrote:
Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:37 pm
1900 - Carrie Nation staged her first raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, KS. She broke each and every one of the liquor bottles that could be seen. Thus winning the judgmental pain award with sanctimonious clusters in perpetuity.
Virtue through nagging? :shock:
If only she had stuck with nagging. As you, Cousi, and Blackthorn have pointed out, she was at best unhinged in her righteous certitude of knowing exactly what everyone should do and was willing to engage in violence to force her point for your own good.

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1065 - Westminster Abbey was consecrated under Edward the Confessor.

1612 - First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a "fixed star" without realizing it is a planet.

1694 - Queen Mary II of England died after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III.

1732 - "The Pennsylvania Gazette," owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran an ad for the first issue of "Poor Richard’s Almanack."

1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.

1836 - Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.

1846 - Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.

1860 - Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War MS Tubman used many of the skills she learned as a conductor on the underground railroad to serve as an intelligence operative for the US Army. She was famous in some military circles for her abilities to disguise herself and to alter her facial expressions enough to pass as a totally different person. She provided valuable intelligence and even organized a nine person low level agent net operating in Confederate territory.

1895 - In Paris, the first commercial public screening of cinematographic films took place.

1908 - An earthquake killed over 75,000 at Messina in Sicily.

1937 - The Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland when a new constitution established the country as a sovereign state under the name of Eire.

1943 - All Kalmyk inhabitants of the Republic of Kalmukkie deported by the Soviet Union to Central Asia and Siberia. Many die en route.

1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.

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