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1. BorromulanSalvaged from archive
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2. cymru am bythSalvaged from archive
   Quote: Originally Posted by Borromulan View Post http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w238/TX1138/thisthread… You're the only one to complain
3. BorromulanSalvaged from archive
   Quote: Originally Posted by cymru am byth View Post You're the only one to complain I'm fuckin with u ...sheesh
4. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive27 Mar 2007, 03:42
   Mar 27 30 Pontius Pilate condemns jesus to death. Mar 27 1866 Patent for a urinal is granted to Andrew Rankin. Mar 27 1945 Argentina declares war on Nazi Germany. Of course, this was just a silly charade for the benefit of the world community. Argentina would be a quiet ally of Germany for the duration of the war, even welcoming many Nazi and SS leaders to emigrate there in the aftermath. Mar 27 1964 One of the largest quakes in US history strikes southeast of Anchorage, Alaska, hitting 8.6 on the richter scale. 118 people are killed, and a tidal wave destroys four square blocks of Anchorage. The control tower at the airport, 60 feet high, snapped. Damage in the state is estimated at $500 million. Mar 27 1977 The worst airline disaster in history occurs when the confused pilot of a KLM Boeing 747 taking off collides with a Pan Am Boeing 747 which was on the runway. A total of 583 people die. Mar 27 2001 Vatican officials reported three days ago on the exhumation of Pope John XXIII, which occurred quietly on January 16. The pontiff's body, dead for 37 years now, was described as having a face that "has not changed since his death."
5. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive29 Mar 2007, 14:07
   Mar 28 0 According to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, Jesus Christ's (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/jesus-christ/) birthday was March 28. It later became the familiar December 25 after Rome changed it in 336. Mar 28 193 The Roman ruler Pertinax is murdered by the Praetorian Guard. There being no obvious successor and no Senatorial volunteers, the Guard auctions off the emperorship. The high bidder is Senator Didius Julianus, for 300 million sesterces. After hearing of this, Roman general Septimus Severus in Dalmatia marched on Rome, beheading the new emperor upon arrival. Mar 28 1930 Constantinople becomes Istanbul. Mar 28 1941 Virginia Woolf commits suicide (http://www.rotten.com/library/death/suicide/suicide-notes/). Mar 28 1947 Leftover Jap boobytrap from WWII explodes in Corregidor, killing 28. Mar 28 1975 A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, kills 25 incubating babies. Mar 28 1979 Three Mile Island (http://www.rotten.com/library/history/nuclear-incidents/t… nuclear accident, Harrisburg PA. Mar 28 1996 78 people apparently perish in a fire at the Pasar Anyar shopping center in Bogor, West Java. The estimate is lowered to 10 after it is discovered that most of the dead are store mannequins. Mar 28 1997 Martin Lawrence slugs someone in a barroom brawl at the "Gate" nightclub in Hollywood (http://www.rotten.com/library/travel/cities/los-angeles/), apparently because he was jostled while dancing. He receives two years probation and community service ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 29 1951 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-rosenbergs.jpg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/historical/rosenbergs/) are both convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. Mar 29 1977 Lee Harvey Oswald (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/assassins/lee-har… best friend, and coincidentally a friend of both Jackie Kennedy (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/misc/jackie-o/) and George HW Bush (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/george-hw-bu… Dallas socialite George de Mohrenschildt (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/misc/george-de-mohrensc… dies from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the mouth, at 3:45 pm. It is likely he was going to be called to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Mar 29 1979 A U.S. House of Representatives committee report finds that John F. Kennedy (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/jfk/)'s assassination (http://www.rotten.com/library/history/assassination/) was the result of a conspiracy. Mar 29 1992 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-inhale-to-the-c… Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate Bill Clinton tells the New York Times: "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana (http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/drugs/marijuana/) a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale, and never tried it again." Mar 29 1997 Kazuo Konya, a former member of the Aum cult, tells Tokyo Municipal Court that he paid $8,100 for the privilege of drinking the guru's blood in a 1988 initiation ritual. Other former cult members also testify they paid for blood, strands of Shoko Asahara (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/shoko-asa… hair, and his bath water. Some say they paid $2,400 for an intravenous injection of an unknown substance. Ironically, all throughout, Asahara preached to his followers that they should renounce materialism. Mar 29 2006 Jack Abramoff, Washington D.C. lobbyist extraordinaire, is sentenced to almost six years in prison for defrauding Native American tribes, corruption of public officials and other various fraud charges. He is also ordered to pay $21M in fines. In exchange for a short sentence, Jack agrees to name names. This makes Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay very nervous.
6. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive30 Mar 2007, 11:42
   Mar 30 315 The Donation of Constantine grants to the See of Rome dominion over all earthly thrones of Europe, a document made by that Roman emperor after his conversion to Christianity in return for being cured from leprosy. But in 1440, anachronisms in the document prove that it was really a fraud written around 752 AD, during the reign of and under orders of Pope Stephen II. Mar 30 1282 After vespers on Easter Monday, a French soldier touches the breast of a young Sicilian bride, causing an outrage that precipitated the slaughter of perhaps 2,000 Frenchmen living and ruling over Sicily. Mar 30 1968 Two children in the Bowery come across the body of a homeless drug addict later identified as Bobby Driscol, 31, the voice of Disney's "Peter Pan". Mar 30 1981 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-reagan-shot-th.jpg While President Reagan undergoes surgery for a life-threatening gunshot wound, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announces to the press: "As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President." Mar 30 1995 A police officer who was also a member of the Aum Supreme Truth cult fires three shots into Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of Japan's National Police Agency. Takaji is seriously wounded but survives. Investigators try unsuccessfully to hide the fact that the gunman was a police officer.
7. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive31 Mar 2007, 00:00
   Quote: Originally Posted by Monstermash View Post Mar 31 1996 During a homebrew exorcism in Rhode Island, a man accidentally punctures the esophagus of his mother-in-law when he jams two pointy steel crucifixes down her throat, causing a large quantity of blood to gush out. Mario Garcia is later charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. I took this from your above post Cymru, was this man trying to realy do an exorcism or was it just an excuse to get rid of his mother in law. I don't know I just feel sorry for him somehow, Mother in laws can be Monster-in-laws i know, i was tempted to try this one on my "out"laws:1orglaugh:
8. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive31 Mar 2007, 10:52
   Cheers ace :xyxthumbs: Mar 31 1492 Ferdinand and Isabel expel all of the Jews from Spain. Even with the infusions of gold and silver arriving during the 16th century from the Americas, this is an act from which Spain never recovers. By expelling their merchant and banking class, Jews and Muslims, the country is left ill-equipped to process the new wealth, which ultimately winds up in the coffers of other countries and squandered on disastrous military campaigns. Mar 31 1889 Phallic symbol Eiffel Tower completed. Mar 31 1959 The Dalai Lama is forced to leave Tibet, after the Red Communists make it very unpleasant for him to stay. He accuses the Chinese of making genocide against the Tibetan people, by systematic destruction of Tibetan culture and execution of thousands of prominent citizens. Mar 31 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-bonaduce-th.jpg Danny Bonaduce (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/child-star… arrested for assault after he fought with a transvestite prostitute. No contest, 750 hours community service. Mar 31 1995 The president of the Selena Fan Club, Yolanda Saldivar, kills the Tejano music popstar Selena in Corpus Christi, TX. "It just went off, I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to kill anybody". That might be true, but the jury did not believe her. Mar 31 1996 During a homebrew exorcism in Rhode Island, a man accidentally punctures the esophagus of his mother-in-law when he jams two pointy steel crucifixes down her throat, causing a large quantity of blood to gush out. Mario Garcia is later charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. Mar 31 2005 Long-time vegetable Terri Schiavo is finally expires despite manufactured outrage from Tom DeLay, Bill Frist and Rick Santorum. An autopsy eventually revealed that Terri had checked out a long time ago, having suffered extensive brain damage, directly contradicting Dr. Frist's earlier diagnosis made from the floor of the Senate.
9. jabaSalvaged from archive31 Mar 2007, 12:54
   Mar 31 2007 12.31pm. A women called me a fucking fat bastard lol! :xyxthumbs: Again!
10. MonstermashSalvaged from archive31 Mar 2007, 16:10
    Mar 31 1996 During a homebrew exorcism in Rhode Island, a man accidentally punctures the esophagus of his mother-in-law when he jams two pointy steel crucifixes down her throat, causing a large quantity of blood to gush out. Mario Garcia is later charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. I took this from your above post Cymru, was this man trying to realy do an exorcism or was it just an excuse to get rid of his mother in law. I don't know I just feel sorry for him somehow, Mother in laws can be Monster-in-laws :D
11. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive31 Mar 2007, 16:21
    Mar 31 1996 During a homebrew exorcism in Rhode Island, a man accidentally punctures the esophagus of his mother-in-law when he jams two pointy steel crucifixes down her throat, causing a large quantity of blood to gush out. Mario Garcia is later charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. I took this from your above post Cymru, was this man trying to realy do an exorcism or was it just an excuse to get rid of his mother in law. I don't know I just feel sorry for him somehow, Mother in laws can be Monster-in-laws :D i know, i was tempted to try this one on my "out"laws:1orglaugh:
12. MontysDoubleSalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Impressive posts there Cymru.
13. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 00:00
    nope not from wiki, hadn't thought of that , might have a look on there later:xyxthumbs: Apr 1 April Fool's Day Apr 1 1793 Unsen volcano erupts, accompanied by several devastating earthquakes. The Japanese island is completely destroyed, killing approximately 53,000 inhabitants. Apr 1 1946 An 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands causes a tsunami that smashes 25-foot-tall waves into Hawaii. Over 170 people are killed, mostly in Hilo. As a result, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is established. Apr 1 1961 Jim Bakker (televangelist) and Tammy Faye get married! Apr 1 1984 Legendary Motown singer Marvin Gaye, who had recently moved back in with his parents, physically batters his own father. Minutes later Dad returns with a gun, shooting Marvin twice in the chest and killing him instantly. Apr 1 1996 Wilson Pickett arrested for possession of cocaine, after a screaming, bloodied woman is seen running from his house. Apr 1 1998 Ukranian serial killer Anatoly Onoprienko is sentenced to death for some 52 murders over the preceding decade. The versatile Onoprienko's weapons of choice include hammers, firearms, pillows, dumbbells and fire.
14. GuestSalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Thank God for rotten.com
15. RaidenatorSalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 03:37
    April 1st. Raidenator masturbates to pictures of dolphin porn as pending his post in the dolphin thread. Haha, I'm jk...Anyway, I liked the post. Must have taken a hella long time to post. For the record, did you get your info from Wiki?
16. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 11:00
    nope not from wiki, hadn't thought of that:confused: , might have a look on there later:xyxthumbs: Apr 1 April Fool's Day Apr 1 1793 Unsen volcano erupts, accompanied by several devastating earthquakes. The Japanese island is completely destroyed, killing approximately 53,000 inhabitants. Apr 1 1946 An 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands causes a tsunami that smashes 25-foot-tall waves into Hawaii. Over 170 people are killed, mostly in Hilo. As a result, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is established. Apr 1 1961 Jim Bakker (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists… (televangelist) and Tammy Faye get married! Apr 1 1984 Legendary Motown singer Marvin Gaye, who had recently moved back in with his parents, physically batters his own father. Minutes later Dad returns with a gun, shooting Marvin twice in the chest and killing him instantly. Apr 1 1996 Wilson Pickett arrested for possession of cocaine, after a screaming, bloodied woman is seen running from his house. Apr 1 1998 Ukranian serial killer (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/serial-killers/) Anatoly Onoprienko is sentenced to death for some 52 murders over the preceding decade. The versatile Onoprienko's weapons of choice include hammers, firearms, pillows, dumbbells and fire.
17. jabaSalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 19:36
    April 2nd 07 01:43 - Fat bastard opens another bottle! :xyxthumbs:
18. Clouds in the SkySalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 19:39
    Thank God for rotten.com ;)
19. jabaSalvaged from archive1 Apr 2007, 19:44
    Thank God for rotten.com ;)If it was Johnny Rotten.com I would be there already!
20. jabaSalvaged from archive2 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by Clouds In The Sky View Post Thank God for rotten.com If it was Johnny Rotten.com I would be there already!
21. cymru am bythSalvaged from archive2 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by Clouds In The Sky View Post Thank God for rotten.com busted but it ain't going to stop me http://www.rotten.com/today/images/apr/rh-vlad-impaler-ba… Vlad the Impaler impales thousands of merchants and burghers of the town of Brasov, in Transylvania. Some estimate as many as 30,000 impalements, but it was probably more on the order of 2,000. Apr 2 1725 Casanova born. Apr 2 1932 World-famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and Dr. John F. Condon turn over $50,000 in ransom money to an unidentified man in a Bronx cemetery. Lindbergh's kidnapped infant, however, is never returned -- his corpse is discovered the following month. Apr 2 1974 A streaker interrupts actor David Niven during his presentation at the Academy Awards. Niven's off-the-cuff remark -- "probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings" -- was actually prepared in advance. Apr 2 1979 A mishap in a secret Soviet biological warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk results in the release of airborne anthrax spores, killing 66. Livestock fifty kilometers away also die. Apr 2 1986 A bomb explodes on a TWA Rome/Athens flight, causing three adults and one infant to be sucked out of the resulting hole in the fuselage. They plunge to their deaths. Apr 2 1992 John Gotti found guilty for the death of mobster Paul Castellano. 1801 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet. 1917 - World War I: The Battle of Vimy Ridge commences when the Canada Corps launches an artillary bombardment of the German trenches. To that time, the biggest artillery bombardment in history. 1917 - World War I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. 1982 - Falklands War: 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina. The disputed islands are later retaken by the United Kingdom 2002 - Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians retreated. A siege ensues. 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt a thwarted bombing of the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. 2005 - Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84. His funeral is broadcast to every corner of the globe through the modern media. Millions of Catholic pilgrims journey to Rome, Italy to pay final respects.
22. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive2 Apr 2007, 12:28
    Thank God for rotten.com ;) busted:1bluewinky: but it ain't going to stop me http://www.rotten.com/today/images/apr/rh-vlad-impaler-ba… Vlad the Impaler impales thousands of merchants and burghers of the town of Brasov, in Transylvania. Some estimate as many as 30,000 impalements, but it was probably more on the order of 2,000. Apr 2 1725 Casanova born. Apr 2 1932 World-famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and Dr. John F. Condon turn over $50,000 in ransom money to an unidentified man in a Bronx cemetery. Lindbergh's kidnapped infant, however, is never returned -- his corpse is discovered the following month. Apr 2 1974 A streaker interrupts actor David Niven during his presentation at the Academy Awards. Niven's off-the-cuff remark -- "probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings" -- was actually prepared in advance. Apr 2 1979 A mishap in a secret Soviet biological warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk results in the release of airborne anthrax spores, killing 66. Livestock fifty kilometers away also die. Apr 2 1986 A bomb explodes on a TWA Rome/Athens flight, causing three adults and one infant to be sucked out of the resulting hole in the fuselage. They plunge to their deaths. Apr 2 1992 John Gotti found guilty for the death of mobster Paul Castellano. 1801 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet. 1917 - World War I: The Battle of Vimy Ridge commences when the Canada Corps launches an artillary bombardment of the German trenches. To that time, the biggest artillery bombardment in history. 1917 - World War I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. 1982 - Falklands War: 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina. The disputed islands are later retaken by the United Kingdom 2002 - Israeli forces surrounded the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians retreated. A siege ensues. 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt a thwarted bombing of the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. 2005 - Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84. His funeral is broadcast to every corner of the globe through the modern media. Millions of Catholic pilgrims journey to Rome, Italy to pay final respects.
23. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive2 Apr 2007, 12:34
    i tried johnnyrotten.com jaba, got this http://www.johnlydon.com/jlhome.html
24. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive3 Apr 2007, 04:42
    Apr 3 1882 Notorious outlaw Jesse James is shot and killed in his own home for a $5,000 reward. The assailants are Charles and Robert Ford, both members of the James gang. Apr 3 1924 Brilliant actor and total loon Marlon Brando is born. Apr 3 1936 Bruno Hauptmann executed via Electric Chair, for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby. Apr 3 1996 US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane goes down in Dubrovnik (Croatia), killing 35. Although many who view Brown's body comment that he appeared to have been shot in the head, this is never fully investigated. Apr 3 1996 The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski is arrested in his Lincoln, Montana cabin. It takes the FBI months to search the tiny 8 x 10 foot dwelling. Apr 3 1999 Bad news for Egyptian rapists! Egypt repeals a 1904 law granting rapists the right to escape punishment if they marry their victims. It seems that this was encouraging the abundant practice of rape, rather than discouraging it 1860 - The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins. 1865 - American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. 1917 - Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution. 1922 - Joseph Stalin became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1933 - Unsuccessful boycott of Jewish stores in Nazi Germany. 1941 - Hungarian, Italian and German troops march into Yugoslavia. 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. 1946 - Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. 1973 - The first portable cell phone call is placed in New York City. 2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
25. SurfSargeSalvaged from archive4 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by Raidenator View Post Haha, I'm jk...Anyway, I liked the post. Must have taken a hella long time to post. For the record, did you get your info from Wiki? It's call cut n paste..Lmao! prolly takes you longer to write a response..
26. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive4 Apr 2007, 06:58
    Apr 4 1561 Over Nuremberg, Germany, a battle in the sky transpires between black and blood-red balls, disks, and crosses. It is never made clear who prevailed in this UFO incident. Apr 4 1958 Lana Turner's 14 year old daughter stabs her mother's boyfriend. A coroner's jury finds she committed justifiable homicide. Apr 4 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead by a sniper in Memphis, Tennessee. Apr 4 1988 Arizona Governor Evan Mecham becomes the first U.S. governor to be impeached and removed from office in nearly 60 years. He was convicted for obstructing justice by discouraging a state official from investigating a death threat, and also misusing $80,000 in public money. Mecham was known for rescinding the state's observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, requesting lists of state employees who were gay, and using the word "pickaninnies." Apr 4 2006 Brian J. Doyle, a Department of Homeland Security official, is arrested and charged with using a computer to seduce a child as well as 16 counts of transmitting harmful material to a minor. Doyle had arranged a meeting with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl but turned out to be police. In chat, he bragged about working for DHS and sent her pornographic movies. 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. 1812 - U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom. 1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time. 1818 - The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States WITH 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20). 1841 - William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the shortest term served. 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme ends. 1945 - World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf death camp in Germany. 1945 - World War II: Soviet Army liberates Hungary. 1949 - Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 1964 - The Beatles occupy all top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift - A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans - 172 die. 1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6). 1952 - Gary Moore, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy) born 1995 - Kenny Everett, British radio DJ and television entertainer (b. 1944) died International Day for Landmine Awareness and Assistance
27. tgd_02Salvaged from archive5 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by cymru am byth View Post Apr 5 1998 "Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live WTF!?
28. cymru am bythSalvaged from archive5 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Apr 5 1998 "Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live all that from a wop
29. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive5 Apr 2007, 08:49
    Apr 5 1815 Mount Tambora erupts in what is now Indonesia, killing 12,000 and spewing eighty cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere at once. The blast is heard more than 900 miles away, and makes summer feel like winter in many parts of the world. Apr 5 1944 The Nazis begin deporting jews from Hungary. Apr 5 1949 Twenty newborn babies and 57 other people die as St. Anthony's Hospital in Effingham, IL is destroyed by fire. Apr 5 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for acts of treason, which in this case means giving atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Apr 5 1990 London physician Raymond Crocket is removed from the medical register after it is shown that he paid for and removed kidneys from Turkish donors brought to England. Apr 5 1994 Kurt Cobain blows his fucking head off. Apr 5 1997 Allen Ginsberg dies. We are sure that Allen's work for NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) has touched us all. Apr 5 1998 "Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live Apr 5 2005 Rapper C-Murder (AKA C Miller) is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a teenager in Harvey, Louisiana. C-Murder, brother of rapper/CEO Master P, goes on to release an entire album while behind bars, and even manages to film a music video. Quote the Sheriff: "Suffice it to say, I'm not pleased." 456 - St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary Bishop. 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. 1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain. 1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt. 1942 - World War II: Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. 1944 - World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. 2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941) died at the Hilton hotel Cardiff
30. tgd_02Salvaged from archive5 Apr 2007, 12:10
    Apr 5 1998 "Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live WTF!?
31. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive5 Apr 2007, 12:53
    Apr 5 1998 "Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live all that from a wop:1bluewinky:
32. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive6 Apr 2007, 16:04
    Apr 6 1868 Mormon prophet Brigham Young marries 23-year-old Ann Eliza Webb. This is Young's 27th wife, 18 of which are still married to him. Apr 6 1976 Howard Hughes dies of health complications related to syphilis. Apr 6 1990 Police trace a series of obscene phone calls to the president's private White House telephone. The caller turns out to be the president of American University in Washington, Richard E. Berendzen, who was apparently hung up over some personal ad. He is later forced to resign his position but is never charged with any crime. Apr 6 1994 The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are both killed in a mysterious plane crash near the Rwandan capital. Consequently, widespread violence erupts in Rwanda amidst rumors that the plane had been shot down. 648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks. 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath. 1814 - Napoleon abdicates. He is then exiled to Elba. 1832 - Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States. 1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States. 1896 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. 1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany 1938 - Teflon is discovered. 1941 - World War II: Operation Castigo begins; Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India. 1199 - King Richard I of England (killed in battle) (b. 1157)
33. UnregisteredSexOffenderSalvaged from archive7 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by cymru am byth View Post 1938 - LSD is first synthesized Now that's one for the record books.
34. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive7 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by tgd_02 View Post WTF!? Quote: Apr 5 1998 "Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live I'd swear that the only reason that Brando got to play the part of that crazed Colonel in "Apocalypse Now" is because he really was nutso! Then he really went off with the murder of his son-in-law (daughter's long time live in boyfriend) by his son and the subsequent suicide of his gorgeous daughter, Cheyenne. He delivered some type of rambling, mumbo jumbo statement that no one could understand at the sentencing of his son. Besides his multiple marriages and lovers, he was an admitted Bi-Sexual with a long time relationship with actor Wally Cox. http://www.classicsquares.com/wally3a.JPG (from the "Hollywood Squares" TV Game Show) Brando went into seclusion and ballooned up to over 400lbs before his death about 3 years ago.
35. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive7 Apr 2007, 05:26
    Apr 7 1948 Twenty Buddhist monks in Shanghai are immolated as their monastery burns. Apr 7 1970 The X-rated movie Midnight Cowboy wins the Oscar for Best Picture. Apr 7 1989 Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Norwegian sea, with two nuclear reactors and two nuclear torpedoes aboard. 41 crew members die, and the submarine remains one mile below the surface of the ocean, with its nuclear weapons intact. Apr 7 1994 Courtney Love arrested on drug charges in Beverly Hills. What a surprise! Apr 7 1998 Wendy O. Williams, former porn star and singer for the Plasmatics, kills herself with a gun near her Connecticut home. Apr 7 1998 Pop singer George Michael is arrested by an undercover police officer after wanking in front him in a public toilet at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills Apr 7 1999 A bomb goes off in the "Valley of the Fallen" church, which is carved into a mountainside north of Madrid. The church houses the mortal remains of dictator Francisco Franco. The terrorist group GRAPO claims responsibility, and while there were no injuries, the damage was extensive. 1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length. 1805 - First public performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony 1933 - Prohibition was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of XXI amendment. 1938 - LSD is first synthesized 1939 - World War II: Italy invades Albania. 1943 - Holocaust in Terebovlia, western Ukraine: Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. They were then shot dead and buried in ditches. 1945 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route on a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. 1948 - The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. 1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. 1994 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later. 1860 - born, Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951) 1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman, hanged (b. 1706) 1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist died(b. 1863)
36. usoSalvaged from archive7 Apr 2007, 09:13
    1938 - LSD is first synthesized Now that's one for the record books. :)
37. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive7 Apr 2007, 10:04
    WTF!? Apr 5 1998 "Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live I'd swear that the only reason that Brando got to play the part of that crazed Colonel in "Apocalypse Now" is because he really was nutso! Then he really went off with the murder of his son-in-law (daughter's long time live in boyfriend) by his son and the subsequent suicide of his gorgeous daughter, Cheyenne. He delivered some type of rambling, mumbo jumbo statement that no one could understand at the sentencing of his son. Besides his multiple marriages and lovers, he was an admitted Bi-Sexual with a long time relationship with actor Wally Cox. http://www.classicsquares.com/wally3a.JPG (from the "Hollywood Squares" TV Game Show) Brando went into seclusion and ballooned up to over 400lbs before his death about 3 years ago.
38. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive8 Apr 2007, 18:07
    Apr 8 1916 Auto racer Bob Burman crashes and burns during a race in Corona, California. He dies and takes his mechanic Eric Scroeder and a track policeman with him. Burman was in the lead during most of the race but his Peugot broke a wheel sending his car crashing through a crowd barrier and into a pole and badly injuring 5 spectators. Apr 8 1988 Rev. Jimmy Swaggart resigns from his ministry when it is revealed that he has been consorting with a prostitute, Debra Murphree. She says he was a frequent client but only liked to watch her undress. Only a few months earlier, Swaggart had been giving Rev. Jim Bakker shit about Jessica Hahn. Apr 8 1991 Retired horse jockey Willie Shoemaker loses control of his Ford Bronco; the resulting crash renders him paralyzed from the neck down. Shoemaker is later arrested for drunk driving, but no charges are ever filed. Apr 8 1992 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffers only minor injuries after his airplane crashes into the Libyan desert. However, three others on board the craft are killed. Apr 8 1994 Kurt Cobain's body is found 3 days after committing suicide with a shotgun. 1730 - Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated. 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos. 1867 - The first World's Fair is inaugurated in Paris. 1904 - The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale. 1942 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad - Soviet Union forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad. 1957 - Egypt: the Suez Canal is reopened 1973 - 32 terrorist bombings in Cyprus 1992 - Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. 2005 - Funeral of Pope John Paul II. 1962 - Izzy Stradlin, American musician (Guns N' Roses) born 1963 - Julian Lennon, British musician and singer born
39. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive8 Apr 2007, 18:40
    you know, i've always wondered if Cobain hadn't taken a bong rip off that shotgun if Nirvana would have become an even greater band...or if they would have gone the way of say....the Wallflowers. also makes me wonder if I ever would have missed out on my opportunity to play guitar with Dave Grohl ;)
40. Rocker KidSalvaged from archive8 Apr 2007, 23:14
    you know, i've always wondered if Cobain hadn't taken a bong rip off that shotgun if Nirvana would have become an even greater band...or if they would have gone the way of say....the Wallflowers. Some say Courtney Love had him kiiled. But why? I'd say jealousy... Nirvana was much more popular than Hole...
41. Rocker KidSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by Imbalanced View Post you know, i've always wondered if Cobain hadn't taken a bong rip off that shotgun if Nirvana would have become an even greater band...or if they would have gone the way of say....the Wallflowers. Some say Courtney Love had him kiiled. But why? I'd say jealousy... Nirvana was much more popular than Hole...
42. UnregisteredSexOffenderSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by cymru am byth View Post 1974 - Jenna Jameson, American porn star born 1992 - 18 years after Jenna is born, 50 million people suddenly get a boner.
43. jabaSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by UnregisteredSexOffender View Post 1992 - 18 years after Jenna is born, 50 million people suddenly get a boner. Not me dude. The only real thing about this sad girl is the dollar. She will regret what she does one day because it is childish and uneducated and has little to do with respect for herself!
44. SurfSargeSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by jabathut View Post Not me dude. The only real thing about this sad girl is the dollar. She will regret what she does one day because it is childish and uneducated and has little to do with respect for herself! I doubt it...She's got tons of money..I'm sure she has thought about that before and can really care less..She's the only successful girl porn star that has done anything besides making films!
45. jabaSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by SurfSarge View Post I doubt it...She's got tons of money..I'm sure she has thought about that before and can really care less..She's the only successful girl porn star that has done anything besides making films! Not my cup of tea fella - sorry! Wanking off to a video is something I grew out of when I was a lot younger. She can turn herself inside out and still have no meaning in modern society. I hate porn as much as it is possible to hate something, try cooking - as you know it encourages more discourse than a few illicit pulls on a sad dick!
46. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 00:00
    Quote: Originally Posted by Rocker Kid View Post Some say Courtney Love had him kiiled. But why? I'd say jealousy... Nirvana was much more popular than Hole... so what if Love kills herself? will we care as much?
47. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 12:26
    Apr 9 1241 Mongols collect nine bags of ears after a battle with Henry, Duke of Poland, at Liegnitz. A feigned retreat separated the 500 Teutonic Knights from their infantry, and the Mongols slaughtered the entire infantry. Apparently you can fit 25,000 ears into nine bags. Apr 9 1940 Nazi Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Norwegian national socialist Vidkun Quisling seizes the opportunity to declare himself the new prime minister of Norway, but the Germans replace him only five days later. Apr 9 1948 Jewish terror groups Irgun and Lehi massacre Arab villagers of Deir Yassin located on Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road. News of massacre creates panic among other Palestinians, who flee former mandatory Palestine at onset of first Arab-Israeli war. Apr 9 1992 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/apr/rh-manuel-noriega.jpg Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering by a federal court in Miami. 1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana. 1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay in Australia 1867 - Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska. 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle. 1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins with Canadian forces executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March - United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast. 1945 - World War II: The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk. 1945 - World War II: Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends. 1991 - Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer born (d. 1859) 1926 - Hugh Hefner, American editor and publisher born 1932 - Cheeta, animal actor chimpanzee born 1974 - Jenna Jameson, American porn star born
48. usoSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 13:15
    1974 - Jenna Jameson, American porn star born 1992 - 18 years after Jenna is born, 50 million people suddenly get a boner.
49. jabaSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 13:44
    1992 - 18 years after Jenna is born, 50 million people suddenly get a boner.Not me dude. The only real thing about this sad girl is the dollar. She will regret what she does one day because it is childish and uneducated and has little to do with respect for herself!
50. jabaSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 13:55
    I doubt it...She's got tons of money..I'm sure she has thought about that before and can really care less..She's the only successful girl porn star that has done anything besides making films!Not my cup of tea fella - sorry! Wanking off to a video is something I grew out of when I was a lot younger. She can turn herself inside out and still have no meaning in modern society. I hate porn as much as it is possible to hate something, try cooking - as you know it encourages more discourse than a few illicit pulls on a sad dick!
51. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 13:55
    Some say Courtney Love had him kiiled. But why? I'd say jealousy... Nirvana was much more popular than Hole... so what if Love kills herself? will we care as much?
52. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 13:57
    happy birfday hugh hefner. you are my idol.
53. jabaSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 14:59
    Thats to bad..your maybe one out of trillion that doesn't like porn but it's all good..to each his own.Thats why I always had a girlfriend or now that I'm married I never have to beat bobo..Cooking just doesn't do it for me thats another reason I got married..:rolleyes:Nice reply bobo! I'm happy with my lot. I've had several scares in my life regarding such disrespectful attitudes on women - the last incident wasn't very good for my so-called friend. I have started to get my own perspective on this kind of treatment of women. My recent experience with my ex has been quite fruitful since she stays several nights every week now. We do of course keep things on a private fun basis but her partner is cracking up - hence my reluctance to take it further than friendship and a lot of whatevers!
54. Rocker KidSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 17:01
    so what if Love kills herself? will we care as much? Nope. And to your question.... if Cobain were still alive today, I think Nirvana would've pulled a Green Day.... put out a few crappy albums that do not compare to their origional chart-topping album (Dookie) and then make a triumphant come back years later (American Idiot) with the help of alot of writers. And then all of their origional fans don't come to their concerts anymore because they've "sold out" and a bunch of pre-teens come to see them thinking they're a new band. Ands then they could say "We don't live in the shadow of our old album anymore"...:1orglaugh:
55. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 19:54
    Nope. And to your question.... if Cobain were still alive today, I think Nirvana would've pulled a Green Day.... put out a few crappy albums that do not compare to their origional chart-topping album (Dookie) and then make a triumphant come back years later (American Idiot) with the help of alot of writers. And then all of their origional fans don't come to their concerts anymore because they've "sold out" and a bunch of pre-teens come to see them thinking they're a new band. Ands then they could say "We don't live in the shadow of our old album anymore"...:1orglaugh: you stole the words outta my mouth!
56. Rocker KidSalvaged from archive9 Apr 2007, 20:24
    you stole the words outta my mouth! :D High five! That's serioulsy what I think would happen.
57. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive10 Apr 2007, 03:30
    :D High five! That's serioulsy what I think would happen.most likely. now if Metallica would just die off...they disgust me now.
58. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Apr 2007, 10:51
    Apr 10 1848 250 people die in a bridge collapse in Yarmouth, England. They had gathered on the suspension bridge to watch a clown boat be pulled by a flock of geese. Apr 10 1917 133 people are killed in an explosion at the Eddystone ammunition factory in Chester, PA. Satan is immediately implicated, with one official declaring the blast to be "the result of a diabolical plot conceived in the degenerate brain of a demon in human guise." It later turns out to have been caused by poorly-maintained powder loading machinery. Apr 10 1919 Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata and his bodyguards are shot to death after being lured to a meeting by army colonel Jesus Guajardo. For his deception, Guajardo collects a reward of 52,000 pesos and is promoted to the rank of general. Apr 10 1942 Approximately 66,000 Filipino and 11,796 U.S. soldiers near the Philippine town of Mariveles surrender to Japanese forces. Unable to feed their wounded and starving POWs, the Japanese opt for the 61-mile "Bataan Death March" to mitigate the problem. Apr 10 1945 Buchenwald death camp liberated by U.S. forces. Apr 10 1947 Agents of the FBI pay a visit to Screen Actors Guild president Ronald Reagan and his wife, actress Jane Wyman. They accuse the couple of belonging to Communist front groups. Reagan quickly agrees to become a secret informer. Apr 10 1992 Comedian Sam Kinison killed in a car accident. Apr 10 1997 The Jerusalem Post reports that high rabbinical sources have confirmed the birth of a rare red heifer named Melody in a kibbutz near Haifa. The ashes from such a beast will be needed to ceremonially purify any Jews before they would be permitted to enter the former site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. At present, the parcel is occupied by the Dome of the Rock mosque, which is located on the spot where Muslims believe that Mohammed rode his horse into Heaven. The goal here is to reconstruct the Hebrew temple, but this would necessitate tearing down the mosque, virtually guaranteeing outright war between Israel and the Arab world. Even more ominous, the construction project is a necessary prerequisite for the second coming of Christ, which itself involves all the End Times stuff in the book of Revelation. Melody is the first red heifer in 2,000 years, and quite possibly the last. Apr 10 2003 FBI agents raid the Noonday, Texas home of avowed white supremacist William Joseph Krar. Upon searching the domicile and some rented storage units, the agents turn up an arsenal including briefcase bombs with remote-controlled detonators, full-auto machine guns, silencers, nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition, a 1953 military land mine, more than 800 grams of sodium cyanide, and a copy of The Turner Diaries. Krar later receives 11 years for possession of a dangerous chemical weapon. 1868 - At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Theodore. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/ Indian troops. 1912 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and last voyage. 1941 - World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustase fascist insurgents in power. 1959 - Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko (née Michiko Shoda), a commoner. 1963 - The submarine USS Thresher is lost at sea, with all hands (129 officers, crewmen and civilian technicians). 1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up. 1978 - Volkswagen becomes the first non-American automobile manufacturer to build cars in the United States, opening a plant in Pennsylvania.
59. jabaSalvaged from archive10 Apr 2007, 14:32
    1970 - Paul McCartney announces that The Beatles have broken up. Yeh right - John and Yoko were really gutted about that little PR exersise he pulled lol!
60. Rocker KidSalvaged from archive10 Apr 2007, 18:03
    most likely. now if Metallica would just die off...they disgust me now. Me too. I was like "I bet everyone just makes a big fuss over them" and then I saw the documentary for Some kind of Monster or St. Anger or some other crappy documentary for MTV, and I was like "OMG those guys DID turn into jerks!" :eek: Funny how people change huh?
61. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive11 Apr 2007, 00:22
    Me too. I was like "I bet everyone just makes a big fuss over them" and then I saw the documentary for Some kind of Monster or St. Anger or some other crappy documentary for MTV, and I was like "OMG those guys DID turn into jerks!" :eek: Funny how people change huh? yeah..same could be said for Anti-Flag. I used to love that band, they are sellouts now on MTV. Makes me sad, used to be one of my favorite punk bands. Listen to Die For Your Government, and then anything off For Blood & Empire...ew fucking ew. makes me glad that another band, Eighteen Visions is breaking up. They have had one song on the radio, and I think they decided that they didn't want to conform to that, and have split to go off on their own projects, leaving 18V still as a good band, where it will remain. Wherever the new projects go will be determined, but nobody can claim that 18V sold out, they got out just in time before they got too big of a band.
62. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive11 Apr 2007, 05:28
    Apr 11 34 Jesus Christ resurrected? Apr 11 1890 Death of Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man. Apr 11 1979 Kampala, the capital of Uganda, falls to the Tanzanians and dictator Idi Amin is overthrown. Amin, an occasional cannibal who killed perhaps 300,000 during his reign, had made the mistake of invading Tanzania. Apr 11 1991 Brian Huntley of Hull, England is convicted of raping a prostitute, aged 19. Because she demanded the rapist use a condom, Huntley is given a short 3 years imprisonment. The next day's headline of the Daily Mirror: "Judge praises rapist who wore condom". Apr 11 1996 Jessica Dubroff, a 7-year-old pilot hoping to become the youngest American ever to fly coast-to-coast, is killed along with her father and flight instructor when their single-engine plane crashes on takeoff in Cheyenne, WY. Apr 11 2006 Rapper Proof is shot to death at the CCC Club on 8 Mile Road in Detroit, Michigan. He manages to kill Keith Bender Jr. before dying from a gunshot to the head. Proof was a founding member of D-12. 1775 - Last execution for witchcraft in Germany. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech. 1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan. 1905 - Einstein reveals his Theory of Relativity. 1915 - Charlie Chaplin releases The Tramp. 1951 - The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which English monarchs are traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its traditional (to the British government) location in Westminster Abbey. 1957 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule. 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. 1968 - Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1981 - A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 2001 - Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying game, an international record. 2006 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium 1946 - (whispering) Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter (old grey whistle test) born 1960 - Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist born 1969 - Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer (Catatonia) born 1240 - Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd died 2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921) died
63. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive12 Apr 2007, 12:00
    Apr 12 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president ever elected to four terms of office, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, GA. The following day, Vice President Harry S. Truman assumes the post and is told for the first time about the Manhattan Project. Apr 12 1960 Eric Peugeot, 4-year-old son of the auto manufacturer, is kidnapped in Paris. The child is later freed after a $300,000 ransom is paid. Ultimately, the perpetrators are caught and sent to prison. Apr 12 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gargarin is the first man in space, aboard Vostok I. Apr 12 1988 U.S. patent 4,736,866 is granted to Harvard University for a genetically-modified mouse, engineered to be particularly susceptible to carcinogens. The cancer-prone "Harvard Oncomouse" is the world's first patented creature, and perhaps also the most screwed. Apr 12 1989 1960s counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman kills himself by overdosing on barbiturates. Apr 12 1992 EuroDisney opens to the public, attracting a meager 50,000 visitors. Expectations had been about ten times as many. This underwhelming response by the European public will continue for more than a year. Finally, after 18 months of retooling, the resort is ultimately rechristened Disneyland Paris. Apr 12 1994 The US Tax Court rules that Indiana exotic dancer Chesty Love can claim a $2,088 tax credit for depreciation on her 56FF breast implants. The judge found that Love's surgical augmentation did in fact increase her income, also that she was unable to derive any personal benefit from them, as the oversized mammaries "contorted her body into a grotesque appearance." Apr 12 1995 To celebrate David Letterman's 49th birthday, actress Drew Barrymore climbs atop the Late Night desk and flashes her bosomy protuberances at the man. Apr 12 1995 The Hong Kong Eastern Express reports that China sanctions the consumption of aborted human fetuses as a "health benefit." One practitioner willing to admit a taste for this is Dr. Zou Qin of the Luo Hu Clinic, who boasts having consumed more than 100 meals of human veal -- stew and soup, mostly. 1606 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain. 1861 - American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. 1864 - American Civil War: Fort Pillow massacre -- Confederate forces under General Nathan Bedford Forrest kill most of the African American soldiers who had surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. 1877 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. 1917 - World War I: Canadian forces successfully take Vimy Ridge from the Germans. It is also considered a major event in Canadian history for the primary role Canadian forces played in the attack. 1937 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England. 1954 - Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. Initially unsuccessful, the recording would help launch the rock and roll revolution a year later. 1955 - The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. 1981 - The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission. 1996 - Yahoo! has its initial public offering, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each. 1999 - American President Bill Clinton was cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil lawsuit
64. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive12 Apr 2007, 15:20
    Cymru.... I "stickied" this thread as long as you keep posting a daily THIS DAY IN HISTORY!
65. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive12 Apr 2007, 17:16
    cool:xyxthumbs: , i'll keep it up as much as i can, i've got a 2 week holiday booked in the summer though and i wont be able to make post that size from my mobile phone:eek: i'd be there all day
66. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive13 Apr 2007, 13:15
    Apr 13 1883 Convicted cannibal Alfred Packer is sentenced to death in Colorado. Apr 13 1919 British troops fire on a crowd of Indians peacefully protesting the occupation, leaving 379 dead and 1,200 wounded. Apr 13 1970 56 hours and 205,000 miles from planet Earth, the crew aboard Apollo 13 hears "a pretty loud bang" when oxygen tank number two spontaneously explodes. Astronaut Jack Swigert informs Mission Control in Houston: "Hey, we've got a problem here." Miraculously, the crew manages to return home in their crippled spacecraft. Apr 13 1981 Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke wins a Pulitzer Prize for her story about Jimmy, an 8 year old heroin addict. Strangely, police could find no trace of this boy. And this was one of those investigative journalism Pulitzers, not a fiction Pulitzer, so she was forced to return the award two days later. Cooke later clerked part-time at a department store cosmetics counter in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Apr 13 1982 David Crosby of CSNY arrested while freebasing cocaine and for illegal possession of a .45 handgun. Sentence: 5 years. Apr 13 1984 Itinerant serial killer Henry Lee Lucas found guilty by a Texas jury for the murder of "Orange Socks", a hitchhiker whose name is not known. Lucas and his partner Ottis Toole are thought to have killed as many as 200 people. Ironically new evidence places Lucas in Florida at the supposed time of the Orange Socks murder. Apr 13 1990 The Soviet Union admits to Katyn Massacre of 15,000 Polish army officers. Apr 13 1992 Chicago's downtown business center is crippled by massive flooding, as 124 million gallons of water inundate 50 miles of underground freight tunnels and adjoining basements. City workers dump sandbags, rocks, and mattresses into the Chicago River in a vain attempt to slow the floodwaters. All told, it will take 12 days to seal the leak and drain the tunnels. The disaster causes $800 million in damage, and the IRS graciously grants one week of amnesty for Chicago-area residents to file their tax returns. Apr 13 1994 The United Nations Human Rights Committee declares sodomy to be a basic human right. The committee determined that laws against assfucking (particularly in Tasmania) breach articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics 1868 - Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala 1939 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British. 1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. 1974 - Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the USA's first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. 1975 - An attack by unidentified gunmen on a church in Ain El Remmeneh followed by an attack on a bus that killed 17 Palestinian civilians, Lebanon marks the beginning of a 15 year civil war. 1984 - India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexed more territory from the Line of Control. 2029 - A meteor will pass by breaking the record for the closest passing by of any other previous meteor. 1570 - Guido "Guy" Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator born (d. 1606) 1866 - Butch Cassidy, American outlaw born(d. 1908) 1892 - Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, British Air Force commander in World War II (d. 1984) 1962 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (d. 1988)
67. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive14 Apr 2007, 14:28
    Apr 14 73 With the 10th Roman Legion about to breach the gates of their mountaintop fortress, 960 Sicarii Jews commit mass suicide at Masada. According to Josephus, the radical cult selected ten swordsmen by lottery to perform the killing. Then they held a second lottery to choose one man to kill the remaining nine. Finally, the last one fell on his sword. Apr 14 1865 President Abraham Lincoln receives a cranial gunshot wound from the nation's most famous actor, John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln dies the following day, primarily from ill-advised attempts to extract the bullet lodged in his brain. Apr 14 1986 Hindus crossing a bridge over the sacred Ganges river at Hardwar, India to bathe during the Kumbha Mela fete somehow stampede. 46 pilgrims are trampled. Apr 14 1989 California winery worker Ramon Salcido picks up a butcher knife and kills his wife, mother-in-law, two sisters-in-law, and two of his own daughters. Then he goes to work and kills his supervisor. 1471 - In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne. 1775 - The first abolition society in the North America is established. The "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage" is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. 1849 - Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader. 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies. 1912 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning. 1927 - The first Volvo car premieres, in Gothenburg, Sweden. 1940 - Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, occupying key points, preparatory to a larger force arriving two days later. 1941 - World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organisation that pursued Nazi and fascist policies, is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the April 6 invasion of Yugoslavia during Operation 25. 1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the 1956 NARTB (now NAB) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It is the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful format called 2" Quadruplex. 1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. 1981 - The first operational space shuttle, Columbia, lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California after its first test flight. 1986 - In retaliation for the April 5 bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin in which two U.S. servicemen were killed, Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Tripoli and Benghazi, in Libya, which kills 60 people. 1986 - 2.2 lb (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded. 1988 - USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. U.S. retaliates against Iran on April 18 with Operation Praying Mantis, the world's largest naval battle since World War II. 1988 - In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. 1999 - NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed. 2000 - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich filed a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually leads to the movement against file-sharing programs. 2003 - Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit falls to U.S.-led forces with unexpectedly light resistance. 2003 - U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the Achille Lauro in 1985. 1904 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor born (d. 2000) 1929 - Gerry Anderson, English television producer (Thunderbirds etc) born 1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist born 1961 - Robert Carlyle, scottish actor born
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    Apr 15 1792 The Guillotine is first tested on human corpses. Apr 15 1912 Unsinkable ship Titanic sinks after being torn by iceberg, with a loss of over 1500 passengers and crew. Apr 15 1945 British and Canadian troops liberate the Bergen-Belsen death camp in northern Germany. Apr 15 1955 The first McDonald's franchise opens in Des Plains, a suburb of Chicago. Because it is the first one launched by Ray Kroche, he names it "McDonald's #1" despite the fact that the McDonald brothers had already opened eight of their chain restaurants before they began accepting licensees. Kroc's unfortunate numbering system guarantees perpetual confusion for amateur fast food historians the world over. Apr 15 1962 Actress Clara Blandick, 80, the Auntie Em of the Wizard of Oz, takes an overdose of sleeping pills and ties a plastic bag around her head in a Hollywood hotel room. Prior to this, she had prominently arranged her resume and press clippings so the newspapers would get her obituary right. Apr 15 1989 96 soccer fans are crushed to death at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, England. During the opening minutes of the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, Sheffield police order a gate opened at one end of the stadium. A throng of 2,000 Liverpool fans attempt to surge into the seating section, smashing more than 250 already-seated fans against the security fence. Apr 15 1990 Greta Garbo dead. Apr 15 1990 Mass food poisoning kills 150 people at an engagement party in Basti, Uttar Pradesh. Advice: Don't eat the bread. Apr 15 1999 Sean "Puffy" Combs is accused of beating Steve Stoute, a record manager from Interscope Records. Stoute refused to remove images of Combs shot for a Nas video (Hate Me Now). Police arrested Combs for aggravated assault. Apr 15 1999 Dutch airlines KLM issues an apology for shredding 400 ground squirrels at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, The squirrels did not have proper importation papers, and thus were forced to meet their fate of grinding steel rotary blades. A public outcry forced KLM's apology. 1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London. 1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen [I]I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud[I]. 1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics. 1940 - The Allies start their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany 1942 - George Cross awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta[/COLOR] - its people and defenders" by King George VI. 1943 - An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians. 1989 - Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China. 1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslimsmaking the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343. 1971 - Sarah Jane Hamilton, British pornographic actress born 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b.1809) died (gunshot) 1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921) died (heartattack on stage/live tv) 1988 - Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (carry on films)(b. 1926) died (suicide/OD) 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925) died 2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer The Ramones) (b.1951) died United States - April 15 is the official deadline for filing tax return in most areas of the country. [/COLOR]
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    Apr 16 1943 Chemist Albert Hofmann inadvertently experiences the world's first acid trip when a tiny quantity of lysergic acid diethylamide accidently seeps through the skin of his finger. After leaving work early, he went home and settled into "a not unpleasant intoxicated condition." Then he had solid two hours of visual hallucinations: "I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors." It will be another three days before Hofmann gets up the courage to swallow 250 micrograms and ride his bicycle home. Apr 16 1947 552 people are killed in Texas City, TX when 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer aboard the S.S. Grandcamp suddenly explodes. The blast generates a 2,000-foot mushroom cloud and is heard 160 miles away, leading some witnesses to believe that they had just been hit by a Russian A-bomb. 3,000 people suffer injuries and perhaps 200 more are unaccounted for. One-third of Texas City is decimated, twenty blocks of the waterfront are obliterated, and windows more than ten miles away are shattered. Apr 16 1953 President Eisenhower addresses the nation concerning the relative priorities of "guns" versus "butter." In a fair fight, we'd have to bet on the guns. Apr 16 1966 Alongside FBI officials, New York district attorney G. Gordon Liddy arrests Timothy Leary for possession of marijuana after raiding his Millbrook estate. The Supreme Court later rules this bust unconstitutional. Apr 16 1995 Marlon Brando's daughter Cheyenne hangs herself in Tahiti. 1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Saint Petersburg from exile in Finland. 1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors in the Amritsar Massacre. 1941 - World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships. 1945 - The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin. 1945 - The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IVc . 1945 - German ship Goya, overfilled with refugees, sinks after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 7,000 people. 1946 - Syria gains independence. 1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia. 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. 1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes in what became known as the Great Train Robbery. 1889 - Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer born (d. 1977) 1918 - Spike Milligan, British comedian born (d. 2002) 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI born 1939 - Dusty Springfield, English singer born (d. 1999) 1943 - Ruth Madoc, Welsh actress born 1963 - Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer born 1985 - Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian born 1850 - Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761) died 1999 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) died (b. 1946) 2007 - Ace's son, born @ 11pm
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    Apr 17 1792 The Guillotine is tested at Bicetre Hospital in Paris, decapitating a sheep and a number of human cadavers. Apr 17 1961 In an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro, 1,500 Cuban exiles make a series of amphibious landings at the Bay of Pigs. After it becomes painfully obvious in just a matter of hours that the forces were trained, equipped, and armed by the United States, President John F. Kennedy withholds necessary air cover. In three days of fighting, Cuba captures 1,197 of the rebels and kills approximately 200. Apr 17 1965 The FBI Laboratory in Washington reports their inability to make out the vocals on the hit single "Louie Louie." Thus, the Bureau is unable to determine whether the record constitutes obscene matter. Apr 17 1969 A Los Angeles jury convicts Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan receives a death sentence, but it is later reduced to life in prison. Apr 17 1974 Vinnie Taylor of Sha Na Na dies of a smack overdose. Apr 17 1984 London police officer Yvonne Fletcher is shot dead and ten bystanders are wounded when a gunman in the Libyan Embassy opens fire on a crowd of protestors gathered outside. One week later, the British government cuts off all diplomatic relations and the Libyans are deported. The Libyan Government finally "accepts general responsibility for the behaviour of its diplomats inside its London Embassy at the time of the shooting" in July 1999, and pays an undisclosed sum to Fletcher's family. Apr 17 1997 After a newspaper publishes photographs of Belgian paratroopers committing human rights violations during a 1993 UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia, Belgium's Defense Minister Jean-Pol Poncelet announces that the elite fighting unit may be disbanded. The photos depict one soldier urinating on a Somali corpse, and two men swinging a child over a campfire by the wrists and ankles. 1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts. 1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices. 1865 - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1924 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company. 1937 - Daffy Duck debuts in Warner Bros.' short Porky's Duck Hunt. 1941 - World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany. 1942 - POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein. 1945 - In Strassfurt, Germany, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash seizes half a ton of uranium, in an attempt to foil Soviet Union plans to build an atomic bomb. 1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair. 1964 - Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air. 1975 - Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender. 1982 - Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. 1986 - Treaty signed, ending Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly. 2002 - Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War. BORN 1622 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (d. 1695) 1894 - Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971) 1948 - Jan Hammer, Czech composer 1959 - Sean Bean, English actor 1964 - Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle) 1974 - Victoria Beckham, English "singer" (hahahaha yeah right) DIED 1998 - Linda McCartney, American-born wife of Paul McCartney (b. 1941)
71. usoSalvaged from archive17 Apr 2007, 13:23
    1964 - Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle) Hey, that Tool video on the latest vids is posted on Maynard's Birthday. Happy B-Day MJK :smokin:
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    Apr 18 1906 A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco at 5:13 a.m., followed by a major aftershock three hours later. More than 3,000 people are killed from either collapsing structures or any of the 59 separate fires which burn over the next three days. In the downtown area, the U.S. Army is forced to dynamite whole city blocks in order to contain the flames, due to the lack of water pressure. Apr 18 1955 Nobel Prize recipient Albert Einstein dies in his hospital bed from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Seven hours later, his brain is plunked into a jar of formalin and taken away by the pathologist. It will remain missing for 23 years. Apr 18 1983 62 people are killed and more than 100 injured in a suicide bombing against the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The attacker used a van packed with one ton of high explosives. Included among the dead is the CIA's entire Middle East bureau. The group Islamic Jihad claims responsibility, although the intelligence community believes it was actually the work of Hezbollah. Apr 18 1988 American auto worker John Demjanjuk is convicted of crimes against humanity by an Israeli court. They determined that he was Treblinka's notorious "Ivan the Terrible." The court sentences him to hang one week later, but the conviction is later overturned when it appears to have been a case of mistaken identity. In 2002, a U.S. federal court later strips Demjanjuk of his citizenship after it rules that he did in fact work as a Nazi prison guard, although at Sobibor, Majdanek, and Flossenburg. 1506 - The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid 1775 - Two lanterns were hung in Boston, Massachusetts and Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock 1899 - St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria 1915 - French pilot Roland Garros was shot down and glided to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. 1942 - World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs. 1943 - World War II: "Operation Peacock", Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighers over the Solomon Islands. 1945 - World War II: Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany, leaving nothing standing. 1946 - The League of Nations is dissolved. 1947 - The British Royal Navy detonated 6,800 tonnes of explosives in a concerted attempt to destroy the small island of Heligoland, Germany, creating the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history. 1949 - The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force. 1961 - CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule. 1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. 1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. 1988 - U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in retaliation for damage to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58). The one-day action is the world's largest naval battle since World War II. 1992 - General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul. 1996 - In Lebanon, at least 106 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana Births 1946 - Hayley Mills, English actress 1947 - James Woods, American actor 1954 - Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian 1961 - Jane Leeves, British actress 1971 - David Tennant, Scottish actor 1973 - Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete 1986 - Denice Klarskov, Danish porn star Deaths 1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
73. loadrunnerSalvaged from archive18 Apr 2007, 19:17
    1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. 1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. 2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131. 2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
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    Apr 19 1910 Halley's comet reappears, last seen in 1835. The Earth passes safely through the comet's tail with no perceptible effect, not counting the death of Mark Twain. Apr 19 1943 During an early-morning operation to exterminate the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, Nazi troops experience heavy casualties and are forced to retreat before nightfall. Jewish resistance fighters, armed with rifles and Molotov cocktails, manage to kill or wound at least 200. The battle will rage on for another three weeks. Apr 19 1956 UK Frogman disappeared bugging underside of Khruschev's warship in Portsmouth (1956) Apr 19 1989 47 crewmen aboard the battleship USS Iowa are killed when a gun turret explodes during a training exercise in the Atlantic. Navy investigators later rule out all accidental causes, and conclude that someone manning the gun, "most probably" one Clayton Hartwig, had sabotaged its operation as a suicide attempt. The Navy ignored the fact that the propellant bags were 44 years old and proven to be chemically unstable. Apr 19 1993 More than 80 Branch Davidians burn to death in Waco, Texas as the FBI stages a disastrous final assault on their compound. This brings a sudden end to the 51-day siege. Apr 19 1995 Timothy McVeigh kills 168 Oklahomans when his truck bomb detonates in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. Apr 19 1995 Singer Bobby Brown is arrested at Disneyworld for beating a man and tearing off his ear. Neil Kelly, the man with the reattached ear, later sues Brown for $6.6 million but eventually settles out of court for an undisclosed sum. 1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor. 1692 - Bridget Bishop goes on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War. 1839 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom. 1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire. 1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification. 1919 - Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful parachute jump and free-fall. 1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex 1936 - First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine. 1943 - Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time. 1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco. 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure. 1985 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. 1985 - U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk U.S.S.R. 1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin Births 1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967) 1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002) 1970 - Dame Kelly Holmes, English athlete 1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player Deaths 1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316) 1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723) 1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804) 1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
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    Apr 20 1233 Pope Gregory IX places the Inquisition, in existence since 1227, under the aegis of the Dominican Order. Torture is apparently sometimes necessary to save souls, and the office continues to exist today as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Apr 20 1889 In Braunau, Austria, Klara Hitler gives birth to a bouncing baby boy named Adolf. Apr 20 1979 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/apr/rh-bunny-for-carte… President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Killer Swamp Rabbit, while on vacation in Plains GA. The rabbit swam menacingly towards him, and he had to repel the ferocious creature with a paddle. There were no injuries. Press Secretary Jody Powell leaked the story to the press, and the White House had a lot of explaining to do. Apr 20 1992 Alone in his apartment watching TV, British comedic legend Benny Hill suffers a fatal heart attack. His body goes undiscovered for four days. Apr 20 1993 Latoya Jackson's husband and manager, Jack Gordon, is arrested after allegedly beating her with a dining room chair in their New York apartment. Apr 20 1999 After their homemade timebombs fail to detonate in the school cafeteria, the heavily-armed duo of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decide to prowl through Columbine High School, indiscriminately gunning down classmates. A total of 15 are killed in their shooting spree. Contrary to news reports, their selection of victims is apparently random; they aren't hunting for jocks or blacks. Nor do they execute that Christian girl -- Valeen Schnurr in fact manages to crawl away and live to tell her story. They are not goths, they aren't gay, nor were they ever members of that dorky clique calling themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia." They don't even listen to Marilyn Manson. Harris and Klebold are just a couple of extremely pissed-off kids with an arsenal. 1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his voyage, in which he will discover Canada and Labrador. 1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament. 1657 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1657 - Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). 1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. 1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day. 1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film. 1945 - World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. 1945 - World War II: U.S. B-29 bombers destroy the Musashi Aircraft plants. Halting production of the Nakajima Ki-84 fighter planes. 1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech. 1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon. 1999 - Largest bombing of Kosovo by the United States in the Kosovo War. 2004 - In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92. Births 570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam (d. 632) (date disputed) 1808 - Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873) 1889 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born dictator who ruled Nazi Germany during the Second World War (d. 1945) 1893 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971) 1924 - Leslie Phillips, English actor 1951 - Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005) Deaths 1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847) 1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924) 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920)
76. MCMXCIISalvaged from archive20 Apr 2007, 16:43
    April 20th... Dunno? what happened?
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    Apr 21 1847 Lewis Keseberg, the final member of the Donner Party still stranded in the mountains, is escorted to safety by a fourth rescue party. Later accounts hold that Keseberg was discovered "seated, like a ghoul, in the midst of dead bodies, with his face and hands smeared with blood, and a kettle of human flesh boiling over the fire." Apr 21 1910 American original Mark Twain dies of heart failure in Redding, CT. Apr 21 1918 The Red Baron, Germany's Baron Manfred von Richthofen, is killed when his biplane is shot down during WWI. He is credited for 80 kills. Apr 21 1930 320 inmates are left to burn alive during a fire in the Ohio State Penitentiary. Locked into their cells, the men could not escape the smoke and flames. Apr 21 1933 Nazi Germany outlaws shechita, the Jewish butchering ritual for kosher meat preparation. Things only get worse from here. Apr 21 1947 Rocker Iggy Pop born. Apr 21 1992 Convicted murderer Robert Alton Harris consumes two large pizzas, a bucket of fried chicken, and some ice cream on the eve of his execution. Later, before the gas chamber is activated, Harris propounds: "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper." 1509 - Henry VIII ascends the throne of England (unofficially) at the death of his father, Henry VII 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. 1898 - Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date. 1944 - Women in France receive the right to vote. 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters. 1960 - Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro. 1966 - Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day. 1967 - A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years. 1975 - Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls. 1987 - The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 106 people. 1989 - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang. Births 1816 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855) 1926 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom 1959 - Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure) 1959 - Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits) Deaths 1509 - King Henry VII of England (b. 1457) 1971 - François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907) 1977 - Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892) 2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
78. andrexoteSalvaged from archive21 Apr 2007, 11:18
    April 20th... Dunno? what happened? 4/20 Cannabis Day!!!
79. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive22 Apr 2007, 13:28
    Apr 22 1915 The German Army opens 5,700 canisters of chlorine gas upwind of French soldiers at Ypres. It is the first use of poison gas for military purposes. Apr 22 1923 Kinky centerfold model Bettie Mae Page born in Nashville, Tennessee. As she describes herself, "I was never the girl next door." Apr 22 1934 John Dillinger's gang shoots their way out of an FBI ambush outside the Little Bohemia Hunting Lodge in northern Wisconsin. The FBI accidentally kills one innocent bystander and injures two others in the humiliating debacle. Apr 22 1954 Porn star and onetime Ivory Snow model Marilyn Chambers is born in Westport, Connecticut. Apr 22 1992 215 people are killed and 1,500 injured when two miles of sewer lines explode in Gaudalajara, Mexico. 20 city blocks in the downtown area are leveled by the blast. A corroded petroleum pipeline had filled the sewer with explosive fuel. Apr 22 1994 Richard M. Nixon suffers a fatal stroke. His body is laid to rest on the grounds of his Presidential Library. Apr 22 1997 After a four-month standoff, 140 government commandos storm the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru. Of the 72 hostages, one is killed in the ensuing firefight, along with all 14 of their captors. Apr 22 2004 Army Ranger Pat Tillman is killed in action while kicking ass in Afghanistan. Tillman was a former NFL player who walked away from a $3.6M contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the U.S. Army in May 2002, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Much was made of his heroic death by Army leadership, but in May it is revealed that Tillman was actually killed by friendly fire. 1500 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. 1864 - The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. 1930 - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. 1944 - World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. 1945 - World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse. 1972 - Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. 1978 - One Love Peace Concert held at National Heroes Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley united the two opposing political leaders at this concert bringing peace to the civil war ridden streets of Kingston, Jamaica. 1983 - The German magazine, Der Stern claims that Adolf Hitler's diaries were found in a wreckage in East Germany. 1993 - The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC is dedicated. 1993 - The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released. 1997 - Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed. 2000 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida. 2000 - The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom. 2004 - Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people. 2006 - Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War. Births 1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (d. 1924) 1937 - Jack Nicholson, American actor 1950 - Peter Frampton, British musician 1960 - Gary Rhodes, English chef Deaths 1933 - Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863) 2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
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    Apr 23 33 According to Christian tradition, Jesus Christ is raised from the dead, after being crucified three days prior. Apr 23 1940 198 negroes are killed when the Rhythm Night Club burns down in Natchez, Mississippi. According to one eyewitness: "Everyone was trying to get out and crushing each other as the fire was burning them. All were crying and yelling and after a while I could smell the burning meat. I hope I never see anything like it again." The fire is blamed on the decorative but highly-combustible Spanish moss. Apr 23 1951 Lenny Bruce is arrested in Miami Beach, Florida for fraudulently soliciting funds for a leper colony while dressed as a priest. Apr 23 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for assassinating Robert Kennedy. Apr 23 1975 Peter Ham of Badfinger commits suicide at age 27, by hanging himself. Another bandmate, Tom Evans, commits suicide later in 1983. Apr 23 1983 The West German magazine Stern announces a major historical find: the discovery of 60 volumes of personal diaries purported to have been handwritten by Adolf Hitler. Apr 23 1985 The Coca-Cola Bottling Company announces that it has irrevocably changed the formula for its flagship beverage, unveiling "New Coke." The company stands firm on its decision until public pressure finally forces them to reintroduce the original drink, exactly 79 days later. 1348 - The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III of England is announced on St George's Day. 1597 - Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance. 1661 - King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1941 - World War II: Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the attacking Wehrmacht. 1942 - World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck. 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Palestinian forces. 1968 - The United Kingdom produces its first decimalised coins, a 5p and a 10p coin. 1974 - A Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crashes in Bali, Indonesia, killing 107. 1979 - Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach. 1988 - Pink Floyd's album Dark Side Of The Moon, after spending the record total of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200, left the charts for its first time ever. 2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks due to the SARS virus. Births 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (d. 1616) 1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician 1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988) 1939 - Lee Majors, American actor 1947 - Glenn Cornick, British rock bassist (Jethro Tull) 1958 - Tove Jensen, Swedish porn actress 1960 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991) 1968 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001) Deaths 303 - Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr 1616 - William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (Julian calendar) 1850 - William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770) 1975 - Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter (Badfinger) (b. 1947) 1991 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952) 2005 - Sir John Mills, English actor (b. 1908) 2007 - Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (b. 1931)
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    Apr 24 1928 The Supreme Court of Canada declares that though women are indeed legal "persons," they are nevertheless ineligible to serve in the Canadian Senate. The Court agreed that the term "person" applies equally to humans of both genders, but the British North America Act referred specifically to "fit and qualified persons" -- necessarily excluding unfit and unqualified people (aka females). Apr 24 1934 The present incarnation of actress Shirley MacLaine is born. Apr 24 1967 Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov soon becomes the world's first space mission fatality after his Soyuz parachutes become entangled four miles above the Earth. Apr 24 1980 A mission to rescue 53 American hostages from Tehran fails; 8 US soldiers are killed. Apr 24 1993 An IRA bomb causes $1.5 billion of damage in central London when it destroys several square blocks. One person is killed and 40 injured. Apr 24 1995 The Unabomber strikes, killing a timber industry lobbyist. Gilbert Murray is killed in his Sacramento office, opening mail addressed to the man he replaced. Apr 24 1997 A petri dish arrives in an 8x10 manila envelope at the Washington, D.C. offices of B'nai B'rith International. The dish, labeled "anthracks," drips a liquidy red gel which is later determined to contain a relatively harmless strain of Bacillus cereus. 1184 BC - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional). 1558 - Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris 1877 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. 1913 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City was opened. 1915 - The Armenian Genocide starts with the deportation and murder of the Ottoman Armenian intellectuals. 1916 - Easter Rising begins: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett start a rebellion in Ireland. 1941 - World War II: Operation Demon – The United Kingdom begins evacuating Greece. 1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. 1955 - Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemned colonialism, racism, and the Cold War. 1961 - Bob Dylan earned a $50 session fee for playing harmonica on Harry Belafonte's 1964 - Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1968 - Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations. 1970 - The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched. 1970 - The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President 1979 - "Georgia on My Mind" is adopted as the official state song of the U.S. state of Georgia, a month after it is performed before a joint session of the Georgia General Assembly by Ray Charles. 1981 - The first IBM PC is introduced. 1990 - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery. 1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine 1996 - In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced. 2004 - US lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. 2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI. 2006 - King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002. Births 1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584) 1945 - Doug Clifford, American drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned) 1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure) 1960 - Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000) 1963 - Billy Gould, American musician (Faith No More) 1971 - Aaron Austin, American pornographic actor Deaths 1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660) 1986 - Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896) Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Australia - Kapyong Day a day of remembrance for Korean War veterans, named after the Battle of Kapyong in 1951 The Gambia - Republic Day in (1970).
82. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive25 Apr 2007, 15:46
    Apr 25 1599 Oliver Cromwell -- who will later become the Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland -- is born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Apr 25 1792 French highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier is beheaded by the guillotine, making him its first victim. Apr 25 1974 Jim Morrison's widow Pamela dies of a heroin overdose. Apr 25 1994 Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz (King Adrock) is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for battering a TV cameraman during the memorial service for actor River Phoenix. 1607 - Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar. 1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published. 1792 - "La Marseillaise" (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. 1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom. 1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War. 1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness. 1859 - Ground is broken for the Suez Canal. 1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. 1915 - The ANZAC spirit tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast. 1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland. 1916 - ANZAC Day commemorated for the first time. 1926 - Reza Khan is crowned Shah of Iran under the name Reza Shah Pahlavi. 1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe. 1945 - The U.S. Army blows the swastika from the top of the Zeppelintribüne. 1945 - Nazi occupation army leaves Milan after a partisan insurrection. This day is taken as symbol of the liberation of Italy. 1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations. 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA. 1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords. 1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war. 1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. 1988 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. 2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937. 2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties gaining entrance into the European Union. 2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. Births 1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270) 1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327) 1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996) 1945 - Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 1958 - Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion) 1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction) 1965 - Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene) Deaths 1878 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820) 1995 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911) 2002 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971) 2007 - Alan Ball, Jr., Member of England's 1966 FIFA World Cup winning side (b. 1945) ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand). Faroe Islands - National Flag Day. Festa della Liberazione, (Italy), annual commemoration to mark the liberation of Italy at the end of the Second World War Parental Alienation Awareness Day Rastafari movement - Celebration of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica. Sinai Liberation Day, (Egypt), Celebrates the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai peninsula. Swaziland - National Flag Day. Alice Day, a holiday for female-attracted pedophiles :eek7:
83. loadrunnerSalvaged from archive26 Apr 2007, 14:01
    April 20th... Dunno? what happened? Adolf Hitler was born
84. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive26 Apr 2007, 14:47
    Apr 26 1865 Discovered hiding in a farmer's tobacco shed, John Wilkes Booth is shot in the neck by a complete lunatic. Dying and paralyzed from the neck down, he whispers: "Tell my mother I did it for my country." As his hands are held up to his face, Booth mutters "useless... useless..." They are his last words. Apr 26 1933 Hermann Goering founds the Geheime Staatspolizei, otherwise known as the Gestapo. The original purpose of this "Secret State Police" is to disrupt and harass opponents of National Socialism, but it will later come to adopt many additional responsibilities. Apr 26 1969 Paul McCartney denies rumors of his recent death. Eventually, most people come to believe him. Apr 26 1986 44 seconds into a late-night experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four sustains two large explosions. A plume of dangerous radioactivity looms three kilometers high, making it the worst catastrophe in the history of nuclear power. The Soviet news agency TASS holds off reporting the incident for almost 48 hours. Apr 26 1991 In a telephone interview, Michigan judge Francis Bourisseau explains that he would never grant an abortion to a minor, except perhaps for white girls raped by blacks. For some reason, this statement manages to attract wide attention. Apr 26 2006 Snoop Dogg and his entourage arrested in London's Heathrow Airport for creating a disturbance when British Airways wouldn't allow the group into a first class lounge. After being escorted outside, there was a fight and seven police officers were injured. After a night in jail, the group is freed but Big Snoop Dogg has been banned from the U.K. and British Airways as a result of the melee. 1564 - Shakespeare was christened. 1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. 1942 - The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria. 1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war. 1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. 1963 - In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. 1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. 2002 - 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser shoots and kills 17 people at his school in Erfurt, Germany. 2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country. Births 121 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180) 570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. 1765 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (d. 1815) 1894 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987) 1975 - Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot) 1975 - Nerina Pallot, British singer 1976 - Jose Pasillas, American musician (Incubus) 1979 - Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom) Deaths 1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838) 1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791) 1976 - Sid James, British comedian (b. 1913) 1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter(shot) (b. 1961)
85. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive27 Apr 2007, 15:09
    Apr 27 4977 BC God creates the universe, according to calculations by mystic and part-time astronomer Johannes Kepler. Apr 27 1509 The entire state of Venice is excommunicated by Pope Julius II for an entirely secular reason: the refusal to place parts of Romagna under the Pope's control. Apr 27 1521 In an hourlong battle with Philippine islanders, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his men are repeatedly jabbed with sharpened bamboo spears. After Magellan finally succumbs to his wounds, the natives hack him to pieces with their swords. Apr 27 1861 In a blatantly unconstitutional act, President Abraham Lincoln suspends habeas corpus inside a zone between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The government may now detain citizens indefinitely without ever filing charges. A year and a half later, Lincoln expands the scope of his order to the entire nation. Apr 27 1865 At least 1,700 Union soldiers are killed when the boiler aboard the steamship Sultana suddenly explodes. Apr 27 1940 Heinrich Himmler gives orders to construct a concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Only 14 months later, Auschwitz is open for business. Apr 27 1963 Comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested in Miami for illegal possession of hypodermic needles. They were, however, for legally-prescribed prescription drugs. Apr 27 1986 During a live TV special, journalist Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault beneath the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. He finds nothing inside, apart from a few empty bottles. Apr 27 1986 Someone interrupts the HBO satellite feed during the movie The Falcon and The Snowman. For five minutes, two-thirds of their customer base receives the message: Good evening HBO from Captain Midnight. $12.95 a month? No way! (Showtime-Movie Channel Beware.) Three months later, the FCC arrests Florida satellite dish retailer John R. MacDougall for the crime. Apr 27 1987 After determining that Kurt Waldheim had "assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of persons" during his Nazi years, the Department of Justice places him on a watch list of undesirable aliens. As such, the sitting President of Austria is disallowed entry into the U.S. It is the first time that a foreign head of state is legally forbidden from visiting America. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England. 1650 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army. 1773 - The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. 1810 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise. 1813 - War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Ontario). 1840 - Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry. 1904 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson. 1941 - World War II: German troops enter Athens. 1945 - World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in Finland). The day is the national war veteran day in Finland. 1945 - World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication. 1950 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races. 1960 - Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship. 1961 - Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister. 1974 - 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Nixon 1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse. 1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. 1994 - South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. 1996 - The Israeli military operation in Lebanon, Operation Grapes of Wrath, ends after 16 days of heavy bombing. 1997 - the last international Rugby Union match is played at the Cardiff Arms Park before it is demolished to make way for the Millenium Stadium 2002 - The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe Pioneer 10. 2005 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus 380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France. 2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City Births 1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (d. 1872) 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885) 1947 - Peter Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975) 1948 - Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's) 1951 - Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss) 1959 - Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
86. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive28 Apr 2007, 06:11
    Apr 28 585 An unforeseen total eclipse of the sun interrupts a battle between Lydia and Media, bringing a sudden end to their six-year war. Apr 28 1789 In the middle of the South Pacific, the crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 other crewmen adrift in an open boat. Apr 28 1881 Billy the Kid escapes from a New Mexico jail, killing jailer Bob Ollinger and a fellow prisoner in the process. Billy will survive for another three months before Pat Garrett finally kills him. Apr 28 1942 The ongoing global conflict is given the name "World War II" after a Gallup Poll is taken. Apr 28 1945 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are captured by partisan fighters and executed. Apr 28 1996 After finishing his lunch at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, 28-year-old Martin Bryant pulls out an AR15 rifle and kills 12 tourists. Then he drives to a nearby bed & breakfast and slays 23 others. Bryant surrenders himself to police the next morning, after catching himself on fire in the act of burning down the B&B. Apr 28 2006 Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh surrenders to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. He is placed under arrest (booked, photographed) then released. The charge is a single count of doctor shopping to obtain painkillers. Rush can have his case dismissed if he stays clean for 19 months, gives up the right to own a gun, forks over $30,000 to the state and continues to undergo treatment that includes random drug testing. 1796 - The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast. 1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans. 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO. 1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends. 1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens. 1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. 1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. 1978 - President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels. 1986 - United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours. 1987 - U.S. engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. 1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight. 1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. 1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense. 1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty. 2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist. 2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week. Births 1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483) 1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831) 1908 - Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974) 1926 - Harper Lee, American author 1937 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006) 1968 - Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (Marilyn Manson) Deaths 1695 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621) 1865 - Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born british shipping magnate (b. 1787) 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (firing squad) (b. 1882) 1945 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot) (b. 1912) National Day of Mourning in Canada to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness due to occupational hazards and accidents. World Day for Safety and Health at Work, which developed from the Canadian observance. National Heroes Day - Barbados.
87. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive29 Apr 2007, 15:22
    Apr 29 1901 Train robber and one of the last of the Old West outlaws, Thomas "Black Jack" Ketchum is unsuccessfully hanged in Clayton, New Mexico. The executioner's poor choice of rope and Ketchum's recent increase in weight combine to produce a gruesome decapitation in the gallows. Apr 29 1945 With Allied forces closing in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun in their fortified bunker. They kill themselves the following day. Apr 29 1945 The American 7th Army liberates the Dachau death camp outside of Munich. Apr 29 1981 Marilyn Barnett publicly alleged that she had a lesbian relationship for seven years with Billie Jean King, one of America's best-known female athletes and winner of many national and international tennis championships. Apr 29 1992 Rioting erupts in Los Angeles after Rodney King's assailants are acquitted by a jury. The looting and destruction begins in South Central L.A. and quickly radiates outward. By the time things are under control, 51 are dead and the city has sustained $1.5 billion in property damage. Civil disorder manages to spread to other North American cities, through the influence of live TV coverage. Apr 29 1996 Search and rescue teams begin dragging Maryland's muddy Wicomico River after former CIA director William Colby is reported missing. They soon discover his partially-submerged canoe underneath a boat dock, but his body isn't located until it rises to the surface a week later. 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans. 1672 - Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands. 1770 - James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia. 1903 - A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada. 1916 - Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin. 1945 - World War II: The German Army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies. 1945 - World War II: Start of Operation Manna. 1945 - Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. 1946 - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted for war crimes. 1967 - After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. 1970 - Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. 1974 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal. 1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind – The last U.S. citizens begin evacuation from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. United States involvement in the war comes to an end. 1986 - Fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library, some 400,000 books and other items damaged or destroyed. 1991 - 1991 Bangladesh cyclone struck the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph. Killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless. 1997 - The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons among its signatories. 1999 - Avala TV Tower near Belgrade destroyed in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. 2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years. 2004 - Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office. 2005 - Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation. Births 534 - Taliesin, Welsh poet, according to legend in Mabinogion (a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts.) 1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (d. 1989) 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002) 1951 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001) 1952 - David Icke, British writer & self proclaimed son of god 1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis, Irish actor 1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress 1970 - Andre Agassi, American tennis player 1970 - Uma Thurman, American actress Deaths 1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
88. Haseknumber39Salvaged from archive30 Apr 2007, 12:03
    this time 11 years ago i got my first erection
89. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive30 Apr 2007, 14:43
    Apr 30 1943 The body of one Major Martin washes ashore on the Spanish coastline, carrying sensitive papers detailing an upcoming Allied invasion of Sardinia. "Martin" is actually an unidentified corpse carrying forged documents, intended to misdirect Italian defense forces. When the Allies later invade Sicily, most of Italy's defenses are in Sardinia. Apr 30 1945 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/apr/rh-hitler-braun.jpg Newlyweds Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun kill themselves in the charming and romantic Fuhrerbunker, ending all hope for a ten-thousand-year Reich. Apr 30 1961 Lee Harvey Oswald, during his stay in the Soviet Union, marries hospital employee Marina Prusakova. Oswald later becomes disenchanted with Soviet life, and the couple emigrates to the United States. Even so, he never permits his wife to learn English. Apr 30 1975 Saigon falls to the Communists, necessitating a sudden helicopter evacuation from the U.S. embassy's rooftop. Says one of the pilots: "We sent the journalists out on one of the earliest lifts because they were becoming a pain in the ass." Apr 30 1991 Tropical cyclone Marian hits the Chittagong region of Bangladesh, killing 138,000 people and causing more than $1.5 billion in damage. Although 95% of the population heard the cyclone warning, most did not believe that a cyclone was actually on its way. Apr 30 1993 During a quarterfinals match in Hamburg, deranged tennis fan Gunter Parche sneaks up on Monica Seles and stabs her in the back with a boning knife. Parche was just paving the way for Steffi Graf, whom he was actively stalking, to take the top ranking from Seles. His plan succeeds. 711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). 1006 - Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus. 1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503. 1492 - Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. 1789 - On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. 1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling – overnight – the size of the young nation. 1824 - Crete is occupied by the Egyptians. 1838 - Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation 1856 - Battle of Rivas, Nicaragua, against northamerican mercenaries. 1863 - Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico 1897 - Joseph John Thomson announces the discover of the electron. 1900 - Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. 1900 - Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. 1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to appear on television during the World Fair's opening ceremonies broadcast. 1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat – The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. 1947 - In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is officially renamed Hoover Dam again. 1948 - Creation of the state of Israel. 1948 - In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established. 1961 - Soviet Union awards Fidel Castro with the Lenin Peace Prize. 1966 - The Church of Satan is founded. 1973 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned. 1980 - Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. 1988 - French-Canadian singer Céline Dion wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland in front of 600 million viewers, representing Switzerland with the song Ne partez pas sans moi 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. President to visit Northern Ireland. 2006 - Trapped miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell at Beaconsfield, Tasmania are found alive after being unaccounted for for five days. 2007 - Last day when it is legal to smoke in a public building in Northern Ireland Births 1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694) 1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004) 1933 - Willie Nelson, American musician 1959 - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada 1964 - Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician 1969 - Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician (Sepultura) 1971 - Darren Emerson, English DJ (Underworld) 1976 - Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls) Deaths 1900 - Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863) 1945 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (b. 1912) 1945 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian Nazi dictator of Germany (b. 1889) 1983 - Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915) Scandinavia - The arrival of spring, Walpurgis Night. Sweden - Birthday of King Carl XVI Gustav, an official flag day. The Netherlands - Queen's Day. Bealtaine Eve (From either Irish Bealtaine or Scottish Gaelic). Originally a Celtic Druid holiday. Vietnam - Liberation Day. Mexico - Children's Day. Czech Republic - Carodejnice (Night of the Witches)
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    May 1 1776 Adam Weishaupt founds the Bavarian Illuminati, the secret society which controls your mind as part of its plot to overthrow organized religion and control the global economy. If you don't believe it, ask yourself what novus ordo seclorum is doing on your dollar bill. May 1 1863 The Confederate Congress decrees that captured Negro soldiers from the Union Army are to be summarily put to death, on the grounds that they have already "incited servile insurrection." May 1 1889 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-anarchists-of-c… The first of May is designated "International Workers Day," in commemoration of Chicago's Haymarket riots of 1886. The new holiday is actually an appropriation of the banned Beltane (Day of Fire), or May Day, traditionally celebrated by encircling a phallic maypole with delectable fertile virgins. May 1 1942 The 215th and final hanging occurs at California's San Quentin maximum security prison. Subsequent executions utilize the facility's gas chamber, and ultimately, inmate's choice of that or lethal injection. May 1 1945 Joseph Göbbels and his wife Magda tell their six children they are about to receive inoculation shots, but the injections actually contain poison. The parents then exit the Fuhrerbunker, where an SS man shoots them both in the back of the head. May 1 1960 The Soviet Union fires a SAM-2 surface-to-air missile at the U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers. The aircraft crashes inside Russian territory, near Sverdlosk. For whatever reason, Powers opts not to swallow his suicide pill and is taken into custody. May 1 1993 During a May Day rally, Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa and his retinue of bodyguards are blown to bits by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber. May 1 1997 Sportscaster Frank Gifford is caught on video having sex with TWA flight attendant Suzen Johnson at the New York Regency Hotel. On the tape, Johnson is heard moaning: "Oh, God that's so good. Oh my, you're so big. I knew you would be -- I just knew you would be." A tabloid paid Johnson $75,000 to fornicate with Gifford, and she later goes on to pose nude in Playboy for a six-figure check. May 1 2003 Commander in Chief George W. Bush rides shotgun aboard a Navy S-3B Viking jet, lands on the USS Abraham Lincoln, marking the first time a president has boarded an aircraft carrier by plane. Underneath a large "Mission Accomplished." sign, he announces that major combat operations in Iraq have ended. 1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – England recognises Scotland as an independent nation. 1707 - The Act of Union joins England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain 1834 - The British colonies abolish slavery. 1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States 1886 - The start of the general strike which eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the United States. These events are today commemorated as May Day or Labor Day in most industrialized countries. 1915 - RMS Lusitania departs New York City on her two hundred and second and final crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later the ship was torpedoed off the Irish coast with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany. 1927 - The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris. 1930 - The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named. 1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City. 1940 - The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war. 1941 - World War II: German forces launch Operation Mercury the largest airborne invasion to date in their bid to capture Crete. 1941 - World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk. 1945 - Soviet troops raise the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag, in Berlin 1946 - Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians. 1946 - The Paris Peace Conference decides that the islands of the Dodecanese are returned to Greece by the Italians. 1950 - Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth. 1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public. 1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") was sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. 1994 - Last day of the standing Kop Grandstand for Liverpool F.C., perhaps the most famous stand in English Football. 2001 - Thomas Blanton Jr. became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that claimed the lives of four little girls. 2004 - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin. Births 1852 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903) 1949 - Paul Teutul, Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers Deaths 1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677) 1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813) May Day, Labour Day, Workers' Day, Day of the International Solidarity of Workers. Italy - national holiday (Giorno dei Lavoratori). Switzerland - official feast of Spring. Czech Republic - "National Love Day" – couples tend to flock to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha in Prague and kiss. Lei Day - Hawaiian holiday for the Lei. Beltane, Lá Bealtaine, the first day of Summer in modern Ireland was celebrated by the Celts, and is now also celebrated by Neopagans and Wiccans
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    May 2 1863 At the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate general Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson is accidentally shot three times by his own men. Jackson's left arm is amputated, and he dies eight days later from complications. May 2 1946 Six prisoners attempt to escape the federal prison on Alcatraz island. They take over their cellblock but fail to gain access to the outside. One guard held hostage is executed by prisoners, and another dies in the attempt to retake the cellblock. The Battle of Alcatraz ends only after the deaths of three prisoners, and two others are subsequently executed at San Quentin. May 2 1957 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-joseph-mccarthy… Senator Joseph McCarthy dies of hepatitis, brought about by unabated alcoholism. Two and a half years prior he had been censured by the Senate for his "inexcusable" and "reprehensible" conduct during his highly-publicized Communist witch-hunt. McCarthy eventually discovered that it was far more effective to have private industry oppress its workforce, rather than the government oppress its citizenry. May 2 1957 Mob figure Frank Costello is shot in the head by Vincent "the Chin" Gigante. Instead of killing him, the bullet circumnavigates between his skin and cranium, exiting through the original wound. Costello retires from the Mafia soon after. May 2 1972 World famous drag queen and longtime G-man J. Edgar Hoover dies in his sleep at the age of 77. May 2 1997 At 4:45 a.m., L.A. County Sheriff's deputies pull over a car in West Hollywood driven by comedian/actor Eddie Murphy. In the passenger seat is one Atisone Seiuli, a 20-year-old pre-op transsexual prostitute. Murphy informs the officers that he was just trying to be a "good samaritan" and give his she-male acquaintance a ride home. Seiuli is taken into custody for an outstanding prostitution warrant, but the officers allow Murphy to leave without any further ado. 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. 1568 - Mary I of Scotland escapes from Loch Leven Castle, where she had been imprisoned by Sir William Douglas. 1670 - King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America. 1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. 1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao. 1885 - Cree and Assiniboine warriors won the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion. 1900 - Oscar II, King of Sweden, declares support for Britain at the time of the Second Boer War. 1920 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported. 1933 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions. 1945 - World War II: Fall of Berlin – The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building. German forces surrender in Italy. German forces surrender to the New Zealand Army in Trieste. 1952 - The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden voyage, flying from London to Johannesburg. 1953 - Hussein is crowned King of Jordan. 1964 - Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship. 1969 - The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City. 1982 - Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. 1997 - The Labour Party's Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ending 18 years of Conservative Party rule. At 44, he is the youngest prime minister for 185 years. 2000 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveiled the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa on May 11, 2002, and the other in Apeldoorn on May 2, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War. Births 1892 - Manfred von Richthofen, German World War I pilot - the Red Baron (d. 1918) 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, British-born singer 1945 - Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998) 1950 - Lou Gramm, American musician (Foreigner) 1975 - David Beckham, English footballer Deaths 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452) 1945 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (b. 1900) 1945 - Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910) 1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895) 1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938) Poland - Flag Day, an official holiday to honour the Flag of Poland Iran - Teacher's Day
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    May 3 1945 British torpedo bombers attack the Cap Arcona and the Thielbek in the Baltic Sea. Both vessels are flying white flags, as there are almost 7,000 concentration camp prisoners aboard. In the process of abandoning ship, the German captain of the Arcona uses a machete to hack his way through the mass of people. When the ships sink, virtually all of the prisoners drown, making this the single largest loss of life in the history of ocean travel. May 3 1963 Eugene "Bull" Connor directs security forces in Birmingham, Alabama to unleash police dogs on civil rights protesters, and then blast them with high-pressure fire hoses. Unfortunately for segregationists, television networks bring the footage to a shocked national audience. In the wake of the overwhelming public response, President Kennedy quips that Connor "has done more for civil rights than almost anybody else." May 3 1987 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-donnarice.jpg The Miami Herald runs a story that Senator Gary Hart had spent the preceding weekend alone with a woman other than his wife. In an attempt to quell persistent rumors of an extramarital affair, Hart had previously challenged reporters to spy on him, saying: "Follow me around. I don't care. I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored." The Presidential candidate withdraws from the race just five days later, and the homewrecker, one Donna Rice, goes on to launch a career crusading against pornography. May 3 1988 The White House confirms stories that President Ronald Reagan's travel and public appearances are scheduled around astrological data furnished by a mystic in San Francisco. The astrologer also supplies input to the timing of critical international events, such as a recent arms control summit in Iceland. 1494 - Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica. 1791 - The May Constitution of Poland (first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Polish Diet. 1802 - Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city. 1916 - Easter Rising leaders are executed in Dublin. 1923 - Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly land their Fokker T-2 aircraft in San Diego, California. This is the first non-stop transcontinental flight. It took nearly 27 hrs. 1942 - Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that resulted in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. 1945 - World War II: Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in Lübeck Bay. 1946 - World War II: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo against 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. 1951 - The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. 1960 - The Anne Frank House opened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1973 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building. 1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister as the Labour government is ousted in parliamentary elections. 2001 - The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. 2002 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight. 2005 - The first democratically elected government in the history of Iraq is sworn in. Births 1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989) 1933 - James Brown, American singer (d. 2006) 1934 - Henry Cooper, English boxer 1934 - Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons) 1950 - Mary Hopkin, Welsh musician and comedian 1959 - Ben Elton, British comedian and author 1965 - Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian 1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
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    May 4 1854 Joseph Tussaud returns to London with the well-used blade of the guillotine he purchased from Clement Sanson, the last in a line of Sansons who held the office of Executioner of Paris for over 150 years. The blade is now part of Tussaud's Wax Museum collection. May 4 1970 28 Ohio National Guardsmen kill four students and wound nine others at Kent State University. The Guardsmen had read them the riot act, but the students refused to disperse. So they shot them. May 4 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-dennis-crosby.jpg Bing Crosby's son Dennis Crosby puts a shotgun to his head, ending his life in a boarding house in California. A younger brother, Lindsay, had also killed himself with a shotgun two years earlier. May 4 1999 At the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Wisconsin, Chad Alvarez nukes a fraternal brother's Quaker parrot, Iago, in the house microwave. The animal explodes. For this he is sentenced to ten days in jail, and fined $1000. Alvarez is the son of the university's football coach. May 4 1999 A newly-delivered baby falls through a train toilet as it is born near the city of Guangzhou, China. After the fall, a second train speeds over the newborn. Although the baby survives unharmed, radio announcers are later reprimanded for laughing hysterically as they report the story. May 4 2000 The "I Love You" computer worm rampages through Internet email systems, inflicting damages somewhere in the $2-to-$15 billion range. The worm spreads by exploiting design flaws in the Microsoft Outlook mail client and also the gullibility of your typical computer user. A variety of Filipino suspects is ultimately narrowed down to an AMA Computer College student from Manila. May 4 2001 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-bakley-th.jpg After dinner at Vitello's in Studio City, film and television actor Robert Blake remembers that he left something at the restaurant. When he returns to the car, he discovers his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, slumped over in the passenger seat. She had been shot in the head by person or persons unknown. Bakley later dies of her injury. One year later, Blake is charged with the murder. 1471 - Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury – Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales. 1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica. 1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. 1675 - King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. 1776 - Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. 1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam – The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. 1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln buried in Springfield, Illinois, three weeks after his assassination. 1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal. 1910 - The Royal Canadian Navy is created. 1912 - Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes. 1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. 1930 - British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison. 1932 - In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion. 1942 - World War II: Battle of the Coral Sea – The battle begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before. 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army. 1945 - World War II: Surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1946 - In San Francisco Bay, US Marines from the Treasure Island Marine Barracks stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot. 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1980 - President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia dies in Ljubljana at the age of 87. 1990 - Latvia proclaims renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation. 1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. 2000 - Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London. Births 1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993) 1951 - Mick Mars, American guitarist (Mötley Crüe) 1951 - Jackie Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5) Deaths 1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453) 1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931) International Firefighters' Day. The Netherlands - Remembrance of the Dead. People's Republic of China - Youth Day (青年节, commemorating May Fourth Movement). Republic of China - Literary Day (文藝節, commemorating May Fourth Movement). Latvia - Day of Re-establishment of Independence May 4th is often known as 'Star Wars Day', jokingly said: 'May the 4th be with you' in reference to the popular phrase in Star Wars: May the Force be with you.
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    May 5 2349 BC Noah's Ark lands on Mount Ararat, according to calculations by James Ussher, Archbishop of the Church of Ireland. May 5 840 A son of Charlemagne, Emperor Louis of Bavaria, dies of fright during a total eclipse of the sun. His sons quarrel, causing the division of his Empire into France, Germany, and Italy. May 5 1821 Napoleon dies on the island of St. Helena, some suspect from arsenic poisoning. More likely, he died from stomach cancer as did his father. May 5 1925 High school teacher John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching evolution by authorities in Dayton, Tennessee, as part of a publicity stunt to make the town famous. Since Scopes admitted teaching the theory, he was found guilty, and the law remained on the books in the backward state until 1967. May 5 1945 Elsie Mitchell and five children she is watching are killed by a Japanese balloon bomb which drifted over the Pacific into Oregon. They are the only people killed in action on the US mainland during World War II. May 5 1955 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-george-hunter-w… An internal CIA memo emphasizes the need for a drug that creates a state of "pure euphoria" and no letdown. From this springs Operation Midnight Climax, in which CIA brothels were set up in San Francisco, and their customers surreptitiously dosed with LSD by prostitutes. Operative George Hunter White observed reactions behind a two way mirror, purely in the interest of science. May 5 1961 Alan B. Shepard is the first American in space, with a fifteen minute suborbital flight. He was forced to piss himself in his suit prior to launch, as it lacked an evacuation system. May 5 1982 Secretary Janet Smith in the computer science department at Vanderbilt University is injured when she opens a package from the Unabomber. May 5 1993 Dude! After getting pulled over for erratic driving, Keanu Reeves is arrested for drunk driving in Los Angeles. May 5 2000 "On May 5 of the year 2000, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be aligned with the earth for the first time in 6,000 years. On that day the ice buildup at the South Pole will upset the earth's axis, sending trillions of tons of ice in the water sweeping over the surface of our planet." -- 5/5/2000: Ice -- the Ultimate Disaster by Richard W Noone 1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. 1640 - King Charles I of England disbands the Short Parliament. 1646 - King Charles I of England and Scotland surrenders to the Scottish Presbyterian Army at Newark. 1809 - The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews. 1835 - In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. 1865 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place. 1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. 1916 - American marines invade the Dominican Republic. 1925 - Afrikaans established as an official language in South Africa. 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 1940 - World War II: In London, a Norwegian government-in-exile is formed. 1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day. 1945 - World War II: German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation. Prague uprising against the Nazis. Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated. Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases 1955 - West Germany gains full sovereignty. 1980 - Operation Nimrod: The Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege. 1992 - Wolfenstein 3D is released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game. 2002 - The World Wrestling Federation changes its name to World Wrestling Entertainment due to a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund. 2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term. Births 1818 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883) 1826 - Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920) 1943 - Michael Palin, British writer, actor, and comedian 1944 - Roger Rees, Welsh actor 1944 - John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor 1948 - Bill Ward, British drummer (Black Sabbath) 1959 - Ian McCulloch, English singer of Echo & the Bunnymen 1963 - James LaBrie, Canadian singer (Dream Theater) 1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth) 1972 - James Cracknell, British rowing champion, double Olymipic gold medalist Deaths 1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769) International Make-out day. International Midwives Day. International No Pants Day. International Totse Day. Council of Europe: Europe Day. Albania: Martyrs' Day. Denmark: Liberation Day (1945). Ethiopia: Liberation Day (1941). Guyana: Indian Immigration Day (1838). Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan (2006): Buddha's Birthday. Japan: Tango no Sekku (Boy's Day) or Kodomo no hi (Children's Day). Mexico and the United States: Cinco de Mayo (1862). The Netherlands: May 5, Liberation day (1945). Northern Territory, Australia: May Day. South Korea: Children's Day.
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    May 6 1527 Mercenaries sack the city of Rome, an event considered by many to mark the end of the Renaissance. May 6 1626 Manhattan purchased by Dutch governor Peter Minuet for the equivalent of $24 in goods, which compounded at 6% annually is approximately $78 billion. But some scholars feel the actual value of the goods transferred to be in excess of $500, which translates to $1.6 trillion for the island when compounded. May 6 1853 Ignoring signals, a train travels through an open drawbridge and into the Norwalk river in Connecticut, killing 46 passengers. The engineer and crew jumped clear, not warning the others of their fate. May 6 1862 Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden and the essay Civil Disobedience, dead at age 44. His last words were "Moose.. Indian". May 6 1937 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-lakehurst-th.jpg Zeppelin Hindenberg explodes at Lakehurst NJ, leaving 36 dead and others seriously burned. Official cause of the explosion is listed as "St. Elmo's Fire," although it probably also involved the flammable silver paint the Germans used to coat the thing. May 6 1983 West German authorities announce that the recently discovered "Hitler Diaries" are counterfeits, made from paper not available until at least 1955. Parties unknown managed to swindle the German magazine Stern out of an undisclosed sum, and esteemed historian Hugh Trevor-Roper was so convinced of their authenticity that he proclaimed "I'm staking my reputation on it." May 6 1987 Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker is formally defrocked by the Assemblies of God. May 6 1993 Disgruntled postal worker Mark Richard Hilburn (recently fired) enters the Dana Point, CA post office and shoots two former coworkers, killing one. May 6 1993 Disgruntled 27-year veteran Lawrence Jasion enters the garage area of the Dearborn, Michigan post office and whips out a .38 revolver. He proceeds to kill mechanic Gary Montes and wound two other coworkers. Before anyone can react, Jasion then blows his brains out. The Dearborn office was infamous for its authoritarian policies. May 6 2002 Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn is shot six times in the head as he leaves a recording studio in Hilversum, near Amsterdam. His party platform was based on repeal of the discrimination clause of the constitution, an odd position considering that Fortuyn was homosexual. It is not clear what assassin Volkert van der Graaf's motive was, speculations ranging from Fortuyn's public statements regarding fur farming (van der Graaf is a founder of that country's Animal Liberation Front) to his sympathies towards Dutch Muslims. 1536 - King Henry VIII orders translated Bibles be placed in every church. 1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. 1757 - Battle of Prague - A Prussian army fought an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War. 1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald. 1840 - The Penny Black postage stamp is valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1857 - The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose Sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of India's Independence. 1877 - Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. 1882 - The Congress of the U.S.A. pass the Chinese Exclusion Act. 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris. 1910 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. 1942 - World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. 1945 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941). 1945 - World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins. 1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. 1966 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England. 1994 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel. 1996 - The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared. Births 1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939) 1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918) 1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926) 1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985) 1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1961 - George Clooney, American actor Deaths 1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841) 1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
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    May 7 1915 The ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by German submarine U-20 off the coast of Ireland. The ship goes under in just 18 minutes. In their panic, the crew only manages to launch 6 of the 48 lifeboats. As a result 1,201 are killed. Contrary to published reports of the time, the passenger ship was smuggling 3,863 boxes of ammunition and 323 bundles of guncotton into Britain. May 7 1945 German admiral Carl Doenitz unconditionally surrenders to Allied forces at Reims, France, thus ending the war in Europe. May 7 1959 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-don-king-mug.jpg Small-time boxing promoter Don King is arrested in Cleveland on suspicion of drug dealing. His criminal record includes a 1955 arrest for arson, a 1954 arrest for murder, and others. May 7 2001 Ronnie Biggs, England's escaped "Great Train Robber," returns to face the music after 35 years as a fugitive. After serving just fifteen months of a 30-year sentence, Biggs escaped from prison and fled to Brazil, where he avoided extradition by fathering the baby of a 19-year-old stripper. Partially paralyzed by a couple of strokes, Biggs returns to England for one last pint of beer before he dies. Instead he is taken into custody at Heathrow airport and promptly sent to Belmarsh prison to serve out the remainder of his sentence. 1298 - Colocation of the first stone of Barcelona's Cathedral. 1429 - Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning wounded to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War. 1664 - Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles. 1763 - Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins - Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit. 1824 - World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. Work was conducted by Michael Umlauf, under the deaf composer's supervision. 1832 - Greece is recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King. 1895 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the first in the world radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union this day is celebrated as Day of Radio. 1920 - Kiev Offensive (1920): Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force captured Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later. 1920 - Treaty of Moscow (1920): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later. 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrive in Spain to assist Franco's forces. 1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with about 20 employees. 1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. 1999 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. 2006 - Rolling Stone magazine publishes its 1000th issue. Births 1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (Grateful Dead) 1961 - "Filthy" Phil Campbell, British musician (Motörhead)
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    May 8 1842 Following a birthday celebration for King Louis Philippe, 59 Parisians returning home by train are trapped in their railcars and incinerated when their train collides with another. In these early days of rail travel, coaches were locked and no means of escape was available. May 8 1902 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-pelee-th.jpg Mt. Peleé erupts on the West Indies island of Martinique. A wall of superheated ash and rock cascades down the slopes, slamming directly into the community of Saint Pierre. The shockwave and intense heat even manage to destroy twenty ships in the harbor. Only two of the town's 28,000 residents survive the cataclysm. May 8 1988 Science fiction author Robert A Heinlein dies of emphysema, leaving behind a legacy of subversive novels -- many of which meditating on unconventional sexual mores. May 8 1991 In a room at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton exposes his penis to state employee Paula Jones and propositions her to perform fellatio. In her civil deposition, Jones will later claim to have witnessed certain "distinguishing characteristics" of the governor's genitalia, the precise nature of which soon becomes the subject of much speculation. For her trouble, Jones eventually receives an out-of-court settlement for $850,000 and a nude pictorial in Penthouse magazine. May 8 1998 Former Senator and onetime Presidential candidate Bob Dole tells television interviewer Larry King that he participated in the Viagra impotence drug trials, and thoroughly enjoyed himself in the process. Dole's name soon becomes synonymous with erectile dysfunction. May 8 1999 Actress Dana Plato, who played Kimberly Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, dies in Oklahoma of an overdose of Valium and Loritab. Just the previous day, Plato had appeared on the Howard Stern syndicated radio program claiming to be clean and sober. 1541 - Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo. 1794 - Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on one day in Paris. 1821 - Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia. 1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would later be named "Coca-Cola". 1914 - Paramount Pictures is formed. 1919 - Edward George Honey first proposed the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later resulted in the creation of Remembrance Day. 1933 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest of British oppression in India. 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end. This is the first time in the naval history where two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. 1942 - World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. 1945 - Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by FRENCH Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre. 1945 - World War II: VE Day. German forces agree to an unconditional surrender. 1945 - End of the Prague uprising, today still celebrated as national holiday in the Czech Republic 1984 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. 1984 - Cpl. Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour. 1987 - The SAS ambushes and kills the Loughgall Martyrs. 1996 - The Constitutional Assembly of South Africa ratifies the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. Considered one of the most liberal Constitutions in the world regarding Human Rights. 2005 - The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day. Births 1839 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920) 1884 - Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972) 1940 - Peter Benchley, American author (d. 2006) 1940 - Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985) 1943 - Paul Samwell-Smith, British bassist (The Yardbirds) 1944 - Gary Glitter, English singer & kiddie fiddler 1951 - Philip Bailey, American singer (Earth, Wind & Fire) 1951 - Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads) 1953 - Alex Van Halen, Dutch drummer 1953 - Billy Burnette, American singer and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) 1964 - Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur) 1968 - Jamie Summers, American porn star Deaths 1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858) 1994 - George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928) World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day VE Day
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    May 9 1950 L. Ron Hubbard publishes the first edition of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. This follows on the heels of a feature article in the pulp sci-fi magazine Astounding Science Fiction. A book review in the The New Republic describes the work as "a bold and immodest mixture of complete nonsense and perfectly reasonable common sense, taken from long-acknowledged findings and disguised and distorted by a crazy, newly invented terminology." The subsequent movement goes on to become one of the scariest, most powerful pseudo-religious cults in modern history. May 9 1978 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-moro-th.jpg The body of former Italian premier Aldo Moro is discovered in the back seat of a Renault. He had been kidnapped 54 days prior by the Red Brigades, who demanded the release of their incarcerated comrades. When Italian authorities refused to give in, Moro's captors killed him. Above is a photo of the hostage holding a newspaper announcing his own death. May 9 1979 Northwestern University graduate student John Harris opens a cigar box left sitting on a table in the Technological Institute. The resulting blast only manages to inflict minor lacerations and burns. It is later determined to be the second explosive device fabricated by the Unabomber. May 9 1980 35 people are killed in Tampa, Florida when the Liberian cargo ship Summit Venture smashes into a supporting pier of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Seven vehicles, including a Greyhound bus, topple into the water 150 feet below. May 9 1983 The infallible Pope John Paul II retracts the Catholic Church's condemnation of astronomer Galileo Galilei, issued in 1633 by the infallible Pope Urban VIII. The Church had convicted the scientist of heresy, sentenced him to house arrest, and forced him to recant central scientific truths. In the end, this error only took 350 years to correct. May 9 1995 The CDC in Atlanta identifies a new strain of filovirus in blood samples taken from 14 disease victims in Kikwit, Zaire. Designated "Ebola," this new pathogen proves to be so tremendously virulent that the government of Zaire is forced to place the entire city of Kinshasa under quarantine in order to contain the outbreak. 1092 - Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the "New World". 1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. 1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house (gay brothel) in London are executed at Tyburn. 1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded. 1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. 1901 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne. 1915 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces. 1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra. 1936 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5. 1940 - World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder. 1941 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. 1942 - World War II: Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its Jewish population, largely with the help of Serbian collaborators. 1942 - Holocaust: German SS murder 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The victims were shot with machine gun in ravine on the order from Gebietskomissar Eggers and Chief of Gendarmerie Busse. 1945 - World War II: The final German surrender to Marshal Georgy Zhukov at Berlin-Karlshorst is signed by Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine. 1945 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. 1945 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling is arrested in Norway. 1945 - World War II: Red Army enters Prague (capitulation of Nazi occupation troops). 1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day. 1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British. 1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union. 1955 - Cold War: West Germany joins NATO. 1955 - Sam and Friends debuts on a local U.S. television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and the Muppets. 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves sale of the birth control pill. 1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon. 1980 - The first meeting of Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury takes place in Ghana. 1998 - Dana International, a transsexual Israeli singer wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries. 2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is selected as the successor of Pope John Paul II. 2006 - 2 miners, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, were freed after 14 days trapped underground in a goldmine at Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Births 1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode) 1971 - Paul McGuigan, British bassist (Oasis) Deaths 1986 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914) 2001 - James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer (b. 1919) Russia and some other parts of the former Soviet Union – Victory Day as the end of the "Great Patriotic War". Armenia celebrates Victory Day to simultaneously mark the capture of Shusha in the Karabakh War and the victorious end of WWII. European Union – Europe day, commemorating the "Schuman declaration". Jersey, Guernsey – Liberation Day (commemorating the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II).
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     May 10 1924 In perhaps the single worst mistake in the history of crime fighting, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone selects J. Edgar Hoover to head the Bureau of Investigation, later known as the FBI. He will remain at the post until his death 48 years later. May 10 1933 Joseph Göbbels presides over a public book burning in Berlin, which destroys more than 20,000 volumes. The collection includes books by Einstein and Freud. During the bibliocaust, Goebbels declares: "We have directed our dealings against the un-German spirit; consign everything un-German to the fire." May 10 1941 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-hess.jpg Running out of fuel and unable to find a suitable spot to land his Messerschmitt, Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess bails out over Scotland. When Hess claims to have made the trip in order to negotiate a peace treaty with England, the Nazis declare that he was a psychotic who "lived in a state of hallucination." After the war, Hess is confined to Spandau Prison until his apparent suicide in 1987. May 10 1969 The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill. May 10 1977 Joan Crawford succumbs to stomach cancer at the age of 73. In the early days of her career, Crawford had performed in several stag films, and later spent a considerable sum buying back the prints to destroy them. May 10 1993 In the worst manufacturing plant fire in history, 188 employees, most of them young women, burn to death in a doll factory in Bangkok, Thailand. The management had locked the doors, so the workers could produce their Bart Simpson dolls without any distractions. May 10 1994 Former building contractor, children's party clown, and jailhouse artist John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal injection. Police found 28 shallow graves in the crawlspace beneath Gacy's house in 1978. After a dinner which included fried chicken, fried shrimp, and french fries, Gacy is strapped to a gurney. When asked if he has any last words, the serial killer obliges with: "Kiss my ass." May 10 1994 300 active-duty Marines stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms receive a 46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation, more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to "fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." On the positive side, almost two-thirds recognize that the order would be patently unconstitutional. 1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England. 1497 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. 1503 - Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there. 1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike. 1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States. 1940 - World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent. 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. 1940 - World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1940 - World War II: Iceland invaded by the United Kingdom. 1941 - World War II: The House of Commons in London is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid. 1941 - World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. 1942 - Thai Phayap Army invaded the Shan States during the Burma Campaign of World War II. 1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts. 1960 - The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. 1994 - Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa. 2005 - A hand grenade allegedly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet(20 meters) from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate. 2007- Tony Blair stands down as prime minister of the United Kingdom. 2007 Cymru am byth makes his 2000th post on Filecabi.net Births 1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865) 1915 - Denis Thatcher, British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003) 1934 - Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994) 1946 - Graham Gouldman, British musician and songwriter (10cc) 1955 - Mark David Chapman, American assassin of John Lennon 1957 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979) 1960 - Bono, Irish singer (U2) 1961 - Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus) Deaths 1774 - King Louis XV of France (b. 1710) Astronomy Day in the United States. Buddha's Birthday in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and South Korea. Inauguration Day in South Africa. National Holiday of Israel Native American Day among Indigenous North Americans.
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     May 11 1310 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics. Established during the Crusades to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land, this military order came into increasing conflict with Rome until Clement V officially dissolves it at the Council of Vienna in 1312. May 11 1907 A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners, when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot. Many of them were scalded to death when the steam boiler ruptured. No word on the fates of their groovy fezzes. May 11 1960 Four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from a bus stop in Buenos Aires. May 11 1981 Jamaican music legend and U.N. Peace Medal recipient Bob Marley dies of brain cancer in a Miami hospital at the age of 36. Marley had quietly begun a course of radiation therapy at Sloan-Kettering a few months prior, but abandoned it just two days later after word leaked out. May 11 1985 56 football fans are killed and more than 200 injured in Bradford, England when fire sweeps through the grandstands of Valley Parade stadium. In less than ten minutes, the structure is reduced to a burning pile of wood. May 11 2001 "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" author Douglas Adams dies of a heart attack at age 49. 1502 - Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies. 1792 - Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to visit the Columbia River. 1812 - Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. 1820 - Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage 1857 - Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British. 1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence. 1924 - Mercedes-Benz formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies. 1943 - World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces. 1944 - World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line. 1949 - Siam changes its name to Thailand. 1949 - Israel joins the United Nations. 1960 - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market. 1970 - The Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road" is released as a single in the United States. It becomes the group's last number one single in that country. 1987 - Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. 1987 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland). The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz, of Stanford University School of Medicine. 1995 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. 1998 - India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device. 2006 - A science team at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign successfully converted pig waste into crude oil. Births 1811 - Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins 1941 - Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals) 1957 - Peter North, Canadian porn star 1966 - Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein) Deaths 1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708) 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762 1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874) 1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945) 2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952) 2003 - Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)
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     May 12 1797 Following Napoleon's conquest of Venice, Ludovico Manin reluctantly steps down as its last Doge. Thus ends the Most Serene Republic's 820-year history of national sovereignty. May 12 1932 When a truck driver stops in rural New Jersey to take a leak, he stumbles upon the badly decomposed body of the Lindbergh Baby lying in a shallow grave 45 feet from the highway. May 12 1971 Tor Johnson dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 67 in San Fernando, California. The man who once wrestled under the name "The Super Swedish Angel" leaves behind a legacy of B-movie acting roles, most famously as the bald zombie in Ed Wood's masterpiece "Plan 9 from Outer Space." May 12 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an "agent of Moscow." 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. 1264 - The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins. 1689 - King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France 1870 - The Manitoba Act was given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. 1885 - North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. 1926 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends 1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey 1941 - Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer in Berlin. 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov – In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed. 1942 - 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. 1949 - Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin. 1958 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. 1965 - The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. 1965 - West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations. 1967 - At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert. 1975 - Mayagüez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters. 1999 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament. 2000 - The Tate Modern art gallery opens in London. 2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. 2003 - The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26. Births 1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910) 1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980) 1942 - Ian Dury, English musician (d. 2000) 1945 - Ian McLagan, English keyboardist (The Small Faces) 1958 - Eric Singer, American drummer (Alice Cooper,Kiss) 1961 - Billy Duffy, British rock guitarist (The Cult) 1962 - Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph) 1967 - Paul D'Amour, American bass guitarist (ex-Tool) 1968 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder 1975 - Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union legend Deaths 1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801) 2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
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     May 13 1913 The latest brainchild of Russian aircraft design genius Igor Sikorsky embarks on its maiden flight. The Grand, easily the world's most luxurious passenger plane, includes such innovations as upholstered seats, a balcony, and even a lavatory. May 13 1917 Three small children in Fatima, Portugal receive the first of six visitations from the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. Over the next five months she lays some pretty heavy shit on the kids, including a three-part secret: a vision of Hell, a prophecy of war with godless Russia, and a third secret which remains classified until Y2K. May 13 1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and nonfunctional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their death. May 13 1981 A delusional Turk guns down Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. Mehmet Ali Agca believes that the Vatican is an abomination before God and must be destroyed. 19 years later, the Church will disclose that the assassination attempt was foretold in 1917, as part of the third secret of Fatima. May 13 1985 After attempting to serve arrest warrants at 6221 Osage Avenue, police in West Philadelphia are sucked into a 90-minute gunfight with members of the MOVE organization. Later, police drop a bomb on the house from a helicopter. The bomb misses its target and ignites a fire which consumes the entire city block. 61 houses are destroyed in the conflagration, killing 11 MOVE members -- including five children -- and leaving hundreds of neighbors homeless. 1568 - Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia. 1830 - Ecuador gains its independence. 1846 - Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico. 1861 - American Civil War: Queen Victoria of Britain issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights. 1861 - Great Comet of 1861 discovered in Australia. 1880 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. 1888 - With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery. 1912 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established. 1913 - Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft. 1940 - World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. 1940 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety. 1941 - World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. 1943 - World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. 1948 - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. 1958 - Velcro's trade mark is registered. 1989 - Large groups of students occupied Tiananmen Square and began a hunger strike. 1998 - India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. 2000 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage. 2001 - Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections. 2005 - Malcolm Glazer completes a hostile takeover of the world's biggest sports club Manchester United Football Club for $1.4 billion. Births 1883 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962) 1937 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio 1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician 1951 - Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music) 1966 - Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish) 1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001) 1976 - Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer Deaths 1961 - Gary Cooper, American actor (b. 1901) Rotuma Day in Fiji.
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     May 14 964 Pope John XII dies of injuries inflicted eight days prior by a jealous husband who caught him in flagrante delicto with his wife. The 26-year-old pontiff had received a blow to the temple, causing immediate paralysis. Critics had accused John of converting the Lateran Palace into a whorehouse. May 14 1610 Fanatical monk François Ravaillac jumps aboard the coach of King Henry IV and stabs him twice through the open window. Then the French monarch bleeds to death before medical help can reach him. May 14 1976 Keith Relf, former vocalist of the Yardbirds, is electrocuted in his London home while either tuning or playing a guitar belonging to either him or his son, in either the basement or the bathtub. Details are sort of sketchy, resulting from the family's reticence to describe the death scene. May 14 1998 Mobbed-up international recording star and Academy Award winner Frank Sinatra dies of a heart attack shortly after the airing of the final Seinfeld episode. The Chairman of the Board of Show Business had an oddly appropriate personal motto: "You gotta love livin' baby, 'cause dyin's a pain in the ass." May 14 2001 The Supreme Court rules that a federal law classifying marijuana as illegal has no exception for ill patients. The 8-0 decision is a major defeat for suffers of terminal diseases and groovy potheads alike. 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England. 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. 1643 - Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. 1747 - A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre. 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States. 1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. 1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain. 1870 - The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club. 1889 - The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London. 1900 - The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris. 1939 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five. 1940 - World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe. 1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany. 1943 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine. 1948 - Israel declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states. 1955 - Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact. 1973 - Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket Births 1771 - Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858) 1926 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984) 1934 - Siân Phillips, Welsh actress 1943 - Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream) 1943 - Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994) 1944 - George Lucas, American film director 1952 - David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads) 1959 - Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion) 1962 - C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison) 1962 - Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult) 1966 - Mike Inez, American bassist (Ozzy Osbourne/ Alice in Chains/ Slash's Snakepit) Deaths 1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844) 1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943) 1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914) 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
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     May 15 1960 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik IV, a three-ton spacecraft containing a "dummy cosmonaut." The mission goes fine until they attempt to retrofire. A bug in the guidance system had pointed the capsule in the wrong direction, so instead of dropping into the atmosphere the satellite moves into a higher orbit. May 15 1972 Hoping to gain everlasting infamy, Arthur Bremer pumps five bullets into Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace during a campaign stop in Laurel, Maryland. In his haste, the gunman forgets to yell his carefully-chosen catchphrase, "Penny for your thoughts!" And when Wallace survives the assassination attempt, albeit confined to a wheelchair, Bremer's name is soon forgotten. May 15 1974 Three Arab gunmen disguised as Israeli soldiers seize control of the schoolhouse at Ma'alot. Taken hostage are more than 100 teenaged students and their teachers. The captors, members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, demand the release of 26 political prisoners. Israeli commandos storm the school only 15 minutes before the deadline; 18 children are killed in the firefight. May 15 1985 Graduate student John Hauser loses most of his right hand in a UC Berkeley computer room when he opens an innocent-looking box attached to a looseleaf binder. It is the second device left in this building from the Unabomber. In fact, the engineering professor who applies the tourniquet to Hauser's arm was the victim in the previous attack, three years prior. May 15 1991 Alan Cooper stands trial in England for "committing a lewd, obscene, and disgusting act on the 12-foot dolphin called Freddie as they frolicked for 20 minutes off the harbor mouth at Amble, Northumberland." Cooper responds by claiming that his accuser was a sworn enemy and had trained dolphins for a movie to jump out of the water and tear off a woman's bikini bra. He is eventually acquitted of masturbating the cetacean. May 15 1997 Federal prosecutors in the Unabomber trial file the necessary paperwork requesting the death penalty for Ted Kaczynski. 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe. 1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod. 1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun. 1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France. 1776 - American Revolution: Virginia convention instructs its delegates to propose a declaration of independence from Great Britain. 1811 - Paraguay declares independence from Spain. 1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1902 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider). 1905 - Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. 1934 - The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger. 1940 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States. 1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Nazi Germany, marking the beginning of 5 years of occupation. 1940 - McDonald's is founded. 1942 - World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. 1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). 1945 - Last skirmish of the Second World War in Europe fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. 1948 - Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel. 1957 - Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. 1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. 1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4. 1963 - Mercury program: America launches the last mission of the program, Mercury 9 (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb told Congress the program was complete). 1970 - The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released in the United States. 1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control. 1987 - Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform, which failed to reach orbit. 1988 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Births 1914 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa (d. 1986) 1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer (Roxy Music) 1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer 1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy) 1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician (Anal Cunt) 1974 - Ahmet Zappa, American musician (son of Frank) Deaths 2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
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     May 16 1984 Intergender wrestling champion and conceptual comic Andy Kaufman pretends to die of lung cancer. In order to make it really convincing, Andy underwent months of radiation therapy and six weeks of psychic surgery in the Philippines. And he never made any more public appearances. May 16 1986 In the most notorious retcon in the history of television, Pam Ewing wakes up to find her husband Bobby in the shower -- no small feat, considering he's been dead for a whole season. In order to revivify Bobby's character, the Dallas writers resorted to dismissing the entire preceding year as nothing more than Pam's protracted dream. May 16 1990 Sammy Davis, Jr. dies of throat cancer in Beverly Hills. After the legendary Rat pack singer/entertainer is buried with $70,000 in jewelry, the family discovers that Mr. Bojangles was broke and left millions of dollars in unpaid back taxes. His widow then orders the body exhumed so they can repo the jewelry. May 16 1990 Attached to a ventilator and swimming in antibiotics, Muppet creator Jim Henson dies of a severe case of pneumonia in a New York hospital. In keeping with his express wishes, no one is permitted to wear black at Henson's funeral service, which features 5,000 fans waving painted butterflies and a live band playing "When the Saints Go Marching In." May 16 1995 After receiving an anonymous tip that a runaway teen was hiding there, police in Coral Gables, Florida search Jennifer Capriati's motel room and uncover 20 grams of marijuana. The 18-year-old professional tennis player winds up diverted to a drug treatment program, avoiding a court trial. 1568 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England. 1770 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France. 1811 - Peninsular War - Allies (Spain, Portugal & Britain) defeat French at the Battle of Albuera. 1836 - Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia. 1843 - The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail. 1919 - US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight. 1929 - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out. 1943 - Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. 1943 - World War II: The Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams. 1948 - Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel. 1969 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus. 1972 - Decimal currency introduced in Malta. The Pound sterling is henceforth divided into 100 cents. 1988 - A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. 1992 - STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage. 2004 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100.000 Ukrainian civilians. 2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. Births 1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987) 1945 - Nicky Chinn, songwriter (The Sweet, Suzi Quatro) 1946 - Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson) 1946 - Roger Earl, British rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat) 1955 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer 1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana) 1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer 1974 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.) 1979 - McKenzie Lee, British pornographic actress Deaths 1969 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954) 1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925) 1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)
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     May 17 1924 Two youths discover a human skull on the banks of the Leine in Hanover, Germany. And although two more skulls are found a month later, police ignore it until a sackful of bones turn up on the riverbank. Dragging the Leine yields another 500 bones, belonging to about 27 victims. Eventually, police arrest Fritz Haarmann for the crimes. He would lure runaway boys back to his apartment, where they would be raped, killed, and cut into steaks. Then the unlicensed butcher would sell the meat as beef on the black market. All told, he killed between 40 and 50 boys. May 17 1965 Magazine The Nation publishes Hunter S. Thompson's first-hand experiences with the Hell's Angels motorcycle club. The bikers would eventually stomp Thompson when they demanded payment for his time spent. A year later, Random House published his book Hells Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. May 17 1974 During a gun battle with members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the LAPD fires tear gas into their Watts hideout. The canisters ignite a fire which soon consumes the house. Three other SLA members, including kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, watch the events unfold on TV in their motel room down the street from Disneyland. May 17 1980 A three-day race riot breaks out after an all-white jury acquits four white Miami police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance salesman. The cops had beaten him with their flashlights and billyclubs, and he died in the hospital. 18 fatalities and more than $100 million in property damage are the final result. May 17 1992 Bandleader, accordion player, and soap bubble aficionado Lawrence Welk dies of pneumonia in his beachfront condo in Santa Monica, California. 1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland. 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed. 1900 - Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking. 1915 - The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls. 1918 - Almost the entire leadership of Sinn Féin are arrested. 1940 - World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium. 1940 - World War II: The old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland. 1974 - Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland. 1983 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. 1987 - An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew. 2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first state in the United States to legalize Same-sex marriage 2006 - The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef Births 1682 - Bartholomew Roberts, AKA Black Bart, notorious Welsh pirate (d. 1722) 1949 - Bill Bruford, English musician (Yes) 1958 - Paul Di'Anno, English singer (Iron Maiden) 1961 - Enya, Irish singer and songwriter 1965 - Trent Reznor, American singer (Nine Inch Nails) 1974 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
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     May 18 1843 "I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left." -- Joseph Smith, prophet of God and founder of the Mormon church May 18 1904 In Paris, 12 nations ratify the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade. Another 48 countries and territories follow suit over the next six years. Conspicuously absent from the list of signatories is the United States of America. May 18 1936 Tokyo gangster Kichizo Ishida is accidentally strangled by his mistress during a session of rough sex. Ishida had been a "gasper," someone who enjoys the sexual effects of asphyxiation. The woman, Sada Abe, indulged him by wrapping her pink kimono belt around his neck. After her lover's death, Abe cuts off Ishida's penis and scrotum with a meat cleaver and carries them around until she is finally arrested, three days later. May 18 1980 The body of Ian Curtis, lead singer of dirge band Joy Division, is discovered hanging in the kitchen by his wife. Curtis killed himself on the eve of Joy Division's U.S. tour. His surviving bandmates go on to form New Order. May 18 1980 After a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Washington state, 57 people are killed in an avalanche of volcanic mud in the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The volcano spews out 200 million cubic yards of of pumice, ash, and debris which covers 24 square miles of the valley below. 1152 - Henry II marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. 1652 - Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal. 1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec. 1783 - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States. 1803 - Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France. 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate. 1876 - Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshal Larry Deger. 1896 - Khodynka Tragedy: a mass panic on Khodynka Field during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II resulted in the deaths of 1389 people. 1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. 1900 - The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga. 1910 - The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley. 1917 - World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of conscription. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives. 1944 - Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government. 1944 - World War II: SS troops burn down six villages in the Brkini hills in south western Slovenia. 1953 - Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (she flew in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour (1049.835 km/h) at Rogers Dry Lake, California). 1958 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h). 1959 - Launching of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea. 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 launches. 1974 - Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so. 1974 - Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991. 1991 - Helen Sharman from Sheffield becomes the first Briton to orbit in Space 1991 - Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland however it is unrecognised by the international community. 1998 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft. Births 1868 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov, Nicholas II, Last Emperor of Russia (d. 1918) 1949 - Rick Wakeman, English composer and musician (Yes) 1957 - Michael Cretu, German musician (Enigma) 1965 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995) (Helloween) 1973 - Cymru am byth:D Welsh patriot, master chef and rugby fanatic Deaths 1980 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (b. 1956) Shrek the Third (from Dreamworks Animation and Paramount Pictures) - 2007 released
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     May 19 1536 In the first public execution of an English queen, Anne Boleyn is beheaded. In her speech, Boleyn has nothing but good things to say about her husband, Henry VIII: "I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord." May 19 1890 Nguyen Tat Thanh is born in central Vietnam. After World War I he devotes his life to the Communist cause, adopting a series of pseudonyms along the way. Finally he settles on "The Enlightener," that being the English translation of Ho Chi Minh. May 19 1928 Saloth Sar, one of the world's most successful mass murderers, is born in French Indochina. He later adopts the name Pol Pot in 1976, a year after the Khmer Rouge seizes control of Cambodia. May 19 1987 Chet Fleming files for a patent on his method for keeping a severed head alive. The mechanism includes blood filtering, pumping equipment, and nutrient supply. Ultimately, US Patent 4,666,425 is granted. May 19 1992 17-year-old Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face. Amy had been having an affair with Mary Jo's 38-year-old husband Joey. Fisher winds up spending seven years in prison, and Mary Jo winds up with a plate in her head. May 19 1993 Four servicemen are killed on an inspection flight when their Blackhawk helicopter crashes in the woods near Quantico, Virginia. Maj. William Barcley, SSgt. Brian Haney, Capt. Scott Reynolds, and Marine Sgt. Timothy Sabel had flown President Bill Clinton to the USS Theodore Roosevelt during his visit to the aircraft carrier two months prior. Hence, the men qualify as former "Clinton bodyguards" and their untimely deaths should be interpreted as evidence that they were killed simply because they knew too much. May 19 1994 Jackie O., one the many women John F. Kennedy had sex with, dies of lymphatic cancer in her 15-room Manhattan apartment. In accordance with her 36-page will, most of her personal possessions are to be publicly auctioned by Sotheby's two years later. At which, one bidder observes that people are paying "100 times the value for objects that are amazingly mediocre." In fact, the average price for individual pieces of costume jewelry is $18,750. 1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England has Mary Queen of Scots arrested. 1604 - The town of Montreal is founded. 1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. 1749 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River. 1802 - The Légion d'Honneur is founded by Napoleon Bonaparte. 1848 - Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of five other modern-day U.S. states to the USA for USD $15 million. 1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol. 1921 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the U.S. Congress establishing national quotas on immigration 1943 - World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather). 1961 - Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back data). 1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday. 1971 - Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. 2005 - The final Star Wars film and third episode in the series, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, debuted on this day. It broke current box office records, earning over $50 million on opening day. 2007 - Cymru am byth woke up at 12.15 pm with the mother of all hangovers, had a shower, shit and shave and got ready to go out again tonight Births 1870 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936) 1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969) 1925 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998) 1928 - Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982) 1945 - Pete Townshend, English musician (The Who) 1948 - Grace Jones, Jamaican singer and actress 1949 - Dusty Hill, American blues rock singer/bassist (ZZ Top) 1951 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001) 1954 - Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC) 1983 - Eve Angel, Hungarian model/porn star Deaths 1536 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England 1795 - Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729) 1898 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809) 2006 - Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940) 1935 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1888) (Lawrence of Arabia) 1945 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
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     May 20 1960 Music DJ Alan Freed, originator of the term "Rock and Roll," is indicted in New York in the Payola scandal. Freed had accepted $30,650 from five record companies to play their records, although to be fair "pay for play" was the accepted practice up to that point. May 20 1971 The bassist and lead singer for the band Chicago undergoes five hours of emergency surgery after getting jumped at a Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. Peter Cetera winds up losing four teeth because some guys decided that his hair was too long. May 20 1987 Conservative British MP Harvey Proctor pleads guilty to committing acts of gross indecency against minors -- paying rent boys to spank them in his London flat. May 20 1989 Attempting to clear Tiananmen Square of student activists and quell 100 million others protesting throughout the country, China declares martial law in Beijing. Two weeks later, after they continue to loiter in the Square, thousands of students are massacred by government troops. May 20 1999 The dissolving body parts of eight people are discovered inside six plastic barrels sitting in an abandoned bank vault in Snowtown, Australia. 526 - An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia. 685 - The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated. 1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. 1690 - England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of Roman Catholic James II. 1813 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory. 1845 - HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost. 1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law. 1873 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. 1882 - The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed. 1883 - The eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later. 1902 - Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba. 1927 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1927 - At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. 1932 - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. 1940 - Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete. 1949 - In the United States of America, the Armed Forces Security Agency (predecessor to the National Security Agency) is established. 1954 - Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly 1969 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. 1980 - In a Referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. 1983 - First publications of the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually. 1995 - In a second Referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. 2002 - East Timor becomes independent from Indonesian rule. Births 1895 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (d. 1937) (Supermarine Spitfire) 1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer 1946 - Cher, American singer 1958 - Jane Wiedlin, American singer (The Go-Go's) 1968 - Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby union and Rugby sevens legend 1970 - Louis Theroux, British television presenter 1972 - Busta Rhymes, American singer and rapper 1975 - Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player 2000 - Leo Blair, Youngest son of Tony Blair Deaths 685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645) 1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451) 1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904) 1996 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919) (DR Who, Worzel Gummage) Cameroon National Day. East Timor National Day. saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Saint Bernardine of Siena Saint Theodore of Pavia Saint Lucifer :eek7: :eek: Saint Austregisilus Saint Ivo of Chartres
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     May 21 1871 Government troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been massascred and 38,000 arrested. May 21 1944 A mortar round explodes while being loaded onto ammunition ship LST-353 at Pearl Harbor. The resulting fire destroys six ships, kills 163 servicemen, and injures another 396. May 21 1956 The Cherokee test of Operation Redwing commences over Bikini Atoll, consisting of a 3.8 megaton nuclear bomb dropped from a B-52 bomber. The bomb is successfully detonated at an altitude of 4,350 feet, but the flight crew missed their assigned target by four miles. Although it is a complete failure from a scientific standpoint, it demonstrates America's ability to deliver hydrogen bombs over long distances. May 21 1972 A deranged Australian geologist takes a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta, shouting "I am Jesus Christ -- risen from the dead!" Laszlo Toth is never charged with any crime, instead receiving a free trip to an Italian insane asylum. Toth's name is later adopted by comedian and SNL regular Don Novello (Father Guido Sarducci) for a long series of pranks by mail. May 21 1979 A judge gives Dan White only seven years for the premeditated murders of Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone, prompting thousands to march on San Francisco's City Hall. In what will come to be known as the White Night Riots, the demonstration takes a violent turn, resulting in significant property damage and the torching of twelve SFPD cruisers. Police respond with brutal beatdowns at gay bars in the Castro district. May 21 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/may/rh-rajiv-gandhi-su… At an outdoor political rally, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and 16 bystanders are blown to bits by a pregnant woman bearing a basket of flowers. The suicide bomber is believed to have been a member of a Hindu terrorist group called the Tamil Tigers. (The assassin, Dhanu, is pictured above center.) May 21 1996 At least 500 -- possibly as many as 1,000 -- people are killed when the Bukoba ferry suddenly capsizes on Lake Victoria. The manifest lists 443 people on board, but this doesn't count the hundreds of third-class passengers. May 21 1997 Mattel introduces Barbie's new friend, Becky The School Photographer, a "differently-abled" doll in a bright purple wheelchair. 1502 - The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova. 1851 - Abolition of slavery in Colombia, South America. 1856 - Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. 1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton. 1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams. 1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Emile Henry is executed by guillotine. 1904 - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded in Paris. 1917 - Great Atlanta fire of 1917. 1927 - Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 1932 - Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals. 1937 - a Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. 1941 - World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first United States ship sunk by a German U-boat. 1980 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released into theaters. 1998 - At Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Kipland Kinkel, suspended for bringing a gun to school, shoots a semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home. 2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorje climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year. Births 1943 - Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals) 1948 - Leo Sayer, English musician 1952 - Mr. T, (Laurence Tureaud) American actor 1955 - Stan Lynch, American drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ) 1960 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994) 1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d. 1997) 1974 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep) 1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets) 1976 - Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper 1978 - Briana Banks, German-American adult film star 1978 - Adam Gontier, lead singer of Canadian band Three Days Grace 1979 - Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress 1981 - Belladonna, American pornographic actress Deaths 1988 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900) 1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944) 1999 - Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979) Navy Day (Día de las Glorias Navales) in Chile. Dia de la Afrocolombianidad marks the abolition of slavery in Colombia. Independence Day is celebrated in Montenegro.
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     May 22 337 Emperor Constantine dies. Although quite dead, his embalmed corpse continues to act as head of state, receving state dignitaries and daily reports from ministers as if nothing had changed. Constantine's macabre leadership continues through winter. May 22 1851 Hail the size of pumpkins falls on Bangalore, India. May 22 1949 Former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal falls out of a 16th floor window at Bethesda Naval Hospital with a bathrobe cord knotted tightly around his neck. The death is ruled a suicide, and Forrestal is buried in Arlington Cemetery. May 22 1954 400 people attend the Bar Mitzvah for Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) in Hibbing, Minnesota. He later converts to Christianity in 1979. May 22 1957 A B-36 bomber accidentally drops a 10 megaton hydrogen bomb over an uninhabited area near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conventional charges detonate on impact, leaving a radioactive crater 12 feet deep and 25 feet wide. May 22 1967 322 Belgians are killed when fire sweeps through the second-largest department store in Brussels. Many of the victims leaped to their deaths, although most who landed on parked cars survive. The store, L'Innovation, had been having a sale on American goods. May 22 1968 The nuclear submarine U.S.S. Scorpion sinks to the bottom with all 99 aboard perishing, after it is reassigned to a spy mission and begins to head towards the Canary Islands. Navy Warrant Officer John Walker (a mole) had certainly reported enough to the KGB to allow them to read the Scorpion's encrypted transmissions. For reasons yet unknown, Navy officials of the U.S. and Soviet Union agree not to discuss the circumstances of this incident or the sinking of a Soviet sub the same year. May 22 1981 Peter Sutcliffe is convicted of murdering 13 women in the Yorkshire Ripper trial. In the words of the presiding judge: "It is difficult to find words that are adequate in my judgment to describe the brutality and gravity of these offences and I say at once I am not going to pause to seek those words. I am prepared to let the catalogue of crimes speak for itself." 1455 - Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England. 1809 - Second and last Day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon was repelled by an enemy army for the first time. 1819 - The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20. 1840 - The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. 1906 - Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine" 1939 - World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel. 1942 - Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies. 1960 - An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. 1972 - Ceylon adopts a new constitution, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1990 - North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen. 1990 - The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft. Births 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930) (Sherlock Holmes) 1907 - Lord Laurence Olivier, prolific English stage and screen actor and director (d. 1989) 1942 - Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist (The Unabomber) 1950 - Bernie Taupin, English songwriter (Elton John) 1959 - Morrissey, English singer 1964 - Ashley Renee, American fetish model 1970 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress 1972 - Annabel Chong, Singapore porn actress 1978 - Jordan, English model and media personality Deaths 1990 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922) Victoria Day in Canada (This depends on the year. This holiday is celebrated on the first Monday on or before May 24. In 2000 and 2006, Victoria Day was celebrated on May 22nd). World Biodiversity Day. Republic of Yemen - National Day. National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka. National Maritime Day in the United States
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     May 23 1498 Religious fundamentalist Girolamo Savonarola is executed in Florence, Italy for his many heresies. The Catholic Church had already excommunicated the Dominican friar the year before, but Savonarola continued to preach for radical reforms. Among other things, he held "bonfires of the vanities" for his parishioners' worldly possessions, because they competed with the word of God for attention. Brother Savonarola is hanged along with two accomplices and their bodies burned. May 23 1618 In what is later called the "Defenestration of Prague," three men representing the soon-to-be Emperor Ferdinand II are thrown from a window in the Hradshin Palace by Protestant noblemen. Luckily for the imperial emissaries, they land on a large pile of trash and survive. But when the Catholic Ferdinand assumes the throne the following year, all hell breaks loose in Europe, starting with Bohemia. Thus begins the horrific religious conflict that comes to be known as the Thirty Years War. It is generally agreed that the war set back the continent a full century. May 23 1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged in London. Afrer the first attempt fails when the rope snaps, Kidd is brought right back to the gallows and the process repeated. After death, the body is slathered in tar, chained up, and suspended over the Thames where it remains for years as an example to others considering a life of piracy. May 23 1934 A group of FBI agents and police officers from two states ambush Bonnie and Clyde on a highway near Gibsland, Louisiana. The men open fire as the bank robbers drive past the concealed posse, unloading hundreds of rounds into the car. May 23 1960 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion reveals that Mossad agents have captured fugitive war criminal Adolf Eichmann and smuggled him out of Argentina. Ben-Gurion announces: "Eichmann is already in this country under arrest and will shortly be brought to trial." May 23 1984 Candy heiress Helen Brach is declared legally dead, seven years after disappearing mysteriously in February 1977. May 23 2006 Scientists led by Dr. Anthony Atala (Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University) announce they can grow artificial, fully-functional bunny penises in a lab. 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne. 1568 - Netherlands declared independence from Spain. 1568 - Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War. 1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan 1846 - Mexican-American War: Mexico declares war on the United States. 1915 - World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary. 1939 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 26 sailors. The remaining 32 crewmen and one passenger are rescued the following day. 1945 - World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody. 1945 - World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz was dissolved when its members were captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany. 1949 - The Federal Republic of Germany is established, and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany proclaimed. 1967 - Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War. 1969 - Rock band The Who release Tommy, the first rock opera. 1970 - An outbreak of fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage. 1985 - U.S. engineer Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union. 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, what remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is imploded. 1998 - The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum, with a high margin of three-quarters 'yes' votes to Northern Ireland. Births 1967 - Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead) 1971 - Charmaine Sinclair, Playboy model 1974 - Richard Jones, Welsh bassist (Stereophonics) Deaths 1701 - Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645) 1934 - Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (b. 1909) 1934 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (b. 1910) 1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (b. 1839) 1945 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900) World Turtle Day Discordianism: Day of Disunity
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     May 24 1610 Buggery is criminalized for the first time in North America, when the Virginia colony declares that "[n]o man shal commit the horrible, and detestable sinnes of Sodomie upon pain of death." May 24 1856 A small gang led by abolitionist John Brown murders five pro-slavery homesteaders in Franklin County, Kansas, hacking them to pieces with swords. The event comes to be known as the Pottawatomie Massacre. May 24 1920 Senile French President Paul Deschanel falls off a train bound for Montbrison, and is later discovered wandering along the track in his pajamas. May 24 1964 All hell breaks loose in the closing minutes of a football match between Peru and Argentina, after a referee disallows a goal. 318 people are killed and 500 injured in Lima, Peru, making it the worst football riot in history. 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1487 - Imposter Lambert Simnel is crowned as "King Edward VI" at Dublin. 1626 - Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. 1689 - The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded). 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. 1830 - Mary had a little lamb by Sarah Hale is published. 1844 - Samuel F. B. Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought" (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Supreme Court room in Washington, D.C. to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland. 1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge in New York is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. 1893 - The Niagara Falls Park and River Railway opens in Ontario. 1900 - Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State. 1930 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). 1940 - Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. 1941 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy. 1943 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp. 1949 - The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade. 1976 - London to Washington, DC Concorde service begins. 1988 - Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom. 1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded a six-figure sum in damages after winning a libel action against Private Eye. 1991 - Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. 1993 - Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. 1993 - Microsoft unveils Windows NT. 2000 - Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. 2001 - Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest. Births 1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901) 1955 - Rosanne Cash, American singer (daughter of Johnny) 1960 - Guy Fletcher, British keyboardist (Dire Straits) 1969 - Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes) Deaths 1153 - King David I of Scotland (b. 1084) 1991 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (b. 1944) 1995 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) Bermuda: Bermuda Day. Eritrea: National Day. Russia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia: Saints Cyril and Methodius Day Aldersgate Day (Methodism). China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea: Buddha's Birthday
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     May 25 1895 British playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons," to wit: fucking some rent boys. For his crime, Wilde is sentenced to two years of hard labor in Reading jail. May 25 1925 John T. Scopes is indicted by a grand jury for violating Tennessee's anti-evolution statute, which he claimed to have broken by teaching Darwin's theory of natural selection in a Dayton high school. Later, on July 10th, the "Scopes Monkey Trial" begins. May 25 1979 Immediately after flight 191 takes off from Chicago's O'Hare Airport, engine number one tears loose from its wing and falls off. A few seconds later, the DC-10 rolls onto its left side and impacts the ground. All 271 aboard the plane are killed in the explosion, along with two bystanders. May 25 1980 Televangelist Oral Roberts senses an "overwhelming holy presence" and hallucinates a 900-foot-tall Jesus Christ. The deity reaches down and picks up a 60-story hospital, bragging to the Oklahoman preacher: "See how easy it is for Me to lift it!" May 25 1985 11,000 people are killed in Bangladesh when a cyclone hits the Bay of Bengal. A 10-to-15 foot wall of water surges over the Ganges delta, devastating a wide area and drowning half a million cattle. May 25 1996 The body of Bradley Nowell is discovered in his room at San Francisco's Ocean View Motel. Nowell, lead singer for radio trio Sublime, was killed by an accidental smack overdose. May 25 2006 Enron CEO Kenneth Lay is found guilty on six counts of conspiracy. 1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides. 1914 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland. 1938 - Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Alicante, 313 deaths. 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins. 1953 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. 1977 - George Lucas' film, Star Wars, is released, and becomes an instant hit. 1982 - HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War. 1995 - The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla. Births 1939 - sir Ian McKellen, English actor 1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions) 1958 - Paul Weller, British musician (The Jam) 1969 - Glen Drover, Guitar player (Megadeth) 1975 - Lauryn Hill, American singer 1979 - Jonny Wilkinson, English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player Deaths 1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968) 2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941) Argentina - Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810) Africa Day commemorating the 1963 fouding of he AU's precursor, OAU Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe - African Liberation Day United States - National Tap Dance Day:1orglaugh: ; celebrated on the birthday of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, born in 1878. Lebanon, Liberation Day (1999) The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Day of Youth Ancient Latvia - Urbanas Diena observed Towel Day celebrated Worldwide :confused: Universal Day of the Jedi celebrated worldwide by Star Wars fans.
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     May 26 1232 Gregory IX issues the bull Declinante jam mundi, bringing the Papal Inquisition to Spain. May 26 1647 Alse Young, a widow, is hanged for witchcraft in Hartford, Connecticut. Her daughter Alice is accused of the same offense 30 years later, in Massachusetts. May 26 1868 In England's last public execution, Michael Barrett is hanged at Newgate. All subsequent hangings are held behind prison walls. Presiding over the event is executioner William Calcraft, who frequently supplements his income by selling the clothes and noose worn by the condemned. May 26 1960 America's UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge charges the Soviets with having bugged the Moscow embassy. He shows off a large wooden carving of the United States seal which had been hollowed out to conceal a sophisticated resonant cavity transmitter. Less than 30 years later a newly-rebuilt Moscow embassy is determined to be "structurally riddled with eavesdropping devices." May 26 1978 A safety officer at Northwestern University opens a suspicious package which had been delivered to a professor. The object explodes in Terry Marker's hands, making him the first victim of the Unabomber. May 26 1980 By orders of military dictator Chun Doo Hwan, and with the blessing of the Carter administration, the South Korean government massacres 2,000 pro-democracy protesters in Kwangju city. May 26 1994 "Price Is Right" host Bob Barker admits to having had an 18-month sexual relationship with former co-host Dian Parkinson. The onetime Playboy model was suing the game show's host and its production company for sexual harassment. Barker denies that the sex had been anything but consensual, claiming that "she volunteered the hanky-panky." Parkinson later drops the suit. May 26 1994 Dogged by rumors of pedophilia, Michael Jackson weds Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic. The couple keeps their marriage secret for six weeks, then files for divorce 18 months after that. 1637 - Pequot War: A combined Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans. 1670 - In Dover, King Charles II of England and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover. 1736 - Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France. 1879 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state. 1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public. 1896 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. 1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London. 1908 - At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom. 1936 - In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sat down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk. 1966 - British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana. 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing. 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their second Bed-In for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. 1972 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia. 1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag. 2003 - Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year. 2007 - Cymru am byth makes the 100 post in his "this day in history" thread on filecabi.net 2007 - Gareth Thomas becomes the most capped player in Welsh rugby history playing his 93rd international game for his country Births 1886 - Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950) 1904 - George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961) 1907 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979) 1909 - Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994) 1913 - Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994) 1946 - Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993) (Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) 1954 - Danny Rolling, American murderer (the Gainstville Ripper)(d. 2006 lethal injection) 1959 - Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers) 1964 - Lenny Kravitz, American musician Deaths 946 - King Edmund I of England (b. 921) 1948 - Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886) Australia - National Sorry Day Poland - Mother's Day Georgia - National Day
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     May 27 1923 Henry Kissinger is born in Fuerth, Germany. 50 years later, Dr. Kissinger receives the Nobel Peace Prize for quitting the Vietnam War. No kidding. May 27 1942 A couple of Czech assassins ambush the car carrying Reinhard Heydrich and toss a grenade into the front seat. The man who headed the Wannsee Conference is mortally wounded in the attack, and dies of septicemia a week later. The Nazis retaliate by obliterating the Catholic village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and its inhabitants. May 27 1977 After the pressing plant initially refuses to duplicate the record and the printer refuses to make the covers, Virgin finally releases "God Save the Queen" by the Sex Pistols in time for the monarch's Jubilee celebration. May 27 1991 Cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer manages to convince Milwaukee police that the dazed naked boy found staggering on the sidewalk and bleeding from the ass is his drunken lover, instead of a 14-year-old boy struggling to fight the effects of date-rape drugs. The MPD officers chalk it up to a "homosexual lovers spat" and escort them both back to Dahmer's apartment. After the cops leave, Jeffrey strangles the boy, rapes his corpse, and eats some flesh from the carcass of his twelfth victim. May 27 1993 Five are killed and 37 wounded when a Fiat Fiorino explodes outside the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy. The car bomb (a combination of PETN, T4, and TNT) also manages to obliterate three priceless artworks and substantially damage thirty more. The bombing appears to have been the work of the Sicilian Mafia. May 27 1995 During the third jump of an equestrian event in Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is thrown headfirst over his horse. Reeve breaks his neck in two places, instantly rendering him a quadriplegic, unable to move or breathe without assistance. 1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland. 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France. 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. 1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia. 1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model A's. 1930 - The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall Chrysler Building in New York (tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public. 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County. 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time. 1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knoechlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes. 1941 - World War II: U.S. President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". 1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men. 1942 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid - assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. 1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war. 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. 1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. Births 1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650) 1879 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962) 1911 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993) 1921 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960) 1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees ) 1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Crowded House) 1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, American singer (d. 2002) 1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality Deaths 735 - Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)
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     May 28 1946 Manhattan Project scientists Klaus Fuchs and John von Neumann file for a secret patent on their design for the hydrogen bomb initiator. May 28 1959 America launches a Jupiter rocket containing a rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker. After experiencing nine minutes of microgravity, the capsule successfully returns to Earth with both monkeys intact. However, Able dies during surgery to remove his electrodes. May 28 1981 Former Milwaukee police officer and Playboy bunny Laurie "Bambi" Bemenek breaks into the house of her husband's ex-wife and murders her. Prosecutors will claim that Bemenek was incensed over the amount of alimony her husband was paying. Bambi later escapes from prison in 1990, fleeing to Canada. May 28 1987 German teenager Matthias Rust lands his Cessna in Moscow's Red Square, buzzing the Kremlin on the way in. He serves 18 months in prison for this prank, which also costs the commander of the Soviet Air Command his job. May 28 1998 Talented comedian Phil Hartman dies at the hand of his crazy wife Brynne, who then commits suicide after the police arrive. Hartman's corpse is found in bed with multiple gunshot wounds to the head. SNL televises a very bad retrospective of his work several weeks later. 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. 1503 - The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed, which would actually last 10 years. 1533 - The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid 1588 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port). 1644 - Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. 1830 - President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. 1863 - American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union. 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span. 1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister. 1940 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany. 1940 - World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. First allied infantry victory in World War II. 1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people. 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed. 1974 - Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists. 1979 - Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community. 1982 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green. 1991 - The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. 1998 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. 1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display. 2002 - NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance. 2004 - The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government. 2006 - German-born Pope Benedict XVI visits Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland. Births 1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727) 1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806) 1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978) (Portmeirion, North Wales, setting for The Prisoner) 1892 - Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966) 1908 - Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964) 1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996) 1944 - Rudy Giuliani, ex-Mayor of New York City 1944 - Gladys Knight, American singer 1945 - John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor 1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998) 1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004) 1962 - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals) 1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician (The Presidents of the United States of America.) 1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer 1970 - Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate Deaths 1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719) 1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820) 1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792) 1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (The Duke of Windsor) (b. 1894) 1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926) Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918). National Flag Day in the Republic of the Philippines
119. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive29 May 2007, 15:59
     May 29 526 A major earthquake accompanied by a fire destroys the city of Antioch, killing perhaps a quarter of a million people. The rebuilding efforts are wiped away two years later by another major quake. May 29 1453 Constantinople is taken by Ottoman Turks, after a fifty day siege led by Sultan Mehmet II. The city defense of 10,000 men was no match for a force of 100,000 armed with heavy artillery. It is the final gasp of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. May 29 1806 Dueling over a horse racing wager, future President Andrew Jackson takes a bullet in the chest from fellow lawyer Charles Dickinson. The slug shatters two ribs and buries itself near his heart. Then it is Jackson's turn to fire, which manages to sever an artery and kill his opponent. May 29 1985 Two hours before kickoff of the European Cup Final, a riot breaks out in the stadium between supporters of Liverpool and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium. 39 soccer fans are killed and more than 350 injured on live television. May 29 1999 Hikers discover the skeletal remains of Philip "Taylor" in his Ford Aerostar at the bottom of a 200-foot ravine in Malibu, California. The onetime bassist for the band Iron Butterfly had disappeared four years prior. 1660 - English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of Great Britain. 1727 - Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia. 1733 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City. 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal. 1886 - Putney Bridge opens in west London. 1919 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. 1932 - WW I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945. 1935 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed. 1942 - Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles. 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's 39th birthday. 1982 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff ever to visit Canterbury Cathedral. 1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. 1990 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament. 1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu is elected prime minister of Israel. 1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule. 1999 - Space shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station. 2004 - The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. 2005 - France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution. Births 1630 - Charles II of England (d. 1685) 1903 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003) 1914 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (d. 1986) 1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963) 1941 - Roy Crewsdon, British guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers) 1945 - Gary Brooker, musician (Procol Harum) 1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician 1961 - Melissa Etheridge, American musician 1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden) 1967 - Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis) 1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach) 1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives) Deaths 1593 - John Penry, Welsh Protestant leader (b. 1559) 1946 - Martin Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905) Nigeria: Democracy Day United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day
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     May 30 1431 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen, France for relapsing into heresy. After having signed a confession a week earlier, Joan appeared in court wearing difformitate habitus -- degenerate apparel -- or more precisely, men's clothing. May 30 1593 After a night of drinking, Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in the boarding house of Eleanor Bull. The official determination is that Ingram Frizer stabbed Marlowe in the head while they were fighting over the bill. May 30 1942 Returning home from a night of drinking and reminiscing about the recent death of John Barrymore, movie star Errol Flynn flips on the lights and is horrified to discover Barrymore's corpse propped up in a living room chair. Some of Flynn's friends had given a funeral director $200 to borrow the body for a couple of hours. May 30 1961 After a group of armed men ambushes the Chevrolet carrying Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator attempts to bargain with them. He is shot five times point-blank, and dies face down in the street. 1536 - King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. 1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. 1574 - Henry III becomes King of France. 1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. 1879 - New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue. 1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people. 1913 - First Balkan War: Treaty of London, 1913 signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. 1914 - New & then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. 1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. 1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete. 1941 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag. 1942 - World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. 1958 - Memorial Day: The bodies of several unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. 1967 - At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row. 1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain. 1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955. 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. 2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde. Births 1672 - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725) 1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844) 1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980) 1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash) 1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian 1962 - Kevin Eastman American comic book creator (co creator, ninja turtles) 1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine) Deaths 1431 - Joan of Arc, French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412) 1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867) 1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942) (Derek and the Dominos) Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday). Peru – National Potato Day [1]. United States – Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May). Canary Islands – Canary Islands' Day
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     May 31 1889 Relentless rain and inadequate maintenance causes the South Fork Dam to fail, unleashing a 35-foot-high wall of water on Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Then 2,209 people are entombed beneath a pile of debris half a mile wide. May 31 1921 After a white woman claims that a black man had grabbed her arm in an elevator, the largest race riot in U.S. history breaks out in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Marauding whites set fire to the exclusively-negro Greenwood district, leveling its 35 city blocks of black-owned businesses. The official death toll is reported as 36, but later historians estimate it was more like 300. May 31 1962 For crimes against humanity, the nation of Israel hangs Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Ramleh prison. He is later cremated and his ashes scattered in the Mediterranean Sea, outside the territorial waters of the Jewish state. May 31 1963 Nun Nu Thanh Quang, a Buddhist monk, immolates himself at the Dieu de Pagoda in Hue, Vietnam. May 31 1996 Timothy Leary dies quietly in his sleep, thereby failing his intended mission of suiciding live on the Internet. On a brighter note, a longstanding Moody Blues prophecy is fulfilled. May 31 2005 Actor Christian Slater is arrested in New York City after a woman complains of ass-grabbery to police. Slater denies everything and is charged with third-degree sexual abuse. 1279 BC - Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. 1223 - Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus, Kipchaks, Cumans, and Volga Bulgars warriors under Mstislav the Bold. 1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London. 1678 - The Godiva procession through Coventry begins. 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Mecklenburg Resolutions adopted urging the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain. 1866 - In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded. 1884 - John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes 1902 - Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa. 1910 - Creation of the Union of South Africa. 1911 - R.M.S. Titanic launched. 1916 - World War I: Battle of Jutland - The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage and defeat the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war. 1924 - The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect. 1927 - The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. 1942 - World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army. 1961 - Republic of South Africa created. 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance, the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed. 1973 - The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War. 1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed. 1985 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States. 1997 - The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick. 2002 - The United States Secretary of the Navy issued Instruction 10520.6 directing all United States Navy ships to fly the First Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign will be flown for the duration of the War on Terrorism. 2003 - 1996 Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina. 2004 - A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances. Births 1922 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992) 1930 - Clint Eastwood, American film director and actor 1938 - John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1939 - Terry Waite, British humanitarian (held captive in Lebanon between 1987 and 1991.) 1940 - Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat) 1948 - John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980) 1964 - Scotti Hill, American rock guitarist (Skid Row) 1964 - Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.) 1977 - Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish, The Littlest Man Band 1980 - Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy) Deaths 1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England 1495 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415) 1945 - Odilo Globocnik, Austrian nazi (b. 1904) 1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890) 1996 - Timothy Leary, American professor and LSD advocate (b. 1920) 2004 - Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941) 2006 - Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter (b. 1930), mother of singer Stevie Wonder The Godiva procession. World No Tobacco Day.
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     Jun 1 1571 The "Triple Tree" gallows is installed at Tyburn, England in time for the execution of John Storey, who is hanged, drawn, and quartered for committing treason. The Triple Tree consists of an equilateral triangle nine feet long on each side, 18 feet off the ground. It can hang as many as 24 prisoners at once, and will remain in place for almost 200 years. Jun 1 1660 After having received a last-minute reprieve seven months earlier, Mary Dyer is hanged for heresy after returning to Boston. Dyer was a member of the Quakers, a subversive religious sect which had been banned by the Puritan colony under "pain of death." Jun 1 1926 Gladys Baker gives birth to Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles. Jun 1 1967 The Beatles officially release their new album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in both mono and stereo versions. Jun 1 1968 Helen Keller -- America's all-time favorite deaf, dumb, and blind Socialist -- finally dies in Westport, Connecticut at the age of 87. Jun 1 2001 In just two minutes, Nepal's royal family is nearly exterminated by one of its own. With a selection of machine guns, Crown Prince Dipendra massacres eight relatives, including King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya. He then turns the gun on himself. Even though Dipendra winds up comatose in a hospital bed, a government council crowns him king anyway. The new monarch dies three days later. Jun 1 2006 The Department of Homeland Security decides that New York has "no national monuments or icons" and anti-terrorism funding is reduced by $83 million. Instead, the money is distributed to fly-over states like Nebraska and Kentucky. 1495 - Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky. 1533 - Anne Boleyn crowned queen. 1815 - Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France. 1831 - Sir James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole. 1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico. 1869 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric voting machine. 1879 - Napoleon Eugene (only son of Napoleon III) killed in the Anglo-Zulu War. 1910 - Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition sets off from Cardiff 1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. 1922 - Royal Ulster Constabulary founded . 1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom. 1941 - World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany. 1942 - World War II: The Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps. 1943 - British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 1967 - The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released. 1979 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power. 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting. 1990 - George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. 2003 - Same-sex marriage comes into force in Belgium (Timeline of same-sex marriage) 2005 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection. Births 1843 - Henry Faulds, Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930) 1907 - Frank Whittle, English Royal Air Force officer and jet propulsion pioneer (d. 1996) 1939 - Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, British race car driver 1947 - Ron Wood, English guitarist (Rolling Stones) 1953 - David Berkowitz, American serial killer, a.k.a. The Son of Sam 1959 - Alan Wilder, British musician (Depeche Mode and Recoil) 1960 - Simon Gallup, English guitarist (The Cure) 1963 - Mike Joyce, English drummer (The Smiths) 1967 - Roger Sanchez, American disc jockey 1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter Deaths 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791) 1879 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856) 1960 - Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler's final living sibling (b. 1896) 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906) 1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880) 1991 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1941) Children's Day in some countries. U.S. - National Accordion Awareness Month begins. Kenya - Madaraka Day 1963. Nirvana of Buddhists. Samoa - Independence Day 1962. Tunisia - Constitution Day / Victory Day 1959. Foundation Day in Western Australia
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     U.S. - National Accordion Awareness Month begins. WTF?? While I'd love to spend the entire month of June being aware of a musical instrument called an accordion, I think I'll pass.
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     Jun 2 1740 Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade is born at Condé palace in Paris. Jun 2 1793 Jean-Paul Marat recites names of 29 people to the French Assembly, virtually all of whom will be guillotined. Over the next year 17,000 will be executed in the Reign of Terror. Jun 2 1996 Ray Combs, host of television's Family Feud, hangs himself with his bedsheets at Glendale Adventist Hospital. Combs was on a 72 hour suicide watch. Jun 2 1999 Pope John Paul II blesses the Vatican's new underground parking garage. A miracle of modern technology! Jun 2 2003 Thousands of defeated Iraqi troops marched on U.S. occupation headquarters in Baghdad, demanding to be paid. It is perhaps the first time in history a defeated army has demanded payroll from the victors. Jun 2 2006 Right-wing nutjob Ann Coulter hires a White House-connected law firm to defend herself against charges of knowing voting in the wrong precinct (a felony). 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks. 1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted. 1800 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland. 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio. 1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States. 1946 - Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled. 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised. 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam. 1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement. 1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. 1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum. 1998 - The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan. Births 1857 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934) 1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones) 1941 - William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips) 1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer (Yorkshire Ripper) 1955 - Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles) 1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane) 1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, American rock drummer (The Strokes) Deaths 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807) 1948 - Viktor Brack, Nazi physician (b. 1904) 1948 - Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904) 1948 - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (b. 1897) 1948 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903) 1948 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (b. 1905) 1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949) 2005 - Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975) 2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
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     Wow- the US gave Indians citizenship in 1924. Shamefully, Australia didn't grant citizenship rights to Aboriginals until 1967- the 27th of May. :( Another grand collection of nuggets there Cymru.
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     Jun 3 1791 The French Assembly passes a resolution bringing decapitation to the common criminal: "Every person condemned to the death penalty shall have his head severed." Jun 3 1943 Three days after a sailor had been badly injured in a brawl with a group of Hispanics, a mob of 60 servicemen leaves the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory and bludgeons anybody wearing a zoot suit. The first two victims are a couple of boys, aged 12 and 13, who were just sitting in the Carmen Theater watching a movie. Thus begins a week-long race riot. Jun 3 1968 Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, arrives at the art studio of Andy Warhol and shoots him three times in the torso. Warhol barely survives the attempt on his life. Solanas is later jailed and institutionalized. Jun 3 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dies after 11 days in a hospital, recovering from surgery to stop internal hemorrhaging. Jun 3 1991 Students throw eggs at South Korean Prime Minister Chung Won Shik. Nobody is injured in the incident at Hankuk University in Seoul. Jun 3 1998 15-year-old teen idol Brad Renfro is arrested in Knoxville, Tennessee and charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine. Jun 3 1998 The world's first fatal high-speed rail accident occurs when a train near Eschede, Germany derails and 101 people are killed. 1539 - DeSoto claims Florida for Spain 1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec. 1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 1621 - The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands. 1665 - James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft. 1800 - U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, DC (in a tavern – the White House was not yet completed). 1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States to a heroes' welcome. 1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police. 1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. 1937 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. 1940 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris. 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat. 1956 - British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class). 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time. 1969 - Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half. 1977 - Reggae stars Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album Exodus, which would be named Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in 1999. 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. 1982 - The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. 1989 - The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. 1991 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan in Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. 1992 - The Mabo Decision is handed down, recognising the land rights of Australian Aborigines. 2006 - The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence. 2006 - Canada conducts largest domestic anti-terrorism operation, arresting 17 suspected of planning attacks in Ontario. Births 1865 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936) 1905 - Martin Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentartion camp (d. 1945) 1939 - Ian Hunter (singer), English musician ( Mott the Hoople) 1946 - Michael Clarke American drummer (The Byrds) (d. 1993) 1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003) 1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress 1952 - Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1963 - Doro Pesch, German singer (Warlock) 1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer) 1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer 1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer & Guitarist (Stereophonics) Deaths 1659 - Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619) 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825) 1955 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (Gas chamber)(b. 1923) 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877) 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1900) 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949) 1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942) 1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946) Confederate Memorial Day observed in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
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     Jun 4 1939 After already having been turned away by Cuba, the SS St. Louis is also denied permission to land in Florida. So it is forced to return to Europe with its cargo of 963 Jewish refugees, most of whom will later die in Nazi concentration camps. Jun 4 1967 The Emmy for best comedy TV series is won by The Monkees. Good heavens. Jun 4 1989 Chinese troops, firing a few warning shots, manage to push tens of thousands of student protesters out of Tiananmen Square without killing any of them. This changes once they're out of the Square, however. In the end, hundreds of unarmed citizens on the streets of Beijing are massacred by the army. Later, several leaders of the pro-democracy demonstration are publicly executed. Jun 4 1989 645 rail passengers are killed in a natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia. Their two trains are torn apart as they pass each other, throwing sparks near a leaky pipeline. Jun 4 2000 Detroit rapper Eminem pistol-whips John Guerrera for kissing Kim Mathers, the object of his affections and/or rage. He is charged with disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct. Eminem tells a different story on his album The Eminem Show: "you're full of shit too Guerrera / that was a fist that hit you" 780 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China. 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina). 1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia Canada taken from the Acadians. 1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past. 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). 1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Great Britain. 1794 - British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti. 1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City. 1878 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title. 1913 - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies a few days later, never having regained consciousness. 1920 - Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. 1940 - World War II: Dunkirk evacuation ends; British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. 1942 - World War II: Reinhard Heydrich dies in Prague due to the assassination of Czechoslovak paratroopers (Operation Anthropoid). 1942 - World War II: Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island with much of the Imperial Japanese navy. 1943 - Military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. 1944 - World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy capture the German submarine U-505, marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. 1944 - World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. 1960 - Lake Bodom murders. 3 Die, one survives with severe injuries 1970 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1986 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. 1989 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe and leads to creation of the so-called Contract Sejm. 1991 - The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others—the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years. 1998 - Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. Births 1738 - King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820) 1910 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (d. 1999) (the hovercraft) 1944 - Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress 1953 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002) Deaths 1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (b. 1859) 1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (b. 1904) 1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917) 1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943) 1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player (b. 1946) (Small Faces (1965-69) and Faces (1970-75).) Holidays and observances International Innocent Child Abuse Victim Day. Tonga - National Day. Finland - National flag day of the Finnish Defence Forces (on Mannerheim's birthday). Hong Kong - Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989 memorial day. Saint Petrock of Cornwall
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     Jun 5 1956 Elvis Presley appears on Milton Berle TV show. His undulating hip movements during the song "Hound Dog" cause quite a controversy. Jun 5 1968 Seconds after Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot dead by Sirhan Sirhan in a Los Angeles hotel, witnesses wrestle the Palestinian to the ground and grab his smoking .22-caliber revolver. Sirhan later claims to have been acting unconsciously, possibly the result of hypnotic brainwashing. Jun 5 1975 During the Wish You Were Here recording sessions, Syd Barrett just happens to wander into Abbey Road studio while Pink Floyd are mixing "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," a song written about Barrett. At first, none of Syd's former bandmates recognizes their former bandmate, who is compulsively brushing his teeth. Jun 5 1986 A 52-year old man in Auburn, Washington dies after taking an Excedrin capsule laced with cyanide. This is the first of two Excedrin deaths. Jun 5 1998 Reuters and ABC News both erroneously report the death of Bob Hope, after Arizona congressman Bob Stump announces the comedian's demise on the floor of the U.S. Congress. This is to the great surprise of Bob Hope himself, who was eating breakfast at the time. 70 - Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem. 1798 - Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. 1900 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. 1917 - World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day." 1924 - Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden). 1944 - World War II: The two largest invasion fleets in history sailed this morning on opposite sides of the world. 1944 - World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. 1944 - World War II: Rome liberated by the Allies 1945 - Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power. 1947 - Marshall Plan: At a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe. 1959 - The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in. 1963 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal. 1967 - Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. 1969 - The gates at Richard Nixon's new house are finished. As they looked over the water, they were nicknamed the "watergates". Many years later the irony was duely noted. 1975 - The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War. 1975 - The UK holds its first and only UK-wide referendum, on remaining in the EEC. 1976 - Collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, United States kills 14 people and 13,000 cattle. 1977 - The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale. 1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS. 1984 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. 1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in Canada to give the Inuit of western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel. 1989 - The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. 2002 - Mozilla 1.0, the first 'official' version, is released. Births 1718 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779) 1850 - Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908) 1946 - John Bach, Welsh actor (Madril in Lord of the Rings pt2 & 3) 1947 - Tom Evans British musician,( Badfinger )(d. 1983) 1949 - Ken Follett, Welsh author 1952 - Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden) 1956 - Richard Butler, English singer (Psychedelic Furs) 1971 - Mark Wahlberg, American singer:1orglaugh: and actor 1979 - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy) 1981 - Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) 1981 - Jade Goody, British television personality :1orglaugh: & fat, ugly, racist bitch:D Deaths 1916 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener, British field marshal (b. 1850) 1920 - Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840) 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1952) 2004 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911) Holidays and observances World Environment Day, since the United Nations General Assembly resolution in 1972. National holiday of Denmark (Constitution Day). Seychelles - Liberation Day.
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     Jun 6 1752 A devastating fire destroys a third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes. Two other large-scale fires already struck the city in the previous 13 days. Jun 6 1882 A cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into Bombay harbor, drowning 100,000 inhabitants. Jun 6 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. The Democratic lawmaker had been campaigning for his party's Presidential nomination when he was shot three times by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. Jun 6 1976 American expatriate J. Paul Getty, named the richest man in the world in 1957, dies in London at age 83. According to the oil baron, "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." Jun 6 1981 An Indian passenger train traveling between Mansi and Saharsa jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing, submerging 11 compartments beneath the Bagmati river. Although the government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing, the actual figure is more like 1,000 killed. Jun 6 1984 Indira Gandhi dispatches the Indian Armed Forces to attack the Golden Temple in Amritsar, in an effort to flush out terrorists hiding inside Sikhism's most holy shrine. The government asserts that 576 combatants were killed and 335 wounded in the operation, although independent observers claim that this figure omits thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians who were killed in the crossfire. Jun 6 1985 Authorities in Embu, Brazil exhume the grave of one Wolfgang Gerhard in order to determine its true identity. The remains are later proven to be those of Dr. Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's notorious "Angel of Death." Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in the ocean in February 1979. Jun 6 1989 During the Tehran funeral of the Ayatollah Khomeini, frenzied mourners accidentally tip his corpse out of its coffin and onto the ground. Three million horrified followers bear witness to the desecration. Jun 6 1990 US district court judge Jose Gonzalez rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law. Gonzalez declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind." Jun 6 1991 For robbing a Las Vegas video store five weeks earlier, a judge gives former Diff'rent Strokes child star Dana Plato a six-year suspended sentence. Plato's haul from the caper was $164, which she obtained by brandishing a pellet gun at the clerk. Jun 6 1997 During her senior prom, New Jersey teenager Melissa Drexler gives birth to a healthy baby in a bathroom stall. She then strangles the child with a plastic bag and severs the umbilicus with the sharp edge on the tampon dispenser. After stashing the corpse in the trash, Drexler returns to prom and proceeds to eat a salad, request a Metallica song, and dance. Jun 6 1999 In the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, 345 prisoners run out of the main gate of Putim maximum security prison, without even the slightest response from the warden or guards. This makes the 10th escape for the 3-year-old detention center. Authorities will kill two of the fugitives and accidentally jail five innocent bystanders in the ensuing manhunt. 1808 - Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain 1813 - War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek - A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeat an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler. 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London. 1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day). 1918 - WWI - Battle of Belleau Wood begins . 1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler. 1939 - German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning German volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. 1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another 1982 - 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut. 2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. 2005 - United States Supreme Court says no to medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich. Births 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912) 1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918) 1896 - Henry Allingham, English pilot and founding member of the Royal Air Force 1960 - Steve Vai, American musician 1961 - Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer) 1966 - Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie) 1966 - Murdoc Niccals, English musician (Gorillaz) 1970 - James Shaffer, American musician (Korn) 1972 - Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer (Lacuna Coil) 1978 - Carl Barât, English singer and guitarist (The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things) Deaths 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator (b. 1925) 1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911) 2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959) 2003 - Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940) Holidays and observances International Metal day. D-Day landings - Europe. Memorial Day - South Korea. National holiday of Sweden. Queensland Day.
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     Jun 7 1692 At 11:43am, a catastrophic earthquake strikes Port Royal, Jamaica, then known as "the richest and wickedest city in the world." Buildings are shaken apart and ships in harbor hurled onto busy streets. In just three minutes, the temblor takes out 70% of the population, killing 1,600 and seriously injuring 3,000 others. Jun 7 1954 Despondent over court-ordered estrogen treatments to cure his homosexuality, Alan Turing commits suicide by consuming an apple laced with cyanide. Turing is considered the founder of modern computing, a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and a crucial member of the team that cracked Germany's Enigma cipher in World War II. Jun 7 1958 Prince Roger Nelson is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The boy is destined to one day be known as the artist formerly known as Prince. Jun 7 1982 In an effort to defray its $500,000 annual upkeep costs, Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public only five years after Elvis died in an upstairs bathroom. The bathroom is kept off-limits to tourists. 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. 1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries. 1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba. 1832 - Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. 1862 - The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade. 1863 - Mexico City is captured by French troops. 1866 - 1800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. 1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. 1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden. 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow(Clydebank), Scotland. 1917 - World War I: Battle of Messines - Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops. 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends. 1942 - Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, as the Axis power continues to expand its defensive perimeter. 1944 - Nazi Panzer SS troops murder 23 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy. 1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile. 1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state. 1967 - The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. 1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. 1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II. 1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons. 2001 - Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election. 2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert. Births 1770 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1828) 1837 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903) 1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer 1967 - Dave Navarro, American musician Deaths 1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (b. 1274) 1394 - Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367) 1951 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (b. 1892) Holidays and observances Norway - Union Dissolution Day, observing the 1905 decision to dissolve the Union between Sweden and Norway. Malta - Sette giugno - Riot in Malta that began the road to self government and then independence
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     Jun 8 632 The prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam, dies in Mecca. One can safely assume he is at this very moment reclining on a soft couch somewhere in Paradise, being serviced by a high-bosomed virgin with dark eyes. Jun 8 1967 34 American servicemen are killed and 171 wounded when the highly-conspicuous U.S.S. Liberty is strafed twice in 75 minutes by Israeli fighters and torpedo boats. The American spy ship happens to be sitting in international waters, 15 miles off the coast of Egypt, monitoring unfolding events of the Six Day War. Israel soon labels the incident a regrettable "error," claiming that they did not realize it was an American ship. For some reason, the United States pretends to accept this laughable explanation as well as a large restitution payment for the damage incurred by the vessel. Jun 8 1986 Former UN Secretary General and Nazi war criminal Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria. One year later, the U.S. Justice Department places him on a watch list of undesirable aliens, making Waldheim the first foreign head of state legally forbidden from visiting America. Jun 8 1998 The President of Nigeria, general Sani Abacha, dies of apparent heart failure during a Viagra-driven romp with three Indian whores. Abacha is quickly buried the following day without an autopsy or even a state funeral, fueling speculation that the general may have been poisoned by political rivals. Abacha stole more than $4 billion during his five years as dictator, and his widow Maryam is captured shortly thereafter attempting to flee the country with 30 suitcases full of American currency. 793 - The first Viking raid on British soil at Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known. 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade. 1866 - The Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in Ottawa. 1941 - World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. 1942 - World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published. 1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons. 1959 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. 1967 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. 1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1984 - Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia. 1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory. 1995 - Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. 1995 - Rasmus Lerdorf launched version 1.0 of the popular scripting language PHP. 1999 - War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product. Births 1885 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957) 1942 - Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player 1944 - Boz Scaggs, American singer and songwriter (Steve Miller band) 1951 - Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist 1955 - Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the internet 1955 - Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag) 1960 - Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red) 1962 - Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran) Deaths 1874 - Cochise, Apache leader 2003 - Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
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     Jun 9 68 Rather than suffer a Senate-imposed death by flogging, Nero implores his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat. The freedman complies, giving the condemned emperor a quick death, just as centurions arrive at the villa to haul him away. Jun 9 1930 Jake Lingle, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is shot dead gangland-style at the Illinois Central train station underpass, during rush hour. Dozens of people witness the murder, and the Leo Vincent Brothers are caught four months later after an intensive manhunt. Lingle was allegedly killed over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. Jun 9 1980 In the midst of a cocaine binge, comedian Richard Pryor attempts suicide by dousing himself with rum and setting it ablaze. The self-immolation attempt goes haywire when the flaming man leaps from his apartment window and runs down the street, screaming in agony. Pryor barely survives the incident, and only after six weeks of intensive care and three skin graft surgeries. Jun 9 1999 Honduran officials warn that, due to years of inadequate maintenance and obstructions caused by hurricane Mitch, the clogged sewers in Tegucigalpa pose an imminent threat to human life. They announce that the water treatment system includes tanks clogged with fecal matter that could disastrously explode at any moment. 1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River. 1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts. 1944 - World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by Finland. 1959 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. 1967 - Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War. 1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men. 1983 - Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her Conservative Party. Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament. 1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he was not released until 1991). 1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty. 1999 - Kosovo War: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty. Births 1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964) 1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist 1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple 1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse) 1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star Deaths 62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40) 68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37) 1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572) 1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
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     Jun 10 1692 Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts after having been convicted of "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries." Bishop is just the first casualty of what will come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials. Jun 10 1942 The town of Lidice (Loditz) is liquidated by the Nazis as penalty for the assassination of Adolf Hitler's favorite general, Reinhard Heydrich. Every adult male is killed, the women sent to the camps, and the town bulldozed. Jun 10 1973 The 17-year-old grandson of J. Paul Getty is abducted in Rome. When the kidnappers demand a $17 million ransom, the billionaire refuses. "I have 14 other grandchildren, and if I pay one penny now, then I will have 14 kidnapped grandchildren." After the grandson's severed ear arrives in the mail, Getty finally coughs up the money. Jun 10 1980 Percy Wood, president of United Airlines, receives a parcel at his home in Lake Forest, Illinois. Inside is a copy of the book Ice Brothers by Sloan Wilson. When he opens the book, it suddenly explodes, throwing shrapnel into Wood's hands, face, and thigh. The book turns out to be a present from the Unabomber. Jun 10 1999 Outside on the front lawn of his Miami home, Russell Cameron is covered with trash and doused with gasoline. Then his lunatic nephew, Thomas Pellechio, sets the pile on fire and runs away. When police arrive, they discover a 12.5 inch Oriental sword in Cameron's rectum, rammed in all the way up to the hilt. 1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel between the British government and an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards, the last close engagement of British and foreign troops on mainland British soil. 1829 - First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge. 1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico. 1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate. 1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. 1898 - Spanish-American War: US Marines land on the island of Cuba. 1918 - Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat. 1935 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob. 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with "Stab in the Back" speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. 1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel. 1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy. 1940 - World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces. 1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. 1944 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France. 1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 children,women and men were massacred by German troops. 1945 - Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. 1947 - Saab produces its first automobile. 1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. 1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13 at London's Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United Kingdom on a false Canadian passport 1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer. 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela. 1991 - In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm. 19b96 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin. 1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold. 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. Births 1910 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (d. 1976) 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1961 - Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders) 1961 - Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders) 1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins) 1967 - Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing) Deaths 323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC) 1959 - Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883) 1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887) 2003 - Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939) 2004 - Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930) Holidays and observances Portugal Day – National day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities
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     Jun 11 1881 A phantom vessel appears in the sky to the passengers and crew of the ship Bacchante, including Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, both sons of the Prince of Wales. Jun 11 1936 Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, commits suicide by blowing his brains out. Jun 11 1955 An Austin-Healy and Mercedes-Benz collide at the Le Mans Grand Prix. The Mercedes drove into a dirt retaining wall, disintegrated, and the hood, chassis, and various auto parts sliced through the spectator crowd. Eighty-three were killed, and 100 others were missing various "parts". Jun 11 1962 Frank Morris and the brothers John and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz. Jun 11 1963 Protesting the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection. Jun 11 1963 Governor Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door, blocking admission of blacks to the University of Alabama. Jun 11 1964 Just after 9am, deranged World War II veteran Walter Seifert barges into a busy Cologne, Germany elementary school with a homemade flamethrower. He then proceeds to burn 8 children to death and seriously injure 21 others. In the process, he also stabs 2 teachers to death with a lance. Before police are finally able to apprehend him with a gunshot to the leg, Seifert swallows insecticide and proceeds to die in the hospital the next day. Jun 11 1979 John Wayne dies of lung cancer. Jun 11 1993 Actor Ray Sharkey dies from AIDS. Ray was a cocaine/heroin addict who appeared as mobster Sonny Steelgrave on the TV show Wiseguy. Jun 11 1999 I ' M D E A D J I M DeForest Kelley, "Bones" from the original Star Trek television series, dies of a "lingering illness". 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy was sacked and burned, according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. 1429 - Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau. 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon. 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. 1776 - Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. 1788 - Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska. 1901 - New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands. 1937 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin. 1940 - World War II: British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy. 1940 - World War II: First attack of the Italian Airforce on the island of Malta. 1942 - World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. 1970 - After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so. 1988 - Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Wembley Stadium, London. 1998 - Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in largest high-tech acquisition. 2001 - Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. 2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral held at Washington National Cathedral. 2005 - G8 finance ministers agree to cancel the debt owed by 18 of the poorest countries. Births 1947 - Richard Palmer-James, British lyricist and guitarist (King Crimson and Supertramp) 1949 - Frank Beard, member of rock group ZZ Top 1950 - Graham Russell, British guitarist and vocalist (Air Supply) 1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies) 1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer (The Flaming Lips) Deaths 1183 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155) 1488 - King James III of Scotland 1727 - King George I of Great Britain (b. 1668) 1937 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)(Spitfire) 1979 - John Wayne (born Marion Morrison), American actor (b. 1907) 2001 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (executed) (b. 1968) Holidays and Observances Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawaii, United States, in honor of its first monarch, celebrated with floral parades, hula competition, and festivals Davis Day, in remembrance of William Davis, observed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada National Puerto Rican Day, Started in 1956, Festivals and Parades will be held
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     Jun 12 1963 Civil rights lawyer Medgar Evers is shot dead in the driveway of his home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The assassin, a Klansman named Byron De La Beckwith, dodges prison when two all-white juries return hung verdicts, but is finally convicted of the crime in 1994. Jun 12 1978 David Berkowitz is sentenced to 365 consecutive years in prison without the possibility of parole. Berkowitz killed six New Yorkers between 1976 and 1977, known collectively as the Son of Sam murders. Jun 12 1991 After 500 years of silence, Mount Pinatubo erupts, making an estimated 100,000 homeless and killing 300. Two U.S. military bases, Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay Naval Base, are abandoned. The blast is ten times larger than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Jun 12 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson and her male friend Ronald Goldman are savagely murdered in front of Simpson's condominium complex in Brentwood, California. The most plausible suspect turns out to be Nicole's estranged husband O.J., who is arrested for the crime a month later. 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau. 1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard – lasted until June 13. 1665 - England installs a municipal government in New York City. This was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. 1885 - At a murder trial in France, a roof collapses, killing 30 people. 1898 - Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain. 1902 - Australia: Women in the four Australian States without female suffrage achieved the right to vote in Commonwealth elections under Section 3 of the Commonwealth Franchise Act for an Uniform Federal Franchise. Specifically excluded from enrolling to vote were 'aboriginal native[s] of Australia Africa Asia or the Islands of the Pacific except New Zealand' unless covered under Section 41 of the Constitution of Australia. 1922 - In Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded - the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. 1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. 1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. 1943 - Holocaust: German Nazis liquidate Jewish Ghetto in Berezhany, western Ukraine. On Saturday morning, 1,180 Jews of Berezhany were led to face death at city's old Jewish graveyard, where they had been shot into a mass grave. 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison. 1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. 1987 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate. 1990 - Russia Day – The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty. 1991 - Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of their republic. 1998 - The Philippines celebrates its centennial year of Independence from Spain. 1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Births 1897 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977) 1924 - George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States 1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945) 1949 - John Wetton, English musician (Asia) 1951 - Bun E. Carlos, American musician (Cheap Trick) 1951 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (d. 2007) 1952 - Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983) 1959 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants) 1962 - Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi) 1983 - Bryan Habana, South African rugby player 1985 - Kendra Wilkinson, American Playboy bunny/Playmate Deaths 1778 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716) 1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (murdered) (b. 1969) 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (murdered) (b. 1959) Holidays and observances Philippines – Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898 Russian Federation – Russia Day (Independence Day) 1990 United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June) Brazil – Dia dos Namorados (Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's) World Day Against Child Labor
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     Jun 13 1886 The bodies of Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II and his physician, Dr. Gudden, are discovered floating face-down in Lake Starnberg. The recently-deposed monarch had been under house arrest ever since his uncle, Prince Luitpold von Bayern, staged a coup a few days earlier. Jun 13 1920 The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via Parcel Post. Jun 13 1934 Two months before becoming Fuhrer, Hitler meets Mussolini in Venice. Unfortunately, Mussolini refuses to have an interpreter and his German is not good, so neither man can understand the other. Unimpressed, Mussolini gathers a general impression of the German as "a silly little monkey." Jun 13 1944 The Third Reich fires eleven V-1 flying bombs at England from France. Only four of the Buzzbombs actually strike London, but the Germans will eventually follow that up with another 9,000. Jun 13 1971 Next to the White House wedding photo of President Nixon's daughter Tricia, the New York Times runs its first story on the "Pentagon Papers," a top secret DoD analysis authored by the RAND Corporation detailing every mistake and deception made during the 30-year history of the Vietnam War. Attorney General John Mitchell manages to block any further publication of the embarrassing documents, but the court order is countermanded two weeks later in a Supreme Court decision. Jun 13 1981 During the Trooping the Colour ceremony, a 17-year-old fires six blanks from a revolver at Queen Elizabeth II, startling her horse. Marcus Sargeant is later sentenced to five years imprisonment for the offense. Jun 13 1985 Mailroom workers discover a bomb inside a suspicious parcel at Boeing, Inc.'s Fabrication Division in Auburn, Washington. After the police bomb squad disarms it, investigators discover the initials "FC" stamped on both caps, making it the first explosive device recovered intact from the Unabomber. 1625 - King Charles I is married to the French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon 1774 - Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves. 1881 - The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack. 1886 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia. 1942 - The United States opens its Office of War Information. 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan. 1952 - Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. 1970 - "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song. 1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. 1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid. 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system. 1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages. 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. 1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents. 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 2005 - A jury in Santa Maria, California, acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland Ranch. Births 1963 - Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth) 1970 - Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer) 1974 - Steve-O, American television personality
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     Jun 14 1648 Midwife Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft. It is the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony, but not the first in the colonies. Jun 14 1954 At the Lincoln Memorial, President Dwight Eisenhower signs a law inserting the words "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance. Eisenhower declares: "From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." Precisely which Almighty is left to the listener's imagination. Jun 14 1961 1980s pop music star Boy George is born in Kent, England. As he later comes to describe his childhood, "I had five brothers and I was brought up drinking the same water and being fed the same doctrine as my brothers, but somehow I turned out to be a fabulous homosexual." Jun 14 1962 Albert DeSalvo murders Anna Slesersby by strangling her with the belt from her robe. She is only the first victim of "The Boston Strangler." Jun 14 1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of its Index librorum prohibitum (Index of Prohibited Books), originally instituted in 1557 by Pope Paul IV. Jun 14 1976 The Gong Show debuts on NBC. People with dubious talents perform their acts before a celebrity panel of judges, who are free to eject the performer at any time by banging a large gong. The best non-gonged performer each night wins $516.32. Jun 14 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer and driving with an expired license. Afterwards Zsa Zsa complains to the press that the handling she received from the BHPD "was like Nazi Germany." Ultimately, Gabor is convicted and sentenced to 72 hours in jail. Jun 14 1993 During a week-long Product Tampering scare, Pepsi-Cola suspends its advertising campaign after nationwide reports of customers discovering syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi. In response, television host David Letterman suggests ten new slogans, including "200cc's of great taste" and "Every can inspected by Ray Charles" (the company's blind celebrity spokesman). 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants' Revolt. 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby – 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers. 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States. 1789 - Mutiny on the Bounty: HMAV Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat. 1789 - Whisky distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy. 1839 - Henley Royal Regatta: The village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta. 1846 - Bear Flag Revolt begins - Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic. 1872 - Trade unions are legalised in Canada. 1900 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory. 1900 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy. 1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage. 1908 - Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships. 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. 1937 - U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act. 1938 - Action Comics issues the first Superman comic. 1940 - World War II: Paris falls under German occupation. 1940 - Spanish invade Tangier international zone. 1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%. 1940 - A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1941 - Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians begun. 1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary. 1952 - The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. 1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency. 1962 - New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibited state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they lived on a reservation. 1967 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb. 1976 - The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther. 1982 - Falklands War ends: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces. 1985 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah. 2002 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. 2005 - Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds Births 1928 - Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967) 1945 - Rod Argent, English musician (The Zombies) 1949 - Jimmy Lea, British musician (Slade) 1949 - Alan White, British drummer (Yes) 1950 - Dr Rowan Williams, Welsh 104th Archbishop of Canterbury 1956 - King Diamond, Danish singer (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate) 1964 - Stacy Burke, American adult actress and model Deaths 1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, British feminist (b. 1857) 1946 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888) Holidays and observances Liberation Day (Falkland Islands) Flag Day (United States) Mother's Day (Afghanistan) National Day of Commemoration - Estonia World Blood Donor Day – Celebration of blood donation on the birthdate of Karl Landsteiner, who discovered ABO blood groups International Weblogger's Day – Celebration of the work of webloggers around the world
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     Jun 15 1409 Petros Philargos is elected Pope Alexander V by the Council of Pisa. This poses a certain amount of difficulty, as there already is a Pope in Rome, Gregory XII, and another in Avignon, Benedict XII. Ultimately, none of the three is willing to step down, leading the Chuch into a double schism. Jun 15 1667 Jean-Baptiste Denis performs the world's first blood transfusion on a human subject. He gives a feverish and drowsy man about 12 ounces of lamb's blood, after which the patient "rapidly recovered from his lethargy, grew fatter and was an object of surprise and astonishment to all who knew him." Nevertheless, it will be another century before human-to-human transfusions are attempted. Jun 15 1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual OPAL exercise. In the "Operation Alert" drill, air raid sirens blare across America to assess our preparations for a nuclear attack. Duck and cover, people. Jun 15 1969 Hee Haw debuts on CBS television as a summer replacement for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The country bumpkin musical comedy show quickly becomes an institution, airing weekly until its demise in December 1997. Jun 15 1992 The Supreme Court rules in US v. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for America to abduct suspects in foreign countries and smuggle them into the United States for trial, without extradition approval from those other countries. Of course, the U.S. recognizes no reciprocal right for the reverse to happen on our soil. Jun 15 1993 The Washington Times reports that at least 1,416 Boy Scout leaders have been expelled for molestation since 1973. Of course, those were only the ones who actually got caught. Jun 15 1999 Nicholas Vitalich is arrested outside a supermarket in San Diego, California for slapping his girlfriend upside the head with a large tuna. Vitalich is booked for assault with a deadly weapon, namely the fish. 1215 - King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta. 1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity. 1808 - Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain. 1844 - Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. 1846 - The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. 1859 - Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers. 1864 - Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 1877 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. 1888 - Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the German Empire 1919 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete first nonstop transatlantic flight at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invades Saipan. 1994 - Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations. 1996 - In Manchester, UK, a terrorist bomb (IRA) injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre causing damage estimated at £411 million. 2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon Births 1330 - Edward the Black Prince, (English) Prince of Wales (d. 1376) 1906 - Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (d. 1994) 1908 - Sam Giancana, American mafioso (d. 1975) 1943 - Muff Winwood, British songwriter, producer and bassist (Spencer Davis Group) 1946 - Noddy Holder, British singer (Slade) 1949 - Russell Hitchcock, Australian singer (Air Supply) 1953 - Rita Lee, Playboy Playmate (november 1977) 1963 - Nigel Walker, Welsh athlete and rugby union player 1969 - Ice Cube, American rapper 1980 - Mary Carey, American pornographic actress Deaths 1381 - Wat Tyler, English rebel, leader of the Peasants' Revolt (beheaded) 1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (beheaded by an angry mob in revenge for Wat Tylers death) 1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795) 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917) 2002 - Choi Hong Hi, South Korean General and founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918) Holidays and observances Flag Day - Denmark Freedom Day - Malawi
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     Jun 16 1750 BC King Hammurabi dies in Babylon, and is succeeded by his son Samsu-iluna. Jun 16 1948 In the first skyjacking of a commercial plane, three armed men storm the cockpit of the Miss Macao, a passenger seaplane operated by Cathay Pacific airline. When the pilot refuses to turn over the controls, he is shot dead and the plane crashes into the ocean. The only survivor among the 27 people on board is the leader of the terrorists. Jun 16 1958 Imre Nagy, once prime minister of Hungary for all of ten days, is executed by the Soviet Union for attempting to withdraw his country from the Warsaw Pact. Jun 16 1959 While entertaining friends at his home, George Reeves, who played the title character in the original Superman TV series, goes upstairs to his bedroom and commits suicide with a 9mm German Luger. Jun 16 1960 Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York. Jun 16 1976 15,000 schoolchildren take to the streets of Soweto to protest South Africa's adoption of bilingual instruction in the Afrikaans language. The nonviolent march ends abruptly when police and soldiers open fire on the crowd, killing 600 and igniting days of rioting throughout the region. Jun 16 1999 The founder of the United Kingdom's Monster Raving Loony Party, one Screaming Lord Sutch (real name David Edward Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow), is found hanged at his late mother's residence. Sutch was the longest lasting party leader in the UK at the time of his death, ruled a suicide. One of the Loony Party planks was to ask rhetorically, "Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?" 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir. 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada. 1755 - French and Indian War: French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians. 1779 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. 1815 - Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo. 1858 - Battle of Morar, during the Indian Mutiny. 1871 - University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. 1922 - General election in Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin. 1940 - World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France. 1940 - A Communist government is installed in Lithuania. 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR. 1983 - Yuri Andropov becomes president of the USSR. 1996 - First round of voting in the Russian presidential election. 1999 - Maurice Greene sets a new 100m world record at 9.79 seconds. This is the largest drop in a 100m world record in the history of electronic timing from Donovan Bailey's 9.84. 2000 - Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdrew from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms. 2006 - Japan and Montenegro declare truce, ends Russo-Japanese War. Births 1829 - Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909) 1890 - Stan Laurel, British-born actor and comedian (d. 1965) 1941 - Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union 1953 - Ian Mosley, British drummer (Marillion) 1969 - Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer 1970 - James "Munky" Shaffer, American guitarist (KoЯn) 1971 - Tupac Amaru Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper (d. 1996) Deaths 1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912) 1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956) 1990 - Megan Leigh, American porn star (suicide) (b. 1964) 1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (Hole) (b. 1967) 1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician(Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages) and politican (Monster Raving Loony Party) (Suicide) (b. 1940) Holidays and observances South Africa - Youth Day. Veterans day - Wales
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     Jun 17 1939 In Versailles, Eugene Weidmann becomes the last person to be publicly guillotined. Jun 17 1968 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy (I've got love in my tummy)" goes gold. Jun 17 1972 The "plumbers" break into Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate complex, in the course of what President Nixon will later describe as a "third rate burglary." In actuality, it is an attempt by the Republican Party to illegally wiretap the opposition. Jun 17 1974 The IRA explodes a bomb in Houses of Parliament. An hour before the explosion, the IRA calls to warn of the threat but officers fail to clear the building in time and 11 are killed. Jun 17 1994 O.J. Simpson fails to turn himself in to the LAPD at a prearranged time and is later spotted in a white Ford Bronco on a Los Angeles expressway. After a low-speed pursuit through the freeways and streets of Brentwood, O.J. is finally arrested live on television in the driveway of his mansion. According to one of the defense attorneys who served on O.J.'s "Dream Team," Simpson tried to kill himself in the car, but the gun misfired. The Juice allegedly told him: "I pulled the trigger and it didn't go off." 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia. 1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof 1579 - Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England. 1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her tomb, the Taj Mahal. 1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory. 1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - The Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory. 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. 1940 - World War II: Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation. 1940 - World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. 1940 - The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. 1944 - Iceland becomes independent from Denmark and forms a republic. 1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London. 1987 - With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct. 1991 - Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all South Africans at birth. 1992 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin Births 1239 - King Edward I of England (d. 1307) 1900 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945) 1962 - Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks) Deaths 2005 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962) Holidays and observances Iceland's national day, celebrating independence from Denmark in 1944.
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     Jun 18 1815 Napoleon is defeated in the Battle of Waterloo, partly because of an inability to properly survey the battlefield (due to a case of inflamed hemorrhoids). Jun 18 1900 The Empress Dowager of China orders all foreigners killed. Among those meeting this fate are the foreign diplomats, their families, as well as hundreds of Christian missionaries and their Chinese converts. Jun 18 1959 Based on his erratic behavior, the Governor of Louisiana, Earl K. Long, is committed to a state mental hospital. Long responds by arranging for the hospital's director to be fired, and the new director proclaims him perfectly sane. (It is no secret that the man was completely nuts.) Jun 18 1967 Famed guitarist Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival. Jun 18 1984 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-turner-diaries.jpg Jewish talk show host Alan Berg is gunned down in the driveway of his Denver home by members of The Order, a neo-Nazi group partially inspired by the novel The Turner Diaries. Jun 18 1996 Ted Kaczynski is indicted on ten criminal counts. He is suspected of being the Unabomber, who perpetrated 16 bomb attacks on people involved in technology. 1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision. 1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature. 1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War. 1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island. 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for a second and final time. 1858 - Charles Darwin receives from Alfred Russel Wallace a paper that included nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory. 1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon,mechanic). 1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle. (The appeal is the origin of the French Resistance to the German occupation.) 1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill. (Excerpt:- What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour.") 1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw American born (to an English mother and Irish father) Nazi propaganda broadcaster) is charged with treason. 1953 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished 1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. 1984 - Major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 miners' strike. Incident later known as the Battle of Orgreave. Births 1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles) 1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003) 1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter (Jem) Holidays and observances Seychelles - National Day. Autistic Pride Day
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     Jun 19 1312 Piers Gaveston, the disturbingly open homosexual lover of King Edward II of England, is beheaded after he attempted to return to Edward's side. For a time Gaveston was ward of the underage boy before the death of his father Edward I, to the great dismay of many important lords. After succession to king, Edward appointed Gaveston as Earl of Cornwall for no other reason than being the king's personal cornhole. Jun 19 1867 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-maximilian.jpg Emperor Maximilian of Mexico is executed by firing squad. Although he bribed the seven riflemen to not shoot him in the head, one did anyway. Jun 19 1934 The Federal Communications Commission, perhaps the most wicked body of do-gooders ever to exist in the United States, is created with the passage of the Communications Act of 1934. The FCC's ostensible purpose is to censor interesting broadcasts, silence dissenting political opinion and shelter Americans from dirty words and boobies. Jun 19 1953 Atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are electrocuted at Sing-Sing Prison, becoming the first civilians ever executed for espionage in American history. Five jolts of electricity were required to kill Ethel. Her husband Julius was on the Soviet payroll, according to recently released archives. It is not clear whether Ethel had any involvement or how much Julius actually assisted the Soviet atomic bomb effort. Jun 19 1964 San Francisco's Condor Club becomes the first topless bar in the United States when dancer Carol Doda steps onstage in a bottom-only swimsuit designed by Rudi Gernreich. Other San Francisco clubs follow suit just days later. Jun 19 1999 While taking a walk, horror author Stephen King is struck by a van piloted by a distracted Bryan Smith. King's extensive injuries (broken leg, broken hip, lacerated scalp and collapsed lung) remanded him to a hospital bed for three weeks. Smith would later die in his sleep on Stephen King's birthday. 1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. 1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. 1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case. 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth. 1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist. 1914 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States and German Emperor Wilhelm II and US President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event. 1944 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea takes place. 1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom. 1982 - In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped. 1987 - ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45. 2005 - The ill fated 2005 United States Grand Prix takes place with just six cars after those running Michelin tyres are withdrawn because of safety fears. Births 1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625) 1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author 1950 - Ann Wilson, American singer (Heart) 1960 - Luke Morley, British guitarist & songwriter (Thunder) 1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer 1970 - Brian Welch, American guitarist (ex-KoЯn) Deaths 1312 - Piers Gaveston, French favorite of Edward II of England 1937 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860) (Peter Pan) 1953 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1918) 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (executed) (b. 1915) Holidays and observances Juneteenth – celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation
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     Jun 20 1756 In Calcutta, 146 British prisoners are placed in a 18 foot by 14 foot cell known as The Black Hole by a Bengali, Siraj-ud-daula, and held there until the following morning. Of those imprisoned, only 23 survive. Jun 20 1782 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-great-seal-tren… Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. Although several people on the were Masons, the Masonic institutions themselves deny that the Seal is Masonic; therefore, any resemblance is purely coincidental. Of course. Jun 20 1893 Lizzie Borden is found innocent of giving her stepmother and father forty and forty-one whacks, respectively. Jun 20 1947 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-bugsy-toe-th.jpg Bugsy Siegel is shot to death at Virginia Hill's mansion, on orders from Meyer Lansky. Siegel gets it twice in the face, and his right eyeball ends up on the dining room floor. [We don't have a picture of the eyeball, but we do have his toe tag.] Jun 20 1993 Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel for President Clinton, apparently commits suicide with an unnumbered pistol at Fort Marcy Park in Virginia. Foster's empty briefcase later turns up at the White House. But after it is searched again, it is miraculously found to contain his suicide note. Jun 20 2001 Houston mommy Andrea Yates drowns her five children, one after another, in the bathtub then notifies the authorities. Yates is later sentenced to life in prison which is overturned. She was on medication for post-partum depression and had recently attempted suicide. 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter. 1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater 1819 - The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, but most of the journey was made under sail. 1837 - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 1963 - The so-called "red telephone" is established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels (9.14 teragrams) of wheat to Soviet Union. 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. Births 1942 - Brian Wilson, American musician; founder of The Beach Boys 1949 - Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores) 1954 - Michael Anthony, American musician (Van Halen) 1960 - John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran) 1973 - Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones) Deaths 1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765) 1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (b. 1906) Holidays and observances Day of The Royal Victorian Order. Zalu Diena - Ancient Latvia UNHCR - World Refugee Day. Flag Day in Argentina (1938). West Virginia – West Virginia Day
144. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive20 Jun 2007, 12:50
     Holy Shit, It's West Virginia Day! Grab Your Sister And Slap Her In The Face With Yer Weiner, It's A Party!!! Wooooo!!!
145. usoSalvaged from archive21 Jun 2007, 04:43
     Holy Shit, It's West Virginia Day! Grab Your Sister And Slap Her In The Face With Yer Weiner, It's A Party!!! Wooooo!!! consider it done!!!!! woo hooooo Wait, I'm not from West Virginia. Dammit :mad2:
146. Heero ValentineSalvaged from archive21 Jun 2007, 05:55
     consider it done!!!!! woo hooooo Wait, I'm not from West Virginia. Dammit :mad2: do u have a sister? and if u do...why would u slap her in the face with your weener :1orglaugh:
147. ImbalancedSalvaged from archive21 Jun 2007, 12:01
     consider it done!!!!! woo hooooo Wait, I'm not from West Virginia. Dammit :mad2: well in that case i'll slap your sister in the face with my weiner.
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     Jun 21 1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants who were labor activists, are hanged at Carbon County Prison in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Author and Judge John P. Lavelle of Carbon County said of this, "The Molly Maguire trials were a surrender of state sovereignty. A private corporation initiated the investigation through a private detective agency. A private police force arrested the alleged defenders, and private attorneys for the coal companies prosecuted them. The state provided only the courtroom and the gallows." Jun 21 1982 Using an innovative Jodie Foster defense, John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Nobody is impressed by this verdict. Jun 21 1989 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-flagburn.jpg The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson that flag burning is indeed protected speech under the Constitution, prompting Congress to put forth an endless series of amendments to ban the activity. Jun 21 2001 At the beginning of Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's speech to the Commonwealth Club of California, Francine Cavanaugh throws a pie at him. She is arrested by San Francisco police as Skilling begins his lecture entitled "The Roles and Responsibilities of the Energy Industry". 1665 - First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories. 1734 - In Montreal in New France (today primarily Quebec), a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, was tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand. 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill 1813 - Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria - The Marquess of Wellington's 78,000 British, Portuguese and Spanish troops, with 96 guns, defeated 58,000 French with 153 guns under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain. 1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812. 1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands. 1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends. 1887 - Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. 1898 - Guam becomes a U.S. territory. 1919 - Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War. 1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany. 1940 - First successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia. 1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces. 1942 - World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland. 1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends. 1964 - Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test, which now governs obscenity in U.S. law. 2001 - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. 2002 - The World Health Organization declares Europe polio free. 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially christened Nix & Hydra. Births 1732 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1791) 1941 - John O'Kea, Welsh rally driver 1944 - Ray Davies, English musician (The Kinks) 1947 - Joey Molland, English musician (Badfinger) 1950 - Joey Kramer, American drummer and percussionist (Aerosmith) 1970 - Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress 1976 - Mike Einziger, American musician (Incubus) 1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers) 1982 - Prince William of Wales, British prince 1984 - Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress Deaths 1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271) (Good King??:1orglaugh: ) 1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312) 2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916) Holidays and observances Summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere) and winter solstice (Southern Hemisphere) celebrations National Aboriginal Day - Canada (starting in 1996) Midsummer – Neopagan festival – Litha National Day of Greenland Fête de la Musique in France, Belgium and Switzerland. World Humanist Day Go Skateboard Day
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     Jun 22 1633 The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe: "I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith these errors and heresies, and I curse and detest them as well as any other error, heresy or sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church." Jun 22 1940 France surrenders; hilarity ensues. Adolf Hitler forces the instrument of surrender to be signed in the very railcar in which the French inflicted the humiliating World War I Treaty of Versailles upon the Germans. Jun 22 1941 The German Army invades Russia, quickly destroying five Russian armies and one fourth of the Red air force. At completion of the war in 1945, nearly 27 million Soviets were dead. Thus ended the German-Soviet "Peace and Friendship" Treaty. Jun 22 1969 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-garland.jpg Judy Garland dies of a barbiturate overdose in her London apartment, either by accident or suicide. Quote from Judy: "When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast." Jun 22 1993 Dr. Charles Epstein of Tiburon, CA is injured when he opens a padded manilla package containing a surprise gift from the Unabomber. Jun 22 2004 In a chance meeting between Vice-President Dick Cheney and Senator Patrick Leahy, the pair argue about Halliburton's no-bid Iraq contracts. The "frank exchange of views" ends, Cheney says this to Leahy: Fuck yourself! Cheney's spokesman does not deny the VP dropped the f-bomb. 1812 - Napoleonic Wars- Napoleon invades Russia. 1825 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. 1893 - The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon. 1898 - Spanish-American War: United States Marines land in Cuba. 1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII. 1940 - France forced to sign armistice with Nazi Germany. 1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II. 1941 - First anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe founded by Croatian partisans near Sisak, Croatia. 1941 - The Lithuanian 1941 independence begins 1941 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group. 1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre 1969 - The Cuyahoga River, Northeast Ohio, USA caught fire, which triggered a crack-down on pollution in the river.. 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment. 1978 - Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered. 1986 - Argentine footballer Diego Maradona scored both the Hand of God goal and the Goal of the Century against England during the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City. :1orglaugh: Births 1903 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934) 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, American singer 1961 - Jimmy Sommerville, Scottish singer (Bronski Beat, Communards) 1970 - Steven Page, Canadian singer (Barenaked Ladies) 1981 - Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist (Editors) Deaths 1969 - Judy Garland, American singer and actress (b. 1922) 1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899) 1994 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (b. 1903) Holidays and Observances Anti-fascist struggle day in Croatia School-teachers' Day in El Salvador. World Wide VW Beetle Day Bring your pet to work Day
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     Jun 23 1611 Believing there to be a secret stash of food hidden aboard ship, the mutinous crew of Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son, and seven loyal shipmates adrift in an open boat on the Atlantic Ocean. They are never heard from again. Jun 23 1968 A soccer stampede towards a closed exit leaves 74 crushed to death and 150 injured in Buenos Aires. Jun 23 1993 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-bobbitt.jpg In the middle of the night, Lorena Bobbitt severs her husband John's penis and drives off, casually discarding the organ in a farm field. Surgeons successfully reattach the penis, allowing John to enter the porn industry. The media devotes 1.3 million column-inches of type to the story as both Lorena and John gain celebrity status; consequently, their last name becomes a verb. Jun 23 1996 A story by Watergate reporter Bob Woodward in the Washington Post reveals to the world that First Lady Hillary Clinton employed psychic Jean Houston to help her get in touch with her inner "Eleanor Roosevelt." We elect freaks, people. Jun 23 1997 Malcolm X's widow, Dr. Betty Shabazz, dies after three agonizing weeks in the hospital with third-degree burns covering 80% of her body. The injuries were sustained when her 12-year-old grandson set fire to the family home in Yonkers, New York. 1314 - Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland. 1532 - Henry VIII & François I sign secret treaty against Emperor Charles V. 1661 - Marriage contract between Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal. 1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. 1713 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada. 1757 - Battle of Plassey - 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey. 1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany. 1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut - Austria beats Prussia. 1812 - War of 1812: Great Britain had revoked the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war. 1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president. 1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France. 1941 - Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later. 1942 - World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a trainload of Jews from Paris. 1942 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands in Wales. 1943 - World War II: The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser Newfoundland. 1945 - The Imperial Japanese armed forces ended organized resistance to the U.S. armed forces in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island of Okinawa. 1972 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins. 1972 - 45 countries leave the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound. 1973 - A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale. 1990 - Moldavia declares independence. Births 1894 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (d. 1972) 1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe, first bassist with The Beatles (d. 1962) 1941 - Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead) 1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig) 1955 - Jordan, (Pamela Rooke) British actress and model 1963 - Steve Shelley, American musician (Crucifucks and Sonic Youth) 1965 - Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis) 1975 - K.T. Tunstall, Scottish singer and songwriter Deaths 1989 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (b. 1903) 2006 - Harriet, a 175 year old tortoise (b. 1830) Holidays and observances Midsummer's Eve, Christianized the eve of the feast of Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated in much of Northern Europe and the British Islands Victory Day - Estonia Father's Day - Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda Grand Duke's Official Birthday - Luxembourg
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     Jun 24 1374 In a sudden outbreak of Dancing Mania (aka "St. John's Dance"), people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia experience terrible hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. Many of the sufferers are afflicted with frothing at the mouth, diabolical screaming, and sexual frenzy. The phenomenon lasts well into the month of July. Nowadays, ergot madness is suspected as being the ultimate cause of the disorder. Jun 24 1947 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-arnold-wing.jpg Businessman pilot Kenneth Arnold encounters a formation of nine flying saucers near Mt. Ranier, Washington, exhibiting unusual movements and velocities of 1,700 mph. No explanation is found for this first report of flying saucers in the recent era, but it does earn Mr. Arnold legions of skeptics and an eventual IRS tax audit. Jun 24 1948 East Germany blockades the city of West Berlin making overland travel between the West and West Berlin impossible Jun 24 1957 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, though a dissenting opinion included with the ruling notes the issue of prior restraint renders this a terrible decision. Jun 24 1993 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter opens a padded envelope in his office when it suddenly explodes. Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand. In this condition he manages to walk down five flights of stairs and over to the university hospital a block away. It is the handiwork of the Unabomber. Jun 24 2004 Rapper DMX is arrested at New York's JFK Airport after he and a partner were trying to steal a car. While attempting to flee, DMX plows his SUV into a security gate while claiming to be an undercover federal agent. He later pleads guilty, blames Valium and receives jail time. 1314 - End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence. 1340 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys The French fleet was almost totally destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England. 1441 - Eton College founded. 1497 - John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European exploration of the region since the Vikings. 1497 - Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London 1509 - Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crowned King and Queen of England. 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java). 1662 - Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau. 1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded. 1692 - Kingston, Jamaica is founded. 1717 - The Grand Lodge of England, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England. 1813 - Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army. 1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. 1894 - The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years. 1902 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. 1916 - Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line. 1918 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. 1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand). 1940 - France and Italy sign an armistice. 1945 - Moscow Victory Parade 1963 - Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK. 1981 - What would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge opens, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. 1982 - British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. 1983 - Yasir Arafat banned from Damascus 2004 - In New York, Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional. Births 1850 -(Lord) Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British field marshal (d. 1916) 1914 - Pearl Witherington CBE, British WW II secret agent 1944 - Jeff Beck, English musician (The Yardbirds) 1944 - Arthur Brown, English musician (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown) 1944 - John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point) 1944 - Chris Wood, English musician (d. 1983) (Traffic) 1945 - Colin Blunstone, English musician (The Zombies) 1947 - Mick Fleetwood, English musician (Fleetwood Mac) 1948 - Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes) 1949 - John Illsley, English bassist (Dire Straits) 1961 - Curt Smith, English musician and songwriter (Tears for Fears) 1966 - Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter (Mazzy Star) 1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German guitarist (Rammstein)
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     Deaths 1803 - Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714) 1817 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734) 1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (b. 1837) 1968 - Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924) Holidays and observances Fête nationale du Québec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day Original Midsummer's Eve in Finland and Sweden, although the official holiday is now moved to the nearest Friday One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar. Discovery Day in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497 discovery by John Cabot) Inti Raymi in Cusco Dan Državnosti in Croatia- Independence Day in 1991, independence from Yugoslavia. Jāņi - Latvia Juhannuspaiva in Finland Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821) Bannockburn Day in Scotland (see 1314 above) Quarter days in England American Radio Relay League - Field Day 2006
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     Jun 25 1876 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-custer.jpg During the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer witnesses a large group of Indians fleeing their village, and decides to press his advantage. The cavalry officer shouts, "We've caught them napping, boys!" Then he splits his force of 210 men into three groups, in order to slaughter as many of the retreating noncombatants as possible. Which is right about the time Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse sweep in and kill the white men. Two days later, Custer's body is found amidst a cluster of 42 other corpses, the general entirely naked except for one boot, one sock, and an arrow stuck in his penis. Jun 25 1910 The Mann Act, sometimes known as the White Slave Traffic Act of 1910, makes it a federal crime to convey or assist in transporting women across state lines for prostitution, debauchery, or "any other immoral purpose." Men convicted of this heinous (if vague) statute face up to five years and a $5,000 fine for each count. Penalties are doubled if the female is underage, but men and boys are apparently not covered. 1905 - Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond known, is discovered by Frederick Wells. 1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland. 1940 - France formally surrenders to Nazi Germany. 1944 - The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries begins. (June 25 to July 9, 1944) part of the Continuation War (1941-1944) between Finland and the Soviet Union that occurred during World War II. 1947- The Diary of Anne Frank is published. 1948 - The Berlin Airlift begins. 1950 - The beginning of the Korean War, with the invasion of the South by the North. 1981 - Microsoft Inc. is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. 1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military. 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. 1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia. Births 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979) 1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950) 1945 - Carly Simon, American singer 1946 - Ian McDonald, musician (King Crimson and Foreigner) 1954 - David Paich, composer (Toto) 1963 - George Michael, British singer 1969 - Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist) 1974 - Jim LaMarca, American bassplayer (Chimaira) Deaths 1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839) 1876 - Thomas Custer, Brother of George A. Custer & 2-time Medal of Honor winner (b. 1845) 1876 - Boston Custer, Brother of George A. Custer (b. 1848) 1876 - James C. Calhoun, Brother-in-Law of George Armstrong Custer & U.S. Soldier (b. 1845) 1876 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier & Irish Soldier of Fortune (b. 1840) 1959 - Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938) 1985 - Morris Mason, American rapist, arsonist & murderer (b. 1954) (Electric chair) 1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers (b. 1962) (Heroin overdose) 1990 - Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer (Lethal injection) Holidays and Observances Statehood Day - Slovenia and Croatia National Catfish Day - U.S.A Mozambique – Independence Day (1975)
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     Jun 26 1945 The United Nations Charter is signed at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House, paving the world for the New World Order. Aim for the blue helmets, everyone! Jun 26 1961 John F. Kennedy tells the German nation and pastry lovers everywhere "Ich bin ein Berliner"; whether or not he is, in fact, a jelly donut remains a matter of speculation to this day. Jun 26 1968 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-saint-peter.jpg Pope Paul VI declares that the bones of Apostle and first Pope, Saint Peter, were found underneath St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The bones are now housed in plexiglass containers near where they were found, but some of them are clearly those of domesticated animals. Jun 26 1990 Irish Republican Army bombs the Carlton Club, an exclusive conservative gentleman's cabal in London. (It is a well known fact that Margaret Thatcher was denoted an "honorary man" in order to become a member. It is not clear what surgical modifications, if any, were necessary.) Jun 26 1992 Secretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett resigns over the handling of the Tailhook Scandal, in which 26 women were sexually abused. Some of the women, including 14 Navy officers, had been forced to run through a "gauntlet" where they were groped by Navy personnel. 1483 - Richard III becomes king of England. 1819 - The bicycle is patented. 1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. 1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. 1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. 1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. 1934 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. 1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina. 1960 - Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence 1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute. 1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait. 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. Births 1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978) 1914 - Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997) 1921 - Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945) 1923 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955) 1955 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite) 1956 - Chris Isaak, American singer 1957 - Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal) 1969 - Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead) 1976 - Joe Landon, American pornographic actor Deaths 1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered) 1784 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728) 1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor of the hot air balloon (b. 1740) 1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760) 1946 - Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895) 2003 - Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915) Holidays and observances International Day in Support of Torture Victims International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Madagascar: Independence Day Romania: Flag Day Thailand: Sunthorn Phu Day Somaliland: Independence Day
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     Jun 27 1844 Mormon leader Joseph Smith, along with his brother Hyrum, are shot and killed by a mob while in jail at Carthage, Illinois. According to church legend, after Smith is shot a man raises a knife to decapitate him, but is thwarted by a thunderbolt from heaven. Jun 27 1995 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jun/rh-hugh-grant.jpg The LAPD arrests streetwalker Divine Brown on Hawthorn Ave. where she is discovered giving British movie star Hugh Grant a blowjob in his white BMW. To be fair, they also arrest Grant for procuring said blowjob. Jun 27 2001 Police arrest comedian Paula Poundstone in Malibu, California on charges of lewd conduct with a minor. Poundstone's pending criminal trial remains front page news for the next three months, until it is overshadowed by the World Trade Center attacks in September. Soon thereafter, she pleads guilty to a lesser charge, and the details of her indictment are never disclosed to the public. 1542 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain. 1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally led troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field. 1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec. 1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires. 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. 1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. 1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. 1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London. 1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York City. 1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R.. 1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti. 1979 - Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing. 1985 - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway. 1986 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States. 1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War. 2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations. Births 1880 - Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968) 1942 - Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys) Deaths 1917 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896) 1920 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadien lyricist (O Canada) (b. 1839) 2002 - John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944) 2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969) ( fentanyl O.D.) 2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959) (Lethal injection) Holidays and observances National HIV Testing Day in United States National Veterans' Day in the United Kingdom
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     Jun 28 1905 Dr. Beaurieux picks up the freshly-severed head of Henri Languille just after it drops into the guillotine basket and shouts the man's name three times. According to the doctor's report: "Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. ... I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me." Jun 28 1914 During a parade in Sarajevo, Nedjelko Cabrinovic tosses a grenade into the automobile carrying Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sofia. But Ferdinand knocks the bomb away with his arm and his driver speeds away from the would-be assassin. A short while later, during the return drive, Gavrilo Princip pulls out an automatic pistol and kills both Ferdinand and his pregnant wife. Five weeks later, the continent of Europe erupts into World War I. Jun 28 1997 Mike Tyson is disqualified from a championship boxing bout after biting off a large portion of Evander Holyfield's ear. Tyson is later banned from boxing and fined $3 million for the incident. Tastes like chicken. 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. 1776 - Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and Life Guard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition. 1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. 1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom. 1859 - First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. 1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan. 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side. 1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. 1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea. 1960 - Cuba confiscates and nationalizes U.S.-owned oil refineries. 1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity. 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem. 1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time. 1976 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. 2001 - U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to breakup Microsoft in an antitrust case. 2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. 2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 2005 - Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. 2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled. Births 1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547) 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640) 1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker 1945 - David Knights, English bass guitarist (Procul Harum) 1977 - Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers) Deaths 1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751) 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863) 1971 - Franz Stangl, commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908) 1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956) 2006 - George Unwin, British fighter ace WWII (b. 1913)
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     Jun 29 1967 Actress Jayne Mansfield is decapitated in a car crash, when her convertible collides with a parked tractor-trailer. To downplay the gruesome death, sources spread the falsehood that only her wig flew off in the accident. Jun 29 1971 When Soyuz 11 disengages from the Salyut space station, cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are killed by a faulty pressurization valve. All the oxygen leaks out of the Soyuz cabin before Patsayev can close the valve by hand, and the crew is asphyxiated. Jun 29 1978 The body of Bob Crane is discovered in bed with an electric cord wrapped around his neck and his head smashed in. When Scottsdale police search the apartment belonging to the former star of television's Hogan's Heroes, they discover a video camera and a large library of amateur porn starring Crane and a parade of random women. Jun 29 1989 Under the headline "Homosexual Prostitution Probe Ensnares Official of Bush, Reagan" the Washington Times reports that "a homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close ties to Washington's political elite." The story alleges that homosexual call boys had been given tours of the White House, under the aegis of Republican Craig Spence. Spence's body is later found at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, an apparent suicide. Jun 29 1992 Mohammed Boudiaf is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards less than six months after becoming President of Algeria. A former hero in the war of independence, Boudiaf had been chosen by the Islamic Salvation Front to serve as figurehead for their regime. More than 100,000 Algerians will later die in political bloodshed in the following decade. 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island. 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground. 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising. 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes." 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England. 1976 - The Seychelles becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 2002 - Naval clashes between North Korea and South Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel Births 1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple) 1953 - Colin Hay, Scottish/Australian guitarist and singer (men at work) 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist (Bad Religion/The Circle Jerks) 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician (Murderdolls/Static-X) 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American adult actress 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano 1982 - Andrea Butjko, Hungarian porn star Deaths 69 - Saint Peter, Apostle and 1st Bishop of Rome Holidays and observances Seychelles - Independence Day. The Netherlands - Veterans Day. Malta - l-Imnarja
158. JegarSalvaged from archive29 Jun 2007, 21:03
     I see you got a shitload of time there cymru? Well, better than smoking i guess :p
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     Jun 30 1520 After looting Tenochtitlan, Spaniards are attacked by an angry Aztec mob. Tied down by armor and treasure, they are no match for the natives and nearly half of Cortes' men lose their lives. Jun 30 1837 England outlaws the use of the pillory. Too bad. Jun 30 1882 Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, is hanged. Tickets for the event went for as much as $300. Jun 30 1908 A huge airburst explodes over Podkamennaya Tunguska at 7:30 am. The blast flattens thousands of square miles of trees, and is now believed to have been caused by an asteroid or comet impact. Jun 30 1934 Acting on behalf of the Fuhrer, SS troops around Germany arrest hundreds of loyal SA stormtroopers under the charge of treason in order to eliminate the group. One squad descends on a Bavarian resort, where it interrupts a contingent of SA men engaged in homosexual festivities. Lieutenant Edmund Heines is caught in bed with a teenage boy, and shot to death on the spot. The rest are taken into custody. The event will come to be known as The Night of the Long Knives. Jun 30 1999 Two members of the Old Order Amish, Abner Stoltzfus and Abner Stoltzfus, are sentenced to one year in prison for trafficking cocaine to other Amish folk in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The men had scored their drugs from a Philadelphia motorcycle gang. 1688 - The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution. 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation." 1882 - Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield. 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity. 1944 - The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. 1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium. 1990 - East and West Germany merge their economies. 1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. 1997 - The first book in the award winning Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is published. 1997 - The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. 2005 - Spain legalizes same-sex marriage. Births 1892 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951) 1953 - Hal Lindes, British-American musician (Dire Straits) 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist 1982 - Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu) 1982 - Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand) Deaths 1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644) 1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665) 1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660) Holidays and observances Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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     Jul 1 Feast of the Most Precious Blood, celebrating the blood shed during Christ's Passion and reassumed into His body at Resurrection. Yum! Jul 1 1945 The date proposed by Churchill for the start of WWIII, where U.S. and British forces were to meet Russian forces in Poland with a two pronged attack, using 47 divisions. It would have been a terrible mistake to attempt what both Napoleon and Adolf Hitler failed to accomplish. Jul 1 1946 Atomic Bomb testing begins, using the Nagasaki-type implosion bomb, at Bikini Atoll. Jul 1 1951 Mary Reeser spontaneously combusts in St. Petersburg, Florida, after taking a couple of sleeping pills and settling down with a lit cigarette. Jul 1 1991 Michael Landon, star of I Was a Teenage Werewolf, dies of pancreatic cancer just three months after its initial diagnosis. Jul 1 1993 Gian Luigi Ferri steps into the San Francisco law offices of Pettit & Martin at 101 California Street with two full-auto TEC-DC9s and a .45 semiauto pistol. In the span of four minutes, Ferri kills 8 and wounds 6 others before blowing his brains out. Almost as quickly, the victims' families file suit against Intratec, the manufacturer of the TEC-9, as well as the owner of the Las Vegas pawn shop where he bought one of them. Jul 1 1996 The body of Margeaux Hemingway is found in her Santa Monica, California apartment after the actress apparently overdosed on Phenobarbital. 1520 - La Noche Triste: Joint Mexican Indian force led by Aztecs under Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés. 1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society. 1867 - The British North America Act, 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister. 1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence. 1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. 1881 - World's first international telephone call takes place between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. 1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect. 1916 - First day of the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded. 1921 - Communist Party of China was founded. 1933 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. 1942 - World War II: First Battle of El Alamein. 1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture and was dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.) 1960 - Independence of Somalia. From Britain (26th june) and Italy (1st July) 1962 - Independence of Rwanda. From Belgium 1962 - Independence of Burundi. From Belgium 1963 - ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail. 1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. 1963 - The Beatles release She Loves You as a single in the United Kingdom. 1967 - The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission. 1967 - Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867. 1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established. 1968 - The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland. 1972 - First Gay Pride march in England 1976 - Portugal granted autonomy to Madeira. 1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman. 1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. 1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel. 1990 - East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany. 1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. 1997 - The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. 1999 - The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. 2000 - The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic. 2002 - The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. 2003 - In Hong Kong, 500,000 people march to protest a new anti-subversion law. 2004 - In Hong Kong, 530,000 people march to urge a faster pace of democratisation and universal suffrage. Births 1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932) 1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie) 1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer 1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's) 1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997) 1963 - Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More and Imperial Teen) 1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model Deaths 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730) 2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924) 2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951) Holidays and observances Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day) - national holiday of Canada. Moving Day in the province of Québec Memorial Day in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day. Surinam Keti Koti (Breaking of Chains) Day of Liberty; On July 1, 1863 slavery was abolished.
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     Jul 2 1881 President James A. Garfield is shot in a train station by Charles Julius Guiteau, a lunatic trying to become ambassador either to Austria or France. Garfield lingers for three months before finally dying. Jul 2 1937 Attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe in an airplane, Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific with her navigator, Fred Noonan. Jul 2 1942 On page six, the New York Times reports Germany's mass extermination of 700,000 Jews, by use of poison gas. Jul 2 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot witness a "large glowing object" zoom across the sky at 400 or 500 miles per hour. The next day, Mac Brazel discovers the wreckage of a flying saucer -- not fragments of an experimental balloon composed of neoprene -- on a remote pasture outside Roswell, New Mexico. Jul 2 1961 In the tile-covered foyer of his home in Ketchum, Idaho, novelist Ernest Hemingway commits suicide with his favorite shotgun. When the body was later found, "only his chin, mouth, and vestigial scraps of his cheeks were still connected to his body." Jul 2 1982 UC Berkeley electrical engineering professor Diogenes Angelakos picks up an unattended package in Cory Hall. The pipe bomb hidden inside the parcel explodes, shredding the man's right hand. Coincidentally, Angelakos is present three years later, when the Unabomber claims a second victim in the computer science department, John Hauser. Jul 2 1982 Vietnam vet Larry Walters climbs aboard an aluminum lawn chair in Southern California, equipped with 42 weather balloons, a CB radio, a parachute, and a pellet gun. During his two-hour voyage from San Pedro to Long Beach, Walters reaches an altitude of 16,000 feet and eventually becomes tangled in some power lines. Walters survives, but receives a $1,500 fine from the FAA. Jul 2 1990 In Mecca, 1,426 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated and/or crushed to death when panic erupts in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel. Saudi Arabia opts to bury the victims in a mass grave. Jul 2 1994 Colombian soccer star Andres Escobar is shot twelve times outside a bar in Bogota, and dies on the spot. Only ten days prior, Escobar had inadvertently scored a goal for the American team in the 1994 World Cup playoffs, resulting in a first-round elimination for Colombia. Jul 2 1997 The Russian minister of Justice, Valentin Kovalyov, is fired after grainy black-and-white photos of him appear in the tabloid Sovershenno Sekretno. The government official had been secretly filmed in a nightclub sauna with a bevy of young women. No one was wearing clothes. Jul 2 1998 The eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which has burned continuously since 1921 to commemorate the dead of World War I, is extinguished by an intoxicated soccer fan with his beer-enriched urine. Mexican national Rodrigo Rafael Ortega is arrested and charged with public drunkenness and offending the dead. Jul 2 1999 Former U.S. Treasury undersecretary Ron Noble, the man who oversaw his department's inquiry into the Waco siege, is chosen to lead Interpol. 1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island. 1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall. 1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor. 1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a public Declaration of Independence is not formally printed for the masses until July 4. 1776 - John Hancock signs Declaration of Independence 1777 - Vermont becomes the first American state to abolish slavery. 1823 - "Bahia Independence Day" - the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the diehard Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia. 1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad. 1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane. 1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War. 1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. 1941 - Nazi massacre of Jews in Lutsk, Ukraine. Jewish men were summoned for work, about 2000 of them were taken to the Lubart Fortress and murdered. German soldiers from rearguard units stationed in the city participated in the murder. 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places. 1966 - The French military explode their nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. 1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience break up. 1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 1983 - The Police release their final album, "Synchronicity", which would eventually spend 17 weeks at #1 on the U.S. album chart 1998 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was released to the public as the second installment to the Harry Potter book series. 2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created. 2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. 2005 - Ten Live 8 concerts are held around the world in an attempt to force G8 countries to address poverty. Births 1893 - Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950) 1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995) 1917 - Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973) 1949 - Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band) 1953 - Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp) 1954 - Pete Briquette, English musician (Boomtown Rats) Deaths 1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer, the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans rather than the British. 1850 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788) 1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
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     Jul 3 1905 Russian troops kill 6,000 in Odessa to break a general strike. Jul 3 1963 Two former secretaries of the Nation of Islam file paternity suits against the head of their church, the honorable Elijah Muhammad. They claimed the prophet had fathered their four children. The allegations eventually cause Malcolm X to quit the NOI. Jul 3 1971 Jim Morrison is found dead of an apparent heart attack in his Paris apartment bathtub. That's what he wants us to think, anyway. Jul 3 1987 Vladimir Nikolayev is sentenced to death for killing and eating two people in Novocheboksary, Chuvashia. When police arrested Nikolayev the previous year, they found human meat roasting on the stove, more in the oven, and body parts stashed on his balcony packed in snow. Jul 3 1988 Mistaking it for a F-14 fighter plane, the American warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air flight 655, killing all 290 people aboard. Despite his country's having recklessly downed a passenger airliner while operating inside Iran's territorial waters, Vice President George Bush declares a month later: "I will never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are." Jul 3 1989 Television actor Jim Backus, known to millions as Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's island, dies in Los Angeles of Parkinson's disease. 1754 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. 1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. 1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in the Wyoming Valley massacre. 1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria. 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed. 1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands). 1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average. 1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Army in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War. 1928 - First color television broadcast in London. 1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 203 km/h (126 mph). 1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan. 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. 1986 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. Births 1959 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt) 1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure) 1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies) Deaths 1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) 1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942) 1971 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
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     Jul 4 1054 A supernova suddenly appears in the constellation Taurus. It is so bright that for the first 23 days it is visible during the day. Then it gradually fades away, finally disappearing after a year or so. Today the remnants of this star are the Crab Nebula. Jul 4 1826 A comatose Thomas Jefferson dies on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, only a few hours before John Adams also expires. Jul 4 1961 In the North Atlantic, a leaky pipe drains all of the coolant from the starboard reactor aboard the Soviet submarine K-19. 22 sailors are killed in the resulting nuclear accident. Jul 4 1976 After receiving an especially bloody beating at the hands of her husband Ike, Tina Turner sneaks out of the Dallas hotel they're staying at while he is asleep. She walks away from their 16-year relationship with only 36 cents in her pocket. Jul 4 1984 For the first time, Nancy Reagan utters the immortal words: "Just say no." Jul 4 1987 A court in Lyon, France convicts Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, for the deportation of Jews, torture of resistance fighters, and crimes against humanity during World War II. Barbie spends the rest of his life in prison. 1712 - 11 slaves are executed in New York for starting an uprising that killed 9 Caucasians 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress approves a Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. (The Lee Resolution of Independence had been passed on July 2nd.) 1802 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens. 1827 - Slavery is abolished in New York State. 1837 - Grand Junction Railway, world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. 1840 - The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end. 1862 - Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. 1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published. 1910 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States. 1918 - Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family 1934 - Joe Louis wins his first professional boxing match. 1934 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. 1941 - Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in captured Polish city of Lwów. 1946 - After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines is granted full independence by the United States. 1947 - "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries - India and Pakistan. 1950 - First broadcast by Radio Free Europe. 1976 - The United States celebrates its bicentennial. 1992 - USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy is commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia. 1997 - NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. 2004 - The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. 2005 - The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. 2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The latter reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan. Births 1790 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1866) 1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d. 1882) 1872 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933) 1916 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American thought to be Tokyo Rose in World War II (d. 2006) 1938 - Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter 1943 - Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (d. 1970) 1958 - Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician (INXS) 1963 - Matt Malley, American musician (Counting Crows) 1964 - Mark Slaughter, American singer (Slaughter) 1971 - Andy Creeggan, Former Barenaked Lady Deaths 1826 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735) 1826 - Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743) 1831 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758) 1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922) 2003 - Barry White, American singer (b. 1944) Holidays and observances United States - Independence Day (1776) Filipino-American Friendship Day
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     Jul 5 1946 Louis Reard's latest swimsuit creation, the two-piece Bikini, goes on sale in Paris. Jul 5 1948 The body of 29-year-old actress Carole Landis is discovered in her home in Brentwood Heights, California. Landis, whose film career had recently stalled, overdosed on Seconal and left behind a suicide note addressed to her mother. Jul 5 1963 The Catholic Church finally sanctions cremation as an acceptable means of remains disposal. (Code of Canon Law, Can. 1176) Jul 5 1984 In deciding United States v. Leon, the Supreme Court permits "good faith" exceptions the exclusionary rule. Illegal evidence is now admissible if obtained by the police in "good faith." Justice William Brennan writes, "The Court's victory over the Fourth Amendment is complete." 1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. 1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1775 - US Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. 1811 - Venezuela declares independence from Spain. 1813 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin. 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Chippewa - American Major General Jacob Brown defeats British General Phineas Riall at Chippewa, Ontario. 1830 - France invades Algeria. 1833 - Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent. 1865 - The world's first maximum speed law is enacted in England. 1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England. 1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon. 1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation. 1937 - Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45 °C. 1940 - World War II: The United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations. 1941 - World War II: German troops reach the Dniepr River. 1943 - World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943). 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared. 1948 - British National Health Service Act enacted. 1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American and North Korean forces. 1950 - Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel. 1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. Widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll. 1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin. 1962 - Algeria becomes independent from France. 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. 1975 - Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal. 2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by WHO. Births 1874 - Eugen Fischer, Nazi physician (d. 1967) (one of those responsible for the Nazi German scientific theories of racial hygiene) 1950 - Huey Lewis, American musician 1950 - Michael Monarch, American guitarist (Steppenwolf) 1972 - Letha Weapons, US porn actress 1973 - Róisín Murphy, Irish musician (Moloko) 1996 - Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (d. 2003) Holidays and observances Venezuela: Independence Day (1811). Algeria: Independence Day (1962). Cape Verde: Independence Day (1975). Armenia: Constitution Day (1995) Isle of Man: Tynwald Day (1266). United States: Bloody Thursday,
165. Haseknumber39Salvaged from archive5 Jul 2007, 13:57
     Happy B'Day Letha Weapons
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     Jul 6 1415 Jan Hus is burned at the stake for various heresies by the Council of Constance. Among other things, Hus had incited the citizens of Prague to protest against antipope John XXIII and his policy of granting indulgences. Jul 6 1535 Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England , is sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason after refusing to agree to Henry VIII decision to separate the English church from the Roman Catholic church.. King Henry takes pity on him and changes the sentence to beheading. Said head is hung on display from London Bridge before being rescued by his daughter a month later. Jul 6 1944 Fire breaks out at a matinee performance of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Baily Circus burning 168 people to death, and injuring an additional 250. The main tent had been waterproofed with wax thinned by gasoline. Said one of the Flying Wallendas, "I can never look down at a crowd again without smelling the flames and the burning flesh." Jul 6 1945 The Joint Chiefs of Staff approve Operation OVERCAST, intended to "exploit ... chosen rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use." The directive authorizes the immigration of up to 350 German and Austrian specialists, primarily experts in rocketry. Operation OVERCAST is later renamed Project PAPERCLIP. Jul 6 1988 The Piper Alpha oil platform catches fire, explodes killing 167 men. The workers were faced with the choice of choking on smoke, being burned to death or leaping 150 feet into 57-degree water. The world's worst offshore oil disaster. 1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England. 1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ticonderoga: Due to a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York. 1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States. 1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French navy defeats 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. 1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. 1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. 1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt. 1919 - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship. 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. 1957 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so. 1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles meet for the first time at the Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, Liverpool. 1964 - Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom. 1978 - Yana Mintoff hurled horse manure onto the floor of the British House of Commons. 1983 - Tony Blair gives his maiden speech in the British Parliament. 1999 - US Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams. 2005 - Bob Geldof and Bono meet with the G8 in Gleneagles to discuss increasing aid to Africa. Afterwards, both make appearances at the Edinburgh 50,000 concert, a last concert in the Live 8 series. 2005 - The International Olympic Committee announced that London will host the 2012 Summer Olympics 2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years Births 1907 - George Stanley, Canadian Politian and designer of Canada's Flag (d. 2002) 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor 1978 - Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player 1984 - Lauren Harris, British rock singer (Daughter of Iron Maidens Steve Harris) Deaths 1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133) 1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198) 1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537) 1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728) 1960 - Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician & founder of the National Health Service (b. 1897) 1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901) Holidays and observances Czech Republic - Jan Hus Day (1415). Lithuania - Statehood Day. Malawi - Independence Day (1964). Malawi - Republic Day (1966).
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     Jul 7 1348 The Black Death makes its first appearance in England. Jul 7 1665 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jul/rh-bill-of-mortali… King Charles II and his entourage flee London, a city suffering the ravages of the black plague. At this point, about 2,000 Londoners are dying weekly. Jul 7 1942 Himmler gives the go-ahead for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz. Jul 7 1970 46 people are shot dead in the downtown area during a five-day race riot in Asbury Park, New Jersey. 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick. 1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg. 1668 - Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge. 1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.' 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California. 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100 1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged. 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. 1915 - World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo. 1917 - Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II. 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China. 1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany. 1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. 1947 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident. 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law. 1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government. 1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom. 1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran. 1980 - Last concert by rock band Led Zeppelin. 1994 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen. 2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader. 2005 - A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers. 2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010. Births 1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles) 1981 - Synyster Gates, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) Deaths 1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239) 1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965) (Raped and murdered) 2006 - Syd Barrett, British musician, co-founder and former member of Pink Floyd (b. 1946) Holidays, Feasts, and Observances Tanzania: Saba Saba Day Japan: Tanabata
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     Jul 8 1932 Tod Browning's groundbreaking horror movie Freaks, featuring genuine carnival sideshow performers, premieres at the Rialto theater in New York. The film opens to critical outrage, and is later banned by the British government for 30 years. Jul 8 1976 Former President Richard M. Nixon is disbarred by the New York Bar Association. Nixon attempted to resign voluntarily, as he had from the California and U.S. Supreme Court bars, but New York refused to accept his resignation unless he acknowledged that he had obstructed justice during the Watergate coverup. Jul 8 1987 Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Governor Michael Dukakis, reveals that she was formerly addicted to amphetamines. Kitty waits until after the November election to acknowledge her raging alcoholism, however. Jul 8 1997 Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, publicly apologizes to his children's babysitter, with whom he had a five year relationship starting when she was age 14. The local district attorney declines to press charges, but Kennedy winds up dead in an apparent skiing accident five months later. 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them. 1663 - Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island. 1758 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York. 1760 - French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche - British defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France. 1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress. 1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. 1889 - At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds. :eek7: 1982 - Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. 1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999. 1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida. Births 1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917) 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (d. 1937) 1961 - Andrew Fletcher, English musician (Depeche Mode) 1970 - Beck, American singer 1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress 1985 - Jamie Cook, Guitarist for Arctic Monkeys Deaths 975 - King Edgar of England
169. Haseknumber39Salvaged from archive8 Jul 2007, 15:25
     BTW you may want to include "2007 - Haseknumber39 Reaches 1000 Posts"
170. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive9 Jul 2007, 12:32
     BTW you may want to include "2007 - Haseknumber39 has a 1 inch Penis" :eek7: ok then:eek7:
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     Jul 9 1952 Musical genius and all-around renaissance man John Tesh is born in Garden City, New York. Jul 9 1980 Seven faithful are trampled in a stampede during a papal visit to Brazil by Pope John Paul II. Way to go! Jul 9 1982 Michael Fagan, dressed in jeans and a dirty t-shirt, and bleeding from a fresh cut on his hand, walks into the private bedroom of Queen Elizabeth II while she is asleep and her personal guard out walking her dogs. Fagan had scaled the wall surrounding Buckingham Palace and gained entry without triggering any alarms. The two carry on a 12-minute conversation, while the intruder holds a jagged broken ashtray, before somebody finally apprehends him. Jul 9 1986 After spending one year and half a million dollars, the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography releases their two-volume, 1960-page final report. In contrast to the 1970 Presidential Commission on Pornography, the report finds that porn causes violent sex crimes and other antisocial activities. Afterwards, one impartial commission member admits: "I, for one, have no hesitation in condemning nearly every specimen of pornography that we have examined in the course of our deliberations as tasteless, offensive, lewd and indecent. According to my values, these materials are themselves immoral, and to the extent that they encourage immoral behavior they exert a corrupting influence on the family and the moral fabric of society." Jul 9 1995 Disgruntled postal worker William Clark kills his supervisor, in the City of Industry, California. Jul 9 1997 Mike Tyson banned from boxing for one year, and fined $3M for biting Evander Holyfield's ear off in a mysterious cajun ritual. Jul 9 1997 Attempting to spring him from the Arizona state prison at Florence, Rebecca Thornton meets her husband Floyd at the perimeter fence with a rifle. There the escape plan goes haywire, and Rebecca shoots her death-row husband after he instructs her: "Shoot me! I'm sorry things went wrong. Shoot me! Shoot me!" Then they are both gunned down by the guards. 1540 - Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. 1755 - French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces. 1793 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited. 1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire. 1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain. 1846 - By an Act of Congress, the Washington, DC area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia. 1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States. 1867 - An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young set out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish Missionary and explorer). 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law. 1900 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government. 1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. 1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - Americans take Saipan. 1979 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility. 1991 - South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion. 1995 - Musical group The Grateful Dead perform the last concert of their 30-year career at Soldier Field, Chicago. Births 1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908) 1916 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005) 1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, 13th & 21st United States Secretary of Defense 1946 - Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC) (d. 1980) 1947 - O.J. Simpson, American football player, actor & alleged murderer 1956 - Marc Almond, British singer 1959 - Jim Kerr, Scottish singer (Simple Minds) 1964 - Courtney Love, American musician 1965 - Frank Bello, American musician (Anthrax) 1975 - Jack White, American musician (The White Stripes) Deaths 1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784) 1967 - Eugen Fischer, Nazi physician (b. 1874) 1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911) 2006 - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948) Holidays and observances Argentina - Independence Day. Palau - Constitution Day.
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     Jul 10 1856 Inventor and electromechanical genius Nikola Tesla is born to Serbian parents in what is now Croatia. Jul 10 1923 Hailstones as heavy as two pounds kill 23 people in Rostov, Russia. Jul 10 1972 A herd of angry, startled elephants emerges from India's Chandka Forest, and tramples five villages, killing 24 inhabitants. Jul 10 1984 British customs officials in London open a large wooden crate marked "diplomatic baggage" because of its extremely odd odor. Inside they discover Alhaji Umaru Dikko, Nigeria's former Minister of Transport and Aviation. He had been abducted, drugged, and bound for Nigeria to face trial for embezzlement. Jul 10 1985 Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is blown up by in Auckland Harbor, killing a photographer. After the New Zealand government determines that French secret agents were responsible, the French Defense Minister resigns and the agents are jailed. Jul 10 1992 Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega sentenced to 40 years in prison for eight counts of drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering. 988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey. 1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. 1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. 1584 - William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard. 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Langport. 1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1800 - British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. 1806 - The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company 1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain. 1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States. 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though). 1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. 1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign. 1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. 1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia. 1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. 2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson. Births 1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488) 1903 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989) 1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948) 1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician (The Petshop Boys) 1980 - Jesse Jane, American porn actress 1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer Deaths 138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76) 1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (voiced Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Barney Rubble, etc.) (b. 1908) Holidays and observances Bahamas - Independence Day. Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba. Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.
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     Jul 11 1804 Former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr duel in Weehawken, New Jersey after Hamilton allegedly slandered Burr during a political dinner in New York. Hamilton is shot in the liver and dies the next day. Meanwhile, Burr lives on to finish his term in office and is eventually tried for treason after attempting to raise an army and seize land for himself, either in Mexico or the Louisiana Territory. Jul 11 1812 The United States invades Canada, in what is actually America's involvement in the Napoleonic world war. (Yes, there were two World Wars before WWI.) Jul 11 1945 For the first time, Napalm powder is mixed with gasoline and sprayed on live human beings. This feat is achieved by U.S. Army forces against the Japanese on Luzon in the Philippines. In grand Internet tradition, we now give you the recipe to produce this horrible substance: Take styrofoam, add benzene and gasoline; ignite; pour on [insert ethnic slur here]. Jul 11 1979 The derelict space station Skylab finally returns to Earth, ignominiously breaking into 500 separate fragments which are swallowed by the Indian Ocean. That is, except for the ones which crash into Woorlba Sheep Station, near Balladonia in Western Australia. Shortly thereafter, President Jimmy Carter telephones the prime minister of that country to apologize for scattering NASA litter on his nation. Jul 11 1994 In the garage of her home in Universal City, California, Shannon Michelle Wilsey commits suicide with a .40 caliber Beretta. Wilsey -- better known as porn superstar Savannah -- had made lots of enemies during her career. Her obituary in Screw magazine runs beneath the headline DING DONG THE BITCH IS DEAD. Jul 11 1997 Bodybuilder and wannabe actor Jonathan Norman is arrested for trespassing on Steven Spielberg's estate in Malibu, California. Believing that the film director "wanted to be raped," Norman had brought along a kit containing handcuffs, duct tape, nipple clamps, chloroform, and a stun gun. 1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage. 1789 - Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille. 1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty. 1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. 1848 - The Waterloo railway station in London opens. 1859 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published. 1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands. 1921 - Truce called in the Irish War of Independence. 1940 - World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France. 1943 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. 1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency. 1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published. 1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission. 1975 - Chinese archaeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC. 1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom. 1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark. 1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam. 1995 - Srebrenica Genocide: Serb army from Yugoslavia and Bosnia, capture the Bosniak town of Srebrenica. More than eight thousands inhabitants are murdered. It is generally regarded to be the most horrific event in recent European history. 2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. 2006 - Microsoft's official support of Windows 98 and Windows Me ends. Births 1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329) 1767 - John Quincy Adams, President of the United States (d. 1848) 1957 - Peter Murphy, British musician - (Bauhaus) 1957 - Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru) 1959 - Richie Sambora, American musician (Bon Jovi) 1959 - Suzanne Vega, American singer 1965 - Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer) Deaths 1937 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898) 1994 - Savannah, American porn actress (b. 1970)(suicide) Holidays and observances United Nations - World Population Day Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date Mongolia - Naadam Holiday China - China National Maritime Day United States: Free Slurpee at 7-Eleven (most locations do this - get a free 7.11oz Slurpee on 7-11). Bonfire night in Northern Ireland, precursor to The Twelfth
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     Jul 12 1843 Mormon numero uno Joseph Smith discloses a divine revelation instructing his followers to take multiple wives, in what the LDS Church calls "plural marriage" but everyone else calls polygamy. The Mormons are ultimately forced to disclaim the practice in September 1890. Jul 12 1979 Bonanno boss Carmine Galante, the "cigar problem", is whacked at Joe and Mary's Restaurant in Brooklyn. Galante dies with a cigar still in his mouth. Almost everyone in the New York mob feared the ruthless crime boss, so the killing was sanctioned by the consensus of Paul Castellano, Joe Bonanno, and Santo Trafficante. Jul 12 1979 It is "Disco Demolition Night" at Chicago's Comiskey Park, where baseball tickets cost only $.98 if the purchaser brings along a disco record for the bonfire. During the second game of the doubleheader, thousands of vinyl LPs fly onto the field, generating enough chaos that the White Sox are forced to forfeit. Jul 12 1996 Combative TV talk show host Morton Downey Jr., a former board member of the National Smokers Alliance who unfailingly smoked on the air, undergoes lung cancer surgery at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. Shortly thereafter, Downey begins a nationwide anti-smoking crusade. Jul 12 1997 Having secured his homemade bungee cord to the Lake Accotink Park train trestle in Springfield, Virginia, fast-food worker Eric A. Barcia leaps into the 70 foot drop. A couple of seconds later, he hits the pavement full-force and dies on the spot. During assembly, Barcia had carefully measured the equipment and made certain it was somewhat shorter than 70 feet, yet he neglected to consider the elasticity of his creation. 1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers. 1543 - King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace. 1690 - Battle of the Boyne The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II 1691 - Battle of Aughrim - The decisive victory of William's forces in Ireland. 1759 - Seven Years' War - French and Indian War: British cannons start firing on French at Quebec City, from Lévis, Quebec. 1812 - War of 1812: The United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario. 1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the United States Congress. 1892 - A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais. 1916 - Matawan Creek, New Jersey attacks, a bull shark swam 15 miles upstream and attacked three people, killing two. 1932 - Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom. 1943 - World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time. 1979 - The island nation of Kiribati declares independence from Great Britain. Births 100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC) 1943 - Christine McVie, British singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) 1947 - Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby union legend 1950 - Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d. 1991) 1962 - Dan Murphy, American guitarist (Soul Asylum) 1967 - John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater) 1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006) 1972 - Brett Reed, American musician (Rancid) Deaths 1712 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626) 1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887) (Rolls Royce) 1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860) 1983 - Chris Wood, British musician, (Traffic,) (b. 1944) 1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, American musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961) Holidays and observances Kiribati - Independence Day. Mongolia - Naadam Holiday (2nd day). Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (also known as Orangemen's Day or the Twelfth, see Irish calendar). Newfoundland - Orangemen's Day. São Tomé and Príncipe - Independence Day. Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan's street grid centerline.
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     Jul 13 1793 French revolutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat is stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, as she gives him a list of names to be guillotined. The assassination inspired the famous painting by Jacques Louis David; Corday was executed four days after slaying Marat. Jul 13 1917 The first appearance of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three young shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. A later apparition that year was witnessed by 70,000 people in some manner of mass hallucination. The B.V.M. entrusted the children with three prophecies of the coming apocalypse, the third of which the Vatican retains in a locked wooden box, refusing to reveal it until after 1960. (They don't get around to it until 2000.) Jul 13 1946 Cheech Marin's birthday. He's actually (gasp) Iranian, and his name is Richard. Jul 13 1985 President Ronald Reagan has a polyp removed from his colon. Jul 13 1994 Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, is sentenced in Portland, Oregon, to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. He serves six months. 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. 1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller. 1772 - HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, sets sail from Plymouth, England. 1837 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there. 1878 - Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire. 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers. 1908 - Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time. 1919 - The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight. 1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949. 1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers 1942 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence. 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow. 2001 - Beijing, China is selected to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Births 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American founder of the original Ku Klux Klan (not the current one) (d. 1877) 1956 - Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler :1orglaugh: 1969 - Mark Greenway, British vocalist (Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror and Benediction) 1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer Deaths 1955 - Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926) Holidays and observances Kiribati - Independence Day, 2nd day Mongolia - Naadam Holiday, 3rd day
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     Jul 14 1789 A mob of 20,000 people storms Bastille Prison in Paris, killing its personnel and freeing all seven prisoners incarcerated therein: four forgers, an accomplice to murder, a nobleman jailed for incest, and an insane Irishman. The warden is decapitated and his head carried around on a pike. So begins the French Revolution. Jul 14 1881 In the Sumner, New Mexico home of his friend Pete Maxwell, notorious outlaw Billy the Kid steps into a darkened bedroom and is shot dead by sheriff Pat Garrett. Billy's last words are "¿Quién es?" (Who is it?) Jul 14 1902 One day after workmen noticed a large crack in the structure, the Belltower of St. Mark's collapses into a hill of white dust. Ten years later, the city of Venice erects an exact duplicate of the tower on the same spot. Jul 14 1960 After a religious statue topples onto a shelf of votive candles in a Guatemalan insane asylum, the resulting blaze sweeps through the facility, killing 225 inmates and seriously injuring another 300. 50 lunatics manage to escape during the commotion, and only two are ever recaptured. Jul 14 1966 Richard Speck slaughters eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital. Jul 14 1969 El Salvador's defeat of the Honduras soccer team in Mexico City inflamed passions between the two countries to such an extent that the countries began warring with each other on this date. 2,000 people died during four days of hostilities known as the "Futbol War". Jul 14 1997 Catherine Sheehan, a Beverly Hills whore, files suit against Jack Nicholson, alleging that the actor did not cough up the $1000 he owed her for sexual acts she performed with him the night of October 12, 1996. The complaint alleged assault, battery, and emotional distress; punitive damages were requested. Jul 14 1997 Actor/nudist Brad Pitt receives his wish for a court order requiring Playgirl magazine to remove the "Brad Pitt Nude" issue from the newsstands. Jul 14 2006 Rapper Eminem remarries Kim Mathers, the subject of many of his rap songs, and 82 days later files for his second divorce from her. Eminem's best man, Proof, is later shot to death in a Detroit club. 1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. 1940 - World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops. 1943 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American. 1958 - Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader. 1965 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. 1969 - Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use," leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency. 1995 - The MP3 format was named. 2002 - During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed. 2005 - Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom Births 1857 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928) 1913 - Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., 38th President of the United States (d. 2006) 1922 - Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard 1965 - Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (Yes) 1966 - Tanya Donelly, American musician (Belly) 1966 - Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies) Deaths 1223 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165) 1998 - Dick McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1909) 1999 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer (b. 1958) (Megadeth) Holidays and observances France and all French dependencies - Bastille Day. Kiribati - Independence Day, 3rd day, not a holiday. Sweden - Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day.
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     Jul 15 1205 In a letter to the French clergy, Pope Innocent III declares that the Jews are consigned to continual subjugation just for crucifying our Lord and Savior. In the words of the Pope, the Jews "shall not dare raise their neck, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery." Jul 15 1857 During an uprising, the group of British women and children being held by rebels in Chawnpore, India are cut to pieces with knives and hatchets. Then their remains are tossed into a well. When British forces finally retake Chawnpore, the captured rebels are taken back to the house where the slaughter took place. Then they are forced to lick the floors clean, after which they are hanged. Jul 15 1864 A train containing hundreds of Confederate prisoners through Shohola, PA crashes head on with a coal train. The trains were off schedule because of an escape attempt. 74 people, mostly prisoners, died. Jul 15 1869 During war with Prussia, French ruler Napoleon III commissions Hippolye Mege Mouries to find a butter substitute. A patent for margarine is issued, it being based on beef fat instead of milk fat. But even with the tactically superior spread, the war is still lost. Jul 15 1974 During a live broadcast of the Sarasota, Florida morning news program Suncoast Digest, newscaster Chris Chubbuck tells the audience: "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide." Then she blows her brains out with a .38 revolver. Jul 15 1997 Fashion designer/fabulous homosexual Gianni Versace is assassinated outside his Miami Beach home by a crazed man-whore. 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege. 1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton 1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England. 1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (illegitimate son of Charles II of England) is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685. 1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon. 1870 - Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. 1870 - Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories. 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack. 1945 - President Harry Truman disembarks the heavy cruiser the USS Augusta (CA-31) in Antwerp en route to Potsdam for the Potsdam Conference. 1953 - John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed. (10 Rillington Place) 1958 - In Lebanon, 5,000 United States Marines land in the capital Beirut in order to provide military support to the pro-Western government there. 1995 - First item sold on Amazon.com 2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. 2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan awarded death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life term to three other suspects in murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Births 1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669) 1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003) 1947 - Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes) 1949 - Trevor Horn, British music producer, bassist and vocalist (Buggles, Art of Noise, Seal, Yes) 1952 - Johnny Thunders, American guitarist and singer (The New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers) (d. 1991) 1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer, and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980) 1956 - Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) 1956 - Joe Satriani, American guitarist 1973 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down) Deaths 1940 - Robert Wadlow, American--at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known (b. 1918) 1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914) Holidays and observances Botswana - President's Day. Brunei - Birthday of the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam. Palermo, Sicily - Festival of Santa Rosalia. Japan - Third day of Obon feast period Brazil - International Men's Day.
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     Happy Birthday Mr. Satriani
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     Jul 16 1054 The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began over rival claims of universal pre-eminence. (In 1965, 911 years later, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I met to declare an end to the schism.) Jul 16 1860 A decree from Emperor Norton I of San Francisco, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, dissolves the United States of America. Jul 16 1917 The Bolsheviks execute the Czar, Czarina, and their children. Contrary to popular mythos, Anastasia did not escape. DNA tests in the 1990's conclude that the woman who was posing as Anastasia was instead a batty old woman. Jul 16 1927 Industrialist Henry Ford settles a $1 million libel suit brought by labor organizer Aaron Sapiro. Ford's newsweekly, The Dearborn Independent, had accused Sapiro of being part of a conspiracy of "Jewish bankers" to seize control of national wheat production and hand it over to the Communists. Jul 16 1945 First Atomic Bomb is exploded at Trinity, Alamagordo New Mexico. The explosion yields the equivalent 18,000 tons of TNT. Jul 16 1964 In 1964, in accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Jul 16 1973 During the Senate's Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals that President Nixon has a secret tape recording system with lavalier microphones hidden throughout the Oval Office. Jul 16 1998 An inattentive deputy sheriff in Lafayette, IN, drives his automobile into the stolen tombstone of actor James Dean. The 400 pound tombstone, which was stolen two days prior from Dean's gravesite at Park Cemetery (and later abandoned on a country road), rips the transmission out of the deputy's vehicle. 622 - Muhammad begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm. 1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego. 1941 - Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony. 1942 - Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. In 1995, president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the French police's responsibility. 1942 - Adolf Hitler arrives in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine. 1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. 1948 - The city of Nazareth, hometown of Jesus, capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during 1948 Arab-Israeli War. 1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens. 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon. 1979 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. 1994 - The civil war in Rwanda ends. 2004 - Barclays Bank freezes the bank accounts of the British National Party. 2005 - The sixth book in the popular Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling is released to record sales of 287,564 books per hour in its first 24 hours, making it the fastest selling book in history. 2007 Cymru am byth's 1 year Filecabi membership anniversary Births 1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999) 1952 - Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police) 1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia 1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist (lostprophets) 1980 - Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress 1989 - Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer Deaths 1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (b. 1948) Holidays and observances Botswana - President's Day (2nd day). United States - National Ice Cream Day, as made official by President Ronald Reagan.
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     Jul 17 1793 In return for attempting to obviate civil war, Charlotte Corday is publicly executed. Four days prior, she had assassinated influential French radical Jean-Paul Marat by stabbing him in the bathtub. Immediately after slicing it off, the executioner lifts Corday's head out of the guillotine's basket and slaps it on both cheeks. Jul 17 1917 Britain's King George V issues a royal proclamation changing his family's surname from Hanover to Windsor. Thus, everyone is fooled into believing that a bunch of inbred krauts are really English. Which is convenient, because England just so happens to be at war with Germany. Jul 17 1918 With counter-revolutionary forces advancing steadily on the city, the Bolsheviks holding captive Czar Nicholas II invite him and his family into the basement for a portrait. The Romanovs and their servants, expecting a photography session, wind up on the business end of a firing squad. Their bodies are dragged outside and buried in an unmarked mass grave. Jul 17 1936 General Francisco Franco seizes control of the Canary Islands, signaling the start of the three-year Spanish Civil War. Jul 17 1944 At 10:18 pm, the merchant ship SS E.A. Bryan, packed with 4,606 tons of ammunition, suddenly explodes at the Port Chicago naval base north of Oakland, California. The apocalyptic blast breaks windows in San Francisco, 48 miles away, and the seismic shock is felt as far as Boulder City, Nevada. All 320 personnel on duty, most of them negro ordnance loaders, are killed instantly. Jul 17 1955 Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California. In the words of Walt Disney, "That place is my baby, and I would prostitute myself for it." Jul 17 1968 Premiere of the drug-induced, Big Blue Meanie-infested cartoon Beatle film Yellow Submarine, at the London Pavilion. Jul 17 1992 Axl Rose is arrested for assault in St Louis, Missouri. Jul 17 1996 TWA flight 800 explodes off Long Island NY, killing 230 passengers. The explosion, whose cause was not terrorist related, is used as an excuse by the FBI to ask for restrictions on civil liberties. 1453 - Hundred Years' War: Battheyle of Castillon - The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony 1762 - Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the accidental murder of Peter III of Russia. 1771 - Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit. 1791 - Massacre at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution. 1200-1500 people were killed, including women and children. 1815 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces. 1821 - Spain cedes Florida to the United States 1841 - The first issue of the magazine Punch is published in London 1858 - Salving of the Lutine bell. The bell is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London. 1936 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war. 1944 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320. 1944 - World War II: The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection. 1944 - Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference - At Potsdam, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting will end on August 2. 1962 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site. 1964 - British speed pioneer Sir Donald Campbell sets a new land speed world record of 429mph in his car, Bluebird. 1968 - The date of the July 17th Revolution in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif was overthrown and the Ba'ath Party installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President. 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. 1989 - First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. 1998 - In St. Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel exactly 80 years after he and his family were killed by Bolsheviks. Births 1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005) 1941 - Spencer Davis, Welsh singer and guitarist (Spencer Davis Group) 1948 - Ron Asheton, American musician and composer (Iggy Pop & The Stooges) 1949 - Terence "Geezer" Butler, British musician and lyricist (Black Sabbath) 1949 - John Wetton, British musician (King Crimson) 1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany 1972 - Jason Rullo, American drummer (Symphony X and formerly Redemption) Deaths 924 - King Edward the Elder of England 1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764) 1918 Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868) Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna (b. 1872) Grand Duchess Olga (b. 1895) Grand Duchess Tatiana (b. 1897) Grand Duchess Maria (b. 1899) Grand Duchess Anastasia (b. 1901) Tsarevich Alexei (b. 1904) 1996 - Chas Chandler, bass guitarist (The Animals), record producer and manager (b. 1938) 2003 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944) (suicide/murder???) 2005 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) Holidays and observances South Korea - Constitution Day. Kyoto, Japan - Gion Matsuri.
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     Jul 18 64 Nero fiddles while Rome burns. Jul 18 1290 After having imprisoned and ransomed 3,000 of them in 1287, King Edward I issues an edict expelling all Jews from England. The nation's Jewry, which financed the crusade against the Saracens, had by this time outlived their usefulness as bankers and were given until the end of October to emigrate. Jul 18 1870 At the end of Vatican I, Catholic popes are proclaimed infallible by chapter four of the papal bull Pastor Aeternus. His declarations on matters of faith are protected from error by the Holy Spirit. In a nutshell: whatever he says, goes. This is an interesting doctrine, considering how often St. Peter is himself contradicted by the Gospels. Jul 18 1925 Max Amann publishes Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), the book Adolf Hitler had dictated while under house arrest. The work happens to be just as tedious as its original title, Four and Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice. Jul 18 1966 In Los Angeles, the beaten corpse of Bobby Fuller is found sprawled across the front seat of his mother's Oldsmobile. Fuller, whose band The Bobby Fuller Four released the hit "I Fought The Law," is found to have died from "forced inhalation of gasoline." Technically, Fuller died from huffing... although circumstances point to murder. Jul 18 1969 Driving home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy's car goes over the side of Dike Bridge and flips over into a pond. Kennedy manages to free himself from the automobile, but his passenger, one Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns. For some reason, Kennedy tells no one about the accident for at least an hour, and waits until the following morning to notify local police. Jul 18 1984 James Oliver Huberty walks into a crowded McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California and starts shooting. Carrying an Uzi carbine, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a Browning 9mm pistol, Huberty guns down 40 people. 21 of them, mostly children, die from their wounds. A San Diego police sniper finally solves the situation more than an hour later. Ultimately, the McDonald's Corporation opts to bulldoze the franchise and build a community park there. Jul 18 1988 Rock and Roll performer / heroin addict Nico wipes out on her bicycle on Ibiza and dies from a brain hemorrage combined with a lack of medical treatment. 1536 - The authority of the Pope is declared void in England. 1872 - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland introduces voting by secret ballot. 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium. 1914 - The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, this gives definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time. 1936 - Spanish Civil War: The rebellion reaches peninsular Spain and conquers Galicia, west Castile, west Andalucia and Aragon. 1942 - World War II: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jets for the first time. 1944 - World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort. 1953 - Rock 'N' Roll star Elvis Presley made his first recording in Sun Studios. 1976 - Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, age 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics. 1977 - Vietnam joins the United Nations. 1995 - On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee. Births 1895 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954) 1938 - Ian Stewart, British pianist for the Rolling Stones 1939 - Brian Auger, British session musician 1950 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur 1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer (Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down) 1980 - Bobby Henderson, American writer, founded the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Deaths 1954 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895) Holidays and observances Uruguay - Constitution Day.
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     Jul 19 1692 Five Salem witches are hanged for the crime of witchcraft, based primarily on the accusations of little girls who were bewitched. Eventually, the village executes a total of 20 witches. Jul 19 1937 The Nazis open "Entartete Kunst," the Degenerate Art show, in Munich. The traveling exhibition offers up Expressionism for ridicule, carefully arranged by (offensive) subject. The German youth are not admitted, lest they become tainted. Jul 19 1952 During a series of UFO sightings in Washington, D.C. occurring over July 13-29, unidentified objects are picked up on D.C.'s National Airport radar system. Sightings in the region are so extensive the Air Force is prompted to hold a press conference. Conveniently, these are all "radar mirages" resulting from "temperature inversions." Jul 19 1957 Michael Landon stars in his first film, I Was a Teenage Werewolf. He must have been so proud. Jul 19 1966 Frank Sinatra marries Mia Farrow in Las Vegas. Ava Gardner's famous comment on the union: "Hah! I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a little boy!" Jul 19 1991 Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson rapes Desiree Washington, one of the Miss Black America contestants, after a pageant rehearsal. The illicit nookie lands Tyson in prison for three years. Jul 19 1993 President Clinton unveils the universally-unpopular "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" rule. One person summarizes the policy: "the military now permits gays to remain in the military, provided they don't act like fairies." 1333 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill - The final battle of the war. 1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days. 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel. 1873 - William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers. 1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Cape Spada - The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties. 1940 - World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army. 1942 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system. Births 1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862) 1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927) 1947 - Bernie Leadon, American musician (The Eagles) 1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen) 1948 - Keith Godchaux, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980) 1952 - Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990) 1968 - Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head) 1973 - Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth) 1981 - Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause) Deaths 1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England 1814 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774) Holidays and observances Myanmar - Burmese Martyrs' Day. Nicaragua - National Liberation Day.
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     Jul 20 1923 While driving his 1919 Dodge, retired revolutionary Pancho Villa is ambushed and assassinated. But even with 16 gunshot wounds he still manages to kill one of his attackers. Curiously, Villa's head is stolen from his grave three years later and never recovered. Despite persistent rumors, Yale's secret society Skull and Bones denies they possess the artifact. Jul 20 1944 In an attempt on Hitler's life, a timebomb explodes in the situation room of the Wolf's Lair, killing four Nazi officers but only wounding the Fuhrer. After his close call, Hitler becomes even more paranoid. A massive purge is to follow, resulting in the execution of thousands of officers. Jul 20 1951 In Jerusalem at the al-Aqsa Mosque, King Abdullah of Jordan is shot three times in the head and chest by Mustapha Shukri Usho, a Palestinian opposed to peace with Israel. Abdullah dies on the spot. Jul 20 1969 On live television, the world watches as Neil Armstrong steps foot on the Moon. That is, unless it was faked. Jul 20 1973 In Hong Kong, martial artist Bruce Lee drops into a coma and dies of cerebral edema. He had been experiencing brain problems beginning in May, which included sporadic loss of consciousness. Lee's death transpires shortly before the release of Enter the Dragon, his most successful film. Jul 20 1994 O.J. Simpson offers a $500,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the Real Killers. To this day progress remains elusive, although Simpson's golf score has improved somewhat. Jul 20 2005 The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) changes the rating of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas from mature to adults only forcing a recall. The game had been distributed with a hidden sex game made unlockable by a clever hacker's modification titled Hot Coffee. The recall cost Rockstar Games millions of dollars although the incident generated lots of free publicity. 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war. 1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain. 1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. 1881 - Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to US troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota 1885 - The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association. 1903 - Ford Motor Company shipped its first car. 1916 - World War I: In Armenia, Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek. 1917 - World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. 1918 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne. 1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians. 1929 - Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China. 1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism. 1933 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets. 1937 - Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in Tallahassee, Florida and lynched. 1940 - Denmark leaves the League of Nations. 1942 - World War II: Red Army troops take bridgeheads over the Don River near Voronezh. 1942 - World War II: The first unit of the Women's Army Corps begins training in Des Moines, Iowa. 1943 - World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer Enna on Sicily. 1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 1944 - World War II: American troops land on Guam near Port Apra. 1946 - World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces. 1948 - US President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the US amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union. 1949 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war. 1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. 1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency. 1954 - Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany. 1960 - The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time. 1960 - Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the US and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute.
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     July 20th cont 1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon. 1969 - Cease fire announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "Football War" 1971 - President Richard M. Nixon tells Taiwan the US will continue to sell it arms. 1971 - The Soviet Union says it will support the People's Republic of China's admission to the United Nations 1974 - Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a "coup d' etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. NATO's Council praises the US and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert. 1976 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. 1976 - Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand. 1982 - Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. 1983 - The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon. 1990 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the International Stock Exchange in London. 1996 - In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35 2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering. 2003 - Richard Sambrook, the Director of BBC News, reveals that David Kelly was the source of claims that Downing Street had "sexed up" the "Dodgy Dossier". 2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent. Births 356 BC - Alexander the Great, Greek king and military leader (d. 323 BC) 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber 1945 - John Lodge, British musician (Moody Blues) 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist 1956 - Paul Cook, English drummer (The Sex Pistols) 1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave) 1966 - Stone Gossard, American musician (Pearl jam) Deaths 1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374) 1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620) Holidays and observances International chess day Argentina - Día del Amigo (Friendship Day) Brazil - Friendship Day Colombia - Independence Day Northern Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day
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     1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England 1873 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West. 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam starting the battle (ends on August 10). 1954 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. 1969 - Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission. 1972 - Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland - 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured. 1973 - In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre. 1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA. 1977 - Start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War. 1983 - The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F). 1984 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States. 1994 - Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way to him becoming Prime Minister in 1997. 2005 - Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers escaped. Births 356 BC - Alexander the Great, Greek king and military leader (d. 323 BC) 1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence 1948 - Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, English singer 1961 - "Big" Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More) 1978 - Damian Marley, Jamacian musician Deaths 1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759) 1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German army colonel who tried to assassinate Hitler (b. 1907) 2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926) Holidays and observances Belgium: National holiday (1831 - inauguration of Léopold I, first king of the Belgians) Bolivia: Martyrs' Day Guam: Liberation Day (1944) Singapore: Racial Harmony Day
186. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive4 Sept 2007, 06:44
     HOORAY!!! This thread is back!
187. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive4 Sept 2007, 07:04
     1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem. 1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk - King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeats William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town. 1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured. 1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - Battle of Cape Finisterre - Inconclusive naval action fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder. 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War - Battle of Salamanca - British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain. 1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. 1942 - The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. 1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. 1943 - Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo. 1944 - The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland 1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90. 1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment. 1992 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States. 1999 - The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft. 2003 - Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard. 2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings Births 1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp) 1947 - Don Henley, American musician (Eagles) 1968 - Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor 1984 - Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress Deaths 1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903) 2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966) 2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964) 2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978) 2007 - Jarrod Cunningham New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)( Motor Neurone Disease.)
188. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive4 Sept 2007, 07:06
     HOORAY!!! This thread is back! :xyxthumbs: gonna take a few days to catch up though, thats all for today, off to work soon.
189. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive5 Sept 2007, 03:30
     23rd July 1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France. 1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union. 1881 - The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded. 1903 - Ford Motor Company sold its first car. 1903 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A. 1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914 1929 - Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words. 1942 - The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened 1942 - World War II: Hitler signed the Operation Edelweiss 1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal. 1982 - The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86. 1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when a helicopter spins out of control. Births 1892 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975) 1938 - Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress 1942 - Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002) 1961 - Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode) 1965 - Slash, English guitarist (ex-Guns N' Roses) 1968 - Nick Menza, American musician, drummer (Megadeth) 1973 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis) 1973 - Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern 1976 - Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent) 1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41) Deaths 1793 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1721) 1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822) 1980 - Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948) Holidays and observances Egypt - Revolution Day (1952) Libya - Revolution Day Papua New Guinea - Remembrance Day Rastafari movement - Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie
190. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive5 Sept 2007, 03:57
     24th July 1411 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil. 1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer. 1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King Francis I of France. 1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI. 1814 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders. 1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass. 1923 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War. 1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres. 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. 1965 - Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage. 1966 - Michael Pelkey made the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping is now been banned from El Cap. 1967 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians. 1967 - Beatles: sign a petition in The Times to legalise marijuana. 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. 1974 - After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored. 1977 - End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War. 1990 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border. 2001 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office. Births 1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937) 1963 - Paul Geary, American musician (Extreme) 1985 - Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress 1998 - Bindi Irwin, activist and daughter of the late Steve Irwin Deaths 1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782) 1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925) Holidays and observances Ecuador - Simón Bolívar Day. Utah - Pioneer Day (1847). Vanuatu - Children's Day. Venezuela - Birth of the Libertador (Simón Bolívar Day).
191. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive5 Sept 2007, 04:54
     25th July 1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain 1722 - Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border. 1755 - The decision to deport the Acadians takes place in Halifax. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later moved to Louisiana, while others later resettled in New Brunswick. 1758 - Seven Years' War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken. 1759 - French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé. 1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed. 1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain). 1814 - War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to Fort Erie. 1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. 1898 - The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico [The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been occurring since May of 1898]. 1909 - Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes. 1920 - Telecommunications: First transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place. 1934 - Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. 1940 - General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and make surrender illegal. 1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio. 1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed. 1946 - Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll. 1980 - Australian hard rock band AC/DC release the album Back in Black. This album goes on to be the 2nd best selling album in history. 1981 - Rugby game in Hamilton, New Zealand during the 1981 Springbok Tour is called off after anti-apartheid protesters invade the pitch. 1993 - Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War. 1994 - Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948. 1998 - The United States Navy commissions the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and puts her into service. 2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground. Births 1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930) 1943 - Jim McCarty, English musician (Yardbirds) 1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer 1958 - Thurston Moore, American musician (Sonic Youth) 1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth) 1976 - Tera Patrick, American pornographic actress 1978 - Louise Brown, World's first test tube baby Holidays and observances Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap'a Costa Rica - Anniversary of the Annexation of Guanacaste Province Cuba - Eve of Revolution Day Puerto Rico - Constitution Day (1952) Tunisia - Republic Day (1957) Virgin Islands - Hurricane Supplication Day
192. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive6 Sept 2007, 18:56
     26th july 1469 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV. 1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London 1936 - The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. 1937 - End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War. 1941 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. 1944 - World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation. 1944 - The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain. 1945 - The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. 1945 - The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany. 1947 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. 1953 - Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. 1977 - The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government. 1991 - Paul Reubens, ("Peewee Herman"), is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for exposing himself. 1994 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia. 2005 - Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. Births 1856 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950) 1939 - John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia 1943 - Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones) 1949 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen) 1959 - Michael Ross, American serial killer (d. 2005) 1961 - Gary Cherone, American musician (Extreme) 1965 - Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise) 1980 - Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41) Deaths 796 - Offa, King of Mercia, builder of Offas dyke in an attempt to keep the "savage" Welsh out of his kingdom 1984 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906) 1990 - Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1952) Holidays and Observances Cuba - Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack (1953); Day of the National Rebellion India - Vijay Divas (end of Kargil War) Liberia - Independence Day Maldives - Independence Day
193. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive6 Sept 2007, 20:01
     27th july 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. 1663 - The British Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. 1689 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends. 1694 - A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England. 1865 - Welsh settlers arrive in Argentina at Chubut Valley (Afon Camwy) Patagonia 1866 - The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time. 1880 - Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand - In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan. 1940 - The animated short "A Wild Hare" is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny. 1941 - Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China. 1941 - Day of Anti-Fascist uprising of people of Bosnia and Herzegowina. 1955 - The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends (started on May 9, 1945). 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, killing two and injuring 111. Births 1962 - Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005) 1964 - Rex Brown, American bassist (Pantera) 1973 - Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones) Deaths 2001 - Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
194. Lord RucktukSalvaged from archive6 Sept 2007, 21:45
     Uhm. Isn't it September 6?
195. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive7 Sept 2007, 17:19
     Uhm. Isn't it September 6? Yeah, i was offline for about 6 weeks so when i've got time i've been trying to catch up:1bluewinky:
196. Lord RucktukSalvaged from archive7 Sept 2007, 17:35
     cool thread nonetheless.
197. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive7 Sept 2007, 18:20
     28th July 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day. 1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia. 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution. 1809 - Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera - Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte. 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States. 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war. 1942 - World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed. 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. 1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26. 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (The PIRA) call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland. 2005 - A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people. Births 1746 - Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809) 1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd) 1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English musician(T Rex) (d. 1980) 1967 - Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder) 1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach) Deaths 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678) 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685) 1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768) Holidays and observances Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve Peru - Independence Day San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government
198. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive7 Sept 2007, 18:50
     29th July 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling. 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police. 1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement. 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. 1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955. 1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London. 1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. 1966 - Musician Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph motorcycle in upstate New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically. 1966 - American magazine Datebook releases issue with the Beatles article from the London Evening Standard four months ago which includes John Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" statement, setting off a furor resulting the trashing and burning of Beatles records and merchandise and the banning of Beatles songs on radio 1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134. 1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks. 1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales. 1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel). 1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free. Births 1883 - Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945) 1923 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification 1946 - Neal Doughty, American keyboardist (REO Speedwagon) 1953 - Geddy Lee, Canadian musician (Rush) 1959 - John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang) 1969 - Adele Stevens, English model and erotic actress Deaths 1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791) 1856 - Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810) 1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853) 1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (suicide) (b. 1967)
199. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Sept 2007, 17:28
     30th july 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. 1945 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. 1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer. 1956 - A Joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto. 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. 1966 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, After drawing 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes, England beat West Germany 4-2. 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. 2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. 2006 - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. Births 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California 1957 - Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned) 1958 - Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter 1958 - Daley Thompson, English decathlete 1968 - Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers) 1974 - Jason Robinson, English Rugby Union Player 1979 - Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets) Deaths 1947 - Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
200. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Sept 2007, 17:46
     31st july 1423 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. 1498 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. 1588 - The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England. 1667 - Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict. 1703 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers. 1910 - Dr. Crippen arrested for murdering wife. 1913 - The Balkan States sign an armistice at Bucarest. 1917 - The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders. 1932 - The NSDAP (Nazi party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections. 1936 - The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II. 1941 - Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question." 1945 - Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. 1945 - John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison. 1970 - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy. Births 1957 - Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus) 1958 - Bill Berry, American drummer (R.E.M.) 1963 - Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), British musician 1968 - Julian Richards, Welsh film director 1978 - Will Champion, English drummer (Coldplay) 1980 - Mils Muliaina, New Zealand and Waikato rugby player Deaths 1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808) 1917 - Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans), Welsh poet (b. 1887) Holidays and observances Hari Pahlawan - Malaysian warrior's day. Ka Hae Hawai‘i - Hawaiian Flag Day. Republic of the Congo - Upswing of the Revolution.
201. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Sept 2007, 18:06
     1st August 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain. 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela. 1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time. 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action. 1800 - The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens. 1831 - A new London Bridge opens. 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire. 1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated. 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I 1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France. 1936 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin. 1941 - The first Jeep is produced. 1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary. 1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem. 1981 - MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles. 2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed during the evening rush hour. Births 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782) 1942 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995) 1946 - Boz Burrell, British bass guitarist (King Crimson - Bad Company) (d. 2006) 1951 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (Deep Purple) (d. 1976) 1959 - Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard) 1960 - Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy) 1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows) 1968 - Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed) 1978 - Dhani Harrison, British musician (son of George Harrison) Deaths 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665) 1966 - Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941) 1990 - Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947) Holidays and observances Angola - Armed Forces Day. Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day. Benin - National Day. People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army. Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day Nicaragua - Fiesta Day. Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery. Switzerland - National Day. Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland. Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas. Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh). Yorkshire, England - Yorkshire Day. World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting. United States - Colorado statehood day
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     2nd August 1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean. 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence. 1790 - The first US Census is conducted. 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in an British victory 1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London. 1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto. 1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. 1931 - Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work. 1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. 1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal. 1939 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon. 1943 - Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. 1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew. 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes. 1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London. 1990 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces. Births 1944 - Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005) 1948 - Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh guitarist 1951 - Joe Lynn Turner, American Singer (Deep Purple and Rainbow) 1972 - Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang) Deaths 1100 - King William II of England 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837) 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor(telephone)(b. 1847) 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
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     3rd August 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. 1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs. 1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland. 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America. 1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people. 1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won. 1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. 1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France. 1916 - World War I: Battle of Romani - Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army, under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal, and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai. 1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States. 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer. 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics. 1940 - World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland. 1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap. 1960 - Niger gains independence from France. 1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. 2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Births 1867 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947) 1959 - Martin Atkins, English drummer (Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Pigface, and Killing Joke.) 1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats) 1963 - James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica) 1973 - Stephen Carpenter, American musician (Deftones) Deaths 1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430) Holidays and observances Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day. Niger - Independence Day. Kentucky - Watermelon Day Venezuela - Flag Day (since 2006)
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     4th August 1265 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - The army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes considered the end of the age of chivalry in England.) 1693 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne. 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles. 1873 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed). 1892 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. 1902 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. 1906 - Central Railway Station, Sydney opens. 1914 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality. 1944 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family. 1971 - The US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft 1991 - The world's largest hamburger, weighing over 4 tons (about 3750 kg), is made at a county fair in Seymour, Wisconsin. 2002 - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire. Births 1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805) 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002) 1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971) 1959 - Robbin Crosby, American musician (Ratt) (d. 2002) Deaths 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805) 2002 - Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
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     5th August 1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. 1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution. 1388 - Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England. 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland. 1620 - The Mayflower departs Southampton, England. 1763 - Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run. 1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat. 1861 - The United States Army abolished flogging. 1925 - Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out. 1940 - World War II : Latvia is annexed by the Soviet Union. 1943 - World War II: During the Battle of Troina, at around 11 A.M, Mount Etna erupted sending much ash and lava miles into the sky. 1944 - World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia. 1944 - Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners. 1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990. 1963 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty. 2003 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150. Births 1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890) 1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut 1959 - Pete Burns, British singer and freak 1964 - Adam Yauch, American musician (Beastie boys) 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American bassist (The Bloodhound Gang) 1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory) Deaths 1063 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd (a Welsh county) 1792 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1732) 2000 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914) (the original Kenobi) Holidays and observances Burkina Faso - Independence Day. Croatia - Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day. Chile - Children's Day
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     6th August 1787 - Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention. 1861 - British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria. 1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair. 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. 1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. 1914 - Denis Patrick Dowd Jr. enlists in the French Foreign Legion, becoming the first American to fight in World War I. 1915 - World War I: Battle of Sari Bair - The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. 1917 - World War I: The Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins. 1923 - Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel. 1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel. 1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping. 1941 - A curfew is imposed on US gas stations in preparation for the upcoming war. 1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people were killed instantly. 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent. 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet. 1996 - Legendary punk rock band, Ramones play their 2,263rd and final concert, in The Palace, Los Angeles. 1997 - Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer. 2001 - White House briefing entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. delivered to George W. Bush. This document foreshadowed the September 11, 2001 attacks. Births 1952 - Vinnie Vincent, American musician (ex-Kiss) 1990 - JonBenét Ramsey, American murder victim (d. 1996) Deaths 1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556) Holidays and observances Bolivia - Independence Day. Jamaica - Independence Day. United Arab Emirates - H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day. Japan - Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) - Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
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     7th August 1927 - The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. 1933 - The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs Day. 1940 - Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. 1945 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. Births 1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden) 1978 - Linsey Dawn McKenzie, English model and porn star Holidays and observances BC Day - Province of Canada. Civic Holiday - Canada. Emancipation Day - Turks and Caicos Islands. National Holiday in Colombia: Battle of Boyaca, birth of Bogotá.
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     8th August 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage. 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England. 1647 - The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill - English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces. 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. 1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild. 1910 - The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer. 1918 - World War I: Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines. 1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. 1938 - The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins. 1942 - World War II: In Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs are executed. 1945 - World War II - The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria. 1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join. 1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes. 1989 - Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. 1990 - Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. 1991 - John McCarthy, British Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for more than five years by Islamic Jihad, is released. Births 1879 - Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950) 1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal (Great train robber) 1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2) 1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison) 1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang) 1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed) Deaths 1827 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) 1973 - Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939) 1974 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (b. 1907) Holidays and observances Sweden - Namesday of Queen Silvia, an Official Flag Day. Taiwan: Father's Day. (In Mandarin, Ba Ba means father and 8-8, or August 8).
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     9th August 1173 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete. 1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel 1666 - Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later knkown as "Holmes's Bonfire". 1810 - Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire. 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. 1892 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. 1902 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom. 1907 - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England. 1936 - Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad. 1942 - Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Savo Island - Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force. 1945 - World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 70,000 people are killed instantly. 1969 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, California. 1974 - As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. 1986 - Knebworth Park, Stevenage, United Kingdom sees the final live performance of rock band Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury. 1995 - Cultural icon and frontman of the rock band The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia passes away. Deaths 1995 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942) 1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907) 2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953) Holidays and observances Singapore: National Day National Women's Day in South Africa International Day of the World's Indigenous People Baltimore, Maryland: Official "Frank Zappa Day" in honor of the Baltimore-born composer and musician (born 1940, died 1993).
210. T-Lovin-ManSalvaged from archive21 Sept 2007, 09:03
     1992 - Dustin Rhodes & Barry Windham defeated Steve Williams & Terry Gordy for the WCW World Tag Team title 1992 - Junkyard Dog defeated Eddie Gilbert for the USWA Unified Heavyweight title 1992 - Brian Christopher defeated Reno Riggins for the USWA Southern Heavyweight title 1999 - The New Age Outlaws defeated Mankind & the Rock for the WWF Tag Team title 2002 - Xavier defeated Low-Ki for the Ring of Honor title 2002 - Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan defeated American Dragon & Mike Modest in a tournament final for the new Ring of Honor Tag Team title 2003 - Bill Goldberg defeated Triple H for the WWE Raw World Heavyweight Championship 2003 - The Dudley Boyz defeated La Resistance & Rob Conway in a 2 on 3 tables match for the WWE Raw Tag Team title
211. Osiris7790Salvaged from archive21 Sept 2007, 23:13
     teh?
212. T-Lovin-ManSalvaged from archive22 Sept 2007, 07:45
     1966 - Baron Mikel Scicluna & Smasher Sloan defeated Johnny Valentine & Antonio Pugliese for the WWWF Tag Team title 1978 - Pat Patterson & Ray Stevens are awarded the AWA Tag Team title due to Jim Brunzell's injury 1985 - Terry Taylor defeated Black Bart for the Georgia National Heavyweight title 1996 - Event - In Your House X, CoreStates Center, Philadelphia, 1996 - Owen Hart & Davy Boy Smith defeated the Smokin' Guns for the WWF Tag Team title 1997 - Disco Inferno defeated Alex Wright for the WCW Television title 2000 - Terry Funk defeated Lance Storm for the WCW US Heavyweight title 2000 - Don Montoya & Homicide defeated The Hit Squad for the Jersey All Pro Tag Team Titles 2002 - Event - Unforgiven, Staples Center, Los Angeles CA 2002 - Trish Stratus defeated Molly Holly for the WWE Women's title
213. Haseknumber39Salvaged from archive22 Sept 2007, 09:44
     Ya know not many people care about wrestling
214. T-Lovin-ManSalvaged from archive23 Sept 2007, 11:46
     1996 - Marc Mero defeated Faarooq in a tournament final for the WWF Intercontinental title 1996 - Public Enemy defeated Harlem Heat for the WCW World Tag Team title 1998 - Scott Norton defeated Yuji Nagata for the IWGP Heavyweight title 1998 - Chip Fairway & "Surfer" Cody Hawk defeated "The Expert" Brian Taylor & Bounty Hunter for the HWA Tag Team Title 2000 - Lance Storm defeated Terry Funk for the WCW US Heavyweight title 2001 - Event - Unforgiven, Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh, PA 2001 - Kurt Angle defeated Steve Austin for the WWF Heavyweight title 2001 - Christian defeated Edge for the WWF Intercontinental title 2001 - Rhyno defeated Tajiri for the WCW U.S. Heavyweight title 2002 - Hurricane & Kane defeated Christian & Lance Storm for the WWE Tag Team title 2003 - Tajiri defeated Rey Mysterio, Jr. for the WWE Cruiserweight title
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     10th August 991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem. 1316 - Second Battle of Athenry 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. 1792 - French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody. 1904 - The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets. 1905 - Russian and Japanese peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth. 1913 - Second Balkan War ends: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war. 1920 - World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres which divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies. 1944 - World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam. 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony. 2003 - The highest temperature ever is recorded in the UK, 38.5°C (101.3°F), occurs in Kent [1]. It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. 2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. Births 1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964) 1943 - Jimmy Griffin, American guitarist (Bread) (d. 2005) 1947 - Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull) 1961 - Jon Farriss, Australian musician (INXS) 1972 - Lawrence Dallaglio, English Rugby Union Player
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     11th August 1711 - The first race meeting was held at Ascot 1786 - Captain Francis Light established the British colony of Penang in Malaysia 1828 - William Corder is hanged at Bury St. Edmunds, England, for the murder of Maria Marten at the Red Barn a year ago. 1918 - World War I - Battle of Amiens ends 1919 - Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted in Germany. 1934 - Federal prison opened at Alcatraz Island. 1952 - Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan 1960 - Chad declares independence. 1965 - Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California. 1968 - The last steam passenger train service ran in Britain. A British Rail steam locomotive made the 314-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returned to Liverpool before being dispatched to the Wrecking yard. 1984 - United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes". 2003 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. 2003 - A big heat wave in Paris had temperatures up to 112°F (44° C), with about 144 people dead. 2006 - The last software patent expired on the GIF format. Births 1897 - Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968) 1942 - Mike Hugg, British musician (Manfred Mann) 1943 - Abigail Folger, American coffee heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969) 1957 - Richie Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) 1957 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British singer (Skrewdriver) 1970 - Andy Bell, Welsh musician (Oasis) Deaths 480 BC - Leonidas, King of Sparta 1994 - Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913) Holidays and observances Brazil - Student's Day, Lawyer's Day, Foundation of the Law Studies in Brazil Chad - Independence Day Taiwan - Valentine's Day Zimbabwe - Heroes' Day
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     12th August 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium. 1332 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol. 1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam. 1806 - Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion. 1833 - Chicago was founded. 1851 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine. 1898 - The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawai`i to the United States. 1908 - First Model T Ford built. 1914 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included. 1943 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge. 1944 - Waffen SS troops massacre more than 500 civil people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema. 1944 - Alençon liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by the Allied forces. 1953 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon. 1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched 1964 - South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to its racist policy. 1964 - Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England. 1966 - John Lennon apologizes at a news conference in Chicago for remarking "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus." 1974 - The Canadian rock band trio Rush, releases their debut album, Rush. 1981 - Release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer 1986 - Paul Simon releases his landmark Graceland album. 2000 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise. Births 1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830) 1925 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004) 1925 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975) 1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits) 1973 - Richard Reid (shoe bomber) 1976 - Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls) Deaths 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC) 1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781) 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908) Holidays and observances United Nations - International Youth Day (since 1999) Glorious Twelfth (first day of the Grouse hunting season) at the Yorkshire Dales Brazil - Father's Day (August second Sunday) Thailand - The Queen's Birthday, Mother's Day Zimbabwe - Defence Force Day
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     13th August 1415 - Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England lands at Chef-en-Caux, France with 8000 men. 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim - English and Austrians victorious over French and Bavarians. 1814 - The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London. 1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain begins - The Luftwaffe launches a series of attacks on British fighter bases and radar installations. 1960 - The Central African Republic declares independence from France. 1961 - The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin, to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West. 2004 - The Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games takes place in Athens. Births 1860 - Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter (d. 1926) 1888 - John Logie Baird, Scottish television inventor (d. 1946) 1899 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980) 1958 - Fergal Sharkey, Northern Irish singer (the undertones) 1973 - Brittany Andrews, American pornographic actress Deaths 1910 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b. 1820) 1946 - H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866) Holidays and observances International Lefthanders Day. Laos - Lao Issara, Day of the Free Laos
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     August 14th 1598 - Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford - Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal. 1900 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China. 1908 - First beauty contest held in Folkestone, England. 1936 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. 1937 - The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers were shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases, hence, 14 August has thus become acknoledged and celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day. 1941 - World War II - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. 1945 - Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time). 1947 - Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth. 1967 - UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1969 - United Kingdom troops deploy in Northern Ireland. 1994 - Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured. Births 1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887) 1941 - David Crosby, American musician (The Byrds, CSNY) Deaths 1988 - Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (b. 1945) Holidays and observances Pakistan - Independence Day (From the Indian Empire and from the British colonialist and imperialists under the foreign control of the United Kingdom, 1947). Paraguay - Flag Day. United States - National Creamsicles Day.
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     15th August 1040 - King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland. 1057 - King Mac Bethad (Macbeth) is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. 1599 - Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass - Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, were sent to relieve Collooney Castle. 1824 - Freed American slaves form Liberia. 1863 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom 1939 - 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors. 1942 - World War II: Operation Pedestal - The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island defenses. 1944 - World War II: Operation Dragoon - Allied forces land in southern France. 1945 - World War II: Victory over Japan Day - Japan surrenders. 1945 - World War II: Korean Liberation Day. 1947 - India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth , Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the nation with the Indian Declaration of Independence and takes office as the first Prime Minister of India. 1947 - Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi. 1948 - The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north. 1952 - Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people. 1960 - Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France. 1961 - Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. 1965 - The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the birth of stadium rock. 1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens. 1998 - Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles Births 1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom Deaths 1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland 1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland Holidays and observances VJ Day / VP Day India – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1947). Acadie – National Day. Austria, Maria Himmelfahrt day. Bangladesh – National Mourning Day Belgium, Assumption (of Blessed Virgin Mary) day. Egypt – Flooding of the Nile Day. France, Assumption Day. Greece, Dormition ('Falling Asleep' of Virgin Mary.) Hawaii – Toro Nagashi (Floating Lanterns Ceremony) to commemorate the end of the second world war. Italy – " Assumption Day. And Ferragosto", remembrance of an ancient Roman holiday in honor of Augustus (Feriae Augusti). Japan – Day of End of the War / The day which mourns for war dead, and prays for peace "National War-Dead Memorial Ceremony" is performed on that day every year after 1963. Japan – Dutch Tray Korea – Gwangbokjeol(Liberation Day). Liechtenstein – Liechtenstein Day. Paraguay – Assumption Day, and anniversary of the founding of Asunción Poland – Polish Armed Forces Day. Tuva – Tuva Republic Day, Naadym. Portugal – Our Lady of Angels Feast, Azores. Spain - Assumption Day. Costa Rica – Mother's Day.
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     16th August 1513 - Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs) - King Henry VIII of England defeats French Forces who beat a hasty retreat. 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina. 1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army. 1819 - Eleven people die and 400 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England. 1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks. 1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins. 1915 - World War I: Should victory be achieved over the Central Powers, the Triple Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia: the Austro-Hungarian territories of Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; and the eastern ⅔ of Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to the city of Bar). 1940 - World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway. 1942 - World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California. 1945 - An assasination attempt was made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki. 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1969 - Police raid on Spahn Ranch; Charles Manson arrested. 1975 - Serial killer Ted Bundy originally arrested for suspicion of burglary, only to later escape twice. 1975 - Peter Gabriel leaves the band Genesis. Over 400 people auditioned to be the new vocalist of Genesis, but the band eventually chose Phil Collins, the drummer, as vocalist. Births 1888 - T. E. Lawrence, ( Lawrence of Arabia)English writer and soldier (d. 1935) 1949 - Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges) 1957 - Tim Farriss, Australian musician (INXS) 1958 - Madonna, American singer and actress 1981 - Taylor Rain, American pornographic actress Deaths 1888 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831) 1938 - Robert Johnson, American singer and guitarist (b. 1911) 1977 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935) 2003 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)
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     1963 - Gory Guerrero defeated Ali Bey for the EMLL NWA Light Heavyweight title 1984 - Greg Valentine defeated Tito Santana for the WWWF Intercontinental title 1995 - Event - In your House III, Civic Center, Saginaw, MI 1995 - Shawn Michaels & Diesel defeated Owen Hart & Yokozuna for the WWF Tag Team title 2000 - Event - Unforgiven, First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA 2000 - The Hardy Boyz defeated Edge & Christian for the WWF Tag Team title 2000 - Crash Holly defeated Steve Blackman for the WWF Hardcore title 2000 - Perry Saturn defeated Crash Holly for the WWF Hardcore title 2000 - Steve Blackman defeated Perry Saturn for the WWF Hardcore title
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     1983 - Brett Wayne defeated Larry Zbyszko for the Georgia National Heavyweight title 1987 - Ronny Garvin defeated Ric Flair for the NWA Heavyweight Wrestling title 1993 - The USWA Southern Heavyweight title is held up after a Rich vs Jarrett match 1994 - The Patriot & Marcus Bagwell defeated Paul Orndorff & Paul Roma for the WCW World Tag Team title 1995 - Shaen Michaels & Diesel were stripped of the WWF Tag Team title by WWF President Gorilla Monsoon 1995 - The Smokin' Guns defeated Owen Hart & Yokozuna for the WWF Tag Team title 1998 - Flash Wheeler won a 20 Man Battle Royal for the New Jersey State Title 1999 - Gary Steele defeated Naoya Ogawa & Brian Anthony for the NWA Heavyweight title 2000 - Vince Russo defeated Booker T for the WCW Heavyweight title 2000 - Mark Jindrak & Sean O'Haire won a battle royal for the WCW Tag Team title 2000 - Raw Is War debuts on TNN 2001 - Test & Booker T defeated KAne & The Undertaker for the WCW Tag title
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     * 1991 - The Texas Outlaws defeated Jeff Jarrett & Robert Fuller for the USWA Tag Team title * 1999 - Event - Unforgiven, Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC * 1999 - Triple-H defeated the Rock in a tournament final for the WWF Heavyweight title * 1999 - D-Lo Brown defeated Mark Henry for the WWF European Heavyweight title * 2003 - Billy Reil defeated Wagner Brown for the USA Pro-Wrestling U.S. Heavyweight Title * 2003 - Deranged defeated Xavier for the USA Pro-Wrestling X-Treme Title
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     1977 - Professor Tanaka & Mr. Fuji defeated Tony Garea & Larry Zbyszko in a tournament final for the WWWF Tag Team title 1993 - Razor Ramon won a 20 man Battle Royal for the WWF Intercontinental title 1995 - Harlem Heat defeated Marcus Bagwell & Scotty Riggs for the WCW World Tag Team title 1998 - Event - IYH: Break Down, Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario 1998 - The WWF Heavyweight title declared vacent when Kane and the Undertaker both pin Steve Austin in a three-way match 1998 - Nick Dinsmore & Rob Conway defeated Jason Lee & Rod Steele in a tournament final for the Ohio Valley Southern Heavyweight Tag Title 2003 - April Hunter & Wagner Brown defeated The Dirty Rotten Scoundrelz for the Jersey All Pro Tag Team Titles
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     August 17 1717 - George Boone, the grandfather of pioneer and American folk hero Daniel Boone sails to America from Bradninch, England 1862 - Indian Wars: The Lakota (Sioux) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as vicious Lakota attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. 1914 - World War I: Battle of Stalluponen - The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Pavel Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. 1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. 1942 - U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin (Butaritari). 1943 - World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission. 1943 - World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrive in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. 1943 - World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. 1945 - Indonesian Declaration of Independence. 1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California. 1962 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming the first victim of the wall. 1982 - The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany. 1991 - Wade Frankum starts his killing spree in Strathfield, Australia, an event that was later dubbed the Strathfield Massacre. 1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship. 2002 - Soham murders: The bodies of 10 year olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman are found 13 days after their disappearance at the perimeter fence of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Births 1786 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and soldier (d. 1836) 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940) 1949 - Sib Hashian, American drummer (Boston) 1953 - Kevin Rowland, English musician (Dexys Midnight Runners) 1959 - David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993) 1962 - Gilby Clarke, American musician Guns N' Roses Deaths 1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall (b. 1944) 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896) Holidays and observances Independence Day – observance in Indonesia. Rastafari movement - celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey, considered a prophet. Día del Libertador - observed in Argentina, on the day when José de San Martín died.
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     August 18 1587 - Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Gov. John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. 1590 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted. 1920 - Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage. 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. 1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock. 1971 - Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam. 1977 - Steve Biko was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to apartheid. 2005 - Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings. Births 1587 - Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America (d. 1588) 1792 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878) 1890 - Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960) 1968 - Dan Peters, American drummer (Bundle of Hiss Feast Mudhoney Nirvana Screaming Trees Fastbacks Love Battery) 1979 - Selena Silver, Australian pornographic actress 1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love Deaths 1227 - Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire Holidays and observances International Lighthouse Day Australia - Long Tan Day (also called Vietnam Veterans' Day) named after the Battle of Long Tan
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     August 19 1561 - An 18-year-old Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland, after spending 13 years in France. 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft. 1745 - Jacobite Rising, Prince Charles Edward Stuart lands from a French warship in Glenfinnan, raises his standard and marches on London - the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion known as "the 45". 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks - The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown. 1812 - War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname "Old Ironsides". 1848 - California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January). 1862 - Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way. 1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Van begins 1919 - Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom. 1934 - The creation of the position Führer approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote. 1942 - World War II: Operation Jubilee - The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an allied forces amphibious assault on Dieppe, France. 1944 - World War II: Liberation of Paris - Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. 1987 - Hungerford Massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide. 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea. 1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. 2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. 2003 - A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. 2003 - A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre. Births 1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948) 1939 - Ginger Baker, English drummer (Cream) 1945 - Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple) 1946 - Bill Clinton, Former American president 1951 - John Deacon, English musician (Queen) 1963 - Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe) Deaths 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890) 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889) Holidays and observances Afghanistan - Afghan Independence Day
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     August 20 1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declared the U.S. Civil War over. 1914 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. 1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded in Mexico City by an assassin's ice axe. He dies the next day. 1944 - The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive. 1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb. 1955 - In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals 1968 - 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization. 1969 - All four Beatles were together in the recording studio for the final time as they finished the Abbey Road LP. 1982 - Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. 1986 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. 1988 - Iran-Iraq War: A cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war. 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. 1991 - Estonia secedes from the Soviet Union. 1998 - U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack. 2002 - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up. Births 1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901) 1941 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006) 1948 - Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin) 1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986) 1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004) 1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit) 1977 - Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player 1977 - Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player Deaths 1912 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829) Holidays and observances World Union - World Union Day. Estonia - Restoration of Estonian Independence. Hungary - St. Stephen's day, the main national holiday in Hungary. Morocco - Revolution of the King and the People Day. Argentina - San Martin Day.
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     August 21st 1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales. 1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee. 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad began. 1942 - World War II: A Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus. 1942 - World War II: Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru. 1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins. 1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. 1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals. 1968 - James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. 1991 - Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union. 1991 - Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses. 1997 - British rock band Oasis release their 3rd album Be Here Now - the fastest selling album of all time in the UK. 2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Births 1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837) 1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002) 1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002) 1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple) 1967 - Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down) 1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy) 1973 - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google Deaths 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879) 1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954) August 22nd 565 - St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. 1138 - Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England. 1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field death of Richard III and end of the House of Plantagenet 1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers. 1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the English Civil War. 1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America. 1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion. 1780 - James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage). 1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. 1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico. 1849 - First air raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice. 1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed. 1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded. 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile. 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered. 1914 - World War I: In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war. 1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War. 1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. 1941 - World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad. 1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan). 1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded. 1944 - World War II: Romania captured by the Soviet Union. 1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. 1988 - The Perth Mint issues the first platinum coin, the koala. 1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered. Births 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001) 1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead) 1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour) 1961 - Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears) 1961 - Debbi Peterson, American singer (The Bangles) 1963 - Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter 1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002) 1974 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player Deaths 1485 - Richard III, King of England (b. 1452)
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     August 23rd 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. 1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed at for high treason by Edward I of England. 1617 - The first one-way street is opened in London. 1651 - Charles II of England enters Worcester and starts a fight. 1799 - Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power. 1833 - Slavery abolished in the British colonies. 1839 - The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War. 1904 - The automobile tire chain is patented. 1914 - World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China. 1914 - World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal. 1929 - Hebron Massacre: Arab attack of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133 Jews killed, 67 in Hebron. 1939 - World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland, Ukraine and Poland are divided between the two nations. 1940 - World War II: The Germans start bombing London. 1942 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad. 1943 - World War II: Kharkov liberated. 1944 - World War II: Marseille liberated. 1944 - World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. 1944 - Freckleton Air Disaster - A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people. 1946 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. 1985 - Famous shipwreck RMS Titanic is found. 1990 - Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. 1990 - Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. 1990 - West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3. 1996 - Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.' Births 1946 - Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978) 1951 - Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor) 1961 - Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots) Holidays and observances Romania - Liberation Day (1944). Swaziland - Umhlanga Day. Ukraine - Flag Day. August 24th 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash. 1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid. 1349 - Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague. 1391 - Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca. 1814 - British and Canadian troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings. 1831 - Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle. 1847 - Charlotte Brontë finishes Jane Eyre. 1853 - Potato chips (Crisps) are first prepared. 1875 - Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel 1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. 1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. 1914 - World War I: German troops capture Namur. 1937 - In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement. 1939 - The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed between Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged. 1944 - World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris. 1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect. 1960 - A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low. 1968 - France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power. 1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon. 1990 - A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music. 1991 - Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. 1995 - Windows 95, a computer operating system by Microsoft, is released with much fanfare. Births 1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249) 1938 - David Freiberg, American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship) 1945 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep) 1963 - John Bush, American singer (Anthrax) 1968 - Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura) Deaths 1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618) Holidays and observances Liberia: Flag Day . Sierra Leone: President's Birthday. Ukraine: National holiday, independence from the Soviet Union (1991).
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     23rd October 1642 The Battle of Edgehill, in the Cotswolds - the first major battle of the English Civil War (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… between King Charles I (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… of England and Parliament. 1843 The building of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, commemorating Admiral Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is finally completed. 1906 In Britain, women suffragettes, campaigning for the right to vote, (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… hold a demonstration (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… at the House of Commons. (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… 10 are arrested and sent to prison. 1933 World WarII, the start of the decisive battle of El Alemein between Allied forces commanded by British Field Marshall Montgomery and the German (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… and Italian (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… North African armies commanded by Field Marshall Rommel. The Allies gain a significant victory at the end of 16 days' fighting. 1946 The United Nations (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… holds its first General Assembly in New York. 1956 Rioting in Budapest starts the Hungarian (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… Uprising. Demonstrators call for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Hungary. 1967 British farmers begin slaughtering cattle following a severe outbreak of 'foot and mouth' disease. 1987 In Britain, former Champion Jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for three years for tax evasion (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… 1991 In Britain, (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… the House of Lords (http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/arti… rules that husbands can legally be convicted of raping their wives.
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     August 25th 1537 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. 1768 - James Cook begins his first voyage. 1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. 1942 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged. 1944 - World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies. 1945 - Ten days after World War II ended with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by a portion of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War. 1991 - Belarus declares independence from the Soviet Union 1997 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, was convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy. Births 1949 - Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss) 1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest) 1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia) 1954 - Elvis Costello, English musician 1962 - Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio) Deaths 1482 - Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429) 1688 - Captain Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer Holidays and observances Uruguay - National Day (independence from Brazil in 1825). August 26th 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain. 1346 - Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy. 1883 - Eruption of Mount Krakatoa. 1914 - World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army. 1914 - World War I: The British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau. 1914 - World War I: The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. 1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor. 1942 - Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of houses, splits in groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 Jews to Belzec death camp. 500 of sick and children murdered on the spot. 1944 - World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris. 1968 - The Beatles' "Hey Jude" is released (in a shortened version) as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label, to spend nine weeks as number one, a record for any Beatles single. 1969 - Canada's Prime Minister decriminalizes sodomy by saying: "the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation" 1970 - The third annual Isle of Wight rock festival, which would feature the last UK performance from Jimi Hendrix, opens in Great Britain. 1995 - The International Rugby Board lifts all restrictions on payments relating to the game of Rugby Union, thus bringing the game's amateur age to an end. Births 1845 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888) 1910 - Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1997) 1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground) 1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer (Garbage) 1967 - Kelly Madison, American porn star Holidays and observances Namibia - Namibia Day or Heroes' Day. Philippines - National Heroes' Day. Zanzibar - Sultan's Birthday. United States - Women's Equality Day.
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     August 27th 1776 - Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington. 1793 - French counter-revolution, port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon. 1798 - United Irishmen and French forces clash with the British army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. 1896 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. 1900 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal. 1939 - First flight of the Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft. 1952 - Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmark. 1979 - An IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers. 1991 - The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 1991 - Moldova declares independence from the USSR. Births 1877 - Charles Rolls, Co-founder of Rolls-Royce (d. 1910) 1906 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984) 1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973) 1952 - Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens, American actor (AKA Jokerman:1orglaugh:) 1953 - Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush) 1963 - Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and former MTV VJ 1970 - Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt) 1973 - Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer Deaths 1967 - Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934) 1968 - Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906) 1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900) 1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954) 2006 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
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     August 28th 1640 - King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn 1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British. 1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made. 1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola". 1914 - The Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. 1916 - Germany declares war on Romania. 1916 - Italy declares war on Germany. 1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. 1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. 1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started. 1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated. 1955 - Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby. 1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech. 1972 - During the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events. 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels. 1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS. 1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. 1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. 1996 - Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced. 2005 - Hurricane Katrina upgraded to Category 5 storm; city of New Orleans put under its first mandatory evacuation order Births 1940 - Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind) 1942 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995) 1948 - Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago) 1949 - Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers
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     August 29th 1350 - Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. 1475 - The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England. 1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade. 1533 - Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadores. 1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. 1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War. 1825 - Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil. 1831 - Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction. 1833 - The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire. 1842 - Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War. 1882 - Is the date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of The Ashes. This is the date according to the mock obituary in The Sporting Times. 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle. 1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England. 1898 - The Goodyear tire company is founded. 1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. 1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. 1915 - US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, first U.S. submarine sunk in accident. 1918 - Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive 1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. 1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy;Germany dissolves Danish government. 1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis. 1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. 1966 - Last scheduled Beatles concert, in Candlestick Park San Francisco, California. 1991 - Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. 1995 - NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces. 2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf. 2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage. Births 1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer 1958 - Lenny Henry, British comic Holidays and observances Slovakia - Slovak National Uprising Day (1944, against the Nazis). 30th August 1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars. 1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia 1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded. 1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. 1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence"). 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins. 1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces. 1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base. 1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation. 1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum. Births [B]1935 - John Phillips, American singer (Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001) 1939 - John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004) 1953 - Horace Panter, British musician (The Specials and General Public) 1963 - Paul Oakenfold, British dance DJ/Remixer/Producer 1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs) Deaths 1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942) 2001 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, Welsh farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907) Holidays and observances Peru - Saint Rose of Lima's Day. Turkey - Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922). International Day of the Disappeared Feast day of Felix and Adauctus
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     31st August 1142 - With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the iroquoi tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee. 1422 - Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months. 1888 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims. 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. 1907 - Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance. 1939 - Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe. 1942 - In Ternopil, western Ukraine, at 4.30 am, German SS organise the first deportation of Jews from Ternopil ghetto to death camp in Belzec, about 5,000 Jews were deported to face death in Belzec. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city. 1943 - The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned. 1957 - The Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1962 - Trinidad and Tobago become independent. 1991 - Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union. 1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire. 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris. 2005 - A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people. 2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition. Births 1945 - Van Morrison, Irish musician 1948 - Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions) 1957 - Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's) 1957 - Glenn Tilbrook, British musician (Squeeze) 1958 - Serge Blanco, French International rugby player 1963 - Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake) 1977 - Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines) 1981 - Dwayne Peel, Welsh International rugby player Deaths 1422 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387) 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961) Holidays and observances Malaysia - Hari Merdeka, a National Day (independence within the Commonwealth, 1957). Kyrgyzstan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991). Trinidad and Tobago - Independence Day (from United Kingdom, 1962). 1st September 1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England. 1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause. 1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch. 1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia. 1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande. 1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband. 1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation. 1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Invasion of Poland.) 1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army. 1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date. 1939 - Switzerland mobilises its forces and parliament elects Henri Guisan as head of army (an event that can only happen during war or during mobilisation) 1943 - World War II: Italy accepts armistice terms. 1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty. 1969 - A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees. 1970 - Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerillas, who attacked his motorcade. 1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including US Congressmen Lawrence McDonald. 1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. 1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union 2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. Births 1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees) 1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam) 1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS) 1976 - Jada Fire, American pornographic actress Deaths 1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625) 2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918) Holidays and observances Libya - Revolution Day (1969). New Zealand - National R.A.K. (Random Act of Kindness) Day Russia - Knowledge Day. Singapore - Teachers' Day. Slovakia - Constitution Day. Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991). Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R"). Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St. Partridge"). First day of Spring in Australia and New Zealand.
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     Sep 2 1666 A kitchen fire breaks out in Thomas Farynor's bakery on Pudding Lane, unleashing four days of destruction. 436 acres in the city are converted to ash, including 13,200 homes. 200,000 residents are rendered homeless by what comes to be known as the Great Fire of London. Sep 2 1898 The 25,800 men of the Anglo-Egyptian Nile Expeditionary Force prevail over 52,000 Mahdists near Omdurman, Sudan. During the five-hour battle, 11,000 Mahdists are killed, 16,000 wounded, and 5,000 captured as prisoners of war. Meanwhile, the British force suffers only 48 deaths. Sep 2 1945 On the shelter deck of the USS Missouri in Yokohama harbor, 11 representatives of Emperor Hirohito sign the Instrument of Surrender. Sep 2 1993 Gay porn star Tom Farrell is killed by a hit-and-run driver while urinating late at night by the side of a road. Sep 2 2005 President George W Bush praises Michael Brown, FEMA director, just after Hurricane Katrina: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Despite the President's upbeat assessment, Americans saw a disconnected and ineffective response from FEMA courtesy of cable news networks. 490 BC - After the Battle of Marathon, where the Greeks defeated the invading Persians, Pheidippides, who had already run 140 miles in 2 days and nights, ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to carry the news of the victory. His last words before he collapsed and died, "Rejoice, we are victorious." 31 BC - Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. 1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral. 1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe. 1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers. 1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establishing British dominance in the Sudan. 1901 - Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. 1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14. 1939 - World War II: Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany. 1945 - Combat in World War II ends in the Pacific Theater: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York. 1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Births 1933 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor 1950 - Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster) Deaths 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
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     Sep 3 1941 At Auschwitz, the Germans conduct a live trial on 600 Russian POWs and 298 sick prisoners to test the lethality of an insecticide known as Zyklon-B. It turns out to be extremely effective at killing people. Sep 3 1962 american poet edward estlin cummings dies from a brain hemorrhage after splitting firewood in north conway, new hampshire Sep 3 1969 Ho Chi Minh dies of heart failure in Hanoi, Vietnam. He had asked to be cremated and his ashes buried on three hilltops. Contrary to his express wishes, Uncle Ho is embalmed and put on display in a mausoleum just like Lenin's. Sep 3 1971 The office of Daniel Ellsberg's Beverly Hills psychiatrist is burglarized by Nixon's plumbers, led by CIA operative E. Howard Hunt. Watergate investigators later uncover a memo about the burglary addressed to White House domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman, predating the actual crime. 301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. 1189 - Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster. 1650 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650) 1651 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war. 1666 - The Royal Exchange burnt down in the Great Fire of London 1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time. 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1798 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize. 1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. 1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph 1939 - World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, starting the Allies. 1942 - World War II: Uprising of the Jewish ghetto in Lakhva occurs. 1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war. 1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later. 1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. 1995 - eBay founded. 2004 - The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children. Births 1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys) 1947 - Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy) 1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols) 1963 - Amber Lynn, American porn star Deaths 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599) 1970 - "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943) Holidays and observances Qatar - Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1971). San Marino - Foundation (301) by Saint Marinus. Taiwan/Republic of China - Armed Forces Day. Australia - Flag Day. Tunisia - Memorial Day United States - Labor Day, 2007 Canada - Labour Day, 2007
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     Sep 4 1976 George W Bush is arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine for driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.10 percent. He pays the $150 fine and has his driving privileges suspended for a month. Years later, during Bush's 2000 campaign for President, a WPXT-TV reporter from Portland, Maine uncovers the arrest record just one week prior to election day. It is also revealed that Bush's V.P. candidate, Dick Cheney, had arrests for drunken driving in 1962 and 1963. Sep 4 1991 25 workers are killed when a fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods food processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Most of the victims -- predominantly single mothers -- die of smoke inhalation. The facility's rear exit had been padlocked by management to deter employee pilferage. The Imperial plant had never once in its 11-year history been inspected by the state. The owner, Emmet Roe, later receives 19 years in prison for the 25 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Sep 4 1993 3'11" actor Herve Villechaize puts a pistol to his chest and commits suicide in his North Hollywood, California home. Sep 4 2000 During a campaign stop in Naperville, Illinois, Presidential candidate George W Bush turns to running mate Dick Cheney and says, "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times." Cheney responds, "Oh yeah, he is, big-time." Unbeknownst to the men, their comments are transmitted clearly to the television news feed. Rather than offer a mea culpa to Clymer, Bush later issues this non-apology: "I regret that a private comment I made to the vice-presidential candidate made it onto the public airwaves. I regret everybody heard what I said." 1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by 44 Spanish settlers. 1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. 1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. 1886 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. 1939 - World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war. 1940 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks a United States ship (the USS Greer) despite US neutrality and causing tensions to heighten. 1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp. 1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced. 1964 - Scotland's Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens. 1972 - Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to do so. Spitz swam in only seven events and set world records in each one. Births 1241 - Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286) 1951 - Martin Chambers, English drummer (The Pretenders) 1963 - Sam Yaffa, Finnish Musician(Hanoi Rocks, New York Dolls) 1969 - Alexander Coe, (DJ Sasha) Welsh DJ and record producer 1970 - Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer (Sepultura) 1977 - Mark Ronson, English DJ/Producer and co-founder of Allido Records Deaths 2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)
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     Sep 5 1921 Undiscovered actress Virginia Rappe somehow ruptures her bladder during actor-comedian Fatty Arbuckle's party at the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Three days later, the feverish woman is checked into a maternity hospital, where she dies from peritonitis. Arbuckle is eventually tried for murder, but acquitted. Sep 5 1949 A former sharpshooter in World War II, pharmacy student Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger. He later tells a reporter "I'm no psycho. I have a good mind. I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets." Sep 5 1972 Five Palestinians armed with machine guns sneak into the Olympic Village in Munich. There they take nine Israeli athletes hostage, killing two others in the process. Later, they demand safe passage out of the country and the release of 200 Palestinians from prison in Israel. Ultimately, none of the athletes makes it out alive. Sep 5 1975 Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme almost assassinates President Gerald Ford with a .45 automatic in Sacramento, California. But Fromme is tackled by a Secret Service agent before she can remember to rack a round into the firing chamber. Sep 5 1989 During a televised speech from the Oval Office, President George HW Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park. Three weeks later, a DEA official admits to The Washington Post that crack dealers don't actually hang out in Lafayette Park, so they purposely lured one to the spot. "We had to manipulate him to get him down there. It wasn't easy." Reportedly, the seller's first question was: "Where the fuck is the White House?" Sep 5 1990 In his testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, LAPD chief Daryl Gates opines: "Casual drug users should be taken out and shot." Sep 5 1991 Disgraced children's television star Pee-wee Herman returns to the public eye for the first time after his masturbation arrest, appearing on the MTV Video Music Awards. He opens with the line: "Heard any good jokes lately?" Sep 5 2001 Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, a regular of the Howard Stern "Wack Pack" and a midget alcoholic, died yesterday at the tender age of 39. Sleep well, little souse. Sep 5 2003 One Disneyland guest is killed and 10 others injured when the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad coaster jumps the tracks in Frontierland. 1666 - Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died. 1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards. 1798 - Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law. 1800 - Malta is conquered by Great Britain. 1839 - The First Opium War begins in China. 1939 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war. 1942 - World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War. 1943 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign. 1944 - Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux. 1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama. 1948 - Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II. 1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 1975 - Sacramento, California: a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. 1984 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. Births 1847 - Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882) 1946 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991) 1968 - Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine) 1969 - Dweezil Zappa, American musician 1970 - Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly) 1978 - Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer Deaths 1548 - Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1512) 1877 - Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
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     Sep 6 1901 While shaking hands at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, President William McKinley is shot twice in the abdomen at point-blank range with a .32 caliber revolver. He dies a week later. The assassin, an anarchist by the name of Leon Frank Czolgosz, actually is a lone gunman (for once). Sep 6 1951 During a drinking party in Mexico City, author William S. Burroughs instructs his wife Joan to balance a glass of gin on her head. He then takes careful aim with his new .38 pistol, and unintentionally blows her brains out in front of their friends. The Mexican authorities later charge Burroughs with criminal imprudence. Sep 6 1966 Parliamentary messenger Demetrios Tsafendas assassinates Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, by sticking a knife in his chest on the floor of the South African legislature. The apartheid system had been Verwoerd's brainchild. Sep 6 1986 In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists step inside the Neve Shalom synagogue on Buyuk Hendek Street during Sabbath services. They unload into the worshippers with submachine guns and grenades, killing 22 and wounding six. The incident is later attributed to Abu Nidal's terror organization. 1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time. 1522 – The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. 1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. 1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory. 1901 – Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco. 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek. 1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany. 1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces. 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control. 1966 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting. 1968 – Swaziland becomes independent from the UK. 1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924. 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion. Births 1943 – Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd) 1961 – Scott Travis, American musician (Judas Priest) 1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (The Cranberries) 1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans) Holidays and observances Bulgaria – Unification Day. Pakistan – Defence Day (Pak-Army Day) Since 1965 Swaziland – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1968). 7th September 1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf. 1776 - World's first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor. 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino. 1822 - Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga river in São Paulo. 1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. 1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. 1942 - Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec. 1942 - Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec. 1942 - First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator. 1945 - Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines. 1978 - While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella. 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa. 1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University Births 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603) 1951 - Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer (The Pretenders) 1957 - Jermaine Stewart, American pop singer (Shalamar and Culture Club) (d. 1997) 1961 - LeRoi Moore, American Saxophonist(Dave Matthews Band) 1963 - Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A.) (d. 1995 AIDS) Deaths 1548 - Catherine Parr, final wife of Henry VIII of England (born c. 1512) 1978 - Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (b. 1946) Holidays and observances Brazil - Independence day (from Portugal, 1822). Aydın Turkey - Independence day 1922 Pakistan - Defence Day (Pak-Air-Force Day) Since 1971 Mozambique - Victory Day.
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     Sep 8 1888 The "terribly mutilated" body of prostitute Annie Chapman is found in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. It is the second known victim attributed to Jack the Ripper. Sep 8 1935 Dr. Carl Austin Weiss confronts Senator Huey Long in a narrow corridor of the State House in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Weiss draws a .32 caliber pistol and fires one slug into Long's abdomen. The Senator's bodyguards immediately make Swiss cheese out of Weiss, riddling him with 61 bullets. Long is rushed to the hospital, where he dies two days later. Sep 8 1966 Star Trek debuts on NBC, with the airing of an episode titled "The Man Trap." The science fiction show proceeds to suffer in the ratings against established sitcoms Bewitched and My Three Sons. Sep 8 1974 President Gerald Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, out of respect for Nixon's family. "Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must." Sep 8 1974 In Idaho, daredevil Evel Knievel climbs into his X-2 Skycycle (really just a rocket on wheels) and hits the ignition. The vehicle manages to clear the quarter-mile-wide Snake River Canyon, but then the parachute deploys prematurely and prevailing winds push him back into the chasm. Total ripoff. Sep 8 1993 The refrigerated remains of President Ferdinand Marcos, whose corpse spent several years exiled in Hawaii, returns to the Philippines for its final resting place. Luckily, Imelda had preserved her husband, so they are finally able to put him on display just like Lenin, Stalin, and Pol Pot -- under glass in a mausoleum of his very own. 1831 - William IV was crowned King of Great Britain. 1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found. 1888 - In England the first six Football League matches ever are played. 1914 - World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war. 1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost. 1926 - Germany was admitted to the League of Nations. 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia. 1943 - World War II: Julius Fučík is executed by Nazis. 1943 - World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati was bombed by USAAF. 1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy. 1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time. 1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany. 1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier. 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War. 1966 - The Severn Bridge was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. 1975 - Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual." He is later given a general discharge. 1991 - Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. Births 1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199) 1921 - Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001) 1925 - Peter Sellers, English actor (d. 1980) 1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973) 1947 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist (The Cars) (d. 2000) 1958 - Michael Lardie, American guitarist/keyboardist (Great white) 1969 - Gary Speed, Welsh footballer 1972 - Os du Randt, South African rugby player 1975 - Richard Hughes, English musician, (Keane) Holidays and observances Andorra - National day: Mare de Deu de Meritxell. Pakistan - Defence Day (Pak-Naval Day) Republic of Macedonia - Independence day (from Yugoslavia, 1991). Malta - Feast of Our Lady of Victories; anniversary of the 1565 victory of the Knights of Malta over the Ottoman Empire; anniversary of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allied forces, marking the end of World War II hostilities on Malta. Fiestas de Santa Fe in New Mexico, USA. International Literacy Day
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     Sep 9 1087 William the Conqueror dies of internal injuries, sustained six weeks prior in a horse riding accident at Mantes-la-Jolie. When the corpulent king was later laid to rest in the foundations of a church, William's "swollen bowels burst, and an intolerable stench assailed the nostrils of the by-standers and the whole crowd." Sep 9 1942 On orders of Heinrich Himmler, Auschwitz prisoners are forced to exhume and burn 107,000 decaying corpses from the camp's mass graves. They are cremated in gigantic, open-pit bonfires. Sep 9 1956 Elvis Presley makes his first-ever appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, performing four songs for guest host Charles Laughton. Ed himself had vowed never to have Presley on his show, but Sullivan is at home, recuperating from a severe head injury. Sep 9 1971 1,300 inmates riot inside the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York state, commandeering the prison and taking 40 guards hostage. The national guard stages an assault five days later, killing 42 people in the process (10 of them being captives). Sep 9 1999 A bomb planted by Chechen terrorists explodes in a Moscow apartment building on Guryanov Street, killing more than 90 people. It is part of a series of apartment bombings in Russia leaving more than 400 dead. Sep 9 2003 Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb" and purported model for Dr. Strangelove, dies at the age of 95 at his home on the Stanford University campus. His role in the destruction of colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer's career during the McCarthy era resulted in his own ostracism by many of his peers. 1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai. 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling. 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina. 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States. 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks. 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon. 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy. 1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established. 1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China. 1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. 2004 - Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. Births 1754 - Captain William Bligh, British naval officer (The Bounty) (d. 1817) 1890 - (Colonel) Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980) 1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980) 1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006) 1973 - Mark Parry, Welsh guitarist (The Manvils) 1983 - Jana Miartusova Czech nude model and lesbian porn star Deaths 1087 - King William I of England 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473) Holidays and observances Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku). North Korea - Republic Day (1948). Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991). California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
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     Sep 10 1846 1,000 members of the Illinois State Militia, under the command of one Thomas Brockman, begin what will become a six-day campaign to drive out the Mormon settlement of Nauvoo. The first day consists of a cannon bombardment of the town, and things escalate from there. A treaty signed at the end of the week exchanges a Mormon surrender for the preservation of life and property, but the Illinois side flagrantly violates this agreement by raping and looting the village. Sep 10 1977 Convicted torture-killer Hamida Djandoubi, an immigrant from Tunisia, becomes the last person executed by France when he is guillotined in Marseilles. Sep 10 1990 Liberian president Samuel Doe is stripped naked, beaten, and tortured to death. He had been taken hostage in Monrovia the previous day by rebels led by Prince Johnson. They capture the entire process on videotape, which soon becomes West Africa's most-watched snuff film. Most memorable moment: when they cut off one of Doe's ears and Johnson chews it up. Sep 10 1993 The X-Files premieres on the Fox network. 7.4 million homes tune in for the science fiction/conspiracy/detective show. 1798 - At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain. 1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. 1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. 1939 - World War II: The submarine HMAS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Triton off the coast of Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss. 1939 - Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia in the Allies. 1942 - World War II: The British carry out an amphibious landing at Majunga, north-west Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign. 1943 - World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome. 1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran. 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain. 1972 - The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany. 1977 - Last execution by Guillotine in France. Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in Marseille. Births 1918 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932) 1946 - Don Powell, English drummer (Slade) 1950 - Joe Perry, American musician (Aerosmith) 1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer, punk rock drummer (Descendents, Black Flag, ALL, Only Crime) 1965 - Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer (Bush) Deaths 1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545) 2007 - Anita Roddick, British Businesswoman (Body shop) (b.1942) Holidays and observances Gibraltar - National Day. Teacher's Day in China. Free Hugs - International Campaign
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     Sep 11 1973 With the blessing of Henry Kissinger and the CIA, general Augusto Pinochet stages a violent coup in Chile, overthrowing the government of Salvador Allende, the country's democratically-elected but nonetheless Marxist president. Sep 11 1978 Janet Parker, a medical photographer, is the final victim of smallpox. It is likely she contracted the disease at Birmingham University's medical lab, an accident while working on an unrelated project. Sep 11 1987 Upset over delays due to live coverage of a pro tennis match, television anchorman Dan Rather walks off the set of the CBS Evening News. When the sports program ends unexpectedly, Rather is nowhere to be found. The network feed goes dark for six whole minutes before Dan can be persuaded to return. Sep 11 1987 Actor Lorne Greene, star of television's Bonanza and Battlestar Galactica, dies of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California. Greene, whose credits also include 1986's Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter, was 504 in dog years. Sep 11 1991 Boxer Mike Tyson is arrested for raping Desiree Washington in an Indianapolis hotel room. After his conviction and three years spent behind bars, Tyson continues to maintain his innocence, telling one reporter: "I just hate her guts... I really wish I did now... now I really do want to rape her." Sep 11 2001 The single largest terrorist attack in history occurs when four commercial jetliners are hijacked, two of which slam into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Another plane is crashed into the Pentagon. 2,915 people are killed in the attacks, coordinated by Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden. The civilized world is horrified; especially after seeing footage of Palestinians celebrating in the streets. For the first time in U.S. history, all flights are grounded throughout the country. All major government facilities are evacuated as well as many local facilities. The federal government uses this sneak attack as a pretext to crack down on civil liberties, in the form of the USA PATRIOT Act and similar efforts, which continue to this day. Sep 11 2003 Tommy Chong, half of the perpetually high comedy duo Cheech and Chong, is sentenced to nine months in federal prison. Chong was targeted and made an example of as the result of two U.S. investigations (Operation Pipe Dreams and Operation Headhunter) which sought to close down businesses selling bongs and other marijuana-related drug paraphernalia over the Internet. 1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English. 1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island. 1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison. 1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution. 1777 - Battle of Brandywine - Major American Revolutionary war victory for British in Chester County, Pennsylvania. 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there. 1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras. 1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins. 1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails. 1940 - World War II: Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid. 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon. 1941 - World War II: U.S. Navy ordered to attack German U-boats. 1941 - Charles Lindberg's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and FDR's administration of pressing for war with Germany. 1943 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija. 1943 - World War II: start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis. 1944 - World War II: the first allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany. 1944 - World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500. 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Japanese-run POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on September 15. 1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the United States Marine Corps. 1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany. 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded. He mentions the term "New World Order" in this speech for the first time, which is also named "Towards a New World Order". 1997 - After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom. 2001 - Coordinated attacks resulting in the collapse or severe damage of several skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and an intentional passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2,974 people are killed in these coordinated attacks . Births 1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead) 1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer (Styx) 1965 - Moby, American musician 1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer (The Verve) 1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player 1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay) 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999) Deaths 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. 1929) 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox, (b. c. 1938) 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (The Wailers)(murdered) (b. 1944) Holidays and observances New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar Latin America Teacher's Day Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Feast day of Saint Deiniol. (North Wales) National Day of Catalonia, remembering those Catalan patriots who died in the Siege of Barcelona, in defense of the city, against the Franco-Spanish army.
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     Sep 12 1878 The magnificent phallic symbol Cleopatra's Needle is erected in London on the bank of the Thames. It doesn't really have anything to do with Cleopatra. The obelisk has a twin in New York's Central Park, also named Cleopatra's Needle. It has nothing to do with Cleopatra, either. Sep 12 1966 NBC television premieres The Monkees, a sitcom about four guys in a rock band. When the show becomes a hit, the fictional Monkees somehow release a string of albums, even though three of the actors can't even play their instruments. Sep 12 1970 After releasing most of their captives, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine blows up three hijacked passenger jets in the Jordanian desert. The 40 remaining Israeli hostages are taken to secret locations in Amman, Jordan. Sep 12 1977 The body of Steven Biko is discovered on the floor of a jail cell in Pretoria. The South African civil rights activist had been beaten and tortured six days earlier, during an interrogation in Port Elizabeth. Police officials claim that Biko probably suffered the fatal injuries when he "fell out of bed." Sep 12 1992 Anthony Perkins, star of the Hitchcock classic Psycho, dies of AIDS in his Hollywood hills home. His extraordinary versatility as an actor is captured in the films Psycho II, Psycho III, and Psycho IV: The New Beginning. Sep 12 1994 After a night of boozing and smoking crack, Frank Corder steals a Cessna P150 and crashes it into the south lawn of the White House. The wreckage tumbles over a tree and a hedge before coming to rest against the West Wing of the Executive Mansion. Corder's flamboyant suicide attack never actually imperiled President Clinton's life, since the First Family was sleeping elsewhere at the time. 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River. 1683 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire. 1814 - Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. 1906 - Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. 1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. 1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 1942 - World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks. 1942 - World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces. 1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando Otto Skorzeny. 1944 - World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. 1947 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. 1977 - South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody. 1990 - The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification. 1995 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's All Star Team beats the Harlem Globetrotters 91-85, ending the Globetrotters' 24-year, 8,829-game winning streak. 2001 - Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for only the second time (the other being in Bosnia) in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America. 2003 - The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. 2005 - Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip. Births 1575 - Henry Hudson, English explorer (d. 1611) 1818 - Richard Gatling, American weapons inventor (d. 1903) 1852 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928) 1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980) 1914 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (Q in the Bond films) (d. 1999) 1952 - Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and author (Rush) 1978 - Michael Paget, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine) Deaths 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946) 1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (AIDS)(b. 1932) 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932) Holidays and observances Cape Verde - National Day. Ethiopia - National Revolution Day (1974). Maryland (United States) - Defenders Day. Mexico - Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion
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     Sep 13 1848 A 13-pound tamping iron is blown through the head of railroad construction foreman Phineas P. Gage, entering beneath the left cheekbone and exiting the top of his head. The metal bar lands 30 yards away, taking with it much of his left frontal lobe. Gage never loses consciousness, even while the doctors examine his wound. Two months later, he is well enough to return home and resume an active life of work and travel. The steel rod, along with a cast of Gage's head, and his skull, are now on display at Harvard Medical Schools's Warren Anatomical Museum. Sep 13 1916 Mary the circus elephant is publicly executed in the Erwin, Tennessee railyard, after killing a drifter named Red Eldridge the previous day. The five-ton animal is hanged from a derrick car in front of 3,000 onlookers, and left hanging for half an hour. Sep 13 1971 After 1,300 rioting prisoners reject a list of proposed concessions because it lacks immunity from prosecution, New York Governor (Broken link for Nelson Rockefeller) orders an attack to retake Attica prison. In all, 29 prisoners die and 85 are wounded; and 10 hostages are killed. For months thereafter, prisoners receive inhumane beatings from guards. Sep 13 1996 Death Row Records rap artist Tupac Shakur dies in Las Vegas from gunshot wounds inflicted during a drive-by. The rapper was shot four times by persons unknown, leaving him in a coma for six days. 2PAC had recently spent 8 months in prison for sexual assault. 122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins. 1224 - Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata. 1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. 1609 - Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River. 1743 - Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743). 1759 - Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War. 1788 - The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.. 1814 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812. 1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner 1882 - The Battle of Tel al-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. 1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. 1899 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. 1906 - First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe. 1914 - During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station. 1922 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.7°C (135.9°F). 1940 - World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace. 1940 - World War II: Italy invades Egypt. 1942 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces. 1943 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China. 1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact. 1969 - The premiere episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 1985 - Super Mario Bros., the best selling video game of all time, is released. 1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. 1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway. 2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Births 1766 - Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854) 1857 - Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner (d. 1945) 1916 - Roald Dahl, British writer (Charlie and the chocolate factory (d. 1990) 1944 - Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago) 1951 - Linda Wong, Asian adult actress (d. 1987) 1952 - Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People) 1957 - Vinny Appice, American musician (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven and Hell) 1961 - Dave Mustaine, American musician (Megadeth) 1965 - Zak Starkey (son of Ringo Starr) British drummer, (Oasis) 1977 - Fiona Apple, American singer 1979 - Catalina Cruz, American Pornstar 1987 - Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union International Deaths 1996 - Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971) 2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
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     14th September 1682 - Bishop Gore School one of the oldest schools in Wales founded. 1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2). 1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented. 1901 - President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. 1917 - Russia is officially proclaimed a republic. 1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu. 1948 - Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City. 1958 - Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere. 1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. 1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean. 2000 - Microsoft introduced the last update to the OS, MS-DOS. (Version 8.0) 2000 - Windows Me is released. 2003 - In a referendum Sweden rejects adopting the euro. 2003 - Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum. Births 1949 - Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977) 1949 - Ed King, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1950 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (d. 1976) 1978 - Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer 1983 - Amy Winehouse, English singer, attention whore, smack head and all round skank:1orglaugh: Deaths 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1901 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843) 15 September 1656 - England and France sign a peace treaty. 1762 - Battle of Signal Hill 1776 - American Revolutionary War: British land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign. 1812 - The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow. 1821 - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua jointly declare independence from Spain. 1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens 1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. 1894 - First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang. 1914 - World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France. 1916 - World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle by the British at the Battle of the Somme. 1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. 1931 - In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins. 1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship. 1935 - Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika. 1940 - World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoot down large numbers of Luftwaffe. 1941 - The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act. 1942 - World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal. 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy. 1948 - The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h. 1950 - Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon, Korea. 1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. 1975 - Progressive Rock artists Pink Floyd release Wish You Were Here. 1990 - France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf Births 1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324) 1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930) 1960 - Kevin Allen, Welsh film director (Twin Town) 1984 - Prince Henry (Harry) of Wales Deaths 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806) 1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898) 2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948) 2007 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968) 2007 - Johnny McRae, son of Colin McRae
250. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive26 Oct 2007, 17:58
     16th September 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr declared Prince of Wales by his followers. 1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart,sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. 1795 - United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa. 1941 - Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 1949 - First Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner episode- Fast and Furry-ous is aired. 1955 - Juan Perón is deposed in Argentina. 1963 - Malaysia is formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. 1975 - Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia. 1992 - Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark. Births 1387 - King Henry V of England, (d. 1422) 1858 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923) 1891 - Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980) 1925 - B. B. King, American musician 1942 - Bernie Calvert, British musician (The Hollies) 1948 - Ron Blair, American bassist (Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers) 1948 - Kenny Jones, English musician (The Small Faces; Faces; The Who) 1958 - Neville Southall, Welsh footballer 1961 - Bilinda Butcher, Irish singer (My Bloody Valentine) Deaths 1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633) 1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686) 1977 - Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947) 2005 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920) Holidays and observances Mexico - Independence Day Papua New Guinea - Independence Day Sep 17 1859 San Francisco resident Joshua A. Norton proclaims himself Emperor of the United States, a title he retains until his death in 1880. The successor to Emperor Norton I has yet to be anointed. Sep 17 1908 Thomas E. Selfridge becomes the world's first airplane fatality when the craft he's co-piloting with Orville Wright crashes near Fort Meyer, Virginia. An untested propeller ripped apart the plane's structure, causing it to nosedive from an altitude of 75 feet. Sep 17 1939 The Soviet Union invades Poland, to fulfill its end of the secret protocols contained in the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. They partition the country along pre-decided lines. Sep 17 1965 CBS television premieres Hogan's Heroes, the first and perhaps only sitcom based in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The show is proof once and for all that Nazis are hilarious. Sep 17 1980 Deposed Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza is assassinated in Asuncion, Paraguay when his limousine is stopped by a six-man hit squad, armed with machine guns and a bazooka. As it happens, Somoza's father, Anastasio Sr., was himself assassinated in 1956. 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. 1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. 1939 - World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. 1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis. 1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden. 1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA. 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. 1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland. Births 1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985) 1969 - Keith Flint, Vocalist/dancer (The Prodigy) 1971 - Mike Catt, English rugby player 1971 - Ian Whyte, Welsh actor and basketball player (Alien v Predetor) 1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress Deaths 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960) Holidays and observances Angola - National Heroes' Day. Netherlands - Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day. United States - National Apple Dumpling Day.
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     Sep 18 1931 The "Mukden Incident" occurs when Imperial Japanese troops occupying northern Manchuria blow up a portion of the railway near Mukden (now Shenyang), blame the destruction on Chinese saboteurs, and commence the annexation of Manchuria. Sep 18 1932 24-year-old starlet Peg Entwhistle dives head first from the letter "H" of the HOLLYWOODLAND sign in Los Angeles. She is the first person to commit suicide at the landmark. Sep 18 1946 Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 thus establishing the CIA. Sep 18 1970 A sleeping Jimi Hendrix dies in London from of a barbiturate overdose when chunks of vomited tuna sandwich wind up in his lungs, causing him to choke. Sep 18 1978 The four KISS members release their solo albums. Sep 18 1979 NBC television premieres The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a spin-off of BJ and the Bear. Claude Akins stars as Elroy P. Lobo, the slightly corrupt sheriff of Orly County, who faces his first misadventure in "The Day That Shark Ate Lobo." Sep 18 1981 France abolishes capital punishment, relegating its noble guillotine to a museum. The machine had not seen active duty for four years. Sep 18 1992 Two weeks after being outed in the New York weekly QW, attorney John Schlafly admits in an interview with the San Francisco Examiner that he is homosexual. This causes a certain amount of consternation for his mother, archconservative gay rights opponent Phyllis Schlafly. Sep 18 1994 Vitas Gerulaitis is killed in his sleep in the guest cottage of a friend's Long Island estate. The professional tennis player dies from carbon monoxide poisoning, caused by a faulty propane swimming-pool heater. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage. 1759 - The British capture Quebec City. 1793 - The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington. 1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens. 1879 - Blackpool's illuminations were switched on for the first time. 1914 - The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I. 1914 - World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa. 1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations. 1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations. 1939 - World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania. 1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast. 1940 - World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani. 1943 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór. 1943 - World War II: Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews. 1944 - World War II: British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed. 1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo. 1945 - In Gary, Indiana, 1000 whites walk out of schools to protest integration. 1964 - North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam. 1970 - Jimi Hendrix found dead in his basement in London. 1972 - First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the UK. 1973 - East and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations. 1976 - Mao Tse Tung's funeral takes place in Beijing. 1983 - Rock band Kiss unmasks for the first time in an appearance on MTV to coincide with the release of new album Lick It Up. 1987 - Ronald Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear warheads by USA and USSR. 1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy. 2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. 2002 - The body of missing schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is found in Yateley heath in Hampshire, ending a six-month search Births 1733 - George Read, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798) 1895 - Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007 1952 - Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002) 1986 - Keeley Hazell, British glamour model Deaths 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, American musician (b. 1942) 2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (during the Wales rally GB) (b. 1966) 2007 - Pepsi Tate Welsh bassist (tigertailz) Holidays and observances Chile - Independence Day
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     Sep 19 1692 80-year-old farmer Giles Cory is pressed under stones in Salem, Massachusetts because he refused to enter a plea for the charge of witchcraft. More and more weight was stacked upon Cory, until his death two days later. According to one eyewitness account: "in pressing, his tongue being pressed out of his mouth, the sheriff with his cane forced it in again." Sep 19 1931 Adolf Hitler's 23-year-old half niece, Geli Raubal, is found dead in her uncle's Munich apartment from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Some allege that she and Adolf had a sexual relationship, which involved Geli pissing on him. Hitler conveniently happens to be out of town at the time of the shooting. Sep 19 1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby. We aren't sure if he did it, but he did have $11,000 of the ransom money. They fry him two years later. Sep 19 1959 In a Cold War setback, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is annoyed to learn that he will not be permitted to visit Disneyland, due to concerns for his personal safety. Sep 19 1961 Betty and Barney Hill are picked up near Indian Head, New Hampshire and anally probed by five beings in a flying saucer. The couple later describes the craft as being "banana-like, with pointed tips and windows." Sep 19 1995 The New York Times and the Washington Post publish the Unabomber's rambling, 35,000-word anti-technology screed, "Industrial Society And Its Future." In exchange, he promises to halt his bombing campaign. 1356 - In the Battle of Poitiers, the English defeat the French. 1692 - Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials. 1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together. 1942 - Holocaust in Brody, western Ukraine: About 2,500 Brody Jews are deported by German Gestapo to the extermination camp in Belzec. 1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War). 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London. 1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. 1952 - The U.S. bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England. 1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test. 1970 - The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, UK. 1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat. 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.(from UK) 1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists on the Austrian/Italian Alps. 2001 - Commencement of U.S. combat activities in Afghanistan. 2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. Constitution revoked; martial law declared. Births 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (d. 1832) 1934 - Brian Epstein, Beatles manager (d. 1967) 1947 - Lol Creme, English musician (10cc, Godley & Creme) 1958 - Lita Ford, English-born singer (The Runaways) 1963 - Jarvis Cocker, English singer, songwriter and musician (Pulp) Deaths 1692 - Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials 1905 - Thomas John (Dr) Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845) Holidays and observances Chile - Armed Forces Day. Saint Kitts and Nevis - Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1983).
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     Sep 20th 1519: Five vessels commanded by Ferdinand Magellan sail from Spain to attempt a circumnavigation of the world. Although Magellan is killed in the Philippines, one of the ships completes the voyage in 1522. 1830: The first National Negro Convention opens, organized by clergyman Richard Allen at his Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1884: At its convention in San Francisco, California, the Equal Rights Party, formed to advocate for women's rights, nominates Belva Ann Lockwood for president of the United States. 1962: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocks an attempt by James Meredith to become the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi. 1973: In a $100,000 tennis match at the Houston Astrodome, billed as the Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. 1998: Ending a record streak of 2,632 consecutive games played, which lasted almost 17 seasons, baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., of the Baltimore Orioles asks to be removed from the starting lineup. [/URL] 1984: US embassy blast kills 20. A suicide bomber attacks the United States embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/septembe… (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/septembe… 1999: Un forces arrive in east Timor. A multinational peacekeeping force lands in East Timor in an attempt to restore law and order to the territory. Born on this day: Maxwell Perkins (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?re… editor (1884) Sir James Dewar (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?re… chemist and physicist (1842) Upton Sinclair (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?re… writer and reformer (1878) Petroleum V. Nasby (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?re… satirist (1833) Sophia Loren (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?re… film actor (1934) Victor Sjöström, film director and actor (1879) Deaths on this day: 1947 (http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/1947)- Former New York City (http://www.reference.com/search?q=New%20York%20City) Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (http://www.reference.com/search?q=Fiorello%20La%20Guardia). 1973 (http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/1973) - Jim Croce (http://www.reference.com/search?q=Jim%20Croce), American singer-songwriter, in an airplane crash. Astrological sign: Virgo
254. Haseknumber39Salvaged from archive27 Oct 2007, 08:00
     Its not september Its October Happy Birthday NY Subways :xyxthumbs: 103 years old :D
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     Oct 27 1964 In a private ceremony, Sonny and Cher marry each other by exchanging rings in a Tijuana motel bathroom. Five years later, with a baby on the way, they get married for real. Oct 27 1993 Santa Ana winds drive 14 fires across five Southern California counties, which destroy more than 500 homes and cause perhaps $1B in damage within a week's time. Oct 27 1997 The California Medical Board announces it is investigating Hollywood plastic surgeon Steven Hoefflin, after former employees accused him of "fondling, disrobing, photographing and ridiculing his anesthetized patients." Hoefflin - whose former patients include Liz Taylor, Phyllis Diller, and Joan Rivers - denies all charges. The probe is eventually dropped, but not before Dr. Hoefflin agrees to pay his former workers an undisclosed cash settlement. Oct 27 1999 Five gunmen storm the Armenian Parliament with machine guns, killing the prime minister, Vazgen Sarkisian, and seven other high officials on live television. The gunmen surrender the following day, after holding a large number of parliament members hostage. The motive behind the attack seems to have been protesting government corruption.
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     Sep 20 1970 A jury in Miami, Florida finds vocalist Jim Morrison guilty of profanity and indecent exposure for whipping out his cock at a Doors concert in Coconut Grove the previous year. Sep 20 1973 A Beechcraft D-18 charter plane crashes into a tree near Natchitoches, Louisiana, killing singer/songwriter Jim Croce, his lead guitarist, and the entire flight crew. Sep 20 1979 With the aid of 700 French paratroopers, David Dacko mounts a successful coup against the regime of Jean-Bedel Bokassa in the Central African Republic. For years, Bokassa was dogged by rumors of cannibalism, and his stewardship was known for its incredible barbarity. Sep 20 1984 An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber drives a truck loaded with half a ton of high explosive up to the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The blast kills 20 and injures dozens more. The embassy had only reopened just six weeks before after the last bombing, which killed 61. Sep 20 1986 Officials in Latvia test the structural integrity of a 40-year-old bridge by driving 14 heavy vehicles containing gravel on top of it. A 250-foot span of the bridge collapses, killing ten people. Sep 20 1989 A jury finds Richard Ramirez ("The Night Stalker") guilty of 43 counts, including 13 murders and assorted incidents of burglary, rape, and sodomy. Ramirez terrorized Southern California during a string of murders, sexual attacks and burglaries. He would scrawl a pentacle in his victim's blood on the wall of each crime scene. Sep 20 1992 Nine months prior to the infamous Bobbitt incident, a Los Angeleno named Aurelia Macias castrates her husband with a pair of scissors. Macias is found innocent by reason of insanity, and the case never generates much publicity. 451 - The Battle of Chalons, in North Eastern France. Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun in a day of combat, considered and believed to be the largest battle in the ancient world. 1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem. 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun. 1854 - Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea. 1857 - The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company. 1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States. 1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States. 1906 - Cunard Line's RMS [I]Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle, England. 1939 - A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near Aachen. This is the RAF's first aerial victory of the Second World War. 1940 - Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the Japanese Purple code. 1942 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held. 1967 - The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE II) is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line. 1969 - John Lennon leaves The Beatles but does not make a public announcement 1970 - Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen. The Jordanians knock out 30 of the Syrian tanks. 2000 - The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building was attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile 2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares "war on terror". Births 1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502) 1948 - Chuck Panozzo and John Panozzo (d. 1996), American musicians (Styx) Deaths 1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1909) 1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932) 2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, Welsh politician (b. 1941)
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     Sep 21 1597 The Dean of Guild, William Dun, receives a bonus of 47 pounds, 3 shillings, and 4 pence for "the great number of witches burnt this year." Sep 21 1915 With a winning bid of £6,600, Mr. Cecil Chubb purchases Stonehenge and 30 acres of land at auction. He donates the monument to the British state three years later. Sep 21 1947 Horror author Stephen King born in Portland, Maine. Sep 21 1983 Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, describes his staff's racial diversity to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent." Watt is forced to resign 18 days later over these comments. Sep 21 1989 The Saudi government beheads 16 Kuwaiti terrorists in public after convicting them of a deadly bombing at the Great Mosque in Mecca two months earlier. The perpetrators claimed they had been trained by Iran, but Iran denied any involvement. 1745 - Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point. 1792 - The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy. 1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao. 1896 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan. 1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published. 1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard. 1942 - On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1.000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp. 1942 - On the end of Yom Kippur, the Germans ordered Konstantynow Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate Konstantynow and move to the Ghetto - established in Biala Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynow, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more. 1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews. 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. 1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations. 1979 - Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident - including a mother and her baby - and three people were killed. 1980 - Bob Marley plays at The Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the last show of the Uprising Tour. 1981 - Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom. 1991 - Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union. 1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. 1995 - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths. Births 1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer ( The war of the worlds, The invisable man) (d. 1946) 1947 - Stephen King, American author 1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles) 1954 - Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, British musician (Motörhead) 1967 - Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies) 1972 - Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis) 1972 - David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn) 1978 - Doug Howlett, New Zealand Rugby Union Player Deaths 1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284) 2007 - Coral Eugene Watts, Most prolific serial killer to have lived (b. 1953) Holidays and observances International Day of Peace International Day against Alzheimer's disease International Banana Festival Day of the trees in Brazil Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991) In 2007, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins at sunset
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     Sep 22 1327 The deposed King Edward II of England is murdered with a red-hot poker shoved up his rectum -- a gruesome punishment reserved strictly for homosexuals. Edward's wife Isabella had the King's lover, Hugh le Despenser Younger, executed the previous year. Sep 22 1975 In front of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, Sara Jane Moore pulls out a Smith and Wesson .38 revolver and points it at Gerald Ford. Before she can assassinate the President, a bystander named Oliver "Bill" Sipple grabs Moore's arm. Sipple, a closeted gay man, is later outed by the press. The spotlight on his personal life causes him to complain: "My sexual orientation has nothing to do with saving the President's life." Sep 22 1979 A two-to-three kiloton nuclear bomb explodes in the waters off remote Bouvet Island, near Antarctica. No government ever claims responsibility for the secret test. Sep 22 1980 In a stunning blow to America's feminine hygiene, consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble initiates the largest tampon recall in history, pulling Rely Tampons from store shelves. The action results from the ongoing Toxic Shock Syndrome controversy. 1499 - Switzerland became an independent state. 1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States. 1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska. 1885 - Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right". 1888 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published 1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed. 1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. 1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is recognised. 1910 - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. 1934 - An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco. 1941 - On Jewish New Year Day, German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed. 1944 - World War II, Red Army enters Tallinn. 1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965/Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire. 1980 - Iraq invades Iran. 1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library 2006 - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy. Births 1515 - Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557) 1951 - David Coverdale, English singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) 1958 - Joan Jett, American musician (The Runaways, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts) 1969 - Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals) 1972 - Dana Vespoli, American porn actress Deaths 1692 - Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials 1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader 2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923) Holidays and observances In 2007, Yom Kippur, the Jewish atonement holiday, ends at sundown. Bulgaria - Independence Day Mali - Independence Day In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day. Hobbit Day, being the birthday of the fictitious Hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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     Sep 23 1939 Sigmund Freud commits suicide with the help of his personal physician, Max Schur. The good doctor obligingly administered 21mg of morphine -- a lethal dose. Sep 23 1950 Congress passes the McCarran Act, also known as The Internal Security Act of 1950, overriding Harry Truman's veto. The act provides for severe restrictions on civil liberties, suspension of free speech, and placing of undesirable Americans in concentration camps. The act has never been repealed. Sep 23 1952 Responding to accusations that he diverted $18,000 in contributions into his pocket, Senator Richard M. Nixon rescues his candidacy for Vice President by insisting that he had never accepted any money. Although Nixon does admit he accepted a cocker spaniel named Checkers for his daughter Tricia. The televised monologue rescues his political career. Sep 23 1969 An article in the Northern Illinois University student newspaper The Northern Star propagates the rumor that "Paul is dead." But if you play "I'm so Tired" from the White Album, you hear the question "Is Paul McCartney Dead?" 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. 1642 - First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College. 1779 - American Revolution; USS Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a fight against the British ships of war HMS Serapis and HMS Countess of Scarborough off the coast of England. 1780 - American Revolution; British Major John André arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's treason. 1803 - Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye. 1846 - Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. 1848 - First commercial production of chewing gum by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine in the United States and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'. 1875 - William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time. 1941 - The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. 1942 - First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. 1973 - Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina. 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations. 1999 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history to date. 2002 - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released. Births 1947 - Neal Smith, US-American drummer for Alice Cooper 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, US-American singer and songwriter 1964 - Clayton Blackmore, Welsh Footballer Holidays and observances Saudi Arabia - National Day Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first recognized in 1999 and is observed mainly in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.
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     Sep 24 1988 High on PCP and brandishing a shotgun, James Brown interrupts an insurance seminar next door to his business office in Augusta, Georgia and accuses the attendees of using his private restroom. The resulting 90-minute interstate pursuit ends only after police shoot out his truck tires. The Godfather of Soul ends up serving two years in prison. 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. 1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to Great Britain. 1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain. 1852 - The first airship is displayed. 1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. 1988 - Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson (Can)beats Carl Lewis (USA) and Linford Christie (GB) in the 100 metres sprint in a record time of 9.79 seconds. (Johnson would later be disqualified in a high profile case of doping.) Births 1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803) 1941 - Linda McCartney (d. 1998) 1942 - Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers) 1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot) Deaths 1991 - Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904) 1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British Skinhead musician (Skrewdriver) (b. 1957) Holidays and observances Guinea-Bissau - Independence Day (declared, from Portugal, 1973). New Caledonia - Territorial Day. England - Our Lady of Walsingham. South Africa - Heritage Day. Trinidad and Tobago - Republic Day (1976). Sep 25 1980 On the NBC talk show Tomorrow, SNL alumnus Chevy Chase calls actor Cary Grant a "homo." Grant sues, but rumors of his homosexuality follow him for years. The one thing known for certain: Grant is the first person to use the word "gay" in its modern context on film: In Bringing Up Baby, while in a pink fluffy silk rope he exclaimed "I've just gone gay all of a sudden!" Sep 25 1980 After spending the whole day drinking, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham dies from alcohol poisoning. His corpse is discovered having choked on its own vomit. Sep 25 1988 President Carter's brother Billy dies of pancreatic cancer. The "First Brother" distinguished himself by whoring out to the Libyan government, and marketing "Billy Beer" -- considered one of the most abominable pilsner-style lagers ever to hit the American market. Sep 25 1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity on ABC television 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era. 1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins. 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops. 1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership. 1983 - Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history. 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland. 2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion. 2007 - Halo 3, the third and final installment of the Halo video game series, is released, netting over US$170,000,000 within 24 hours of midnight launch, a record for most first-day revenue earned in entertainment history. Births 1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754) 1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793) 1955 - Steven Severin, British bassist (Siouxsie & the Banshees) 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress Deaths 1980 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948) 1987 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905) 1988 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937) 1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913) 2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913) Holidays and observances Mozambique - Armed Forces Day.
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     Sep 26 1687 Troops laying siege to Athens led by Venetian general Francesco Morosini rain cannonfire down on the Acropolis and the Turkish soldiers garrisoned inside. One cannonball penetrates the Parthenon, which happened to serve as the Turks' gunpowder magazine. The roof, walls, and 16 columns are blown off by the resulting explosion. Sep 26 1937 The Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, sustains grave injuries in a traffic accident on US Highway 61. She is taken to a colored hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi and her arm is amputated. Smith dies later that day from blood loss. According to legend, Bessie had been refused treatment by a closer, whites-only hospital. Sep 26 1960 Kennedy and Nixon face off in the first televised presidential debate. Nixon had been recuperating from illness yet refused to wear makeup for the camera, looking haggard and gray. Radio viewers gave positive opinions for Nixon's performance but so many people saw the debate televised that Kennedy gained the lead in the polls, ultimately winning the election. Sep 26 1988 Jeffrey Dahmer offers a cute Laotian boy $50 to pose for nude photos in his Milwaukee apartment. The parents of the 13-year-old later rat Dahmer out, resulting in a 10-month prison stay. 1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe. 1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. 1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire. 1917 - Compulsory military service went into effect in Canada. 1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse. 1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched. 1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails. 1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans. 1950 - Indonesia admitted to the United Nations. 1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R. 1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed. 1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time. 1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war. 1984 - United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong. 1988 - Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test. Births 1936 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist 1977 - Kaylynn, American porn star Deaths 2003 - Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949) Holidays and observances European Day of Languages.
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     Sep 27 1854 The wooden steamship Arctic sinks in foggy weather after colliding with the iron bow of the Vesta. When Captain James C. Luce orders women and children into the lifeboats, the crewmen rebel and take the boats for themselves. Of 435 on board, only 85 survive -- and none of them women or children. It is the first major ocean liner disaster in the Atlantic. Sep 27 1959 Typhoon Vera, otherwise known as the Isewan Typhoon, kills 4,464 people on the Japanese island of Honshu and injures 40,000 more. 1.5 million are made homeless. Sep 27 1964 The Warren Commission Report is finally released, definitively proving once and for all that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, without anyone's help. Case closed. Sep 27 1967 Seventeen people are killed in Tijuana, most of them children, when the neurotoxic insecticide methyl parathion is accidentally mixed into bread. Over three hundred others required medical treatment. Sep 27 1996 The Taliban takes Kabul. 1777 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day. 1787 - The United States Constitution is delivered to the states for ratification. 1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain. 1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone. 1825 - The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains. 1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc². 1937 - Balinese Tiger declared extinct. 1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow. 1940 - World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy. 1941 - The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships. 1941 - Foundation of EAM (National Liberation Front) in Greece. 1942 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army. 1942 - Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River. 1998 - Google is launched. Births 1947 - Meat Loaf, American singer 1953 - Greg Ham, Australian musician (Men at Work) 1981 - Cytherea, American adult actress 1984 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter Deaths 1986 - Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962) Holidays and observances World Tourism Day.
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     28th September 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins. 1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose. 1542 - Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego, California, United States. 1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario. 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island. 1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice. 1928 - UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act (1925) outlawing cannabis. 1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II. 1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II. 1944 - Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands. 1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia. 1971 - UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis. Births 551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC) 1943 - Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf) 1954 - George Lynch, American musician (Dokken) 1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, American singer and actress 1972 - Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist & Ex wife of Marilyn Manson Holidays and observances Czech Republic - Czech Statehood Day. Taiwan - Teacher's Day. Ask a Stupid Question Day 29th September 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession. 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London. 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded. 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX. 1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world was opened in Blackpool, England. 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital. 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. 1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I. Bulgaria signed an armistice. 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941. 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off the shore of Malta. 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland. 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster 1990 - Washington National Cathedral finished. Births 1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805) 1941 - Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995) 1962 - Al Pitrelli, American musician, guitarist 1963 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus) 1967 - Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears) 1982 - Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
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     30th September 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1781 - American War of Independence: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes. 1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria. 1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside. 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate. 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner. 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. 1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". 1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war. 1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile. 1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations. 1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President. 1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show. 1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. 1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy. 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo. 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Births 1904 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971) 1934 - Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress 1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer 1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (T.Rex) (d. 1977) 1982 - Michelle Marsh, British glamour model 1982 - Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress Deaths 1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843) 1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842) 1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931) Holidays and observances Botswana - Independence Day (1966)
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     Oct 1 1946 The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg announces verdicts against its Nazi defendants: 3 acquittals, 4 prison terms between 10 and 20 years, 3 life terms, and 11 executions by hanging. Oct 1 1968 Horror film Night of the Living Dead is released in theaters. The low-budget movie, directed by George Romero, centers around a farmhouse surrounded by the walking dead. Romero's early zombies lurch uncomfortably across the countryside, stopping occasionally to snack on humans unlucky enough to escape, otherwise banging on boarded windows demanding snacks. Many sequels follow as well as new generations of zombie movie madness Oct 1 1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida. Oct 1 1985 Youths go on the rampage in Toxteth, Liverpool; widespread damage results. Oct 1 1987 The Whittier Narrows earthquake hits Los Angeles, killing 7 and causing hundreds of millions in damage. Oct 1 1993 Richard Allen Davis kidnaps Polly Klaas during a slumber party in her Petaluma, California home and later murders the 12-year-old. The horrific ordeal transforms her father, Mark Klaas, into a major media whore 959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. 1795 - Belgium is conquered by France. 1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso. 1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana. 1829 - South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools. 1843 - News of the World began publication in London. 1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards. 1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band. 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison. 1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire. 1890 - The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress 1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus. 1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq. 1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan. 1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens. 1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York. 1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain. 1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland. 1939 - After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city. 1942 - USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong 1942 - First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet". 1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers. 1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials. 1947 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time. 1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong. 1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency. 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon. 1975 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. 1978 - Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1979 - The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama. 1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101). 1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis. 1989 - Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership" 2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali. 2006 - Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the United Kingdom. Births 1207 - King Henry III of England (d. 1272) 1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1979 - Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union footballer Holidays and observances National Day of the People's Republic of China (1949) Republic of Cyprus - Independence Day (from Britain, 1960) Nigeria - Independence Day (from Britain, 1960) Tuvalu - Independence Day (from Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), 1975) World Vegetarian Day Singapore - Children's Day World Health Organization - World Hepatitis Awareness Day Armenia - Teachers' Day
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     Oct 2 1574 Spaniards sieging the Dutch city of Leyden, held by William the Silent, are washed away after Holland's dike breaks during a storm. Approximately 20,000 Spanish troops drown. Oct 2 1871 Mormon prophet Brigham Young is arrested for cohabitating with a 16-year-old girl. Oct 2 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia! Oct 2 1967 Narcs raid the Haight-Ashbury residence of the Grateful Dead, busting all six bandmates for possession of marijuana and hashish. Oct 2 1977 The bodies of Elvis Presley and his mother Gladys are moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to the Meditation Garden at Graceland, thereby becoming yet more tourist attractions. Oct 2 1978 Tim Allen is arrested with 1.4 pounds of cocaine at Kalamazoo Airport in Michigan. After testifying against his partner, Allen serves only 2.5 years for felony drug possession. Otherwise, it would have been a life sentence. Tim later becomes a comic, ultimately landing the starring role in the ABC television sitcom Home Improvement. Oct 2 1985 Actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS in his Beverly Hills home. 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule. 1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots. 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec. 1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. 1780 - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces. 1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. 1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. 1937 - Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge. 1938 - Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews. 1941 - World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. 1944 - World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising. 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France. 1980 - Larry Holmes defeats Muhammad Ali in his bid to become Heavyweight boxing Champion for the fourth time after round 10 when Angelo Dundee tells referee to stop the fight. 2001 - The NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11. 2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks. 2007 - President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Births 1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485) 1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian politician and spiritual leader (Father of the India) . (d. 1948) 1950 - Michael Rutherford, English musician (Genesis) 1951 - Sting, English musician and actor 1955 - Phil Oakey, English singer (The Human League) 1957 - Wade Dooley, English rugby union player 1962 - Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes) 1969 - Damon Gough, English singer (badly Drawn Boy) 1971 - James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot) 1974 - Paul Teutul Jr., co-star of American Chopper Holidays and observances Guinea - Independence Day (from France, 1958) India - Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869) International Day of Non-Violence
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     Oct 3 1955 In a banner day for children's television, Captain Kangaroo premieres on CBS and The Mickey Mouse Club on ABC. We sure do miss Talent Round-Up Day. Oct 3 1963 Hurricane Flora strikes southern Haiti, leaving 5,000 dead. Two days later, the storm moves on to Cuba, where it slays another 1,750. In all, Flora leaves 7,190 bodies in its wake. Oct 3 1990 The German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany are finally reunited after a 45-year separation. Oct 3 1995 A jury of his "peers" finds Orenthal James Simpson not guilty. Later, OJ resumes his golfing career while hunting for The Real Killers. Oct 3 1996 Doreen Lioy marries death row inmate Richard Ramirez ("The Night Stalker") in a ceremony in the visiting room at San Quentin Prison. Sadly, the newlyweds are disallowed conjugal visits. Oct 3 2005 President George W Bush nominates White House Counsel lawyer (and close personal friend) Harriet Miers for the position of Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Nobody likes Bush's pick, not even fellow Republicans, and her nomination is eventually withdrawn. 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered. 1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. 1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska. 1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government. 1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln. 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs". 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain. 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon. 1981 - The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths. 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day. 1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting. Births 1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American musician (Fleetwood Mac) 1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990) 1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe) 1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt) Deaths 1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181) 1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed) Holidays and observances Germany - Day of German Unity Leiden - Siege of Leiden South Korea - National Foundation Day
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     4th October 1777 - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe. 1795 - Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention). 1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic. 1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands. 1853 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia. 1883 - First run of the Orient Express. 1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. 1910 - Declaration of the Portuguese Republic. King Manuel II flees to the United Kingdom. 1910 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda. 1918 - An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007. 1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. 1983 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. 1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA. 1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. Births 1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712) 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893) 1959 - Chris Lowe, British musician (Pet Shop Boys) 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician Deaths 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943) Holidays and observances Lesotho - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966). World Animal Day Sweden celebrates National Cinnamon bun Day (since 1999).
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     Oct 5 1858 An arsonist sets fire to New York City's iron and glass Crystal Palace. America's most prestigious museum is reduced to 1,200 tons of molten slag, causing $2 million in damage and destroying thousands of priceless artworks belonging to the American Institute. Oct 5 1864 60,000 are killed when a tropical cyclone hits Calcutta. On the same day, a 200-foot tsunami kills thousands in Kamaishi, Japan. Oct 5 1942 German engineer Herman Graebe witnesses a Nazi mass execution in the Ukraine. After the war, he writes a famous and terrifying testimony. Oct 5 1990 After a ten-day trial, a jury acquits the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center of obscenity charges resulting from an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. So, bullwhips up the ass are now officially A-OK. Oct 5 1994 Predicting that the world would soon end in an environmental disaster, homeopath Luc Jouret and 52 others belonging to his Order of the Solar Temple commit mass suicide near Cheiry, Switzerland and Montreal, Canada. Oct 5 1996 Less than a year after Thomas Hamilton gunned down a teacher and 16 preschoolers in Dunblane, Scotland, British authorities ban the sale of Slaughter in the Playground, a CD-ROM game based on hunting and killing children on a school playground. Oct 5 1999 In a move reminiscent of both Nazi crimes committed against Gypsies and the postwar construction of the Berlin Wall, the town of Usti nad Labem in the Czech Republic begins construction of a barrier to separate a portion of its Gypsy population away from more respectable folks. 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1895 - The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London. 1905 - Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908. 1910 - Portugal overthrows its monarchy and declares itself a republic. 1914 - World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill. 1915 - Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers. 1944 - Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France. 1947 - The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. 1953 - The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held. 1970 - Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1974 - Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 65 injured. 1986 - Israeli secret nuclear weapons were revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal." 2000 - Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution. 2001 - Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Births 1829 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d.1886) 1943 - Steve Miller, American musician (Steve Miller Band) 1945 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997) 1947 - Brian Johnson, English singer (AC/DC) 1950 - 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead, Fastway) 1951 - Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist Holidays and observances Portugal - Republic Day, celebrates overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910 International World Teachers' Day
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     Oct 6 1014 Czar Samuil of Bulgaria dies after an army of 15,000 of his men is returned, blinded by his enemy Emperor Basil of the Byzantine Empire. One out of every hundred of his men was permitted to keep one eye, such that they were able to return home. For this victory Basil earned the title Bulgaroctonus, slayer of Bulgars. Oct 6 1536 The man to translate the Holy Bible into English, William Tyndale, is strangled and burnt at the stake in Brussels, Belgium. Translations of the Bible into vernacular had been long suppressed, but oddly most of the work in the KJV's New Testament is Tyndale's. Oct 6 1815 Mayfield, New York resident Barent Becker is hanged for serving his wife Ann a dish of stewed tomatoes and arsenic. Oct 6 1976 During a televised debate, President and candidate Gerald Ford asserts that there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. Ford loses the election. Oct 6 1977 Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr., Los Angeles' infamous "Hillside Stranglers," rape and murder their first victim, 21-year-old waitress Elissa Kastin. They dump her naked corpse on Chevy Chase Drive. Oct 6 1980 John Lydon, of band PiL and formerly the Sex Pistols, arrested for disorderly conduct in a Dublin bar. Oct 6 1981 During a commemoration of the Yom Kippur War, armed gunmen leap from a truck and begin shooting into the reviewing stand at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Along with Sadat, the assassins kill eight others. Oct 6 1997 Six boys watch as a female classmate is held down and raped in a locker room at Paramount High School in Boligee, Alabama. In all, about twelve boys are present at the incident; only six are ever charged. 1762 - Seven Years' War: conclusion of the Battle of Manila between Britain and Spain, which resulted in the British occupation of Manila for the rest of the war. 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead started shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. 1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island. 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. 1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time. 1906 - The Majlis of Iran convened for the first time. 1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China. 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II. 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States. 1973 - The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War. 1977 - The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight. 1985 - PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London. 1987 - Fiji becomes a republic. 2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen. 2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. Births 1951 - Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon) 1973 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor Deaths 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) (b. 1860) Holidays and observances Egypt - Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October war of 1973. U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987
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     Oct 7 1900 Heinrich Himmler is born in Munich. Oct 7 1964 Walter W. Jenkins, chief White House aide and longtime friend of President Lyndon B. Johnson, is arrested for disorderly conduct two blocks from the White House. Jenkins was discovered in a YMCA pay toilet with another man. Ultimately, Jenkins is forced to resign, so as not to jeopardize Johnson's re-election campaign. Jenkins stated that during his arrest, his mind had been "befuddled by fatigue, alcohol, physical illness, and lack of food." Oct 7 1985 Off the coast of Italy, four Palestinian terrorists hijack the cruise ship Achille Lauro, and toss overboard crippled American tourist Leon Klinghoffer. Oct 7 2000 Jeb Bush's youngest son John discovered fogging up the windows with a girl in a Jeep Cherokee behind a Tallahassee mall. The underaged pair are not charged with a crime. According to the police report, John was naked but for a pair of socks. 1492 - Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course. 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1763 - George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements. 1769 - English explorer, Captain Cook, sails to New Zealand. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights. 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. 1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood. 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies at 5:00 A.M. four days after being found in a Baltimore gutter. 1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance. 1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba. 1919 - KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. 1928 - Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu. (origin of Rastafari movement) 1931 - First infrared photograph, Rochester, New York. 1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J. 1940 - World War II: Germany invades Romania. 1940 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. 1941 - World War II: German army occupies Viazma, U.S.S.R. 1942 - U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations. 1942 - World War II: A salvo of Katyusha rockets destroys a German battalion in Stalingrad. 1942 - The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. 1943 - World War II: Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island. 1944 - World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp. 1944 - World War II: Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoria. 1944 - World War II: Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin. 1944 - World War II: Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen. 1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed. 1950 - Annexation of Tibet by China. 1950 - United States forces cross the 38th parallel. 1951 - Malayan Emergency: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney. 1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government. 1998 - Gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. 2000 - The last ever competitive match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England to Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium. 2001 - The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. Births 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945) 1945 - Kevin Godley, British musician (10cc) 1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, American singer 1953 - Tico Torres, Drummer (Bon Jovi) 1957 - Jayne Torvill, British figure skater 1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive 1964 - Sam Brown, Singer-songwriter 1968 - Thom Yorke, English singer (Radiohead) Deaths 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809) 2004 - Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942) Holidays and observances East Germany - Republic Day Brazil - Composer Day
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     8th October 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1600 - San Marino adopts its written constitution. 1856 - The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. 1918 - World War I - In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132. 1932 - The Indian Air Force is established. 1939 - World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland. 1941 - World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. 1944 - The Battle of Crucifix Hill, a World War II battle, occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside of Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle. 1962 - Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason. 1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. 1973 - Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed. 1978 - Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia. 1982 - Poland bans Solidarity. Births 1948 - Johnny Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2004) 1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) 1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician & Dancer(The Prodigy) 1974 - DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) Deaths 1793 - John Hancock, American revolutionary (b. 1737) 1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804) 1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883) 1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947) Holidays and observances Wales and Cornwall - Saint Keyne Independence Day in Croatia Navy Day in Peru 9th October 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. 1799 - Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000. 1804 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded. 1806 - Prussia declares war on France. 1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. 1854 - Beginning of the siege of Sebastopol. 1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. 1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. 1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb. 1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy. 1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment. 1962 - Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm. 1967 - A day after being caught, Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. 1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. 1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France. 1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. 1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. 2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack. 2004 - Democratic elections held for the first time in Afghanistan. 2005 - Smoking is completely banned on the UK rail network. 2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device. Births 1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980) 1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002) 1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne 1954 - James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues) 1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician 1970 - Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994) 1975 - Sean Lennon, American musician & son of ex-beatle John Lennon Holidays and observances South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of Hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet. Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962) Leif Erikson Day - in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil) Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
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     10th October 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah. 732 - Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle. 1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal. 1938 - The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. 1944 - Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at Auschwitz death camp. 1954 - The Communist Party of Honduras is founded. 1957 - The Windscale fire in Cumbria, UK becomes the worlds first major nuclear accident. 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, enters into force. 1969 - King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King, considered by many to be the first progressive rock album. 1970 - Fiji becomes independent. 1970 - In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1971 - Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, the London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. 1979 - The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco. 1985 - United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. 1995 - South African President Nelson Mandela attends Genadendal. Births 1955 - David Lee Roth, American singer (Van Halen) 1960 - Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big) Deaths 1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895) Holidays and observances Republic of China (Taiwan) - National Day Fiji - Fiji Day (National Day) Japan - National Health-Sports Day World Mental Health Day North Korea - Party Foundation Party Finland - The Day of Finnish literature 11th October 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1776 - American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island - On Lake Champlain 15 American gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City. 1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney. 1899 - Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts. 1910 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri. 1941 - Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island. 1982 - The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth. 1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. 1986 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe. Births 1946 - Daryl Hall, American musician 1946 - Gary Mallaber, American musician (The Steve Miller Band) 1947 - Al Atkins, English musician (Judas Priest original vocalist) 1957 - Dawn French, Welsh comedian
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     12th October 1216 - King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge 1492 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1692 - The Salem Witch Trials were ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips. 1773 - America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia 1792 - First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York 1810 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. 1823 - Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat. 1899 - Boer republic of South Africa declares war with England. 1901 - President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. 1915 - World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium 1917 - The First Battle of Passchendaele, now Passendale 1928 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston 1933 - The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice 1941 - This and the next day, German Nazis kill 11,000 Jews in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Einsatzkommando 6 massacres most of the remaining Jews of the city, marching them to a ravine where they were killed. 1942 - World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Gotō dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack. 1984 - Brighton hotel bombing: Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it. 1986 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China 1999 - The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born. 2000 - The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39 2002 - Terrorists detonate bombs in Paddy's Pub and the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. Births 1537 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553) 1866 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937) 1890 - Michael Collins, IRAleader (d. 1922) 1948 - Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo) Deaths 1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807) 1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (b. 1958) 13th October 1307 - Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy. 1492 - Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1792 - In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid. 1812 - War of 1812: Battle of Queenston Heights - As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock. 1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude. 1918 - Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I. 1923 - Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey. 1943 - World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany. 1944 - World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army. Births 1925 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1941 - Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon and Garfunkel) 1944 - Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago) 1947 - Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen) 1960 - Joey Belladonna, American musician (Anthrax) 1981 - Kele Okereke, English lead singer of Bloc Party
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     You're a bit behind, cymru!! Do you want me to help you out and help you catch up? (I know the source).
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     14th October 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England. 1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1586 - Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England. 1773 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland. 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day. 1812 - Work on London's Regent's Canal starts. 1840 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta. 1843 - The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy. 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. 1912 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech. 1913 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives. 1914 - German troops occupy Bruges. 1926 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published. 1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations. 1939 - German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak. 1942 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137. 1942 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field. 1943 - Japan declares Philippine Independence. 1943 - Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war. 1943 - U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt. 1944 - Allied troops land in Corfu. 1944 - British troops march into Athens. 1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. 1963 - The term "Beatlemania" is coined by the British press to describe the scene at the previous night's performance by The Beatles on the TV show Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium. 1964 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. 1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro. 1968 - Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983. 1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971. 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. 1994 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Births 1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701) 1712 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770) 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969) 1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake) 1946 - Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues) 1946 - Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth) 1974 - Jessica Drake, American porn star 1977 - Bianca Beauchamp, adult model 1983 - Vanessa Lane, American porn star Deaths 1066 - Harold Godwinson, King of England 1318 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland 15th October 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. 1888 - The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by the investigators. 1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany. 1928 - The airship, the Graf Zeppelin completed its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. 1940 - "The Great Dictator", a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. 1944 - The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes over the power in Hungary. 1945 - World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason. 1946 - Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring poisons himself the night before his execution. 1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. 1987 - The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. 1989 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. 1990 - Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. 1992 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 53 serial murders. 1997 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom). Births 1946 - Richard Carpenter (musician), American musician (The_Carpenters) 1948 - Chris de Burgh, Irish singer and songwriter 1953 - Tito Jackson, American musician Deaths 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
277. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive1 Nov 2007, 00:30
     You're a bit behind, cymru!! Do you want me to help you out and help you catch up? (I know the source). it's ok mate, i've caught up loads the last couple of days, i'll be up to date by tomorrow
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     16th October 1775 - Portland, Maine burnt by the British. 1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War. 1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown. 1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. 1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down. 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered. 1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded. 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. 1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman. 1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe. 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army. 1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established. 1946 - Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged. 1961 - Cork Airport opened in Ireland. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began. 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon. 1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II. 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds hit much of the South of England killing 23 people. 2002 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, was signed into law by President George W. Bush. Births 1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973) 1943 - Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player 1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead) 1953 - Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project) 1962 - Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player 1984 - Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress Deaths 1946 - Nuremberg trial executions Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900) Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877) Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890) Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903) Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882) Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893) Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893) Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894) Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892) Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887) Holidays and observances Boss's Day in the United States Pope John Paul II Day in Poland World Food Day 17th October 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years. 1604 - Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the constellation. Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last supernova to have been observed in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. 1660 - Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged. 1662 - Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds. 1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga. 1781 - General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia 1800 - England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. 1888 - Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I. 1931 - Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion. 1933 - Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the US. 1941 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship. 1979 - Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 - The United States population reaches 300 million. Births 1946 - Michael Hossack, American musician (The Doobie Brothers) 1972 - Eminem, American rapper 1972 - Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
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     18th October 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock. 1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon. 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. 1860 - The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. 1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day. 1892 - The First long distance phone call in the United States between Chicago and New York. 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico. 1908 - Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. 1912 - The First Balkan War begins. 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. 1989 - East German leader Erich Honecker resigns. 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR. 2007 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured. Births 1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963) 1949 - Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel) 1949 - Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon) 1964 - Dan Lilker, American bassist (Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth) 1974 - Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer 1974 - Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans) Deaths 1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland (b. 1489) 1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784) 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847) Holidays and observances USA : Alaska: Alaska Day 19th October 1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. 1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil. 1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War. 1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire. 1914 - The First Battle of Ypres begins. 1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. 1935 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. 1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines. 1960 - The United States government places an embargo on Communist Cuba. 1976 The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species. 1987 - In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms. 1989 - Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice. 2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II. 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity Births 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987) 1948 - Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers) 1957 - Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician (The Waterboys, World Party) Deaths 1790 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
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     20th October 1818 - The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. 1827 - Battle of Navarino - a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern Greece. 1910 - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. 1935 - The Long March ends 1941 - World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre. 1944 - The Soviet army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia 1955 - Publication of The Return of the King, being the last part of The Lord of the Rings. 1967 - A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin. 1973 - The Sydney Opera House opens 1977 - A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot. Births 1784 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865) 1950 - Tom Petty, American musician 1958 - Mark King, English musician and singer (Level 42) 1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer 1972 - Will Greenwood, England rugby union player 1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol) 1979 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player 1984 - Andrew Trimble, Irish rugby player Deaths 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874) 1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash: Cassie Gaines (b. 1948) Steve Gaines (b. 1949) Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948) 2007 - Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961) Holidays and observances Sweetest Day - USA
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     Oct 21 1947 Twenty-one lunatics die as a fire destroys an insane asylum in Hoff, Germany. Oct 21 1973 J. Paul Getty Jr's ear is removed by kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome, along with a photo. It doesn't arrive until November 8. Oct 21 1987 Former Miss America Bess Myerson arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She was found not guilty, however. Oct 21 1995 Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the pop band Blind Melon, dies of a heroin overdose in New Orleans, inside the band's tour bus. Oct 21 1997 Hotel owners in the Detroit area meet to discuss suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian's practice of leaving corpses in their hotel rooms. Oct 21 1997 The Government of Singapore announces in a widely publicized "toilet alert" that the drive for toilet cleanliness is a great success. Five toilets were selected by citizens as toilet role models. 1774 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America. 1797 - In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signalled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century. 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon's finest hours. 1824 - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement. 1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War. 1879 - Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). 1921 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south. 1941 - 7000 Serbs were shot in Kragujevac, Serbia by Nazi Germans. 1944 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. 1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. 1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita. 1966 - Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren. 1990 - The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London. 1994 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. 2007 - San Diego County has its worst wildfire disaster in San Diegan history as the Harris and Witch Fires blazed across the county. Together, they have burned at least 200,000 acres of land. Only one casualty has been reported. Births 1940 - Manfred Mann, English musician 1946 - Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps) 1952 - Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (d. 1990) 1953 - Charlotte Caffey, American musician (The Go-Go's) 1957 - Julian Cope, English musician and writer (The Teardrop Explodes) 1962 - David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer 1964 - Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who, Roger Waters) Deaths 1805 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (b. 1758) 1995 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967) 2007 - Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951) Holidays and observances Apple Day Republic of China - Overseas Chinese Day Trafalgar Day — celebrated throughout much of the British Empire in the 19th and early 20th Century.
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     Oct 22 1844 Jesus Christ fails to appear to the Seventh Day Adventists, led by Bible scientist William Miller. The Millerites were expecting the End Times to accompany the appearance of the Savior, so that didn't happen either. Oct 22 1934 Notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd dies of multiple gunshot wounds in the back, after a shootout with the FBI at the Conkle Farm in East Liverpool, Ohio. Oct 22 1956 A 200-ton concrete girder smushes 48 people in Karachi, Pakistan. Oct 22 1976 Red dye #4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration, because it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada. The ban wreaks havoc with the M&M supply. 1692 - Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States. 1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House. 1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. 1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. 1941 - French hero of the resistance Guy Môquet is executed by the Germans, along with 29 other hostages as a retaliation for a killed German officer. 1943 - World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany 1946 - Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania. 1953 - Laos gains independence from France. 1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
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     Oct 23 4004 BC According to calculations by 17th century biblical theologian James Ussher, God creates the heavens and the Earth. Oct 23 1976 In an astonishing lack of forethought, President Jimmy Carter admits a deadly sin in a Playboy magazine interview: "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me." Oct 23 1983 NBC news anchor Jessica Savitch drowns in 18 inches of dirty water after her car flips upside down into a ditch. The events are later played out in a lovely Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, made-for-cable tearjerker. Oct 23 1983 An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber drives a truck loaded with 2.5 tons of TNT into the US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion kills 241 American servicemen. Simultaneously, a smaller truck bomb strikes another base in Beirut, killing 58 French soldiers. Even though the NSA has proof that the Iranians are behind the attacks, President Ronald Reagan begins delivering them weapons for hostages only 39 days later. Oct 23 1987 Robert Bork is borked, the Senate voting a record 58 to 42 to refuse him a seat on the Supreme Court. Ostensibly this was because he admitted to smoking marijuana as a youth, which would be the wrong reason. He should have been rejected for being a statist sleazebag. Oct 23 1988 A concert-goer at a Skinny Puppy show in Cincinnati mistakes a stuffed dog, a prop that undergoes "vivisection" during the performance, for a live dog and calls the cops. Even after the police establish no real animals have been harmed, bandmates Nivek Ogre and Cevin Key, along with their tour manager, are arrested on disorderly conduct charges. They spend the night in jail and are fined $200. Oct 23 1995 The murderer of the popstar singer Selena, and president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar, found guilty in Houston of her slaying. Oct 23 1997 Newborn son of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince dies of complications from a "rare skull deformity." The baby's death certificate fails to name either the father or mother. 42 BC - Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi - Brutus's army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide. 1641 - Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 - anniversary commemorated by Irish Protestants for over 200 years. 1642 - Battle of Edgehill: First major battle of the First English Civil War. 1694 - American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phipps, fail to seize Quebec. 1707 - The first Parliament of Great Britain, i.e., the United Kingdom, meets. 1739 - War of Jenkins' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain. 1813 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom). 1941 - World War II: Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov takes command of Red Army operations designed to prevent the further advance into Russia of German forces and to prevent the German armies from capturing Moscow. 1941 - Burning of the Odessa, Ukraine, Jews: 19,000 Jews are burned alive at Dalnik in Odessa, by Romanian and German troops. The next day, another 10,000 Jews are killed. Romanian Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolae Deleanu administered the executions. 1942 - World War II: The Second Battle of El Alamein starts - At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begin a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt, never to return. 1942 - All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Among the victims is award-winning composer and songwriter Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory", "Love in Bloom", "Blue Hawaii"). 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins - The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines; and also, the Soviet Red Army enters Hungary. 1973 - The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations about the scandal. 1973 - A United Nations sanctioned cease-fire officially ends the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Syria. 1983 - Lebanon Civil War: The U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. Marines. A French army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. 2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks. Births 1942 - Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop (d. 2007) 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American musical parodist 1964 - Robert Trujillo, American bassist (Metallica) 1979 - Simon Davies, Welsh footballer
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     Oct 24 1947 In a very un-American fashion, Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be Communists, ranting about how Communists were infiltrating the unions he has to deal with, and how "Commie groups began smear campaigns against him." Oct 24 1955 A nude, very dead body is found in the Mexico apartment of Will Rogers' daughter Mary. The corpse of Manolo Just, a probable bisexual of approximately 30 years, had the name "Mary Rogers" tattooed on his arm. The death is suspicious, but never conclusively attributed to homicide. Oct 24 1960 At the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, an R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad, incinerating 165 people. Included among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is covered up as having occurred in a plane crash. Oct 24 1989 Televangelist Jim Bakker receives 45 years and a $500,000 fine for defrauding investors of $3.7M. Bakker had already been dismissed from his PTL ministry, so the criminal penalties probably just added insult to injury. Oct 24 1991 Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek science fiction franchise, dies in a Santa Monica, California hospital after a heart attack. Oct 24 2002 The Washington Sniper attacks come to an end when John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo are arrested. The pair chose victims at random, then shot at them with a sniper rifle. In three weeks, they killed ten people and critically injured three others before a suspicious trucker noticed the pair napping at a rest stop. 1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. 1857 - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England. 1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. 1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. 1917 - The day of the October revolution, The Red Revolution. 1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic. 1944 - World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1945 - Founding of the United Nations 1964 - Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony) 1973 - Yom Kippur War ends 1980 - Government of Poland legalises Solidarity trade union 1986 - Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi was helped by Syrian officials. 2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight. Births 1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402) 1930 - The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959) 1933 - Ronald and Reginald Kray, British gangsters (Ronald d. 1995; Reginald d. 2000) 1936 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones) 1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (d. 1993) (Steppenwolf) 1973 - Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player Deaths 1537 - Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England Holidays and observances Zambia - Independence Day (1964) United Nations Day (charter 1945) Take Back Your Time Day
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     Oct 25 1854 During the Crimean War's Battle of Balaclava, Lord Raglan orders the British cavalry corps on a suicide mission to capture artillery guns protected by 19,000 Russian troops. Hundreds are needlessly killed in what is later known as the Charge of the Light Brigade. Oct 25 1913 Birthday of Klaus Barbie, infamous Nazi War Criminal. After World War II, US Intelligence helped the "Butcher of Lyons" enter Bolivia, where he lived openly for many years in the capital, La Paz. Barbie was finally deported to France in 1987. Oct 25 1938 The Archbishop of Dubuque, the Most Reverend Francis J.L. Beckman, denounces the newfangled Swing music -- the latest craze -- as nothing more than "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away the moral fiber of young people." Its cannibalistic rhythms are said to lead one down the "primrose path to Hell." Oct 25 1957 In chair number four of the barber shop at the Park Sheraton hotel in Manhattan, Mafia don Albert Anastasia is shot five times by the Gallo Brothers, under orders from Carlo Gambino. Oct 25 1983 In order to maintain an uninterrupted supply of nutmeg to satisfy global demand, the United States of America invades the Caribbean island of Grenada. The invasion is rationalized as a rescue mission for American medical school rejects stuck in a sleazy offshore diploma mill. Oct 25 1991 On the way back from a Huey Lewis concert, rock promoter Bill Graham is killed when his helicopter hits high-voltage power lines in Vallejo, California. 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege. 1315 - Adam Banastre, Henry de Lea and William Bradshaw, led an attack on Liverpool Castle. 1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt. 1747 - British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre. 1760 - George III becomes King of Great Britain. 1813 - War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay. 1828 - The St Katharine Docks opened in London. 1854 - The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade). 1900 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. 1944 - Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. 1944 - The USS Tang (SS-306) under Richard O'Kane (the top submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own torpedo. 1944 - The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers' occupation. 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. 1945 - The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies. 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba 1971 - The United Nations seated the People's Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations) 2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8. 2007 - The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Births 1944 - Jon Anderson, English singer (Yes) 1948 - Glenn Tipton, English guitarist (Judas Priest) 1955 - Matthias Jabs, German guitarist (Scorpions) 1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1970 - Ed Robertson, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies) Deaths 1154 - King Stephen of England (b. 1096) 1760 - George II of Great Britain (b. 1683) 2004 - John Peel, Legendary British disc jockey (b. 1939)
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     Oct 26 1440 Gilles de Rais, one of the wealthiest noblemen in France, is executed for heresy after he is found to have engaged in the kidnap, sodomization, and murder of 200 young boys from the lower classes. Rais enjoyed masturbating on the stomachs of the boys as they suffered excruciating deaths, sometimes also enjoying necrophilia with their corpses. Oct 26 1944 Vice President Harry S Truman publicly denies ever having been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Oct 26 1970 Political comic strip Doonesbury appears in newspapers for the first time. Garry Trudeau's creation confused newspaper editors: Does it belong in the funny pages or the editorial section? Oct 26 1979 Kim Jae Kyu, director of South Korea's central intelligence agency, "accidentally" shoots President Park Chung Hee to death, also killing Park's bodyguard. Park had been president (dictator, effectively) since 1961. Kim is executed the following May for his attempted coup d'etat. Oct 26 1984 The newborn "Baby Fae" is given the heart of a baboon, in an operation performed by Dr. Leonard Bailey in Loma Linda, California. She lasts 21 days. Oct 26 1984 19-year-old John D. McCollum kills himself with a .22 caliber handgun after spending the day listening to Ozzy Osbourne records. One year later, McCollum's parents file suit against Ozzy and CBS Records, alleging that the song "Suicide Solution" from the album Blizzard of Ozz contributed to their son's death. Except that the song's subject was quite plainly alcohol addiction. The case is eventually thrown out of court. Oct 26 1991 33-year-old insurance agent Lori Keevil-Matthews visits an outdoor art project installed by Christo. 1,760 yellow umbrellas were scattered along the ridge line of the Tejon Pass, near Interstate 5 in Southern California. Then a freak 40 mph gust suddenly picks up a 485-pound umbrella, slamming the spectator against a boulder. She dies on the scene. Oct 26 1997 During a 1,500-person tug-of-war contest in Taipei the rope snaps, suddenly amputating the left arms of Chen Ming-kuo and Yang Chung-ming. The two men had wrapped the rope around their left biceps [big mistake] Both arms are successfully reattached. Oct 26 1997 Basketball great Charles Barkley is charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest after throwing 20-year-old man Jorge Lugo through a plate glass window in an Orlando, Florida dance club. Barkley later tells reporters: "I regret we weren't on a higher floor." Oct 26 2002 After pumping an aerosol form of the fast-acting anesthetic Fentanyl Citrate into the air, Russian special forces raid the Palace of Culture of the Podshipnikov Zavod. Three days prior, Chechen terrorists captured 750 audience members inside the Moscow theater. The gas kills 116 captives. About fifty terrorists are slain as well, primarily from summary execution (close-range pistol shots to the head). 1640 - The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England. 1776 - Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. 1859 - The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead. 1861 - The Pony Express officially ceased operations. 1863 - The Football Association is formed. 1881 - The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona. 1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden. 1917 - Battle of Caporetto: Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the hands of Germany and Austria during the World War I. 1918 - Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations. 1936 - The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation. 1940 - The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight. 1942 - World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, was sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged. 1943 - World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil". 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends. 1947 - The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India. 1947 - The British Military Occupation ends in Iraq. 1955 - After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality. 1964 - Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed. 1965 - The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs). 1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination. 1994 - Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty. 1995 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta. 1999 - Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. 2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. 2002 - Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before. Births 1946 - Keith Hopwood, British musician (Herman's Hermits) 1983 - Luke Watson, South African rugby player Deaths 899 - Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (b. 849) 1944 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857) Holidays and observances Austria - National Day: Anniversary of the Declaration of Neutrality (1955)
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     27th October 939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England. 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. 1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. 1936 - Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. 1962 - Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. 1986 - The United Kingdom government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang. 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union. 1991 - First free legislative elections in Poland since 1936. 1992 - United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. Births 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779) 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953) 1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer 1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002) 1951 - K.K. Downing, British guitarist (Judas Priest) 1956 - Veronica Hart, American porn actress 1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran) 1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver) 1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth) Deaths 1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617) Holidays and observances United States - Navy Day Greece - Flag Day Turkmenistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
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     Hey, you're almost caught up :xyxthumbs:
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     Oct 28 4004 BC God creates Adam and Eve five days after the rest of the universe, according to Biblical calculations by Archbishop James Ussher. Oct 28 1919 The Volstead Act passes, over President Wilson's veto. Prohibition is ignored by most Americans, and fosters Mafia encroachment into legitimate businesses. Strangely, the lesson here has yet to be learned. Oct 28 1922 Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini seizes power in Italy, with the assistance of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XI declared "Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence." In return for this endorsement, the silly dictator signs the Lateran treaty, restoring papal sovereignty over the Vatican. But at least the trains run on time. Oct 28 1948 The Nobel committee announces that Swiss chemist Paul Mueller has won the 1948 chemistry prize. He discovered the unusual insecticidal properties of 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2- bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane. Thanks to Mueller, the world embraces the phenomenal bug-killer... until somebody discovers that the hydrocarbon, popularly known as DDT, also excels at causing cancer. Oct 28 1955 William Henry Gates III is born in Seattle. Even after becoming chairman of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, Bill's mother would sometimes have to remind him to wash his hair. [Seriously.] Oct 28 1965 Pope Paul VI issues Nostra Aetate in which he absolves the Jews of killing Jesus, thus reversing 760 years of official Vatican policy. Innocent III had declared in 1205 that "the Jews, by their own guilt, are consigned to perpetual servitude because they crucified the Lord." Oct 28 1976 John D. Ehrlichman, President Nixon's former domestic policy adviser and convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in southeast Arizona. Oct 28 2005 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and false statements made in his testimony during the Valerie Plame leak investigation. He resigns from his White House job soon after. 1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established. 1775 - American Revolutionary War A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans. 1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists. 1868 - Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, an electrical vote recorder. 1886 - In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. 1918 - World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted its independence from Austria-Hungary. 1918 - The German fleet is immobilized when sailors mutiny en masse and disobey an order to leave port five times; 1,000 would ultimately be arrested. 1918 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) is established. 1919 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. 1922 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. 1936 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. 1940 - World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albania. This was the selected anniversary of Greece's entry into World War II. It is celebrated in Greece as Okhi Day (Όχι=No) Day. 1941 - Holocaust in Kaunas, Lithuania: German SS forces arrange the massacre of more than 9,000 Jews of the Kaunas ghetto. After the victims assembled on the Demokratu square at 6 am to be shot they are buried in gigantic ditches. 1942 - The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska. 1942 - Holocaust: 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Cracow are deported by Germans to Belzec death camp. 1942 - Holocaust: SS directive orders all Jewish children's mittens and stockings to be sent from the death camps to the SS families. 1943 - The alleged Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occurred. 1970 - The land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas. 1971 - Britain launches its first (and as of 2007, only) satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket. 1972 - The first Airbus A300 flies into the skies. 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. 1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is re-celebrated in New York Harbor. Births 1846 - Georges Auguste Escoffier, French Chef & father of modern french cuisine (d. 1935) 1941 - Hank Marvin, English guitarist (The Shadows) 1945 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (d. 2006) 1945 - Wayne Fontana, British singer (The Mindbenders) 1958 - William Reid, Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
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     Oct 29 1897 Paul Joseph Göbbels is born in Rheydt, Germany. Oct 29 1929 The value of the New York Stock Exchange tumbles 11% in a widespread panic. Thousands of people lose their life savings as 16,410,030 shares change hands. Black Tuesday marks the beginning of the Great Depression. Oct 29 1957 Some raving lunatic tosses a hand grenade into Israel's parliament, the Knesset. The explosion wounds Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and five cabinet ministers. Oct 29 1994 Armed with a semi-automatic rifle, Colorado upholsterer Francisco Duran fires 27 shots at the White House from the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Ave. Because he opted for Chinese-made SKS rifle, few of Duran's shots come anywhere near the building. Nevertheless, he receives a life sentence for attempting to assassinate President Clinton. Oct 29 1997 Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the First Church of Satan and author of The Satanic Bible, dies from a cardiac arrest at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco. His death certificate incorrectly lists the date as October 31. 1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris. 1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. 1792 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River. 1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco. 1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross. 1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated. 1922 - The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister. 1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. 1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews. 1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division 1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. 1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. 1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves including Jack Murphy from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. 1967 - London criminal Jack "the hat" McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall. 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. 1986 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway. 1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. 2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. 2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution. Births 1656 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer & comet namesake (d. 1742) 1897 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945) 1944 - Denny Laine, English musician (Moody Blues,Wings) 1946 - Peter Green, English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) 1955 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) 1955 - Roger O'Donnell, English musician (The Cure) Deaths 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554) Holidays and observances Turkey - Republic Day (1923)
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     Oct 30 1938 CBS radio announces that glistening, black-eyed Martians have landed at Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Luckily for the extraterrestrials, the news is announced during a Mercury Theatre program and later discounted as a work of fiction. Needless to say, the event causes widespread panic before the government manages to clamp a lid on it. Oct 30 1944 Anne Frank deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. (If you're reading the diary, she dies in the end.) Oct 30 1961 Due to his "violations of Lenin's precepts," Soviet leaders decree that Josef Stalin's body be quietly removed from its place of honor inside Lenin's tomb. They bury the Man of Steel with a plain granite marker near the Kremlin wall. Oct 30 1966 The Zodiac kills his first victim, 18-year-old Cheri Jo Bates, in the library parking lot of a community college in Riverside, California. Zodiac stabs her to death with a small knife, nearly decapitating Bates in the process. Oct 30 2002 Jason William Mizell, aka Run-D.M.C.'s legendary DJ Jam Master Jay, is shot dead in the lounge of his Merrick Boulevard recording studio in Queens. The masked culprit, who gave Mizell a close-range .40-caliber gunshot wound behind the left ear, remains at large to this day. 1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle. 1485 - Henry VII of England crowned. 1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history. 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East. 1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter. 1929 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany. 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic in the United States. 1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. 1941 - 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. 1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 1953 - Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat. 1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield to reduce fallout over the Soviet Union. 1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before. 1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time. Births 1735 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826) 1939 - Grace Slick, American singer (Jefferson Airplane) 1947 - Timothy B. Schmit, American musician (Eagles) 1967 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician & Mr Gwen Stefani (Bush) Deaths 1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) 1923 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1858) 1979 - Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer, inventor of the bouncing bomb (b. 1887) 2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (murdered) (b. 1965) Holidays and observances USA - Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Michigan) International Orthopaedic Nurses Day Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in post-Soviet states National Candy Corn Day, USA National day of the cow, in Australia.
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     Oct 31 All Hallows Eve. What once served as a spooky New Years Eve tradition for the ancient Celts (which they called Samhain) was ultimately appropriated by Pope Gregory IV in 840 AD to serve as the daylong vigil preceding the Feast of All Saints. Even so, the Christians preserved the pagan festival's spooky trappings anyway. Cunning bastards. Oct 31 1926 Houdini dies in room 401 of Grace Hospital in Detroit. The escape artist was killed by diffuse peritonitis, after having undergone an emergency appendectomy. Contrary to popular belief, the fatal appendicitis could not have been caused by a punch to the stomach. Oct 31 1966 The Acid Test Graduation! Ken Kesey hosts, among others. "The question is no longer CAN you pass the Acid Test, but DID you pass the Acid Test." Oct 31 1993 Actor River Phoenix dies of a drug overdose on the sidewalk in front of the Viper Room in West Hollywood. Oct 31 1996 "Socially responsible" juice maker Odwalla voluntarily recalls its unpasteurized apple juice drinks after a west coast E. coli scare that killed sixteen-month-old Anna Gimmestad and caused 66 others to fall ill. The FDA describes the symptoms as a diarrheal illness with bloody stools that could lead to kidney failure. Oct 31 1997 A Halloween "Hell House" opens in Vacaville, California for the benefit of local youths. Tableaus inside the house include a gay man dead from AIDS, a teenaged "Grunge" suicide resplendent with empty beer bottles, and a bloody mock abortion. The exhibits are operated by the Bible thumpers at Harvest Church. 1863 - The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato. 1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 1917 - World War I: Battle of Beersheba - "last successful cavalry charge in history" 1923 - 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins. 1926 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain ends - The United Kingdom prevents Germany from invading Great Britain. 1941 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore. 1941 - World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII. 1943 - World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar guided interception. 1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. 1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR. 1975 - Queen released their hit single, Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1 on the UK charts. 1997 - 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison. 1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors. 1999 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted. Births 1920 - Dick Francis, Welsh novelist 1945 - Russ Ballard, English rock singer/songwriter, guitarist (The Zombies, Argent) 1949 - Bob Siebenberg, American drummer (Supertramp) 1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2) 1963 - Mikkey Dee, Swedish drummer (Motörhead) 1964 - Colm O'Ciosoig, Irish drummer (My Bloody Valentine, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions) 1965 - Annabella Lwin, British singer (Bow Wow Wow) 1966 - Adam Horovitz, American rapper (Beastie Boys) 1970 - Mitch Harris, American guitarist (Napalm Death, among others) 1972 - Matt Dawson, English rugby player 1973 - Beverly Lynne, American erotic film actress Deaths 1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874) 1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (assasinated) (b. 1917) 2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916) 2007 - Ray Gravell, Welsh Rugby Union player (b. 1951)
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     Nov 1 1530 Holland's dikes fail, drowning 400,000. Nov 1 1755 An earthquake and resultant fire in Lisbon kills 50,000. The jail was damaged, and escaped prisoners were looting, setting fires, and committing mayhem. Gallows had to be erected around the city to restore order. Nov 1 1896 Tits appear for the first time in National Geographic, starting a trend of providing masturbation material to youth for decades. The tits are attached to a Zulu woman. Nov 1 1939 A rabbit that was born of artificial insemination is shown to the world. History does not record why anyone felt that rabbits needed any help in the procreation department. Nov 1 1948 A Chinese merchant ship with as many as 6,000 people aboard explodes and sinks off southern Manchuria, killing all aboard. Nov 1 1950 Attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists to assassinate President Truman at Blair House fails, leaving one of them dead with a bullet in the head. Nov 1 1951 US Soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for the first time in training exercises, at Desert Rock, Nevada. Participation was not voluntary and served both to train and indoctrinate. Nov 1 1990 A New York City civil jury awards Sandra Miller $100 for battery after an incident in which boxer Mike Tyson grabbed her breasts, insulted and propositioned her. The jury found Tyson's behavior "not outrageous". Mike certainly has a way with women. Nov 1 1994 A group of South Korean cannibals known as the Chijon Family are sentenced to death for murdering and eating five people. The group was founded in 1993 by ex-convict Kim Ki Hwan and several other prisoners, in solidarity against the wealthy. Eat the rich. 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. 1592 - At the Battle of Busan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army. 1604 - William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. 1611 - William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London. 1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties. 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America. 1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House). 1884 - The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary. 1894 - Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. 1896 - A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time. 1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War. 1914 - World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific. 1945 - Australia joins the United Nations. 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House. 1951 - American soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada. Participation was not voluntary. 1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons. 1955 - The Famous Flames, a band featuring James Brown, records "Please, Please, Please" at a radio station in Macon, Georgia. 1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps. 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom. 1993 - The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union. Births 1762 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812) 1782 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859) 1946 - Ric Grech, English rock bassist (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Traffic) (d. 1990) 1950 - Dan Peek, American guitarist (America) 1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard) Deaths 1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845) Holidays and observances Mexico- Day of the Dead celebrations begin. Algeria - National day Antigua and Barbuda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1981) World Vegan Day
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     Nov 2 1974 The Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns, killing 78. Six of the victims jumped six floors to their deaths. After the fire started, club officials barred the doors, suspecting a ruse by customers to avoid paying. Nov 2 1984 Velma Barfield, convicted of killing her mother, her boyfriend and two others with rat poison in their food was put to death by lethal injection in Raleigh, N.C. Barfield was the first female executed in the US since 1962. Nov 2 1988 The Internet Worm is released by Cornell grad student Robert Morris. His ingenious program was meant to explore the Internet harmlessly, but due to a bug, it crashed some 6,000 computers. Nov 2 1995 The image of Jesus Christ appears to many people in a photo taken by the Hubble space telescope, depicting a gigantic gas plume 7000 light years from Earth. Some CNN viewers pointed out the image resembles Gene Shalit more than the Lord Saviour. Nov 2 2003 Arrested Development debuts on the Fox network. The half-hour sitcom was a brilliant yet short-lived show (lasted three seasons) whose cast included Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross and Ron Howard. 1570 - A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people. 1899 - The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. 1914 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. 1917 - The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine. 1930 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. 1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. 1936 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers. 1936 - The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. 1947 - In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. 1948 - U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency. 1959 - The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway 1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case 1965 - Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war. 1982 - Channel 4 in the United Kingdom is launched. 1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Day. 2000 - The first crew arrives at the International Space Station. 2007 - Cymru am byth finally catches up with this damn thread:40: :40: Births 1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820) 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793) 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923) 1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows) 1944 - Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) 1957 - Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band) 1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn) Deaths 1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963) Holidays and observances Mexico and Ecuador - Day of the Dead (Spanish: El Dia de los Muertos), a celebration of dead ancestors. Rastafari movement - The coronation of Haile Selassie (1930) celebrated Brazil and Portugal - Dia de Finados, a celebration of dead ancestors in the All Souls Day.
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     Nov 4 1963 At a Beatles command performance (present: Queen Elizabeth; the Queen Mother; Princess Margaret), John Lennon utters the remark: "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap their hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." Nov 4 1966 The Arno and Po rivers in Italy flood, submerging 2/3 of Florence. Irreplaceable renaissance art treasures and books were destroyed. 113 people died and 30,000 were rendered homeless. Nov 4 1979 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-iran-hostage-cr… The US Embassy in Tehran is stormed by "students", holding 52 hostages for 444 days. Nov 4 1986 The Iran-Contra Scandal is first reported in "Al Shiraa", an obscure Lebanese magazine. The public would come to learn that millions had been paid for US weapons and equipment for Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages in Lebanon. Profits were illegally channeled to the Contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Nov 4 1993 A series of fires rage in Southern California, destroying 300 very expensive homes in Malibu and 700 homes scattered elsewhere. Damage totals $500M to $1B. Half of the large fires were arson. 1501 - Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother - they would later marry. 1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary. 1839 – The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. 1890 - City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell. 1899 - Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published. 1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy. 1918 - The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel. 1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler 1924 - Calvin Coolidge is elected the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America. 1939 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents. 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat. 1952 - Dwight David Eisenhower is elected the thirty-fourth President of the United States of America. 1956 - Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country. 1960 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable -- the last film for both. 1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life. 1980 - Ronald Wilson Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States of America. 1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. 1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli. 2001 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established. Births 1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower 1954 - Chris Difford, English musician and songwriter (Squeeze) 1956 - Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater) 1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982) 1965 - Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X) 1965 - Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Journey) 1979 - Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress 1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer Holidays and observances Panama's Flag Day Italy - celebration of victory in World War I, the date of the Armed Forces Russia - Day of People's Unity Tonga's National Day
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     Nov 5 1605 Parliament is scheduled for detonation in the notorious Gunpowder Plot, in which Catholic conspirators attempted to roll back protestantism in England. Thirty-six barrels of black powder were uncovered in the cellar, and fuses were found in Guy Fawkes' pocket. In consequence, Fawkes was hanged. Britains now celebrate his death with fireworks. Nov 5 1975 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-travis-walton.jpg Logger Travis Walton is abducted by aliens near Snowflake, Arizona and is missing for five days. Aliens performed "various experiments" on the abductee. One can only imagine this involved anal probes of some manner. Needless to say, Walton finds the experience immensely lucrative as his experiences are chronicled in the mediocre book Fire in the Sky and a very bad film by Paramount. Nov 5 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini declares the US to be "The Great Satan". In return, Time Magazine later selects the ayatollah "Man of the Year". Nov 5 1994 Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's. For some people it merely confirms what they suspected all along. [Trivia question: Which 1980's president fell asleep at an audience with the Pope?] 1854 - The Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War. 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time. 1862 - Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang. 1912 - Woodrow Wilson elected twenty-eighth President of The United States of America. 1913 - United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire. 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people. 1940 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected to third term as President of The United States of America. 1942 - The World War II Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt. 1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations. 1965 - State of Emergency declared in Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with Great Britain over Rhodesian independence (UDI would follow six days later) 1968 - Richard M. Nixon elected as the thirty-seventh President of the United States of America. 1994 - Forty-five year old George Foreman becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out Michael Moorer. 2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church 2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982. Births 1947 - Peter Noone, English musician (Herman's Hermits) 1961 - David Bryson, American guitarist and vocalist (Counting Crows) 1971 - Jonny Greenwood, guitarist (Radiohead) 1977 - Brittney Skye, American porn star Deaths 2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940) Holidays and observances New Zealand,United Kingdom and the province of Newfoundland & Labrador (Canada): Guy Fawkes night (also called Bonfire night; or Fireworks night): Failure of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 is celebrated with bonfires and fireworks.
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     Nov 6 1962 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-nixon-little-pe… Dick Nixon loses the governor's election in California, proclaiming to the nation, "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more." (This was a full decade prior to "Lick Dick in '72".) Nov 6 1985 Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club in New York City admits topless male bunnies. Nov 6 1988 Beatle/boozehound Ringo Starr checks into an alcohol rehabilitation center. Nov 6 1989 Kitty Dukakis, wife of Presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, is hospitalized for drinking rubbing alcohol. Nov 6 1996 In Vicente Guererro, Mexico, the family of Eduardo Quihua Maquixtle, including four children, are stabbed by three men who accuse them of witchcraft. Nov 6 2002 Actress Winona Ryder found guilty of shoplifting, after she lifted $5500 in crap from Saks Fifth Avenue on Wilshire Boulevard. Among the merchandise she stole was a $760 sweater and $600 hair decorations. And an $80 pair of socks. 1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas. 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium. 1935 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane. 1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau 1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near. 1942 - World War II: SS City of Cairo sunk by German U-Boat U-68 in the South Atlantic en route to Brazil from Cape Town. 1943 - World War II: Russia recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings. 1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. 1962 - Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. 1965 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans will take advantage of this program. 1971 - The AEC tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. 1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran. 1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum. Births 1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles) 1965 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion) 1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer (Mr Big) 1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein) Holidays and observances Dominican Republic - Constitution Day (1844) Finland - The Finnish Swedish Heritage Day and an official flag day Sweden - Death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day Tajikistan - Constitution Day (1994)
298. BorroSalvaged from archive6 Nov 2007, 08:52
     http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w238/TX1138/thisthread…
299. HeyBuddySalvaged from archive6 Nov 2007, 13:15
     LOL...you listed the birth of a porn star. I love it. You really do your research. :xyxthumbs:
300. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive7 Nov 2007, 07:52
     http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w238/TX1138/thisthread… You're the only one to complain:xyxthumbs:
301. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive7 Nov 2007, 08:12
     Nov 7 1783 A man convicted of forgery is the last public hanging at London's Tyburn site, ending a gallows tradition begun in 1196. Nov 7 1872 The cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from New York, never reaching Genoa. Four weeks later it is found completely abandoned, whereabouts of the ten man crew unknown. The ship's cargo was alcohol, so you decide. Nov 7 1918 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-spanish-flu.jpg A ship from New Zealand brings the 1918 influenza epidemic to Western Samoa, killing 7542 -- about twenty percent of the population by the end of the year. Perhaps 20,000,000 people are killed from the epidemic globally, including half a million Americans. Nov 7 1965 The Pillsbury Doughboy makes its first appearance. It (we refer to the creature as "it"; marketing may call it a Doughboy but there is no evidence of genitals) has had a long and uneventful career, but the puffy pastry is now in serious trouble as he recently shit a croissant in front of god and everybody. Nov 7 1983 A bomb explodes inside the US Capitol building. The structure was damaged but there were no deaths or injuries. Nov 7 1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is an AIDS victim. Perhaps the basketball player's condition has something to do with his sleeping promiscuously with thousands of women. 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published. 1885 - In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada. 1900 - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses 1914 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces. 1917 - Russian Revolution: In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia is still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 25 date). 1917 - World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire. 1921 - the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), Italian National Fascist Party, is created by Benito Mussolini. 1931 - The Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. 1941 - World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. 1941 - Holocaust: Jewish tragedy in Nemyriv, Ukraine: German fascists murder 2580 Jews. Earlier in September, 1941 2,400 Jews were shot by German Nazis at the brickworks near Nemyriv. 1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt. 1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. 1990 - Mary Robinson is first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland 2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovered one of the country's largest LSD lab inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. 2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month break. 2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products. 2004 - War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Births 1936 - Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano 1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss) 1967 - Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas) 1968 - Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne) 1970 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy) 1972 - Danny Grewcock, English rugby union player 1981 - Lily Thai, Asian porn star Deaths 1944 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
302. BorroSalvaged from archive7 Nov 2007, 12:54
     You're the only one to complain:xyxthumbs: I'm fuckin with u ...sheesh :1orglaugh:
303. HeyBuddySalvaged from archive7 Nov 2007, 12:58
     1981 :xyxthumbs:
304. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive8 Nov 2007, 19:37
     Nov 8 1879 Leon Trotsky's birthday! Nov 8 1923 Adolf Hitler attempts to seize the government in Munich. The event is now known as the "Beer Hall Putsch" and lands his ass in jail. Nov 8 1937 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-eternal-jew.jpg The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) opens in Munich, which ran until the 16th. Later, a film is released by the same name. "Wherever rats appear they bring ruin, by destroying mankind's goods and foodstuffs." Nov 8 1973 The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper along with a ransom note. It takes two weeks to arrive. Previously, the kidnapping was thought to be a ruse by the son to obtain money, but the ear convinces his father to pay the $2.9M ransom. Nov 8 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-marion-barry.jpg Convicted crack smoker Marion Barry, who served six months in prison in 1990, is re-elected mayor of Washington D.C. Astonishing. And even more astonishing, on the same day Sonny Bono is elected to the United States Congress. Nov 8 1997 President Bill Clinton speaks at a dinner sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization. Nov 8 1997 A newborn baby is abandoned at a toilet in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. While the baby was found within five minutes of birth, police are still searching for the mother. 1793 - In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum. 1861 - American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. 1895 - While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays. 1917 - People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin. 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. 1938 - A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. 1939 - Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. 1939 - In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. 1942 - Holocaust: In Ternopil, western Ukraine, German SS deport about 2,400 Jews from Ternopil ghetto to the Belzec death camp, so called "Second Aktion". When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city. 1942 - World War II: Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa. 1942 - World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole of French North Africa. 1950 - Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. 1965 - The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. 1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. 1987 - Remembrance Day Bombing: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people. 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". 2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Births 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912) 1946 - Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard) 1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure) 1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef & Ex Glasgow Rangers footballer 1985 - Jack Osbourne, son of Ozzy Deaths 1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
305. HeyBuddySalvaged from archive8 Nov 2007, 19:38
     What a terrible day. Not a single famous porn star born?
306. BorroSalvaged from archive8 Nov 2007, 19:40
     Doc Holliday died on todays date? Sad day indeed huckleberry.
307. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Nov 2007, 15:20
     Nov 9 1888 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-mary-jane-kelly… Mary Jane Kelly, a 25 year old hooker, falls victim to Jack the Ripper. Mary's face had been mutilated; her breasts had been removed and she had been disemboweled. Her various internal organs were scattered about. She was the Rippers last known victim. Nov 9 1953 Dylan Thomas drinks himself to death. Nov 9 1971 John Emil List, a "deeply religious" Lutheran, kills his mother, wife, and three teenage children. He is not found until 1988, living with a new improved family as Robert P. Clark in Richmond Virginia. Nov 9 1997 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-lookinland.jpg Michael Paul Lookinland, aka "Bobby" from the Brady Bunch, charged with drunk driving in St. George, Utah. With a BAL of 0.258, the 36 year old former child star was very drunk. Nov 9 2005 After being shuffled around the weekly schedule, Fox television executives give up on Arrested Development and release the last four episodes in a two-hour block. The show does not go on despite interest from rival networks ABC and Showtime. Nov 9 2346 Romulans commit an atrocity now known as the Khitomer Massacre, slaughtering over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony. Worf and Kahlest are the only two to survive. 1492 - Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII. 1620 - Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 1688 - The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter. 1729 - Spain, France and England sign the Treaty of Seville. 1764 - Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. 1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. 1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. 1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. 1917 - Josef Stalin enters the provisional government of the USSR. 1918 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. 1921 - Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect. 1923 - In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis. 1937 - Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China. 1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins. 1953 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. 1989 - Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall. 1990 - New democratic constitution was issued in Nepal. 1990 - Mary Robinson was elected Ireland's first female President and the first from the Labour Party. 1993 - Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing. 1998 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences (treason etc). 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland is selected to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Births 1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910) 1886 - S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972) 1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990) 1954 - Dennis Stratton, British musician, (Iron Maiden(1979-1980), Praying Mantis) 1965 - Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone Deaths 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866) 1940 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869) 1952 - Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874) 1953 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914) 1970 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890) Holidays and observances Cambodia - Independence Day (1953) Pakistan - Allama Iqbal Day (1877) Germany - November 9th is often called Germany's Schicksalstag (day of fate) due to the events of 1848, 1918, 1923, 1938, and 1989. Europe - Inventor's Day - in honor of Hedy Lamarr's birthday United States - World Freedom Day, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 International - Diwali (Hindu festival)
308. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Nov 2007, 16:58
     Nov 10 4004 BC Adam and Eve are driven from Paradise. Nov 10 1928 Emperor Hirohito enthroned at Kyoto. Nov 10 1938 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-kristallnacht.jpg Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass, in Germany. Members of the SA, SS, and Hitler Youth round up some 30,000 jews. Jewish homes and shops are targeted for vandalism, 177 synagogues are destroyed by fire and 91 jews are killed. Nov 10 1940 Walt Disney begins serving as a secret informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI, to report back information on Hollywood subversives. He was made a "Full Special Agent in Charge Contact" in 1954. We should note that Disney was atheist and thus subversive in his own little way. Nov 10 1972 Two men hijack Southern Airways Flight 49 out of Birmingham, and hopscotch it variously in the U.S., Canada, and Cuba while demanding $7M. At one point they circle Oak Ridge National Laboratory and threaten to crash the plane into that top secret nuclear installation. After two days, and exhausting most of the aircraft's supply of mini liquor bottles, the plane lands for good in Havana where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro. Said one of the two hijackers later, "I wanted to fly over the Statue of Liberty and urinate on it." Nov 10 1997 Seymore Hersh's book "The Dark Side of Camelot" published, includes allegations that explicit photos were taken of John F. Kennedy with various sex partners and brought by a Secret Service agent to a Washington gallery for framing. The gallery owner, Sidney Mickelson, stated that the participants included a naked Kennedy and assorted lady friends wearing masks. 1674 - Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England. 1775 - The United States Marine Corps was founded. 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery. 1958 - The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston. 1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street. Births 1683 - George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) 1925 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984) 1947 - Glen Buxton, American musician (Alice Cooper) (d. 1997) 1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News) 1981 - Alison Waite, American model and Playboy Playmate Deaths 1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1906) Holidays and observances Turkey - Day of Remembrance of Ataturk Argentina - Day of Tradition, honouring the death of José Hernández United States Marine Corps Birthday
309. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive11 Nov 2007, 18:06
     Nov 11 1215 The Fourth Lateran Council meets. They adopt the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ. This means all Catholics are essentially cannibals on a feeding schedule, but who are we to judge a theology? Nov 11 1634 Under the urging of Anglican Bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery." Seven years later, the good Bishop Atherton is himself the second man hanged under the Act. Nov 11 1969 A drunken Jim Morrison, Door, is arrested by the FBI after he repeatedly prods a stewardess. Nov 11 1978 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-hollywoodland-t… A renovated Hollywood Sign is unveiled. The original sign was built in 1923, and said "Hollywoodland". Its 45 foot high letters have served as the jumping point for several suicides, including the first: starlet Peg Entwhistle (letter "H", 1932). Nov 11 1988 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-dorothea-puente… Seven bodies are discovered under the ground of a Sacramento California boardinghouse owned by Dorothea Puente. The batty landlord had killed nine elderlies and was receiving their social security money. Nov 11 1997 19-year-old girl Marianne Biancuzzo is charged in Tucson for drowning her newborn baby in a toilet and hiding the remains in a coffee can under her family's bathroom sink. The baby's carcass was discovered by her 15-year-old brother. What size coffee can you ask? 3 pounds. The brand name has not been released by police. 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul 1620 - In what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, the Mayflower Compact is signed on the Mayflower, establishing the basic laws for the Plymouth Colony. 1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. 1831 - In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. 1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company. 1880 - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol. 1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham. 1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month). 1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery. 1926 - U.S. Route 66 is established. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Taranto - The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto. 1940 - The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan. 1940 - Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest. 1942 - World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France. 1992 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. 2004 - New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington 2004 - Yasser Arafat is confirmed dead by the Palestine Liberation Organization, of unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later. Births 1945 - Chris Dreja, British guitarist and bassist (The Yardbirds) 1950 - Jim Peterik, American musician and songwriter (Survivor) 1973 - Jason White, American musician (Green Day) Deaths 1724 - Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700) 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) 1918 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892) 1938 - Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869) 1988 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900) Holidays and observances Several nations celebrate, in some way, the end of World War I, the ceasefire of which went into effect at 11:00am CET on this day in 1918. Armistice Day in France and Belgium Veterans Day in the United States (called Armistice Day until 1952, when the name was changed, and the holiday was re-geared toward all military veterans) Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations, including United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Twins Day (1987) in Taiwan: a festival for biological twins and other multiples. The eleventh day of the eleventh month (11-11) consists of the same numeral in pairs and symbolizes their characteristics. Poland - Independence Day (1918) Colombia - Independence of Cartagena, Colombia, from Spain (1811) Lāčplēsis Day (1919) in Latvia: the official date for commemoration of Latvian soldiers, who had died for the country's freedom. Angola - Independence Day (1975)
310. yupSalvaged from archive11 Nov 2007, 18:11
     1889-Washington becomes the 42nd state. Just saw that in the Sunday Times.
311. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive12 Nov 2007, 18:58
     Nov 12 1912 Frozen bodies of Captain Robert Scott and his men found on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Nov 12 1933 Hugh Gray of the British Aluminium Company took five pictures of the Loch Ness Monster, the first known photos. Four the the five exposures were blank, and the remaining photo was later proven to be a hoax. Nov 12 1934 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-charles-manson-… Charles Manson born in Cincinnati to a 16 year old prostitute and an unknown father. He grows up to do... interesting things. Nov 12 1938 Hermann Goering announces that Madagascar will be the Jewish homeland, with support from Himmler and others. The original idea actually belongs to a jew of the 19th century, Theodore Herzl. Negotiations were conducted with the French government regarding this so called "Madagascar Plan" (France owned the island at that time), but were broken off in 1942 -- probably because Britain controlled the seas. Nov 12 1942 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-abe-reles-th.jpg Mobster Frank Costello has mob informer Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, then in protective custody under guard of six policemen, defenestrated. Reles was in a position to put away several important bosses including Bugsy Siegel and Albert Anastasia. Brooklyn police are greased with $50,000 to allow the killing to occur. His body isn't found until much later. Nov 12 1970 Cyclone and floods hit Bangladesh (then called East Pakistan). Over 200,000 poor people die. Nov 12 1993 A Russian woman purchases meat at the Saratov public market at a very good price, but a sutured wound indicates foul play. Yuri Lukin, a local hospital worker, is subsequently arrested for removing human body parts from his employer's refrigerator to raise cash for booze. Nov 12 2001 An American Airlines Airbus A300 crashes after takeoff from New York City, the first major crash after the terrorist attacks of September 11. 1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. 1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic. 1918 - Austria becomes a republic 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union. 1941 - World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. 1941 - A Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" was destroyed during the battle of Sevastopol 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days. 1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II. 1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now -infamous exploding whale incident 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran. 1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings. 1981 - The 2nd shuttle mission of Columbia 2. It was the 1st time a spacecraft was launched twice. 1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev. 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. 1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado. 1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. 2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. Births 1962 - Brix Smith, American musician and songwriter (The Fall, The Adult Net) 1964 - David Ellefson, American musician (Megadeth) 1967 - Grant Nicholas, Welsh singer (Feeder) 1977 - Dalene Kurtis, American Playboy Playmate Deaths 1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060) 2003 - Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
312. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive13 Nov 2007, 18:44
     Nov 13 1805 Johann Georg Lehner invents the hot dog. At long last a use for all those hog penises, lips, intestines, and ears. Nov 13 1974 Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood's car is forced off the road into an embankment, while travelling to an interview with author and New York Times reporter David Burnham. Her files were missing from the wreck, but a not-so-impartial FBI investigation concluded accident. For the TV movie they give Meryl Streep the part. Nov 13 1974 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-arafat-gun.jpg Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat stuns the world by wearing a sidearm to the United Nations General Assembly, where he gives his landmark address. Nov 13 1985 An eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano melts a glacier, causing a mudslide that kills 23,000 poor people in Armero, Colombia. Nov 13 1986 Ronald Reagan tells television audience: "We have not -- I repeat, did not -- trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we ever." 1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. 1642 - At the Battle of Turnham Green of the First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London. 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal defended by British General Guy Carleton. Allen and his troops were disorganised and soundly defeated; however, U.S. Brigadier General Richard Montgomery's force entered Montreal unopposed. 1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington. 1887 - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U 81, she sinks on November 14. 1942 - World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal 1954 - Great Britain defeated France 16-12 to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators. 1956 - United States Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Kim Duk Koo. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport. 1990 - The World Wide Web first began. 1994 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum. 1995 - A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility for the attack. 2001 - War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. 2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Births 1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377) 1953 - Andrew Ranken, English musician (The Pogues) 1978 - Nikolai Fraiture, bass player (The Strokes) Deaths 1093 - King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. 1031) 1770 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1712)
313. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive14 Nov 2007, 09:51
     Nov 14 1940 The Nazis bomb Coventry, destroying the cathedral and killing several hundred people. British Intelligence knew ahead of time -- the German ENIGMA ciphers had been decoded -- but did not warn the town's citizens. Of course, Coventry was a legitimate military targetdue to its high concentration of armaments, munitions and engine plants, something the English government tried to play down. Nov 14 1968 National Turn In Your Draft Card Day. Nov 14 1991 Former postal employee Thomas McIlvane shoots and kills four of his ex-coworkers and wounds five others, and then suicides. The act was revenge for his recent firing for lying on his time card. McIlvane's previous work experience includes a dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps, after he ran over a car with a tank. Nov 14 1993 Michael Jackson checks into a drug rehabilitation program in order to treat his addiction to painkillers, taken in response to media allegations that he is a homosexual pedophile. According to his publicist, Jackson was "barely able to function adequately on an intellectual level." 1918 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. 1941 - World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13. 1952 - First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express. 1967 - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., The Monkees' fourth album, is released. 1970 - The solo album 'Barrett' by former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett is released. 1973 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. 1975 - Spain abandons Western Sahara. 1990 - After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. 1991 - American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. 2001 - War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul. Births 1650 - King William III of England (d. 1702) 1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales 1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx) 1956 - Alec John Such, American bassist (Bon Jovi) 1968 - Janine Lindemulder, American porn actress 1975 - Travis Barker, American musician (Blink 182, +44) 1979 - Tobin Esperance, American bassist (Papa Roach) Holidays and observances India - Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's Day United States - National Children's Book Week begins Colombia - "Day of the Colombian Woman"
314. Satan's Uncle RonSalvaged from archive15 Nov 2007, 19:14
     Nov. 15 1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon began surveying the Mason-Dixon line. 1777 The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, the precursor to the U.S. Constitution. 1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop now known as Pikes Peak. 1939 The cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial was laid by President Roosevelt. 1969 About 250,000 protesters against the Vietnam War, the largest war protest ever, converged peacefully on Washington, DC. 2002 Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China's Communist Party leader.
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     Nov 15 1864 The sack and burning of Atlanta by General William Tecumseh Sherman, making Georgia howl. That act and the subsequent March to the Sea makes Sherman the most hated and despised man in Georgia history. Nov 15 1940 Nazis quarantine the Warsaw Ghetto, population 400,000 Juden. Nov 15 1941 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-himmler.jpg SS chief Himmler orders the arrest and concentration of all homosexuals in Germany. Excluded were certain top Nazi officials who happened to be gay, including Himmler. Nov 15 1978 A chartered Icelandic Airlines DC-8 with 249 pilgrims returning from Mecca, crashes on approach to Sri Lanka's international airport in Colombo, killing 183 believers. Nov 15 1979 A package from the Unabomber in the mail carried aboard American flight 444 explodes on the way to Washington. Several people suffer smoke inhalation. Nov 15 1985 A research assistant is injured when he opens a present from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor. Nov 15 1990 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-millivanilli.jpg Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli (the 1990 "Best Artist" Grammy Award winners) did not sing on their album. One of the duo, Robert Pilatus, later attempts suicide in 1991 but he couldn't even get that performance right. He does succeed 7 years later, though. 1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession. 1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva. 1935 - Canada and the United States sign the reciprocal trade agreement in Washington. 1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. 1942 - World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219. 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory. 1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". 1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi. 1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched. 1969 - Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. 1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. 1971 - Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. 1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. 1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. 2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20. 2006 - The Al Jazeera English news channel is launched. Births 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778) 1897 - Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician & founder of the NHS (d. 1960) Deaths 2002 - Myra Hindley, English murderess (b. 1942) Holidays and observances Austria - Saint Leopold's day -- no school in Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria Belgium - King's Feast, not an official holiday, but some state institutions are closed Brazil - Republic Proclamation Day (1889) Palestine - Independence Day (declared 1988) USA - America Recycles Day
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     Nov 16 1906 Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act committed in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. He pinched the bottom of a woman described as "pretty and plump", causing outrage amongst New York high society. Caruso claimed a monkey pinched the lady's bottom. Nov 16 1957 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-dug-up-a-posse.jpg Serial killer Ed Gein kills his final victim, Bernice Worden, a store clerk in her 50's. Her decapitated body is later found outdoors hanging from a block and tackle, gutted. Some parts were unaccounted for. Nov 16 1981 Actor William Holden dies after a fall, hitting his head on a table. He is too fucking drunk to telephone for assistance; instead he bleeds to death while dabbing his serious wound with Kleenex. Nov 16 1989 A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops slaughters six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. 1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so 1857 - Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24). 1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state. 1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. 1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens. 1920 - Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) and Avianca are older. 1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations. 1940 - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. 1940 - Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. 1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. 1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway. 1944 - Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied aerial bombers. 1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology. 1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship. 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. Births 1896 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980) 1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein) 1973 - Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player 1982 - Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player Deaths 1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland, wife of Malcolm III of Scotland 1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207) Holidays and observances International Day for Tolerance Iceland - Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Icelandic Language Day) United Kingdom and Ireland - Children In Need Day
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     Nov 17 1796 Empress Catherine the Great dies of a stroke while sitting on the commode. Nov 17 1968 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-heidi-nfl-th.jpg NBC preempts the final 1:05 from a very close Jets-Raiders NFL football game with "Heidi". Two touchdowns were scored during this missing time. Sports fans everywhere applaud and understand the network's decision. Nov 17 1973 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-nixon-on-tv-th.jpg "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook". Nov 17 1992 Scaremongering "journalists" at Dateline NBC falsify a demonstration involving a GM truck exploding on impact. In reality the trucks do not explode on impact, and smarmy reporters do not always tell the truth. Nov 17 1997 In a three hour gun battle, Islamic militants in the ancient pharaonic city of Luxor indiscriminately slaughter 60 tourists. Six gunmen and two Egyptian policemen are also killed. 1292 - John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. 1511 - Spain and England ally against France. 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. 1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress 1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe. 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony. 1919 - King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey. 1933 - United States recognizes Soviet Union. 1939 - Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps. November 17 declared International Student's day. 1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored). 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen. 1953 - The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland. 1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse. 1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS. 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated as Governor of California. Births 1887 - Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (d. 1976) 1937 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995) 1944 - Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (d. 1991) 1946 - Martin Barre, English rock musician (Jethro Tull) 1966 - Richard Fortus, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses) 1968 - Amber Michaels, German porn actress 1970 - Paul Allender, British guitarist (Cradle of Filth) Deaths 1558 - Mary I of England (b. 1516) 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1693)
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     Nov 19 1581 Russian Czar Ivan The Terrible kills his son, also named Ivan. The younger Ivan interrupted the elder Ivan, who was beating Ivan Jr's pregnant wife because of her inappropriate garb. Still in a fit of range, dad smote his son with a staff, killing him. Nov 19 1703 The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille. He was a prisoner of Louis XIV, forced to wear a black velvet mask, and his identity has never been revealed. Nov 19 1915 Labor activist Joe Hill executed for a murder he did not commit. Nov 19 1954 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-sammy-eyepatch.jpg Driving to Los Angeles, Sammy Davis, Jr. is in a serious automobile accident in San Bernardino. He lost his left eye, but the resultant publicity greatly accelerated his career. The following year, the hepcat turned into a Jew. Nov 19 1961 Michael Rockefeller, 23 year old son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (later Vice President), disappears while searching for Asmat wood carvings in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea. He was probably eaten by the Asmat. Nov 19 1970 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-lance-rentzel-t… Lance Rentzel, American professional football player, is arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl. He was later sentenced to five years' probation. Rentzel was said to have handled the situation bravely, continuing to play pro football and opening admitting his problems. At one point, he labeled himself a "sex pervert." In 1973 he made further headlines when he pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana. Nov 19 1994 A Rotterdam University study determined that over one in four members of the Dutch Parliament have smoked marijuana. 1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). 1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War 1863 - American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1941 - World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. 1944 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. 1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement. 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran. 1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. 1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals. 1994 - In Britain, the first National Lottery draw was held. A £1 ticket gives a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers. 2005 - US Marines allegedly commit a massacre on 24 citizens in the town of Haditha in Iraq. Births 1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649) 1831 - James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881) 1960 - Matt Sorum, American drummer (Guns 'n' Roses, Velvet Revolver) Deaths 1983 - Tom Evans, British musician (Badfinger) (b. 1947) Holidays and observances Brazil - Flag Day Mali - Liberation Day Puerto Rico - Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493) United States - Equal Opportunity Day Norway - The Liberation of the Sami People of the coast United Arab Emirates - Pilgrimage Trinidad and Tobago - International Men's Day World Toilet Day
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     Nov 20 1912 Mad Bomber Carl Warr enters Los Angeles city jail with 60 sticks of dynamite strapped to himself. After an hour, two detectives attack Warr who then pulls the bomb's trigger. Nothing happens, and the freakishly masked bomber begs police to kill him. Nov 20 1917 T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) held prisoner, whipped, and raped by Turkish Army officers. Nov 20 1977 Hillside Strangers, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr, abduct, abuse, and kill three women: Kristina Weckler, Sonja Johnson, and Dolores Cepeda. The two killers would dress as Los Angeles police officers to gain the women's confidence. Nov 20 1979 Over 300 Shi'ite muslim radicals, followers of Juhaiman al-Utaibi, take control of the Great Mosque in Mecca, demanding a return to more conservative rule. Two weeks later, over 100 of them are dead after a battle with Saudi military. A further 63 are beheaded at scattered locations over Saudi Arabia, to serve as examples. Nov 20 1995 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-james-hewitt-th… Princess Diana interviewed on the BBC television program Panorama, where she admits having an affair with James Hewitt, a British army officer. After Diana's death, Hewitt publishes a tell-all book, juicy excerpts of which the tabloid Mail on Sunday bid half a million pounds for. 1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story). 1917 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back. 1917 - Ukraine is declared a republic. 1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers. 1943 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. 1945 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. 1947 - The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. 1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released. 1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. 1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period). 1998 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. 1998 - The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched. 2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate. Births 1928 - John Disley, Welsh athlete (3000 metre steeplechase 1952 Olympic bronze) 1947 - Joe Walsh, American musician (Eagles) 1965 - Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys) 1975 - Timea Margot, Hungarian porn star 1986 - Jared Followill, American bassist (Kings of Leon) Deaths 1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844) Holidays and observances Brazil - Zumbi Day (since 1978) Brazil - Dia da Consciência Negra (Afro-Brazilian's Conscience Day) United Kingdom - wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (1947), official flag day Mexico - Anniversary of the Revolution (1910) UNICEF - Universal Children's Day Vietnam - Teacher's Day (Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam) Transgender Day of Remembrance (since 1999)
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     Nov 22 1963 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-jfkopsy-th.jpg President John F. Kennedy assassinated. Nov 22 1963 Death of a President, by William Manchester, is the authorized version of the Kennedy assassination. Jackie Kennedy gave ten hours of interview; both Look magazine and the German publication Stern serialized it. Jackie asked that certain passages which were "too personal" be removed. According to the Paul Krassner's periodical The Realist, this is one of the passages: "That man was crouching over the corpse, no longer chuckling but breathing hard and moving his body rhythmically. At first I thought he must be performing some mysterious symbolic rite he'd learned from Mexicans or Indians as a boy. And then I realized -- there is only one way to say this -- he was literally fucking my husband in the throat. In the bullet wound in the front of his throat. He reached a climax and dismounted. I froze. The next thing I remember, he was being sworn in as the new President". It is true, that LBJ was found chuckling over the dead Kennedy on the airplane. However, Paul Krassner embellished the rest just a little bit. Nov 22 1980 Mae West dies. Nov 22 1993 Anthony Burgess, author of the ultra-violent A Clockwork Orange, dies. He had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and doctors gave him one year to live back in 1959. Nov 22 1996 The actor who played Spock's father Sarek, Mark Lenard, dead of multiple myeloma at age 68 in Manhattan. He is survived by Leonard Nimoy. Nov 22 1997 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-coolio.jpg Coolio arrested in Germany, for attempting to shoplift $2000 in clothes. A clerk at the store also claims Coolio punched her in the stomach during the altercation. 1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") was killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard. 1830 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Caernarfon, opened the tomb of Tutankhamun. 1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advanced into Albanian soil and liberated Korytsa. 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich Paulus sent Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army was surrounded. 1943 - World War II: War in the Pacific - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan 1943 - Lebanese Independence Day. Lebanon gained independence from France. 1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy was killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally was seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States. 1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. 1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco. 1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. 1986 - Boxing: Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick in the second round, becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years and 4 months. 1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. :40: Births 1890 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970) 1946 - Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) 1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club) 1956 - Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx) 1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM) 1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) 1983 - Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium) 1984 - Kate Ground, Canadian adult internet model (Katesplayground) Deaths 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
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     Nov 23 1910 American murderer Hawley Crippen hanged, after he was caught aboard the SS Montrose attempting to escape from Britain to Canada. It was the first use of radio for the apprehension of a criminal. Nov 23 1963 The first episode of Doctor Who premiers on the BBC. Nov 23 1976 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-jerry-lee-lewis… Jerry Lee Lewis arrested in front of Graceland in Memphis for public drunkenness, and carrying a chrome plated .38 derringer revolver. Nov 23 1980 Over 2500 people are killed when a 6.8 earthquake rocks the Campania and Basilicata regions of Italy. Nov 23 1997 After a minor traffic incident, three Mexican police officers remove taxi driver Jesus Gallegos from his car and beat him. In front of bystanders. Gallegos charred body is found the next day. The three are charged with homicide. 1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. 1867 - The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England for rescuing two Irish men from jail. 1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day. 1889 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. 1914 - The US Army retreats from Mexico. 1936 - The first edition of Life is published. 1943 - World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 1943 - World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces. 1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia. 1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten. Births 1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869) 1945 - Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer 1972 - Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God) Deaths 955 - Edred, King of England (b. c. 923) 1990 - Roald Dahl, British author (b. 1916)
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     Nov 24 1326 The gay lover of King Edward II, Hugh le Despenser the Younger, is hanged after his penis and testicles are burned in front of him "because he was a heretic and a sodomite, even, it was said, with the King." Nov 24 1740 William Duell, murderer, hanged at Tyburn in London. He is not killed immediately, though this is not noticed by the executioner. Deull later awakes on the dissection table. Nov 24 1963 Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald. Nov 24 1971 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-dbc.jpg D.B. Cooper hijacks a Northwest Orient 727 and parachutes into the freezing rain over Washington state from the rear stairway of the plane with $200,000 in cash. Rotting currency from the ransom is eventually located, but his rotting body isn't. Nov 24 1983 Jimmy "the Beard" Ferrozzo is crushed to death after hours in San Francisco's Condor Club. Ferrozzo, the club's assistant manager, was fucking one of the strippers on top of a baby grand piano when one of the pair inadvertently flipped the switch to the motorized winch that lowered the instrument from the ceiling. Only when his legs are trapped between the piano and the ceiling that Ferrozzo manages to shut off the hoist, but he dies of a heart attack. The exotic dancer remains trapped underneath his body until firefighters arrive to free her, several hours later. Nov 24 1991 Freddie Mercury dies from AIDS. Nov 24 2003 After his BMW struck a Toyota Camry, country singer Glenn Campbell is arrested with an impressive blood alcohol level of .20 on charges of "extreme" drunk driving, hit and run, and assaulting a police officer, in Phoenix AZ. He is freed on $2000 bond. While in custody, Campbell hummed his hit Rhinestone Cowboy repeatedly. 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species. 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made. 1922 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver. 1932 - In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French. 1943 - World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks with nearly 650 men killed. 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft. Births 1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850) 1806 - William Webb Ellis, credited with the invention of Rugby (d. 1872) 1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962) 1941 - Pete Best, British drummer (The Quarrymen AKA The Beatles) 1946 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989) 1955 - Elvis Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones) 1962 - John Squire, British guitarist (The Stone Roses) 1964 - Tony Rombola, American guitarist (Godsmack) Deaths 1848 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1779) 1959 - Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player (b. 1883) 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of John F. Kennedy (b. 1939) 1991 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen, AIDS, b. 1946) 1991 - Eric Carr, American drummer (KISS, Cancer of the heart, b. 1950)
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     Nov 25 1867 Patent granted to Alfred Nobel for dynamite. Nov 25 1957 Mexican painter Diego Rivera dies of heart failure. Earlier as a student, Rivera claimed to have purchased cadavers and experimented with Cannibalism. Human dining preferences included breasts and brains. Also in his autobiography he wrote that he had cancer of the penis, doctors recommending amputation. Both stories are considered somewhat suspect. Nov 25 1970 Japanese playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima commits seppuku (self disembowelment) after an aborted coup attempt in Japan. He had authored over 100 works and was deemed by Life magazine the "Japanese Hemmingway"; certainly he is one of the best writers Japan has ever produced. But Mishima believed that "true manhood" required you to face your own death willingly. Nov 25 1987 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-fawn-hall-th.jpg Secretarial bimbo Fawn Hall, Oliver North's assistant, removes documents from sealed National Security Council offices inside the White House by hiding them inside her skirt. Go girl! Nov 25 1997 The Weekly World News reports that the Japanese have a fetishistic attraction to US Attorney General Janet Reno, whom many Americans believe is actually a man. If these reports are true, at the very least we should impose trade sanctions. 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne. 1120 - The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England. 1177 - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard. 1491 - The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins. 1542 - Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scots. 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale. 1758 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. 1758 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded. 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. 1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. 1936 - In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. 1940 - First flight of the deHavilland mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder. 1941 - Finland joined the Anti-Comintern Pact. 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, UK, killing 160 shoppers. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Peleliu - At Peleliu, Palau, the American forces led by the general officer William H. Rupertus defeat the Japanese army led by Colonel Kunio Nakagawa. 1947 - New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. 1950 - The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces. 1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history. 1984 - 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. 1992 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993. 2005 - Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released. Births 1946 - Bev Bevan, English rock drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra) 1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion) 1966 - Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants) 1979 - Brooke Haven, American porn star Deaths 2005 - Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971) Holidays and observances Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Day (1943) Suriname - Independence Day (from the Netherlands, 1975) International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women International Men's Day in Canada
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     Nov 26 1865 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-alice-liddel-th… Lewis Carroll sends the manuscript for the psychedelic novel "Alice in Wonderland" to his 12 year old special friend Alice Liddell. (Incidentally Carroll, born Charles Dodgson, had a thing for very young girls, frequently photographing them nude.) Nov 26 1973 The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, stabbed to death in prison by a fellow inmate in Massachusetts. DeSalvo had killed 13 women. Nov 26 1975 Manson family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme found guilty of attempting to assassinate President Ford. It is unclear why anyone would want to assassinate such an uninteresting president. Nov 26 1976 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-never-mind-the-… Sex Pistols single Anarchy in the UK released. The song later appeared on Never Mind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols. 1778 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. 1789 - A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress. 1805 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in North Wales. At 1,007 feet long and 126 feet high it is both the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain, and is a Grade I Listed Building. 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. 1941 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States. 1942 - Holocaust: Shoah: 572 Norwegian Jews were deported to Auschwitz on the cargo vessel Donau. This was the first step on the journey to the death camp Auschwitz. Altogether the total number of Jews deported from Norway was 767. 25 of the deported survived. 1942 - The film Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York City, as Allied Expeditionary Forces (AEF) secured their hold on North Africa during World War II. 1942 - World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia. 1944 - World War II: Germans begin V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium. 1950 - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China move into North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict. 1983 - Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament. 2003 - Concorde makes its last ever flight over Bristol, UK. Births 1945 - John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) 1951 - Cicciolina, Italian porno actress and politician 1970 - Alex Taylor, Latin porn star 1981 - Aurora Snow, American pornographic actress
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     Nov 27 1934 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-babyface-th.jpg Bank robber Lester Gillis, known as Baby Face Nelson, killed in a tommygun shootout by FBI agents in Fox River Grove, IL. While Nelson was able to kill the two lawmen involved, his naked body was found the next day containing 17 bullets. Nov 27 1969 Court appointed attorney Ronald Hughes, handling the Charles Manson case, disappears on a camping trip to Sespe Hot Springs in Southern California, accompanied by two Manson followers. His decomposed body is identified by dental x-rays five months later. Nov 27 1975 Members of the Provisional IRA kill Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records, in London after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. Nov 27 1978 Former policeman Dan White kills San Francisco mayor George Moscone & homosexual supervisor Harvey Milk. White later uses the "twinkie defense" to get a short sentence, but commits suicides after release. 1295 - The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament". 1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703. 1868 - Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River - United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. 1940 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean. 1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. 1944 - world War II: An explosion at a RAF ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people. 1946 - Cold War: Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster". 1990 - The British Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1991 - The United Nations Security Council adopts UN Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia. 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France. Births 1746 - Robert Livingston, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1813) 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970) 1952 - Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis) 1959 - Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds) 1962 - Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax) 1962 - Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More) 1967 - Shane Embury, British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death) 1978 - Mike Skinner - (The Streets) Deaths 2006 - Alan Freeman, British disc jockey known by his nickname 'Fluff' (b. 1927)
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     Nov 28 1942 A fire at the sleazy Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Boston, kills 491 people. Flammable artificial palm trees aided the spread of the fire. The numerous dead were crushed, burnt, and asphyxiated, all within minutes. Nov 28 1953 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-frank-olson.jpg Frank Olson, government scientist, jumps to his death from the Statler Hotel in New York City. In 1975 it is revealed that Olson had been administered LSD by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb in a CIA experiment. Nov 28 1981 A drunk Natalie Wood topples off her yacht near Catalina Island and drowns. Her husband Robert Wagner, and melodramatic friend Christopher Walken, were onboard and unaware of her predicament, apparently having some sort of argument in the cabin. Nov 28 1994 Homosexual cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer beaten to death with a broomstick by inmate Christopher Scarver while cleaning the prison bathroom. Dahmer's brain was to be preserved in formaldehyde at the request of Mom, but a court ordered its destruction in late 1995. 1520 - After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. 1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence. 1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. 1729 - Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. 1814 - The Times in London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the begining of making newspapers available to a mass audience 1821 - Panama Independence Day. Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia. 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. 1893 - Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election. 1895 - The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours. 1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party whose goal is the independence of Ireland. 1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading. 1919 - Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit as a British MP, although not the first to be elected - that was Countess Markiewicz. 1920 - Kilmichael Ambush Battle of the Irish War of Independence 1942 - Roll out of the first B-24 Liberator made in Ford's Willow Run plant. 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy. 1944 - World War II - Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans. 1974 - John Lennon performs onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York City with Elton John, as a result of losing a wager that his song "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" (which Elton also played and sang on) would hit #1 on the pop chart (on November 11). This would also be Lennon's final concert appearance. 1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal. 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power. 1990 - Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to The Queen and leaves Downing Street for the last time. John Major is elected her successor. 1997 - Kosovo Liberation Army, Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo, presents in front of the people of Kosovo. Births 1962 - Matt Cameron, American drummer (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam) 1967 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model, television personality and gold digger (d. 2007) 1969 - Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor (10.5") Deaths 1170 - Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd Holidays and observances Albania - Albanian Independence day (from Turkey, 1912) Mauritania - Independence Day (from France, 1960)
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     Nov 29 1864 The Sand Creek Massacre, in which the US Army sent soldiers into an Indian encampment, slaughtering 300 Indian. The Cheyenne and Arapaho had been given an American flag to prevent such an event from occurring, but an army colonel chose to disregard it. Nov 29 1944 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-malcolm-x-mug.jpg Malcolm X, then known as small-time criminal Malcolm Little, was arrested for larceny. He received a three months suspended sentence and one year probation. Nov 29 1961 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-enos-th.jpg The US sends the chimpanzee Enos into space, on the Mercury Atlas 5 capsule from Cape Canaveral. Nov 29 1986 Death of 82 year old Archibald Leach, better known as Cary Grant. While rumors of Grant's sexuality have been around for years, consider in perspective the words of US congressman Bob Dornan, spoken on the House floor: "I do not think Cary Grant was a homosexual or bisexual. He just got carried away at those orgies." Nov 29 1987 The KAL flight from Abu Dhabi to Bankgok explodes due to a bomb planted by North Korean agents, off Burma. All 115 aboard were killed. The two agents responsible take suicide pills in Bahrain while they were being questioned. Nov 29 2001 The "quiet" Beatle George Harrison silenced by cancer. 1777 - San Jose, California, founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California. 1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance. 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time. 1922 - Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public. 1950 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea. 1972 - Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif. 1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen. 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing "use all necessary means to uphold and implement" United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 "to restore international peace and security" if Iraq did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991. Births 1898 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963) (The Chronicles of Narnia.) 1940 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2007) 1951 - Barry Goudreau, American musician (Boston) 1958 - Michael Dempsey, American musician (The Cure) 1962 - Andy LaRocque Swedish musician (King Diamond) 1970 - Mark Pembridge, Welsh footballer 1973 - Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer 1982 - Krystal Steal, American pornographic actress Deaths 1986 - Cary Grant, British-born American actor (b. 1904) 2001 - George Harrison, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943)
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     Nov 30 1731 100,000 dead when a massive quake strikes Peking, China. Nov 30 1900 Celebrated Irish author/sodomite Oscar Wilde, dies in Paris of meningitis. Wilde had been charged three times with indecency, specifically "the seduction and corruption of young men." Evidence admitted against him included testimony about fecal stains on his sheets. Nov 30 1929 Dick Clark, the American Bandstander, born. We heard a rumor about extensive facial plasticizing treatments in the early 1970's. While this rumor remains unverified we must note that the man no longer ages and may not even be human. Nov 30 1954 At 1 pm, an 8.5 pound stone meteorite falls from the sky and strikes Elizabeth Hulitt Hodge from Sylacauga, Alabama. The housewife was seriously bruised but survived, although the meteorite destroyed her radio. Nov 30 1985 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-frankenchrist.jpg Frankenchrist released by the Dead Kennedys. More controversial than the album itself was the packaging: The Shriners filed suit regarding the cover (pictured were some of the ridiculous little cars they drive); and a poster by H.R. Giger included in the album sparked an obscenity trial in Los Angeles. Nov 30 1991 In Costa Mesa, California, battered wife Omeima Nelson kills her abusive husband and then proceeds to cook him. "I did his ribs just like in a restaurant. It's so sweet, it's so tender and delicious. I like mine tender." Nov 30 1994 Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot five times in the chest in what may or may not have been an attempted robbery. He lives but is shot dead in Las Vegas, Nevada later. 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). 1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase. 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. 1934 - The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph. 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace destroyed by fire. 1942 - World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga — A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright. 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code named Operation Overlord. 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street. 1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. Births 1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772) 1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910) 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) 1955 - Billy Idol, British musician 1957 - John Ashton, English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs) 1973 - John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed) 1975 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer 1976 - Josh Lewsey, English rugby union footballer Deaths 1016 - Edmund II of England 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854) Holidays and observances Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966) Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day
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     Dec 1 1934 Politburo member Sergei Kirov killed by Leonid Nikolayev on orders of Josef Stalin. The assassination is used as an excuse to commence the Great Terror in the years 1935 to 1939, in which 800,000 were executed and over 8.5 million arrested. But these figures pale in comparison to the 47 million who died from Stalinist collectivization and other purges. Dec 1 1947 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-crowley-th.jpg Aleister Crowley, the wickedest man in the world, dead in Hastings England, aged 74. He wrote that "for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is best", and taught the Law of Thelema, "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Crowley also appears on the cover of Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. Dec 1 1958 An intentionally-set trash fire at the Our Lady of Angels school kills three nuns and more than 90 students in Chicago. Many of the students leaped to their deaths. Dec 1 1976 The Sex Pistols appear on a British TV show to fill in the place of orchestral band Queen. The boozed-up punks are goaded by the host, Bill Grundy, to "say something outrageous." Several fucks later, the band is suddenly a notorious example for the press. Dec 1 1997 A high school student in Paducah, Kentucky opens fire on fellow students during a prayer service. The 14-year-old freshman student was armed with a .22-caliber Lugar handgun and earplugs. Two Bible thumpers are killed, the rest are only injured. Dec 1 1997 Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson files suit against Anabolic Video Productions, the makers of Gang Bang #20, a hardcore pornographic film in which biker bitches are filmed having sex on the company's brand of motorcycle, and atop other promotional merchandise bearing the brand name. Harley claims that the film may confuse viewers into believing that the company authorized or endorsed the activities. Dec 1 1997 Member of the Georgia Senate Ralph Abernathy attempts to smuggle marijuana into the US from Jamaica in his underwear. He is caught by a drug-sniffing canine and fined $500. Abernathy is the son of the famous civil rights leader of the same name who was Martin Luther King's lieutenant. In January he is censured by the Georgia State Senate. 1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris. 1824 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution). 1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales 1860 - Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round. 1864 - In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. 1913 - Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. 1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28). 1925 - World War I aftermath: - The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements. 1941 - World War II: Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signed Administrative Order 9 creating the Civil Air Patrol. 1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation. 1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1958 - Central African Republic becomes independent from France. 1959 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent. 1961 - The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea. 1973 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia. 1982 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his second solo album Thriller, which became the biggest selling album of all time. 1990 - Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed. Births 1761 - Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850) 1944 - Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Öyster Cult) 1944 - John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors) 1946 - Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer 1949 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993) 1954 - Annette Haven, American porn star 1961 - Armin Meiwes, German cannibal 1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park) Deaths 1135 - Henry I of England 1866 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790) Holidays and observances World AIDS Day Portugal - Restoration of Independence Day Costa Rica - Military Abolition Day Romania - The National Day of Romania, Union of Transylvania with Romania Angola - Pioneers' Day Australia - First day of Summer
330. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive1 Dec 2007, 10:58
     Dec 1 1997 Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson files suit against Anabolic Video Productions, the makers of Gang Bang #20, a hardcore pornographic film in which biker bitches are filmed having sex on the company's brand of motorcycle, and atop other promotional merchandise bearing the brand name. Harley claims that the film may confuse viewers into believing that the company authorized or endorsed the activities. LOL...I guess Harley Davidson had a "Hard On" for the Producers! LMFAO!
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     Dec 2 1814 Death of the Marquis de Sade, in a lunatic asylum at Charenton. The good Marquis wrote, "There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship." Dec 2 1938 Albert Kessel and Robert Lee Cannon put down in California's new gas chamber. The executions are a smashing success. Dec 2 1956 The Mad Bomber strikes! At Brooklyn's Paramount Theater, injuring 7. The bomber terrorized New York City between 1940 and 1956. Dec 2 1964 Beatle Ringo Starr has his tonsils removed at University College Hospital in London, causing him to miss part of the Scandinavian and Far East tour. Dec 2 1980 Four American churchwomen -- three nuns and a lay worker -- are raped, murdered, and buried outside El Salvador's capital, San Salvador. Five national guardsmen are convicted in the killings, and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Dec 2 1994 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-fleiss-th.jpg Heidi Fleiss, the "Hollywood Madam," is convicted of three counts of felony pandering. She provided prostitutes to Hollywood celebrities. Dec 2 1997 David Afuta, the hairdresser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is found dead with two bullets in his chest at in his apartment after a murder/suicide. The other victim, Anat Elimelech, had one bullet in her. It is not clear which person pulled the trigger. The incident sends the Israeli media into a tizzy. Dec 2 1997 The bodies of three children who were victims of a human sacrifice performed by their parents are dug up in Caratal village, Trinidad. The three children, the offspring of Kenrick and Chandrowtie London variously aged 17 months to 3 years, had been sacrificed in a religious ceremony that was intended to bring prosperity. 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire. 1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years. 1823 - Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts. 1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. 1851 - Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic. 1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French. 1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. 1908 - Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two 1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. 1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. 1943 - A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile. Numerous fatalities (though the exact death toll is unresolved as the bombing raid itself caused hundreds of deaths too). 1946 - British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly. 1954 - The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, DC. 1956 - The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution. 1961 - In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism. 1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates. 1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. 1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932. 1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive. Births 1941 - Tom McGuinness, British musician (Manfred Mann) 1960 - Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British Drummer (Hanoi Rocks) 1960 - Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard) 1968 - Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters) 1978 - Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse) 1981 - Isabella Soprano, American pornographic actress 1981 - Britney Spears, American singer Deaths 1997 - Shirley Crabtree, (Big Daddy) British professional wrestler (b. 1930) Holidays and observances Laos - National Day United Arab Emirates - National Day (independence from Britain, 1971) International Day for the Abolition of Slavery - United Nations
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     Dec 3 1890 Isaac Jordan, the U.S. Congressional Representative from the great state of Ohio, dies after an interesting elevator accident in Cincinnati. Dec 3 1948 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-ozzy-potty-th.jpg Ozzy Osbourne's birthday. "I never set out to be a businessman. I just wanted to have fun, fuck chicks and do drugs." Dec 3 1968 Elvis makes a comeback! Only slightly chunkier than in the old days, everyone thought he was a has-been. Elvis sure showed them. Dec 3 1974 Civil aviation authorities in England issue a warning to pilots to avoid a 40 foot long inflated pig. The aeropork had escaped its tether during a Pink Floyd photo shoot. Radar contact was lost at 18,000 feet. Dec 3 1979 At Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, eleven concertgoers variously aged 15 to 27 years are trampled and suffocated trying to get in to see The Who. Insufficient exits were available, and a request by police to open more was ignored. Dec 3 1984 Methyl isocyanate leaks from a Union Carbide pesticide plant located at a slum in Bhopal, India. The gas kills 4,000 people and injures 200,000 others, many of whom were permanently blinded or disabled. The event set a standard for industrial accidents that has yet to be equalled. Dec 3 1997 Former Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie is arrested in Los Angeles for obstructing justice and lying about a securities fraud scam. The fifty-six-year-old former child star had tried to make stock transactions at a public company without paying. 1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state. 1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. 1937 - The Dandy, the UK's longest-running comic, is first published. 1967 - At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky). 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades East Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. 1989 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over). 1992 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia. 1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however. Births 1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer 1949 - Mickey Thomas, American singer (Jefferson Starship) 1969 - Bill Steer, British guitarist (Napalm Death, Carcass, Firebird) 1976 - Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer Deaths 1980 - Oswald Mosley, British Facist politician (b. 1896) 1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
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     coincidences are quiet amazing!
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     Dec 4 1930 Rhythm method accepted by the Vatican as an approved method of birth control. Dec 4 1978 Dianne Feinstein named mayor of San Francisco after the assassination of Mayor Moscone, jump-starting her otherwise pathetic political career. The pro-censorship bitch is now a US Senator, and carries a handgun for protection while campaigning to prohibit others from doing so. Dec 4 1988 Actor Gary Busey seriously injured in a near-fatal motorcycle crash, which he states also caused an out-of-body experience. Busey was not wearing his helmet, but after the accident told the press he would continue pursuing his out-of-helmet experiences. Dec 4 1993 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-zappabug-th.jpg Frank Zappa dead of prostate cancer in Los Angeles at age 52. 1259 - Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels. 1619 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas). 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus 1674 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois). 1791 - The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. 1829 - In the face of fierce opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide. 1872 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged). 1875 - Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain. 1881 - The Los Angeles Times is first published. 1918 - US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. 1921 - The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. 1942 - Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization. 1943 - World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. 1943 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. 1945 - By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was eestablished on October 24, 1945). 1969 - Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. 1969 - Surfer Greg Noll rides a 65-foot high wave off the North Shore of Oahu, still the highest ocean surfing ever recorded. 1971 - UN Security Council calls emergency session to consider deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan. 1971 - Attack on Pakistan Navy and Karachi by the Indian Navy. 1971 - The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water". 1980 - The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announces its breakup. 1981 - South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized by any government outside South Africa). 1992 - Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia, east Africa. 2006 - Adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo. [U]Births 1840 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877) 1942 - Chris Hillman, American singer (The Byrds) 1944 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983) 1947 - Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues, Steeleye Span) 1951 - Gary Rossington, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Deaths 1214 - William I of Scotland 1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
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     Dec 5 1484 Pope Innocent VIII orders an Inquisition to uncover and execute witches in Europe. Witchcraft becomes a heresy, and over the next three centuries 200,000 accused witches die under most unpleasant circumstances. Dec 5 1928 In order to protect United Fruit Company employees from striking banana workers, the government declares martial law in Santa Marta, Colombia. Over the next three weeks, Colombian troops kill between 500 and 600 strikers. Dec 5 1933 Fourteen years of prohibition end when Utah ratifies the 21st amendment. Let the good times roll. Dec 5 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-richard-speck.jpg Richard Speck, murderer who killed 8 nurses, dies of natural causes while incarcerated. Somehow he managed to grow breasts while in prison, which was recorded on a videotape aired five years after his death. Behind bars Speck apparently was a black man's bitch, and he didn't mind sucking a little cock now and then. "If they only knew how much fun I was having, they would turn me loose." Dec 5 1997 South African serial killer Moses Sithole sentenced to 2,410 years for the serial killing of 38 people in 1994 and 1995, as well as 40 rapes and various lesser offenses. Dec 5 1997 Fairfield, CA resident Alan Hall is rushed to the NorthBay Medical Center in a vain attempt to reattach his amputated penis. Hall informs police that the assailant, a mysterious woman named Brenda, had sliced it off at the base with an X-Acto knife following sex. Authorities ultimately determine the wound to be self-inflicted. 1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola. 1715 - Alexander Dalzeel, a Scottish privateer in French service, is executed in London, England. 1766 - In London, James Christie holds his first sale. 1932 - German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. 1934 - Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), taking four days to capture the city. 1941 - World War II: In Battle of Moscow Zhukov launched a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre. 1941 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. 1943 - World War II: U.S. Air force begins Operation Crossbow attacking Germany's secret weapons bases. 1944 - World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna. 1945 - Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle. 1958 - Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh. 1958 - The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway opens to traffic for the first time, now part of the M6 and M55 motorways. 1978 - The Soviet Union signs a 'friendship treaty' with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. 2005 - The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there. Births 1782 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862) 1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966) 1932 - Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman), American singer and pianist 1960 - Jack Russell, American singer (Great White) 1963 - Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards, British ski jumper :1orglaugh: 1975 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player 1976 - Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby player Deaths 1895 - Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840) 1926 - Claude Monet, French impressionist painter (b. 1840) 1993 - Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961) Holidays and observances Austria - Krampus Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands and the UK - Saint Nicholas Eve (whom Dutch speakers call Sinterklaas, which became in other languages Santa Claus) Thailand - The King's Birthday, National Day, Father's Day Day of the Ninja first full day of Hanukkah in 2007 Repeal Day celebrating the American 21st amendment which ended prohibition
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     Dec 6 1793 Guillotining of Mme. du Barry, mistress of Louis XV. "She screamed, she begged mercy of the horrible crowd that stood around the scaffold, she aroused them to such a point that the executioner grew anxious and hastened to complete his task." Dec 6 1917 At 9:05 AM, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia after being struck by another ship. It is the largest explosion before the atomic age. The ship was carrying 200 tons of TNT, 61 tons of gun cotton, 35 tons of Benzyl, and 2,300 tons of picric acid; the explosion destroys 325 acres of the city, leaving 1,900 people dead and injuring over 9,000. Dec 6 1969 A concert by the Rolling Stones at Altamont ends in the death of Meredith Hunter at the hands of the Hells Angels, who were hired for security. Dec 6 1980 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-jim-bakker-th.jpg Televangelist Jim Bakker of the PTL ministry has a 15 minute quickie in a motel room with Jessica Hahn. The minister uses the line "When you help the shepherd, you're helping the sheep". Baaaa. PTL later pays Hahn hush money, but seven years later the incident becomes public and Bakker resigns in disgrace. Dec 6 1987 Three teenagers in Missouri beat a friend to death and blame the incident on heavy metal inspired satanism. The jury didn't buy their story, instead finding a pattern of drug use among the youths and evidence of animal torture during childhood by their ringleader. Dec 6 1989 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-marc-lepine.jpg Marc Lepine kills 14 women at Ecole Polytechnic, University of Montreal, and injures 15 others. It is the worst mass murder in Canadian history. On him is a suicide letter explaining his actions as being specific revenge against 19 "feminists who have ruined my life... I have decided to put an end to those viragos." 1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery. 1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published. 1884 - The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed. 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs. 1921 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives 1922 - One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence. 1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated. Births 1421 - King Henry VI of England (d. 1471) 1955 - Rick Buckler, British drummer (The Jam) 1956 - Peter Buck, American guitarist (R.E.M.) 1956 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (d. 1982) 1957 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (d. 1999) 1958 - Nick Park, British filmmaker and animator ( Aardman Animation) 1961 - David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies) Deaths 343 - Saint Nicholas 1988 - Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936) Holidays and observances Canada - National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women Finland - Independence Day (from Russia, 1917) Spain - Constitution Day
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     Dec 7 1941 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-oahu-bombed.jpg A Day That Will Live In Infamy. Dec 7 1982 Texas murderer Charlie Brooks becomes the first person executed in the United States by that newfangled lethal injection. Dec 7 1982 Armenian earthquake kills 100,000. Dec 7 1987 David Burke, a recently fired airline employee, stalks his ex-boss onboard a Pacific Southwest Airline jet. He shoots the man in mid-flight and causes the plane to crash, killing all 43 people on board. Dec 7 1993 Colin Ferguson opens fire on the Long Island Railroad, killing 6 and injuring 17 others. His attorney William Kunstler tried to use a "black rage" defense, but Ferguson fired him and represented himself. What resulted was a bizarre proceeding of Ferguson claiming innocence and that he was a "patsy" of the government. The trial ended with six consecutive life sentences. Dec 7 1995 Disgruntled postal employee John Pitney arrives at his Denver workplace in a dress and is placed on administrative leave. Pitney returns later that day in the same dress but sporting a strap-on dildo and gorilla mask. He is arrested. God bless America and God bless the US Postal Service. 1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. 1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution. 1889 - The Gondoliers - one of the most popular of the comic operas created by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - opens in London 1917 - World War I: The US declares war on Austria-Hungary. 1941 - World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan. 1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist. Births 1958 - Tim Butler, English musician (Psychedelic Furs) 1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall) 1971 - Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress 1973 - Fabien Pelous, French international rugby player 1977 - Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse) Deaths 1980 - Darby Crash, American punk-rock legend (the Germs) (b. 1958) 2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892) Holidays and observances US - Pearl Harbor Day (observance) Colombia - Día de las Velitas (Day of the Candles): Festivity India - The Armed Forces Flag Day
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     Dec 8 1941 The day after Pearl Harbor, the 4th Interceptor Command reports two formations of enemy planes approaching Los Angeles, spotted in the San Francisco area. Fortunately, the seagulls do not bomb the city. Dec 8 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was set free four days later. It was discovered that Sinatra, Jr. cooperated with his abductors in their plot. Dad was not proud, nor pleased. Frank Jr. went on to conduct the big band for Frank Sr. and all was well. Dec 8 1980 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-last-picture-of… Beatle John Lennon shot by a lunatic, Mark David Chapman, outside Lennon's apartment in New York City mere hours after receiving the Beatle's autograph. The National Enquirer is roundly criticized for publishing a fuzzy photograph of Lennon in his coffin, much as they did for Elvis Presley. Dec 8 1982 Norman D. Mayer barricades himself inside the Washington Monument with hostages and declares that he will blow it up unless all nuclear weapons are dismantled. He is shot by police after 10 hours. Dec 8 1983 The top elected official in Maricopa County, AZ, declines to resign after a remark that "homosexuals ought to be used instead of animals" for medical experimentation. Dec 8 1987 Intifada begins in Palestine. Dec 8 1988 The cities of Leninakan and Spitak are totally destroyed in a massive Armenian earthquake that kills over 50,000. Dec 8 1997 Actor Robert Downey Jr. sentenced to six months in prison for probation violations related to drug charges. 1864 - The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon in Bristol, England was officially opened. 1914 - World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands - The Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee is engaged by the Royal Navy. 1940 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Washington Redskins 73-0, in the NFL Championship Game. This is the most lopsided game in NFL history. 1941 - World War II: The Japanese invade the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. Congress pass a declaration of war against Japan. 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - the Republic of China officially declares war against Japan. 1941 - World War II: Pacific War - The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in China issues a proclamation which declared war against Japan and Germany on behalf of Korean people, who were under Japanese occupation since 1910. 1941 - World War II: First Japanese attack on Wake Island. 1941 - Holocaust: Gas vans are first used as a means of execution, at the Chelmno extermination camp near Łódź in Poland. 1942 - Holocaust: in Ternopil, Ukraine, German SS organise the last deportation of Ternopil Jews to death camp in Belzec, when 1,400 Jews were sent there. The chief of the Gestapo, SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Müller, bore overall responsibility for the mass murder of the Jews of Ternopil and Berezhany county. 1980 - Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon in front of The Dakota apartment building with five bullets, murdering him. 1991 - The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. Births 1542 - Mary Queen of Scots (d. 1587) 1943 - Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971) 1957 - Phil Collen, British guitarist (Def Leppard) 1962 - Marty Friedman, American guitarist (Megadeth) 1973 - Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour) 1977 - Sébastien Chabal, French international rugby player 1978 - John Oster, Welsh footballer 1986 - Amir Khan, British boxer Deaths 1914 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (Battle of the Falkland Islands WWI)(b. 1861) 1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep)(Heroin O.D) (b. 1948) 1980 - John Lennon, English musician and peace activist(Murdered) (b. 1940) 2004 - Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (Pantera)(Murdered on stage)(b. 1966) Holidays and observances Buddhism - The Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day) Bulgaria - Day of the Student Italy - In Milan, the opera season starts. Austria - Public Holiday. Malta - Public Holiday. Romania - Constitution Day Panama - Mother's Day Spain - Immaculate Conception - Day of the National Army Portugal - Immaculate Conception - Day of the national Patron Saint France - Fête des Lumières (Festival of Lights) held in Lyon to honor the Virgin Mary. International - Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
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     Dec 9 1783 Executions begin at Newgate Prison, London, replacing the previous gallows at Tyburn. Dec 9 1967 Jim Morrison, vocalist for the Doors, arrested for immoral exhibition at one of his concerts. The arrest was due to him upsetting police -- he was maced, then made the error of badmouthing police onstage -- not for exposing his weenie. Dec 9 1971 Indian air force bombs an orphanage in Pakistan, killing 300 children. Dec 9 1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders dismissed after suggesting discussion of masturbation in school classes on sexuality. This gives rise to the euphemistic term "firing the surgeon general." Dec 9 1997 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-christian-slate… Actor Christian Slater sentenced to 90 days in jail for battery and being under the influence of a controlled substance. He was arrested August 11 after a cocaine and heroin binge ending with him assaulting an officer. Dec 9 1999 President Bill Clinton signs legislation outlawing "crush videos," which generally involve women stomping frogs, mice, or other small animals with high heels. This fetish is definitely a niche market. 1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster. 1835 - The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio. 1851 - The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec. 1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces. 1892 - The football clubs Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End merge to form Newcastle United F.C. 1905 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed. 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing - Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing. 1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. 1941 - World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan. 1941 - World War II: The 19th Bombardment Group attack Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon. 1946 - The "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation. 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 1961 - The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. 1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. 1979 - The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction. Births 1950 - Joan Armatrading, West Indian-born British singer 1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House) 1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein) 1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer) 1972 - Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day) Deaths 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland 1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
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     Dec 10 1520 The heretic Martin Luther burnt the papal bull issued by Leo X, titled "Exsurge Domine", demanding an end to his heresies. Luther had published 95 points against the practice of granting indulgences, and the Catholic Church only had 94 points in favor of them. Although technically he was the winner, Luther was subsequently excommunicated. Dec 10 1792 "That if any do commit the detestable and abominable vice of Buggery, with man or beast, he or she so offending, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall suffer death, in the case of felony, without the benefit of Clergy." (Act of General Assembly of Virginia) Dec 10 1958 Ralph Muller and Peter Kamenoff, two ex-members of the Fountain of the World religious cult, accost guru Krishna Venta at the cult's hillside compound in Box Canyon, Ventura County, California. The men accuse Venta of having fucked their wives. For whatever reason Venta, the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and formerly known as Francis Pencovic, is unable to placate the men. So they detonate 20 sticks of dynamite they brought, 19 of which are strictly overkill. The three men are instantly blown to pieces along with 7 other cultees. Venta's remains are only ever identified through dental records. Dec 10 1967 Soul singer Otis Redding plus four members of the Bar-Kays are killed in an airplane crash near Madison, Wisconsin. Dec 10 1993 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-ein-volk.jpg Adolf Hitler is baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in a ceremony performed inside their London temple. Mormons use this strange retroactive baptismal ritual to ensure ancestors or other relatives may join them in heaven. Dec 10 1994 The Unabomber strikes, killing Thomas J Mosser, an advertising executive in North Caldwell, New Jersey. Mosser, Executive VP of Young & Rubicam, had assisted Exxon with public relations after the Exxon Valdez spill. 1541 - Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. 1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. 1868 - The first traffic lights are installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. 1907 - The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clashed with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected. 1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs his Instrument of Abdication. 1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya. 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland. 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan. Births 1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437) 1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo) 1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes) Deaths 2006 - Augusto Pinochet, military president of Chile (b. 1915) Holidays and observances Human Rights Day - United Nations Presentation Ceremony of the Nobel Prize
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     Dec 12 1917 The worst train wreck in history, leaving 543 Frenchmen dead. Dec 12 1937 US gunboat Panay is sunk by the Japanese military on the Yangtze River by a combined action of bombing, dive bombing, and strafing. Japan apologized, disciplining those involved and paying $2.2M reparations. Dec 12 1980 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-devo.jpg "Whip It" earns Devo a gold record. It is the first distinction of its kind for any song about masturbation. Whip it good. Dec 12 1989 Leona Helmsley fined $7 million and sentenced to jail for 21 months for tax evasion. They made the bitch serve 900 hours of community service. Dec 12 1991 Richard Gere (claims he is not gay) marries supermodel Cindy Crawford (ditto). Widespread rumors that Gere was intimate with a gerbil have yet to be verified. 1098 - First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan - Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism. 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant - A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet. 1812 - French invasion of Russia comes to an end. 1862 - USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. 1911 - Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. 1939 - Winter War: Battle of Tolvajärvi - Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict. 1940 - World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid. 1941 - World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed. 1941 - World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island. 1941 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan. 1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. 1956 - Commencement of the Irish Republican Army's Border Campaign. 1963 - Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1979 - Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe. 1982 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common - 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence. 1988 - The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains - one of the worst train crashes in Britain. 1991 - Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR. 2000 - The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore 2006 - Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry. Births 1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998) 1953 - Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (Kiss) 1965 - Will Carling, English rugby union footballer 1976 - Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness) 1977 - Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet Playboy models Deaths 2007 - Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (b. 1931) Holidays and observances Mexico - Our Lady of Guadalupe Day Kenya - Jamhuri Day: Independence Day (from Britain, 1963)
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     Dec 13 303 The feast of St. Lucy. Because her extreme beauty attracted too many admirers, Lucy gouged her own eyes out. Miraculously they grew back. After refusing to marry, the Romans forced her to become a whore. Early depictions show Lucy offering her eyes on a platter; she is now the patron saint of Sicily and of opticians. Dec 13 1937 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-rape-nanking.jpg The Japanese Army occupies Nanking, China. For the next three weeks, with the unspoken permission of the army, soldiers literally rape the city, committing untold individual acts of atrocity and killing 350,000 civilians. The Rape of Nanking remains an event unacknowledged and unapologized by the Japanese government. Dec 13 1942 A fire at a Knights of Columbus men's dance in St. Johns, Newfoundland cooks approximately 100 people. The exits were locked. Dec 13 1973 The Reverend Jim Jones is arrested in a cruisy movie theater bathroom in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, Jones had the bad luck to hit on an undercover LAPD vice officer while masturbating in the Westlake Theatre men's room. Dec 13 1990 Twelve people die in a religious sacrifice in Tijuana. Industrial alcohol is introduced into fruit punch of ceremony recipients. It is unknown whether the incident constituted suicide or murder. 1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage. 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. 1643 - English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire. 1769 - Dartmouth College founded by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth. 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing - Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. 1938 - The Holocaust: 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen build the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate - Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles. 1941 - World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. 1943 - World War II: 710 Bombers of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Kiel, Germany. 1949 - The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. 2002 - Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004. 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit 2006 - The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct. Births 1948 - Jeff Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers) 1948 - Ted Nugent, American guitarist 1974 - Nicholas McCarthy, English guitarist (Franz Ferdinand) 1977 - Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer (scrum half) 1981 - Amy Lee, American singer/songwriter (Evanescence) Deaths 1945 - Irma Grese, Nazi war criminal (Hanged)(b. 1923) 1945 - Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen concentration camp (Hanged)(b. 1906) 1945 - Elisabeth Volkenrath, supervisor at concentration camps (Hanged) (b. 1919) 2001 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death) (pneumonia) (b. 1967) 2002 - Zal Yanovsky, American musician (The Lovin' Spoonful)( congestive heart failure)(b. 1945) 2005 - Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta)(suicide.) (b. 1981) Holidays and observances Malta - Republic Day (since 1974) St. Lucia's Day in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and some regions of Italy
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     Dec 14 1503 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-nostradamus-th.jpg Nostradamus born. If you write vague enough prophecies, they will fool almost anyone. Dec 14 1944 Lupe Velez, Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" of the 1940's, commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. Contrary to her plans of being found laid out on the bed in a silk nightgown, she is instead discovered in the bathroom with her head in the toilet. Her ex-husband, Tarzan star Johnny Weismuller, frequently used to beat her. Dec 14 1991 A ferry near Safaga, Egypt on the Red Sea strikes a coral reef, drowning more than 460 passengers. 1287 - St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland. 1751 - The Theresian Military Academy (Austria) is founded as the first Military Academy in the world. 1782 - The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its very first test flight. 1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. 1825 - Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg. 1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. 1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1907 - The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. 1939 - Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations. 1941 - German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issues an order, under which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15,000 Jews are shot at Drobitsky Yar. 1941 - World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand. 1946 - The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City. 1955 - Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations. 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first-ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. 1959 - The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy. 2004 - The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened. Births 1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) 1949 - Cliff Williams, English bassist (AC/DC) 1958 - Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys) 1958 - Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues) 1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress 1970 - Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter 1985 - Tom Smith, Welsh under 21's rugby union captain (Number 8) Deaths 1542 - King James V of Scotland (b. 1512) 1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (shock, asphyxia and dehydration)(b. 1732) 1860 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784) 1861 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (typhoid)(b. 1819) 1947 - Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
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     Dec 15 1944 En route to Paris, "swing" big band leader Glenn Miller vanishes over the English Channel. Miller, listed as Missing In Action, was serving as a Major in the Army Air Force Band when his plane went down. Dec 15 1952 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-christine-jorge… Fashion photographer George Jorgenson has a Danish surgeon remove his various naughty bits, in the world's first sex-change operation. George emerges in New York as cabaret actress Christine Jorgenson. Dec 15 1961 Nazi Adolf Eichmann, former Reichssicherheitshauptamt (that's a real word) bureaucrat, is sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court. Eichmann had been arrested in Argentina and smuggled to Israel the previous year. Dec 15 1966 Walt Disney dead! Dec 15 1988 Lori Davis, of Bay Shore NY, files suit against Mike Tyson over an incident in which Tyson played a little grabass with her at a nightclub. Dec 15 1989 The man that masterminded a campaign of horror against the Colombian people, cartel leader Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, "El Mexicano", is killed by police in a shootout. Gacha had bombed an Avianca plane midflight, killing all 101 passengers, and truckbombed the National Police Headquarters in Bogota. The police were not happy with him. Dec 15 1997 Thailand begins the mass cremation of some 21,347 dead, all unclaimed from the Poh Tek Tung cemetary in Bangkok. It is a new record. 1891 - James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players. 1914 - World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army. 1915 - World War I: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig replaces John French, 1st Earl of Ypres as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force. 1917 - World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers. 1941 - Annihilation of Jews in Kharkiv, Ukraine: in the proximity of the Rogan works, 8 km away from Kharkiv, in "Drobitsky Ravine" (Drobitsky Yar), over 15 000 Jews were shot, at -15 degrees C below zero. 1945 - Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan. 1960 - Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier. 1976 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN. 1993 - History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. 1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released. 1994 - Palau becomes a member of the UN. Births 1942 - Dave Clark, British musician (The Dave Clark Five) 1955 - Paul Simonon, English bassist (The Clash) 1980 - Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist (Kasabian) Deaths 1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. circa 1831) 1943 - Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904) 1944 - Glenn Miller, American musician (later declared dead on this date, true date unknown) (b. 1904) 1966 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)
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     Dec 16 1920 In Kansu, China, an 8.6 earthquake kills 180,000 people, mostly from building collapses. But 20,000 froze later because they were unwilling to reoccupy housing during the winter. Dec 16 1943 At Auschwitz, Dr. Horst Schumann was radiating genitals of Jewish men and women. After a time their genitals were removed and sent to Berlin. Records from his experiments do not survive intact, but the daysheet for today indicates 90 castrations. What were they doing with all those balls? Dec 16 1950 To fight "world conquest by communist imperialism" in Korea, President Truman declares a state of National Emergency. The order is still in effect, one of four current states of national emergency granting extraordinary powers. Dec 16 1954 In San Carlos, Venezuela, a hairy dwarf creature attacks residents, then flees into a hovering disk shaped UFO. The creatures escape. Dec 16 1977 The pinnacle of the Disco era attained with the release of the polyester-clad film Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta. Dec 16 1985 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-castellano-whac… John Gotti has Gambino boss Paul Castellano whacked at Spark's Steak House in Manhattan. 1431 - Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. 1653 - English Interregnum: The Protectorate - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1689 - Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. 1707 - Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. 1773 - American Revolution: Boston Tea Party - Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. 1850 - History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton. 1937 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again. 1941 - World War II: Japanese occupy Miri, Sarawak 1942 - Holocaust: Porajmos - Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination should be deported to Auschwitz. 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - General Dwight D. Eisenhower's allied forces and Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt's German army engage in the Belgian Ardennes. 1971 - Bangladesh War of Independence & Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army simultaneously brings an end to both conflicts. 1971 - Independence Day of the State of Bahrain from British Protectorate Status 1991 - Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan. 1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq. Births 1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (d. 1536) 1943 - Tony Hicks, British guitarist (The Hollies) 1949 - Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top) 1971 - Paul van Dyk, German Trance DJ 1975 - Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian musician (Billy Talent) Deaths 1980 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (leukemia) (b. 1890) 2001 - Stuart Adamson, British musician (Suicide) (The Skids, Big Country)(b. 1958) Holidays and observances Bahrain - National Day Bangladesh - Victory Day Kazakhstan - Independence Day South Africa - Day of Reconciliation Afrikaners (South Africa) - Day of the Vow Mexico - First day of Las Posadas Philippines - First day of Misa de Gallo
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     Dec 17 1793 Children are executed by the new Guillotine invention for the first time, at Nantes France. Dec 17 1944 Malmedy massacre, where 81 Americans of Battery B, 285th Field Artillery are killed by Waffen SS in Belgium. Dec 17 1961 Adilson Marcelino Aviles sets a circus tent on fire at the Gran Circo Norte Americano, Niteroi Brazil, killing 323 people, mostly children. 500 other youngsters were badly burned in this worst circus fire in history. Aviles stated that he wanted revenge on circus owners. Dec 17 1969 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-project-blue-bo… The US Air Force terminates Project Blue Book, which investigated reports of UFO's. Dec 17 1989 Bartholomew J. Simpson's listed birthday. Dec 17 1989 Over two thousand protesters are massacred by the government in Timisoara, Romania. It is the spark that brings down the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed on Christmas Day. Dec 17 1996 Lima, Peru - Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA) guerrillas seize 460 hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence December 17 1996 All but 72 hostages are released through negotiations. Peruvian special forces storm the residence, kill the 14 members of the MRTA and release hostages April 22 1997. Dec 17 1997 An episode of the animated TV show Pokémon induces seizures in at least 685 Japanese children. The convulsive sequence contains the depiction of a "vaccine bomb," followed by the flashing red eyes of a rat monster. Of those afflicted, 200 remain hospitalized the next day. 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England. 1577 - Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I. 1718 - Great Britain declares war on Spain. 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven is baptized at Bonn. 1834 - The Dublin and Kingstown Railway the first public railway on the island of Ireland, opens in Ireland. 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. 1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate - The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo. 1941 - World War II: Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol. 1941 - World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo. 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - Malmedy massacre - American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper. 1957 - The United States successfully launched the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1961 - Operation Vijay - India seizes Goa from Portugal. 1983 - The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people. 1989 - First free elections in Brazil in 25 years. 1989 - The premiere of animated television series The Simpsons. 2003 - The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice. Births 1943 - Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member 1949 - Paul Rodgers, English singer (Free; Bad Company) 1958 - Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M.) 1976 - Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born porn actress Deaths 1987 - Linda Wong, pornographic actress (b. 1951) Holidays and observances Bhutan – National Day (1907) International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers USA – Wright Brothers Day (by Presidential Proclamation)
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     Dec 18 1879 Stalin's birthday! Dec 18 1916 Bloodiest and longest battle of World War I ends, with the French defeating Germans at the Battle of Verdun. There were over 1 million casualties, and the Verdun ossuary contains bones of 100,000 unidentified soldiers. Dec 18 1940 Hitler formulates plans, issued today as Directive 21, for the invasion of Russia. The intent of Operation Barbarossa was to destroy the Red Army. Fighting on two fronts eventually caused Germany's defeat. Dec 18 1997 The incredibly fat Chris Farley is found dead, wearing only pajama bottoms, and surrounded by empty food containers and pornography. Farley's act often consisted of imitating other very fat celebrities, including Newt Gingrich, Mama Cass, and Tom Arnold. He joins John Candy at the big fat farm in the sky. 1620 - The Mayflower lands in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts delivering 102 Pilgrims. 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand. 1777 - The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, celebrating the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October 1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified by Georgia, fulfilling the two-thirds requirement for ratification, and abolishing slavery in the United States. 1912 -The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found today in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson. 1944 - World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base. 1969 - Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years, is carried by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Births 1878 - Josef Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1953) 1938 - Chas Chandler, English musician (The Animals) (d. 1996) 1943 - Keith Richards, English guitarist (The Rolling Stones) 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director 1950 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne) (d.2002) 1953 - Elliot Easton, American guitarist (The Cars) 1972 - DJ Lethal, Latvian DJ (House of Pain & Limp Bizkit) 1972 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer Fear Factory and businessman Deaths 2000 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (b. 1959) Holidays and observances New Jersey Day - A celebration to New Jersey's admission to the union Niger - Republic Day (autonomous in 1958)
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     Dec 19 1941 Twelve days after Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt under authority of Congress, created the Office of Censorship. The bureau had discretion over communications with foreign countries. Participation by domestic publishers was "voluntary". Dec 19 1971 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-alex-clockwork-… A Clockwork Orange opens, originally given an X rating. Censors objected more to the sex scenes than the orgies of ultraviolence, which is rather odd. Director Stanley Kubrik later earns an R by removing some of the smuttier footage. Dec 19 1991 Yankee's pitcher Steve Howe arrested for criminal possession of cocaine. It's merely one of NINE TIMES this has happened (and seven suspensions, plus one drunk driving arrest.) Dec 19 1997 Disgruntled postal worker Anthony Deculit enters a Milwaukee post office at 12:45 A.M., shoots his supervisor in the right eye, and kills a fellow coworker. The supervisor had written Deculit up for sleeping on the job. After the shootings he rendered himself dead with the 9mm solution, a shot through the mouth. Dec 19 1997 The pilot of a SilkAir plane deliberately flies into a mangrove swamp in Indonesia, committing suicide and killing all 104 people aboard. The pilot, Captain Tsu Way Ming, was in debt and had personal problems, had taken a $3M insurance policy prior to the crash. To cover his tracks, he disconnected the flight recorder prior to downing the aircraft. 1154- Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey 1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. 1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England. 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position. 1941 - Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India. 1963 - Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom, to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed. 1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro. 1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate. 2001 - The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months. 2007 - The Islamic festival of Eid-ul-Adha falls on this day Births 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) 1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002) 1971 - Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress Deaths 1814 - Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump 1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946) 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (Q in the Bond films) (b. 1914)
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     Dec 20 1957 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-elvis-in-brief.jpg Elvis receives orders from the draft board to serve in the United States Army, which to his credit he does without complaint. Dec 20 1971 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-larry-king-mug.jpg Talk show host Larry King, host of CNN's Larry King Live, arrested in Miami on charges of grand larceny. He must have been in-between wives. Dec 20 1973 Basque separatists assassinate the Spanish Prime Minister, Luis Carrero Blanco, by placing a mine under his automobile. The Basques are a non-Spanish ethnic group in Spain; nobody knows where they really came from. Dec 20 1989 US invades Panama! Smack that dictator! Dec 20 1996 Carl Sagan, the effervescently lugubrious astronomer, dead of bone marrow disease at age 62. Dec 20 1997 Sotheby's auctions off the loincloth worn by Kirk Douglas in the 1960 film Spartacus for $2,990. 1192 - Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the crusade. 1606 - The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. 1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans. 1835 - First signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas. 1860 - South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States. 1915 - World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli. 1941 - World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China. 1942 - World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese. 1951 - The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for the first time. The electricity powered four light bulbs. 1955 - Cardiff (Caerdydd) is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom. 1988 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna. 1995 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia. 2007 - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days. Births 1945 - Peter Criss, American drummer and singer (Kiss) 1957 - Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter 1957 - Mike Watt, American bassist 1966 - Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes)
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     Dec 21 1937 Jane Fonda's birthday. Jane, an anti-war activist, also holds the title "Miss Army Recruiting" of 1965. Dec 21 1945 World War II General George Patton dies in a car accident at Heidelberg, Germany. Dec 21 1970 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-elvis-nixon.jpg President Nixon meets with prescription drug addict Elvis Presley at the White House to discuss The King's becoming a special drug enforcement agent. He presents Nixon with a pistol, and receives a special DEA badge in return. Dec 21 1971 Former Nazi Kurt Waldheim chosen to serve as United Nations Secretary General, the fourth to serve in that position (but the first Nazi). He paves the way for a New World Order. Dec 21 1975 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal takes hostage the 11 oil ministers at an OPEC meeting in Vienna. The ministers are released after a ransom is paid, and Carlos escapes. The Jackal is not captured until he enters a Sudanese hospital in 1994 for a testicle operation. Dec 21 1978 John Wayne Gacy arrested in Des Plaines, IL after remains of some of the 33 men and boys he had killed are discovered on his land. Dec 21 1988 Pan Am flight 103 detonates over Lockerbie Scotland, by means of a remote control radio bomb. All 259 aboard are killed as well as 11 on the ground struck by falling detritus. The PFLP faction of the PLO was responsible, assisted by Libyan sponsorship. Dec 21 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-barkley-mugshot… Charles Barkley arrested on charges of battery and disorderly conduct, Milwaukee. He had punched a heckler, but was acquitted. Dec 21 2012 The Mayan "long count" calendar is based on great cycles of 5125 years, the current cycle ending on this day in 2012. Endings of cycles are punctuated by cataclysmic singularities on a deluge scale, so be prepared. This is the end of time! 1620 - Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1844 - The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. 1861 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. 1872 - Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth. 1883 - The first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army are formed: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment 1936 - First flight of the Junkers JU-88 bomber prototype. 1937 - The film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles. 1967 - Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days. 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At 2h:50m:37s Mission elapsed time (MES), the crew performs the first ever manned Trans Lunar Injection and become the first humans to leave the Earth's gravity field. 1970 - The F-14 Tomcat flies for the first time. 1979 - Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Dr S C Mundawarara. 1995 - The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. 1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid. Births 1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881) 1946 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998) Deaths 1987 - John Spence, founding No Doubt member (Suicide)(b. 1969) Holidays and observances In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice, sometimes known as Yule, occurs on or very close to this date. In the Southern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs around this time. It is also an important festival in the Chinese calendar.
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     Ha Ha , I had to look her up, ginormous bresticals. 1971 - Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress
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     Dec 22 1955 The corpse of Evita Peron is stolen by anti-Peronistas. Dec 22 1972 An earthquake destroys the city of Managua, Nicaragua, leaving 6,000 dead. Dec 22 1984 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-bernhard-goetz.jpg Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 teenage boys on the NYC subway after one of them asks him for money. Dec 22 1996 An alien cadaver of height 5 centimeters is found at the Kibbutz Achihod, Ahyud Israel. Scientists at Israel's Technion Institute in Hafnia determine that not enough material is present to conduct "proper tests" but the alien's composition is chiefly cow manure. Dec 22 2001 Shoe bomber Richard Reid attempts to blow up an American Airlines transatlantic flight by igniting a plastic explosive concealed in his shoe. Other passengers beat the living daylights out of him. 1807 - The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson. 1809 - The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress. 1940 - World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army. 1942 - World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge--German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium; prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!" 1944 - World War II: Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam. 1956 - Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity 1965 - In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit. 1974 - Former British Prime Minister Edward (Ted) Heath's house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA. 1989 - Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany. 1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives Births 1942 - Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd) ( Sax on Shine on you crazy diamond, Money etc) 1949 - Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003) 1949 - Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) 1967 - Richey James Edwards, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) (disappeared in 1995) 1975 - Crissy Moran, American erotic actress Deaths 1947 - Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (Hanged) (b. 1906) 1947 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (Hanged) (b. 1902) 2002 - Joe Strummer, English musician (The Clash)(congenital heart defect) (b. 1952)
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     Dec 22 1996 An alien cadaver of height 5 centimeters is found at the Kibbutz Achihod, Ahyud Israel. Scientists at Israel's Technion Institute in Hafnia determine that not enough material is present to conduct "proper tests" but the alien's composition is chiefly cow manure. Sounds like Bull Shit to me!
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     Dec 23 1888 After an argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh takes a razor and removes a portion of his left ear. Their quarrel regarded the prostitutes in Arles who seemed to prefer Gauguin over Van Gogh; the painter delivered his ear to one Rachel, who preferred Van Gogh. She fainted. Dec 23 1948 Japanese Premier Tojo and 6 others hanged by the War Crimes Commission at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, for the crime of starting an aggressive war. As he drops from the gallows, he screams "Banzai!" Dec 23 1968 The first US incident of motion sickness in orbit. Was it Borman, Lovell, or Anders? Dec 23 1972 Magnitude 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die. Dec 23 1975 Leftist members of November 17 faction murder Athens CIA station chief Richard Welch. Dec 23 1985 In a school playground, James Vance presses a shotgun to his chin and pulls the trigger. He and cohort Raymond Belknap had forged a suicide pact while listening to Stained Class by Judas Priest. But where Belknap succeeded, Vance fails. The dumbshit survives, destroying his face. He later uses his disfigurement to his advantage, terrorizing small children on his bicycle. Both kids' parents file suit against the band, but a judge ultimately rejects their subliminal message theory. Vance dies from painkillers on Thanksgiving three years later. Dec 23 1994 Actor/dumbass Christian Slater arrested while trying to board a plane with a semiautomatic firearm. Community service, boy. Dec 23 1995 Bodies of 16 members of the Solar Temple cult who had committed suicide are found on a plateau in the French Alps. Their bodies are charred and arranged in a star formation. Causes of death included stabbing, asphyxiation, gunshot, and poisoning. In 1994, 53 other members had suicided in similar fashion. Dec 23 1997 Mayor Craig Johnson of Snow Hill, MD is arrested on two counts of misconduct in office, after he allows the squad car issued to him to be photographed for a pornographic Internet website "Wetlands". One of the pictures shows Cherie Messner, wife of the Wetlands operator, apparently urinating on the squad car in question. 1823 - The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (AKA The Night Before Christmas) is published in the Sentinel. 1913 - The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve. 1914 - World War I: The Australian and New Zealand troops (ANZACS) arrive in Cairo. 1916 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. 1938 - South Africa Discovery of the first modern coelacanth. 1940 - World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta. 1941 - World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupied Wake Island. 1954 - The first human kidney transplant is performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. 1972 - The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism. 2002 - A MQ-1 Predator was shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat. 2005 - Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18th attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead. Births 1951 - Anthony Phillips, British guitarist (Genesis) 1964 - Eddie Vedder, American musician (Pearl Jam) Deaths 1948 - Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (hanged) (b. 1884) 1948 - Akira Muto, Japanese army commander (hanged) (b. 1883)
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     Dec 24 1865 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-klan-air-th.jpg Southern whitefolk unite together to form a service organization wherein they consort with other southern whitefolk. Members participate in festive cruciform fire ceremonies and lively negro butcherings. By the 1920's membership in the Ku Klux Klan reaches an astonishing 2 million. Dec 24 1954 Rock musician Johnny Ace plays a little .45 calibre solitaire (Russian Roulette) at City Auditorium in Houston after a concert. Blammo. He thought it would impress his girlfriend, perhaps it did. Dec 24 1985 Fidel Castro announces that he has given up cigars. Dec 24 1989 Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega seeks asylum at the Papal Nunciature. American troops try blasting him with rock music and the sounds of rabbits being slaughtered, but he takes two weeks to emerge. The isthmus groundhog does not see his shadow and is taken by the US Army to Florida lockup where he still resides. Dec 24 1997 It is revealed that actor Woody Allen (age 62) was married to his adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn (age 27) in Venice, Italy yesterday. She becomes her own stepmother, and Woody his own neurotic son in law. Dec 24 1997 Disgruntled (former) postal worker David Lee Jackson takes seven hostages at a Denver mail sorting facility. He holds them for over nine hours before surrendering to police. Jackson had been fired 18 months previously for threatening his superior. 1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, was discovered by James Cook. 1800 - Assassination attempt on Napoleon Bonaparte's life. 1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the War of 1812. 1818 - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr. 1914 - World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. 1939 - World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. 1941 - World War II: Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army. 1941 - World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces. 1942 - World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers 1943 - World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander. 1951 - Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. 1954 - Laos becomes independent from France. 1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government. Births 2-7 BC - Jesus Christ (d. 26/36) :rolleyes: 1166 - King John of England (d. 1216) 1923 - George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004) 1945 - Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motörhead) 1948 - Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player Deaths 1992 - Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1945) Holidays and observances Christmas Eve In Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Dominican Republic, among others, this is the day that presents are exchanged and opened. In some of these countries, presents are delivered to children by Santa Claus, personified by an adult dressed up as Santa who comes knocking on the door. The Declaration of Christmas Peace takes place in the Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City, according to old traditions dating back to the Middle Ages. People born on this day are believed to become Werewolves by Russian folklore.
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     Dec 25 272 First official public celebration of Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, a pagan Roman holiday that was later co-opted by Christians to celebrate the birth of their favorite Jew. Turning the holiday into "Christmas" (in 336 AD) was part of a pattern of the church stealing various pagan festivals and feast days. Dec 25 1926 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan. Dec 25 1946 W.C. Fields dead at 67, due to the cumulative effects of his drinking and lifestyle. Dec 25 1989 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-ceaucescu.jpg An eager firing squad executes Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceaucescu and his wife Elena on live television. Ceaucescu had run Romania as his private communist fiefdom, garnering the animosity of nearly the entire population. The new government abolishes capital punishment shortly thereafter. Dec 25 1995 Rat pack member Dean Martin dead at 78, a martini glass in his hand. 1066 - Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. 1100 - Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity 1223 - St. Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene. 1643 - Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary. 1650 - Thomas Cooper, former Usher of Gresham's School, England, hanged as a Royalist rebel. 1776 - George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey. 1818 - The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. 1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. 1914 - World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire. 1941 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet 1941 - World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. 1950 - The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. 1979 - The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation. 1990 - The first successful communication between a client and server via the Internet is established. 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. 2003 - The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing. Births 1642 - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1727) 1937 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986) 1944 - Kenny Everett, British comedian(d. 1995) 1954 - Annie Lennox, Scottish singer (Eurythmics) 1957 - Shane MacGowan, Irish musician (The Pogues) 1962 - Darren Wharton, British Keyboardist (Thin Lizzy and Dare) 1967 - Jason Thirsk, American bass player (Pennywise)(d. 1996) 1971 - Dido, English singer 1971 - Noel Hogan, Irish musician (The Cranberries) 1976 - Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer 1982 - Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer Deaths 1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918) 1989 - Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (executed) (b. 1916) 1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917) 2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933) Holidays and observances Christmas Day Quaid-e-Azam's Day - Pakistan Constitution Day - Republic of China now based in Taiwan Yule
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     Dec 26 1893 Dictator Mao Tse-tung born in Hunan province. Dec 26 1980 Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento" who drank the blood of two of his six victims, commits suicide on death row by overdosing on hoarded medication. Dec 26 1985 "Gorillas in the Mist" author Dian Fossey killed with machete in Africa. Dec 26 1996 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-jon-benet-ramse… The body of Jon Benet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the Boulder, Colorado home of John and Patsy Ramsey. Her skull had an 8 inch crack, and the child's mouth was covered with duct tape. In late 1997 it was leaked to the media that a Taser gun may have been involved in the killing. The family remains under an "umbrella of suspicion": Jon Benet's body was found only after police searched the house, and John Ramsey tainted the crime scene by moving the body The garrote used in strangulation was made from one of Patsy's paintbrushes A rough draft of the ransom note was found on Patsy's notepad. Handwriting comparisons between the note and the mother remain inconclusive In any event, the Ramsey's treatment of the six year old child by entering her in beauty contests dressed like a young adult nymph is perverse. Dec 26 2004 A 9.15 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra unleashes a series of powerful tsunamis. over 300,000 people are either killed or missing. The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake affects a huge geographical area from Indonesia to Bangladesh to Somalia, even triggering earthquakes in Alaska. 838 - A heavy storm surge causes floods in nearly all the coastal areas of the Low Countries. 1606 - First Performance of William Shakespeare's King Lear 1620 - Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton. 1860 - The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England. 1861 - American Civil War: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Britain. 1862 - Four nuns who were volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover were the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship. 1862 - The largest mass-hanging in US history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, killing 39. 1870 - The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. 1883 - Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland. 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium. 1906 - The Story of the Kelly Gang is released, widely considered to be the world's first feature film. 1933 - FM radio is patented. 1943 - World War II: The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the Royal Navy late the previous evening. 1944 - World War II: U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne. 1947 - Twenty-six inches of snow falls in 16 hours in New York City. 1979 - Soviet Special forces troops take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. 1979 - Opening night of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon; a benefit concert for the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of dictator Pol Pot 1991 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR. 1997 - The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore. 1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. 1998 - Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. Births 1953 - Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk) 1963 - Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica) Deaths 1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884) 1999 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (b. 1942) 2006 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913) Holidays and observances December 26 is a public holiday in most Christian countries of Protestantism tradition but is not in many Roman Catholic countries. It is not a public holiday in the United States unless Christmas Day falls on a Sunday like it did in 2005 and will again in 2011, in which it is the observed federal holiday. In Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Suriname and Scandinavia, Christmas Day and the following day are called First and Second Christmas Day. Second day of Christmas in Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Suriname and Scandinavia - a holiday without work. The celebration is more or less the same as first day of Christmas, including the option going to Mass. St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in Alsace, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Ireland. Synaxis of Theotokos and feast of St. Joseph,King and Prophet David and St. James the Just (Orthodox Christianity) The first of the twelve days of Christmas in Western Christianity. Boxing Day in the Commonwealth of Nations. Wren day in Ireland and the Isle of Man. Australia - Proclamation Day (South Australian public holiday), for the foundation of the Australian state of South Australia on December 28, 1836 but commemorated on this day. South Africa - Day of Goodwill, a public holiday In Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden, the 26th is known as the Second day of Christmas
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     Dec 27 1937 Mae West performs an "Adam & Eve" skit that gets her banned from NBC radio. Dec 27 1985 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-abu-nidal.jpg Abu Nidal gunmen open fire at Rome and Vienna airports in coordinated attacks, killing 18 holiday travelers. Dec 27 1992 Harry Connick, Jr., was arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York City after telling authorities he had an unloaded 9mm pistol in his luggage, which he said he had forgotten that his sister had given to him. Dec 27 2000 Quality Assurance Engineer Michael "Mucko" McDermott shot and killed seven of his coworkers (four men, three women) at Edgewater Technology, an Internet consulting company in Boston. Mucko, a quiet three-hundred-pound loner, fired off 37 rounds with his rifle and several with the shotgun, shooting his victims repeatedly in the head and back. 1512 - The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regards to native Indians in the New World. 1831 - Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, where he will formulate the theory of evolution. 1836 - The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people. 1845 - Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia. 1945 - The World Bank is created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations. 1949 - Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. 1968 - Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending humanity's first manned mission to the Moon. 1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship. 1979 - The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin. 1996 - Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul. 1997 - Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland. 2002 - Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya. Births 1941 - Michael Pinder, British musician (Moody Blues) 1944 - Mick Jones, British musician (Foreigner) 1952 - David Knopfler, British musician (Dire Straits) 1972 - Colin Charvis, Welsh Rugby Union player, former captain (flanker/ number 8) Deaths 2007 - Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistan prime minister (assassinated)
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     Dec 28 1908 An earthquake in Messina, Sicily kills 160,000. Nearly all of the city is destroyed. Countless art treasures are destroyed, as well as the Cathedral Annunziata dei Catalani. Dec 28 1983 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-dennis-wilson-t… Dennis Wilson, original drummer of the Beach Boys, drowned while diving from a boat near Marquesas Pier. He was rather drunk at the time. Dec 28 1987 R. Gene Simmons kills two coworkers and injures four others in Russellville Arkansas, and then surrenders. The busy man had killed 14 of his relatives over the Christmas holidays. Dec 28 1991 Jack Ruby's pistol, used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, sells at auction at Christie's for $220,000. 1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated. 1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded. 1836 - Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico. 1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state. 1867 - United States claims Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits. 1869 - William E. Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio patents chewing gum. 1879 - The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75. 1895 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema. 1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. 1939 - First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype. 1945 - The Congress of the United States officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance. 1973 - The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. Births 1635 - Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) 1856 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (d. 1924) 1922 - Stan Lee, American comic book writer Deaths 1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662), of the famed joint monarchy William and Mary. 1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (Rob Roy) (b. 1671) Holidays and observances The third day of Christmas in Western Christianity. Proclamation Day in South Australia
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     Dec 28 1987 R. Gene Simmons kills two coworkers and injures four others in Russellville Arkansas, and then surrenders. The busy man had killed 14 of his relatives over the Christmas holidays. http://tomgreen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/gene-…
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     Dec 29 1170 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is slashed to death by four of King Henry II's knights at the altar of the Virgin Mary. "Is there no one who will rid me from this turbulent priest", cried Henry in frustration earlier that month. It was apparently not a serious demand for Becket's death, but that did not stop his brains from being splattered in Canterbury Cathedral. Dec 29 1890 The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in Wounded Knee, South Dakota as over 200 Sioux were killed by US troops sent to disarm them. Dec 29 1916 Rasputin, famed Russian court mystic, is beaten, castrated, and his penis flung across the room. He is subsequently shot several times and thrown into a frozen river. Dec 29 1972 Members of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes admit at a press conference that they survived by Cannibalism. This spawned a popular theme for bumper stickers, "Rugby Players Eat Their Dead". But best of all is the quote from one of the team, "If we had been soccer players, we would have died." Dec 29 1975 Bomb explodes at LaGuardia airport in New York, killing 11 people and injuring many others. Dec 29 1993 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-todd-bridges.jpg Former child star Todd Bridges (who played Willis on "Different Strokes") arrested for transportation of methamphetamine. What you "tweaking" about willis? Dec 29 1997 Male nurse Orville Lynn Majors is charged with six counts of murder at Vermillion County Hospital in Newport, MD. He is suspected of many other murders, likely over 100. Majors would apparently inject older patients with potassium chloride or other drugs, and frequently he expressed a dislike for elderlies. When off duty, hospital deaths occurred once every 551 hours; but on duty, once every 23 hours. 1812 - USS Constitution (Captain William Bainbridge) captures HMS Java off Brazil after a three hour battle. 1813 - British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812. 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, the HMS Warrior is launched. 1934 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. 1937 - The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. 1940 - World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe firebombs City of London, killing almost 200 civilians. 1997 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain. 1998 - Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over 1 million. Births 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875) 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898) 1941 - Ray Thomas, British musician (The Moody Blues) 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, British singer 1947 - Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (d. 1998) 1961 - Jim Reid, Scottish singer (The Jesus and Mary Chain) 1965 - Dexter Holland, American musician (The Offspring) 1970 - Aled Jones, Welsh singer Deaths 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. 1118) 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869) 1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) Holidays and observances The fourth day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
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     Dec 30 1903 The worst theater fire in US history occurs at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, killing 602. Most of the exits were locked; no fire drills had ever been conducted; and no water was available for extinguishing the fire. But, a prominent sign displayed above the entrance to the edifice read: "Absolutely Fireproof". Dec 30 1977 Ted Bundy escapes from a jail in Aspen, Colorado by using a hacksaw. He moves to Chicago, then Michigan, Atlanta, and finally Florida, where he commits a series of grotesque murders. Dec 30 1989 Ignoring evidence to the contrary, Drug Enforcement Agency Director John Lawn orders that cannabis remain on the Schedule One narcotics list, reserved for drugs which have no known medical use. Dec 30 1994 John C. Salvi III took things into his own hands and killed two employees at a Brookline, Mass., abortion clinic and wounded five others. John was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms on March 18. Dec 30 1996 Actor Jack Nance (appeared in the Lynch productions Twin Peaks and Eraserhead) murdered. 1460 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield 1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed. 1853 - A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London. 1879 - The Pirates of Penzance is first performed (Paignton, Devon, England). 1880 - The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger, its first president. 1897 - Natal annexes Zululand. 1906 - The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. 1919 - Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student. 1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. 1924 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies. 1965 - Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines. 1993 - Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations. 1995 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equalled the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982. 2006 - Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging. Births 1740 - Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales (d. 1759) 1865 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936) 1942 - Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician (The Monkees) 1945 - Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees) 1947 - Jeff Lynne, English musician (ELO) 1969 - Jay Kay, English musician (Jamiroquai) 1973 - Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn star 1981 - Haley Paige, American pornstar Deaths 1984 - Massa (gorilla), oldest gorilla on record (b. 1930) 1992 - Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China (b. 1969) 2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President (b. 1937) (executed) Holidays and observances The fifth day of Christmas in Western Christianity. Philippines - Rizal Day Freedom Day for Scientologists.
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     Dec 31 1898 Joseph Vacher, known as "Jack the Ripper of France", guillotined. He had a hideous appearance and suffered from Bell's Palsy, a partial paralysis of the face. Vacher killed and mutilated at least 14 victims, young men and women, and committed necrophilia on many of their corpses. Dec 31 1916 Forty-five retarded girls die in a fire at the St. Ferdinand de Halifax convent asylum in Canada. Dec 31 1970 The Beatles break up, as Paul McCartney files suit to dissolve their partnership. Dec 31 1973 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/dec/rh-carlos-the-jack… Carlos the Jackal tries to assassinate Teddy Zeiff, Jewish owner of a major English department store chain. His gun jams. But we all learn his name when he takes the OPEC ministers hostage two years later. Dec 31 1980 Author and media pundit Marshall McLuhan dead at age 69. Dec 31 1982 A coordinated series of four bombs planted by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN explode in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan inside of 90 minutes, injuring three police. Dec 31 1984 The drummer from Def Leppard, Rick Allen, has his arm torn off in a car accident. He continues with the band single-handedly. Dec 31 1985 Rock musician Ricky Nelson dies in an airplane crash in De Kalb, TX at age 45. Dec 31 1999 Paris intends the Eiffel Tower to lay "a gigantic egg" at midnight to honor the coming millennium. What do they smoke in Paris? 1599 - British East India Company is chartered. 1660 - James II of England is created Duke of Normandy by King Louis XIV. 1695 - A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax. 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold. 1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, as the capital of Canada. 1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time. 1891 - A new immigration depot is opened on Ellis Island, New York. 1904 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York. 1909 - Manhattan Bridge opens. 1923 - The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC. 1944 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany. 1946 - President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II. 1955 - General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over USD $1 billion in a year. 1960 - The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom. 1961 - The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than USD $12 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe. 1991 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is officially dissolved. 1997 - Quaker Oats settles a lawsuit involving the immoral use of child subjects in radioactivity experiments circa 1945-1956. 1998 - Exchange rates between the euro and legacy currencies in the Eurozone become fixed. 1999 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President. 1999 - The United States Government handed Panama Canal control over to Panama as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties 2004 - The official opening of Taipei 101, the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet). 2006 - The United Kingdom pays final installment of Second World War debt to the United States. Births 1720 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788) 1937 - Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor 1942 - Andy Summers, British guitarist (The Police) 1943 - John Denver, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997) 1943 - Pete Quaife, English bassist (The Kinks) 1951 - Tom Hamilton, American bassist (Aerosmith) 1963 - Scott Ian, American guitarist (Anthrax) 1980 - Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player Deaths 2002 - Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist (Cutting Crew) (b. 1951) Holidays and observances New Year's Eve on the Gregorian Calendar. Hogmanay in Scotland. Last Day of the Year Celebration, special non-working holiday in the Philippines.
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     Jan 1 Annual Catholic Feast of the Circumcision, to celebrate the removal of the Holy Foreskin. Jan 1 1943 Josef Stalin appears as Time's 1942 "Man of the Year". Jan 1 1946 Emperor Hirohito descends from being a divine being to mere mortal man. General MacArthur insisted on it. Jan 1 1959 Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba from Fulgencio Batista. "Don't worry, Castro's regime can't last." Jan 1 1966 The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 goes into effect. Cigarette companies are forced to label their product like so: "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health" Jan 1 1976 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-hollyweed-th.jpg Potheads alter the "HOLLYWOOD" sign to read "HOLLYWEED". Way to go! Jan 1 1993 During Hong Kong's new year's festivities, a stampede kills 20 and injures many more. Jan 1 1995 Fred West, accused of committing England's "House of Horrors" killings, suicides by hanging himself in his prison cell. Jan 1 1998 Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies in Aspen of traumatic neck and head wounds resulting from an accident while playing "ski football". 404 - The last known gladiator competition in Rome takes place. 630 - Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly. 1600 - Scotland begins using the Julian calendar. 1651 - Charles II is crowned King of Scotland. 1772 - The first traveller's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London for the first time. 1788 - First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published. 1801 - The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1804 - French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and first country independent in the West Indies. 1808 - The importation of slaves into the United States is banned. 1818 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published. 1833 - United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. 1877 - Queen Victoria of Britain is proclaimed Empress of India. 1880 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal. 1887 - Queen Victoria is proclaimed empress of India in Delhi. 1890 - First use of football goal nets in England. 1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States. 1893 - Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar. 1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic. 1898 - New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs. 1901 - The French rugby team play their first Test against the New Zealand All Blacks. 1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate. 1901 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister. 1906 - British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time 1908 - For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight. 1910 - Captain David Beatty was promoted to Rear Admiral, and became the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy, except for Royal family members, since Horatio Nelson. 1911 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control. 1912 - The Republic of China is established. 1916 - German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea. 1923 - Britains Railways are grouped into the Big Four, LNER, GWR, SR, LMSR. 1925 - The American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way. 1934 - Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison. 1934 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". 1937 - Safety glass in windshields became mandatory in Great Britain. 1939 - William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard. 1939 - Sydney, Australia swelters in 45˚C (113˚F) heat, a record for the city.
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     Janury 1st continued 1942 - The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations. 1945 - In retaliation of the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne. 1946 - The first civil flight from Heathrow Airport occurs. 1947 - The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany. 1948 - British railways are nationalised to form British Rail. 1949 - The British Nationality Act 1948 comes into force. 1949 - United Nation cease-fire orders to operate in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly. 1956 - The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 1957 - George Town, Penang became a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 1958 - The European Community is established. 1960 - The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 1962 - Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa. 1962 - United States Navy SEALs established. 1964 - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia. 1971 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. 1973 - The Kingdom of Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community. 1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. 1984 - The Sultanate of Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 1985 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created. 1985 - The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone. 1993 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. 1993 - A single market within the European Community is introduced. 1998 - The European Central Bank is established. 1999 - The Euro currency is introduced. 2000 - As the world celebrates, no major crisis arises from the dreaded Y2K computer 'millennium bug'. 2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states. 2007 - Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages. Births 1950 - Morgan Fisher, English musician (Mott the Hoople) 1967 - John Digweed, English dance music DJ Deaths 1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941) Holidays and observances New Year's Day; often celebrated at 0:01 with fireworks. The seventh day of Christmas Cuba Liberation Day. Czech Republic: Establishment of the Czech Republic. Haiti Independence Day. Scotland: Ne'erday. Slovakia: Establishment of the Slovak Republic. Sudan Independence Day. Taiwan Founding of Republic of China Day.
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     Jan 2 1611 Elizabeth Bathory is charged with the murder of 610 people, which she apparently committed as Countess of Csejthe Castle. Bathory had the theory that the blood of youth would give her everlasting youth. An eviscerated victim would have blood drained into a vat for her bathing. Jan 2 1878 While hunting, farmer John Martin spies a rapidly moving flying disk high in the sky near Denison, Texas. He is the first to use the word "saucer" to describe a UFO phenomenon. Jan 2 1935 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-bruno-hauptmann… Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh . (He would later be found guilty and executed for that crime.). Jan 2 1939 Time magazine named chancellor Adolf Hitler its "Man of the Year." Jan 2 1971 Sixty-six soccer fans are trampled or fall to their deaths during a panic in Ibrox Park Stadium, Glasgow. Jan 2 1995 Marion Barry inaugurated as mayor of Washington, D.C., four years after leaving the office in disgrace to serve a six-month sentence for smoking crack. 1757 - The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India. 1788 - Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is formed. 1929 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls. 1941 - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. 1941 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort. 1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. 1942 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey. 1946 - Unable to resume rule after World War II, King Zog of Albania abdicates but retains his claim to the throne. 1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans. Births 1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer 1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player Holidays and observances Second day of New Year: New Zealand, Slovenia, Ukraine, Japan. Ancestry Day, Haiti Second day of the Hogmanay Bank Holiday, Scotland The eighth day of Christmas
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     Jan 3 1946 William Joyce, the "Lord Haw-Haw" who broadcasted Nazi propaganda to Britain during World War II, is hanged for treason in London. Jan 3 1958 The editor of the scandal magazine Confidential, Howard Rushmore, murders his wife and then suicides in the back of a taxicab in NYC. Jan 3 1961 Three technicians -- John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg -- are killed when the SL-1 experimental nuclear reactor explodes in Idaho Falls, Idaho. McKinley's corpse is found stuck to the containment dome ceiling, impaled on a control rod. The crewmen's radioactive bodies are so hot they have to be buried in lead-lined caskets. Jan 3 1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro. Jan 3 1967 Jack Ruby dead of natural causes. Jan 3 1987 Four non-cancerous polyps are removed from President Ronald Reagan's colon. Jan 3 1990 Manuel Noriega surrenders at the Papal Nunciature. He is brought to Miami and charged with drug trafficking and money laundering. 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. 1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. 1815 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. 1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. 1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. 1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. 1945 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan itself. 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. 1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century. 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Births 1883 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967) 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973) 1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin) 1975 - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk) Deaths 1946 - William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw) American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906) 1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911) 1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
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     Jan 4 1964 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-albert-de-salvo… The Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo kills his final victim, Mary Sullivan, age 19, at her Charles Street apartment. Jan 4 1986 Phil Lynott, founder of heavy metal band "Thin Lizzy", dies from heart failure brought on by a drug overdose. Jan 4 1997 Rumors run rampant through Israel, particularly over talk radio, that a UFO will land at Tel Aviv on the following day. The predictions are purported to have been made by spoonbender Uri Geller. Thousands flock to the beaches, but no saucers. 871 - Battle of Reading: Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army. 1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey. 1642 - King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war. 1698 - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire. 1717 - The Netherlands, England, and France sign the Triple Alliance. 1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples. 1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. 1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside. 1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 1912 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter. 1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts. 1941 - The animated short Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released: it marks the second appearance of Bugs Bunny and the first to have his name on a title card. 1944 - Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins. 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins. 1948 - Burma regains its independence from the United Kingdom. 1972 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London. 1973 - The world's longest running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine was first transmitted on BBC's Comedy Playhouse and is still running to date. 1989 - Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation. 2006 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Births 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727) 1947 - Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter 1955 - Mark Hollis, English musician and composer (Talk Talk) 1956 - Bernard Sumner, English musician (New Order, Joy Division, Electronic) 1958 - Gary Jones, Welsh-born actor 1960 - Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M.) 1962 - Robin Guthrie, Scottish guitarist (Cocteau Twins) 1962 - Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative) 1963 - Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein) 1965 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead) 1965 - Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues) Deaths 1986 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949) 2007 - Grenfell (Gren) Jones, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934) Holidays and observances National Day of Burma tenth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
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     Jan 5 1919 The Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei is founded by Anton Drexler and others at the Furstenfelder Hof tavern in Munich. So much of early Nazi history seems to center around beer halls and homosexuals. Jan 5 1967 Two buses of pilgrims collide south of Manila, Philippines, killing 83 in the worst traffic accident thus far. Jan 5 1981 The Yorkshire Ripper, murderer of 13 women, is arrested. Peter Sutcliffe concentrated mostly on hookers, but still managed to terrorize mainstream England in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Jan 5 1995 Connie Chung broadcasts Kathleen Gingrich's opinion of Hillary Clinton: bitch. We suspect it's merely a case of the pot calling the kettle black, and you can include Connie Chung in that. Jan 5 1996 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-yahya.gif In Gaza, Israeli intelligence agents blow off the head of terrorist Yahya Ayyash, The Engineer, with a remote control cellphone bomb using plastic explosives. Ayyash purportedly ran the Hamas military wing, and was a proficient bomb maker; 100,000 people attended his funeral. Jan 5 1998 Congressman Sonny Bono dead from blunt force trauma to his head after a direct collision with a pine tree at Heavenly Valley Ski Area. He is survived by his lesbian daughter Chastity and three other children. 1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England dies. 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. 1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. 1919 - Free Committee for a German Workers Peace founded, which would become the Nazi party. 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. 1944 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. 1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil. 1997 - Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya. Births 1949 - George Brown, American drummer (Kool & The Gang) 1950 - Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie) 1960 - Phil Thornalley, English bass guitarist (The Cure) 1964 - Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum) 1981 - Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player. Deaths 1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004) 1933 - John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the United States (heart attack)(b. 1872) 1938 - Amelia Earhart is presumed dead and the search for her and Fred Noonan has ended. 1941 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (drowned after bailing out over the Thames) (b. 1903) Holidays and observances The eleventh day of Christmas in Western Christianity
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     Jan 6 1969 Future Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter sees an Unidentified Flying Object in Leary, GA. Also witnessing the craft are his fellow Lions Club members. Jan 6 1977 The Sex Pistols lose their EMI recording contract after a television host encourages them to spout obscenities on the air. Jan 6 1982 William G Bonin, the truck driving "Freeway Killer", convicted in Los Angeles. He had murdered 14 boys and young men. Jan 6 1993 Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev dead from AIDS. Jan 6 1994 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-tonya-harding.jpg Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked in the knees by a man in Detroit wielding a collapsible baton. It is later determined that her inferior rival Tonya Harding and her boyfriend were responsible for the attack. Jan 6 1998 Vandals decapitate the bronze "Little Mermaid" statue in Copenhagen harbor. It is the first decapitation of the famous Edvar Eriksen statue since 1964, and the incident has the city horrified. 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves. 1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. 1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. 1781 - In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey. 1806 - Horatio Nelson is laid to rest in Saint Paul's Cathedral in London. 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph. 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people. 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City). 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. 1941 - The keel of USS Missouri (BB-63) was laid at New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn. 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world. 1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response. Births 1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400) 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431) 1905 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953) 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006) 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC) 1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model 1986 - Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys) Deaths 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858) Holidays and observances Twelfth Day of Christmas, also known as Twelfth Day and Three Kings Day Public holiday in Spain, Italy and Puerto Rico to mark Epiphany Ireland - Little Christmas Rastafari movement - Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie Armenian Christmas
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     Jan 7 1943 Nikola Tesla dead. The inventor of alternating current, Tesla was driven mad by Edison and spent his final days trying to invent a death ray. Jan 7 1948 Residents of Maysville and nearby towns report UFO sightings, and at 2:45 PM, the US Air National Guard investigates. Capt. Thomas Mantell radios that the craft is "metallic and tremendous in size". It may have been a weather balloon. At 3:18 PM Mantell's P-51 goes down, the first UFO related fatality. Jan 7 1950 Thirty-nine lunatics and one normal person die in the Mercy Hospital fire, Davenport IA. Jan 7 1961 Young hoodlum Al Pacino arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. He and his compatriots were driving around a suburb of Providence RI, in the middle of the night, wearing masks and gloves. Not suspicious at all. Jan 7 1989 Marine biologist Emperor Hirohito dead from cancer. Prior to his scientific career, Hirohito was the highest profile unindicted war criminal, presiding over such events as the Rape of Nanking and the unnecessary deaths of over 1 million Japanese in 1945 after it became quite clear the war was lost. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. 1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons. 1735 - Hieronimus de Salis marries hon. Mary ffane, at St. Margaret's Westminster. 1782 - The first American commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens. 1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. 1797 - The current flag of Italy is first used. 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago. 1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". 1922 - Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote. 1927 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London. 1935 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement. 1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. 1945 - World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. 1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. 1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. 1979 - Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. 1990 - The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. 1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins. Births 1796 - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (d. 1817) 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874) 1959 - Kathy Valentine, American musician (The Go-Gos) Deaths 2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh drummer (Feeder)(Suicide) (b. 1968) Holidays and observances Italy - Tricolour day (Festa del Tricolore) Japan - Nanakusa (Seven Herbs Festival).
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     Jan 8 1880 Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, dead in San Francisco. Born Joshua A. Norton, he was adopted by the citizens of the city and issued frequent imperial proclamations. Jan 8 1935 Elvis Aaron Presley born, Tupelo Mississippi. Jan 8 1973 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-ed-kemper-th.jpg Ed Kemper, Santa Cruz, California's own serial killer, shoots a hitchhiking co-ed. Her body is hidden at the home of Ed's mother to be molested and dismembered the next day. Jan 8 1991 Guitarist "Smoking" Steve Clark from Def Leppard found dead from a drug and alcohol overdose. He was 31. Jan 8 1992 George Bush, sick with the stomach flu, decides not to excuse himself at a Tokyo state dinner. He vomits in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister while cameras are rolling, to the great amusement of everyone except the Prime Minister. Jan 8 1998 Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski attempts to hang himself in his jail cell with his underwear. Let's hope for his mother's sake that the underwear he chose was clean. 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army. 1297 - Monaco gains its independence. 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling. 1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City. 1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony. 1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British. 1835 - US national debt is 0 for the first and only time. 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). 1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory). 1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule. 1912 - The African National Congress is founded. 1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli. 1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. 2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. Births 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977) 1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer 1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian(Monty Pythons flying circus) (d. 1989) 1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors) 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005) 1970 - Melissa Hill, American porn actress Deaths 1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074) 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254) 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564) 1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley 1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard)(O.D.) (b. 1960)
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     Jan 9 1349 All the jews of Basel Switzerland are rounded up and incinerated, because they caused the bubonic plague. Jan 9 1570 Ivan The Terrible, thinking that the town of Novgorod on the verge of defecting to Poland, commences a massacre on its citizens that lasts five long weeks. Every day men, women, and children are brutally murdered by flame or thrown in the Volkhov river. Estimates vary between 15,000 and 60,000 killed. Jan 9 1913 Richard Nixon born. Jan 9 1914 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-gypsy-rose-lee.jpg Birthday of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Jan 9 1972 The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. Jan 9 2002 The DOJ confirms reports that a criminal investigation of mega-corporation Enron has begun. The Texas energy profiteers gave loads of cash to the Republican party before accounting fraud and insider trading caused thousands of Enron employees to lose their savings and pensions. 1431 - Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. 1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London). 1788 - Connecticut becomes the fifth state to join the United States. 1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon. 1806 - Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816 - Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens -- between Paddington and Farringdon Street. 1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905. 1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated. 1917 - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1941 - First flight of the Avro Lancaster. 1941 - World War II: The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. 1945 - The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. 1951 - The United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City. 1964 - Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the US-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between US military and Panamanian civilians. 1968 - The first and last time to date snow fell in Mexico City along with 10th and 11th. 1991 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. Births 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994) 1944 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin) 1948 - Cassie Gaines Backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977) 1950 - David Johansen American singer (New York Dolls) 1957 - Phil Lewis, English singer (L.A. Guns) 1965 - Eric Erlandson, American guitarist (Hole) 1967 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth) Deaths 1995 - Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
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     Jan 10 1645 Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud is beheaded with an axe on Tower Hill despite his trial ending without a verdict and having been granted a royal pardon years earlier. Jan 10 1883 A fire at the six-story Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 71 people. Two famous midgets residing there, General Tom Thumb and Commodore Nut, are rescued by firefighters. Jan 10 1939 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-linda-lovelace.jpg Linda Lovelace's birthday. She starred in Deep Throat, the most profitable adult movie in history, and certainly one of the most groundbreaking. Linda's other credits include her first film Dog Fucker, a 1969 film where she gets it on with a German shepherd. Jan 10 1982 The gayest Hollywood Square, Paul Lynde, dead naked in his West Hollywood home with a bottle of poppers (amyl nitrate, to relax muscles used during anal intercourse) next to the bed. By the next morning, Lynde's mysterious male companion had fled. Jan 10 1998 German psychologist Heidi Fittkau-Garthe was charged in the Canary Islands with a plot of murder-suicide in which 31 cult followers, including five children, were to ingest poison. After the suicides they were to be picked up by spaceship for an unspecified destination. 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British. 1810 - The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled. 1863 - The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station. 1901 - The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. 1920 - The League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I. 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State. 1929 - Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages. 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the US Congress. 1941 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. 1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented. 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom. 1984 - The US and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years. 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola. 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. 1992 - 29,000 bath toys owned by the American company First Days Inc. are washed overboard in the Pacific Ocean. 1999 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea. 2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history at the time. 2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later. Births 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916) 1948 - Donald Fagen, American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Steely Dan) 1949 - Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002) 1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer 1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO) Deaths 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814) 1917 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846) 1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910) Holidays and observances Margaret Thatcher day in the Falkland Islands 2008 - Islamic New Year
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     Jan 11 1892 After sampling the services of many adolescent women in the tropics, the fifty year old painter Paul Gauguin marries Tehura, an awfully cute 13 year old Tahitian girl. Jan 11 1960 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-henry-lee-lucas… Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas kills his 74 year old mother. He tells Toledo police that he raped her corpse, but later recants this. The murder ends his career as a serial killer; he is variously attributed to having killed between 100 and 600 people. The truth is probably below 100. Jan 11 1962 In the Peruvian Andes, an avalanche buries 3,000 people alive as the volcano Huascaran erupts. Jan 11 1964 The US Surgeon General warns against smoking for the first time. It's amazing how many dumbshits need to be told that inhaling smoke is harmful. Jan 11 1966 Numerous people, including the mayor of Wanaque and their police chief, observe a UFO over Wanaque Reservoir, burning holes in the ice. The Air Force explained it as a weather balloon, but later withdrew that claim and called it a helicopter. 1569 - First recorded lottery in England. 1693 - Mt. Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy. A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta 1879 - The Anglo-Zulu War begins. 1917 - The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage. 1922 - First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient. 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its reparation payments. 1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies. 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur. 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. 1949 - First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California. 1957 - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber. 1972 - East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh. 1973 - The Open University, Britain's distance-learning university, awards its first degrees. 1994 - The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin 2001 - The Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner. Births 1915 - Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955) 1942 - Clarence Clemons, American musician (E Street Band) 1946 - Tony Kaye, British keyboard player (Yes) 1958 - Vicki Peterson, American musician (The Bangles) 1968 - Tom Dumont, American musician (No Doubt) 1981 - Tom Meighan, British singer (Kasabian) 1981 - Chris Edwards, British musician (Kasabian) Deaths 1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717) 1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763) 1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842) 2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947) 2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938) 2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943) 2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand adventurer, first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest (Heart attack) Holidays and observances Albania - Republic Day (1946) Morocco - Independence Resistance Day Nepal - Unity Day
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     Jan 12 1865 General William T. Sherman issues Special Field Order No. 15, entitling the household of each freed slave "a plot of no more than forty acres of tillable ground" along the Carolina coastline between Charleston and Jacksonville. After the Confederate surrender, the Johnson administration makes a halfhearted attempt to follow through on the acreage, but all efforts to parcel out the land in question are abandoned just a few months later. Jan 12 1914 Industrialist Henry Ford offers the incredible sum of a $5 per day wage for unskilled labor (previously $2.34), but only to married white Christian men willing to subject themselves to surveillance and random home inspections by the company's Sociology Department. Jan 12 1928 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-ruth-snyder-th.jpg Murderer Ruth Snyder executed in the Electric Chair at Ossining. Photographer Thomas Howard catches the moment of death with a camera secretly strapped to his ankle, and the photo runs on the front page of the New York Daily News. Jan 12 1965 At 10:58 a.m. PST, scientists conduct what they called a "controlled excursion", burning up a nuclear rocket in Nevada and putting a radioactive cloud over Los Angeles. Jan 12 1966 Premiere on television of the homoerotic comedy "Batman" starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Jan 12 1971 The first episode of "All in the Family" made television history by broadcasting the sound of a toilet flushing. Jan 12 1979 One of the Hillside Stranglers, security guard Kenneth Bianchi, is arrested in Bellingham, Washington for a pair of rape/strangulations. After he moved north from Los Angeles he made the mistake of continuing his high profile hobby. Jan 12 1993 A transcript of the infamous 1989 intercepted phone call between Camilla and Prince Charles is published by the Sun. "I'll just live inside your trousers or something". Good god. 1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. 1895 - The National Trust is founded in Britain. 1906 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H.H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. 1915 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress. 1940 - World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. 1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. 1945 - World War II: The Soviets begin a large offensive against the Nazis in Eastern Europe . 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. 1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. 2004 - The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage. 2006 - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council. 2006 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims. 2006 - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship. Births 1893 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official (d. 1946) 1893 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official (d. 1946) 1970 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine). Deaths 1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) 2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949) Holidays and observances Tanzania - Zanzibar Revolution Day India - National Youth Day Swami Vivekananda's birthday
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     Jan 13 1943 Hitler declares "Total War". Jan 13 1959 Raul Castro, brother of Fidel, lines up 71 Batista supporters in front of a trench and machine guns them. They are then buried by a tractor without any verification that the prisoners were killed. Jan 13 1962 Television comedy pioneer Ernie Kovacs drives his "unsafe at any speed" Corvair into a utility pole on Santa Monica Boulevard, killing him instantly and turning The Nairobi Trio into a Duo. Jan 13 1979 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-village-people.jpg The Young Men's Christian Association files a libel suit against the Village People for their popular Y.M.C.A hit. Jan 13 1987 New York mobsters Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Carmine "Junior" Persico sentenced to 100 years of prison for racketeering, along with six others. All were members of the Mafia "board of directors" Jan 13 1991 Forty-two people are killed in a soccer stampede and melee at Johannesburg, South Africa. Jan 13 1998 A woman taking a tour of the White House applies spray paint to two early 19th century marble busts modeled by Giuseppi Ceracchi. No clear motive exists for the vandalism, and it it not clear how spray paint was brought through White House security. Spokesman Mike McCurry stated, "it looks like a bad rouge job on the busts". 1328 - Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault. 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death. 1602 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published. 1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter. 1622 - Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended. 1625 - John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16. 1733 - James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina. 1785 - John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times). 1842 - Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad. 1847 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. 1893 - The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting. 1893 - U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. 1930 - The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance. 1935 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany. 1938 - The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution. 1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car. 1942 - The United States begins Japanese American internment. 1942 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter. 1953 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia. 1957 - The Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee. 1964 - Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people. 1964 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland. 1968 - Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison. 1991 - Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius. 1992 - Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. Births 1954 - Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes) 1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth) 1961 - Graham McPherson, (Suggs) English singer (Maddness) 1961 - Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips) 1981 - Jason James, Welsh Bassist (Bullet for My Valentine) Deaths 1929 - Wyatt Earp, American Western lawman (b. 1848) 2004 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (suicide)(b. 1946) Holidays and observances In Sweden, Christmas ends on the 20th day, St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag Knut. In UK, as proposed by comedian Bob Mills on BBC Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk this is the day beyond which the penalty for wishing someone a Happy New Year should be death.
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     Jan 14 1601 Authorities of the Catholic Church burn a large percentage of the Hebrew books in Rome. Monks targeted the books because they felt they portrayed Jesus in a blasphemous manner. It would have been healthier to burn the monks. Jan 14 1943 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-frances-farmer-… Actress Frances Farmer forcefully taken to jail for parole violations with regard to her drunk driving conviction. She states her occupation as "cocksucker", receives a 180 day sentence, and some days later is committed to an insane asylum where she receives a lobotomy five years later. Jan 14 1967 The New York Times reports that the Army is conducting biological germ warfare experiments in secret. Jan 14 1978 Serial killer Ted Bundy stuns the nation when he breaks into a sorority at Florida State University in Tallahassee, killing two girls and attacking three others. One of the dead girls, Lisa Levy, was found with a Clairol hairspray bottle rammed into her vagina. The bite mark on her buttocks would later be used as evidence to help convict Bundy. Jan 14 1984 The BBC announces that it will no longer play Frankie Goes To Hollywood single "Relax", because of its obscene lyrics catapulting it to number one in the singles chart. Jan 14 1990 Debut of The Simpsons on Fox. Jan 14 1991 Tyne Daly (the fat one from "Cagney and Lacy") is arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, CA. Jan 14 1998 Jewish extremists Avigdor Eskin and Haim Pakovich are charged in a plot to catapult a pig's head containing the Koran into Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque, in order to spark tensions between Jews and Arabs. It is the latest in a series of pig and pighead incidents by Jewish agitants. Jan 14 1998 A spokesman for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (United Kingdom) announced to the media that it had encountered ecstasy pills bearing the names of Lady Diana and Dodi Fayed, as well as some displaying the Mercedes logo, the brand of car involved in the fatal accident. The reverse side shows the letters "RIP". 1761 - The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas. The Afghan victory changed the course of Indian History. 1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England. 1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt. 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war. 1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II). 1950 - The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight. 1967 - Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Between 20,000 to 30,000 people attend. 1969 - An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people. 1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords. 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. Births 1741 - Benedict Arnold, American general notorious for treason (d. 1801) 1959 - Geoff Tate, American musician (Queensrÿche) 1967 - Zakk Wylde, American musician (Black Label Society) 1969 - David Grohl, American drummer, Guitarist, singer(Nirvana, Foo Fighters) 1982 - Caleb Followill, American musician (Kings of Leon) Deaths 1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832) 1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
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     Jan 14 1943 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-frances-farmer-… Actress Frances Farmer forcefully taken to jail for parole violations with regard to her drunk driving conviction. She states her occupation as "cocksucker", receives a 180 day sentence, and some days later is committed to an insane asylum where she receives a lobotomy five years later. Funny, I was talking with my Grandmother the other day about Frances Farmer. The story of her life seem´s a little like Britney Spears life at the moment. I don´t think she had a Lobotomy though, but I think Britney may have:1orglaugh: . Sensationalized accounts In the years following Farmer's death in 1970, her treatment at Western State was the subject of serious discussion and wild speculation. Kenneth Anger included a chapter relating her breakdown in Hollywood Babylon. Farmer's ghostwritten, posthumously published autobiography Will There Really Be A Morning described a brutal incarceration. It claimed Farmer had been brutalized and mistreated in numerous ways. Farmer's ghostwriter and friend Jean Ratcliffe later admitted she had written the version to be marketable and saleable. In 1978, Seattle film reviewer William Arnold published Shadowland, which for the first time alleged that Farmer had been the subject of a transorbital lobotomy. Scenes of Farmer being subjected to this lobotomy procedure were part of the 1982 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982) film Frances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances), which had initially been planned as an adaptation of Shadowland, though its producers ultimately reneged on their agreement with Arnold. During a court case against Brooksfilms (the film's producers), Arnold revealed that the lobotomy episode and much of his biography about Farmer was "fictionalized". Years later, on a DVD commentary track of the film Frances, director Graeme Clifford stated, "We didn't want to nickel and dime people to death with facts." In The Lobotomist, his biography of Walter Freeman, author Jack El-Hai, who had access to all of Freeman's patient records, found no mention of Farmer whatsoever. Farmer's sister, Edith, denied that the procedure was done. She said the hospital asked her parents permission to perform the lobotomy, but her father was “horrified” by the notion and threatened legal action "if they tried any of their guinea pig operations on her." Medical archives Western State Hospital recorded all the lobotomies performed during Farmer's period there. Since lobotomies were considered ground-breaking medical procedure, the hospital did not attempt to conceal its work. Although nearly 300 patients received the procedure, no evidence supports a claim that Farmer was among them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer
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     Jan 15 1919 In Boston, an immense storage tank alongside a rum distillery suddenly explodes, producing a flash flood of 2.3 million gallons of sticky molasses. Whole buildings are knocked off their foundations and reduced to rubble by an eight-foot wall of liquid traveling 35 miles per hour. 21 killed and 150 injured as a result of this industrial accident. Jan 15 1947 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-black-dahlia.jpg The body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short is discovered in a vacant lot, her mutilated corpse chopped in half at the waist. Her murder is known as The Black Dahlia Murder, one of the most lurid murder cases in Los Angeles history. The murderer was never found. Jan 15 1951 A gaseous volcanic "Cloud of Death" descends from Mount Lamington, New Guinea, killing 5,000. Jan 15 1974 The first episode of Happy Days airs. Jan 15 1983 Meyer Lansky, retired Jewish organized crime genius, Godfather of the Mafia, dead of a fatal nosebleed at Mount Sinai Hospital. It is not clear where Lansky's estimated $300 million fortune went. Jan 15 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder's racist statements regarding the breeding history of slaves and black athletes costs him his job at CBS. 1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury. 1759 - The British Museum opens. 1943 - World War II: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal. 1943 - World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins. 1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. 1951 - Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany. 1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. 1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola. 1976 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison. 1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. 2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. 2005 - An intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system. Births 1893 - Ivor Novello, Welsh composer,singer & actor (d. 1951) 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968) 1941 - Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, American musician and visual artist 1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977) 1959 - Pete Trewavas, English bass guitarist (Marillion) 1965 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool) 1971 - Teanna Kai, American porn star 1972 - Kobe Tai, American porn star Deaths 1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924) 2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed) 2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed) Holidays and observances Malawi - John Chilembwe Day. North Korea - Korean Alphabet Day. United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Kerala in India - Makaravilakku or Makara Sankranthy at Sabarimala. Jallikattu in South India. Pongal in Tamil Nadu (2007). Nigerian Armed Forces Rememberance day
381. tgd_02Salvaged from archive15 Jan 2008, 21:40
     ah kobe tai was born <3 such awesomeneses
382. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive16 Jan 2008, 12:25
     Jan 16 1936 Serial killer cannibal Albert Fish executed at Sing Sing. God wanted him to castrate boys, and who was he to disagree. At his electrocution, the twenty-nine needles he had inserted into his crotch meant he needed a second jolt. Jan 16 1942 Raising money for the war, actress Carol Lombard and her mother are killed along with a score of others in a Las Vegas airplane crash. Jan 16 1969 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-jan-palach.jpg Jan Palach self-immolates in Wenceslas Square, Prague, to protest the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. His gasoline powered sacrifice starts a wave of copycat suicides, seven of which are successful. Jan 16 1987 President Leon Cordero of Ecuador is kidnapped by followers of Gen. Frank Vargas, held in a Quito prison for a 1986 coup attempt. Vargas is free and so was the President. Lesson: crime pays. Jan 16 1989 Three days of race riots begin in Overtown, Miami when a black man fleeing on motorcycle is killed by a Hispanic police officer. 125 blocks are sealed off during the riots. Jan 16 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-baghdadcam.jpg Operation Desert Storm commences as Baghdad is pummeled live on CNN. Targeted with smartbombs are "command and control facilities" and Saddam Hussein himself. We seem to miss both, but do manage to kill about 100,000 Iraqi soldiers in the surreal bombardments that follow. Jan 16 1997 Bill Cosby's 27 year old son Ennis William Cosby is shot to death at Skirball Center in Sepulveda Pass, near Los Angeles CA. It was a robbery attempt while he was attempting to change a flat tire. 1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt. 1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia. 1572 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. 1581 - The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism. 1707 - The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving way for the creation of Great Britain. 1761 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French. 1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña. 1896 - Defeat of Cymru Fydd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymru_Fydd) at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire. 1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. 1919 - Temperance movement: The United States of America ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. 1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine. 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry. 2005 - Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth, at age 66. Births 1961 - Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007) 1962 - Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang) 1981 - Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes) 1982 - Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys) Deaths 1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765) 1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802) Holidays and observances Teacher's Day in Thailand National Religious Freedom Day in the United States
383. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive17 Jan 2008, 21:27
     Jan 17 1893 White people, businessmen and sugar planters helped by U.S. troops, overthrow Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. The islands become the Republic of Hawaii before being annexed by the U.S. in 1898. Jan 17 1899 Al Capone's birthday. Jan 17 1950 Seven men wearing Halloween masks rob the Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash, and $1.5M securities. One of the robbers confesses to the job in 1953, eleven days before the statute of limitations was to expire. Jan 17 1961 President Eisenhower warns us of the evils of the "military industrial complex". Did we listen carefully enough? Jan 17 1966 An American B-52 collides with its tanker aircraft during refueling over the town of Palomares, Spain. Seven crew members are killed in the resulting jet fuel explosion. Also, three 10-megaton hydrogen bombs crash near the town. Although none of them detonates, two rupture, scattering powdered plutonium over 558 acres of farmland. The USA hauls away 1,600 tons of soil and tomato plants and disposes of them in Aiken, South Carolina. Jan 17 1977 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-gary-gilmore.jpg After refusing appeals and demanding his death sentence, double murderer Gary Gilmore is given a hood and shot by a Utah Firing Squad in the first U.S. execution in ten years. Jan 17 1994 The massive "Northridge Earthquake" strikes Los Angeles, producing a ground pulse far greater than its 6.7 magnitude would indicate. It causes 61 deaths and damages reaching $20 billion. The quake is by far the most expensive cataclysm in U.S. history. Jan 17 1995 One year after the Northridge quake in California, a large 7.2 quake strikes Kobe Japan, killing 5,090, leaving 1.5 million homeless, and causing damage of approximately $200 billion dollars. It is the most destructive quake in Japan since the 1923 Kanto disaster. 1595 - Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. 1648 - England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens - Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina. 1885 - A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. 1912 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. 1917 - The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. 1941 - Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after WWII. 1945 - Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. 1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. 1985 - British Telecom announces the retirement of the United Kingdom's red telephone boxes. 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. 1996 - The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union. 1998 - Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. 2007 - Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to N. Korea nuclear testing Births 1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790) 1863 - David Lloyd George, (the only Welsh) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945) 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster d. 1947) 1948 - Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones) 1959 - Susanna Hoffs, American musician (The Bangles) 1963 - Kai Hansen, German musician/singer (Helloween) 1964 - Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths) 1966 - Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer 1967 - Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs) 1969 - Tijs Verwest, (DJ Tiësto) Dutch Dance music DJ 1971 - Kid Rock, American singer 1971 - Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005) Deaths 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
384. MACH llSalvaged from archive18 Jan 2008, 00:47
     Pretty good stuff here....
385. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive18 Jan 2008, 20:08
     Jan 18 1945 The Auschwitz Death March began. Jan 18 1978 "Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa, Chicago Tribune Jan 18 1983 During a broadcast of "The Magic Christian," Bruce Blackman shoots and kills his family. He claims that he acted on orders received while watching the movie. Jan 18 1990 Rusty Hamer, the actor who played Danny Thomas's son on Make Room For Daddy, shoots himself in the head with a .357 Magnum in DeRidder, Louisiana. Rusty was 42 years old. Jan 18 1990 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-marion-barry.jpg Washington DC mayor Marion Barry is arrested on cocaine possession charges at the Vista International Hotel, as he tokes on a glass crack pipe while being videotaped with his mistress Rasheeda. Jan 18 1991 The United States admits that the CIA paid Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega over $300,000 during his career as undercover narc. Jan 18 1998 An advertisement in Norway's primary daily newspaper Verdens Gang today depicted a used tampon made to resemble the Japanese flag, with the caption "We wish the female participants luck in Nagano" (the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics). The Japanese Embassy in Oslo filed a protest. 1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV. 1670 - Welsh privateer Captain Henry Morgan captures Panama. 1778 - James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". 1788 - The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay. 1871 - Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the Palace of Versailles towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire was known as The Second Reich to the Germans. 1884 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK. 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States. 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. 1919 - Bentley Motors Limited is founded. 1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. 1944 - Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad. 1945 - Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army 1964 - Plans are revealed for the World Trade Center in New York City. 1967 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison. 1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War. 1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. 1978 - The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. 2002 - Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over. 2007 - The strongest storm in the UK for 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of Devon, England. Births 1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (Winnie the Pooh) (d. 1956) 1971 - Jonathan Davis, American singer (KoЯn) 1984 - Cho Seung-Hui, Korean-American mass murderer (Virginia Tech Massacre) (d. 2007) Deaths 1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790) 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865) Holidays and observances Winnie The Pooh Day (in observance of the birthday of Alan Alexander Milne, 1882.)
386. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive19 Jan 2008, 20:44
     Jan 19 1847 A group of Mexicans and Indians enters the Taos home of New Mexican Territory Governor Charles Bent, and scalps him. Jan 19 1985 Houston daredevil Karel Soucek is dropped in a barrel from the roof of the Astrodome. Though he was aiming for a water tank on the field, his barrel strikes the edge of the tank. He suffers a fatal skull fracture. Jan 19 1991 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-wendy-o-william… Wendy O. Williams, of the Plasmatics, arrested for masturbating herself onstage with a sledgehammer. Jan 19 1995 The eternally skanky Singaporan porn star Annabel Chong has sex with 80 men a total of 251 times, in a single day. She was paid $12,000 for this appearance in World's Biggest Gang Bang I. Jan 19 1997 Todd Bridges, "Willis" on Diff'rent Strokes, booked in Marina Del Rey on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He repeatedly rammed the weapon, his car, into another vehicle after an argument in a video arcade. 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1788 - Second group of ships of the First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. 1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo. 1839 - British East India Company captures Aden. 1840 - Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. 1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Eddison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 1915 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. 1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1917 - German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States. 1917 - Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. 1920 - The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 1941 - World War II: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma. 1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate the ghetto of Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived Nazi occupation. 1946 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 1949 - Cuba recognises Israel. 1977 - President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). 1977 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas. 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America will continue until 2003. 1983 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. Births 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849) 1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970) 1947 - Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple) 1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003) Deaths 1999 - Ivan Francescato, Italian Rugby Union star (b. 1967) 2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
387. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive21 Jan 2008, 14:27
     Jan 20 1936 King George V of England is euthanized with injections of cocaine and morphine, after a painful cancer illness. His physician was motivated not only to ameliorate the king's suffering, but also to break the story in the morning edition of the newspapers, "rather than the less appropriate evening journals." Jan 20 1942 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-eternaljew.jpg The Wannsee Conference is held in Berlin, determining the Final Solution of European Jews. Jan 20 1969 Richard M. Nixon inaugurated at 35th president. Jan 20 1982 Rock musician Ozzy Osbourne is hospitalized in Des Moines IA after he bites the head off of a dead bat. The bat was tossed on stage by a fan during a live performance. Jan 20 1998 Nepalese police seized a shipment of 272 human skulls in Kathmandu, stashed atop a bus, apparently destined for sale to tourists as curios. 1156 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland. 1265 - In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the "Houses of Parliament". 1356 - Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland. 1502 - The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored. 1649 - Charles I of England goes on trial for treason and other "high crimes". 1783 - The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War. 1788 - The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides Botany Bay is unsuitable for location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson. 1841 - Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British. 1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster. 1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. 1936 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom. 1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4. 1942 - World War II: Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin agree on the "final solution to the Jewish problem". 1944 - World War II: The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin. 1945 - Hungary ends its involvement in the Second World War, agreeing an armistice with the Allies. 1960 - Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic. 1981 - Iran releases 52 American hostages twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as U.S. President. 1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1986 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. 1987 - Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon. Births 1945 - Eric Stewart, English musician and songwriter (10cc) 1951 - Ian Hill, British bassist (Judas Priest) 1952 - Paul Stanley, American singer & guitarist (Kiss) 1960 - Scott Thunes, American bassist (Frank Zappa) 1965 - Greg Kriesel, American bassist (The Offspring) 1966 - Tracii Guns, American guitarist (Founder member of Guns N Roses) 1969 - Nicky Wire, Welsh bassist (Manic Street Preachers) 1971 - Derrick Green, American singer (Sepultura) 1979 - Rob Bourdon, American drummer (Linkin Park) 1980 - Matthew Tuck, Welsh guitarist (Bullet for My Valentine) Deaths 1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865) Holidays and observances Presidential Inauguration Day in the United States, held every four years since 1937.
388. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive21 Jan 2008, 19:36
     Jan 21 1793 The King of France, Louis XVI, is guillotined at age 39. An early "urban legend" has the King months earlier suggesting a slant and bevelling of the blade, for better cutting action. Jan 21 1924 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-lenincorpse-th.jpg Lenin dead of stroke -- they keep him on ice, expertly preserved. Now after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian gangsters employ the use of the same scientists who taxidermied Lenin to preserve each other after they get whacked. Jan 21 1959 Former Our Gang child star Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer (age 32) was shot to death in a knifefight in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California. Jan 21 1960 At Coalbrook, South Africa, a mine collapse traps 437 miners, 417 of whom die from methane poisoning. Jan 21 1960 The U.S. sends a space monkey, "Miss Sam", nine miles high aboard a Mercury rocket. The six pound monkey is successfully returned to Earth. Jan 21 1992 Former child star Dana Plato (Diff'rent Strokes) arrested on charges of armed robbery for holding up a video store in Las Vegas. She served 200 hours of community service as sentence. 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade. 1643 - Abel Tasman was the first European to reach Tonga. 1864 - The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars. 1887 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city. 1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership. 1925 - Albania declares itself a republic. 1941 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. 1954 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States. 1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kgs (9,500 pounds) of cocaine on board. 2007 - Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark. Births 1966 - Robert Del Naja, English trip-hop musician (The wild bunch, Massive attack, UNKLE) 1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer 1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer Deaths 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (Stroke) (b. 1870) Holidays and observances Martin Luther King Jr. Day - United States (2008) Flag Day - Quebec Mauritius - Thaipoosam Cavadee Errol Barrow Day - Barbados UN Arms Day International Spicy Food Day
389. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive22 Jan 2008, 09:59
     Jan 22 1905 In 1905, thousands of demonstrating Russian workers were fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg on what became known as "Red Sunday" or "Bloody Sunday". 96 people were killed, and over 300 were wounded. This incident marks the beginning of the so-called 1905 revolution. Jan 22 1918 Manitoba, Canada film censor board decides to ban comedies, on the grounds that they make audiences "too frivolous". Jan 22 1951 Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's baseball career is ended after he is thrown out of a winter league game, during the tryouts for the Washington Senators. Jan 22 1957 Mad Bomber captured and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. Jan 22 1972 In an interview with Melody Maker, musician David Bowie announces that he is gay. Actually he is bisexual, and his wife Angela did catch him in bed with Mick Jagger. Jan 22 1973 The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas' [Abortion|abortion]] laws, settling the debate once and for all. Jan 22 1973 176 people are killed in Kano, Nigeria when a Nigerian Airlines flight crashes on its way back from Mecca. Jan 22 1987 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-budd.jpg The State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, R. Budd Dwyer, proclaims his innocence to fraud charges at a crowded press conferences and then pulls a gun out of an envelope and blows his fucking brains out. 1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican. 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England. 1824 - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast. 1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana - Zulu troops defeat British troops. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors. 1901 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. 1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the UK's first Labour Prime Minister. 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces. 1944 - World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy). 1973 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status. 2007 - The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada Births 1949 - Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey) 1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997) 1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses) 1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer 1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence) Deaths 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819) 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
390. KyleABCSalvaged from archive22 Jan 2008, 21:50
     Pretty cool stuff, go to know some facts that i didnt know
391. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive23 Jan 2008, 08:00
     Jan 23 1556 The most devastating earthquake in history kills 830,000 people in Shanxi province, China. Many were killed when their clay caves, carved from cliffs, collapsed. Jan 23 1812 A huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri. Jan 23 1968 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-uss-pueblo-th.jpg North Koreans seize the CIA intelligence ship U.S.S. Pueblo while it is in their waters and hold its crew hostage. After a humiliating series of trials, the crew is released. Jan 23 1972 An unscrupulous New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party, killing 100 guests. Jan 23 1978 Terry Kath of band Chicago accidentally suicides in Woodland Hills. Moral: don't pretend to play Russian Roulette. Jan 23 1989 Salvador Dali dead. Jan 23 1996 A professional bungee jumper practicing for the Superbowl was killed during rehearsal. Laura Patterson, 43, died of massive head injuries at the New Orleans Superdome. Way to go, Laura! Jan 23 1998 Montana hermit Ted Kaczynski admits to four Unabomber attacks, pleading guilty in in a federal plea bargain that spares him the death penalty, but denies him the right of appeal. 1510 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity. 1533 - Anne Boleyn, mistress of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant. 1570 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war. 1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. 1870 - In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Indians, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. 1897 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction. 1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. 1920 - The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders. 1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1943 - World War II: British forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis. 1943 - Jewish-led Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 1943 - World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression. 1945 - World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. 1950 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. 1973 - President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. 1978 - Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer. 2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody. 2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped -- and subsequently murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. Births 1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) 1950 - John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health) 1952 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick) Deaths 1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725) 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) 1990 - Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952) Holidays and observances Bounty Day, celebrating the burning of HMAV Bounty in 1790, Pitcairn Island
392. KyleABCSalvaged from archive23 Jan 2008, 10:48
     Wow u rly good at this
393. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive25 Jan 2008, 08:14
     Wow u rly good at this :xyxthumbs: TY
394. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive25 Jan 2008, 08:36
     Jan 24 41 Roman emperor Caligula is assassinated by his bodyguards. Jan 24 1908 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-baden-powell-th… The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by its founder, Robert Baden-Powell. Jan 24 1978 The nuclear-powered Soviet Cosmos 954 satellite plunges through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates, scattering radioactive debris over parts of Canada's Northwest Territories. Much of the satellite lands in the Great Slave Lake; only about 1% of the radioactive material is recovered. Jan 24 1986 Crackpot and founder of the Scientology movement, L. Ron Hubbard dies. His bad science fiction writing has grown alarmly prolific in the years since his death. Jan 24 1989 Ted Bundy put to death in the Electric Chair for the murder of Kimberly Leach, after ten years trying to appeal. Here is a post-mortem picture of the burns on Bundy's head. http://www.dailyrotten.com/today/jan/bundy-burns.jpg A close up of the burns on Ted Bundy after the electric chair. Also visible is an incision made to inspect his brain. 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament. 1924 - Petrograd, formerly St. Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad. 1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England. 1935 - The first cans of beer are sold in the US (Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale). 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. 1972 - Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. Births 1941 - Neil Diamond, American singer 1958 - Jools Holland, British musician (Squeeze) 1967 - John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater) 1968 - Michael Kiske, German musician (Helloween) Deaths 1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901) 1965 - Sir Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874) 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911) 1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (Electocution) (b. 1946) 2005 - Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929) Holidays and observances Wales - Saint Cadoc
395. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive25 Jan 2008, 08:54
     Jan 25 1485 The Chief Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition, Peter Arbues, was bludgeoned from behind as he prayed inside the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain. A fortnight later blood of the martyr liquefied on the floor of the cathedral -- a miracle! -- and numerous testimonies of healing occurring at his coffinside. The Catholic church canonized this brutal man in 1867. Jan 25 1947 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-alcapone.jpg The infamous mobster Al Capone dead in Florida, his mind in dementia from long untreated syphilis. Capone was Alcatrazed for eight years of his eleven year sentence for tax evasion, but had to be released due to deteriorating health. Jan 25 1960 Actress Diana Barrymore commits suicide with alcohol and sleeping pills. Jan 25 1971 Idi Amin Dada, everybody's favorite tyrant, comes to power in Uganda. Jan 25 1971 Charles Manson and three of his followers are convicted in Los Angeles of the Tate and LaBianca murders. All were sentenced to the gas chamber, with sentences commuted to life imprisonment when the death penalty was temporarily abolished. Jan 25 1980 Beatle Paul McCartney is deported from Japan for possession of nearly a half pound of marijuana. It is Paul's third pot bust and his second deportation, an earlier one occurring in Germany 20 years previously after setting fire to a condom. Jan 25 1990 Avianca Flight 52, a Boeing 707 from Colombia, runs out of fuel over Cove Neck, New York. The crash splits the plane into four pieces and scatters bodies throughout the wreckage. 73 of the 161 passengers die, nobody on the ground is hurt. Jan 25 1993 Pakistani Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle at CIA headquarters parking lot at rush hour in Langley, VA, killing two agents and wounding three others. Kasi wanted to punish the U.S. for acting against Iraq during the Gulf War, and other acts against unspecified islamic countries. Jan 25 1994 Michael Jackson pays $10M in an out of court settlement to the family of 14 year old Jordy Chandler, who accused him of child molestation. Quote from the affidavit, citing May 1993 as the time period: "That's when the whole thing really got out of hand. We took a bath together. This was the first time that we had seen each other naked. Michael Jackson named certain of his children friends who had masturbated in front of him." 1327 - Edward III becomes King of England. 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. 1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil. 1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded. 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia. 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service. 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. 1919 - The League of Nations is founded. 1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom. 1945 - Battle of the Bulge ends. 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister. 1955 - Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany. 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile. Births 1759 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796) 1955 - Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash) 1956 - Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals) Deaths 2006 - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967) Holidays and observances Burns Night - Burns suppers are held in many parts of the world around this date. (Originated in Scotland) St. Dwynwen's Day - Welsh celebration of love Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen.
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     Jan 26 1948 A man with a "Sanitation" armband enters Teikoku Bank in Tokyo and injects the staff with a potassium cyanide solution, claiming to be administering immunizations for amoebic dysentery. Twelve people die, and the bank is robbed of a mere $500. Artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later found guilty of the killings. Jan 26 1962 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-luciano.jpg Mafia boss Lucky Luciano dead of natural causes at the Naples airport, where he was to meet a film producer to discuss his life story. Luciano dropped dead as he was about to shake hands. Jan 26 1979 Dukes of Hazzard premiere, titled "One Armed Bandits". A shipment of slot machines is hijacked. High comedy. Jan 26 1979 70-year-old multi-billionaire Nelson Rockefeller is stricken by a massive heart attack while fucking his 27-year-old research assistant, Megan Marshak. The former Vice President dies during the ambulance ride. Rockefeller's will leaves Marshak $50,000 and the deed to a Manhattan townhouse. Jan 26 1984 Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by a magnesium flash bomb at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during the filming of a Pepsi television commercial, causing third-degree scalp burns. Jan 26 1996 Insane madman millionaire John E. du Pont shoots Olympic wrestler David Schultz three times, killing him. A two day police standoff follows at the Foxcatcher estate and wrestling compound, with SWAT teams biding their time under the assumption that du Pont, an expert marksman, possessed an arsenal at his disposal. Jan 26 1998 Residents of the Japanese town of Ito are attacked by a pack of raving wild monkeys. A total of 26 were injured and had to receive rabies shots. It remains unclear why the monkeys chose to attack. 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. 1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Sydney Harbour to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day 1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia. 1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state. 1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States 1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally ceded. 1905 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine. 1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use. 1934 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed. 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona. 1942 - World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland. 1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India. 1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations. 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 2000 - Rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds. 2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion. Births 1960 - Charlie Gillingham, American keyboard player (Counting Crows) 1986 - Matt Heafy, American singer & guitarist (Trivium) Deaths 1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897) Holidays and observances Australia - Australia Day. India - Republic Day - One of only three national holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi & across Nation. Uganda - Liberation Day.
397. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive27 Jan 2008, 17:01
     Jan 27 1343 A papal bull by Clement VI expresses the doctrine that indulgences gain their validity and power from the accumulation of merit in the manifestation of the Catholic Church. Jan 27 1945 Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Nazi occupied Poland. Jan 27 1967 A launchpad flash fire in the Apollo I capsule kills the astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward H White, and Roger B Chaffee, at Cape Canaveral. Jan 27 1992 Boxer Mike Tyson on trial for rape. Jan 27 1992 Candidate Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers mutually accuse each other of lying about whether or not they had a 12 year affair. Of course from Clinton's testimony in 1998 we know they did have such an affair, but that is the least of the President's problems. Can you say "sperm soaked dress"? Jan 27 1992 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-aileen.jpg Prostitute Aileen Wuornos found guilty after she killed seven "johns", often leaving cum-filled condoms near their bodies. She claimed self defense but is still sentenced to death. Oddly, prosecutors had arranged movie deals before an arrest had even been made. Jan 27 1997 Pat Boone goes heavy metal releasing In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, a collection of heavy metal covers. To promote the album, he appeared at the American Music Awards in black leather, shocking audiences and losing his respectability among his largest constituency, conservative Christians. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31. 1678 - The first fire engine company in the United States went into service. 1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. 1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti. 1926 - John Logie Baird makes the first television broadcast. 1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. 1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of Tobruk, two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna. 1943 - World War II: The Greek destroyer Adrias is believed to have sunk the German U/Boat U-553 near Cape Finisterre. 1943 - World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven. 1944 - World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted. 1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. 1945 - World War II: Lt.Col. Mucci comades Army Rangers to liberate the prisoners of the Cabanatuan POW camp. 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats. 1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning Nuclear weapons in space. 1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War, Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. 1977 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial British punk rock group the Sex Pistols. 1996 - Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 1997 - It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis. Births 1741 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821) 1850 - Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912) 1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (Kaiser Bill)(d. 1941) 1944 - Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd) 1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) 1957 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden) 1961 - Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order) 1968 - Mike Patton, American singer (Faith No More) 1968 - Tricky, English Trip Hop artist 1972 - Keith Wood, Irish rugby player (Hooker) Deaths 1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836) Holidays and observances UN — International Holocaust Remembrance Day United Kingdom — Holocaust Memorial Day. Germany — Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism). Poland — Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism). Italy — Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day). Denmark — Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
398. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive28 Jan 2008, 22:33
     Jan 28 814 Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne dies at the age of 71. Though he had conquered much of Europe, his legacy was considerably reduced after his death from mismanagement and incompetence. Jan 28 1958 Brooklyn Dodger catcher Ray Campanella paralyzed in a car wreck. Jan 28 1977 Star of TV's "Chico and the Man" Freddie Prinze blows his brains out at age 23. Jan 28 1978 "Vampire of Sacramento" Richard Chase is arrested. Miscellaneous human organs are found in his refrigerator. He managed to kill six people, drinkingthe blood of two of his victims. Jan 28 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 74 seconds into its flight, killing teacher Christa McAuliffe and the rest of the crew. Their capsule plunged intact into the ocean, pulverizing everyone on impact. 1547 - Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. 1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts. 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. 1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway. 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice. 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War. 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard. 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I. 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road. 1953 - Derek Bentley hanged for a murder carried out by Christopher Craig. 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister. 2004 - Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly. Births 1457 - King Henry VII of England (d. 1509) 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860) 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904) 1959 - Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm) 1963 - Dan Spitz, American guitarist for Anthrax 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter 1968 - DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill) Deaths 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491) 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier 1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782) 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Greg Jarvis (b. 1944) Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) Ronald McNair (b. 1950) Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946) Judith Resnik (b. 1949) Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939) Michael J. Smith (b. 1945) Holidays and observances World Leprosy Day
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     Jan 29 1919 Prohibition begins, and with it the rise of organized crime. Jan 29 1943 Nazi police discover necrophiliac Bruno Ludke committing a crime against nature on the fresh corpse of a young female victim. He confesses that he has murdered no fewer than 85 and committed indecencies with most of their corpses. Ludke is committed to a hospital in Vienna for experiments, where he is killed in April of 1944. Jan 29 1964 Premiere of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Jan 29 1975 The men's room in a U.S. State Department office in Washington, D.C. explodes causing extensive damage to four floors. A group calling themselves the "Weather Underground Organization" takes responsibility for the blast by giving advance warning of the bomb to major news organizations earlier in the day. Jan 29 1979 "I don't like Mondays" killing -- Brenda Spencer fires repeatedly at the school across from her residence in San Diego, killing 2 and wounding 8 children. The reason she gave inspired the Boomtown Rats song. 1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed. 1814 - France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne. 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute. 1845 - "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror. 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross. 1861 - Kansas admitted as the 34th U.S. state. 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. 1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins. 1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers. 1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched. 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy. 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland. 1944 - In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing. 2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. 2004 - Cannabis and cannabis resin downgraded from Class B to Class c in United Kingdom Births 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901) 1947 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985) 1952 - Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones) 1964 - Roddy Frame, singer, Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera Deaths 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) 2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940) Holidays and observances Gibraltar - Constitution Day
400. KyleABCSalvaged from archive30 Jan 2008, 10:44
     so thats 413 yrs since the first play of Romeo And Juliet such a long time
401. YourAfuckingMoronSalvaged from archive30 Jan 2008, 19:18
     1/30/08 'YourAfuckingMoron' SETS THE RECORD FOR MOST NEGATIVE REP ON FILECABI.NET
402. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive31 Jan 2008, 16:16
     Jan 30 1649 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/nov/rh-charles-i.jpg Oliver Cromwell beheads the British monarch King Charles I, at Whitehall. Jan 30 1835 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-twenty.jpg Andrew Jackson is the subject of the first recorded assassination attempt on a U.S. president. After a man fires shots at him, Jackson beat the shit out of his would-be assassin. Jan 30 1945 The largest maritime disaster in history leaves around 9,000 refugees dead after a Soviet submarine torpedoes the Nazi ship Wilhelm Gustloff . Jan 30 1948 Mohandas K. Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse. Jan 30 1962 Two of the Flying Wallendas die when their human pyramid of seven people collapses in Detroit. Jan 30 1968 North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive, in which they suffer a defeat and 46,000 dead, but shocks the complacent American television viewer who had been led to believe the war was won. Jan 30 1972 British Paratroopers kill 13 unarmed marchers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This incident becomes known as "Bloody Sunday" and marks the beginning of a new extended round of violence. Jan 30 1973 G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of Watergate charges. Jan 30 1976 George HW Bush becomes directory of the Central Intelligence Agency, a position which he holds until 1977. Perhaps he knows who killed Kennedy. 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years. 1790 - The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. 1820 - Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica. 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys mon) to the north West coast of Wales is opened. 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. 1913 - The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. 1943 - World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. TheUSS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: The Nazi Gestapo commences mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp are ordered to undress and are shot with a machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv. 1944 - World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. 1945 - The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people. 1945 - World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp. 1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler.) 1956 - American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. 1996 - Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. Births 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945) 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991) 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician 1974 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor Deaths 1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600) 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715) 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869) 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
403. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive31 Jan 2008, 16:41
     Jan 31 1945 Private Eddie Slovik executed by firing squad in France during World War II. He is the first U.S. soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. The order for execution, signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, is not applied to other deserters. It is not known why Private Slovik was singled out. Jan 31 1950 President Truman gives the go-ahead for the development of Edward Teller's hydrogen bomb. Jan 31 1961 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-ham-chimp.jpg The United States sends its first monkey into space, Ham the chimpanzee. His Mercury/Redstone 2 achieves an altitude of 158 miles, a 19-minute ride that subjects Ham to a force of 16 times gravity. The space ape splashes down safely, his capsule is plucked from the ocean by the USS Donner. Jan 31 1974 Ted Bundy commits what is sometimes regarded as his first murder, Lynda Ann Healy, a 21 year old senior at the University of Washington. Her skull is not found until a year later. By the time he was executed, Bundy had committed nearly 30 murders, mostly women with dark long hair. It is believed that he may have murdered as early as 1961, when he was 15, but proof is at best circumstantial. Jan 31 1989 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-latoya-snakes.jpg Copies of the March Playboy with LaToya Jackson posing with... snakes! hit the newsstands. She also has a snake tattoo. Face it, the lady really really likes snakes. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. 1849 - Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846). 1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. 1915 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia 1917 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare. 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. 1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. 1941 - Layforce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layforce) set sail. 1944 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. 1944 - World War II: Anzio campaign. (Darby's Rangers) 1st Ranger Battalion The entire 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Cisterna, Italy. 1990 - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR. 1995 - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. 2001 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. Births 1940 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby union coach (d. 1998) 1951 - Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801) 1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake) 1956 - John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.) 1961 - Lloyd Cole, British singer 1964 - Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer) Deaths 1606 - Gunpowder Plot conspirators: Guy Fawkes (b. 1570) Ambrose Rokewood (b. c. 1578) Thomas Wintour (b. 1571)
404. HeyBuddySalvaged from archive31 Jan 2008, 16:45
     A great day for Sex Pistols fans.
405. YourAfuckingMoronSalvaged from archive1 Feb 2008, 00:11
     1/31/08 THE DAY AFTER 'YourAfuckingMoron' SETS THE RECORD FOR THE MOST NEG REP EVER RECEIVED.
406. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive1 Feb 2008, 15:23
     HEHE i just made you get another red box :1orglaugh: :angry-smiley-056:
407. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive1 Feb 2008, 17:54
     Feb 1 1861 Texas secedes from the Union, becoming independent once again. Since the articles of statehood passed by the U.S. Congress give Texas this right, it is perhaps the only state whose secession was legal. Feb 1 1964 Governor Matthew Welsh of Indiana declares "Louie, Louie" as recorded by The Kingsmen (originally by Richard Berry & The Pharaohs) "pornographic". And while the FCC couldn't figure out the lyrics, the governor's move backfires by making the song one of the most covered titles in existence. Feb 1 1968 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-loan.jpg In Saigon, South Vietnam's national police chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executes an accused Viet Cong spy with a bullet to the head. Unfortunately for the general, he happens to shoot him right in front of NBC cameraman Vo Suu and Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams. Feb 1 1970 US Government report reveals that 31% of college students have tried pot, man. Feb 1 1974 A fire on the 12th floor of the 25 story Joelma Bank Building in Sao Paulo Brazil, killing 177 and seriously burning 293. A crowd of 10,000 spectators hampered firefighters near the building. The new building's cheap construction was primarily at fault. Feb 1 1976 Werner Karl Heisenberg died. Feb 1 1998 Michael King of Clayton, Georgia is charged with the baseball bat beating death of Kenneth Paul Smith. King urinated in Smith's front yard, and after the property owner complained, he was severely beaten with a bat kept in King's Ford Mustang. Feb 1 2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on re-entry, with its debris hitting homes and businesses in Nacogdoches Texas. Feb 1 2004 During the MTV-provided halftime show of the Superbowl, former boy band member Justin Timberlake conducts an obviously pre-scripted move to expose Janet Jackson's right tit, which oddly sports a ninjitsu-style throwing star as a pasty. The nation is shocked, simply shocked, that a pristine, noncommercial event such as the Superbowl could be ruined by a Jackson. Feb 1 2006 Singer Mary J. Blige reveals on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she was molestered by a family friend when she was a child. 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. 1790 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time. 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. 1796 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York. 1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. 1913 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station. 1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations. 1924 - United Kingdom recognizes USSR. 1929 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 lb. (182 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method. 1943 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers. 1965 - Churchill River, Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill. 1968 - Official unification of the three military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, into the Canadian Forces. 1969 - Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated. 1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl. 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile. 1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. 2004 - 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. 2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage. Births 1942 - Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer (Monty Pythons Flying Circus) 1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 1954 - Chuck Dukowski, American bassist (Black Flag) 1969 - Patrick Wilson, American drummer (Weezer) 1971 - Jill Kelly, American porn actress Deaths 2003 - The crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), astronauts: Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959) David Brown (b. 1956) Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961) Laurel Clark (b. 1961) Rick D. Husband (b. 1957) Willie McCool (b. 1961) Ilan Ramon (b. 1954) Holidays and observances The start of Black History Month in the United States. Imbolc - the first day of Spring in Ireland (Irish Calendar) and one of the four Gaelic seasonal (and sometimes religious) festivals. Also part of the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. The start of LGBT History Month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_History_Month) in the United Kingdom.
408. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive1 Feb 2008, 18:03
     Feb 1 1968 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-loan.jpg In Saigon, South Vietnam's national police chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executes an accused Viet Cong spy with a bullet to the head. Unfortunately for the general, he happens to shoot him right in front of NBC cameraman Vo Suu and Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams. DAMN! 40 years ago today, huh? I remember seeing that shit on the Evening News, my mom screamed when she saw it, I was like "What the Fuck?" and felt kind of queasy because it was the first time I ever saw someone killed for real...even if it was on TV! Yeah....that was pretty nasty, the guy was standing there and they were yelling at him, all of a sudden, the South Vietnamese Officer pulls a gun and shoots him. Then they showed him fall and a big puddle of blood formed on the ground. Up until then, you never saw stuff like that on TV. Later that year was the Tet Offensive...Bobby Kennedy and Martin King were also killed in front of Cameras.....oh yeah, Kent State too!
409. JACKASS2009Salvaged from archive1 Feb 2008, 18:16
     Bobby Kennedy and Martin King were also killed in front of Cameras.....oh yeah, Kent State too! budd dwyer too.
410. Big OzzieSalvaged from archive1 Feb 2008, 20:37
     budd dwyer too. Not in 1968...I made a mistake, Kent State University incident took place later in the War....May of 1970. Bunch of innocent Hippie type War Protesters doin their protesting thing and along came the Ohio National Guard and shot and killed 4 of 'em.
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     Feb 2 1793 Czech composer Franz Kotzwara, who penned "The Battle of Prague," dies from autoerotic asphyxiation in a London brothel. Feb 2 1852 The first public toilet is inaugurated, located at 95 Fleet Street in London, by the Society of Arts. Feb 2 1971 Idi Amin Dada assumes power in Uganda, taking the government from President Milton Obote. One of his favorite pastimes seems to have been eating the brains of live prisoners. Also while in office, he eats one of his own sons. Feb 2 1979 Sid Vicious, bassist for the Sex Pistols, dies in his sleep of a heroin overdose. He was waiting to stand trial for the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Feb 2 1982 President Hafiz al-Asad orders destruction of Syrian city of Hama after its occupation by Muslim Brotherhood forces seeking to topple the Syrian regime. Estimates of total deaths in this city of 180,000 ranged from 10,000 to 25,000 killed. Feb 2 1997 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-marv.jpg Marv Albert, nationally known sportscaster, allegedly bites a 42 year old woman after an evening of watching pornographic movies. By September he is on trial for sodomy. Feb 2 1998 Actor Daniel Baldwin is discovered by police in his Plaza Hotel room totally naked and disoriented, with a porno movie playing at high volume. He was checked into a New York hospital in critical condition, apparently coming down from a cocaine binge. It is not clear why any Baldwin would be unable to handle his cocaine. 1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. 1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. 1787 - Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the United States in Congress Assembled in the midst of Shays' Rebellion. 1812 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, along the California coast. 1848 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the war. 1848 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco. 1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey. 1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne. 1901 - The Funeral of Queen Victoria. 1922 - Ulysses by James Joyce published in Paris 1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament. 1943 - World War II: The last German forces surrender to the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad. 1945 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference. 1972 - The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday. 1974 - The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. 1989 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation. 1989 - Satellite television service Sky Television plc launched in Europe. 1990 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free. Births 1942 - Graham Nash, English rock musician (The Hollies, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) 1949 - Ross Valory, American musician (Journey) 1963 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996) 1966 - Robert DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots) Deaths 1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England 1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957) 1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934) 2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960) Holidays and observances Czech Republic - Hromnice. France - Crêpe Day Paganism - Imbolc (in northern hemisphere), Lughnasadh (in southern hemisphere). Scotland - A quarter day in the Christian calendar (due to Candlemas). United States and Canada - Groundhog Day.
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     Feb 3 1882 P.T. Barnum purchases the elephant Jumbo. He keeps him for three years until the animal's skull is crushed by a train. After his death, Jumbo gets extra exposure, as his stuffed skin and skeleton are shown separately. Feb 3 1913 In one of the blackest days in U.S. history, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. This amendment created the income tax. Feb 3 1959 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-buddy-holly-cra… The Day the Music Died: A small plane carrying The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens crashes near Mason City, Iowa, while en route to a show in Fargo, North Dakota. Feb 3 1998 The tail of a U.S. marine tactical surveillance jet on a training mission severs a tram cable at a ski resort near Trento in northern Italy, sending 20 skiers nearly 300 feet to their deaths. Feb 3 1998 Female axe murderer Karla Faye Tucker executed by lethal injection at Huntsville State Prison, Texas. Tucker had brutally murdered Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton with a pickaxe in 1983. The last woman executed in Texas was also an axe murderer, Chipita Rodriguez, who was hanged in 1863. 1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south. 1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America. 1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. 1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay, following a siege. 1809 - Illinois Territory is created. 1815 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded (Switzerland). 1916 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down. 1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 1941 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France. 1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands. 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan. 1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin. 1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress. 1989 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa. 2007 - The Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. Births 1830 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903) 1947 - Dave Davies, British musician (The Kinks) 1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth) 1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure) Deaths 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856) 1959 - Also known as The Day the Music Died because of the deaths of: Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936) Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941) J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930) Holidays and observances Mozambique - Heroes' Day. United States - Four Chaplains Day. United States - the earliest calendar day that Mardi Gras can occur.
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     Feb 4 1783 A large earthquake in Calabria Italy leaves 50,000 dead. Feb 4 1899 On patrol in the city of Manila, Private William Grayson shoots three Filipino soldiers when they fail to halt. The next morning, U.S. forces launch an artillery assault on the Filipino army, killing 3,000. Thus begins the three-year Philippine-American War, a brutal and disastrous campaign foreshadowing the Vietnam War. Feb 4 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped Feb 4 1983 Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa. She frequently took laxatives and induced vomiting to prevent weight gain. At the time of her death she was pencil thin. Feb 4 1987 Pianist Liberace dead from AIDS in Palm Springs, California. Feb 4 1998 Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is assaulted with a direct hit by a fluffy cream pie during a three-pronged attack in Brussels. He was in Belgium attending meetings with industry and government leaders. Rumor is that the attack was engineered by Noel Godin, infamous for his other pie throwings at government officials. 1783 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America. 1789 - George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. 1792 - George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. 1794 - The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. 1810 - British Navy seizes Guadeloupe. 1915 - Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target. 1932 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China. 1936 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. 1941 - World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops. 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends. 1945 - World War II: The Yalta Conference begin . 1948 - Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. 1957 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logs her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". 1969 - Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Births 1941 - John Steel, British musician (The Animals) 1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician 1960 - Tim Booth, British singer (James) 1964 - Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring) 1988 - Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player (flanker/lock) Deaths 1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950) 1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919) Holidays and observances Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948). Angola - Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism. World Cancer Day
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     Feb 5 1861 The "Peep Show" machine patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati. Feb 5 1914 Beat author William S. Burroughs born in St. Louis, MO. Feb 5 1958 The US Air Force manages to lose an H-bomb somewhere off the coast off Savannah, Georgia. Way to go! Feb 5 1979 Woodrow Bussey files suit against the Adolf Coors Brewing Company for failing to warn him that their product, Coors Beer, is an intoxicating beverage. Feb 5 1998 The cold war era Checkpoint Charlie sign -- "You Are Leaving The American Sector" -- is stolen in Berlin. 1631 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. 1778 - South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1782 - Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. 1885 - King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. 1900 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States. 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1945 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. 1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation. 1988 - Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. 1988 - Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity. 1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. 2004 - Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered. Births 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850) 1964 - Duff McKagan, American bassist (Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver) 1969 - Michael Sheen, Welsh actor Deaths 1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926) 1998 - Tim Kelly, American guitarist (Slaughter) (b. 1963)
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     Feb 6 1911 Ronald Reagan, who appeared in such films as Jap Zero, Girls on Probation, and Bedtime for Bonzo, born in Tampico IL. Feb 6 1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor born in Budapest. Feb 6 1943 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-errol.jpg Actor Errol Flynn acquitted of raping an adolescent. The woman had actually tried this shakedown with other celebrities and wasn't quite an adolescent despite her testifying with pigtails and a lollipop. Flynn had just finished a film called "Gentleman Jim" and at the end of the film when he says to Maureen O'Hara: "I never said I was a Gentleman." Peals of knowing laughter rang out from audiences. Feb 6 1951 Radio personality Paul Harvey is arrested for trying to break into Argonne Atomic Lab. Feb 6 1983 Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon" who had been living as a mild-mannered Bolivian businessman, charged with Nazi war crimes. He is later sentenced to life imprisonment and dies in 1991. Feb 6 2004 President and Alzheimer's sufferer Ronald Reagan dies from pneumonia in Los Angeles, CA. Praise for the man gushes in from all over the world, dominating the news cycle for a week. 1685 - James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II. 1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore. 1840 - Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand. 1922 - The Washington Naval Treaty was signed in Washington, DC, limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy. 1933 - The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect. 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. 1958 - Eight players of Manchester United were killed in the Munich air disaster. 1959 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. 2004 - In Russia, a suicide-attack in a Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on Chechen separatist groups. Births 1665 - Queen Anne of Great Britain (d. 1714) 1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004) 1912 - Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945) 1945 - Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981) 1962 - W. Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses) 1966 - Rick Astley, British singer :40: You've been rick rolled Deaths 1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630) 1899 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1874) 1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895) 1958 - Munich air disaster: David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935) Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932) Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932) Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929) Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936) Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933) Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913) Walter Crickmer, Manchester United club secretary 1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957) 1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946) Holidays and observances Bob Marley Day in Rastafarianism (Jamaica and Ethiopia) Waitangi Day (National Holiday) in New Zealand Sami National Day in Finland and Scandinavia
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     Feb 7 1812 New Madrid earthquake shakes Missouri with an estimated magnitude of 8.2, as strong as any in the West. The quake destroys 150,000 acres of forest, and would have caused massive damage had it occurred in modern times. Feb 7 1845 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-portland-vase.jpg A drunken visitor to the British Museum smashes the irreplaceable Portland Vase into over 200 pieces. The elaborate glass amphora was created when Augustus was Caesar and is about ten inches high. It takes months to repair. Feb 7 1968 "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." -- U.S. Army Major, regarding the village of Ben Tre, Vietnam, in an AP dispatch. Feb 7 1969 Beatle George Harrison has his tonsils removed. He had them destroyed to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands. Feb 7 1989 Washed up tennis player Bjorn Borg has his stomach pumped after he overdoses on sleeping pills in Madrid, Spain. Feb 7 1991 Mortar rounds are fired by the IRA at No. 10 Downing Street, the residence of British Prime Minister John Major. No injuries resulted but the door was severely dented. Feb 7 1995 Rapper Tupac Shakur sentenced to 4.5 years for grabbing somebody's ass (sexual abuse, "forcibly touching the buttocks"). 1301 - Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales. 1795 - The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed. 1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. [1] 1863 - HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189. 1882 - The last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi. 1904 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. 1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as "The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at Keystone Studios. 1944 - World War II: In Anzio, Italy German forces launch a counteroffensive. 1944 - World War II: American Aircraft carrier strike on Truk. 1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley. 1962 - The United States Government bans all Cuban imports and exports. 1974 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1986 - Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation. 1990 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power. 1991 - Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. 1992 - The Maastricht Treaty is signed, which will lead to the creation of the European Union. 1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. 1999 - Crown Prince Abdullah become the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. Births 1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870) 1945 - Gerald Davies, Legendary Welsh Rugby union player 1949 - Joe English, American drummer (Wings) 1956 - Mark St. John, American guitarist (Kiss) (d. 2007) 1962 - David Bryan, American musician (Bon Jovi) 1967 - Richie Burnett, Welsh darts player 1968 - Sully Erna, American singer (Godsmack) Deaths 1979 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (b. 1911) Holidays and observances Independence Day in Grenada (1974). Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan (2005). International Men's Day in Malta. Traditional Lunar New Year begins for several Asian cultures (2008), Year of the Rat
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     Feb 8 1910 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-baden-powell-th… Boy Scouts founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell. Feb 8 1924 Gee Jong is the first man to die in the gas chamber, at Nevada State Prison in Carson City. A pound of sodium cyanide crystals was lowered into a vessel of diluted sulfuric acid, producing hydrogen cyanide gas which asphyxiated Jong. "At first there is evidence of extreme horror, pain, and strangling. The eyes pop. The skin turns purple and the victim begins to drool." Feb 8 1960 Beer heir Adolph Coors III (who was ironically allergic to beer), killed after a failed kidnapping attempt in Colorado. By October, Joseph Corbett Jr. is arrested in Canada after an national manhunt. Feb 8 1990 After "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney expresses his view that "blacks have watered down genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children", he is suspended for a month by CBS. Rooney claims the remarks are fabricated. Feb 8 1994 During an argument Jack Nicholson destroys the windshield of a car with a golf club, screaming "You cut me off!" Charges were dismissed on May 2 after the matter was settled privately. Nicholson did this one month before he was to host the annual Los Angeles Police-Celebrity Golf Tournament. D'oh! 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed at suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England. 1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed. 1622 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament. 1692 - A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials. 1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II. 1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. 1865 - In the U.S., Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.) 1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa. 1943 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Army encircles the troops of Paulus. The Germans surrender. 1943 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal - United States forces defeat Japanese troops. 1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". 1962 - Charonne massacre. 9 trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police. 1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. Births 1961 - Vince Neil, American singer (Mötley Crüe) 1974 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk) 1977 - Dave Farrell, American bassist (Linkin Park) 1980 - Cameron Muncey, Australian guitarist (Jet) Deaths 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542) 1772 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719) 2005 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948) Holidays and observances Nirvana Day - an annual Buddhist festival.
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     Feb 9 1909 The first federal law prohibiting the importation of opium is enacted, aimed not particularly at the ravages the drug was having on American society (none: white people weren't using opium), but at the hated Chinese. Feb 9 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy announces he has a list of 205 State Department employees who are Communist Party members. He did not mention that J. Edgar Hoover likes to wear garters and pumps. Feb 9 1968 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-doctor-zaius-th… "Planet of the Apes" opens. Feb 9 1979 Serial killer Ted Bundy abducts, rapes, and murders twelve year old Kimberly Leach of Lake City, Florida. He takes her from her junior high school, where she had been elected runner-up Valentine Queen the day before. Kimberly's remains aren't found for eight weeks. It is for this murder that Ted Bundy is sent to the Electric Chair ten years later. Feb 9 1989 Officials for the World Wrestling Federation testify before the New Jersey Senate that their matches are actually rigged. Say it ain't so! Feb 9 1990 Singer Del Shannon commits suicide with a .22 rifle. He is most remembered for his 1961 hit, Runaway. 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake. 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. 1822 - Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic. 1825 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States. 1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war. 1942 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States. 1943 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1945 - The Battle of the Atlantic the HMS Venturer sinking U-Boat 864 off the coast of Norway. The first sinking of a submarine by another submarine while both are submerged. 1962 - Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations. 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers. 1965 - Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam. 1991 - Voters in Lithuania vote for independence. 1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf. 2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School. Births 1773 - William Henry Harrison, President of the United States (d. 1841) 1940 - Brian Bennett, British drummer (The Shadows) 1960 - Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1981 - The Reverend Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold) Deaths 1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets)(Brain tumor)(b. 1925) 1997 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet)(Liver failure) (b. 1945) 2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (Stroke) (b. 1930)
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     Feb 10 1863 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-tom-thumb-weddi… Midgets Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren married in a ceremony promoted and orchestrated by P.T. Barnum, reception tickets $75 (adjusted for inflation, $1250 in today's dollars). Commodore Nutt served as best man. Feb 10 1920 Major League Baseball bans the spitball. Pitchers who had been throwing spitballs could continue, and the practice ended completely in 1934 when the last one, Burleigh Grimes, retired. Feb 10 1981 Eight people were killed, 198 injured, when fire broke out at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino. (A busboy was later found guilty of setting the fire.) Feb 10 1993 In a TV interview, former negro Michael Jackson tells Oprah Winfrey that he suffers from a skin disorder causing it to whiten. 1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. 1542 - Queen Catherine Howard of England is confined in the Tower of London to be executed three days later for treason (adultery). 1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination. 1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. 1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war 1906 - HMS Dreadnought (1906) is launched 1931 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India. 1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam. 1962 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. 1964 - Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. 1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified. Births 1894 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986) 1962 - Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (d. 1986) Deaths 1722 - Bartholomew Roberts,(Black Bart) Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
420. UnregisteredSexOffenderSalvaged from archive10 Feb 2008, 20:07
     1962 - Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metalica) (d. 1986) A legend was born!!! http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c338/dino195/rock-1.gif
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     Feb 11 1929 The Lateran Treaty is signed -- Mussolini granted recognition to the Vatican in return for their support of his fascist dictatorship. Feb 11 1933 Nineteen year old Japanese schoolgirl Kiyoko Matsumoto committed suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing. Feb 11 1936 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-burtbutt-th.jpg Burt Reynolds' birthday. He's not the one who squealed like a pig in "Deliverance". But his hairpiece is much younger than he is. Feb 11 1986 Frank Herbert, author of Dune, dead from pancreatic cancer. Feb 11 1992 "I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass." -- Last words of Johnny Frank Garrett, executed by lethal injection. Feb 11 1993 Clinton nominates the beautiful Janet Reno to be US Attorney General. Feb 11 2004 Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling arrested by the FBI. He is later found guilty of no less than 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud, making false statements and insider trading. Feb 11 2006 During a quail hunting trip, Vice-President Dick Cheney takes aim at a small bird but instead manages to shoot his friend Harry Whittington in the face. As a result of being peppered with birdshot, Whittington has a minor heart attack but lives to apologize to his friend. 1531 - Henry VIII of England recognized as supreme head of the Church of England. 1826 - University College London is founded under the name University of London. 1895 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This record was equalled on 10 January 1982 and again on 30 December 1995. 1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot". 1939 - Lockheed P-38 flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes. 1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo". 1942 - The Battle of Bukit Timah was fought in Singapore during World war II. 1943 - General Dwight Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe. 1953 - The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel. 1964 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France. 1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes. 1971 - Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters. 1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place. 1978 - Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens. 1979 - Islamic revolution of Iran achieved victory by leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa. Births 1466 - Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII of England (d. 1503) 1972 - Craig Jones, American musician (Slipknot) 1977 - Mike Shinoda, American singer (Linkin Park) Deaths 1503 - Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII of England (b. 1466) Holidays and observances National Foundation Day in Japan Anniversary of Islamic revolution in Iran. National Youth Day in Cameroon. National Inventors' Day in the United States.
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     Feb 12 1554 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-lady-jane-grey.jpg The sixteen year old Lady Jane Grey, puppet Queen of England for nine days, beheaded in the Tower of London. Questions arose as to where to bury this semi-queen, until it was decided to place her among the beheaded former wives of Henry VIII. Feb 12 1789 Ethan Allen dies in a drunken sleigh accident while crossing the frozen Lake Champlain, reminiscing with friends and rye. Much of the circumstance remains a mystery. Feb 12 1967 Police in London arrest Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and Marianne Faithfull after they discover amphetamine pills, cannabis resin and Marianne scandalously naked but for a fur rug. The two Rolling Stones received jail sentences which were successfully appealed. Feb 12 1976 Actor Sal Mineo killed in the carport of his West Hollywood home. There were rumors of a gay crime of passion but in 1979 it turned out to be a routine mugger who stabbed him for his money. 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stuart in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings). 1554 - A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. 1689 - The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication. 1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th United States colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day). 1946 - Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats. 1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. Births 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865) 1939 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors) 1950 - Steve Hackett, English guitarist (Genesis) 1956 - Brian Robertson, Scottish musician (Thin Lizzy and Motörhead) 1970 - Jim Creeggan, Canadian bassist (Barenaked Ladies) 1976 - Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby union footballer 1978 - Gethin Jones, Welsh television presenter Deaths 1554 - Lord Guilford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (b. 1536) 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the English throne (b. 1537) 1935 - Auguste Escoffier, French chef (Father of classical French cuisine) (b. 1846) 1993 - James Bulger, English murder victim (killed by 2 10 year old boys)(b. 1990) Holidays and observances United States - Lincoln's Birthday Georgia Day in the U.S. state of Georgia National Freedom to Marry Day (unofficial) Darwin Day Red Hand Day
423. jammin91Salvaged from archive14 Feb 2008, 10:55
     February 14, 1929 St. Valentine's Day, five members of George 'Bugs' Moran's gang, a gang "follower", and a mechanic who happened to be at the scene were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage of the SMC Cartage Company in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were then shot and killed by four members of Capone's gang (two of them dressed as police officers). When one of the dying men, Frank Gusenberg, was asked who shot him, he replied, "I'm not gonna talk - nobody shot me." Capone himself had arranged to be on vacation in Florida at the time.
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     Feb 14 The eve of the Roman feast of Lupercalia. Naked youths would run through Rome, anointed with the blood of sacrificed dogs and goats, waving thongs cut from the goats. If a young woman was struck by the thong, fertility was assured. Pope Gelasius I decided this was a bit too much, and co-opted the Roman holiday to be the Feast of St. Valentine in 484 A.D. Feb 14 1779 English explorer Captain James Cook and some of his crew are slaughtered by angry Hawaiian islanders, after he tried to take a Hawaiian chief hostage over a dispute regarding a stolen boat. Feb 14 1929 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-valentines.jpg The Capone gang kills six members of the "Bugs" Moran gang and one other person at the S.M.C. Cartage company in Chicago, in an event known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Bogus police officers were used so that it appeared to be a routine police bust. Except for all the bodies. Feb 14 1979 Walter Carlos, the musician who created "Switched on Bach" and the score of "A Clockwork Orange", reveals to the world that he has had a sex change operation and is henceforth to be referred to as Wendy. Feb 14 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini issues a fatwar against Salman Rushdie, for his writings in the Satanic Verses. The act propels the otherwise uninteresting book into a bestseller. 1349 - Approximately 2,000 Jews were burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg. 1556 - Thomas Cranmer (former Archbishop of Canterbury) is declared a heretic. 1743 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister. 1778 - The United States Flag was formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones. 1779 - James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. 1797 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent - John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent & Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) led the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar. 1859 - Oregon admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. 1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State. 1912 - Arizona admitted as the 48th U.S. state. 1943 - World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia. 1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. 1945 - On the second day of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. 1945 - Bombing of Prague - probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden. 1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship. 1945 - Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans. 1946 - The Bank of England is nationalized. 1949 - The Knesset (Israeli parliament) first convenes. 1966 - Australian currency is decimalised. Births 1890 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956) 1962 - Philippe Sella, French rugby player 1972 - Rob Thomas, American musician (Matchbox Twenty) Deaths 270 - St. Valentine marking Valentines Day 1400 - King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367) 1779 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728) Holidays and observances Bulgaria - Trifon Zarezan (Wine-grower’s Day) Mexico - Day of National Mourning (1831). Arizona - Admission Day (1912). Oregon - Admission Day (1859). Western World - St. Valentine's Day. Norway - Ballantine's Day. Iraq - 'Communist Martyrs Day' celebrated by Iraqi Communist Party.
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     Feb 15 1898 The battleship U.S.S. Maine blows up in Havana Harbor, commencing a splendid little war against Spain that ends with the United States owning a colonial empire and Cuba under martial law. Feb 15 1933 An unsuccessful attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt's life by Joseph Zangara in Miami leaves Chicago mayor Anton Czermak dead. Zangara is electrocuted the following month. Feb 15 1936 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-nazi-vw.jpg At a speech in Berlin, Hitler confronts German industry with the challenge of creating the Volkswagen. Thus Ferdinand Porsche designs the Beetle which is now widely seen as the final solution to fahrvergnugen. But neither Hitler nor Porsche would have the foresight to realize how groovy the Beetle would be, man. Feb 15 1954 Ronald Reagan opens his stand-up act at the Las Vegas Ramona Room with the "Honey Brothers", a wacky slapstick troupe. His show was a smashing success. Feb 15 1961 The U.S. figure skating team is obliterated when their Sabena Airlines 707 crashes in Belgium. Feb 15 1992 Jeffrey Dahmer sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms for the murder of fifteen young and mostly ethnic boys. He completed his sentence when he was beaten to death in the shower by other inmates. Feb 15 1995 The most wanted computer hacker in history, Kevin Mitnick, is arrested in Raleigh North Carolina for various offenses, one of which was breaking into security specialist Tsutomu Shimomura's computer. 399 BC - The philosopher Socrates sentenced to death. 1852 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient. 1906 - The British Labour Party organized. 1942 - World War II: The Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins. 1944 - World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins. 1950 - The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty. 1952 - King George VI buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. 1965 - A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. 1971 - Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day. 1989 - Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops had left Afghanistan. 2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails. 2002 - At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry. 2003 - Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world. 2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States. Births 1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks) 1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp) 1947 - David Brown, American musician (Santana) (d. 2000) 1959 - Ali Campbell, British singer and songwriter (UB40) 1976 - Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus) 1976 - Ronnie Vannucci Jr., American musician (The Killers) Deaths 1844 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757) 1928 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852) 1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919) Holidays and observances Total Defence Day in Singapore Flag Day in Canada National Day in Serbia
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     Feb 17 1600 Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno burned at the stake at Campo di Fiore in Rome, likely because ecclesiastical authorities were alarmed at his rambling and somewhat insane ideas, coupled with rejection of accepted authority. Exactly what the charges against him were are lost to history, but likely involve theological heresies rather than astronomical. Feb 17 1974 Forty-nine people trampled to death at a soccer stampede in Cairo, after crowds tear down entry barriers to the Zamalek vs Dukla game. Feb 17 1989 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/feb/rh-bill-and-ted.jpg The cinematic masterpiece "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure" starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter opened in theaters. Pictured above, Bill and Ted's Excellent Breakfast Cereal. Feb 17 1993 An overcrowded ferry carrying up to 1,500 people sank off Haiti. Only 285 people were known to have survived. Feb 17 1994 The decomposing corpse of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of the Republic of Georgia, is exhumed from a temporary grave in Djikhaskari. His wife refuses an autopsy, but western journalists note a bullet wound in the side of Zviad's head. Officially listed as suicide, the wife also claims he was murdered. Another government minister oddly states the death was by cancer with the head shot administered post-mortem. 1621 - Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony. 1854 - The British recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State. 1864 - American Civil War: H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic. 1867 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal. 1933 - The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States. 1936 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22. 1944 - World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion. 1992 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison. 2000 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000 2003 - The London Congestion Charge scheme begins. Births 1940 - Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006) 1944 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer 1972 - Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (Green Day) 1972 - Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters) 1981 - Paris Hilton, American actress :1orglaugh: and heiress Deaths 1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829) 1912 - Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)
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     Feb 18 1933 Yoko Ono born. Feb 18 1965 Dre Day: Rapper and hip hop producer Dr. Dre (AKA André Romel Young) born in Los Angeles, California. Feb 18 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. Feb 18 1991 Killer/Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer strangles a 19-year-old man, marking his tenth (of 17) victims. Jeffrey dismembers the body and keeps the skull in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. Feb 18 2001 During the Daytona 500, NASCAR phenom Dale Earnhardt crashes into the wall and dies instantly. His widow later files a lawsuit to keep his autopsy photos sealed, and Florida subsequently passes a law to prevent them from ever being released. 3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna is believed by Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet on this day. 1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London. 1797 - Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby. 1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time. 1901 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons. 1911 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away. 1929 - First Academy Awards are announced. 1932 - The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China. 1943 - The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement. 1943 - Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech. 1954 - The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California. 1957 - Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government. 1965 - The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1979 - Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history. 1991 - The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London. 1998 - Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways. 2005 - The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date. Births 1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558) 1933 - Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon 1948 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005) 1953 - Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1958 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (d. 1999) 1964 - Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers) 1968 - Tommy Scott, British musician (Space) 1969 - Jason Sutter, American drummer (Smash Mouth, American Hi-Fi) Deaths 1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1449) 1546 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
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     Feb 19 1942 Roosevelt signs E.O. 9066, the internment order permitting Japanese Americans to be held in concentration camps for the duration of the war. Feb 19 1969 Marianne Faithfull was found in a coma after a suicide attempt in Australia. Feb 19 1983 Benjamin Ng and Willie Mak kill 13 in a Seattle robbery attempt. Feb 19 1995 Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee married. Video hijinks ensue. Feb 19 1998 Lt. Col. Larry Wayne Harris (Aryan Nations) and William Leavitt are arrested in Henderson, NV for possession of the biological toxin anthrax, military grade, enough to kill an entire city. Their Mercedes is hermetically sealed by authorities and brought to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for hazmat. 1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York. 1819 - British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III. 1846 - In Austin, Texas the newly-formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following Texas' annexation by the United States. 1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison. 1881 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli began. 1915 - World War I: Plans for mutiny in the British Indian army, the Ghadar Conspiracy, is uncovered in India. 1941 - World War II: The Afrika Korps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in North Africa, was formed. 1942 - World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people. 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps. 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins. 1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima. 1959 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence, which is then on formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960. 1968 - Egyptian commando forces attempt to intervene in a hijacking situation at Larnaca International Airport, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat. 1985 - Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital. 1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station. 2004 - Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity." 2006 - The Rolling Stones made the largest show open to the public of the world in Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1.3 million people went to the show. 2007 - Fidel Castro steps down as president of Cuba. Births 1940 - Smokey Robinson, American singer 1948 - Mark Andes, American musician (Heart) 1948 - Tony Iommi, British guitarist (Black Sabbath) 1950 - Andy Powell, British guitarist (Wishbone Ash) 1957 - Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998) 1963 - Seal, English singer Deaths 197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain (Suicide after defeat) 1980 - Bon Scott, Scottish/Australian singer (acute alcohol poisoning) (AC/DC) (b. 1946)
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     Feb 20 1947 A chemical mistake at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Co. in Los Angeles causes a huge explosion, killing 17 and leaving a 22 foot crater. Four city blocks suffer severe devastation, with over 100 buildings damaged. Feb 20 1971 An erroneous warning is emitted on the Emergency Broadcast System causing a number of stations to go off the air, and others to completely ignore the alert (thus pointing out that many key stations would not react to any emergency broadcast over the system.) Feb 20 1984 Ballerina Julia Pak marries the ghost of Sun Myung Moon's dead son, Heung Jin Moon, in a tasteful necro-ceremony. The couple were engaged to be married, but a car accident in December intervened. Unfortunately in the Moonie religion, only married couples may enter Heaven, hence the need for this awkward rite. Feb 20 1987 A paper bag at a Salt Lake City computer store explodes, injuring store owner Gary Wright. It is the second time the Unabomber has used the old "paper bag in the parking lot" trick. Feb 20 1997 Victor Willis, the "cop" in the Village People is charged in Nevada on drug possession (45 grams of cocaine), possession of drug paraphernalia, and strong armed robbery. The events occurred February 15. Willis, 45, listed his occupation as "unemployed" and generously gave approval for his hotel room to be searched. Feb 20 2003 A fire at a West Warwick, R.I. performance of eighties hairspray legends Great White caused by the band's indoor pyrotechnics leaves 100 dead. The pyrotechnics were illegal in that nightclub venue, and use of them by the band had been forbidden by other local venues. Guitarist Ty Longley is among the dead, his last journal entry containing the words: "I say we send a bunch of bands, food, artists, strippers, bartenders, proctologists, psychologists and lots of love over to Iraq and North Korea for a big party!" Feb 20 2005 Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson blows his brains out with a shotgun in his Woody Creek, Colorado home. Family members are in the house when the gun goes off but mistake the sound for a falling book. Rolling Stone releases his final written words: "No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun—for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax—This won't hurt." 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment. 1547 - Edward VI of England crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. 1942 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace. 1943 - American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. 1944 - World War II: "Big Week" ended with American bomber raids on Nazi aircraft manufacturing centers. 1944 - World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island. 1947 - State of Prussia ceases to exist Births 1950 - Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan) 1951 - Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1951 - Randy California, American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997) 1953 - Poison Ivy, American guitarist (The Cramps) 1954 - Jon Brant, American bassist (Cheap Trick) 1963 - Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses) 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994) 1980 - Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer Deaths 2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
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     21st February 1743 - The premiere of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, "Samson" takes place in London. 1804 - The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales. 1842 - John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. 1848 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto. 1885 - The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. 1912 - Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. 1916 - World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. 1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. 1937 - The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. 1945 - World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga. 1952 - The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". 1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule. 1958 - The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. 1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba. 1965 - Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. 1971 - The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. 1973 - Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108. 1974 - The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. Births 1860 - Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor 1943 - David Geffen, American record producer 1945 - Paul Newton, British bassist (Uriah heep) 1951 - Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 2006) 1949 - Jerry Harrison, American keyboardist/guitarist (Talking Heads) 1952 - Jean Jacques Burnel, British bassist (The Stanglers) 1954 - Mike Pickering, English dance music DJ and musician 1958 - Jake Burns, Irish singer (Stiff little fingers) 1969 - James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer/guitarist (Manic Street Preachers) 1984 - Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player 1986 - Charlotte Church, Welsh singer Deaths 1437 - King James I of Scotland (assassinated)(b. 1394) 1965 - Malcolm X, American black activist (assassinated)(b. 1925) 2004 - John Charles CBE, Welsh footballer (Heart) (b. 1931) 22nd February 1819 - By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans. 1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores. 1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. 1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908. 1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare. 1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapses. 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany. 1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. 1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. 1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom. 1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. 1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned. 2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. Births 1732 - George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799) 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941) 1969 - Byron Stroud, American bassist (Fear Factory) 1976 - Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player 1982 - Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress Deaths 1371 - King David II of Scotland (b. 1324) 1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (Heart attack) (b. 1928) Holidays and observances United States — Washington's Birthday. Saint Lucia — independence (1979).
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     23rd February 1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type 1836 - The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. 1847 - Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista - In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. 1854 - The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared. 1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland. 1903 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". 1904 - The United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million. 1909 - The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire. 1917 - First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution. 1918 - First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory. 1919 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy. 1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg. 1945 - World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize. 1945 - World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by American forces. 1945 - World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań, the city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces. 1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers. 1945 - World War II: The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is bombed by Allied forces. It would later be re-opened in 1975. 1991 - Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war. 1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders. 2008 - a B-2 Spirit of the USAF crashes at Guam. The crew survived but the aircraft was written off, making it the most expensive air crash in human history (the aircraft alone cost $1.2Bn). Births 1723 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791) 1952 - Brad Whitford, American guitarist (Aerosmith) 1962 - Michael Wilton, American guitarist (Queensrÿche) 1964 - John Norum, Norwegian guitarist (Europe) 1973 - Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans) 1983 - Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player Deaths 1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767) 2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955) Holidays and observances Russia - Defender of the Fatherland Day (formerly Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy). Brunei - National Day. Ukraine - The Defender Day 24th February 1804 - London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. 1826 - The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War. 1863 - Arizona is organized as a United States territory. 1868 - The first parade to have floats is staged at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1917 - World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if that country declares war on the United States. 1918 - Estonian Declaration of Independence. 1920 - The Nazi Party is founded. 1981 - Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. 2008 - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. Births 1942 - Paul Jones, English singer (Manfred Mann) 1962 - Teri Weigel, American pornographic actress 1976 - Matt Skiba, American guitarist (Alkaline Trio,Heavens) 1976 - Eric Griffin, American rock bassist (Murderdolls) Deaths 616 - King Ethelbert of Kent
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     25th February 1570 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. 1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States. 1797 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain 1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver. 1932 - Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. 1933 - The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier. 1941 - February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam) 1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. 1991 - Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. 2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion. Births 1943 - George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001) 1947 - Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground) 1959 - Mike Peters, Welsh musician (The Alarm) 1976 - Chris Pitman, American keyboardist (Guns N' Roses) 1982 - Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used) 1985 - Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby player Deaths 1246 - Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd Holidays and observances Kuwait's national day. People Power Day, special holiday in the Philippines. 26th February 1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes. 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba. 1935 - The Luftwaffe is re-formed. 1935 - The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom. 1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb. 1991 - Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. 1993 - World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. 1995 - The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts. 2001 - The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan. Births 1928 - Fats Domino, American musician 1932 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003) 1950 - Jonathan Cain, American musician (Journey, Bad English, The Babys) 1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician (Killing joke) 1977 - Shane Williams, Welsh International Rugby Player & joint Welsh record try scorer (40 tries so far) 1987 - Julia Bond, American porn star Deaths 1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746) Holidays and observances Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991).
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     27th February 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland. 1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered. 1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire. 1844 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. 1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency. 1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg. 1900 - The British Labour Party is founded. 1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire. 1942 - World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied (ABDA) strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies 1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated". 2003 - Archbishop of Wales Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church. Births 1951 - Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel) 1954 - Neal Schon, American musician (Journey) 1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden) 1958 - Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer 1958 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (d. 1978) 1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1973 - Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer (First player to score a try at the newly built Millenium Stadium, v South Africa in 1999) Deaths 2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918) 28th February 1900 - The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted. 1922 - The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt. 1933 - Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. 1935 - Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers. 1985 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. 1991 - The first Gulf War ends. 1993 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. Births 1155 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183) 1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969) Deaths 1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947) 2008 - Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943) 29th February 1504 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies. 1704 - Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children. 1944 - World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur. 1952 - The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. 1988 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town Births 1972 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (d. 2002)
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     1st March, St Davids day (Dydd Dewi Sant) 1565 - The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded. 1628 - Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. 1692 - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. 1790 - The first United States census is authorized. 1803 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state. 1815 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba. 1845 - President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital. 1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park. 1896 - Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War. 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. 1912 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. 1936 - The Hoover Dam is completed. 1941 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers. 1943 - World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins. 1946 - The Bank of England is nationalised. 1950 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. 1953 - Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later. 1954 - Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. 1975 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia. 1992 - Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia. 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. 2004 - Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Births 1904 - Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944) 1905 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000) 1944 - Mike d'Abo, English singer (Manfred Mann) 1944 - Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who) 1963 - Rob Affuso, American drummer (Skid Row) 1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals) 1973 - Ryan Peake, Canadian guitarist (Nickelback) Deaths 58b9 - Saint David (Dewi Sant), Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500) 1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200) Holidays and observances Bosnia and Herzegovina - Independence Day Iceland - Beer day - This day in 1989 beer was allowed again Korea - Independence Movement Day Tasmania - Eight Hours Day Wales - Saint David's Day Western Australia - Labour day Self Injury Awareness Day
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     2nd March 1815 - Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King. 1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. 1888 - The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. 1896 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power. 1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact. 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships. 1969 - In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted. 1970 - Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown. 1989 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century. 1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War. 1990 - Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress. 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities). 2004 - War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500. Births 1316 - Robert II of Scotland, (d. 1390) 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1942 - Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist (Velvet Underground) 1943 - Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (d. 2005) 1949 - J. P. R. Williams, Welsh Rugby Union legend 1956 - Mark Evans, Australian bassist (AC/DC) 1958 - Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer 1964 - Megan Leigh, American porn star (d. 1990) 1977 - Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay) 1985 - Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks) Deaths 1999 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939) 2008 - Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966) Holidays and observances Texas Independence Day (1836). 3rd March 1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. 1857 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is privately inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (his public inauguration coming on March 5). 1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder. 1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. 1931 - The United States officially adopts "The Star-Spangled Banner" as its national anthem. 1933 - Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated. 1938 - Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. 1942 - World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia killing more than 100 people. 1943 - World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. 1944 - The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov were instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards. 1945 - World War II: Previously neutral Finland declares war on the Axis powers. 1985 - Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures. 1985 - Censorship: Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to Huggies Diapers, claiming that the television ads had "crossed the line between eye-catching and porn." 1991 - An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers. Births 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (Telephone) (d. 1922) 1863 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947) 1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters) Holidays and observances Hinamatsuri (Girl's Day) - Japanese celebration day for girls. Bulgaria - Liberation Day. Australia - Labour Day.
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     4th March 1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III. 1275 - Chinese astronomers observe a total eclipse of the sun. 1461 - Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV. 1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England. 1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal aboard his ship Niña from his discovery voyage to America. He returned to Spain on March 15. 1629 - Massachusetts Bay Colony, which had the role of colonizing the Americas, is granted a Royal charter. 1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts. 1665 - English King Charles II declares war on The Netherlands which marked the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. 1681 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. 1776 - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts. 1778 - The Continental Congress voted to ratify both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance with France. The two treaties were the first entered into by the United States government. 1789 - In New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect. 1791 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state. 1791 - A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario) 1794 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. 1797 - In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington. 1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising. 1882 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London. 1890 - The longest bridge in the United Kingdom, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII. 1941 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II. 1941 - Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact. 1944 - First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy. 1945 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver. 1945 - Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany. 1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant. 1976 - The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament. 2001 - 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA. 2002 - Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. 2005 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers. Births 1948 - Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes) 1948 - Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer 1951 - Chris Rea, English singer 1955 - Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42) 1963 - Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica) 1967 - Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads) 1971 - Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries) 1972 - Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South) 1973 - Summer Cummings, American porn actress 1978 - Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer 1979 - John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis) 1981 - Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London) Deaths 2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955) (Visage, Public Image Ltd and Siouxsie & the Banshees)
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     5th March 1496 - England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands. 1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later. 1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. 1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. 1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Mon) and the mainland of Wales is opened. 1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. 1915 - World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend. 1933 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. 1936 - First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft. 1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre. 1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom. 1945 - World War II: The "Battle of the Ruhr" begins. 1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri. 1965 - March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. 1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. 1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. 1976 - The British pound falls below $2 USD for the first time. 1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners. 1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony. Births 1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189) 1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371) 1723 - Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773) 1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer 1952 - Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits) 1957 - Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall) 1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers) 1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) 1982 - Daniel Carter, New Zealand Rugby player Deaths 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879) Holidays and observances St Piran's Day - Cornwall's national day. 6th March 1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement. 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured. 1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union. 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana. 1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula. 1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah". 1984 - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins. 1987 - The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193. 1988 - Three unarmed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army are killed by the SAS on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius. 1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. Births 1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd) 1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician (Marilyn Manso) Deaths 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694) 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786) 1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796) 1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (coronary thrombosis)(b. 1893) 2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (Radio 1 Friday Rock Show 1978-1993)(b. 1943) Holidays and observances Ghana - Independence Day (from Britain, 1957) Alamo Day in Texas
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     7th March 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465). 1911 - Revolution in Mexico. 1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911. 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. 1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement, which events shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II. 1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel. 1989 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet. 2006 - Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod. 2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. Births 1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor,(Rob Roy) Scottish folk hero (d. 1734) 1943 - Chris White, British musician (The Zombies) 1946 - Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum) 1976 - Chelsea Charms, American adult actress 1977 - Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union footballer 1984 - Dani Woodward, American Pornographic Star 8th march Mar 8 1968 A Soviet submarine sinks in the Pacific Ocean, killing all 97 crew members aboard. Later in the year a U.S. submarine secretly retrieves an encryption machine, codebooks, and nuclear warheads from the Soviet vessel. A further bold attempt is made in 1974 to bring up the entire submarine using the CIA ship Glomar Explorer, built by Howard Hughes. That mission supposedly fails, and is made public by the Los Angeles Times to the great embarrassment of the Agency. Mar 8 1973 Paul McCartney is fined 100 UKP for growing marijuana at his farm on the Mull of Kintyre. Mar 8 1997 Chad Lamansky and Daniel Myers, a pair of teenagers in Davis County, Iowa, slip into an animal shelter at night and beat 16 cats to death with a baseball bat. A jury later determined that the cats had a value less than $30 each, ruling out the possibility of a felony conviction. Mar 8 1998 In Ladson, South Carolina, Daniel Rudolph -- brother of Olympic Games bombing and abortion clinic bombing suspect Eric Rudolph (a fugitive) -- videotapes himself severing his own hand with a power saw in order to "send a message to the FBI and the media". Mmmm, inbreeding? Mar 8 2000 Porn superstar Lolo Ferrari dies at age 30 in the French Riviera. Lolo is a French pioneer of plastic macromammary surgery, having achieved a bustline of 71 inches, a well known porn star and cocksucker. She is a resident of Cannes, her recent venture into music (with single "Air Bag Generator") created somewhat of a nonsensation. 1702 - Anne Stuart, the sister of the childless Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the death of William III of Orange. 1765 - The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies. 1775 - Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America" was published. It was the first article in the United States calling for the emancipation of all slaves and the abolition of slavery. 1782 - Gnadenhütten massacre: Some 90 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity had their skulls crushed with mallets by Pennsylvanian militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians. 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded. 1917 - Riots and strikes break out in St. Petersburg, Russia, marking the start of the Russian Revolution. 1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java. 1942 - World War II: Japan captures Rangoon, Burma. 1942 - World War II: British bombers begin a new style of air raid, using incendiary bombs to light the way for a nighttime attack on the Krupp armament works in Essen. The long series of attacks reduce the city to ruins. 1943 - World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days. 1945 - Allied forces move large numbers of troops across the Rhine River to significantly reinforce and expand their tenuous hold on the captured Ludendorff Bridge (Bridge at Remagen), allowing them to push armor across the river and better secure the nascent lodgement. 1950 - Marshal Voroshilov announces that the Soviet Union possesses an atomic bomb. 1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. 1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin. 1971 - Joe Frazier becomes the undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion by winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. 1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire." 1983 - The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee endorses a nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet Union, a move denounced by President Ronald Reagan. Births 1939 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor 1945 - Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees) 1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles) 1957 - Clive Burr, British musician, former drummer for Iron Maiden 1958 - Gary Numan, British singer 1971 - Kit Symons, Welsh footballer 1976 - Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass) 1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane) Deaths 1702 - William III of England (b. 1650) 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800) 1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857) 1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Greatful dead) (b. 1945) (gastrointestinal hemorrhage)
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     Mar 9 1170 In Essex, a UFO is spotted over St. Ostwyth, manifesting itself as a "wonderfully large dragon ... borne up from the Earth through the air". The craft kindled the air and destroyed a house. Mar 9 1556 David Rizzio, the secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, stabbed 56 times by a gaggle of Scottish nobles. Her husband Henry Lord Darnley had orchestrated the murder with Mary witnessing, hoping to precipitate a miscarriage. Mar 9 1967 Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, walks into the U.S. Embassy at New Delhi and asks to defect. Mar 9 1995 Jon Schmitz (straight) kills Scott Amedure (gay) three days after an appearance on the trashy Jenny Jones TV talk show, where Amedure admitted having a crush on Schmitz. Allegedly the two men had an affair that evening after the show, but the backlash from their rural community was going to be so severe that Schmitz panicked to defend his manlihood, filling his admirer with buckshot. Amedure's famly later sued the Jenny Jones show for $50M. Mar 9 1997 Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) killed in a drive-by outside the Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles. The murder has never been officially solved, though an ongoing feud with Death Row Records may have had something to do with it. 1566 - David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1796 - Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. 1834 - French Foreign Legion is founded. 1925 - Pink's War, the first RAF operation conducted independently of the Army or Navy, begins. 1935 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force. 1945 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs. The resulting fire storm kills over 100,000 people. The attack begins March 9 and continues into March 10. 1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside. 1993 - Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's civil rights when they beat him during an arrest. Births 1942 - John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground) 1945 - Robin Trower, British rock musician (Procol Harum) 1946 - Jim Cregan, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel) 1970 - Martin Johnson, English rugby player Deaths 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (Shot)(b. 1972) 2007 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston)(carbon monoxide poisoning[suicide])(b. 1951)
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     Mar 10 1948 Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk thrown from a window at his apartment in Prague under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled "suicide" and later by the communists, to have "fallen accidentally while sitting in a yoga position on a window sill to combat insomnia". But most likely he was suffocated first, judging from the fact that he had lost control of his bowels. Mar 10 1974 Second Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Imperial Japanese Army surrenders to Philippine authorities. He believed World War II was still underway and continued a 30 year guerrilla battle with other islanders. His final capitulation came when his senior officer, Maj. Taniguchi, ordered his surrender. Upon return to the Japanese homeland, Onoda was treated as a hero, but had difficulty coping with his "postwar" life. Mar 10 1977 Roman Polanski gives a thirteen-year old girl Quaaludes and has sex with her during a photo shoot at Jack Nicholson's home. He later flees the country to avoid statutory rape charges. Mar 10 1987 Jeffrey Dahmer is convicted of lewd and lascivious behavior for urinating in front of several children. He was sentenced to one year's probation for the incident. Jeffrey would go on to kill eighteen young men in Milwaukee. Mar 10 1988 Highly insipid rock vocalist Andy Gibb dies of heart trouble at age 30. He put a lot of drugs into his body, primarily cocaine. Mar 10 1994 Tupac Shakur gets a 15-day jail sentence for assaulting director Allen Hughes. Mar 10 1997 The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, is stabbed in both eyes during an altercation with another inmate at Broadmoor Hospital. Peter is serving a sentence for killing 13 women. 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament. 1801 - First census in Great Britain 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." 1902 - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. 1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera. 1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, although he is released after two years of the sentence, being released in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis. 1923 - Lenin suffers a stroke (not the stroke that killed him) 1945 - The United States Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. 1959 - Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands massacred by the occupying Chinese army. 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea. Births 1963 - Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam) 1964 - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex Deaths 1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
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     Mar 11 1669 After a series of premonitional earthquakes near Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe spectacularly erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi and killing 20,000 people. Mar 11 1938 Germany enters Austria in the "Anschluss", to annex it as part of Grossdeutchland. Mar 11 1958 A B-47 bomber drops a nuclear bomb in the town of Mars Bluff in South Carolina. While it did not detonate a nuclear explosion, conventional explosives within the bomb left a 75 foot crater, destroying one house and damaging five others. Mar 11 1970 Actress Suzanne Somers arrested (and strip searched!) for writing bad checks. She was not prosecuted. Mar 11 1990 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-quayle-96.jpg Vice President Dan Quayle sends a Secret Service agent proxy into a Chilean tourist shop to purchase a wooden male, anatomically correct "peekaboo" statuette. Mar 11 1998 The town of Cicero, IL agrees to donate $10,000 towards the printing of KKK literature to be mailed to its residents, in return for the Klan not holding a scheduled rally. 1702 - The first regular English language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London, England. 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. 1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. 1845 - British baker Henry Jones invents self-raising flour. 1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield. 1900 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury. 1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude. 1936 - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany. 1941 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. 1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor. 1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2. 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union's leader. 1988 - Iran-Iraq War: Iran and Iraq agree to stop attacking civilian centers. 1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. 2004 - Madrid Train Bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid (Spain) kill 192 people. Births 1916 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995) 1959 - Nina Hartley, American porn star 1964 - Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera) 1981 - Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party) Deaths 1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b.1881)( penicillin) Holidays and observances United States - Johnny Appleseed Day. Lithuania - Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence. Lesotho - Moshoeshoe Day. Zambia - Youth Day.
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     Mar 12 1888 The massive and unexpected Blizzard of 1888 strikes the East coast of the United States, paralyzing New York and many other cities and leaving at least 400 dead. Snowdrifts fifty feet high were reported, and New York received over 40 inches of snow. Mar 12 1928 The two-year-old St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles fails catastrophically just before midnight, unleashing 52 million tons of water on the city of Santa Paula. 437 people are killed by the torrent, including 19 families with no survivors whatsoever. Mar 12 1945 Anne Frank dies at Auschwitz. Mar 12 1964 Malcolm X withdraws from the Nation of Islam after he finds out that Elijah Mohammad has been porking his secretaries. Mar 12 1980 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-gacy-th.jpg A Chicago jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. The next day, he is sentenced to death; after years on death row, Gacy is finally executed in May 10, 1994. Mar 12 1993 A series of bomb explosions rock western India. The first kills 50 at the Bombay Stock Exchange, and many other explosions target theaters, offices, and shopping areas. It is suspected that the acts were intended to destabilize India's government. Mar 12 2000 Pope John Paul II asks God's forgiveness for the many wrongs committed by the Roman Catholic Church. The pardon he requested divided into seven categories of Church sin, including sins against the Jews, against native peoples of the world, the crimes of the Inquisition, and general crimes against humanity. This pardon was requested only for past sins, and apparently does not apply to the Church's many ongoing sins. Mar 12 2007 Two weeks after the incident, it is revealed that Israel's Ambassador to El Salvador Tzuriel Rafael had been recalled after police discovered him in his backyard, drunk and naked save for bondage gear and a ball gag. 1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. 1868 - Henry James O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. 1881 - Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain. 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. 1913 - Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia was officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital was still under construction.) 1918 - Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years. 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt. 1938 - Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day. 1940 - Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated. 1968 - Mauritius achieves independence from Great Britain. 1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 1993 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites. 1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests. 1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. Births 1953 - Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor 1956 - Steve Harris, English bassist (Iron Maiden) 1969 - Graham Coxon, English musician (Blur) Deaths 1998 - Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945) Holidays and observances Mauritius - National Day.
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     Mar 13 1881 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-alexander-ii.jpg An anarchist from the radical group People's Will throws a bomb which disrupts Czar Alexander II's motorcade. After he thanks God for his deliverance, the anarchist yells "It is too early to thank God" and throws a second bomb, causing injuries from which Alexander bleeds to death. Mar 13 1923 Twenty-two persons killed in a poison rice episode, China. Five cooks are blamed. Mar 13 1964 At 3:15am, bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese is raped and stabbed to death outside her apartment building in Queens, NY. None of her 38 neighbors who witness the 32-minute ordeal even bothers to call the cops. Later in court, several testify hearing her scream: "Oh my God! He stabbed me! Please help me! I'm dying!" Mar 13 1996 Salim and Ruksana Patel find the arabic word for Allah spelled in the seeds of an aubergine (a Persian eggplant variant) which they intended for a casserole at their home in Bolton, England. Their local mullah declares it a miracle. Mar 13 1997 Hassan Abdullah's wife accidentally severs her husband's penis while she was "dreaming about strangling him". Luckily for Abdullah doctors in Malaysia were able to successfully reattach his endangered manhood, but not so lucky is the fact that he sleeps with a woman who keeps a knife in bed and dreams about strangling her husband. Mar 13 2001 One-eyed, mom-hating serial killer/drifter Henry Lee Lucas dies. Lucas was a serial murderer known for making bogus confessions which prompted police across the country to try and clear hundreds of unsolved cases by dumping them on Henry. He later recanted, saying that his goal was to make the police look stupid. Physical evidence only linked Henry to two of the murders. 1639 - Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard. 1900 - Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. 1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. 1940 - Russo-Finnish Winter War ended. 1943 - World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700. 1943 - The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. 1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering. 1991 - The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. 1996 - The Dunblane Massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by Thomas Watt Hamilton who then commits suicide. Births 1764 - Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845) 1942 - Scatman John, (real name John Larkin) American singer (d. 1999) 1960 - Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2) 1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed) 1979 - Spanky G, American drummer (Bloodhound Gang) Deaths 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833) 1988 - John Holmes, American porn star (AIDs)(b. 1944)
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     Mar 14 1883 Karl Marx dies of bronchitis in London. Mar 14 1932 George Eastman, the founder of Kodak Corporation, kills himself after a long illness. His suicide note states "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" Mar 14 1945 "I am going to jump into my grave laughing because the knowledge that I have the deaths of millions of people on my conscience is a source of extraordinary satisfaction to me." Adolf Eichmann. Mar 14 1967 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-thalidomide.jpg Nine German executives of the manufacturer of thalidomide, Grunethal, are charged with breaking their country's drug laws. Thalidomide, a sedative, caused over 12,000 babies in late 1950's Europe to be born with flippers instead of limbs. Mar 14 1968 Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, near Skull Valley Utah. The gas killed 1600 sheep on the Goshute indian reservation and made hundreds more sick. Dugway is a test center for chemical and biological agents. Mar 14 1997 A tank illegally stored at the federal government's Hanford nuclear facility in Washington state explodes, causing the release of 30,000 gallons of plutonium into the environment. The government tried to cover up the incident, going so far as having the Department of Energy deny the release of any contamination. 1757 - On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty. 1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew. 1939 - German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. 1942 - John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. 1943 - World War II - The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'. 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy. 1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. Births 1980 - Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union player 1985 - Eva Angelina, American porn star Deaths 1811 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
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     Mar 15 Today is the International Day Against Police Brutality, first observed in 1997 after Swiss police beat two children age 11 and 12 to death. Mar 15 Beware the Ides of March. Mar 15 44 Julius Caesar, already warned to be wary on this the Ides of March by the astrologer Spurinna, assassinated with pointy knives by a group of Senators at the Pompey theater. Mar 15 1812 Luddites attack Frank Vickerman's wool processing factory at Taylor Hill in West Yorkshire, resulting in general destruction and attempted arson. The rampaging Luddites were incensed because his machines replaced workers, but Vickerman was primarily targeted because of involvement in an Anti-Luddite committee. Mar 15 1894 Jean Pauwels is killed walking into the Madeline church in Paris, when a bomb in his pocket suddenly goes off. The Belgian anarchist is later determined to have been responsible for two other explosions in February, one of which killed a pedestrian. Mar 15 1937 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-lovecraft.jpg H P Lovecraft dies from cancer and Bright's disease in Rhode Island. Mar 15 1998 White House aide Kathleen Willey claims on the TV program 60 Minutes that President Bill Clinton kissed her, touched her breasts and made her touch his "no-no place." Clinton of course denies this version of events. 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. 1672 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence. 1776 - South Carolina became the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government. 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400. 1906 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered. 1922 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. 1939 - World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. 1943 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb the German-held monastery and stage an assault. 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1870 mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record. 1961 - South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. 1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). 1988 - The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran-Iraq War begins. 1991 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights. 2008 - Wales win the 2008 RBS 6 Nations rugby union tournament Grandslam with a 29 - 12 victory over World Cup semi finalists France. 2008 - Welsh rugby winger Shane Williams becomes Wales' record try scorer with 41 tries in 56 games, he is also joint 8th top try scorer in international rugby. Births 1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845) 1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848) 1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead) 1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys) 1946 - Howard E. Scott, American musician (War) 1947 - Ry Cooder, American guitarist 1955 - Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister) 1963 - Bret Michaels, American musician (Poison) Deaths 44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
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     Mar 16 St. Urho's Day, Patron saint of Finnish vineyard workers. Attributed to him is the miracle of banishing grasshoppers from Finland which he accomplished with a few choice Finnish phrases, thereby saving the season's grape crop. But in reality a bunch of very drunk people made this up in 1956. Mar 16 1190 More than 150 and perhaps as many as 500 Jews, secured in Clifford's Tower at York, die from suicide and massacre after they are sieged by townspeople under Richard Malebys. Malebys was a nobleman who owed money to the Jews; after their siege all records relating to moneylending were destroyed. It is the largest massacre of Jews in the history of the United Kingdom. Mar 16 1792 At a masquerade ball, a disgruntled Captain Jacob Johan Ankarstroem shoots Swedish King Gustav III near the heart with a bullet composed of lead and carpet tacks. The king dies twelve days later, and as punishment the Captain is decapitated, drawn, and quartered. Mar 16 1949 Erik Estrada's birthday. Mar 16 1968 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-my-lai-massacre… Soldiers of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade Americal Division massacre over 300 civilian men, women, and children in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam. Mar 16 1978 Italian Red Brigades kidnap former Italian Premier Aldo Moro for release of imprisoned comrades. Moro was murdered and his body found on 9 May 1978. Mar 16 1984 The CIA's station chief in Beirut, William Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad and later murdered. Mar 16 1994 Figure skater Tonya Harding arrested for obstruction of prosecution during the fallout from the Nancy Kerrigan figure skate clubbing. 1322 - Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence. 1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." 1660 - The Long Parliament disbands. 1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. (now known as 1st battalion Royal Welsh) 1802 - The United States Military Academy West Point is established. 1812 - Battle of Badajoz (March 16 - April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War. 1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London. 1912 - Captain Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time." 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. 1939 - From Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. 1942 - History of Rocketry: First V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff) 1945 - World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist. 1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 1976 - UK Prime Minister, Harold Wilson resigns. 1988 - Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing thousands of people. 1995 - Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The thirteenth amendment was officially ratified in 1865. 1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. 2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global protests against Iraq war. Births 1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836) 1948 - Michael Bruce, American musician. Guitarist and keyboard player for Alice Cooper 1954 - Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart)
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     Mar 17 965 Pope Leo VIII dies of a stroke during sexual intercourse. Perhaps the best way for a man to die, but not a very appropriate choice for the Bishop of Rome. Mar 17 1942 John Wayne Gacy, part time clown, serial killer, and sodomizer of dozens of boys, is born in Chicago. His father was convinced Gacy was a "sissy", but friends and family didn't really suspect anything untoward was afoot until his 1968 arrest for coercing a teenage boy employee into committing multiple homosexual acts. Mar 17 1948 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-hells-angels.jpg The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is founded in San Bernardino, California by veterans of World War II who were former members of the Pissed Off Bastards. Hell's Angels has 100 chapters globally, with more than 1600 members. Mar 17 1966 U.S. midget submarine Alvin located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. Mar 17 1999 Six members of the International Olympic Committee are expelled for corruption, all from poor third world countries. They received bribes from Salt Lake City totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, a practice that had been going on for years. It should also be noted that the IOC Vice President at the time was named "Dick Pound". 624 - Muhammad wins a key victory over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr. 1337 - Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England. 1577 - The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold. 1756 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern). 1776 - American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery overlooking the city. 1845 - The rubber band is patented. 1886 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi. 1891 - The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574. 1931 - Nevada legalizes gambling. 1942 - Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto (western Ukraine) are gassed at the Belzec death camp (eastern Poland). 1945 - The strategically important captured railway Bridge at Remagen, having sped the end of WW-II, but ironically no longer taking artillery fire, collapses ten days into the battle rendering the lodgement on the Germany bank of the Rhine dependent entirely on pontoon bridges. 1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement. 1985 - Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", commits his first two murders in Los Angeles, California murder spree. 2003 - British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for war with Iraq. Births 1473 - King James IV of Scotland (d. 1513) 1951 - Scott Gorham, American musician (Thin Lizzy) 1967 - Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins) 1975 - Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness) 1979 - Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress Deaths 1040 - Harold Harefoot, King of England 1058 - King Lulach I of Scotland 1990 - Ric Grech, British bass player (Blind Faith - Traffic) (b. 1946) 1995 - Ronnie Kray, British gangster (b. 1933) Holidays and observances Feast day of St Patrick: a public holiday in Ireland (National feast), Montserrat and the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, widely celebrated elsewhere in North America and worldwide Boston, Massachusetts - Evacuation Day
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     Mar 18 1314 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-de-molay.jpg Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake during the final purge of the Templars in France. Among the things de Molay admitted to the Inquisitor panel (though possibly coerced) were the obligation of Templars to deny Christ when they joined, and a sacrament that involved spitting on a crucifix. Mar 18 1965 The Rolling Stones are fined 5 UKP for urinating on a Stratford garage wall at the ABC, Romford. Mar 18 1970 Country Joe McDonald (of Country Joe and the Fish) is convicted on obscenity charges after he asks for an F, a U, a C, and one other letter at a concert in Massachusetts. Mar 18 1980 A significant percentage of the Soviet space program's scientists are killed when a Vostok rocket explodes on the launch pad. Fifty people die at the Plesetsk Space Center. 1241 - Kraków is ravaged by Mongols. 1766 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, which was very unpopular in the British colonies. 1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. 1915 - World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British & French naval attack on the Dardanelles. 1922 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years. 1938 - Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders. 1940 - World War II: Axis Powers - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. 1945 - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin. 1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops. 2003 - war in Iraq. About $1 billion was taken from Iraq's Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family, just hours before the United States began bombing Iraq, biggest bank robbery in history. 2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language. Births 1837 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 28th President of the United States (d. 1908) 1869 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940) 1947 - B.J. Wilson, English drummer (d. 1990) (Procol Harum) Deaths 978 - King Edward the Martyr of England 1745 - Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676) 2001 - John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)
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     Mar 19 1935 Rioting breaks out in Harlem after rumors that a shoplifter was beaten or killed by police in the basement of Kress's department store, neither of which was actually true. But still an estimated 10,000 rioters cause $2M damage to whitey's businesses. Mar 19 1945 Adolf Hitler orders all military and industrial facilities within the Third Reich destroyed. Albert Speer does everything he can to stop this from happening, in direct defiance of Hitler. Mar 19 1957 Elvis Presley tours and then immediately agrees to purchase the 14 acre Graceland estate from Ruth Moore for $100,000. It is now his cemetery. Mar 19 1982 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-rhoads.jpg The guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, dies during the Diary of a Madman tour after the plane he is flying in buzzes the band's tour bus and clips the wing of the plane, crashing into a nearby farmhouse. Mar 19 1987 Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns his PTL ministry after it is revealed he nailed former church secretary Jessica Hahn. Mar 19 1990 Andrew Wood, lead singer of influential but now mostly forgotten Seattle band "Mother Love Bone" dies of a smack overdose. 1831 - The City Bank of New York becomes the site of the first bank robbery in United States history ($245,000 taken). 1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand. 1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (first time was on November 19, 1919). 1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada. 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened. 1941 - World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated. 1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary. 1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 800 of her crew and crippling the ship. 1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed. 1982 - Falklands War: Argentines land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war. 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities. Births 1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873) 1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984) 1946 - Paul Atkinson, British musician (The Zombies) (d. 2004) 1953 - Billy Sheehan, American musician (Mr. Big) Deaths 1930 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848) 1976 - Paul Kossoff, English guitarist (Free) (b. 1950) 1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne) (b. 1956)
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     Mar 20 1899 Martha M. Place, the first woman to be honored by a seat in the electric chair, dies at Sing-Sing Prison, executed for murder. Mar 20 1960 South African police massacre 69 black civil rights demonstrators in Sharpeville incident, which moves African National Congress to abandon its policy of nonviolence. Mar 20 1968 The U.S. goes off the gold standard, turning paper dollars into paper tigers. Mar 20 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono get married in Gibraltar. The pair go on to make, uh, beautiful music together until Lennon manages to get himself shot in New York. Mar 20 1995 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-shoko.jpg Members of the Aum cult release Sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway. Eleven people die and 5,500 are injured. The cult's doctrine of "Poa" make mass murder the way to save their own souls. They had intended eventually to produce 70 tons of the gas. Mar 20 1995 Last words of Thomas J. Grasso, executed in Oklahoma by lethal injection: "I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this." Mar 20 1996 Erik and Lyle Menendez convicted of First Degree Murder. They killed their parents for their money, and then lied all about it. 1616 - Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years imprisonment. 1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. 1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. 1942 - In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans. 1942 - Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, German SS murder 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto. 1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". 1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan. 1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France. 1974 - A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London. 1993 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children. 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Denmark and Poland begin military operations in Iraq. Births 1950 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) 1961 - Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats) 1976 - Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park) 1979 - Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player 1982 - Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects) Deaths 1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367) 1991 - Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton (b. 1986) Holidays and observances Canberra Day - Australia World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling, celebrated every year on March 20.
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     Mar 21 1843 According to Biblical crackpot William Miller, Christ would return sometime in the year following this day in 1843. After Jesus failed to appear by the next March, Miller claimed it was the result of an arithmetic error and recalculated the deadline to be October 22, 1844. The Lord was AWOL on that date also. Mar 21 1962 In 1962, A bear becomes the first creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds. :eek7: Mar 21 1963 Alcatraz Prison closed Mar 21 1976 In 1976, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession in New York. They were released on $2,000 bail. The charges were dropped. Mar 21 1980 Mobster Angelo Bruno killed with a shotgun blast to the head while he waits in his car after dinner. The Genovese family thus asserted Philadelphia's traditional claim to Atlantic City. His replacement is his former capo Phil "Chicken Man" Testa. Mar 21 1984 Actor Dudley Moore arrested for beating his girlfriend. Charges were dropped at her request and Moore married the foolish woman. Mar 21 2005 British police report that two shots were fired during a Nas concert at London's Brixton Academy. The audience panics and runs off, nobody is harmed. The gunplay occurs in spite of the presence of over 100 security staff members and security checks at the door. 1413 - Henry V becomes King of England. 1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake. 1801 - The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt. 1871 - Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. 1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins. 1933 - Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed. 1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops. 1945 - World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. 1980 - US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. 1990 - Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. 2007 - Kevin Whitrick becomes the first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom Births 1713 - Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803) 1950 - Roger Hodgson, English musician (Supertramp) 1956 - Guy Chadwick, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (The House of Love) 1967 - Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy) 1975 - Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player 1980 - Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41) Deaths 1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595) Holidays and observances Namibia: Independence Day Australia: Harmony Day Poland: Truant's Day South Africa: Human Rights Day World Poetry Day - UNESCO International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - United Nations World Down Syndrome Day
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     Mar 22 1622 A band of Algonquian Indians, led by the Brother of Powhatan slaughters 347 settlers near Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, in the first Indian massacre. Mar 22 1931 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-shatner.gif William Shatner, the great actor, birthday. Mar 22 1933 The first SS-run concentration camp, Dachau, receives prisoners. Mar 22 1947 U.S. President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835, beginning the Great Loyalty Crusade. 2,000,000 government employees were required to take oaths and submit to loyalty investigations; of those a mere 139 were terminated in the span of three years. Mar 22 1972 National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommends ending criminal penalties for possession of marijuana. No subsequent administration has heeded their recommendation. Mar 22 1978 One of the Flying Wallendas, 73 year old Karl Wallenda, plunges to his death on a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, PR. 1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. 1765 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. 1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. 1861 - Charles Darwin's buldog Thomas Henry Huxley updates his wife Henrietta on his working mans' series of lectures promoting Darwinism. "By next Friday evening they will all be convinced that they are monkeys. 1873 - A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery. 1888 - The Football League is formed. 1895 - First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière. 1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine. 1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania. 1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain's Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte. 1943 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces. 1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens. 1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. 1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an early day motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan. 1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded. 1997 - The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth. 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles. 2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire. 2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox. Births 1943 - Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976) 1958 - Pete Wylie, British singer/songwriter (The KLF, The Farm) 1979 - Aaron North, American musician (Nine Inch Nails) 1981 - Victoria Lanz, Venezuelan porn star Deaths 2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (Killed by American troops in Iraq)(b. 1952) Holidays and observances World Water Day
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     Mar 23 1989 In 1989, a 1000-foot diameter asteroid misses the Earth by only 500,000 miles. (Astronomers did not see it until it passed.) Mar 23 1990 Gerald Bull, the man assisting Iraq in the construction of a supergun, assassinated by Israeli agents outside his flat in Brussels, Belgium. Mar 23 1997 Five dead bodies are found arranged in a cross formation at the burned Quebec home of Didier Queze. They were members of the Solar Temple cult who in 1994 to 1996 had totaled 69 suicides in Europe and North America. Mar 23 1997 Heaven's gate suicides leave 39 dead, all wearing NIKE shoes. 1708 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -"give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. 1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. 1848 - The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded. 1889 - The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London. 1903 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes. 1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. 1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused. 1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. 1942 - World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands. 1956 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world 2003 - In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 2007 - Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters. Births 1645 - Captain William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701) 1949 - Ric Ocasek, American singer/guitarist (The Cars) 1957 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998) 1968 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz) 1972 - Joe Calzaghe, Welsh WBO, WBC & WBA World Super Middlewieght Champion boxer 1979 - Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish International rugby player Holidays and observances Pakistan - National Day (Republic Day).
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     Mar 24 1973 Lou Reed's ass bitten onstage by rabid fan in Buffalo. Mar 24 1989 Cold Fusion announced. Mar 24 1989 Exxon tanker Valdez, piloted by a drunk captain, strikes a well-charted reef at Prince William sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. 1603 - James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England. 1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops. 1837 - Canada gives African men the right to vote. 1878 - The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. 1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis). 1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1944 - German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Massacre in Rome. 1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III. 19b72 - The United Kingdom imposes "Direct Rule" over Northern Ireland. 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. 2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq. Births 1946 - Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk) 1951 - Dougie Thomson, British bassist (Supertramp) 1969 - Houston, American pornographic actress Deaths 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533) 1976 - Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887) Holidays and observances World Tuberculosis Day. Labor Day Melbourne, Australia
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     Mar 25 Jesus crucified (according to old beliefs) Mar 25 1915 In 1915, first submarine disaster; US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, 21 lives lost. Mar 25 1967 As part of Operation Green Mist, the U.S. Army detonates explosive warheads containing the deadly sarin nerve agent at Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve on the big island of Hawaii. The open-air tests are kept secret for more than thirty years. Mar 25 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew during a reception at Ri'Assa Palace. The errant nephew was executed by beheading. Mar 25 1990 Intentionally set fire at the Happy Land Social Club in NYC kills 87 by smoke inhalation. 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. 1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland. 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit Virginia. 1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland. 1802 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and United Kingdom. 1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. 1807 - The Swansea and Mumbles Railwayin Wales, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, became the first passenger carrying railway in the world. 1941 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. 1957 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). 1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31). 1996 - The EU's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE). Births 1947 - Elton John, English singer and songwriter 1966 - Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008) Holidays and observances Maryland Day; Greek Independence Day; Freedom Day in Belarus; National Waffle Day in Sweden
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     Mar 26 1830 Joseph Smith publishes The Book of Mormon, after translating it from golden plates turned over by the angel Moroni. Smith maintained that the text contained in the tablets were written in "Reformed Egyptian" which he read by means of two magic stones from the Old Testament, the Urim and Thummim. Mar 26 1942 Nazis began sending Jews to Auschwitz. Mar 26 1970 Peter Yarrow of folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, admits fucking a 14 year old girl in Washington D.C. Mar 26 1995 West coast rapper and member of rap group N.W.A. Eazy-E dead from AIDS. 1839 - The first Henley Royal Regatta is held. 1917 - World War I: First Battle of Gaza - British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. 1934 - Driving test introduced in the United Kingdom. 1942 - World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners. 1945 - World War II: In Iwo Jima, US forces declare Iwo Jima as "secure." 1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine. 1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force. 1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. 1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. 2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force. Births 1948 - Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra) 1948 - Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith) 1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle) Deaths 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770) 1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863) 1995 - Eazy-E, (Eric Lynn Wright) American rapper (b. 1963) 2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950) 2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912) 2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959) Holidays and observances Independence Day - Bangladesh
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     Mar 27 30 Pontius Pilate condemns Jesus to death. Mar 27 1866 Patent for a urinal is granted to Andrew Rankin. Mar 27 1945 Argentina declares war on Nazi Germany. Of course, this was just a silly charade for the benefit of the world community. Argentina would be a quiet ally of Germany for the duration of the war, even welcoming many Nazi and SS leaders to emigrate there in the aftermath. Mar 27 1964 One of the largest quakes in US history strikes southeast of Anchorage, Alaska, hitting 8.6 on the Richter scale. 118 people are killed, and a tidal wave destroys four square blocks of Anchorage. The control tower at the airport, 60 feet high, snapped. Damage in the state is estimated at $500 million. Mar 27 1977 The worst airline disaster in history occurs when the confused pilot of a KLM Boeing 747 taking off collides with a Pan Am Boeing 747 which was on the runway. A total of 583 people die. Mar 27 2001 Vatican officials reported three days ago on the exhumation of Pope John XXIII, which occurred quietly on January 16. The pontiff's body, dead for 37 years now, was described as having a face that "has not changed since his death." 1513 (not 1512 as often cited) - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island. 1613 - First English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy. 1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1794 - The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. 1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas. 1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas. 1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley. 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom declares war on Russia. 1871 - First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. 1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperence by the Salvation Army 1941 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup. 1942 - World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France. 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. 1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union. 1963 - Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail networ 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut, first human in space dies in aircraft training accident. 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight 1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. 2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. 2006 - The UN Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting. Births 1912 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005) 1950 - Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis) 1957 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997) 1959 - Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS) 1977 - Violetta Blue, American porn star Deaths 1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566) 2000 - Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942) (Ian Dury and the Blockheads) Holidays and observances Angola - Victory Day
458. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive30 Mar 2008, 11:55
     Mar 28 0 According to Des Pascha Comutus, written in 243 CE, Jesus Christ's birthday was March 28. It later became the familiar December 25 after Rome changed it in 336. Mar 28 193 The Roman ruler Pertinax is murdered by the Praetorian Guard. There being no obvious successor and no Senatorial volunteers, the Guard auctions off the emperorship. The high bidder is Senator Didius Julianus, for 300 million sesterces. After hearing of this, Roman general Septimus Severus in Dalmatia marched on Rome, beheading the new emperor upon arrival. Mar 28 1930 Constantinople becomes Istanbul. Mar 28 1941 Virginia Woolf commits suicide. Mar 28 1947 Leftover Jap boobytrap from WWII explodes in Corregidor, killing 28. Mar 28 1975 A fire in the maternity wing at Kucic Hospital, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, kills 25 incubating babies. Mar 28 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Harrisburg PA. Mar 28 1996 78 people apparently perish in a fire at the Pasar Anyar shopping center in Bogor, West Java. The estimate is lowered to 10 after it is discovered that most of the dead are store mannequins. Mar 28 1997 Martin Lawrence slugs someone in a barroom brawl at the "Gate" nightclub in Hollywood, apparently because he was jostled while dancing. He receives two years probation and community service. 1854 - Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia. 1860 - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins. 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara. 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid. 1941 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - In the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers. 1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire. 1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. 1979 - British Prime Minister James Callaghan, is defeated by one vote in a Motion of No Confidence. This results in Parliament being dissolved in order to make way for a forthcoming General Election. 1990 - President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. 1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths. 2003 - In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attacked British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull. Births 1942 - Neil Kinnock, Welsh statesman 1948 - John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull) 1968 - Jon Lee, Welsh drummer (Feeder)(d. 2002 suicide) 1976 - David Keuning, American guitarist (The Killers) Deaths 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
459. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive30 Mar 2008, 12:23
     Mar 29 1951 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-rosenbergs.jpg Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are both convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. Mar 29 1977 Lee Harvey Oswald's best friend, and coincidentally a friend of both Jackie Kennedy and George HW Bush, Dallas socialite George de Mohrenschildt dies from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the mouth, at 3:45 pm. It is likely he was going to be called to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Mar 29 1979 A U.S. House of Representatives committee report finds that John F. Kennedy's assassination was the result of a conspiracy. Mar 29 1992 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-inhale-to-the-c… Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate Bill Clinton tells the New York Times: "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale, and never tried it again." Mar 29 1997 Kazuo Konya, a former member of the Aum cult, tells Tokyo Municipal Court that he paid $8,100 for the privilege of drinking the guru's blood in a 1988 initiation ritual. Other former cult members also testify they paid for blood, strands of Shoko Asahara's hair, and his bath water. Some say they paid $2,400 for an intravenous injection of an unknown substance. Ironically, all throughout, Asahara preached to his followers that they should renounce materialism. Mar 29 2006 Jack Abramoff, Washington D.C. lobbyist extraordinaire, is sentenced to almost six years in prison for defrauding Native American tribes, corruption of public officials and other various fraud charges. He is also ordered to pay $21M in fines. In exchange for a short sentence, Jack agrees to name names. This makes Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay very nervous. 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. 1632 - Treaty of Saint-Germain signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. 1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state. 1806 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. 1847 - Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. 1849 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. 1857 - Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. 1867 - Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1. 1871 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus. 1886 - Dr John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia. 1936 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. 1941 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces intercept those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan. 1942 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. 1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. 1971 - My Lai massacre: Lt. William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison. 1971 - A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers. 1973 - Vietnam War: The last United States soldiers leave South Vietnam. 1982 - The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982 2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants. Births 1790 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862) 1799 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869) 1943 - Sir John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1959 - Perry Farrell, American vocalist (Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros) Deaths 1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole: Henry Robertson Bowers (b. 1883) Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868) Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872)
460. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive30 Mar 2008, 12:45
     Mar 30 315 The Donation of Constantine grants to the See of Rome dominion over all earthly thrones of Europe, a document made by that Roman emperor after his conversion to Christianity in return for being cured from leprosy. But in 1440, anachronisms in the document prove that it was really a fraud written around 752 AD, during the reign of and under orders of Pope Stephen II. Mar 30 1282 After vespers on Easter Monday, a French soldier touches the breast of a young Sicilian bride, causing an outrage that precipitated the slaughter of perhaps 2,000 Frenchmen living and ruling over Sicily. Mar 30 1968 Two children in the Bowery come across the body of a homeless drug addict later identified as Bobby Driscol, 31, the voice of Disney's "Peter Pan". Mar 30 1981 http://www.rotten.com/today/images/mar/rh-reagan-shot-th.jpg While President Reagan undergoes surgery for a life-threatening gunshot wound, Secretary of State Alexander Haig announces to the press: "As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President." Mar 30 1995 A police officer who was also a member of the Aum Supreme Truth cult fires three shots into Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of Japan's National Police Agency. Takaji is seriously wounded but survives. Investigators try unsuccessfully to hide the fact that the gunman was a police officer. 1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England. 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris. 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long. 1856 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War. 1858 - Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser. 1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly. 1870 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. 1885 - The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire. 1939 - The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph. 1939 - First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway. 1940 - Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei. 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk. 1945 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans. 1949 - Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO. 1979 - Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. 1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. 1982 - Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. 1997 - Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK 2006 - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law. Births 1941 - Graeme Edge, British drummer (Moody Blues) 1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer 1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age) 1973 - Matthew Pritchard Welsh Stuntman/idiot (Dirty Sanchez) 1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player (Fly half/winger) Deaths 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
461. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive31 Mar 2008, 15:39
     FUCK Thats it! i started this thread on the 27th March last year, i don't know if it worth doing anymore on it, althought the early posts were a bit sparce on the old info.
462. tgd_02Salvaged from archive1 Apr 2008, 02:26
     maybe just important days? or like...today is interesting cuuz....
463. HuntSalvaged from archive7 Apr 2008, 21:19
     maybe just important days? or like...today is interesting cuuz.... it can never come again?
464. evil ernieSalvaged from archive14 Apr 2008, 18:36
     hey cool thread! where did this come from? is it new? never seen it before ... maybe i should check some of the pages out .... just kidding cym ....
465. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive17 Apr 2008, 19:04
     Apr 16 2007 At around 7 AM, Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui shoots dead two students in a neighboring dorm. Two hours later, he chains shut the doors of the engineering building and goes on a forty-minute killing spree, murdering 30 students and teachers and wounding several others before committing suicide. He had spent the interval fedexing a press kit to NBC News.
466. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive23 Apr 2008, 08:23
     St Georges day - Patron saint of England, Aragon, Canada, Catalonia, China, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, and Serbia
467. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive27 Apr 2008, 10:58
     Apr 26 2006 Snoop Dogg and his entourage arrested in London's Heathrow Airport for creating a disturbance when British Airways wouldn't allow the group into a first class lounge. After being escorted outside, there was a fight and seven police officers were injured. After a night in jail, the group is freed but Big Snoop Dogg has been banned from the U.K. and British Airways as a result of the melee.
468. JACKASS2009Salvaged from archive27 Apr 2008, 21:26
     best longrunning thread evar!!! keep it up!!!!!!!!!!
469. rubicksSalvaged from archive1 May 2008, 12:51
     good work interesting to read back over time
470. ICE420Salvaged from archive4 Jun 2008, 10:49
     Very good!!! Support !Don't quote the spammers[/url] Badman, your Mum called she´s looking for her cock back, she said you could leave it next to your sisters.
471. MCMXCIISalvaged from archive6 Jun 2008, 16:15
     6th of June! Swedens national holiday!
472. DC ThugSalvaged from archive17 Jul 2008, 03:44
     dude swedish girls are awesome Also: World's first parking meter was created and installed in Oklahoma City back in 1935. Thanks a lot, damn Okies
473. KyleABCSalvaged from archive12 Aug 2008, 11:42
     30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her lover Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
474. Firep0w3rSalvaged from archive18 Aug 2008, 01:23
     Mar 27 30 Pontius Pilate condemns jesus to death. Mar 27 30 (moments later) Jesus hears the news and gets really bummed out...
475. KyleABCSalvaged from archive3 Sept 2008, 11:32
     Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
476. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive3 Sept 2008, 11:34
     1939 - World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, starting the Allies.
477. BishopSalvaged from archive18 Sept 2008, 02:36
     Events * 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought. * 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War. * 1577 - The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots. * 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded. * 1631 - Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War. * 1683 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of bacteria. * 1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain. * 1778 - The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians). * 1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. * 1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn. * 1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his poem The Star-Spangled Banner. * 1859 - Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States. * 1862 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history. * 1862 - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war. * 1894 - The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. * 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac. * 1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality. * 1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. * 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. * 1920 - The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States. * 1924 - The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits. * 1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. * 1939 - World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. * 1939 - World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. * 1939 - Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6 * 1941 - World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued * 1943 - World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis. * 1944 - World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden. * 1947 - James V. Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States. * 1948 - The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews. * 1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives. * 1956 - Television is first broadcast in Australia. * 1957 - The North East Humanists group is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne. * 1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen. * 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA. * 1978 - The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. * 1980 - After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. * 1980 - Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay. * 1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. * 1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. * 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. * 1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland. * 2004 - Tamil is declared the first classical language in India. * 2007 - AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
478. Firep0w3rSalvaged from archive18 Sept 2008, 12:42
     September 18th 1947.......I slid my way out of my mother's vagina, and saw light for the 1st time
479. WillowSalvaged from archive19 Sept 2008, 02:39
     September 18th 1947.......I slid my way out of my mother's vagina, and saw light for the 1st timeHappy Birthday Firep0w3r!!!
480. KyleABCSalvaged from archive24 Sept 2008, 10:20
     Events <>622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. <>1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline. <>1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England. <>1789 - The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department, are established. <>1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain. <>1852 - The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes. <>1869 - "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market. <>1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion <>1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy. <>1903 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin. <>1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument. <>1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi <>1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong <>1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman <>1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded. <>1950 - Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe. <>1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. <>1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. <>1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith. <>1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal. <>1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn <>1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar. <>1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. <>2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
481. LTFSalvaged from archive10 Oct 2008, 18:10
     Dear Filecabi.net Staff.... I hearby give you authorization to un-sticky this thread. KTHXBAI!
482. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Oct 2008, 21:07
     Dear Filecabi.net Staff.... I hearby give you authorization to un-sticky this thread. KTHXBAI! Dear LTF, I hereby give you permission to suck my balls.
483. BorroSalvaged from archive10 Oct 2008, 21:09
     6K4EtW2v9P4
484. BorroSalvaged from archive10 Oct 2008, 21:09
     it had to be done
485. JooXSalvaged from archive10 Oct 2008, 21:31
     It did.
486. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive10 Oct 2008, 21:36
     Of course it did :thumb: Kabzgp2H55M
487. LTFSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 02:58
     Dear LTF, I hereby give you permission to suck my balls. I'm pretty sure this is worthy of an infraction, seeing as though your posting this outside the fight room. Now, be a responsible mod and give yourself one. Maybe you should ban yourself for a few days as well. Oh, and for the record, granting another man permission to suck on your balls is pretty gay. Afronaught would be proud.
488. LTFSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 02:59
     This day in history... 2008: Cymru am byth came out of the closet.
489. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 11:13
     I'm pretty sure this is worthy of an infraction, seeing as though your posting this outside the fight room. Now, be a responsible mod and give yourself one. Maybe you should ban yourself for a few days as well. Oh, and for the record, granting another man permission to suck on your balls is pretty gay. Afronaught would be proud. You seem to not understand the rules very well, there is nothing there to warrant an infraction, why don't you report the post and see what happens :rofl:
490. rubicksSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 11:38
     I'm pretty sure this is worthy of an infraction, seeing as though your posting this outside the fight room. Now, be a responsible mod and give yourself one. Maybe you should ban yourself for a few days as well. Oh, and for the record, granting another man permission to suck on your balls is pretty gay. Afronaught would be proud. hey cymru,did you clean those pool balls for ltf ?or are you letting him suck them duuuuuurty:banana_sml:
491. LTFSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 14:08
     You seem to not understand the rules very well, there is nothing there to warrant an infraction, why don't you report the post and see what happens :rofl: I haven't read the rules. I personally don't give a shit. I just know you've given me infractions for less. But by all means, abuse your power if it boosts your ego. BTW, do you feel liberated after coming out of the closet?
492. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 14:14
     I haven't read the rules. I personally don't give a shit. I just know you've given me infractions for less. But by all means, abuse your power if it boosts your ego. BTW, do you feel liberated after coming out of the closet? LOL, I've just checked and the only time i have given you an infraction was 1st April this year for Trolling and attacking Ozzie, get over it. As for the other comment, are you trying to imply that i am gay, that could be construed as a personal attack if i was a sensitive paranoid person like you appear to be.
493. LTFSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 14:20
     As for the other comment, are you trying to imply that i am gay, that could be construed as a personal attack if i was a sensitive paranoid person like you appear to be. From this day on, I shall call you Susan.
494. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 15:08
     From this day on, I shall call you Susan. And i shall call you TROLL
495. UnregisteredSexOffenderSalvaged from archive11 Oct 2008, 15:14
     http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m275/jogi21/default/tr…
496. KyleABCSalvaged from archive14 Oct 2008, 13:28
     October 14, 1586 Mary Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth October 14, 1884 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film, October 14, 1906 All Chicago World Series, 1st AL victory, White Sox win 4 games to 2 Cubs losers share of $439.50 is lowest for World Series October 14, 1911 Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379) October 14, 1947 Chuck Yeager in Bell XS-1 makes 1st supersonic flight October 14, 1964 Philips begins experimenting with color TV October 14, 1978 1st TV movie from a TV series - "Rescue from Gilligan's Island" October 14, 1994 Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
497. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive22 Oct 2008, 19:11
     21st October 1966 Aberfan disaster On Friday, October 21, 1966, at 09:15, colliery waste tip number 7 (containing unwanted rock from the local mine) slid down Merthyr Mountain. As it collapsed, it destroyed 20 houses and a farm before going on to demolish virtually all of Pantglas Junior School and part of the separate senior school. The pupils had just left the assembly hall, where they had been singing "All Things Bright and Beautiful", when a great noise was heard outside. Had they left for their classrooms a few minutes later, the loss of life would have been significantly reduced, as the classrooms were on the side of the building nearest the landslide. In total, 144 people were killed, 116 of whom were children, most of them between the ages of 7 and 10. Five teachers were also killed in the accident. Only a handful of children were rescued from the rubble. Lord Robens of Woldingham, chairman of the National Coal Board (NCB), did not rush to the scene; he instead went to accept an appointment as chancellor of the University of Surrey. Subsequently, he controversially claimed that nothing could have been done to prevent the slide. At the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster, the NCB was found responsible for the disaster, due to "ignorance, ineptitude and a failure of communication". The collapse was found to have been caused by a build-up of water in the pile and, when a small rotational slip occurred, the disturbance caused the saturated, fine material of the tip to liquefy (thixotropy) and flow down the mountain. In 1958, the tip had been sited on a known stream (as shown on earlier Ordnance Survey maps) and had previously suffered several minor slips. Its instability was known, both to colliery management and to tip workers, but very little was done about it. Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council and the National Union of Mineworkers were cleared of any wrongdoing. No NCB employee was fired, demoted or even disciplined. The NCB was ordered to pay compensation to the families at the rate of £500 per child. The public demonstrated their sympathy by donating money, with little idea of how it would be spent. Within a few months, nearly 90,000 contributions had been received, totalling £1,606,929[1] (2008:£21.4m).[2] The management of this fund caused considerable controversy over the years. After lengthy appeals, part of the fund was used to make the remainder of the waste tip safe and the Coal Board avoided the costs of doing the whole job from its own resources. The Labour government paid back the £150,000 in 1997, although taking account of inflation this should have been nearly £2 million.[3] Merthyr Vale Colliery was closed in 1989. In February 2007 the Welsh Assembly announced the donation of £2 million to the Aberfan Disaster Memorial Fund, in part as recompense for the money requisitioned by the government in the immediate aftermath of the disaster http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Aberfan_Dis… The Aberfan Disaster 21 October, 1966
498. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 11:37
     1916: The British Army makes the first use of tanks in warfare, at Cambrai during the Battle of the Somme. 1935: Nazi Germany passes the 'Nuremberg Laws' - a raft of legislation dramatically curtailing Jewish rights. 1940: The Royal Air Force claims victory over the Luftwaffe, commemorated as Battle of Britain Day.
499. JACKASS2009Salvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 11:50
     this thread is win. Is it making a comeback?
500. BorroSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 11:52
     this thread is win. Is it making a comeback? Nobody gives a shit about this fucking thread. A comeback? Are you retarded?
501. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 11:53
     Nobody gives a shit about this fucking thread. A comeback? Are you retarded? Nobody gives a shit about you either, are you retarded???
502. BorroSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 11:56
     Nobody gives a shit about you either, are you retarded??? I could be slow...but that doesn't change the fact that nobody has ever given a fuck about this stupid thread.
503. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:02
     I could be slow...but that doesn't change the fact that nobody has ever given a fuck about this stupid thread. The rep i've recieved from people reading this thread says otherwise mate :fu:
504. BorroSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:07
     The rep i've recieved from people reading this thread says otherwise mate :fu: ya? everyone has a birthday. glad you get rep once a year.
505. Cymru am bythSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:10
     ya? everyone has a birthday. glad you get rep once a year. LOL WTF are you babbling about, fuck, i should have left your moaning arse banned.
506. QuackersSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:14
     So it turns out Borro is still an XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX. Big suprise.
507. BorroSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:15
     LOL WTF are you babbling about, fuck, i should have left your moaning arse banned. so fucking ban me again, tough guy.
508. BorroSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:16
     So it turns out Borro is still an moronic insecure red neck cunt. Big suprise. thanks for the flame. maybe since you're flaming so much you and afro should get a room?
509. QuackersSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:22
     thanks for the flame. maybe since you're flaming so much you and afro should get a room? Oscar Wilde would be proud.
510. BorroSalvaged from archive15 Sept 2009, 12:24
     Oscar Wilde would be proud. Aww... ATH removed your comment. I shouldn't have reported you. My bad.:rofl:

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