Lucius Posted April 26, 2017 Report Share Posted April 26, 2017 26 APR 1986 - The Chernobyl Disaster Worst nuclear power accident in history. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary notes that the site is still surrounded by a 2,600 km Exclusion Zone and the Ukrainian government says it will be safe to live there again in about 20,000 years. GhostDancer and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 8, 2017 Report Share Posted May 8, 2017 8 May was V-E Day. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2017 In addition, 1794 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. 1877 The first Westminister Dog Show was held. 1902 Mount Pelee on Martinique erupted, destroying the town of St. Pierre, and killing 40,000 people. 1973 The 10-week Wounded Knee occupation ended when members of the American Indian Movementsurrendered. 1978 David Berkowitz, a.k.a. the “Son of Sam,” plead guilty to killing six people in New York City. 1999 The Citadel in South Carolina graduated its first female cadet, Nancy Mace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 8, 2017 Report Share Posted May 8, 2017 In addition, 1794 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Bloody peasants. In some ways, Lavoisier is a classic example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His education, wealth, and connections allowed him to conduct experiments that nobody else could, which lead to many breakthroughs. And, sadly, to his death. (Damn you, Marat.) Had he lived in England, he might have lived another 20 years. Who knows what he could have come up with in that time? It's also worth noting that much of what we know about Lavoisier's work comes from his wife, who was his lab partner and was not guillotined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 1775 Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British. 1863 Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died after being accidentally shot by his own troops. 1869 The United States’ first transcontinental railroad was completed with a ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah. 1924 J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI. 1940 Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister. 1994 Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 Thirty-four years ago tonight, a fire in my apartment destroyed most of my personal stuff. I was not there, which is good; if I had been, I would not be here now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 Thirty-four years ago tonight, a fire in my apartment destroyed most of my personal stuff. I was not there, which is good; if I had been, I would not be here now. So glad you're still here to pester us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2017 1858 Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States. 1894 The Pullman Strike began. 1949 Siam changed its name to Thailand. 1960 Israeli agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. 1973 Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed. 1981 Reggae performer Bob Marley died of cancer in Miami at the age of 36. 1997 IBM's supercomputer, Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world champion, in a six game chess match (2 for blue, 1 for Kasparov, and 3 ties). 1998 India set off atomic blasts. 2003 91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union—the first former Soviet nation to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2017 1870 Manitoba became a province of Canada. #Canada150 1932 The body of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's kidnapped baby was found. 1937 Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. 1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrendered. 1949 The Soviet blockade that prompted the Berlin airlift was ended. 1970 Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, swatted his 500th home run. 2002 Former president Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president (in or out of office) to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba. 2008 Tens of thousands killed and thousands injured when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan Provinces in western China. 2012 The 2012 World Expo began in Yeosu, South Korea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2017 1862 The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day. 1911 The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act. 1918 The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia. 1930 On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess. 1940 Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States. 1941 Historian and comix creator Jack Jackson was born. The cartoonist responsible for God Nose, Recuerden el Alamo, and a new, revamped version of Texas History Movies. 1972 Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency. 1988 The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2017 1770 Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France. 1863 Champion Hill - Grant mauled Pemberton’s army, forcing it back to Vicksburg and practically guaranteeing the fall of that city a month and a half later. It was there the fate of the Southern Confederacy, chattel slavery in the United States, and the entire political economy of the South was decided. Destroying that polity was the last bastion of the socio-economic/class war that had started in Henry VIII’s time, placing the value of capital and human talent over that of land and inherited privilege. 1868 The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson. 1929 The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931. 1946 The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway. d 1952 The son and successor of a well-known comic-strip cartoonist was born. Chris Browne, who much later took over Hagar the Horrible from his father, Dik Browne (whose other work includes The Tracy Twins). 1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. 1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress. 1997 President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 1792 The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement. 1875 The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky. 1938 NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time. 1954 The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education. 1964 Cartoonist Linda Medley was born, the creator of Castle Waiting. 1973 Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin. 1987 An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62. 1997 Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2004 In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2017 1642 The city of Montreal was founded by the French. 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate. 1896 The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal." 1920 Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland. 1953 Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound. 1974 India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power. 1980 Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years. 1994 Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over. 2000 A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse. 2003 President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia declared martial law and sent 30,000 troops into Aceh. 2004 Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 18, 2017 Report Share Posted May 18, 2017 1980 Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years. Part of it ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Seal of the Dominion of New England 1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was beheaded. 1588 The 130-ship-strong Spanish Armada set sail for England; it was defeated in August. 1643 The colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Harbor met to form the New England Confederation. 1921 Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas for immigrants. 1928 The first annual Calaveras County "Frog Jumping Jubilee" was held in Angel's Camp, California. 1935 British author and soldier, T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. 1962 Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to president John F. Kennedy. 1992 The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from giving itself midterm pay raises, went into effect. 1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 21, 2017 Report Share Posted May 21, 2017 90 years ago today Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris completed the first solo non-stop flight from America to Europe GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2017 1455 The first battle in the 30-year War of Roses took place at St. Albans. 1761 The first life insurance policy in the United States was issued in Philadelphia. 1849 Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock. 1927 An earthquake near Xining, China, measuring 8.3 claimed approximately 200,000 victims. 1947 Harry S. Truman's Doctrine brought aid to Greece and Turkey to combat the spread of Communism. 1972 Richard Nixon arrived in Moscow, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union. 1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merged to form the Republic of Yemen. 1992 Johnny Carson hosted the last episode of his Tonight Show. 2003 The UN Security Council approved a resolution lifting the economic sanctions against Iraq and supporting the U.S.-led administration in Iraq. 2011 At least 140 people are killed and hundreds more injured as a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado hits Joplin, Missouri. The tornado is among the deadliest in the nation's history, destroying nearly a third of the city and damaging about 2,000 buildings, including water treatment and sewage plants. 2012 Tokyo Skytree, which at 634 meters high is the tallest tower in the world, opened to the public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2017 1787 The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia under the leadership of George Washington, in order to establish a new U.S. government. 1925 John Scopes was indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 1935 American track star Jesse Owens broke three world records and tied another in a little over an hour. 1965 Muhammad Ali knocked Sonny Liston out cold in the first round, after 1 minute and 56 seconds, for the world heavyweight title. 1968 The Gateway Arch was dedicated in St. Louis. 1969 Midnight Cowboy, the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar, was released. 1979 The worst air disaster in U.S. history (excluding the Sept. 11 attacks) occurred when a DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport, killing over 270 people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted May 26, 2017 Report Share Posted May 26, 2017 The drawback to doing postblogging like I do is that everything is a month off the anniversary. In that spirit, today it'll be seventy years and a month since an explosion in the Number 5 Mine, Centralia, Illinois, killed 111 men. Slowly enough that many of them had time to compose goodbye letters. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2017 Two months late, LB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2017 1647 The first recorded execution of a witch reportedly took place in Massachusetts when Achsah Young was hanged. 1703 St. Petersburg was founded by Czar Peter the Great. 1936 The Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage, arriving in France four hours later. 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened. 1941 British ships sank the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France, resulting in the loss of 2,300 lives. 1994 Nobel-prize winning dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile. 1996 After a year and a half of bloodshed, Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leader of the Chechen rebels and negotiated a cease-fire. 1999 Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague for crimes against humanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2017 May 30 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic. 1536 King Henry VIII of England married his 3rd wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after he had his 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn executed. 1911 The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun. 1922 The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. 1998 An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2017 1790 The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials. 1889 Heavy rains caused the South Fork Dam to collapse, sending 20 million tons of water into Johnstown, Pa. Over 2,200 people were killed and the town was nearly destroyed. 1911 The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, “Not even God himself could sink this ship.” 1961 South Africa became an independent republic. 1962 Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. 1970 An earthquake in Peru left more than 50,000 dead. 2004 Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81. 2010 Nine people are dead after an Israeli navy commando attacks a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats on their way to Gaza to provide aid and supplies for the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted June 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2017 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state in the United States. 1796 Tennessee became the 16th state in the United States. 1938 The first issue of Action Comics, featuring Superman, was published. 1958 General Charles De Gaulle became the premier of France. 1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf author-lecturer, died. 1980 Cable News Network (CNN) debuted. 2001 Nepal’s Crown Prince Dipendra went on a shooting spree, killing his father, mother, sister, brother, and other members of the royal family before shooting himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted June 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2017 1844 The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London. 1933 The first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. 1934 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was established to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets. 1944 Thousands of Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France, on D-Day. 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon to drive out the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). 2001 Vermont Republican Senator James Jeffords left the party to become an independent, handing control of the Senate back to the Democrats. 2002 President Bush proposed a new Cabinet department: The Department of Homeland Security. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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