death tribble Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 The Battle of Hamel took place and resulted in an Allied victory in World War 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 2 hours ago, death tribble said: The Battle of Hamel took place and resulted in an Allied victory in World War 1 Aussies and a few Americans. And I'll say this: If you have to serve under a foreign commander, you might not be able to do better than serving under Sir John Monash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 1988, Stevie Wonder announced his intention to run for mayor of Detroit, but did not follow through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 2002; Road to Perdition opened. It was based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was consecrated today in 1561 GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 25 minutes ago, death tribble said: St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was consecrated today in 1561 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 2013, Pacific Rim released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2018 Happy Bastille Day "For they marched up to Bastille Day La guillotine claimed her bloody prize Hear the echoes of the centuries Power isn't all that money buys" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 The battle of Grunwald took place in 1410 when the Teutonic Knights were defeated by the Kingdom of Poland and the Duchy of Lithuania GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 2008, the first act of the award-winning supervillain-focused Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog streamed online. It’s followed by Act Two (July 17) and Act Three (July 19). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2018 Report Share Posted July 15, 2018 France win the 2018 World Cup 4-2 against Croatia in Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2018 1865, Wild Bill Hickok kills gunman Dave Tutt in Springfield, Missouri, in what is regarded at the first formal quick-draw duel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 10, 2018 Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 Can't believe I missed this. Wednesday August 8 was the centenary of what Ludendorff dubbed "der Schwarzer Tag des deutschen Heeres" (the Black Day of the German Army), the first day of the Battle of Amiens, generally held to be the beginning of the Hundred Days' Offensive that ended the First World War. British III Corps, Australian Corps, Canadian Corps, and elements of French 1st Army, using the Monash-Currie tactical system including tank support and careful preparations and limited tactical objectives, jumped off pre-dawn and achieved tactical surprise. South of the Somme, a 24 kilometer gap was opened in the German lines, and the Allies gained on average more than five miles the first day. Most importantly, the attack broke off after August 12, saving the senseless casualties that characterized most of the Western Front in WW1; however, strategically the offensive continued in a different sector a week later. No one could tell this at the time, but the Great War had less than three months til its conclusion. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted August 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 Everyone's favorite beagle is 50 today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 10, 2018 Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 1793: The Louvre opened with 537 paintings and 184 objets d'art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 10, 2018 Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 45 minutes ago, GhostDancer said: Everyone's favorite beagle is 50 today! That can't be right. I remember seeing Snoopy in Peanuts cartoons when I was single-digit-years old, and I am 62 now, so he has to be over 50. I would believe that he's 60, though. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted August 11, 2018 Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 On 8/10/2018 at 10:19 AM, Cancer said: That can't be right. I remember seeing Snoopy in Peanuts cartoons when I was single-digit-years old, and I am 62 now, so he has to be over 50. I would believe that he's 60, though. According to Wikipedia, he was introduced October 4, 1950 (2 days after the strip started), and was named Snoopy in a strip on November 10, 1950. So, 68 this year. Additionally, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered in 1965, which makes his appearance in that to be 53 years ago in December. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted August 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2018 Thanks for the corrections! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 13, 2018 Report Share Posted August 13, 2018 The Battle of Blenheim took place today in 1704 and was a victory for the Duke of Marlborough. Yesterday August 12th in 1990, the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton was found in South Dakota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 21, 2018 Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 The 20th August marks the 50th Anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 21, 2018 Report Share Posted August 21, 2018 Is Russia carrying out an anniversary re-enactment? I remember reading an anecdote in (IIRC) the old MOVES magazine (so I read this in the mid-to-late 1970s) about a Red Army relatively junior officer at the head of a tank column in western Czechoslovakia in that invasion, not too far from the border with Germany. Supposedly he came over a ridge, and thought he saw something on the far side of the valley, halted his column ... and was terrified to the core of his being to see tanks bearing the White Star of the United States Army, and that he was about to take the opening shots of World War III. He checked his maps (and yes, he was several kilometers inside Czechoslovakia), ordered his tanks to take defilade positions, radioed headquarters for orders, and watched. It was several hours before headquarters got back to him, and during that time the American tanks behaved rather oddly, moving around at random and not acting like a coherent unit. Finally headquarters radioed back to him that everything was OK: it was an East German film crew working on a war movie. GhostDancer and Lucius 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted August 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 1943, the USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, was commissioned. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 A hundred years ago tonight, Australian forces crossed the Somme and broke the German lines at Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin (a key height anchoring the German defenses in the area, and for which the battle is named) and Peronne. This was the final segment of the Second Battle of the Somme, and a part of the drum roll of attacks that made up the Hundred Days Offensive which ended the First World War. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted September 1, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2018 1982, The United States Air Force Space Command was founded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 3, 2018 Report Share Posted September 3, 2018 The Princess Alice disaster occurred on 3rd September 1878 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44800309 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Princess_Alice_(1865)#The_disaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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