death tribble Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 July 26th 2015 Chris Froome is crowned champion for the second time as the Tour de France ends in Paris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 26, 2020 Report Share Posted July 26, 2020 Thirty years ago today, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 27, 2020 Report Share Posted July 27, 2020 27th July 2014 Vincenzo Nibali is crowned Champion of the Tour de France as the race ends in Paris. This is Italy's first win in 16 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted August 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2020 On this day August 6 Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the Little Boy explosion 1777 – The Battle of Oriskany, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolutionary War, was fought about 6 mi (10 km) east of Fort Stanwix, New York. 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (mushroom cloud pictured), killing about 70,000 people instantly. 1996 – A team of researchers announced that the meteorite ALH84001, discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica, may contain evidence of life on Mars, but further tests were inconclusive. 2010 – Flash floods, mudslides, and debris flows across the Ladakh region of Indian-administered Kashmir left at least 255 people dead. Saint Dominic (d. 1221) Michelle Yeoh (b. 1962) Edsger W. Dijkstra (d. 2002) Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 7, 2020 Report Share Posted August 7, 2020 August 7th 1942. The Battle of Guadacanal begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_campaign Cancer and GhostDancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted August 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted August 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 Repost: in memory of Tom Tyler, aka Vincent Markowski, of Hamtramck, Michigan, whose birthday was today, 1903. His family was Lithuanian. One of his film roles was the World's Mightiest Mortal, Captain Marvel, widely regarded as one of the finest serials ever produced. He also starred as The Phantom, and appeared in more than 150 movies. A champion weightlifter, he qualified for the 1928 Olympics, the same year that he won the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) heavyweight weightlifting championship, lifting 760 pounds (340 kg)—a record that stood for fourteen years. Tom developed a rare disease, scleroderma, costing him his looks, his marriage, his livelihood and his life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 9, 2020 Report Share Posted August 9, 2020 August 9th 48 BC Battle of Pharlasus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pharsalus August 9th 378 AD Battle of Adrianople https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianople August 9th 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain (American Civil War) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cedar_Mountain August 9th 1914 Start of the Battle of Mulhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mulhouse August 9th 1942 Battle of Savo Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Savo_Island August 9th 1945. Nagasaki is hit by the 2nd atomic bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki August 9th 1965 Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes independent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Republic_of_Singapore#Expulsion_from_Malaysia August 9th 1974 Nixon resigns and Gerald Ford becomes president GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 I am surprised that nobody has mentioned the 75th anniversary of the end of the war with VJ Day commemorations being made on August 15th. August 16th 1513 Battle of the Spurs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Spurs August 16th 1780. American War of Independence Battle of Camden. The British win https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camden August 16th 1812. England wins the siege of Detroit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Detroit August 16th 1870 Prussians victorious in Franco-Prussian war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mars-la-Tour August 16th 1960 Cyprus gets independence from Britain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted August 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 August 20, 1920 when WWJ first went on the air, becoming the first radio station in the world to broadcast regularly scheduled daily programs. Then owned and operated by The Detroit News, the station began broadcasting under experimental license with the call letters 8MK, later changing to WBL and finally to WWJ. The first broadcast went on the air at 8:15 p.m. in a makeshift “radio phone room” on the second floor of the Detroit News Building. Using a borrowed phonograph from the Edison Shop, Howard Trumbo, manager of the shop, placed a record on a turntable and waited for the signal to spin it. He selected two special records for this occasion: “Roses of Picardy” and “Annie Laurie.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 22, 2020 Report Share Posted August 22, 2020 August 22nd 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, Death of Richard III and end of the House of Plantagenet August 22nd 1851. First Americas Cup is won by the yacht America EDIT: To amend the King's right regnal number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 22, 2020 Report Share Posted August 22, 2020 ... Richard III, surely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 August 26th 1346 Battle of Crecy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crécy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 15, 2020 Report Share Posted September 15, 2020 September 15th 1940 becomes known as Battle of Britain Day thereafter as the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the campaign. It is the 80th anniversary today 15th September 1942 the USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadacanal 15th September 1944 Battle of Peleliu begins 15th September 1916 Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted September 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2020 1965, Lost in Space debuted. https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/6WZiTFHzmPei Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 15, 2020 Report Share Posted September 15, 2020 Don't think I saw the debut, but I did watch it later that first season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 18, 2020 Report Share Posted September 18, 2020 Jimi Hendrix died 50 years ago today. Cancer and GhostDancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 26, 2020 Report Share Posted September 26, 2020 September 26th 1981. A day that will live in infamy. The wrestler now known as Asuka was born https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asuka_(wrestler) GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 October 27th 1942 End of the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Santa_Cruz_Islands GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 4, 2020 Report Share Posted December 4, 2020 On this day (4 December New Style = Gregorian calendar; 24 November Old Style = Julian calendar, which was in effect in England at the time) in 1639, Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree made the first known observations of a transit of Venus (when Venus passes directly between Earth and Sun, so we can see a black spot move across the Sun's disk over the course of a few hours), Horrocks having predicted it earlier that year from the published works of Kepler. Transits of Venus are naked-eye perceptible, but they are very infrequent; the next two following 1639 came in 1761 and 1769. (The most recent ones were in 2004 and 2012; the next are in 2117 and 2125.) Edmond Halley realized in the 1730s that a good program of observations of a transit of Venus could be used to determine the distance between Earth and Venus in absolute units (and thus the distance from Earth to the Sun by use of Kepler's Laws), and the first attempt to do this was made in the 1761/69 events by many observers; analysis of those observations was complicated by unforeseen atmospheric effects but an analysis published in 1771 got an Earth-Sun distance of 153 +/- 1 million km, within 2.3% of the modern result, which is based on tracking spacecraft moving through the Solar System, and radar astronomy (no small amount of that latter done with the recently and tragically destroyed radio telescope at Arecibo). Pariah and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 December 5th 1757. Battle of Leuthen. Frederick the Great's Prussians defeat the Austrians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leuthen December 5th 1941 Battle of Moscow. A massive Soviet counterattack is launched by Marshal Zhukov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow December 5th 1943 Allied airforces begin targeting German secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossbow December 5th 1945 Flight 19 disappears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19 December 5h 1952. Start of the Great Smog in London which lasts 4 days. Casualty estimates of 4,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 It was 40 years ago today that John Lennon was murdered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon December 8th 1914. Battle of the Falkland Islands. The Royal Navy defeated the German East Asia Squadron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Falkland_Islands December 8th 2013. Metallica play a concert in Antarctica making them the first band to play on all seven continents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 8, 2020 Report Share Posted December 8, 2020 1941: This speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 15, 2020 Report Share Posted December 15, 2020 The day is almost over, but 50 years ago, on 15 December 1970, Venera 7, part of the Soviet Union's Venera mission series, landed on Venus. It was the first successful soft landing on another planet (though soft landings had been accomplished on the Moon in 1966). The spacecraft found surface temperatures far higher than expected (and above its design specification), and a 97% CO2 atmosphere, confirming in situ that humans cannot possibly survive there. Later missions in the Venera program would land and send back images from the surface. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 16, 2020 Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 December 16th 1944 The Battle of the Bulge begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge December 16th 1960 a mid air collision occurs over New York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_New_York_mid-air_collision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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