death tribble Posted March 12 Report Share Posted March 12 March 12th 1088 Urban II elected as 159th pope, He is famous for initiating the Crusades March 12th 1811 French Marshal Ney delays an Anglo Portuguese force at the battle of Redinha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Redinha March 12th 1928 the St Francis dam fails leading to the deaths of 431 people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Dam March 12th 1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins the salt march https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March March 12th 1933 Franklin D Roosevelt gives the first of his fireside chats addressing the USA for the first time as President March 12th 1938 Anschluss. German troops occupy and absorb Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss March 12th 1940 Finland and the Soviet Union sign the Moscow Peace Treaty ending the Winter War March 12th 1940 The most destructive train accident in Finnish history occurs killing 39 and injuring 69 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turenki_rail_accident March 12th 1950 Returning from the Five nations rugby match in Ireland a plane crashes in Wales killing 80 people. This was the deadliest crash at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llandow_air_disaster March 12th 1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain March 12th 1992 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining in the Commonwealth of Nations March 12th 1993 Several bombs explode in Mumbai India killing 300 and injuring hundreds more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bombay_bombings March 12th 1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO Born this day Charles Boycott (from whom we get the term boycott), Googie Withers, Jack Kerouac, Al Jarreau, Liza Minelli, Mitt Romney, Titus Welliver, Aaron Eckhart, Graham Coxon (Blur) and Kenta Kobayashi (Japanese Wrestler) Dies today Innocent 1st and Gregory 1st (popes), Thomas Boleyn (Anne Boleyn's father and Elizabeth 1st's grandfather), Morton Downey Jnr, Robert Ludlum and Terry Pratchett GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 (edited) March 15th 44 BC Julius Caeser is assassinated by members of the Senate The Ides of March March 15th 1311 Battle of Halmyros. The Catalan Company of mercenaries defeat the Duchy of Athens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halmyros March 15th 1829 Maine is admitted as the 23rd state March 15th 1875 John McCloskey, the archbishop of New York is made the first cardinal of America March 15th 1877 the first official cricket test takes place. Australia vs England at the MCG stadium in Melbourne Australia March 15th 1888 Anglo-Tibet war of 1888 begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim_expedition March 15th 1918 Battle of Tampere begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tampere March 15th 1919 The American Legion is founded March 15th 1921 Talaat Pasha chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Talaat_Pasha March 15th 1927 The first Women's Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place March 15th 1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia March 15th 1943 Third battle of Kharkiv ends as the Germans take Kharkiv from the Russians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov March 15th 1986 The Hotel New World collapses in Singapore killing 33. 17 people are rescued https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_Hotel_New_World March 15th 2019 The Christchurch mosque shootings take place. 51 people die https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings Born this day Andrew Jackson (7th US President), William Lamb (2nd Viscount Melbourne and Prime Minister of United Kingdom), Lawrence Tierney, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Judd Hirsch, Jimmy Swaggert, Mike Love (Beach Boys), David Cronenberg, Linda La Plante, Sly Stone, Ry Cooder, Dee Snider, Terence Trent D'Arby, Bret Michaels, Eva Longaria, will i. am, Died this day H P Lovecraft, Benjamin Spock, Ron Silver, Nate Dogg and Sylvia Anderson (Gerry Anderson's wife) Edited March 17 by death tribble GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 March 16th 1190 Massacre of Jews in York March 16th 1244. Over 200 Cathars are burned to death after refusing to recant after the fall of Montsegur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Montségur March 16th 1872. The first FA Cup final (the oldest football competition in the world) is played at the Oval Kennington between Wanderers and The Royal Engineers AFC with the former winning 1-0 March 16th 1916 The 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under Pershing cross the US-Mexican border in the hunt for Pancho Villa March 16h 1918 The battle of Lankipohja is fought in the Finnish Civil War. Up to 100 of the Reds who surrendered were executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Länkipohja March 16th 1925. An earthquake in Dali China kills an estimated 5,000 people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_Dali_earthquake March 16th 1945 the Battle of Iwo Jima ends but there are still pockets of Japanese resistance The RAF bomb Wurzburg Germany destroying 90% of the town in 20 minutes leading to at least 4,000 deaths March 16th 1962 Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears over the Western Pacific. All 107 people on board are missing presumed dead.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_739 March 16th 1968 the My Lai massacres occurs when 347-500 Vietnamese civilian are killed by American troops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre March 16th 1969 a DC( crashes in Venezuela killing 155. March 16th 1978 Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped The Amoco Cadiz supertanker splits in two off the coast of France leading to the biggest oil spill at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco_Cadiz March 16th 1988 The Kurdish town of Halabja is subjected to poison gas and nerve gas agents killing at least 5,000 and injuring 10,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre March 16th 1995. Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution abolishing slavery. The bill was officially ratified by the government in 1865 March 16th 2001 Bomb blasts in China kill 108 and leave 38 wounded. This is the biggest mass murder in decades in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shijiazhuang_bombings March 16th 2012 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter to score 100 test centuries in cricket March 16th 2020. The Dow Jones Index drops nearly 3,000 points, the single largest drop in history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_stock_market_crash#Black_Monday_II_(16_March) Erik Estrada is 75 today, Nancy Wilson is 70 Born this day James Madison (4th US President), Georg Ohm. John Butler Yeats, Umegatani Totaro 1st (15th Sumo Yokozuna), Henny Yougman, Josef Mengele, Mercedes McCambridge (voice of the demon in The Exorcist), Leo McKern, Traudi Junge (Hitler's secretary), Jerry Lewis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Kate Nelligan, Isabelle Huppert, Jimmy Nail, Flavoe Flav, Todd McFarlane, Jerome Flynn (Bron in Game of Thrones, Kevin Smith (Ares in Hercules and Xena), Gore Verbinski, Alan Tudyk Died this day. Tiberius and Valentinian III (Roman Emporers), Baldwin IV king of Jerusalem, Judge Roy Bean, Tammi Terrell, T-Bone Walker and Dick Dale GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 On This Day in History…events happened on the 17 March 2024. GhostDancer and death tribble 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 18 Report Share Posted March 18 March 18th 37 AD Caligula becomes Emperor after the Roman senate annuls Tiberius's will March 18th 1068 AD A major earthquake in the Levant and Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/282049626 March 18th 1241 AD The Mongols invade Poland and defeat the Poles at the battle of Chmielnik and then plunder Krakow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chmielnik March 18th 1571 Valetta is made the capital of Malta March 18th 1793 battle of Neerwinden. During the French Revolution the French attacked Coalition forces in the Austrian Netherlands and lost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Neerwinden_(1793) March 18th 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset are sentenced to be transported to Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolpuddle_Martyrs March 18th 1848 A rebellion breaks out in Milan which drives Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers out of the city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Days_of_Milan March 18th 1871. Declaration of the Paris Commune. The French President orders an evacuation of Paris as a result March 18th 1899. Phoebe, the satillite of Saturn is the first to be discovered by photography March 18th 1915 Three battleships are sunk during naval operations in the Battle of Gallipoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_operations_in_the_Dardanelles_campaign March 18th 1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits Missouri, Illinois and Indiana killing 695 people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_tornado_outbreak March 18th 1937 The New London School explosion occurs in New London Texas claiming the lives of 300 people most of them children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion March 18th 1937 Spanish Republican forces beat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara in the Spanish Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guadalajara March 18th 1953 An earthquake hits Western Turkey and kills 1,070 people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Yenice–Gönen_earthquake March 18th 1962 the Evian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence which began in 1954 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évian_Accords March 18th 1965 The Russians perform the first space walk when Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes March 18th 1967 the supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Torrey_Canyon March 18th 1990 the largest art theft in US history occurs when 12 paintings worth $550 million are stolen from Boston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum_theft Luc Besson and Irene Cara are 65 today. Courtney Pine is 60, Adam Levine is 45 Born this day John Calhoun (7th US President), Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th US President), Rudolf Diesel, Neville Chamberlain (British Prime Minister), Wilfred Own (war poet), Werner Molders, Peter Graves, John Updike, F W de Klerk, Kenny Lynch, Brad Dourif, Rick Martel, Vanessa Williams, Queen Latifah and Solo Sikoa Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charney were executed at the stake as members of the Knights Templar on this day in 1314 King George 1st of Greece is assassinated this day in 1913 Died this day Robert Walpole (British PM), Laurence Sterne, Johnny Appleseed, Henri Cornet (winner of the 2nd Tour de France), Umberto II (last king of Italy), Natasha Richardson, Fess Parker and Chuck Berry GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 March 19th 1279 The Mongols defeat the Chinese at the battle of Yamen which ends the Song dynasty as the emperor drowns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yamen March 19th 1831 First documented bank heist in US history when burglars take $245,00 (1831 values) from City Bank in New York. Most of the money is recovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1831_City_Bank_of_New_York_theft March 19th 1865 American Civil War. Battle of Bentonville, the last battle between Generals Sheridan and Johnston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bentonville March 19th 1895 The Lumiere brothers record their first footage using their cinematograph March 19th 1900 Sir Arthur John Evans begins excavation of Knossos Palace the centre of Cretan civilisation March 19th 1921 100 Irish volunteers escapean attempt to encircle them in the Irish War of Independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbarry_ambush March 19th 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened March 19th 1945 A dive bomber hits the USS Franklin killing 724 of her crew. The ship is able to return to the US under its own power March 19th 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana is discovered by E Lee Spence 102 years after its destruction March 19th 2004 A Swedish DC3 shot down by the Russians in 1952 is finally recovered from the Baltic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_affair Born this day Guyuk Khan 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol empire, David Livingstone, Richard Francis Burton, Wyatt Earp, Alfred von Tirpitz, Albert Speer, Adolf Eichmann, Tommy Cooper (British comedian who died on stage), Patrick McGoohan, Philip Roth, Ursula Andress,Ruth Pointer, Glenn Close Bruce Willis, Neil LaBute and A J Lee Died this day Edgar Rice Burroughs, Paul Kossoff (guitarist and songwriter), John DeLorean, Arthur C Clarke and Paul Schofield GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 25 Report Share Posted March 25 (edited) March 24th 1944 The Great Escape takes place. There has been a commemoration ceremony in Poland today. It is also the 80th anniversary of the Germans massacring 355 Italians in Rome in reprisal for killing German soldiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeatine_massacre Edited March 25 by death tribble GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 25 Report Share Posted March 25 March 25th 421 AD Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto March 25th 708 Pope Constantine becomes the 88th Pope. He becomes the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967 March 25th 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes king of Scotland March 25th 1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens March 25th 1807 The Swansea and Mumbles railway becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world March 25th 1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York kills 146 garment workers. It is the deadliest industrial disaster in the city and one of the deadliest in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire March 25th 1919 The Tetiev pogrom occurs in the Ukraine as 4,000 Jews are murdered March 25th 1931 The Scottsboro boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. March 25th 1947 an explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Centralia_mine_disaster March 25th 1965 Civil Rights marchers reach Montgomery, Alabama after a 4 day walk from Selma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches March 25th 1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia Born this day Andronikos II and III of Palailogos Byzantine emperors, Joachim Murat (one of Napoleon's generals), Arturo Toscanini (conductor), Ed Begley (actor), A J P Taylor (British historian and academic), David Lean (director), Howard Cosell, Patrick Troughton (2nd Dr Who), Simone Signorett, Jim Lovell (astronaut), Gloria Steinem, Hoyt Axton, D C Fontana (screenwriter), Aretha Franklin, Richard O'Brien, Paul Michael Glaser, Elton John, Bonnie Bedelia, Sarah Jessica Parker Died this day Claude Debussey, Robert Newton (actor played Long John Silver in Treasure Island), Richard Fleischer and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters drummer) GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted March 25 Author Report Share Posted March 25 Leash Your Dog Today is the fourth anniversary of the Central Park Birdwatcher Incident. Amy Cooper, a white woman, called the police on Christian Cooper (no relation), a Black birdwatcher, after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, as required. Ms. Cooper dragged her dog, a cocker spaniel, by its collar. She called the police and lied, stating her life was threatened by an African-American man. His video of the encounter was posted to Twitter by his sister, and Ms. Cooper's actions were widely criticized. She was convicted of filing a false felony report and lost her dog and her job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 8 Report Share Posted April 8 Today is the 50th anniversary of the most important home run ever hit...Hank Aaron's 715. wcw43921 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 April 10th 1741 The battle of Mollwitz. Prussia defeats Austria and gains control of Silesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mollwitz April 10th 1815 Mount Tambora begins a three month eruption which leads to 71,000 dead and affects the Earth's climate for the next two years 1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is founded by Henry Bergh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals 1919 Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and killed by government troops 1944 Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp. They co-write a report about the mass murders there 1963 the submarine USS Thresher sinks with the loss of 129 lives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593) 1968 The ferry TEV Wahine sinks in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand with the loss of 53 people out of 734 onboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEV_Wahine 1973 Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in Switzerland with 108 killed and 37 survivors. This is the deadliest crash on Swiss soil. 55 children from Britain were left without their mothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invicta_International_Airlines_Flight_435 1979 A tornado touches down in Wichita Falls Texas and kills 42 people 1988 An explosion at the Ojhri Camp (which stored ammunition) kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad Pakistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojhri_Camp_disaster 1991 The ferry MV Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker leading to 140 deaths off the coast of Livorno, Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Prince_disaster 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland 2010 A Polish flight crashes near Smolensk in Russia killing all onboard which includes Poland's President and his wife and a lot of senior Polish officials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_air_disaster Born this day William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army), Joseph Pulitze (founder of Pulitzer Inc), Chuck Conners, Mike Hawthorn, Max von Sydow, Omar Sharif, John Madden, Gloria Hunniford (British radio and TV host), Bunny Wailer, Steven Seagal, Paul Bearer, Lesley Garrett (English Soprano), Charlie Hunnam, Haley Joel Osment and Daisy Ridley Died this day Zapata, Stuart Sutcliffe (who was the original bassist in the Beatles), Michael Curtiz, Evelyn Waugh, Kevin Peter Hall (the guy in the Predator costume), Peter Jones (actor), Larry Linville, Little Eva, Sue Townsend, Richie Benaud (Australian Cricket captain and commentator) and Howard Marks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 13 Report Share Posted April 13 April 13th 1111 Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor April 13th 1204 Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the 4th Crusade temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople April 13th 1455 In the Thirteen Years War, the Battle of Kneiphof begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Kneiphof April 13th 1612 Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro in a duel at Funajima island April 13th 1699 The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa by the 10th Guru of the Sikh religion Gobind Singh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalsa April 13th 1742 Handel's oratorio the Messiah has its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_(Handel) April 13th 1777 American forces are ambushed and defeated at the Battle of Bound Brook in the Revolutionary War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bound_Brook April 13th 1829 Catholics are given the right to vote and sit in Parliament as MPs by the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Relief_Act_1829 April 13th 1861 American Civil War. Fort Sumter surrenders to the Confederates April 13th 1863 American Civil War. Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by the Union April 13th 1870 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is founded April 13th 1873 The Colfax massacre. More than 60-150 black men are massacred in Colfax, Louisiana while surrendering to ex-Confederate soldiers and members of the KKK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre April 13th 1909 The 31st March incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_March_incident April 13th 1919 British troops under brigadier Reginald Dyer massacre 379-1500 Indian civilians in Amritsar India with another 1500 injured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre April 13th 1941 Russia and Japan sign a neutrality pact April 13th 1943 The discovery of mass graves in the Katyn forest leads to a breakdown of relations between the Polish government in exile and the Soviet Union which denies responsibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre The Jefferson memorial is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Memorial April 13th 1945 German troops kill more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardelegen_massacre Russian and Bulgarian troops capture Vienna April 13th 1948 The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place when 78 Jewish doctors and nurses and one British soldier were killed by Arabs in an ambush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_medical_convoy_massacre April 13th 1953 the CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind control program MK Ultra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra April 13th 1958 American pianist Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow April 13th 1960 the USA launches the first satellite navigation system, Transit 1-B April 13th 1964 Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American man to win the best actor Oscar for the film Lillies of the Field April 13th 1970. 'Houston, we have a problem' Apollo 13's mission to the moon has to be aborted after an oxygen tank explodes on the service module causing damage to the command and service module April 13th 1972 In the Vietnam War the Battle of An Loc begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_An_Lộc April 13th 1975 an attack by Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine marking the start of the 15 year Lebanon civil war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Beirut_bus_massacre April 13th 1976 40 workers are killed in an explosion in the deadliest accident in the history of modern Finland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_Cartridge_Factory_explosion April 13th 1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters tournament April 13th 2017 the US drops the largest non nuclear bomb in Afghanistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Nangarhar_airstrike April 13th 2023 The house of Jack Teixeira is raided after Pentagon documents are leaked. He is arrested later the same day Born this day Peter Faber one of the co-founders of the Jesuits, Catherine de Medici, Freerick North (British PM), Thomas Jefferson (American President), Frank Winfield Woolworth (founded Woolworths), Butch Cassidy, Maurice Buckley VC, Werner Voss, Samuel Beckett, Howard Keel, Roberto Calvi, Jack Chick, Alan Clark (British politician), Edward Fox, Seamus Heaney, Paul Sorvino, Max Mosley, Al Green, Ron Pearlman, William Sadler, Peter Davison (Dr Who), Garry Kasparov, Bokeem Woodbine, Lou Bega Died this day Boris Godunov (Tsar of Russia), Sasaki Kojiro, Grey Owl, Larry Parks, Caron Keating (British TV host) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 April 15th 1459 The Battle of Formigny took place in the Hundred Years War when the French all but annihilate English forces in Northern France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Formigny April 15th 1632 Battle of Rain. Gustav Adolphus defeats the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rain April 15th 1642 The Battle of Kilrush takes place in the English Civil War in Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kilrush April 15th 1756 Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London April 15th 1861 President Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers for a militia to quell the insurrection which becomes the Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Lincoln's_75,000_volunteers April 15th 1865 John Wilkes Booth murder President Lincoln inn the Ford theatre. Andrew Johnson is sworn in three hours later April 15th 1892 The General Electric Company is formed April 15th 1896 Closing ceremony of the 1st Olympiad of modern times in Athens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics April 15th 1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks with the loss of over 1,500 lives April 15th 1920 An armed robbery leads to two security guards being shot and killed. Two Italian anarchists are tried for the murders in 1921, are found guilty and executed in 1927 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti April 15th 1923 Insulin becomes generally available for patients with diabetes A racially motivated arson attack on a school kills 10 Japanese American children in Sacramento California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Shōgakkō_fire April 15th 1941 Two hundred German bombers attack Belfast in the Belfast blitz killing around 1000 people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Blitz April 15th 1942 King George VI awards the island of Malta the George Cross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Award_of_the_George_Cross_to_Malta April 15th 1945 Bergen Belsen concentration camp is liberated April 15th 1947 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking the colour bar April 15th 1952 First flight of the B52 Stratofortress April 15th 1986 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon attacking Libya after two American servicemen are killed in a disco in Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_Libya April 15th 1989 The Hillsborough Disaster. 97 Liverpool fans are killed in a crush at Hillsborough stadium Sheffield during an FA cup semi final match https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster The Tiananmen Square protests begin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre April 15th 2002 Air China flight 129 crashes in South Korea killing 129 of the 166 people onboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_China_Flight_129 April 15th 2013 The Boston Marathon bombing takes place killing three and injuring over two hundred and fifty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing A wave of bombings across Iraq kill 75 people and injure over 350 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_April_2013_Iraq_attacks April 15th 2014 The worst massacre of the South Sudanese civil war takes place with over 200 people shot as they try to take refuge in hospitals and places of worship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Bentiu_massacre April 15th 2019 The Notre Dame de Paris cathedral is damaged by a large fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire Marty Wilde (Kim Wilde's dad) is 85 today, Danny Pino is 50, Luke Evans is 45 Born this day Leonardo da Vinci, Guru Nanak the first Sikh guru, Henry James, Nikita Khruschev, Kim Il Sung, Michael Ansara, Thomas Transtormer Nobel prize laureate, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jeffrey Archer, Robert Lefkowitz Nobel prize laureate, Lois Chiles, Benjamin Zephaniah (British poet), Emma Thompson, Pedro Delgado (cyclist), Samantha Fox (English page 3 model), Seth Rogan, Emma Watson, Maisie Williams Died this day Roxelana (Hurrem Sultan wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent), Madame de Pompadour, Abraham Lincoln (US President), Wallace Beery, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Lowe, Tommy Cooper (British comedian on stage during a live TV broadcast), Kenneth Williams, Greta Garbo, Leslie Charteris (creator of the Saint), Pol Pot, Joey Ramone, Clement Freud, Clifton James, R Lee Ermey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 April 16th 1457 BC The Battle of Megido takes place. First battle to have been recorded in relatively reliable detail. Egypt vs Canaan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(15th_century_BC) April 16th 73 AD Masada falls to the Romans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada April 16th 1520 The revolts of the citizens against Charles V begins in Toledo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros April 16th 1746 The Battle of Culloden takes place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden April 16th 1799 Napoleon defeats the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Mount Tabor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Tabor_(1799) April 16th 1838 The French capture Veracruz during The Pastry War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Veracruz_(1838) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_War April 16th 1862 American Civil War,. Battle at Lee Mills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown_(1862) April 16th 1881 in Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle April 16th 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel April 16th 1917 Vladimir Lenin arrives in Petrograd from exile in Switzerland April 16th 1919 Gandhi organises a day of prayer abnd fasting in response to the Amritsar massacre three days earlier April 16th 1925 During the communist St Nedelya Church assault 150 people are killed and 500 injured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nedelya_Church_assault April 16th 1941 the Italian-German Tango convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Tarigo_Convoy April 16th 1945 Te Russians begin their final assault on Berlin with the Battle of the Seelow Heights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Seelow_Heights The US army liberates Colditz The German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Russian submarine with the loss of 7,000 lives April 16th 1947 An explosion aboard a freighter causes a fire in Texas City, Texas that leads to 600 deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster April 16th 2003 The Treaty of Accession leads to 10 countries joining the European Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Accession_2003 April 16th 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. 32 people are killed and 17 are injured before the killer commits suicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting April 16th 2013 Boko Haram engage government troops and begin a massacre in Nigeria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Baga_massacre April 16th 2014 A south Korean ferry capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island killing 304 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol April 16th 2016 The worst earthquake in 40 years in Ecuador kills 676 and injures over 6,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ecuador_earthquake Born this day Charlie Chaplin, Guy Burgess (spy for the Russians), Spike Milligan, Peter Ustinov, Henry Mancini, Pope Benedict XVI, John Harvey Jones (British businessman), Joan Bakewell, Vince Hill, Bobby Vinton, Dusty Springfield, Sir Frank Williams (founder of Williams racing team), Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Gerry Rafferty, Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Osmond, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Vickie Guerrero, Conchita Martinez, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Claire Foy, Chance the Rapper and Anna Taylor Joy Dies this day Otho (Roman Emperor by suicide), Marie Tussard, Rudolf Hoss (Auschwitz commandant executed), David Lean, Neville Brand, Robert Urich and Helen McCrory tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Today is the 40th anniversary of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan embassy in London. The London police were protecting the embassy from a demonstration outside when someone on the inside opened fire and killed her. No-one has ever been brought to book for this. Formula1 racing driver Ricchardo Patrese is 80 today, Sean Bean is 65 today, Victoria Beckham is 50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 Today is the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre Crispin Glover and Andy Serkis are 60 today Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted Tuesday at 01:19 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 01:19 PM (edited) This entry marks the completion of all of the days in April and is the first month to do so April 23rd 1014 Battle of Clontarf. The High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders and their Irish allies but perishes in the battle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Clontarf April 23rd 1348 the Order of the Garter is founded by King Edward III on St George's Day April 23rd 1521 The Battle of Vilialar. Charles defeats the Comuneros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Villalar April 23rd 1918 The Royal Navy raid Zeebrugge in order to neutralise its use by the German navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeebrugge_Raid April 23rd 1927 Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final the only time a non-English team has won the trophy April 23rd 1940 the Rhythmn club fire in Mississippi kills 198 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_Club_fire April 23rd 1971 The Pakistan army and Razakars massacre 3000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jathibhanga_massacre April 23rd 1979 Blair Peach, a British activist, was fatally injured after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League Demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall London April 23rd 1985 Cocoa Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. This received an overwhelmingly negative reception and the old formula was back in three months April 23rd 1990 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations April 23rd 2005 the first video uploaded to Youtube is Me at the Zoo by the founder April 23rd 2018 A man rams his van into pedestrians in Toronto Canada killing 11 and injuring 25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_van_attack April 23rd 2019 A landslide causes the co9llapse of a jade mine inBurma killing 4 miners and 2 rescuers but also trapping 50 miners who are presumed dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2019_Hpakant_jade_mine_collapse Michael Moore is 70 today and the wrestler Moose is 40 Born this day William Shakespeare, Ma Planck (Nobel Laureate), Ngaio Marsh (New Zealand author), Edmund Allenby (British Field Marshal), Bertil Ohlin (Nobel Laureate), Minoru Shirota (invented Yakult), Halldor Laxness (Nobel laureate), Guy Simonds (British general), Lee Miller (model, war correspondent), Ivo Lola Ribar (2nd World War Yugoslav hero), Oleg Penkovsky (provided Russian intelligence to the West), Shirley Temple, Jim Fixx (runner), Roy Orbison, Lee Majors, Jacqueline Boyer (French singer won the Eurovision song contest), Ed Stewart (broadcaster), Herve Villechaize (boss ! boss ! the plane, the plane ! and Christopher Lee's sidekick in the Man with the Golden Gun), Blair Brown, Judy Davis, Jan Hooks, Valerie Bertinelli, John Hannah, Timothy McVeigh (terrorist), John Cena, John Oliver, Jamie King, Britt Baker (wrestler and dentist), Gigi Hadid, Prince Louis of Wales Died this day St George, Boris Godunov (Russian ruler), William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Rupert Brooke (poet), Charles G Dawes (Nobel laureate), Buster Crabbe, Jim Laker (holder of record for most wickets taken in a cricket match), Otto Preminger, Paulette Goddard, Johnny Thunders, Satyajit Ray (Indian film maker), Howard Cossell, P L Travers (Mary Poppins creator), James Earl Ray (assassin), John Mills (British actor), Boris Yeltsin Edited Tuesday at 11:00 PM by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted Wednesday at 08:51 AM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 08:51 AM Shirley MacLaine is 90 today and Tony Visconti is 80. Cedric the Entertainer and Djimon Hounsou are 60 today. Bud Abbot died this day 50 years ago. Estee Lauder died this day twenty years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted Thursday at 04:19 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 04:19 PM Hank Azaria and Andy Bell are 60 today, Renee Zellweigger is 55 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago Marco Pirroni and Sheena Easton are 65 today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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