GhostDancer Posted December 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2016 1642New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman. 1918President Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office. 1978The U.S. Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin honoring a woman. 1981The Polish government imposed martial law in an attempt to crush the Solidarity movement. 1989South African President F. W. de Klerk met with Nelson Mandela for the first time. 1996Kofi Annan of Ghana chosen to become UN secretary-general. 2000George W. Bush accepted presidency 36 days after election; Al Gore, Jr., conceded. 2003American forces captured Saddam Hussein who was hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 1799George Washington died at age 67. 1819Alabama became the 22nd state in the United States. 1911Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, beating an expedition led by Robert F. Scott. 1939The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations. 1967DNA synthesized for the first time. 1981Israel formally annexed the Golan Heights. 1985Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. 1989Nobel Peace laureate Andrei D. Sakharov died in Moscow at age 68. 2012Adam Lanza, age 20, forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 26 people. The victims included 20 children between the ages of six and seven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1773The Boston Tea Party took place. 1916Grigori Rasputin assassinated by a group of noble Russian conspirators. 1920One of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the Gansu province in China. The 8.6 quake killed 200,000 people. 1944The Battle of the Bulge during World War II began in Belgium. 1990Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti in the country's first democratic elections. 2000Colin Powell was selected to become the first African-American secretary of state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GhostDancer Posted December 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 1777France recognized American independence. 1903Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C. 1944The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing "evacuees" to return home. 1969The U.S. Air Force ended its "Project Blue Book" and concluded that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial activity behind UFO sightings. 1992North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 1737Violin maker Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona, Italy. 1787New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1865Slavery was abolished with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. 1892Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" premiered at St. Petersburg's Maryinksy Theatre. 1944The Supreme Court upheld the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. 1956Japan was admitted to the United Nations. 1957The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania became the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States. 1969The British Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder. 2000George W. Bush received 271 votes in the delayed Electoral College balloting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 1732Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac. 1776Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls." 1843Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol." 1946War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French. 1972Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings. 1984Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997. 1998President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives. 2003Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 1790Samuel Slater built the nation's first cotton mill in Pawtucket, R.I. 1803The United States purchased the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million. 1860South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. 1968Author John Steinbeck died at age 66. 1989The United States invaded Panama and installed a new government but failed to capture General Manuel Antonio Noriega. 1996Astronomer Carl Sagan died at age 62. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 Is it just me, or does that bird's one wing look like the face of Cthulhu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 Louisiana flag ... you are probably correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 1620The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1891The first basketball game, invented at Springfield College in Massachusetts by James E. Naismith, was played. 1898Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium. 1913The first crossword puzzle was printed in the New York World. 1937Disney's Snow White, the first feature length color and sound cartoon, premiered. 1970Elvis Presley met with president Richard Nixon in the White House. 1988A terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. 1991Eleven of the former Soviet republics form the Commonwealth of Independent States. 1995Palestinians took over the control of the city of Bethlehem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2016 1772 Construction of the first schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains was started in Schoenbrunn, Ohio, by Moravian missionaries. 1807 The U.S. Congress passed the Embargo Act. 1864 During the Civil War, Union general William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah." 1894 French army officer Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial. 1989 Playwright Samuel Beckett died at age 83. 2001 Hamid Karzai sworn in as president of Afghanistan. 2010 President Obama officially repealed the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" military policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 23, 2016 Report Share Posted December 23, 2016 (Just cutting and pasting from Wikipedia today.) 583 – Yohl Ik'nal acceded to the throne of the Maya city-state of Palenque. 1793 – French Revolution: The Royalist counterrevolutionary army was decisively defeated in the Battle of Savenay, although fighting continued in the War in the Vendée for years afterward. 1916 – First World War: Allied forces gained a strategic victory in the Battle of Magdhaba, located in the Sinai Peninsula. 1938 – A South African fisherman discovered the first living specimen of a coelacanth (pictured), long believed to be extinct. 1986 – Piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the Rutan Voyager became the first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a nine-day trip. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 1831 Darwin began his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle. 1900 Prohibitionist Carry Nation smashed her first saloon. 1932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opened. 1945 The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations. 1949 The Netherlands transferred sovereignty to Indonesia after more than 300 years of Dutch rule. 1979 The Soviet Union took control of Afghanistan, installing Afghan politician Babrak Karmal as president. 1996 Rwanda's first genocide trial opened for the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis. 2001 The U.S. announced plans to hold Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted December 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2016 1170Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered by four knights acting under the orders of Henry II. 1845Texas became the 28th state in the United States. 1851The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) opened in Boston. 1890The last major battle of the Indian Wars, at Wounded Knee Creek, took place with hundreds of Indian men, women, and children massacred. 1937The Constitution of Ireland, changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect. 1940During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London. 1989Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia. 1996A peace agreement was signed, ending 36 years of conflict in Guatemala. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 1492Muhammad XI, the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I. 1788Georgia was admitted to the Union as the 4th state. 1839Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon. 1905The Russo-Japanese war ended. 1923The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned by a white mob. 1935The Bruno R. Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby. 1959The first spacecraft to fly by the Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR. 1994Rudolph Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 1540King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves. 1759George Washington married Martha Custis. 1838Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the telegraph. 1912New Mexico became the 47th state in the United States. 1919Former president Theodore Roosevelt died in Oyster Bay, N.Y. 1987University of California astronomers first witnessed the birth of a galaxy that contained 1 billion stars. 1994Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan clubbed on leg by men including husband of rival skater Tonya Harding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 1935Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. 1964The first government report regarding the dangers of cigarette smoking was issued by the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry. 1973Baseball's American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher. 2002The first al-Qaeda prisoners arrive at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 2003Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state's death row by commuting the sentences of 167 inmates. 2011The Arab Spring movement begins in Tunisia when demonstrators take to the streets to protest chronic unemployment and police brutality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 1973 Baseball's American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule which allowed another player to bat for the pitcher. A day that will live in infamy, truly. Rails 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 1706Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston. 1806James Madison Randolph, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, became the first child born in the White House. 1893Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced to abdicate by a group of planters and businessmen. 1945Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody. 1977Gary Gilmore became the first person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reintroduced. 1991Operation Desert Storm was launched against Iraq. 1998President Clinton became the first sitting U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit. 2001Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency concerning California's electricity crisis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 1893 Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced to abdicate by a group of planters and businessmen. "Forced to abdicate" is putting it politely. Hundreds of Royal Guard faced off with 1500 US Marines and non-native militia across the street, who had the full backing of the US Government. Lili'uokalani stepped down knowing armed resistance would only provoke a full scale invasion. Like most instances of Native American - U.S. relations, this was a case of corrupt Americans screwing over native people while no other Americans cared enough to put a stop to it. GhostDancer and Doc Shadow 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 1733The first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston. 1778Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). 1782Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire. 1788The First Fleet, carrying convicts and sheep, arrived in Australia's Botany Bay. 1912The ill-fated Scott expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover Amundsen had been there first. 1943The Nazi siege of Leningrad was broken. 1993All 50 states joined in the observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 1915The electric neon sign was patented in the United States by George Claude of Paris, France. 1953Lucy Ricardo gave birth to baby Ricky on I Love Lucy. More people tuned in to watch the show than the inauguration of President Eisenhower. 1955President Eisenhower okayed the first filming of a news conference for television. 1966Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister of India. 1981The United States and Iran signed an agreement paving the way for the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months. 1997Yasser Arafat returned to Hebron for the first time in 30 years, as Israel hands over control of the West Bank city to Palestinians. 2001President Clinton admitted he made false statements under oath about Monica Lewinsky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 41Roman emperor, Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula (meaning Little Boot—he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered. 1848Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's mill. When President Polk announced the news in December, the gold rush began. 1908Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England. 1943The Casablanca Conference with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill concluded. 1965Winston Churchill died in London at age 90. 1972Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on. 1986Voyager Two space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus. 1993The first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall, died. 2003The Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2017 1788The first European settlers landed in Sydney, Australia. 1802Congress passed an act calling for establishment of a library within the US Capitol. 1837Michigan became the 26th state in the United States. 1950India, three years after gaining its independence from the United Kingdom, formally became a republic. 1979Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died in New York at age 70. 1988Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway. It would go on to become the longest-running Broadway show. 1993Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic. 2001A magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked the Indian state of Gujarat, killing more than 20,000 people. 2004President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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