GhostDancer Posted January 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2017 1880Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light. 1944The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad. 1945The Russians liberated Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews. 1951The U.S. Air Force started atomic testing in the Nevada desert. 1967The Apollo I fire killed astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral. 1973Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 1649 King Charles I of England was beheaded. 1933 Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany. 1948 Gandhi was assassinated. 1968 North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive. 1972 British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre. 1979 The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 1606Guy Fawkes, a co-conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot, was executed. 1865The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States. 1940The first social security check was issued to Ida Fuller for $22.54. 1958The first U.S. earth satellite, Explorer I, was launched. 1990The first McDonald's opened in Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 1468Johann Gutenberg, German printer and inventor, died. 1870The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) passed. 1913The 16th Amendment, establishing federal income tax, was ratified. 1917The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. 1959Rock singers, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper died in a plane crash. 1995Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off. 1998Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 The Day the Music Died. I wonder sometimes what would have happened had Buddy Holly lived into the age of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Days of Future Passed and In The Court Of The Crimson King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 There might be more Peggy Sues in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 1811 After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV. 1917 Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto. 1937 FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—"packing" the court. 1994 Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi. 1997 Under international pressure, three of Switzerland's biggest banks created a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2017 1764St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post. 1879President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court. 1898USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War. 1913The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse. 1933Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami. 1965The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada. 1989More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country. 2002Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal. 2003Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq. 2012A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Vilnius 1804U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur. 1918Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Russia. 1923The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened. 1937Nylon was patented. 1959Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista. 1968The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala. 1999Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 19, 2017 Report Share Posted February 19, 2017 Bombing of Darwin commemorations mark 75th anniversary since Japanese attackshttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-19/darwin-bombing-75th-anniversary-commemorations/8284088 GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2017 1792President George Washington signed the Post Office Act, establishing a permanent Post Office Department. 1809The Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state. 1895Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, author, and orator, died. 1962John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. 1998Tara Lipinski won the Olympic figure skating gold medal. 2003 A fire in a nightclub in Warwick, R.I., killed 100 and injured over 150. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 1613Michael Romanov was elected czar of Russia, beginning the Romanov imperial line. 1878The first telephone book was issued (New Haven, Conn.). 1916Battle of Verdun, the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I, began. 1965Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated. 1972President Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit China. 1995Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean solo in a balloon. 2002It was confirmed that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was dead, allegedly murdered by Islamic militants. 2012Eurozone finance ministers reached an agreement on a second, 130-billion bailout for Greece to help with the country's debt crisis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 1371Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty. 1819Spain ceded Florida to the United States. 1879Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first "Five Cent Store" in Utica, New York. 1924Calvin Coolidge made the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. 1935Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House. 1980In a major upset, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets 4–3 at Lake Placid, N.Y. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 Heh. I blew up my ankle in an intramural basketball game played during that hockey game in 1980. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 That's what you get for playing basketball on a hockey rink. You're lucky the players didn't come after you with their sticks. Pariah and aylwin13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 1821John Keats, English Romantic poet, died. 1836Mexican general Santa Anna began the siege of the Alamo. 1896The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield. 18981898 French novelist Emile Zola was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing the government of anti-Semitism and wrongly jailing Captain Alfred Dreyfus. 1942The first Axis shelling of U.S. soil took place near Santa Barbara, Calif. 1945U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. 1997Scottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly. 2011The Obama Administration determines that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 1582Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull introducing the Gregorian calendar reform. 1803The Supreme Court ruled in Marbury v. Madison that any act of Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is null and void. 1821Mexico declared its independence from Spain. 1868Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, became the first president to have impeachmentproceedings brought against him by the House of Representatives. 1903The lease for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was signed. 1920Adolf Hitler outlined the basic points of the Nazi party at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich. 1968The discovery of a pulsar was announced. 1980The U.S. hockey team defeated Finland to win the gold medal at the Lake Placid Olympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2017 1844Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti. 1933German Reichstag building in Berlin was destroyed by fire. 1951The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting the President to two terms. 1973Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee, S.D. 1991Kuwait was liberated in the Gulf War. 2003Fred Rogers, of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, died. 2012Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down as president of Yemen after months of protests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted February 28, 2017 Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 That's what you get for playing basketball on a hockey rink. You're lucky the players didn't come after you with their sticks. Hockey sticks make pretty poor clubs. In the entirely theoretical case in which you have a hockey stick in your hands and want to hurt someone, they're better used to trip, strangle, explore the limits of personal intimate protectors, and, with the blade conveniently broken off, as crude but effective spears. Not, as I say, that I would know anything about any of that. There were no major airliner crashes on 28 February 1947 (for a wonder, as they were coming down practically daily), but the inquiry on the Croydon collision closed seventy years ago today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted February 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 1784John Wesley issues “Deed of Declaration” formally establishing the Methodist Church. 1849The steamship California landed in San Francisco, bringing the first East Coasters to the Gold Rush. 1916Henry James, American novelist and critic, died. 1948The last British troops left India. 1953James Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix. 1983The final episode of M*A*S*H aired. It was the most watched television program in history. 1986Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm. 1993Four federal agents were killed in Waco, Texas, after they tried to serve an arrest warrant for weapons charges on Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted March 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 1790 The U.S. Congress authorized the first census. 1803 Ohio became the 17th state in the United States. 1864 Rebecca Lee was the first black woman awarded a medical degree. 1867 Nebraska became the 37th state in the United States. 1872 Yellowstone became the world's second National Park. Some sources incorrectly state is was the first, others correctly cite Bogdkhan Uul, just south of Ulanbator, Mongolia, the oldest national park in the world. That’s right — it predates Yellowstone by roughly 100 years. Established by the Mongolian government in 1778, it was originally chartered by Ming Dynasty officials in the 1500s as an area to be kept off limits to extractive uses, protected for its beauty and sacred nature. 1922 Birth of EC/MAD Maestro Will Gaines (Today's post is sponsored by the book about the Mad rip-offs, Behaving Madly, now at the printer! Pre-order here now: https://www.amazon.com/Behaving-Madly-Cockeyed-Rip-off-Magazines/dp/16314085691932 1932 The 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped. 1961 President John F. Kennedy signed a signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. 1981 IRA member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in Maze Prison; he would die 65 days later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted March 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 1836 Texas declared its independence from Mexico. 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes was declared president by a U.S. electoral commission since the original result was too close to call. He was the only president elected this way. 1917 Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship. 1923 The first issue of Henry Luce's TIME magazine appeared on newsstands. 1933 King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premiered in New York City. 1949 Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop around the world flight. He completed the 23,452-mile journey in 94 hours, 1 minute. 1956 Morocco gained independence from France. 1962 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points in a basketball game. 2001 The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan. 2008 Dmitri A. Medvedev, a former aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin who has never held elected office, won the Russian presidential election in a landslide. Putin remained in a position of power, serving as Medvedev's prime minister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted March 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2017 1845 Florida became the 27th state in the United States. 1875 Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuted in Paris, to cool audience reception and panned by critics. 1879 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman lawyer to be admitted to appear before the Supreme Court of the United States. 1918 Germany, Austria, and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. 1931 The "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem. 1991 Rodney King's vicious beating by Los Angeles police officers was caught on videotape. 2000 Former dictator Augusto Pinochet returned to Chile after being detained in Britain on torture charges. 2003 New embassies opened in Kenya and Tanzania, to replace those lost in the 1998 terrorist bombings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted March 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2017 1836 The Alamo fell to Mexican forces. 1857 The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens. 1930 Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1957 The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana. 1981 Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," retired from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather. 1997 Queen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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