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  12. On This Day in History

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    May 20th 685 AD the battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between the Pics and the Northumbrians with the former winning.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dun_Nechtain

     

    May 20th 1217 The second battle of Lincoln sees the forces of prince Louis defeated by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lincoln_(1217)

     

    May 20th 1449 The battle of Alfarrobeira is fought in Portugal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alfarrobeira

     

    May 20th 1631 The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of the inhabitants massacred

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Magdeburg

     

    May 20th 1645 The ten day massacre of up to 800,000 people in the city of Yangzhou  as part of the transition of Ming to Qing 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou_massacre

     

    May 20th 1741 British forces lose the battle of Cartagena de Indias and retreat to Jamaica with substantial losses

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias

     

    May 20th 1813 Napoleon leads his troops into battle against a combined Russian ad Prussian army

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bautzen_(1813)

     

    May 20th 1864 Battle of Ware Bottom Church. Confederate victory in the American Civil War.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ware_Bottom_Church

     

    May 20th 1883 Krakatoa begins erupting

     

    May 20th 1927 Charles Lindbergh takes off from America to cross the Atlantic non-stop solo.

     

    May 20th 1932 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop flight by a woman across the Atlantic from America 

     

    May 20th 1941 The battle of Crete begins as German paratroopers invade Crete

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crete

     

    May 20th 1943 Luttra Woman is discovered in Sweden

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luttra_Woman

     

    May 20th 1956 Operation Redwing. A hydrogen bomb is dropped at Bikini Atoll

     

    May 20th 1967 the battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hamburger_Hill

     

    May 20th 1971 Pakistani forces massacre thousands mostly Bengali Hindus in the Chuknagar massacre

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuknagar_massacre

     

    May 20th 1983 first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS by French scientists

     

    May 20th 2013 An EF5 tornado strikes the suburb of Moore in Oklahoma City killing 24 and injuring 377

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Moore_tornado

     

    John Cruickshank VC is 104 today (last living recipient of the Victoria Cross in the Second World War), Road Dogg (is 55 today

    Born this day Honore de Balzac, William Fargo (co-founder of Wells Fargo), Frederic Passy (Nobel Laureate), Eduard Buckner (Nobel prize laureate), Sigrid Undset (Nobel prize laureate), R J Mitchell (inventor of the Spitfire), James Stewart, Gardner Fox, Moshe Dayan, Edward B Lewis (Nobel prize laureate), Alexei Tupolev, David Hedison, Anthony Zerbe, Joe Cocker, Cher, Jane Wiedlin, Timothy Olyphant, Busta Rhymes, Chris Froome (cyclist, won all three Grand Tours), Jack Gleeson (Joffrey in Game of Thrones)

    Died this day Werner von Heidenstam (Nobel prize laureate) Philip Leonard (Nobel prize laureate), Barbara Hepworth, Gilda Radner, Jon Pertwee, John Hicks (Nobel prize laureate), Randy Savage, Robin Gibb, Ray Manzarek and Nikki Lauda

  15. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    If I am posting it must be another large one, right ?

     

    The Parson and the Outlaw

    This film starts with the central conceit that Pat Garrett does not kill Billy the Kid but helps him hide his identity by making it look like he killed him. Billy gives up his guns and goes to live far away in an old property of Garrett's. He saves the life of a gunslinger who always wanted to pit his life against Billy. They come to a town where the guy who runs it is trying to stop a vote by the citizens to incorporate it into the State. The parson comes to the town and recognises Billy and tries to get him to help but it is only after the parson is killed by the man who runs the town that Billy straps on his guns and fights again. It is an ok Western.

     

    Red King, White Knight

    Tom Skerritt is an ex-agent reactivated due to his debts to check out information about a potential assassination attempt on Russia's head of state, Gorbachev. The attempt is being organised by Russian hardliners who are trying to knock off anyone who might know about it starting with the security people who accompanied the coup's head to meet the assassin. The film follows Skerritt as he tries to confirm what is happening, the Russian security people removing obstacles and then trying to find the American agent and the CIA keeping an eye on things. Dated but not bad.

     

    Maigret

    Little Pigs Without a Tail. A man goes missing and his wife contacts Maigret asking for help. This is away from his usual stomping ground of Paris so he has to tread carefully with local law. The case is around art and a fence who like art. He is the one who gives out little pigs without a tail as messages. This has the usual slow burn with the detective looking at various leads and speaking to the man's wife and the fence who is her father. Turns out the father tried to get his son in law to steal a painting from local bookmakers. But the fence has previous with them as he caused the death of one of three brothers by trying to get him to steal artwork from someone a few years prior.

    Maigret and the Tramp. When a tramp is dragged from the Seine, Maigret tries to work out why anyone would want to kill him. Barge owners who rescued him and the man's family come under the scope of the investigation but it turns on the previous owner of one of the barges who drowned two years previously. And the tramp was a potential witness at that event.

     

    The Fifth Floor

    A woman is put into psychiatric observation after it is thought she tried to commit suicide despite her repeated denials. She tries to escape but is also at the mercy of a lecherous orderly. Fairly disquieting as how do you prove that you are not mad when the experts think you are ? Early role for Robert Englund.

     

    City of Bad Men

    This Western is set around the attempted robbery of the gate of a boxing match which is an unusual premise. Several groups of bad men turn up in the city to watch the match and the sheriff attempts to deputise the leaders in order to stop trouble. Dale Robertson is one such and he has history in the town, his ex-girlfriend lives there and her brother went with him fighting in Mexico but does not return alive. There are two other leaders and they fall in with Robertson's brother played by Lloyd Bridges when Dale backs out of the robbery and they want to do it and get Robertson as well. Well worth a look.

     

    Treasure of the Golden Condor

    Cornel Wilde goes fortune hunting in Guatemala after escaping bondage with his uncle who took over the father's estate, there being no evidence that the father ever married. The tale switches between Central America and France pre Revolution. It is not bad and George Macready makes a lovely contemptible villain.

     

    Times Square

    Two young women become friends after they are both incarcerated for their own good to check their mental conditions. After one is released, she helps the other to escape and they work around Times Square. The father of one is trying to clean Times Square up (this is set in 1980) and presents a clean cut image. The soundtrack is really good and you have Tim Curry as the local DJ. It is now a period piece.

     

    Wyoming Renegades

    Butch Cassidy and Sundance in the 1950s so not really well known. Cassidy wants to rob the town bank where an ex-member of the gang works despite what the townsfolk think. The ex-member is aided by a Pinkerton detective who is after Butch. The ending is rather unique in that while a posse is out after Butch and the gang, the women of the town are lying in ambush for the gang and cut them down when they turn up to steal the money. 

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