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    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)
     
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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)
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    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
     
     
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    Why didn't he just take Does Not Add to Figured Characteristics for -1/2? That was still legal in 4th Edition.
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    I’ve been watching Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman on Tubi.
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    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.

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    Bruce Lee had a vegan brother - Broco Lee
     
    Happy Thanksgiving 
     
     
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    May his memories be a blessing, sir.
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    One of the worst mining disasters in British history occurs on this day in 1866 at the Oaks colliery in Yorkshire
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaks_explosion
     
    Clapham Junction Rail Crash 12th December 1988. This is one of the worst rail crashes in Britain
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Junction_rail_crash
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    On this date in 2009 we went to a church Christmas party and Lady P was asked, "Wouldn't it be funny if you weren't in church tomorrow because you went into labor?" To which Lady P replied (as she'd been told by her doctor), "No, the baby's not coming this week."
     

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    My father died on this date two years ago, following a very short but agonizing battle with lung cancer.  A small piece of history to most, but meaningful to me.
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    Chuck Norris doesn't wear Sunblock - the Sun wears Chuckblock.
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    Bruce Lee had a vegan brother - Broco Lee
     
    Happy Thanksgiving 
     
     
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    Bruce Lee had a vegan brother - Broco Lee
     
    Happy Thanksgiving 
     
     
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    For multiple reasons, this isn't considered right any more, due to calibration problems, and the feature they identified as phosphine probably being a blend of sulfur dioxide lines instead (and SO2 is already known to be present and strong in the Venusian atmosphere).
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    On this day, 22 years ago....the world changed.
     
    Never forget.
     
    Even if you can hardly believe it's been 22 years.  I know I can't.
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    Joe Shuster was born on this day in 1914.  Together with Jerry Siegel they created the world's greatest adventure strip character.  You know who I mean.
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    It's Bastille Day !
     
    July 14th 1865 the Matterhorn is ascended for the first time but four of the party die on the descent.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_ascent_of_the_Matterhorn
     
    Pat Garrett shoots Billy the Kid dead July 14 1881
     
    July 14th 1963 Jacques Anquetil wins the Tour de France for the 4th time
     
    July 14th 1964 Jacques Anquetil wins the Tour de France for the 5th time
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    16th July 1228 Canonisation of St Francis of Assisi
     
    16th July 1683 naval Battle of Penghu
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Penghu
     
    16th July 1861 First Battle of Bull Run
     
    16th July 1945 Successful detonation of a nuclear device at Alamogordo, New Mexico
     
    16th July 1948 First commercial aircraft hijack
     
    16th July 1961 Jacques Anquetil wins his 2nd Tour de France
     
    16th July 1965 Mont Blanc tunnel opens
     
    16th July 1994 Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
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    August 9th 48 BC. Battle of Pharsalus. Caesar defeats Pompey
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pharsalus
     
    August 9th 378 AD Battle of Adrianople. The Goths defeat Rome
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianople
     
    August 9th 1942. Battle of Savo Island. Japan defeats the Allies
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Savo_Island
     
    August 9th 1945. Nagasaki is devastated by the second Atomic Bomb
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
     
    August 9th 1965 Singapore is forcibly ejected from Malaysia and becomes independent
     
    August 9th 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. Sharon Tate and her guests
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate–LaBianca_murders
     
    It is also Gillian Anderson's birthday.
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    Jack Kirby was born on this day in 1917.
     

    Hail To The King.
     
     
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