On This Day

[Raistlin]

Events

1545 The Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII of England's battle fleet, keeled over and sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives. (The ship was raised 11 Oct 1982 to be taken to Portsmouth Dockyard.)

1588 The Spanish Armada is first sighted, off the Lizard.

1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in Egypt.

1837 Brunel's 70 m/236 ft steamship, the Great Western, was launched at Bristol.

1848 At a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, female rights campaigner Amelia Bloomer introduced 'bloomers' to the world.

1870 Napoleon III declares war on Prussia to start the Franco-Prussian War.

1903 The first Tour de France cycle race was won by Maurice Garin.

1949 Laos gained independence.

1982 The PLO accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242 (recognizing Israel's right to exist) in return for US recognition of PLO. (25th, Palestinian leader Arafat signed the document accepting Resolution 242; 26th, USA refused to recognize PLO).

1991 A major political scandal erupted in South Africa after the government admitted that it had made secret payments to the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party.

1996 Radovan Karadzic resigned from all public life.

1996 A Tamil rebel suicide boat stacked with explosives rammed and sank a Sri Lankan naval ship with 40 sailors on board.

1997 The US golfer and former US amateur champion Justin Leonard won the British Open at Royal Troon, Scotland.

1997 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) restored its cease-fire (broken on 9 February 1996) in order to participate in talks on the future of Northern Ireland.

Births

1814 Samuel Colt, US inventor

1834 Edgar Degas, French painter

1860 Lizzie Borden, alleged US axe murderess

1865 Charles Horace Mayo, US physician

1896 A J Cronin, Scottish novelist

1946 Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player

Deaths

1374 Petrarch, Italian poet

1814 Matthew Flinders, English navigator and explorer of Australia

1939 Tom Hayward, English cricketer

1965 Syngman Rhee, Korean politician

1973 Clarence White, US pop guitarist

1993 Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist and conductor

[bothwell_buyer]

Events

1545 The Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII of England's battle fleet, keeled over and sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives. (The ship was raised 11 Oct 1982 to be taken to Portsmouth Dockyard.)

1588 The Spanish Armada is first sighted, off the Lizard.

1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in Egypt.

1837 Brunel's 70 m/236 ft steamship, the Great Western, was launched at Bristol.

1848 At a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, female rights campaigner Amelia Bloomer introduced 'bloomers' to the world.

1870 Napoleon III declares war on Prussia to start the Franco-Prussian War.

1903 The first Tour de France cycle race was won by Maurice Garin.

1949 Laos gained independence.

1982 The PLO accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242 (recognizing Israel's right to exist) in return for US recognition of PLO. (25th, Palestinian leader Arafat signed the document accepting Resolution 242; 26th, USA refused to recognize PLO).

1991 A major political scandal erupted in South Africa after the government admitted that it had made secret payments to the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party.

1996 Radovan Karadzic resigned from all public life.

1996 A Tamil rebel suicide boat stacked with explosives rammed and sank a Sri Lankan naval ship with 40 sailors on board.

1997 The US golfer and former US amateur champion Justin Leonard won the British Open at Royal Troon, Scotland.

1997 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) restored its cease-fire (broken on 9 February 1996) in order to participate in talks on the future of Northern Ireland.

Births

1814 Samuel Colt, US inventor

1834 Edgar Degas, French painter

1860 Lizzie Borden, alleged US axe murderess

1865 Charles Horace Mayo, US physician

1896 A J Cronin, Scottish novelist

1946 Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player

Deaths

1374 Petrarch, Italian poet

1814 Matthew Flinders, English navigator and explorer of Australia

1939 Tom Hayward, English cricketer

1965 Syngman Rhee, Korean politician

1973 Clarence White, US pop guitarist

1993 Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist and conductor

feck

ma 2nd wifey wis born 58 years ago the day............... an ya never pit that doon. Disrespectfoo comes tae mind.

[Raistlin]

Sympathies go to her at this sad time :D

[Raistlin]

Events

1837 London's first railway station, Euston, was opened.

1845 Charles Sturt became the first European to enter Simpson's Desert in central Australia.

1881 Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the US Army

1885 Professional football was legalized in Britain.

1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes premier of Russia.

1940 In the USA, Billboard published the first singles-record charts.

1944 German staff officer Colonel von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler, in Rastenburg, Germany.

1968 During a BBC radio interview, actress Jane Asher announced that her engagement to Beatle Paul McCartney was off; he was not the first to find out.

1969 US astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to land on the moon from space capsule Apollo 11.

1973 France resumed nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll despite protests from Australia and New Zealand.

1975 After an 11-month journey, the US uncrewed Viking 1 made a soft landing on Mars.

1983 The Polish government announced an end to martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.

Births

1304 Petrarch, Italian poet

1873 Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator

1889 John Reith, Scottish engineer and first director general of the BBC

1919 Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer

1925 Jacques Delors, French politician

1938 Diana Rigg, English actress

Deaths

1903 Pope Leo XIII

1912 Andrew Lang, Scottish historian and folklore scholar

1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor

1970 Ian Macleod, British statesman

1973 Bruce Lee, US 'Chinese Western' actor

1989 Harry Worth, English comedian

[Raistlin]

Events

1798 The Battle of the Pyramids took place, in which Napoleon, soon after his invasion of Egypt, defeated an army of some 60,000 Mamelukes.

1861 The Confederates defeated the Union troops in the first Battle of Bull Run, in the American Civil War.

1897 London's Tate Gallery, built on the site of the Millbank Prison, was opened.

1944 Guam, in the western Pacific, which had been under Japanese occupation since Dec 1941, was retaken by US Marines.

1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike replaced her murdered husband as prime minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the first woman to hold this office.

1969 The lunar module Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and US astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin took their first exploratory walk.

1990 More than 150,000 people attended The Wall, a large-scale concert staged by rock performers in East Berlin to celebrate the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.

Births

1816 Paul Julius von Reuter, German news agency founder

1899 Ernest Hemingway, US novelist

1922 Kay Starr, US singer

1926 Norman Jewison, Canadian film director

1934 Jonathan Miller, English TV, film and theatre director

1948 Cat Stevens, English rock singer and songwriter

Deaths

1796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet

1928 Ellen Tracy, English actress

1962 George Macaulay Trevelyan, British historian

1967 Albert Luthuli, South African politician

1967 Basil Rathbone, English actor

[Raistlin]

Births

1478 Philip I, King of Spain

1822 Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and botanist

1888 Selman Abraham Waksman, US biochemist

1898 Alexander Calder, US sculptor

1926 Bryan Forbes, British author, director and producer

1938 Terence Stamp, British actor

Deaths

1802 Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist

1932 Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatrical producer

1950 Mackenzie King, Canadian statesman

1967 Carl Sandburg, US poet

1976 Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist

Events

1812 The Duke of Wellington defeated the French in the Battle of Salamanca, in Spain.

1933 Wiley Post completed the first around the world solo aeroplane flight - the journey took 7 days, 18 hrs and 49.5 min.

1934 US bank robber and 'public enemy no 1', John Dillinger, was gunned down by an FBI squad in Chicago.

1946 Bread rationing started in Britain.

1976 The musical show A Chorus Line was staged in London for the first time.

1977 The 'Gang of Four' were expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and Deng Xiao-ping was reinstated as deputy premier.

1991 British prime minister John Major unveiled the government's 'Citizen's Charter' aimed at improving public services.

[Raistlin]

Births

1886 Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator

1888 Raymond Chandler, US novelist

1892 Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor

1912 Michael Wilding, English actor

1933 Richard Rogers, English architect

1953 Graham Gooch, English cricketer

Deaths

1757 Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer

1875 Isaac Singer, US inventor

1885 Ulysses Grant, general and 18th US president

1948 D W Griffith, US film director

1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, US World War I fighter pilot

1988 Jahangir, Pakistani cricketer

1993 Raul Gardini, Italian businessman

Events

1745 Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender to the Britsh throne, landed in the Hebrides, W Scotland.

1864 Dr Livingstone returned to England.

1940 The Local Defence Volunteers were renamed the Home Guard by Winston Churchill.

1952 King Farouk of Egypt was deposed by General Neguib.

1967 In the heat of the mountain stage of the Tour de France, British cyclist Tony Simpson, 29, collapsed and died.

1986 Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey, London, and was created Duke of York.

1996 The French police arrested one of the members of the Basque separatist organization ETA's high command. Three more were arrested the following day.

1996 The BSE scare was extended to sheep after research showed that mad cow disease could be transmitted to sheep in laboratory tests.

[Bizarra]

Births

1886 Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator

1888 Raymond Chandler, US novelist

1892 Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor

1912 Michael Wilding, English actor

1933 Richard Rogers, English architect

1953 Graham Gooch, English cricketer

Deaths

1757 Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer

1875 Isaac Singer, US inventor

1885 Ulysses Grant, general and 18th US president

1948 D W Griffith, US film director

1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, US World War I fighter pilot

1988 Jahangir, Pakistani cricketer

1993 Raul Gardini, Italian businessman

Events

1745 Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender to the Britsh throne, landed in the Hebrides, W Scotland.

1864 Dr Livingstone returned to England.

1940 The Local Defence Volunteers were renamed the Home Guard by Winston Churchill.

1952 King Farouk of Egypt was deposed by General Neguib.

1967 In the heat of the mountain stage of the Tour de France, British cyclist Tony Simpson, 29, collapsed and died.

1986 Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey, London, and was created Duke of York.

1996 The French police arrested one of the members of the Basque separatist organization ETA's high command. Three more were arrested the following day.

1996 The BSE scare was extended to sheep after research showed that mad cow disease could be transmitted to sheep in laboratory tests.

Better be careful, Raist Sheep have mad cow disease, too

At least this proves that I read this , daily, I'm one of your 2 fans

[Raistlin]

Events

1534 Jacques Cartier landed at Gaspxé in Canada and claimed the territory for France.

1704 Admiral Sir George Rooke captured Gibraltar from the Spaniards.

1824 The result of the world's first public opinion poll, on voters' intentions in the 1824 US presidential election, was published in the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian.

1851 The window tax in Britain was abolished.

1925 A six-year-old girl became the first patient to be successfully treated with insulin, at Guy's Hospital, London.

1974 The US Supreme Court ordered President Nixon to surrender all Watergate tapes to the Special Prosecutor.

1990 A Catholic nun and three policemen were killed by an IRA landmine hidden at the side of a road in County Armagh.

1996 Dozens of rush-hour commuters were killed and 500 were injured in explosions in a packed train south of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Births

1783 Simón Bolívar, South American liberator

1802 Alexandre Dumas Père, French author

1864 Frank Wedekind, German dramatist

1898 Amelia Earhart, US aviator

1919 Peter Yates, British film director

1951 Lynda Carter, US actress and singer

Deaths

1862 Martin van Buren, 8th US president

1883 Matthew Webb, English swimmer

1957 Sacha Guitry, French actor and dramatist

1965 Constance Bennett, US film actress

1974 James Chadwick, English physicist

1980 Peter Sellers, English actor

[Raistlin]

Events

306 Constantine proclaimed Emperor in York.

1139 Alfonso I of Portugal defeated the Moors at Ourique.

1581 A confederation of the northern provinces of the Netherlands proclaimed their independence from Spain.

1603 James I is crowned King of England uniting the thrones of England and Scotland.

1909 French aviator Louis Blériot made the first Channel crossing in an aeroplane, which he had designed.

1917 Margaretha Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death.

1943 Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as Dictator of Italy, bringing an end to the Fascist regime.

1948 Bread rationing in Britain ended.

1952 The European Coal and Steel Community, established by the treaty of Paris 1951, was ratified.

1978 The first test-tube baby in Britain was born - Louise Joy Brown, at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire, UK.

1992 The 25th Olympic Games are held in Barcelona, Spain.

1994 King Hussein of Jordan and Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, signed joint declaration in Washington, DC, formally ending their conflict.

1995 A bomb exploded on a crowded commuter train in Paris, killing seven people and injuring over 80.

1997 The socialist Fatos Nano became prime minister of Albania, following elections.

Births

1848 Arthur James Balfour, British statesman

1894 Walter Brennan, US film actor

1907 Johnny 'Rabbit' Hodges, US jazz saxophonist

1930 Annie Ross, British singer

1937 Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist

1948 Steve Goodman, US songwriter

Deaths

306 Flavius Valerius Constantinus, Roman emperor

1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet

1843 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor

1887 Henry Mayhew, British social investigator and founder of Punch

1934 Engelbert Dolfuss, Austrian statesman

[Raistlin]

Events

1745 The first recorded women's cricket match was played near Guildford, Surrey, between teams from Hambledon and Bramley.

1847 Liberia became the first African colony to secure independence.

1908 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation, concerned in particular with internal security, was founded.

1945 The Labour Party won a landslide victory in Britain's general election.

1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal which led to confrontation with Britain, France, and Israel.

1958 Debutantes were presented at the British royal court for the last time.

1974 The US House Judiciary Committee recommended impeachment of President Nixon.

1976 A massive release of poisonous dioxin gas from a pesticide plant near Seveso in Italy killed domestic and farm animals in the surrounding region.

1987 Cyclist Steve Roche became the first Irishman, and only the second non-continental European, to win the Tour de France.

1996 Thousands of civilians fled as the Sri Lankan army confronted the Tamil Tigers with a force of 100,000 armed men in an attempt to crush the rebels.

Births

1856 George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist

1875 Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist

1894 Aldous Huxley, English novelist

1928 Stanley Kubrick, US film director

1943 Mick Jagger, British rock singer

1954 Vitas Gerulaitis, US tennis player

Deaths

1863 Samuel Houston, US general and president of the Republic of Texas

1881 George Borrow, English writer

1952 Eva Perón, Argentinian populist leader

1979 Charles Clore, English financier

1986 Averell Harriman, US statesman and diplomat

1994 Terry Scott, English comic actor

[Raistlin]

Events

1214 King Philip Augustus defeats Otto IV at the Battle of Bouvines.

1694 The Bank of England was founded by act of Parliament.

1809 The Duke of Wellington defeats the French at the Battle of Talavera.

1866 The Great Eastern arrived at Heart's Content in Newfoundland, having successfully laid the transatlantic telegraph cable.

1942 The Battle of El Alamein ended after 17 days, with the British having prevented the German and Italian advance into Egypt.

1953 The Korean armistice was signed at Panmujom, ending three years of war.

1967 In Britain, the Sexual Offences Act decriminalized homosexual acts between consenting males over 21.

1985 Ugandan president Milton Obote was overthrown for a second time, this time by a coup led by Brigadier Tito Okello.

1988 British pole-vault record holder Jeff Gutteridge was banned for life by the British Amateur Athletic Board for taking steroids.

1996 A bomb exploded in Centennial Park, Atlanta, killing two, injuring 110 others, and marring the 26th Olympic Games.

Births

1824 Alexandre Dumas fils, French dramatist

1870 Hilaire Belloc, English poet and author

1904 Anton Dolin, British dancer and choreographer

1942 Bobbie Gentry, US singer

1955 Alan Border, Australian cricketer

1958 Christopher Dean, British ice skater

Deaths

1844 John Dalton, English physicist and chemist

1942 William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist

1946 Gertude Stein, USnovelist and poet

1980 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran

1984 James Mason, English actor

1986 Osbert Lancaster, British writer and artist

[Raistlin]

Events

1540 Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard and executed his former chancellor, Thomas Cromwell.

1586 The first potato arrived in Britain, brought from Colombia by Thomas Harriot.

1794 Maximilien Robespierre and 19 other French Revolutionaries went to the guillotine.

1821 San Martin and his forces liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain.

1858 Fingerprints were first used as a means of identification by William Herschel, who later established a fingerprint register.

1868 The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, dealing with citizens' rights of all races, was ratified.

1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, beginning World War I.

1976 The Tian Shan area of China was struck by an earthquake which caused over 800,000 Deaths

1996 Ivan Milat was sentenced to life in prison in Australia for killing seven backpackers.

Births

1844 Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet

1866 Beatrix Potter, English author and illustrator

1887 Marcel Duchamp, French painter

1901 Rudy Vallee, USsinger

1936 Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer

1941 Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor

Deaths

1540 Thomas Cromwell chancellor to Henry VIII of England, executed

1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet and soldier

1741 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer

1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer

1836 Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British banker

1944 Otto Hahn, German nuclear physicist

[Parts-King]

At least this proves that I read this , daily, I'm one of your 2 fans

You are one of them Vic and Raist is the other

[Raistlin]

Tomorrow mentions Kingo's tragic accident...

[Bizarra]

Tomorrow mentions Kingo's tragic accident...

Did you miss this part of a recent post of Kingo's?

"I have a brown/white belt in Shotokan(1st Kyu) . One of the first things taught is to step aside and defend yourself, not to attack as most people think. When you train regularly, it becomes second nature to side step, defend and run away if required! Yes attacking moves are taught"

:lol2:

[Raistlin]

Tomorrow mentions Kingo's tragic accident...

Did you miss this part of a recent post of Kingo's?

"I have a brown/white belt in Shotokan(1st Kyu) . One of the first things taught is to step aside and defend yourself, not to attack as most people think. When you train regularly, it becomes second nature to side step, defend and run away if required! Yes attacking moves are taught"

It's just karate for girls, Akin to flower arranging with attitude...

[Raistlin]

Births

1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician

1869 Booth Tarkington, US author

1883 Benito Mussolini, Italian leader

1887 Sigmund Romberg, US composer

1905 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish UN secretary-general

1925 Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer

Deaths

1833 Robert Schumann, German composer

1890 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter

1970 John Barbirolli, English conductor

1983 Raymond Massey, Canadian actor

1983 David Niven, British film actor

1983 Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director

1994 Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist

Events

1588 The Spanish Armada was defeated by the English fleet under Howard and Drake, off Plymouth.

1900 King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by an anarchist and succeeded by Victor Emmanuel.

1948 The 14th Olympic Games opened in London - the first in 12 years, due to World War II.

1949 The first regular televised weather forecast was broadcast by the BBC.

1958 President Eisenhower.signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.

1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church's traditional teaching on (and condemnation of) birth control.

1981 The Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer at London's St Paul's Cathedral; the televised ceremony was watched by over 700 million viewers around the world.

1996 China carried out what it claimed would be its last a nuclear test.

[Raistlin]

Births

1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, architect, and writer

1818 Emily Brontë, English novelist

1863 Henry Ford, US car manufacturer

1898 Henry Moore, English sculptor

1958 Daley Thompson, British athlete

1958 Kate Bush, English singer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSOSmmi1dHw

Deaths

1718 William Penn, English Quaker leader

1771 Thomas Grey, English poet

1784 Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist

1898 Otto von Bismarck, German politician

1983 Lynn Fontanne, US actress

1983 Howard Dietz, US lyricist

Events

1619 A representative colonial assembly - the first in America - was held at Jamestown, Virginia, under the new governor of the colony, Sir George Yeardley.

1793 Toronto (known as York until 1834) was founded by General John Simcoe.

1935 'Penguin' paperback books, founded by Allen Lane, went on sale in Britain.

1948 The world's first radar station was opened, to assist shipping at the port of Liverpool.

1963 Kim Philby, British intelligence officer from 1940 and Soviet agent from 1933, fled to the USSR.

1966 England won the Football World Cup in London, beating West Germany 4 - 2.

1980 New Hebrides became independent as Vanuatu.

1990 Ian Gow, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, a close friend and personal advisor to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, was killed by a car bomb at his home.

[Parts-King]

:eek: You know already??

[Bizarra]

:eek: You know already??

He is "HE WHO KNOWS" :hokus-pokus:

[Raistlin]

It is written as I foretold

[Parts-King]

It's just karate for girls, Akin to flower arranging with attitude...

Note to oneself.................Put Raists name on top of the "Hit" list :boxing: :D:

[Raistlin]

Events

1498 Columbus arrrived at Trinidad on his third voyage.

1910 Dr Crippen was arrested aboard the SS Montrose as it was docking at Quebec; charged with the murder of his wife, he was the first criminal to be caught by the use of radio.

1919 The Weimar Republic was established in post-war Germany.

1942 The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (later called Oxfam) was founded in Oxford, England.

1954 Mount Godwin-Austin (K2) in the Himalayas was first climbed by an Italian expedition, led by Ardito Desio.

1965 Cigarette advertising on British television was banned.

1971 US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin entered their Lunar Roving Vehicle and went for a ride on the Moon.

1973 Militant Protestants, led by Rev Ian Paisley, disrupted the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

1991 At a superpower summit in Moscow, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and announced that they would be co-sponsoring a Middle East peace conference.

1994 UN Security Council authorizes 'all necessary means' to remove the military regime in Haiti.

Births

1803 John Ericsson, US naval engineer

1912 Milton Friedman, US economist

1927 Peter Nichols, English dramatist

1929 Lynne Reid Banks, English author

1944 Geraldine Chaplin, US film actress

1951 Evonne Cawley, Australian tennis player

Deaths

1556 Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuits

1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th US president

1886 Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer

1943 Hedley Verity, English cricketer

1964 Jim Reeves, US country singer

1992 Leonard Cheshire, British pilot and philanthropist

1993 King Baudouin I of Belgium

1997 Bao Dai, last emperor of Vietnam 1927-55

[Bizarra]

"1965 Cigarette advertising on British television was banned. "

A lot of good that ever did!

My packet of pipe tobacco states " Smoking is bad for your health. Don't start"

Did any non smoker, EVER, go into a shop, spot a packet of pipe tobacco, & say "Gosh! I must buy a pipe & try that !" :ffs: