On This Day

[Raistlin]

Well you have to start somewhere...

[Bizarra]

Well you have to start somewhere...

But NOT there! One puff & you'd never try another :shutit:

Years ago I was trying to give up & using Snuff as a substitute & a "Hard Man " friend tried some We supported him out the door

His comment, when he had recovered "I didn't think it was that strong ! Never again " :lol2:

[Raistlin]

I'd heard you were into Snuff Movies...:D

[Raistlin]

Events

1498 Christopher Columbus reached the American mainland, and named it Santa Isla, believing it to be an island.

1714 George Louis, Elector of Hanover, was proclaimed King George I of Great Britain.

1774 English chemist Joseph Priestley identified oxygen, which he called 'a new species of air'.

1778 The first savings bank was opened, in Hamburg, Germany.

1793 The kilogram was introduced in France as the first metric weight.

1798 The English under Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, in Aboukir Bay.

1834 Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire.

1936 The 11th Olympics, the last for 12 years, opened in Berlin.

1975 Thirty-five nations, including the USA and the USSR, signed the Helsinki Agreement on cooperation in human rights and other global issues.

1996 General Aidid, the Somali clan leader who had fuelled Somalia's civil war despite UN peacekeeping efforts, died from gunshot wounds suffered in faction fighting on July 24th.

1996 The British government revealed experimental evidence that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) could be passed directly from infected cows to their calves.

Births

10 BC Claudius, Roman emperor

1744 Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, French zoologist

1815 Richard Henry Dana, US novelist

1819 Herman Melville, US novelist

1921 jack Kramer, US tennis champion

1936 Yves Saint-Laurent, French couturier

Deaths

1137 Louis VI, King of France

1714 Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

1834 Robert Morrison, English missionary and translator

1963 Theodore Roethke, US poet

1973 Walter Ulbricht, East German politician

1989 John Ogdon, English concert pianist

1993 Alfred Manessier, French painter

1997 Richter Syvatoslav, Russian concert pianist

[Raistlin]

Events

216BC Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the battle of Cannae.

1100 King William Rufus is killed whilst hunting in the New Forest.

1718 Britain, France, Austria, and Holland concluded the Quadruple Alliance against Spain, in an attempt to prevent Spain from annexing Sardinia and Sicily.

1776 The American Declaration of Independence is signed having been proclaimed on July 4th.

1858 The rule of the East India Company, which was established throughout India, was transferred to the British government.

1875 Britain's first roller-skating rink was opened to the public, in Belgravia, London.

1894 Death duties, now known as inheritance tax, were introduced in Britain.

1934 In Germany, following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, the presidency is merged with the chancellorship and all members of the armed forces take an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler as Führer ('Leader').

1945 The Potsdam Conference, establishing the initial post war treatment of Germany and demanding unconditional Japanese surrender, ended.

1980 Right-wing terrorists exploded a bomb in the crowded Bologna Railway Station, northern Italy, killing 84 people.

1990 Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait, precipitating an international crisis.

1993 Following speculative pressure on currencies in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, the Mechanism collapsed and currencies were allowed to fluctuate within broad band of 15% on either side of central rates.

Births

1820 John Tyndall, Irish physicist

1881 Ethel M Dell, British novelist

1891 Arthur Bliss, English composer

1905 Myrna Loy, US film actress

1924 James Baldwin, US writer

1932 Peter O'Toole, Irish actor

1954 Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer

Deaths

1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter

1799 Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French balloonist

1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor

1936 Louis Blériot, French aviator

1976 Fritz Lang, Austrian film director

1978 Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer

1997 William Burroughs, US writer

[KPARRIS-JONES]

All very good friends of Vics.

[Bizarra]

All very good friends of Vics.

Yes, but how did you know?

I associate with & number among my circle of friends the Literati,Philosophers & deep thinkers of this world, but I keep a low profile Those of them who are no longer in this plane of existence, well, we have our means of communicating :hokus-pokus: :D

This explains my deep lucid & meaningful posts to enlighten my avid followers amongst us.

Seriously, one of the greatest gifts one can have is the ability to laugh at oneself & NOT take oneself seriously

[Raistlin]

Events

1492 Christopher Columbus left Palos de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain, on his first voyage of discovery.

1610 Henry Hudson discoverd Hudson's Bay.

1778 La Scala opera house opened in Milan, Italy.

1858 Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile, was discovered by the English explorer John Speke.

1904 A British expedition, led by Col Francis E Younghusband, became the first group of westerners to enter the 'Forbidden City' of Lhasa, Tibet.

1914 Germany declared war on France.

1914 The first ships passed through the completed Panama Canal.

1936 Jesse Owens wins the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.

1940 Latvia was incorporated into the USSR as a constituent republic.

1958 The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, passed under the North Pole.

1963 The Beatles played in the Cavern in their home town, Liverpool, for the last time.

1981 (-5th) In Poland, Solidarity blockaded Warsaw city centre in protest at food shortages.

1981 US air traffic controllers went on strike; (6th) they were dismissed for not complying with Presidential order to return to work.

1992 The ANC began a 'mass action' protest campaign in South Africa.

1997 Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat entered a phase of violent eruption and major pyroclastic flow which, over the next few months, virtually destroyed the capital city of Plymouth.

Births

1801 Joseph Paxton, English architect

1867 Stanley Baldwin, British statesman

1872 King Haakon VII of Norway

1887 Rupert Brooke, English poet

1926 Tony Bennett, US singer

1940 Martin Sheen, US actor

1953 Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer

Deaths

1460 James II, King of Scotland

1792 Richard Arkwright, English inventor

1916 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist

1924 Joseph Conrad, British novelist

1954 Colette, French novelist

1966 Lenny Bruce, US comedian

[Raistlin]

Events

1265 The Battle of Evesham took place, in which Simon de Montfort was defeated by Royalist forces led by the future King Edward I, during the English Barons' War.

1578 The Portuguese were defeated by the Berbers at the Battle of Alcazarquivir.

1870 The British Red Cross Society was founded.

1914 Britain declared war on Germany after the Germans had violated the Treaty of London, and World War I began.

1918 The Second Battle of the Marne ended.

1940 Italy invaded Kenya, the Sudan, and British Somaliland.

1966 In a US radio interview, John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were probably more popular than Jesus Christ; Beatles records were consequently banned in many US states and in South Africa.

1987 Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka agreed to surrender arms to an Indian peacekeeping force.

1997 Cathy Freeman of Australia won the women's 400-metres final at the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championships in Athens, Greece, becoming the first Aboriginal to win a world title.

1997 US researchers discovered a gene-transfer method that makes bacteria vulnerable, once again, to treatment with antibiotics, combating the growing problem of bacterial drug-resistance.

Births

1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet

1841 William Henry Hudson, British writer and naturalist

1859 Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist

1900 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of the British royal family

1908 Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist and writer

1951 Peter Squires, English rugby player

Deaths

1060 Henry I, King of France

1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer

1942 James Cruze, US film director

1977 Edgar Adrian, British physiologist

1987 Pola Negri, German silent-film actress

[Bizarra]

Slight correction

"1997 Cathy Freeman of Australia won the women's 400-metres final at the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Championships in Athens, Greece, becoming the first Aboriginal to win a world title. "

Evonne Goolagong Cawley was top seed in tennis & won all before her, including Grand Slams in the 70s & early 80s

I think that makes HER the 1st aboriginal Australian to win a world title

[Raistlin]

But grand slams are not world titles.. there local

[Raistlin]

Births

1802 Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician

1850 Guy de Maupassant, French author

1906 John Huston, US film director

1906 Joan Hickson, English actress

1930 Neil Armstrong, US astronaut

1951 Bob Geldof, Irish musician ?

Deaths

1729 Thomas Newcomen, English inventor

1792 Frederick North, British politician

1858 Alexis Benoît Soyer, French chef and writer

1895 Friedrich Engels, German political writer

1962 Marilyn Monroe, US film actress

1984 Richard Burton, Welsh actor

1993 Eugen Suchon, Slovakian composer

Events

1583 English soldier and navigator Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for Elizabeth I.

1858 The first transatlantic cable was laid between the British Isles and the United States.

1891 The first American Express traveller's cheque was cashed.

1914 The first electrical traffic lights were installed, in Cleveland, Ohio.

1924 The Turkish government abolished polygamy.

1960 Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) achieved full independence from France.

1962 ANC leader Nelson Mandela was arrested and given a life sentence on charges of attempting to overthrow the South African government.

1963 The Test Ban Agreement was signed by the USA, the USSR, and the UK, contracting to test nuclear weapons only underground.

1996 An unidentified pregnant British woman and her physician aborted one of the woman's twin foetuses, drawing widespread criticism from abortion opponents. The procedure was reportedly Britain's first known abortion of a healthy foetus in a multiple pregnancy conceived without the use of fertility drugs.

1997 Hugo Bánzer Suárez was elected president by the Bolivian Congress.

[Bizarra]

"1583 English soldier and navigator Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for Elizabeth I. " but we won in the end,as usual

Welcome - Fáilte

"Outside Ireland itself, there is probably no more Irish place in the world than Newfoundland”, Tim Pat Coogan, Irish Writer

The Ireland Newfoundland Partnership (INP) manages an agreement between the Governments of Ireland and Newfoundland, to recognize the deep historical links between the two Islands and identify new areas for collaboration.

This Ireland-Newfoundland relationship is rooted in the significant pre-famine migration to Newfoundland primarily from the South East of Ireland. Today, over 50% of Newfoundland’s population is of Irish origin, and these Irish roots are still visible in modern day Newfoundland culture. Contemporary economic relations between Ireland and Newfoundland focus largely on ocean industries, marine and geological resources, and information technology.

The Ireland Newfoundland Partnership is housed within the Department of the Taoiseach and administers the international agreement in Ireland. Our sister organization in Newfoundland is Ireland Business Partnerships.

[Raistlin]

Irish influence that's why it has such a crap name, remind me never to go to Newfoundland... we have enough grief on here

[Raistlin]

Births

1775 Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician

1809 Alfred Tennyson, English poet

1868 Paul Claudel, French poet

1881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist

1917 Robert Mitchum, US film actor

1934 Chris Bonington, British mountaineer

Deaths

1623 William Shakespeare

1637 Ben Jonson, English playwright

1660 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter

1973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban dictator

1978 Pope Paul VI

Events

939 The Spanish defeated the Moors at the Battle of Salamanca.

1806 The Holy Roman Empire came to an end when Francis II renounced the crown, becoming Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

1889 The Savoy Hotel, in London, opened.

1890 William Kemmler, a murderer, became the first to be executed in the electric chair, in Auburn Prison, New York.

1926 US swimmer Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 14 hr 34 min.

1945 An atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from a US Boeing B29 bomber.

1962 Jamaica became independent after being a British colony for 300 years.

1988 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova danced again with the Kirov Ballet in London, 18 years after she defected to the West.

1995 Some 100,000 people gathered in Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan to mark the 50th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city during World War II.

1996 NASA officials reported that an ancient meteorite from Mars contains chemical, mineral and structural signs representing the first direct evidence that life had developed anywhere beyond Earth.

[Raistlin]

Births

1876 Mata Hari (Margaret Gertrude Zelle), Dutch courtesan, dancer, and probable spy

1903 Louis Leakey, British archaeologist

1904 Ralph Bunche, US diplomat

1948 Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer

1952 Alexei Sayle, British comedian

Deaths

1657 Robert Blake, British admiral

1931 Bix Beiderbecke, US jazz musician and composer

1938 Konstantin Stanislavsky, Russian theatre director

1941 Rabindranath Tagore, Indian writer

1957 Oliver Hardy, US film comedian

Events

1711 The first race meeting was held at Ascot, established by Queen Anne.

1830 Louis Philippe was proclaimed 'Citizen King' (Philippe Egalité), for his support of the 1792 Revolution in France.

1840 The employment of climbing boys as chimney sweeps was prohibited by an act of Parliament.

1913 In Britain's first aviation tragedy, US airman 'Colonel' Samuel Cody was killed when his aircraft crashed at Farnborough.

1926 Britain's first motor racing Grand Prix was held at Brooklands; the winning car averaged 71.61 mph.

1942 Guadalcanal, in the southern Solomon Islands, was assaulted by the US Marines in one of the most costly campaigns of World War II.

1960 The Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) achieved independence from France.

1990 President Bush sent US forces to Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion.

1996 Flash floods and mudslides killed 83 campers and injured 150 at a campsite near the town of Biescas, in the Spanish Pyrenees

[Raistlin]

Events

117 Hadrian became emperor of Rome following the death of his father Trajan.

1786 Mont Blanc, Europe's tallest peak, was climbed for the first time; Swiss scientist Horace Saussure had offered a prize for the accomplishment of this feat.

1940 The Battle of Britain, which would continue into the following Oct, began.

1945 The USSR declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-held Manchuria

1963 The Great Train Robbery, in which over £2.5 million was stolen, took place near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.

1974 Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign from office in face of threats to impeach him for his implication in the Watergate scandal.

1988 The luckiest day of the decade, according to the Chinese, because the date 8.8.88 is a palindrome.

1991 Islamic Jihad released John McCarthy, a British journalist who had been held hostage for 1,943 days.

Births

1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter

1901 Ernest O Lawrence, US physicist

1919 Dino De Laurentis, Italian film producer

1923 Esther Williams, US swimmer and film actress

1937 Dustin Hoffman, US film actor

1953 Nigel Mansell, British racing driver

Deaths

1553 Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician and writer

1902 James Tissot, French painter

1919 Frank Winfield Woolworth, US chainstore founder

1978 James Gould Cozzens, US novelist

1985 Louise Brooks, US actress

[Raistlin]

Events

48 BC Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus.

1842 The frontier between Canada and the USA was defined by the Webster Ashburton treaty, signed by the USA and Britain.

1870 The British Parliament passed the Married Women's Property Act, improving the situation of the nation's wives.

1902 Following a six-week delay due to an emergency appendectomy, Edward VII was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey.

1912 An earthquake struck Turkey, in the area of Istanbul, killing 6,000 people and rendering 40,000 homeless.

1945 The second atom bomb of World War II was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

1965 Singapore gained independence.

1974 Succeeding Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the USA.

1979 Britain's first nudist beach was established in Brighton.

1990 Iraq announced the annexation of Kuwait.

1996 President Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated as the first democratically elected Russian head of state.

Births

1593 Izaak Walton, English author

1757 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer

1869 Léonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer

1871 Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, Russian author

1922 Philip Larkin, English poet

1938 Rod Laver, Australian tennis player

Deaths

1653 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, Dutch admiral

1919 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer

1962 Hermann Hesse, German author

1967 Joe Orton, English playwright

1975 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer

[Raistlin]

Events

1675 King Charles II laid the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London.

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his popular Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music).

1846 The Smithsonian Institution was established in Washington DC, to foster scientific research.

1889 The screw bottle top was patented by Dan Rylands of Hope Glass Works, Yorkshire.

1895 The first Promenade Concert was held at the Queen's Hall, London, conducted by Henry Wood.

1904 In the Russo-Japanese War, Japan inflicted heavy losses on the Russian fleet at the Battle of the Yellow Sea, off Port Arthur.

1911 British MPs voted to receive salaries for the first time.

1966 Orbiter I, the first US lunar satellite, was launched.

1969 In Los Angeles, USA, a cult gang directed by Charles Manson invaded the home of actress Sharon Tate, killing her and her unborn child, three guests, and a passer-by.

Births

1782 Charles James Napier, British general

1810 Camillo Benso, Count Cavour, Italian nationalist politician

1874 Herbert Hoover, 31st US president

1928 Eddie Fisher, US singer

1941 Anita Lonsborough Porter, English swimmer

Deaths

1784 Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait painter

1876 Edward William Lane, English traveller and translator

1896 Otto Lillienthal, German aviator

[Raistlin]

Events

1576 English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, entered the bay in Canada now named after him.

1810 Severe earthquakes struck the Azores, causing the village of São Miguel to sink.

1877 Phobos and Deimos, the satellites or 'moons' of Mars, were discovered by US astronomer Asaph Hall.

1941 President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter, largely to demonstrate public solidarity between the Allies.

1952 King Talal of Jordan was deposed because of mental illness, and his son, Crown Prince Hussein, succeeded to the throne.

1960 Chad gained its independence from France.

1963 Canton was entered by Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek and his supporters.

1965 Race riots in the Watts District of Los Angeles, California, USA, broke out after an African-American was arrested for drunken driving.

Births

1772 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French General

1823 Charlotte Mary Yonge, English novelist

1892 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet

1897 Enid Blyton, English author

1929 Alun Hoddinott, Welsh composer

1937 Anna Massey, English actress

Deaths

1495 Hans Memling, Flemish painter

1890 John Henry Newman, English Roman Catholic theologian

1919 Andrew Carnegie, US industrialist and philanthropist

1956 Jackson Pollock, US painter

1994 Peter Cushing, English actor

[Bizarra]

You are disappointing me lately

No news, births or deaths that I can nit pick about

You didn't think that I await this daily, with BATED breath for my further education, did you?

[Raistlin]

Births

1753 Thomas Bewick, British wood engraver

1762 George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland

1774 Robert Southey, English poet

1881 Cecil B De Mille, US film director and producer

1939 George Hamilton, US film actor

1949 Mark Knopfler, rock guitarist

Deaths

1612 Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer

1827 William Blake, English poet

1848 George Stephenson, English engineer

1955 Thomas mann, German novelist

1964 Ian Fleming, English novelist

1982 Henry Fonda, US film actor

Events

1687 Battle of Mohács, in Hungary, effectively ending Turkish expansion into Europe.

1812 Peninsular War, the Duke of Wellington's troops entered Madrid.

1851 The US schooner America won a race around the Isle of Wight, giving rise to the later America's Cup trophy.

1883 The quagga in Amsterdam Zoo died, the last of this species in the world.

1898 Spain and the USA concluded an armistice over Cuba and other possessions.

1944 PLUTO ('pipe line under the ocean') began operating beneath the English Channel, supplying petrol to Allied forces in France.

1969 The world's first communications satellite was launched America's Echo.

1987 President Reagan insisted he was not told of diversion of funds from arms sales to Nicaraguan Contras.

1991 England defeated the West Indies in the fifth Test Match at the Oval, to draw the summer series 2 - 2.

1995 Republican demonstrators clashed with police during loyalist celebration marches in Londonderry and Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

1997 Nebraska's Hudson Meats Ltd recalled 25 million pounds of ground beef after the meat was found to be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

[Bizarra]

"1991 England defeated the West Indies in the fifth Test Match at the Oval, to draw the summer series 2 - 2. "

Maths was never my strong point, but.....................am I missing some obscure point here

[Raistlin]

Life was never my strong point, but.....................am I missing some obscure point here

Irish math's and we used the word Point twice in the same sentence because....

[Bizarra]

Life was never my strong point, but.....................am I missing some obscure point here

Irish math's and we used the word Point twice in the same sentence because....

It was appropriate & apt on both occasions! :bookworm:

I notice you dodged answering the question I posed <_< How can a 5 game series be drawn 2-2?