On This Day

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Your absolutely right

[Bizarra]

You are absolutely right

Don't do that to me again The shock was almost too much

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Pacemakers...

We know a song about that

[Bizarra]

Pacemakers...

We know a song about that

I don't know that song :o It must be by some bloody heavy metal group "Can't sing. Can't dance. Should go far" :lol2:

Yes! I am the pacemaker I lead the pack, including YOU, the whelp struggling to keep up

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Births

1756 Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV of England

1888 John Baird, Scottish television pioneer

1899 Alfred Hitchcock, English film director

1907 Basil Spence, British architect

1912 Ben Hogan, US golfer

1927 Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

Deaths

1826 René Laënnec, French physician

1863 Eugène Delacroix, French painter

1896 John Everett Millais, British painter

1910 Florence Nightingale, English nurse

1946 H G Wells, English writer

1977 Henry Williamson, English author

1994 Manfred Worner, German politician

1995 Mickey Mantle, US baseball player

Events

1521 Spanish conquistador Hernándo Cortés recaptured Tenochtitlán (Mexico City), and overthrew the Aztec empire.

1704 The Battle of Blenheim took place in southern Germany, in which the Anglo-Austrian army inflicted a decisive defeat on the French armies.

1814 The Cape of Good Hope Province became a British colony when it was ceded by the Dutch (sold for £6 million).

1868 Earthquakes killed over 25,000 people and destroyed four cities in Peru and Ecuador.

1923 Kemal Atatürk was elected the first president of Turkey.

1961 The border between East and West Berlin was sealed off by East Germany with the closure of the Brandenburg Gate to stop the exodus to the West.

1964 The last hangings in Britain took place; two murderers were executed at Liverpool and Manchester.

1969 Soviet forces crossed the Chinese border in Sinkiang.

1972 The last US troops left Vietnam.

1991 Prosecutors announced the discovery of one of the largest bank frauds in Japan's history, involving $2.5 billion in fraudulently obtained loans.

1992 The UN condemned the Serbs' 'ethnic cleansing' (forced removal) programme as a war crime.

Serbs' 'ethnic cleansing' (forced removal) programme as a war crime.

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Events

1678 The French repulsed William of Orange at the Battle of Mons, in Belgium.

1880 In Germany, Cologne Cathedral was completed; it had been started in the 13th century.

1882 Cetewayo, King of Zululand, South Africa, was received by Queen Victoria.

1893 France became the first country to introduce vehicle registration plates.

1900 The Boxer Rebellion was ended and Beijing captured by an international punitive force.

1945 Japan surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the Pacific War; celebrated as VJ day.

1947 Pakistan became an independent dominion.

1969 The first British troops were deployed in Northern Ireland to restore order.

1986 Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto was arrested by President Zia and detained in prison for 30 days.

1994 'Carlos the Jackal', wanted for numerous terrorist attacks, was arrested in Khartoum, Sudan.

1997 Denmark's Kenyan-born runner Wilson Kipketer broke the English athlete Sebastian Coe's 16-year-old 800-metres world record when he ran a time of 1 min 41.24 sec in Zürich, Switzerland.

Births

1810 Samuel Wesley, English organist and composer

1867 John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright

1913 Fred Davis, English snooker player

1931 Frederic Raphael, English novelist

1961 Sarah Brightman, English soprano and actress

Deaths

1778 Augustus Toplady, British priest and hymn-writer

1922 Alfred Harmsworth, British newspaper proprietor

1951 William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper proprietor

1956 Bertolt Brecht, German writer

1984 J B Priestley, English novelist and playwright

1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer

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Events

1543 The Jesuit order (Society of Jesus) was founded by Ignatius de Loyola in Paris, with the aims of protecting Catholicism against the Reformation and carrying out missionary work.

1843 The Tivoli Pleasure Gardens were opened in Copenhagen, Denmark.

1914 The Panama Canal opened; about 6,000 workers died during its construction.

1940 The Royal Air Force shot down 180 German planes in the Battle of Britain.

1947 India gained independence.

1948 The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed.

1965 The National Guard was called in to quell race riots in Watts, Los Angeles, which left 28 dead and 676 injured.

1969 The Woodstock music and Arts Fair began on a dairy farm in upstate New York. In the three days it lasted, 400,000 attended, two children were born, and three people died.

1987 Caning was officially banned in British schools (excluding independent schools).

1996 Robert Dole accepted the Republican Party nomination for US president, with jack Kemp as his running mate.

Births

1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor

1771 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist

1785 Thomas De Quincey, English writer

1888 T E Lawrence, English soldier and writer

1924 Robert Bolt, British dramatist

1950 Princess Anne, Britain's Princess Royal

Deaths

1057 MacBeth, king of Scotland

1907 Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist and composer

1935 Will Rogers, US humorist

1935 Wiley Post, US aviator

1935 Paul Signac, French painter

1967 René Magritte, Belgian painter

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Events

1513 King Henry VIII of England and his troops defeated the French in the Battle of the Spurs, at Guinigatte, NW France.

1743 The earliest prize-ring code of boxing rules was formulated in England by the champion pugilist jack Broughton.

1819 The Peterloo Massacre took place in Manchester when militia opened fire on a crowd gathered to hear discussion of reform, killing 11 people.

1897 Endowed by the sugar merchant Henry Tate, the Tate Gallery, in London, was opened.

1934 US explorer Charles Beebe and engineer Otis Barton made a record-breaking dive to 923 m/3028 ft in their bathysphere (a spherical diving vessel) near Bermuda.

1960 Cyprus became an independent republic, with Archbishop Makarios as president.

1974 Turkish forces called a cease-fire in Cyprus, after having taken control of the northern part of the island.

1996 A female gorilla, Binti Jua, rescued a three-year-old boy after he fell 18ft/5m into her enclosure in a Chicago zoo. The gorilla, with her 18-month-old daughter on her back, picked the boy up, cradled him in her arms and carried him to a doorway where zoo workers retrieved him.

Births

1821 Arthur Cayley, British mathematician

1827 Johan Siegwald Dahl, Norwegian painter

1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli statesman

1930 Ted Hughes, English poet

1950 Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer

1958 Madonna, US rock singer

Deaths

1738 Joe Miller, English comedian

1899 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor

1916 Umberto Boccioni, Italian sculptor

1949 Margaret Mitchell, US novelist

1956 Bela Lugosi, US film actor

1977 Elvis Presley, US rock singer

1993 Irene Sharaff, US film-set and costume designer

1993 Alison Smithson, English architect

1993 Stewart Granger, English-born US actor

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Events

1833 The Canadian Royal William, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic entirely under power, set off from Nova Scotia.

1836 Under the Registration Act, the registration of births, deaths and marriages was introduced in Britain.

1876 The first performance of Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung was given in Bayreuth, Germany.

1896 Gold was discovered at Bonanza Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory, leading to the great gold rush of 1898.

1976 Earthquakes and tidal waves in the Philippines resulted in the deaths of over 6,000 people.

1988 President Zia ul-Haq and the US ambassador to Pakistan were killed when the plane carrying them exploded in mid-air.

1989 Electronic tagging was used for the first time in Britain, on Richard Hart, accused of theft.

1995 A bomb exploded in a crowded tourist section of Paris, injuring 17 people; Algeria's Armed Islamic Group claimed responsibility.

Births

1786 Davy Crockett, US frontiersman

1892 Mae West, US film actress

1926 George Melly, English jazz singer

1932 V S Naipaul, Trinidad-born English novelist

1943 Robert De Niro, US film actor

1951 Alan Minter, middleweight boxer

1957 Robin Cousins, ice skater

Deaths

1786 Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia

1850 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist

1955 Fernand Léger, French painter

1973 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, US architect

1983 Ira Gershwin, US lyricist

1988 Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, Pakistani general

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Events

1759 The British, under Admiral ('Old Dreadnought') Boscawen, defeated the French fleet at the Battle of Lagos Bay.

1812 Napoleon's forces defeated the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk.

1866 The Treaty of Alliance forming the North German Confederation, under the leadership of Prussia, was signed.

1941 Britain's National Fire Service was established.

1960 The first oral contraceptive was marketed by the Searle Drug Company in the USA.

1964 South Africa was banned from participating in the Olympics because of its racial policies.

1967 The town of Long Beach, in California, purchased the liner Queen Mary.

1971 Australia and New Zealand announced the withdrawal of their forces from Vietnam.

1977 The 11th Chinese Communist Party Congress indicated a swing away from hard-line Maoism towards economic improvement.

Births

1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer

1830 Franz Josef I, Austro-Hungarian emperor

1916 Moura Lympany, English concert pianist

1922 Shelley Winters, US film actress

1933 Roman Polanski, Polish film director

1937 Robert Redford, US film actor

Deaths

1227 Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khaan), Mongol conqueror

1642 Guido Reni, Italian painter

1823 André Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist

1922 William Henry Hudson, US writer

1981 Anita Loos, US writer

1983 Nikolaus Pevsner, architectural historian

1994 Richard Synge, British biochemist

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Births

1631 John Dryden, English poet

1646 John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal of England

1808 James Nasmyth, Scottish inventor

1883 Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, French couturier

1902 Ogden Nash, US humorist

1945 Bill Clinton, 42nd US president

Deaths

AD14 Augustus, 1st Roman emperor

1662 Blaise Pascal, French philosopher and mathematician

1929 Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russian choreographer

1936 Federico Garca Lorca, Spanish poet and playwright

1977 'Groucho' Marx, US comedian

1988 Frederick Ashton, British choreographer

1994 Linus Pauling, US theoretical chemist and biologist

Events

1274 Edward I, King of England, took place.

1796 France and Spain formed an alliance against Britain.

1897 Electric-powered cabs appeared in London; they proved to be uneconomical and were withdrawn in 1900.

1934 A plebiscite was held in Germany giving sole power to Adolf Hitler.

1942 Dieppe, resulting in heavy casualties for the attacking force.

1989 Poland became the first eastern European country to end one-party rule, when a coalition government was formed with Tadeuz Mazowiecki as prime minister.

1991 President Gorbachev, who is placed under house arrest in the Crimea; radio and television stations were shut down and military rule was imposed in many cities.

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Births

1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright

1833 Benjamin Harrison, US president

1860 French statesman

1890 H P Lovecraft, US writer

1905 jack Teagarden, US jazz trombonist

1924 Jim Reeves, US country singer

Deaths

1854 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, German philosopher

1905 Adolphe William Bouguereau, French painter

1912 William Booth, British founder of the Salvation Army

1915 Paul Ehrlich, German biochemist

1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian politician

Events

1710 The French were defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Saragossa.

1914 In World War I, German forces occupied Brussels.

1924 Paris Olympics because it fell on a Sunday.

1956 Calder Hall nuclear power plant, Britain's first nuclear power station, began operating.

1960 Senegal gained independence from France.

1968 Russian troops invaded Czechoslovakia.

1977 The US Voyager I spacecraft was launched on its journey via Jupiter and Saturn to become the first artificial object to leave the solar system.

1991 Estonia declared independence.

1992 The Daily Mirror publishes compromising photographs of the Duchess of York on holiday in France with a so-called 'financial adviser'.

1996 India formally vetoed a draught of the multinational Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would forbid its signatories to test nuclear weapons.

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Events

1808 The French forces, under General Junot, were defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Vimiero.

1901 The Cadillac Motor Company was formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA, named after the French explorer, Antoine Cadillac.

1911 Leonardo da Vinci's painting, the Mona Lisa, was stolen from the Louvre in Paris - it was recovered two years later.

1939 Civil Defence, to mitigate the effects of enemy attack, was started in Britain.

1959 Hawaii became the 50th of the United States.

1969 In the USA, half a million people attended the three-day Woodstock music and Arts Fair.

1983 Philippines opposition leader Benigno Aquino was assassinated at Manila airport.

1991 An attempted coup d'état in the USSR failed; faced with international condemnation and popular protests led by Boris Yeltsin, the junta stepped down and Gorbachev was reinstated.

1991 Latvia declared independence.

Births

1754 William Murdock, Scottish inventor

1765 King William IV of Great Britain and Ireland

1872 Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator

1904 Count Basie, US jazz pianist and bandleader

1930 Princess Margaret of the UK

1933 Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano

Deaths

1649 Richard Crashaw, English poet

1930 Aston Webb, English architect

1951 Leonard Constant Lambert, English composer

1959 Jacob Epstein, British sculptor

1983 Benigno Aquino, Philippine politician

1993 Tatiana Troyanos, US operatic mezzo-soprano

1995 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born US astrophysicist.

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Events

1485 Henry VII defeats Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

1642 The English Civil War began, between the supporters of Charles I and of Parliament, when the king raised his standard at Nottingham.

1788 The British settlement in Sierra Leone was founded, the purpose of which was to secure a home in Africa for freed slaves from England.

1846 New Mexico was annexed by the USA.

1864 The International Red Cross was founded by the Geneva Convention to assist the wounded and prisoners of war.

1910 Korea was annexed by Japan.

1985 Following an aborted take-off, a British Airtours Boeing 737 burst into flames on the runway at Manchester Airport; 55 people were killed.

1996 General Lebed, Russia's security council secretary, signed a cease-fire agreement with General Maskhadov, chief of staff of the secessionist rebels in Chechnya.

Births

1862 Claude Debussy, French composer

1891 Jacques Lipchitz, US sculptor and painter

1893 Dorothy Parker, US humorist and writer

1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer

1920 Ray Bradbury, US writer

1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer

Deaths

1485 Richard III, King of England

1806 Jean Honoré Fragonard, French painter

1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist

1940 Oliver Lodge, English physicist

1942 Michael Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer

1963 William Richard Morris, British car manufacturer.

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Events

1813 The French were driven back by the Prussians under General von Bülow at the Battle of Grossbeeren.

1839 Hong Kong was taken by the British.

1914 The British Expeditionary Force fought its first battle at Mons, in World War I.

1921 Faisal I was crowned as King of Iraq.

1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-American anarchists, were falsely accused of robbery and murder, and were sent to the electric chair.

1939 The USSR and Germany signed a non-aggression pact which, although short-lived, eased the way for Hitler's invasion of Poland.

1940 The Blitz began as German bombers began an all-night raid on London.

1948 The World Council of Churches was founded.

Births

1754 King Louis XVI, of France.

1869 Edgar Lee Masters, US poet and novelist

1912 Gene Kelly, US dancer and singer

1929 Peter Thomson, Australian golfer

1947 Willy Russell, English playwright

1947 Keith Moon, British rock drummer

Deaths

1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot

1806 Charles Auguste de Coulomb, French physicist

1926 Rudolph Valentino, Italian-born film actor

1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, US lyricist

1987 Didier Peroni, French racing driver

1997 John Kendrew, English biochemist

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Events

AD79 Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in hot volcanic ash.

410 The Visigoths, led by Alaric, sacked Rome.

1572 Charles IX ordered the massacre of the Huguenots throughout France; in Paris thousands were killed in what became known as the Massacre of St Bartholomew.

1704 The French were defeated by the English and Dutch fleets at the Battle of Malaga.

1814 British forces captured Washington DC and set the White House on fire.

1921 The Turkish army, led by Mustafa Kemal, drove back the Greeks at the Battle of the Sakkaria River.

1945 President Harry Truman of USA ordered the cessation of lend-lease which had cost the USA $48.5 billion.

1959 The Manchester Guardian was renamed the Guardian.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as First Secretary of the USSR Communist Party.

Births

1724 George Stubbs, English painter

1759 William Wilberforce, English philanthropist

1872 Max Beerbohm, English writer and caricaturist

1903 Graham Sutherland, English painter

1917 Charles Causley, English poet

1957 Stephen Fry, English actor and writer

Deaths

AD79 Pliny the Elder, Roman naturalist and writer

410 Alaric I, King of the Visigoths

1680 Thomas Blood, Irish adventurer

1770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet

1832 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist

1957 Ronald Knox, British theologian

1997 Luigi Viloresi, Italian racing car driver

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1680 Thomas Blood Irish Adventurer

If it was a book, you wouldn't believe it It is much too long to copy & paste, so if interested, the link is below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blood

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1680 Thomas Blood Irish Adventurer

If it was a book, you wouldn't believe it It is much too long to copy & paste, so if interested, the link is below

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Thomas_Blood

Colonel Thomas Blood (1618 24 August 1680) was an Irish-born colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671. Described as a "noted bravo and desperado", he was also implicated in one attempted kidnapping and one attempted murder of the Duke of Ormonde, had switched allegiances from Royalist to Roundhead during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Switched allegiances - isn't that posh for two faced, So Irish then...

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Events

79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying the city of Pompeii.

325 The Council of Nicaea set the rules for the computation of Easter.

1830 A revolution against the Netherlands union erupted in Brussels.

1914 In World War I, Louvain in Belgium was sacked by the Germans.

1919 The first daily scheduled flights started between London and Paris.

1931 Ramsay MacDonald formed a National Government.

1940 The RAF made the first air raid on Berlin.

1944 In World War II The Allies liberated Paris.

1960 The 17th Olympic Games opened in Rome.

1989 The US space probe Voyager reached Neptune; pictures of Triton, its moon, revealed the existence of two additional moons.

1997 Pol Pot was found guilty by a Khmer Rouge court in Cambodia of ordering the murder of his rival Son Sen and was given a life sentence.

Births

1530 Ivan IV ('the Terrible'), Tsar of Russia

1819 Allan Pinkerton, founder of the US detective agency

1918 Leonard Bernstein, US conductor and composer

1930 Sean Connery, Scottish actor

1949 Martin Amis, English novelist

Deaths

1691 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter

1776 David Hume, Scottish philosopher

1822 William Herschel, English astronomer

1867 Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist

1900 Nietzsche, German philosopher

1984 Truman Capote, US author

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Births

1676 Robert Walpole, English statesman

1819 Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria of the UK

1873 Lee De Forest, US physicist

1885 Jules Romains, French novelist, playwright and poet

1904 Christopher Isherwood, English novelist

Deaths

1666 Frans Hals, Dutch painter

1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist and microscopist

1850 Louis Philippe, 'Citizen King' of France

1974 Charles Lindbergh, US pioneer aviator

1978 Charles Boyer, French actor

Events

55BC Julius Caesar landed in Britain.

1346 King Edward III of England, aided by the Black Prince, his son, defeated the French at the Battle of Crécy.

1789 The French Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

1846 Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah was first performed at the Birmingham Festival, England.

1883 Krakatoa, the Indonesian island volcano, began erupting, killing thousands.

1920 Women in the USA were granted the right to vote.

1936 The Anglo-Egyptian alliance was signed.

1952 The USSR announced that it had successfully tested the ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).

1972 Olympic Games opened in Munich.

1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected Pope John Paul I.

1985 A report exonerated the French government of involvement in the sinking of Rainbow Warrior; the findings were rejected by the New Zealand government.

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Births

551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher

1770 Hegel, German philosopher

1882 Samuel Goldwyn, US film magnate

1908 Lyndon B Johnson, 36th US President

1908 Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer

1909 Lester Young, US jazz saxophonist

1910 Mother Teresa, Albanian-born Indian missionary

Deaths

1576 Titian, Italian painter

1748 James Thomson, Scottish poet

1919 Louis Botha, South African statesman

1965 Le Corbusier, Swiss architect

1975 Haile Selassie, deposed emperor of Ethiopia

1979 Earl Mountbatten of Burma, murdered by the IRA

1995 Carl Giles, British cartoonist

Events

1784 The first balloon ascent was made in Britain by James Tytler at Edinburgh.

1813 Napoleon defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Dresden.

1816 Algiers, then a refuge for Barbary pirates, was bombarded by Lord Exmouth.

1859 Edwin Drake was the first in the USA to strike oil at Titusville, Pennsylvania.

1913 A Russian pilot, Lieutenant Peter Nesterov, became the first to perform the loop-the-loop.

1928 The anti-war Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed by 15 nations.

1939 The first jet-propelled aircraft, the Heinkel 178, made its first flight.

1958 The USSR launched Sputnik 3, carrying two dogs.

1987 At about 30,000 feet above the USA, the amorous behaviour of a just-married couple caused the pilot of a jet-liner on a coast-to-coast flight to land in Houston; the couple faced a maximum of one year in prison.

1996 Police at Stansted Airport arrested seven Iraqis who had hijacked a Sudanese jet with 199 people on board to London, where they were seeking political asylum.

1997 The governments of Sweden and Norway admitted to sterilizing thousands of people deemed 'substandard' (including those of low intelligence and the mentally or physically disabled) between 1934 and 1976.

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"1997 The governments of Sweden and Norway admitted to sterilizing thousands of people deemed 'substandard' (including those of low intelligence and the mentally or physically disabled) between 1934 and 1976."

Proper order & I'm most certainly not a Neo Nazi :shutit:

We breed our farm stock, Race Horses etc for excellence, while the Human race breeds at will & the standard of the Gene pool is getting worse. If survival of the fittest prevailed today, as in days of yore, there would be a major drop in population.

You only have to look at either Jerry Springer show or Jeremy Kyle to realise the type of people who are breeding like rabbits.

As is is, the Human race is now on two levels, those who are intelligent, care about the Earth. Animals & those around them , And then there are the rest

Hitler was entirely wrong, don't misunderstand me, especially with the Jewish people But the basic thinking was right. Not to have a pure Aryan race, but to improve the Human stock.

End of rant

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Fascist

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Births

1749 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet, novelist and dramatist

1833 Edward Burne-Jones, British painter

1896 Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist

1919 Godfrey Hounsfield, British inventor of the EMI-scanner

1930 Ben Gazzara, US film actor

Deaths

1645 Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist and politician

1839 William Smith, British geologist

1859 Leigh Hunt, English poet and essayist

1958 Ernest Orlando Lawrence, US physicist

1972 Prince William of Gloucester, killed in an air crash

1988 John Huston, Irish-American film director

Events

1640 The Indian War in New England ended with the surrender of the Indians.

1849 Venice was taken by the Austrians after a siege.

1850 The English Channel telegraph cable was laid between Dover and Cap Gris Nez.

1914 The Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of World War I, was fought.

1933 For the first time, a BBC-broadcasted appeal was used by the police in tracking down a wanted man.

1945 George Marshall landed in Japan.

1963 Martin Luther King delivered his famous 'I have a dream' speech.

1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin announced his intention to resign.

1988 The Yan Hee Polyclinic in Bangkok, Thailand, reported on a new slimming technique - overweight Thais were suppressing their appetites by sticking lettuce seeds in their ears and pressing them in ten times before meals.

1995 Bosnian Serbs shelled a crowded market place in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, killing 37 civilians and wounding more than 80.

1996 The spanorce of Charles, the Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana was finalized in a decree absolute issued in London's High Court. Under the terms of the spanorce settlement, Diana was stripped of her 'Royal Highness' title.

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Facist

I'm neither a Fascist nor a Facist