On This Day

[Raistlin]

Facist

I'm neither a Fascist nor a Facist

I'm sorry ??

[Bizarra]

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.

I am willing to be instructed There are very few words which are totally alien to me, so naturally I researched "Spanorce" It has a red line under it as I type & all the results asked me had I spelled it correctly

In short, what the feck's a "spanorce"? :o

[Raistlin]

A no-fault spanorce state, meaning a spanorce does not require proof of any wrong doing.

Just legalise

[Bizarra]

A no-fault spanorce state, meaning a spanorce does not require proof of any wrong doing.

Just legalise

Filed in my vocabulary, even as I type Future use ? Doubtful

Thanks, Raist

[Raistlin]

It makes me feel good to help the little people

[Bizarra]

It makes me feel good to help the little people

But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

[Raistlin]

It makes me feel good to help the little people

But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

I've always helped the aged

[Bizarra]

It makes me feel good to help the little people

But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

I've always helped the aged

'll repeat my question :ffs: .........But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

[Raistlin]

It makes me feel good to help the little people

But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

I've always helped the aged

'll repeat my question .........But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

Yes, as you are one of our more senior posters...

[Bizarra]

It makes me feel good to help the little people

But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

I've always helped the aged

'll repeat my question .........But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

Yes, as you are one of our more senior posters...

Whew! THAT was hard work

[Raistlin]

It makes me feel good to help the little people

But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

I've always helped the aged

'll repeat my question .........But, does it make you feel good to help me too?

Yes, as you are one of our more senior posters...

Whew! THAT was hard work

I never take the easy route

[Raistlin]

Events

1526 The Hungarians were defeated by the Turks at the Battle of Mohacs.

1831 Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the first electrical transformer at the Royal Institute, London.

1835 The city of Melbourne, Australia, was founded.

1842 The Treaty of Nanking was signed between the British and the Chinese, ending the Opium War, and leasing the Hong Kong territories to Britain.

1848 The Boers were defeated by the British army at Boomplatz.

1882 Australia defeated England at cricket for the first time; the Sporting Times published an 'obituary' for English cricket.

1895 The Rugby League (called the 'Northern Union' until 1922) was formed from 21 clubs in the North of England.

1904 The 3rd Olympic Games opened at St Louis, Missouri.

1953 The USSR exploded a hydrogen bomb.

1966 At Candlestick Park, San Francisco, the Beatles played their last live concert.

1973 Presidents Sadat and Khaddafi proclaimed the unification of Egypt and Libya, including a plan for a joint Constituent Assembly.

1991 The Supreme Soviet voted to suspend formally all activities of the Communist Party.

1996 Japanese scandal involving the infection of haemophiliacs through blood contaminated with HIV.

1997 Britain invited Sinn Féin, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), to all-party talks on Northern Ireland.

Births

1632 John Locke, English philosopher

1780 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter

1915 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress

1920 Charlie Parker, US jazz saxophonist

1923 Richard Attenborough, English actor and director

1949 Richard Gere, US actor

1958 Michael Jackson, US pop singer

Deaths

1877 Brigham Young, US Mormon leader

1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian novelist

1975 Éamon de Valera, Irish nationalist politician

1982 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress

1987 Lee Marvin, US actor

[Raistlin]

Events

30 BC Cleopatra committed suicide.

1762 The French defeated Frederick II, King of Prussia, at Johannesburg.

1860 The first British tramway, operated by the Birkenhead Street Railway, was inaugurated by an American, George Francis Train.

1862 'Stonewall' Jackson led the Confederates to victory at the second Battle of Bull Run, in Virginia, during the American Civil War.

1881 The first stereo system, for a telephonic broadcasting service, was patented in Germany by Clement Adler.

1901 Scottish inventor Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner.

1916 Paul von Hindenburg became Chief of the General Staff of Germany.

1939 In anticipation of German bombing, the great evacuation of children from British cities began, four days before the outbreak of World War II.

1941 Leningrad by German forces began (ended in Jan 1943).

1963 To reduce the risk of accidental nuclear war, the 'Hotline' between the US president and the Soviet premier was established.

1981 A bomb in Tehran killed President Rajai and Prime Minister Bahonar of Iran.

1991 Azerbaijan declared independence.

1996 In southern Colombia, over 90 soldiers, policemen, rebels and civilians were killed by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in one of the deadliest attacks by left-wing rebels in decades.

1996 Former WBC heavyweight champion Frank Bruno announced his retirement.

1997 The Houston Comets defeated the New York Liberty 65-51 in Houston, Texas, to win the inaugural Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) championship.

Births

1748 Jacques Louis David, French painter

1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer

1871 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist

1896 Raymond Massey, Canadian film actor

1908 Fred MacMurray, US film actor

1917 Denis Healey, British politician

1943 Jean Claude Killy, French ski champion

Deaths

30BC Cleopatra, queen of Egypt

1483 Louis XI, King of France

1856 John Ross, Scottish explorer

1922 Georges Sorel, French socialist philosopher

1940 J J Thomson, English physicist

1994 Lindsay Anderson, British film director

[Raistlin]

Events

1422 Henry VI, aged nine months, acceded as King of England.

1888 The body of Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, the first victim of jack the Ripper, was found mutilated in Buck's Row, London.

1900 Coca Cola first went on sale in Britain.

1928 The Brecht Weill musical The Threepenny Opera was first performed, in Berlin.

1942 The German offensive was halted by the British at the Battle of Alam al-Halfa, marking the turning-point in the North African Campaign.

1957 Malaya, later Malaysia, became independent.

1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz won five of the seven gold medals he achieved in total at the Munich Olympics.

1983 The USSR shot down a South Korean airliner, killing 269 people aboard.

1984 A tropical storm hit the Philippines, killing over 1,000 people.

1989 Buckingham Palace issued a brief statement stating that the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, was separating from her husband, Captain Mark Phillips.

1990 East and West Germany signed reunification treaty.

1994 The IRA agreed to a complete cessation of military operations.

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, and her driver were killed in a car crash in the Place de l'Alma underpass in Paris, France.

Births

AD12 Caligula, Roman emperor

1569 Jahangir, Mogul emperor

1870 Maria Montessori, Italian educationalist

1897 Fredric March, US actor

1913 Bernard Lovell, British astronomer

1928 James Coburn, US film actor

1945 Van Morrison, Irish rock vocalist

1955 Edwin Moses, US athlete

Deaths

1422 King Henry V of England

1688 John Bunyan, English author

1867 Charles Pierre Baudelaire, French poet

1963 Georges Braque, French painter

1969 Rocky Marciano, US heavyweight boxer

1973 John Ford, US film director

1986 Henry Moore, British sculptor

[Raistlin]

Events

AD70 The destruction of Jerusalem under Titus took place.

1339 King Edward III declares war on France to start the Hundred Years War.

1853 The world's first triangular postage stamps were issued by the Cape of Good Hope.

1870 The siege of Metz in the Franco-German War started.

1886 The Severn Tunnel, a railway tunnel between England and Wales, was opened for goods traffic.

1920 The state of Lebanon was created by the French.

1923 Nearly 200,000 people were killed in earthquakes in Tokyo and Yokohama.

1928 Albania was declared a kingdom, with Zog I as king.

1933 The Shape of Things to Come, the classic science fiction novel by H G Wells, was published.

1939 Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II.

1969 Colonel Khaddhafi seized power in Libya, after overthrowing King Idris I.

1972 Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky at Reykjavik, becoming the first US world chess champion.

1983 269 people were killed when a South Korean Boeing 747 airliner was shot down by a Soviet fighter after straying into Soviet air space near Sakhalin Island.

1997 Wisconsin introduced the welfare program 'Wisconsin Works', eliminating automatic welfare entitlement.

Births

1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer

1864 Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist

1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, US novelist

1877 Francis Aston, English physicist

1923 Rocky Marciano, US heavyweight boxer

1939 Lily Tomlin, US comedienne

1954 Leonard Slatkin, US conductor

Deaths

1159 Pope Adrian IV, the only English pope

1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer

1715 Louis XIV, the 'Sun King' of France

1856 Richard Westmacott, British sculptor

1967 Siegfried Sassoon, English writer

1970 François Mauriac, French novelist

[Bizarra]

1864 Sir Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist

The Congo: The Casement Report

Main article: Casement Report

In 1903, Roger Casement, then the British Consul at Boma, was commissioned by the British government to investigate the human rights situation in the Congo Free State. A long, detailed eyewitness report exposing abuses, the Casement Report, was delivered in 1904. The Congo Free State had been in the possession of King Leopold II of Belgium since 1885, when it was granted to him by the Berlin Conference. Leopold had exploited the territory's natural resources (mostly rubber) as a private entrepreneur, not as King of the Belgians. Casement's report would be instrumental in Leopold finally relinquishing his personal holdings in Africa.

When the report was made public, the Congo Reform Association, founded by E.D. Morel, with Casement's support, demanded action. Other European nations followed suit, as did the United States; and the British Parliament demanded a meeting of the 14 signatory powers to review the 1885 Berlin Agreement. The Belgian Parliament, pushed by Socialist leader Emile Vandervelde and other critics of the king's Congolese policy, forced Léopold to set up an independent commission of inquiry. In 1905, despite his efforts, it confirmed the essentials of Casement's report. On 15 November 1908, the parliament of Belgium took over the Congo Free State from Leopold and organised its administration as the Belgian Congo.

[edit] Peru: Abuses against the Putumayo Indians

In 1906, Casement was sent to Brazil, first as consul in Pará, then transferred to Santos, and lastly promoted to consul-general in Rio de Janeiro. When he was attached as a consular representative to a commission investigating murderous rubber slavery by the British-registered Peruvian Amazon Company, effectively controlled by the archetypal rubber baron Julio César Arana and his brother, Casement had the occasion to do work among the Putumayo Indians of Peru similar to that which he had done in the Congo. Public outrage in Britain over the abuses against the Putumayo had been sparked in 1909 by articles in the British magazine Truth. Casement paid two visits to the region, first in 1910 and then a follow-up in 1911. In a report to the British foreign secretary, dated 17 March 1911, Casement detailed the rubber company's use of stocks to punish the Indians:

Men, women, and children were confined in them for days, weeks, and often months. ... Whole families ... were imprisoned--fathers, mothers, and children, and many cases were reported of parents dying thus, either from starvation or from wounds caused by flogging, while their offspring were attached alongside of them to watch in misery themselves the dying agonies of their parents.

After his return to Britain, he repeated his extra-consular campaigning work by organising Anti-Slavery Society and mission interventions in the region, which was disputed between Peru and Colombia. Some of the men exposed as killers in his report were charged by Peru, while others fled. Conditions in the area undoubtedly improved as a result, but the contemporary switch to farmed rubber in other parts of the world was a godsend to the Indians as well. Arana himself was never prosecuted. He instead went on to have a successful political career, becoming a senator and dying in Lima, Peru in 1952 at age eighty-eight.

Casement wrote extensively (as always) in those two years including several of his notorious diaries, the one for 1911 being unusually discursive. They and the 1903 diary were kept by him in London with other papers of the period, presumably so they could be consulted in his continuing work as 'Congo Casement' and the saviour of the Putumayo Indians. In 1911, Casement was knighted by George V as Knight Bachelor for his efforts on behalf of the Amazonian Indians, having been reluctantly appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1905 for his Congo work.

[fuel miser]

Events

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, and her driver were killed in a car crash in the Place de l'Alma underpass in Paris, France.

Wasn't there someone else also died in that crash, or was he just a fuggin hitch-hiker?

[Raistlin]

Events

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, and her driver were killed in a car crash in the Place de l'Alma underpass in Paris, France.

Wasn't there someone else also died in that crash, or was he just a fuggin hitch-hiker?

No one of any importance

[Raistlin]

Births

1726 John Howard, English philanthropist

1840 Giovanni Verga, Italian novelist and dramatist

1853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist

1877 Frederick Soddy, English physical chemist

1938 Michael Hastings, English dramatist

1952 Jimmy Connors, US tennis player

Deaths

1652 José Ribera ('Lo Spagnoletto'), Spanish painter

1834 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer

1910 Henri Rousseau, French painter

1937 Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics

1973 J R R Tolkein, English writer

1994 Roy Castle, British entertainer

Events

31BC Emperor Augustus (Octavian) defeated Antony at the Battle of Actium.

1666 The Great Fire of London started; it destroyed 13,000 buildings in four days.

1752 The Julian calendar was used in Britain and the Colonies 'officially' for the last time; as in the rest of Europe, the following day became 14 September in the Gregorian calendar.

1898 Battle of Omdurman and re-occupied Khartoum, the capital.

1906 Roald Amundsen completed his sailing round Canada's Northwest Passage.

1923 The Irish Free State held its first elections.

1939 Under the National Service Bill, men aged 19 - 41 were conscripted in Britain.

1958 China's first television station opened in Beijing.

1985 Pol Pot resigned as Commander in Chief of the Khmer Rouge Army.

1962 The USSR agreed to send arms to Cuba.

1987 The CD-video, combining digital sound with high-definition video, was launched by Philips.

1997 A court in Denmark sentenced three neo-Nazis to jail terms for sending letter bombs to mixed-race couples and other targets in Britain

[Raistlin]

Births

1734 Joseph Wright, British painter

1856 Louis Henry Sullivan, US architect

1859 Jean-Léon Jaurès, French socialist politician

1899 Macfarlane Burnet, Australian immunologist

1913 Alan Ladd, US actor

1940 Brian Lochore, New Zealand rugby player

Deaths

1658 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of Britain

1883 Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Russian dramatist

1962 E E Cummings, US poet

1963 Frederick Louis MacNiece, British poet

1969 Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam

1991 Frank Capra, US film director

1993 David Brown, English engineer and industrialist

1997 Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author

Events

1650 In the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell defeated the Scots at the second Battle of Dunbar.

1651 The English Royalist troops under Charles II were defeated by Oliver Cromwell at the second Battle of Worcester.

1783 Britain recognized US independence with the signing of a treaty in Paris.

1916 In World War I, the first Zeppelin was shot down over England.

1930 Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, was destroyed by a hurricane which killed 5,000 people.

1935 Malcolm Campbell reached a new world land speed record of 301.13 mph in Bluebird on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

1939 Britain, New Zealand, Australia, and France declared war on Germany.

1943 The Allies landed at Salerno, on mainland Italy, and the Italian government surrendered.

1967 Sweden changed from driving on the left to the right.

1976 The US spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars and began sending pictures of the red planet to earth.

1996 Ruth Perry, a former Liberian senator, was inaugurated as the country's first female head of state.

[Bizarra]

"1650 In the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell defeated the Scots at the second Battle of Dunbar.

1651 The English Royalist troops under Charles II were defeated by Oliver Cromwell at the second Battle of Worcester. "

2 replays No extra time or penalty shoot outs

[Raistlin]

The Scots don't count...

[Raistlin]

Births

1768 Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand, French author

1824 Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer

1896 Antonin Artaud, French dramatist and director

1905 Mary Renault, English novelist

1937 Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer

1949 Tom Watson, US golfer

Deaths

1767 Charles Townshend, British politician

1813 James Wyatt, English architect

1963 Robert Schuman, French statesman

1965 Albert Schweitzer, French organist and missionary surgeon

1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer

1997 Aldo Rossi, Italian architect

1997 Hans Jürgen Eysenck, British psychologist

Events

1260 The Battle of Montaperti, between the rival Guelphs and Ghibellines, was fought in Central Italy.

1870 Emperor Napoleon III, Bonaparte's nephew, was deposed and the Third Republic was proclaimed.

1886 Geronimo, the Apache chief, surrendered to the US army.

1909 The first Boy Scout rally was held at Crystal Palace, near London.

1940 The US Columbia Broadcasting System gave a demonstration of colour TV on station W2XAB.

1944 In World War II, the Allies liberated Antwerp, Belgium.

1970 Natalia Makarova, of the Kirov Ballet, defected to the West.

1985 The wreck of the Titanic on the Atlantic seaboard was photographed by remote control.

1988 British Customs officials thwarted the first known attempt by persons to smuggle drugs into Britain from Holland using a helicopter.

1996 After repeated delays, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian National Authority leader, marking the formal re-opening of long-stalled talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

1996 Lloyd's of London received final regulatory approval for a £3.2 billion/$4.99 billion restructuring plan designed to prevent the 308-year-old market from becoming insolvent.

1997 Three suicide bombers from an offshoot of the Palestinian Hamas organization killed 3 Israelis and injured 190 others in attacks on west Jerusalem.

[Raistlin]

Births

1187 Louis VIII, King of France

1638 Louis XIV, the 'Sun King' of France

1791 Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer

1831 Victorien Sardou, French dramatist

1905 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian author

1940 Raquel Welch, US actress

1946 Freddie Mercury, British pop singer

Deaths

1569 Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter

1857 Auguste Comte, French philosopher

1914 Charles Péguy, French poet

1962 Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot

1969 Josh White, US blues singer

1997 Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor

Events

1774 The first Continental Congress in America opened at Philadelphia.

1800 French troops surrendered Malta to the British, following Nelson's naval blockade.

1914 The first Battle of the Marne, during World War I, began.

1922 US aviator James Doolittle made the first US coast-to-coast flight in 21 hrs, 19 min.

1963 Christine Keeler, one of the women involved in the Profumo scandal in Britain, was arrested and charged with perjury.

1972 Olympic Games in Munich, terrorists of the Black September group seized Israeli athletes as hostages; nine of the Israelis, four of the terrorists, and one German policeman were killed.

1978 A summit between Carter, Sadat, and Begin at Camp David, Maryland, concluded with a 'framework' peace treaty ending 30 years of hostility between Israel and Egypt.

1980 The world's longest road tunnel, the St Gotthard, was opened, running 16km/10mi from Goschenen, Switzerland to Airolo, Italy.

1988 No Sex Please We're British, the longest running comedy, closed in London (after 6,671 performances over 16 years).

1995 NATO warplanes resumed their bombing raids against Bosnian Serb military positions near Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, after the expiration 4 Sept of a NATO-and UN-backed deadline for the removal of Serb heavy artillery surrounding the beseiged capital.

[bothwell_buyer]

The Scots don't count...

I do and as long as yer esconced in the boldest realms of Surrey, then I guess its a safe place.... :censor: :censor: :censor: B)