On This Day

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1988 The cardinal of Turin confirmed reports that the Shroud of Turin, believed to carry the imprint of *****'s face, had been scientifically dated to the Middle Ages.

As a point of interest, I believe that that fact has been reviewed & it is now redated to the time of Our Lord.

Can't remember where or when I read that, to provide quotes & evidence :(

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Events

1066 The Battle of Hastings was fought on Senlac Hill, where King Harold was slain as William the Conqueror's troops routed the English army.

1884 Photographic film was patented by US entrepreneur and inventor George Eastman.

1920 Oxford degrees were conferred on women for the first time.

1947 The first supersonic flight (670 mph) was made in California by Charles Yeagar in his Bell XI rocket plane.

1971 The US spacecraft Mariner 9 transmitted the first close-up TV pictures of Mars to Earth.

1982 A mass wedding took place in Seoul, South Korea, when 5,837 couples were married simultaneously.

1996 Pop singer and actress Madonna gave birth to her first child, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.

1997 Vietnam devalued its currency, the dong, in response to the Southeast Asian economic crisis.

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Events

1066 The Battle of Hastings was fought on Senlac Hill, where King Harold was slain as William the Conqueror's troops routed the English army.

1884 Photographic film was patented by US entrepreneur and inventor George Eastman.

1920 Oxford degrees were conferred on women for the first time.

1947 The first supersonic flight (670 mph) was made in California by Charles Yeagar in his Bell XI rocket plane.

1971 The US spacecraft Mariner 9 transmitted the first close-up TV pictures of Mars to Earth.

1982 A mass wedding took place in Seoul, South Korea, when 5,837 couples were married simultaneously.

1996 Pop singer and actress Madonna gave birth to her first child, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.

1997 Vietnam devalued its currency, the dong, in response to the Southeast Asian economic crisis.

Their Dongs got deflated ? (Sorry, It was to good to let go :D )

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Events

1581 The first major ballet was staged at the request of Catherine de' Medici at the palace in Paris.

1582 The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France; 5 Oct became 15 Oct.

1915 In World War I, Bulgaria allied itself with the Central European Powers.

1917 Mata Hari, Dutch spy, was shot in Paris, having been found guilty of espionage for the Germans.

1928 The German airship Graf Zeppelin, captained by Hugo Eckener, completed its first transatlantic flight.

1961 The human-rights organization Amnesty International was established in London.

1973 Britain and Iceland ended 'Cod War' with agreement on fishing rights.

1994 President Aristide returned to Haiti after three years in exile.

1997 British car driver Andy Green, driving the 13.7 m-/45 ft-long jet car Thrust SSC, set a new land speed record and broke the sound barrier at Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

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Events

1815 Napoleon was exiled to the Atlantic island of St Helena.

1846 The first public surgical operation using ether as an anaesthetic was performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

1902 The first detention centre housing young offenders was opened in Borstal, Kent, England

1922 The Simplon II railway tunnel, under the Alps, linking Switzerland and Italy, was completed.

1946 Nazi war criminals, including von Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, and Streicher, were hanged at Nuremberg.

1964 China exploded a nuclear device.

1964 Labour Party leader Harold Wilson became prime minister.

1978 Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected Pope John Paul II the first non-Italian pope since 1542.

1987 Southern England was hit by hurricane-force winds, causing 19 Deaths and hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of damage.

1995 Around 400,000 African-Americans assembled at the foot of the US Capitol to hear radical leader Louis Farrakhan uncompromisingly assert a separate black identity.

1996 The British government announced a plan to outlaw private ownership of most handguns, in response to the March 1996 massacre at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland.

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1651 Charles II was defeated by Cromwell at Worcester and fled to France, destitute and friendless.

1777 British commander General Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga in the American War of Independence.

1849 Frederic Chopin, Polish pianist and composer, died of tuberculosis in Paris, aged 39.

1860 The first professional golf tournament was held at Prestwick, Scotland, and won by Willie Park.

1899 British troops defeated the Boers at Glencoe.

1914 German U-boats raided Scapa Flow, main base of the British Fleet.

1931 Mobster Al Capone was jailed for 11 years for tax evasion.

1956 Calder Hall in Cumbria, Britain’s first large-scale atomic energy station, was opened by The Queen.

1960 The News Chronicle newspaper ceased publication.

1991 Four ITV companies, TV-am, Thames, TVS and TSW lost their licences under changes announced by the Independent Television Commission

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Events

1685 The Edict of Nantes, granting religious freedom to the Huguenots, was revoked by King Louis XIV of France.

1812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.

1826 Britain's last state lottery was held, prior to the launch of the National Lottery in 1994.

1887 Russia transferred Alaska to the USA for $7.2 million.

1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) was officially formed.

1977 Germany's anti-terrorist squad stormed a hijacked Lufthansa aircraft at Mogadishu Airport, Somalia, killing three of the four Palestinian hijackers and freeing all of the hostages.

1989 Following a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations in East Germany, Erich Honecker was replaced as head of state by Egon Krenz.

1989 With the end of Communist rule, Hungary was proclaimed a free republic.

1996 A study published in the journal Science uncovered evidence for the first time of a causal link between inhalation of a toxin found in tobacco smoke and the development of cancerous cells.

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Events

1781 Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, marking the end of the American War of Independence.

1813 The Allies defeated Napoleon at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig.

1860 The first company to manufacture internal combustion engines was formed in Florence, Italy.

1864 In the American Civil War, General Sheridan was victorious over the Confederates at the Battle of Cedar Creek.

1872 The Holtermann nugget was mined at Hill End, New South Wales in SE Australia; weighing 630lbs, it was the largest gold-bearing nugget ever found.

1935 The League of Nations imposed sanctions on Italy, following her invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

1987 Wall Street was struck by 'Black Monday', during which millions were wiped out on stock markets around the world.

1989 After serving 14 years in prison for the IRA Guildford and Woolwich bombings in England, the 'Guildford Four' had their convictions quashed.

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On this day - 1967 - The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time

On this day - 1963 - A Scottish Earl has won one of the most bitterly-fought leadership contests in the history of the Conservative Party to become Britain's Prime Minister ..............His Name.........Lord Home

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Events

1714 The coronation of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland took place.

1818 Britain and the USA established the 49th parallel as the boundary between Canada and the USA.

1822 The Sunday Times was first published.

1827 The Battle of Navarino, off the coast of Greece, ended with the combined British, French, and Russian fleets completely destroying the Egyptian and Turkish fleets.

1935 Mao Zedong's Long March ended in Yenan, north China.

1944 The Allies captured Aachen, Germany.

1944 US troops landed at Leyte, in the Philippines.

1968 Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President Kennedy, married Greek millionaire Aristotle Onassis.

1973 The Sydney Opera House, designed by Danish architect John Utzon, was opened to the public.

1995 A Belgian corruption scandal forced Willy Claes to resign after 13 months as Secretary General of NATO.

1997 The Hang Seng, Hong Kong's share index, fell 20% because of currency speculation against the Hong Kong dollar.

Births

1632 Christopher Wren, English architect

1784 Lord Palmerston, British statesman

1854 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet

1891 James Chadwick, English physicist

1904 Anna Neagle, British actres

1953 Tom Petty, US guitarist and singer

Deaths

1524 Thomas Linacre, English physician and humanist

1890 Richard Francis Burton, English explorer and scholar

1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st US president

1968 Bud Flanagan, English comedian

1988 Sheila Scott, English aviator

1989 Anthony Quayle, English actor

1994 Sergi Bondarchuck, Soviet actor and film director

1994 Burt Lancaster, US film actor

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1760 Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker, born.

1772 Poet Samuel Tayor Coleridge (The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan) was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon.

1803 Thomas Russell hanged for High Treason in Downpatrick, Co Down.

1805 Lord Nelson, English naval hero, was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar — dying at the precise moment the Franco-Spanish fleet surrendered.

1833 Alfred Nobel, industrialist, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, was born in Stockholm.

1858 The Can-Can was first performed in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld in Paris.

1879 The Land League was formed in Dublin by Michael Davitt, Charles Stewart Parnell, Thomas Brennan and Patrick Egan.

1904 Patrick Kavanagh, poet, was born in Co Monaghan.

Among his best-known works are The Great Hunger, By Night Unstarred and Tarry Flynn.

1918 The 'Spanish flu' epidemic started in Britain, eventually killing approximately twice as many as died in World War One.

1934 In China, Mao Tse Tung's Long March with his 100,000-strong Communist army began.

1950 Chinese forces occupied Tibet.

1966 Disaster struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan when a colliery slag tip slid collapsed and engulfed a row of houses, a farm and a school.

Of the 144 people killed, 116 were children.

1974 Universal I, an oil tanker, spills 650,000 gallons into the sea near Glengarriff, Co Cork.

1991 Jesse Turner, American hostage in Lebanon for just under five years, was freed by his captors.

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Events

1797 The first parachute jump was made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a balloon above the Parc Monceau, Paris.

1878 The first floodlit rugby match took place, Broughton v Swinton, at Broughton, Lancashire, England.

1883 New York's Metropolitan Opera House opened.

1909 French aviator Elise Deroche became the first woman to make a solo flight.

1910 Dr Hawley Crippen was found guilty of poisoning his wife and was sentenced to be hanged on 23 October 1910.

1935 Haiti was struck by a hurricane, causing over 2,000 Deaths.

1962 US President Kennedy announced that Soviet missile bases had been installed in Cuba.

1975 The 'Guildford Four' were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of planting IRA bombs in pubs in Guildford and Woolwich.

1987 The first volume of the Gutenberg Bible was sold at auction in New York for $5.39m/£3.26m a record price for a printed book.

1996 The Canadian Auto Workers union ended their 21-day-long strike after reaching a tentative agreement with General Motors of Canada Ltd.

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On this day - 1966 - Tragedy hits the Welsh village of Aberfan as a coal slag tip engulfs a school burying at least 130 people and injuring many more.

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Events

1642 The Battle of Edgehill, in the Cotswolds, took place the first major conflict of the English Civil War.

1707 The First Parliament of Britain.

1917 American Forces see their first action of the First World War.

1922 Andrew Bonar Law took office as British prime minister; he was replaced 22 May 1923, making his the shortest term of office in the twentieth century.

1942 The Second Battle of El Alamein, in Egypt, began in World War II.

1946 The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place in New York.

1947 Julie Andrews made her debut in Starlight Roof, aged 12.

1956 The Hungarian revolt against Soviet leadership began, in which thousands of demonstrators called for the withdrawal of Soviet forces.

1970 Gary Gabelich achieved the world land speed record of 631.367 mph, in his rocket-engine car on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.

1973 US House of Representatives ordered the judiciary committee to assess evidence for impeachment of President Nixon.

1987 Former British champion jockey Lester Piggott was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion.

1997 The rebel 'Cobra' militiamen leader Denis Sassau-Nguesso arrived in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, following victory in his war with President Pascal Lissouba.

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On This Day Over The Years

1648 The Treaty of Westphalia was signed, ending the Thirty Years War.

1857 The first football club was formed by a group of Cambridge University old boys meeting in Sheffield.

1882 Actress Dame Sybil Thorndike was born in Gainsborough, Lincs.

1924 A letter purporting to be from Grigori Zinoviev of the USSR calling for socialists to start a revolution was leaked to the British press on the eve of a general election.

The letter, later denounced as a forgery, helped give the Tories a huge victory.

1931 Al Capone's gangster career ended when he was sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion and fined 80,000.

He was released in 1939 and died in 1947.

1945 The United Nations Charter came into force.

1948 Franz Lehar, Hungarian composer of operettas including The Merry Widow, died in Vienna aged 78.

1964 Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia.

1969 Richard Burton bought his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, a 69.

42 carat diamond, costing more than a million dollars.

1989 US television preacher Jim Bakker was given a 45-year jail sentence and fined 500,000 for swindling his followers of millions of dollars.

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Events

1415 The English army, led by King Henry V, defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt, during the Hundred Years' War.

1839 Bradshaw's Railway Guide, the world's first railway timetable, was published in Manchester, in England.

1854 Lord Cardigan led the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War.

1900 The Transvaal, a region in South Africa which is rich in minerals, especially gold, was annexed by the British.

1941 The first German offensive against Moscow failed.

1961 The British satirical magazine Private Eye was first published.

1971 Taiwan was expelled from the UN to allow the admission of the People's Republic of China.

1983 Over 2,000 US troops invaded Grenada.

1993 The Liberal Party won a decisive victory in the Canadian general election

1997 An estimated 1.5 million black women participated in the Million Woman March in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to protest against the notion of blacks as victims.

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On this day - 1976 - The Queen officially opened the National Theatre on the South Bank in London after years of delays.

It should have opened in 1973

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Events

1825 The Erie Canal, linking the Niagara River with the Hudson River in N America, was opened to traffic.

1860 Italian unification leader Giuseppe Garibaldi proclaimed Victor Emmanuel King of Italy.

1881 The legendary 'Gunfight at the OK Corral' took place at Tombstone, Arizona.

1905 Sweden and Norway ended their union and Oscar II, the Norwegian king, abdicated.

1927 Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded the jazz classic, 'Creole Love Song'.

1929 T W Evans of Miami, Florida, became the first woman to give birth aboard an aircraft.

1956 The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency was formed.

1965 Queen Elizabeth presented the Beatles with their MBEs at Buckingham Palace.

1985 A US infant, known as Baby Fae, was given a baboon's heart to replace her malformed one.

1997 Jacques Villeneuve, driving a Williams-Renault, became the first Canadian to win the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship.

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On this day - 1959 - The Soviet Union revealed the first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

On this day - 1951 - The Conservative Party won the general election by a small majority, making Winston Churchill prime minister for the second time.

On this day - 1979 - The President of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, was "accidentally" shot dead by the chief of his intelligence service, Kim Jea Kyu

On this day - 1994 - Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement ending 46 years of war. The signing was witnessed by US President Bill Clinton

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Events

1662 England's Charles II sold Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 2.5 million livres.

1901 In Paris, a 'getaway car' was used for the first time, when thieves robbed a shop and sped away.

1904 The first section of New York City's subway system was opened.

1917 US troops entered the war in France.

1936 Mrs Wallis Simpson was granted a divorce from her second husband, leaving her free to marry Britain's King Edward VIII.

1971 The Republic of Congo changed its name to the Republic of Zaire.

1979 St Vincent and Grenadines gained independence.

1986 The City of London experienced 'Big Bang' day, due to the deregulation of the money market.

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Events

1636 Harvard University, the first in the USA, was founded.

1746 An earthquake demolished Lima and Callao, in Peru.

1831 English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday demonstrated the first dynamo.

1886 The Statue of Liberty, designed by Auguste Bartholdi, was presented by France to the USA to mark the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

1893 HMS Havelock, the Royal Navy's first destroyer, went on trials.

1914 George Eastman, of Eastman Kodak Company, announced the introduction of a colour photographic process.

1962 Nikita Khrushchev of USSR announced the withdrawal of the 'offensive weapons' from Cuba.

1971 By a margin of 112 votes, the House of Commons backed Prime Minister Heath's decision to apply for EEC membership.

1982 Felipe González became Spain's first Socialist prime minister, with a sweeping electoral victory.

1990 Non-Communist parties triumphed in elections in Georgia, USSR, with calls for independence and a market economy.

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Events

1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, English navigator, courtier, and once favourite of Elizabeth I, was beheaded at Whitheall for treason.

1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was first performed, in Prague.

1863 The International Red Cross was founded by Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant.

1929 The Wall Street crash known as 'Black Tuesday' took place, leading to the Great Depression.

1957 Fulgencio Batistá suspended the Cuban constitution.

1964 The union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar was announced, adopting the name of Tanzania.

1967 Expo-67, an international exhibition, opened in Montreal, Canada.

1982 In Australia, Lindy Chamberlain was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her nine-week-old baby who, she claimed, had been carried off by a dingo.

1991 Vietnam formally approved a plan to repatriate forcibly tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees living in camps in Hong Kong.

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Events

1485 The Yeomen of the Guard were established by King Henry VII of England.

1650 'Quakers', the more common name for the Society of Friends, came into being during a court case, at which George Fox, the founder, told the magistrate to 'quake and tremble at the word of God'.

1911 P'u-Yi, the boy emperor of China aged five, granted a new constitution, officially ending three centuries of Manchu domination over China.

1918 The Republic of Czechoslovakia was proclaimed.

1925 The Scottish inventor John Baird made the first televised transmission of a moving object (a 15-year-old office boy).

1938 US actor Orson Welles' radio production of The War of the Worlds by H G Wells caused panic in the USA.

1965 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones was jailed for drug offences.

1988 Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, conducted the marriage of 6,516 couples in a Seoul factory; the couples had first met the day before.

1997 The British nanny Louise Woodward was found guilty of the murder of baby Matthew Eappen by a court in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Events

1517 Martin Luther nailed his theses on indulgences to the church door at Wittenberg, Germany.

1864 Nevada became the 36th state of the Union.

1902 The first telegraph cable across the Pacific Ocean was completed.

1940 The Battle of Britain ended.

1951 Zebra crossings came into effect in Britain.

1952 At Eniwetok Atoll, in the Pacific, the USA detonated the first hydrogen bomb.

1956 British and French troops bombed Egyptian airfields at Suez.

1971 An IRA bomb exploded at the top of the Post Office Tower, London.

1982 The Thames barrier, part of London's flood defences, was raised for the first time.

1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards.

1992 Vatican formally rehabilitated Galileo Galilei, forced by the Inquisition in 1633 to recant his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun.

1995 Five million Quebecers say 'no' to separatism, but referendum results showed the province was as divided as ever, with 50.6% voting against and 49.4% voting in favour of separatism.

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Events

1755 An earthquake reduced two-thirds of Lisbon to rubble and resulted, according to accounts, in the death of 60,000 people.

1848 The first W H Smith railway bookstall opened, at Euston Station, London.

1911 Woman's Weekly was first published.

1914 The British ships Good Hope and Monmouth were sunk by the Germans, at the Battle of Coronel.

1936 Hitler and Mussolini signed the Berlin-Rome Axis.

1940 A prehistoric painting was discovered in a cave in Lascaux in the Dordogne, France.

1950 Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate US President Truman.

1959 The first stretch of the M1 motorway linking London with the North of England was opened.

1963 During an army coup in South Vietnam, President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated and succeeded by General Duong Van Minh.

1972 Orissa, India, was struck by a tidal wave which killed 10,000 people and left 5 million homeless.

1993 Maastricht Treaty (the Treaty on European Union) came into force; the European Community became the European Union (EU).

1995 Peace talks between parties in the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina were held at the Wright-Paterson airforce base near Dayton, Ohio, USA.

And finally on this day Molly was born :D :D :D