On This Day

[mollycorolla]

very important fact - on this day, i was born :D

[Bizarra]

very important fact - on this day, i was born :D

Tut Tut ! It isn't even listed in the IOL "Events of this day" which I use, when Raistlin doesn't beat me to it

I shall have to administer a severe slap on the wrist

[mollycorolla]

please do, im quite upset about that :(

[Raistlin]

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

Redeemed

[Raistlin]

Events

1785 The first insubmersible lifeboat was patented by Lionel Lakin, a London coach builder.

1871 The 'Rogues Gallery' was started, when photographs of all prisoners in Britain were first taken.

1899 Ladysmith, in Natal, South Africa, was besieged by the Boers.

1917 The Balfour Declaration, stating British support for the Jewish Zionist goal of a homeland in Palestine, was sent to Lord Rothschild.

1920 Warren G Harding, a Republican, was elected US president.

1930 Ras Tafari, King of Ethiopia, was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie ('Might of the Trinity').

1948 In USA, Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected senator.

1957 With eight simultaneous hits in the UK Top 30 chart, Elvis Presley set an all-time record.

1960 A British jury acquitted Penguin Books of obscenity in the matter of publishing D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.

1976 James Earl Carter was elected the 39th president of the USA.

1990 Ivana Trump filed for divorce from US millionaire Donald Trump.

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1493 Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, sighted Dominica, in the West Indies.

1706 A violent earthquake hit Abruzzi, Italy, killing 15,000 inhabitants.

1796 The first sitting of the newly completed Four Courts began in Dublin.

1854 The Catholic University of Ireland opened without the power to grant degrees.

1870 Photographing of criminals in England and Wales became compulsory, instituting the first ‘Rogues’ Gallery’.

1878 Parnell addressed a meeting of the Ballinasloe Tenents’ Defence Association on his first visit to Connaught.

1926 Annie Oakley, US markswoman, died.

1941 Roy Plomley conceived the idea for Desert Island Discs as he got ready for bed.

He put his suggestion to the BBC, and the first programme was broadcast in January 1942.

1942 Montgomery’s Eighth Army broke through Rommel’s front line in Africa.

1948 Harry Truman was elected US president.

1990 Sky and BSB television agreed to merge.

1993 A mystery woman paid a record 5 million Swiss francs (£22m) for an envelope with two stamps sent from Mauritius to a Bordeaux wine exporter in 1847.

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1605 Guy Fawkes, a Roman Catholic convert and conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested in the British House of Parliament's cellar.

1862 US inventor Richard Gatling patented the rapid-fire, or machine, gun.

1914 The first fashion show was organized by Edna Woodman Chase of Vogue magazine, and held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New York.

1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen.

1946 UNESCO was established, with headquarters in Paris.

1979 Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in theeran and held over 60 staff and US marines hostage.

1980 Ronald Reagan was elected 40th US president.

1991 Imelda Marcos returned to the Philippines after five years of exile in the USA; the government endorsed her return so that she could be tried on corruption and tax evasion charges.

1995 Itzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, was assassinated at peace rally in Tel Aviv by Jewish law student Yigal Amir.

1997 French lorry drivers blockaded roads and ports until a negotiated settlement ended their dispute over pay and conditions.

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1854 The combined British and French armies defeated the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman in the Crimean War.

1912 The British Board of Film Censors was appointed.

It decided on two classifications - Universal and Not Suitable for Children.

1913 Vivien 'Fiddledeedee' Leigh, actress, born.

1914 Cyprus was annexed by Britain.

1917 US troops under General Pershing went into action for the first time on the Western Front.

1919 Rudolph Valentino, the archetypal romantic screen lover, married actress Jean Acker.

The marriage lasted less than six hours.

1921 Lloyd George and Sir James Craig meet and discuss the possibility of a boundary commission.

1956 The uprising in Hungary was crushed by Soviet tanks.

More than 20,000 people died.

1968 Richard Nixon was elected 37th US president.

1982 Jacques Tati, French film actor and director, died.

1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish Defense League and Israel's extremist anti-Arab Kach party, was assassinated in a New York City hotel.

1991 Robert Maxwell, millionaire publishing tycoon, was found dead at sea hours after disappearing from his yacht off the Canary Islands.

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Births

1884 James Elroy Flecker, English poet

1892 John Haldane, Scottish scientist

1913 Vivien Leigh, British actress

1935 Lester Piggott, British jockey

1940 Elke Sommer, German actress

1941 Art Garfunkel, US singer and composer

Deaths

1807 Death of Angelica Kauffman

1955 Maurice Utrillo, French painter

1960 Mack Sennett, US film producer

1979 Al Capp, US cartoonist

1982 Jacques Tati, French film actor and director

1989 Vladimir Horowitz, US pianist

1991 Robert Maxwell, British publishing and newspaper proprietor

[Tegan]

2008- America got its 1st black president B)

[Raistlin]

Events

1429 Henry VI was crowned King of England.

1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th US president.

1869 Diamonds were discovered at Kimberley, in Cape Province, South Africa.

1924 British Tory leader Stanley Baldwin was elected prime minister.

1932 In general elections held in Germany, the Nazis emerged as the largest party.

1952 The USA exploded the first hydrogen bomb, at Eniwetok island in the Pacific.

1956 Construction of the Kariba High Dam, on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, began.

1975 UK punk rock group, the Sex Pistols, gave their first public performance at London's St Martin's College of Art; college authorities cut the concert short after 10 minutes.

1979 Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolutionary Council took power in Iran from the provisional government.

1988 Six thousand US Defense Department computers were crippled by a virus; the culprit was the 23-year-old son of the head of the country's computer security agency.

[Bizarra]

Good omen, I hope

Abraham Lincoln made President almost to the day that Barak Obama was declared President elect

Bad omen. We know what happened to Abe , eventually :(

[Raistlin]

Events

1783 The last man to be hanged at Tyburn, John Austin, was executed today.

1872 The Marie Celeste, the ill-fated brigantine, sailed from New York to be found mysteriously abandoned near the Azores some time later.

1916 Jeanette Rankin, of the state of Montana, became the first woman member of US Congress.

1916 Democrat Woodrow Wilson was re-elected US president.

1917 The Bolshevik Revolution, led by Lenin, overthrew Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky's government.

1944 Democrat Franklin D Roosevelt was re-elected US president for a fourth term.

1972 Richard Nixon was re-elected US president.

1988 In Las Vegas, 'Sugar' Ray Leonard knocked out Canadian Donny Londe, completing his collection of world titles at five different weights.

1990 Mary Robinson became the Irish Republic's first woman president.

1996 A team of British, American and Australian scientists reported evidence that life on Earth originated some 350 million years earlier than previously believed.

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1656 Edmund Halley, astronomer who first identified the comet that bears his name, was born in London.

1674 The blind English poet John Milton died at the age of 65.

A student once wrote in an essay on Milton: ‘‘He got married and wrote Paradise Lost.

Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

’’1847 Dracula creator Bram Stoker was born in Dublin.

1886 Fred Archer, English champion jockey who won the Derby five times, shot himself, aged only 27.

1895 Wilhelm Rontgen discovered X-rays during an experiment at the University of Wurzburg with the flow of electricity through a partially evacuated glass tube.

1920 The first Rupert Bear cartoon appeared in the Daily Express.

1923 The Munich Beer Hall Putsch - marking the start of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.

1932 Franklin D Roosevelt - promising a ‘‘New Deal’’ for America - swept into the White House on a landslide in the US presidential election.

On the same day in 1966, Edward Brooke became America’s first black senator.

1987 An IRA bomb exploded shortly before a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 11 people.

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Events

1837 Moses Montefiore became the first Jew to be knighted in England.

1859 Flogging in the British army was abolished.

1908 Britain's first woman mayor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, was elected at Aldeburgh.

1918 Following a revolution in Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated and fled to Holland.

1925 The SS (Schutzstaffel or 'Protection Squad') was formed in Germany.

1965 Capital punishment was abolished in Britain.

1972 Andrew Young became the first African-American to be elected from the South to the US Congress since the mid-19th century.

1988 Gary Kasparov became world chess champion after beating Anatoly Karpov, who had held the title for ten years, in Moscow.

1989 East Germany announced the opening of its border with West Germany.

1996 Evander Holyfield defeated Mike Tyson with a technical knockout in the 11th round to win the WBA heavyweight title in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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On this Day - 1960 - Senator John F Kennedy won the election to become the youngest elected president of the United States

On this Day - 1970 - One of the greatest figures in the history of France, General Charles de Gaulle, dies at his home of a heart attack.

On this Day - 1979 - Four men are found guilty of killing paperboy Carl Bridgewater. Eighteen years later their convictions were quashed.

On this Day - 1985 - Charles and Diana had their first day of a four-day visit to the USA

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1483 Martin Luther, German religious reformer, was born in Eisleben.

1580 600 men and women were killed at Dún an O´ir, Ballyferriter, Co Kerry, after they had surrendered to Lord Deputy Gray and Sir Walter Raleigh.

1641 The English Parliament decreed that no Irishman could leave England for Ireland without a licence.

1683 George II was born in Hanover.

1728 Poet and dramatist Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops To Conquer) was born in County Longford.

1862 The first performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Forza del Destino was held in St Petersburg.

1879 Patrick Henry Peubik, revolutionary and writer, born in Dublin.

1891 Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, died.

1910 Edward Elgar conducted the first performance of his violin concerto, played by Fritz Kreisler, in the Queen’s Hall, London.

1925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor, born.

1966 Seán Lemass resigned as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil.

He was succeeded by jack Lynch.

1982 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack, aged 75.

1989 Bulldozers began demolishing the 28-year-old Berlin Wall, following the government’s announcement that it would allow free travel between East and West Germany.

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Events

1775 The Continental Congress authorized the creation of the 'Continental Marines', now known as the US Marines.

1862 The first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Forza del Destino was held in St Petersburg.

1871 Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to track down missing explorer David Livingstone, met him at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika.

1928 Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan, at the age of 27.

1938 Kristallnacht, or 'night of (broken) glass', took place when Nazis burned 267 synagogues and destroyed thousands of Jewish homes and businesses in Germany.

1989 Bulldozers began demolishing the 28-year-old Berlin Wall, following the government's announcement that it would allow free travel between East and West Germany.

1995 Despite appeals from around the world, Nigeria's military regime hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, the author and playwright, and 8 other activists in the city of Port Harcourt.

1997 US judge Hiller Zobel, in his decision on the English nanny Louise Woodward's murder case, reduced her second degree murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter and freed her.

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Events

1918 The armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany in Compiègne, France, effectively ending World War I.

1921 The British Legion held its first Poppy Day to raise money for wounded World War I veterans.

1940 The Willys-Overland Company launched a four-wheel drive vehicle for the US Army, named 'Jeep' after GP (general purpose).

1952 The first video recorder was demonstrated in Beverly Hills, California, by its inventors John Mullin and Wayne Johnson.

1965 Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, unilaterally declared his country's independence from Britain.

1969 The UN General Assembly rejected the admission of Communist China for 20th time.

1975 Angola gained independence from Portugal.

1982 A bomb destroyed Israeli military headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon, killing 100.

1992 The Church of England General Synod voted to allow women to be ordained to the priesthood.

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Events

1660 English author John Bunyan was arrested for preaching without a licence; refusing to give up preaching, he remained in jail for 12 years.

1847 The first public demonstration of the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic was given by James Simpson, at the University of Edinburgh.

1859 Jules Léotard, the daring young man on the flying trapeze, made his debut at the Cirque Napoléon, in Paris.

1912 The remains of English explorer Robert Scott and his companions were found in Antarctica.

1918 The Republic of Austria was declared, thus ending the Habsburg dynasty.

1944 The RAF bombed and sank the Tirpitz, the last of the major German battleships.

1974 For the first time since the 1840s, a salmon was caught in the Thames.

1974 'Lucky' Lord Lucan disappeared from London after the murder of his children's nanny.

1981 The US shuttle Columbia became the first reusable crewed spacecraft, by making its second trip.

1996 Two aeroplanes collided in midair about 60mi/100km west of the airport in New Delhi, India, killing all 349 people aboard the planes.

1996 The European Court of Justice ordered Britain to enforce an EU policy mandating a maximum 48-hour week and enacting other workplace rules.

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Events

1002 The Massacre of the Danes in the southern counties of England took place by order of Ethelred II.

1511 Henry VIII joined the Holy League and thus entered European politics.

1851 The telegraph service between London and Paris began operating.

1907 The first helicopter rose 2 m/6.5 ft above the ground in Normandy.

1914 US heiress Mary Phelps Jacob patented a new female undergarment, known as the 'backless brassiere'.

1916 In World War I, the Battle of the Somme ended, having caused the Deaths of some 60,000 allied soldiers.

1970 A cyclone and tidal waves struck East Pakistan, killing over 500,000 people.

1979 In Britain, publication of The Times and The Sunday Times resumed.

1985 The Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz, dormant since 1845, erupted, killing over 20,000 people.

1987 With a view to encouraging 'safe sex', or AIDS prevention, the BBC screened its first condom commercial (without a brand name).

1995 In a dispute with Republicans in Congress over the 1996 US budget, President Clinton blocked two temporary funding measures, resulting in closure of some government functions.

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Events

1770 Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile in NE Ethiopia, then considered the main stream of the Nile.

1896 The speed limit for motor vehicles in Britain was raised from 4 mph to 14 mph.

1925 An exhibition of Surrealist art opened in Paris, including works by Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso.

1927 Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev were expelled from the Soviet Communist Party.

1940 Enemy bombing over England destroyed Coventry's medieval cathedral.

1952 Britain's first pop singles chart was published by New Musical Express.

1954 In Egypt, President Neguib was deposed.

1963 The island of Surtsey off Iceland was 'born' by the eruption of an underwater volcano.

1973 Bobby Moore made his 108th (and final) international appearance for England, against Italy at Wembley.

1983 Defence Secretary Heseltine announced the arrival of the first Cruise missiles at Greenham Common.

1991 Prince Sihanouk, Cambodia's former head of state, returned to Phnom Penh after nearly 13 years in exile to head the country's interim government.

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On this day - 1973 - The wedding of the Queen's only daughter, Princess Anne, took place at Westminster Abbey

On this day - 1977 - U.K. Firefighters claim widespread support for their first national strike, over a 30% pay demand

On this day - 2000 - Convoys of lorries and tractors converged on London and Edinburgh to mark the 60-day deadline for government action to cut fuel tax.

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1708 William Pitt the Elder, 1st earl of Chatham, was born in London.

1738 Astronomer Sir William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was born in Hanover.

He died in Slough in 1822.

1837 Isaac Pitman’s stenographic sound-hand, the first shorthand system, was published, price 4d.

1899 Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers while covering the war as a reporter for the Morning Post.

He escaped a few weeks later.

1901 An electrical hearing aid was patented by Miller Reese of New York.

1923 Rampant inflation in Germany reached a peak when the mark (4.

2 to the dollar in 1914) rose to 4,200,000,000 to the dollar.

1968 The Cunard flagship Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton for the last time.

She was replaced by the Queen Elizabeth II.

1956 Elvis Presley’s first film, Love Me Tender, was premiered in New York.

1969 ITV channel ATV screened the first colour television commercial in Britain - for Birds-Eye peas.

1983 The Greenham Common women’s group mounted their first protest as cruise missiles arrived at the US airbase in Berkshire.

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1960 Clark Gable, the ‘King of Hollywood’ and Oscar winner, died after shooting the final scenes of The Misfits opposite Marilyn Monroe.

1965 The USSR launched Venus III, an crew-less spacecraft that successfully landed on Venus.

Here, WT Cosgrave the first president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State died.

1989 A pillar of South African apartheid crumbled when beach access restrictions were removed by president F W de Klerk.

1993 Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum was closed by the Russian authorities; the first site in Moscow linked to Lenin to be shut down.