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The city of New Orleans is founded. 1763 Odawa war chief Pontiac attempts to seize Fort Detroit from the British, leading to Pontiac's War. 1824 World premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna. 1840 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history. 1915 The RMS Lusitania is sunk by the German sub U-20, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. 1942 During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between the warring ships. 1974 Willy Brandt resigns as West German Chancellor. 1976 The Honda Accord is officially launched. 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. 2000 Russia inaugurates Vladimir Putin as President. 2004 American businessman Nick Berg, is beheaded by Islamic militants. 2007 The tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. Births 1812 Robert Browning; 1833 Johannes Brahms; 1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; 1885 George "Gabby" Hayes; 1892 Archibald MacLeish; 1892 Josip Broz Tito; 1901 Gary Cooper; 1909 Edwin H. Land (co-founded Polaroid Corp.); 1919 Eva Perσn; 1922 Darren McGavin (Kolchak: The Night Stalker); 1923 Anne Baxter; 1930 Totie Fields; 1933 Johnny Unitas; 1946 Bill Kreutzmann, Jerry Nolan; 1948 Susan Atkins (follower of Charles Manson); 1950 Randall "Tex" Cobb (boxer), Tim Russert; 1951 Bernie Marsden; 1961 Phil Campbell (Motorhead); 1965 Owen Hart (wrestler); 1968 Traci Lords; 1969 Eagle-Eye Cherry Deaths 1896 H. H. Holmes (serial killer); 1998 Eddie Rabbitt; 2000 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; 2007 Yahweh ben Yahweh; 2011 Seve Ballesteros; 2013 Ray Harryhausen
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This is a fine public service you're performing Grav. Bravo.
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05-07-2016, 04:07 PM | #48 |
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I thought maybe it was too much. Too many links?
But, . Also, I don't know a lot of 'foreign' history, and may not see the significance of some people or happenings that affect(ed)/effect(ed) other countries. At least someone reads it.
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I admit the subject is interesting, but the formatting puts me off. It would be easier to read if the event were on the same line as the year. But no need to do extra work just for me.
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May 8, 1794 - French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, branded a traitor, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day. 1861 - Richmond, Virginia is named capital of The Confederate States of America. 1877 - The first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is held at Gilmore's Gardens, in New York, New York. 1886 Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. 1902 In Martinique, Mount Pelιe erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast. 1912 Paramount Pictures is founded. 1919 Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I. 1927 Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Franηois Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. 1933 Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast. 1941 The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby. 1945 - Victory In Europe Day (V-E Day) combat ends in Europe. Thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1973 A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants. 1976 The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain. 1978 The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. 1980 The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox. 1984 The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Thames Barrier is officially opened. Births 1720 William Cavendish; 1847 Oscar Hammerstein I; 1884 Harry S. Truman; 1895 Fulton J. Sheen; 1906 Roberto Rossellini; 1911 Robert Johnson; 1919 Lex Barker; 1926 David Attenborough, Don Rickles; 1937 Thomas Pynchon; 1940 Peter Benchley, Ricky Nelson, Toni Tennille (Capt & Tennille); 1941 James Traficant; 1943 Paul Samwell-Smith; 1944 Gary Glitter, Bill Legend; 1950 Robert Mugge; 1953 Billy Burnette, Alex Van Halen; 1955 Stephen Furst ('Flounder' from "Animal House"); 1956 Jeff Wincott; 1957 Bill Cowher; 1958 Lovie Smith; 1960 Eric Brittingham; 1961 Bill de Blasio; 1964 Bobby Labonte; 1973 Marcus Brigstocke; 1975 Enrique Iglesias; 1977 Joe Bonamassa Deaths 1794 Antoine Lavoisier; 1880 Gustave Flaubert; 1903 Paul Gauguin; 1947 Harry Gordon Selfridge; 1982 Neil Bogart, Gilles Villeneuve; 1984 Lila Bell Wallace (co-founded Reader's Digest); 1985 Karl Marx; 1988 Robert A. Heinlein; 1994 George Peppard; 1999 Dirk Bogarde; 1999 Dana Plato ("Diff'rent Strokes"); 2008 Eddy Arnold; 2012 Maurice Sendak; 2013 Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor on "The Young and the Restless"); 2014 Roger L. Easton (co-inventor of GPS)
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1662 - Mr. Punch, of Punch and Judy, makes his first recorded appearance. 1763 - Chief Pontiac's siege of Fort Detroit begins. 1877 - An 8.8 earthquake off Peru kills 2,541 people, some as far away as Hawaii, and Japan. 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. 1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine. 1945 World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France. The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation. 1958 The film "Vertigo" has its world premiere in San Francisco. 1960 The United States FDA announced it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid for birth control, making it the first oral contraceptive pill. 1980 In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die. Births 1801 Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood; 1837 Adam Opel; 1860 J. M. Barrie; 1873 Anton Cermak; 1874 Howard Carter (found King Tut's tomb); 1882 Henry J. Kaiser; 1918 Mike Wallace "The Grand Inquisitor"; 1921 Daniel Berrigan; 1936 Terry Downes, Albert Finney, Glenda Jackson; 1937 Sonny Curtis, Dave Prater (Sam & Dave); 1940 James L. Brooks ("The Simpsons" producer); 1942 John Ashcroft, Tommy Roe; 1944 Richie Furay; 1945 Steve Katz; 1946 Candice Bergen; 1949 Billy Joel; 1950 Tom Petersson; 1960 Tony Gwynn; 1962 Dave Gahan; 1984 Prince Fielder Deaths 1914 C. W. Post (cereal guy); 1968 Harold Gray (created "Little Orphan Annie"); 2010 Lena Horne; 2012 Vidal Sassoon; 2013 George M. Leader (36th Governor of Pennsylvania)
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28 B.C. - The first recorded observation of a sunspot, by Chinese Han Dynasty astronomers. 70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem. 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king. 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cαdiz, Spain for his first voyage to the New World. 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there. 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. 1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France. 1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public. 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia. American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6. 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike. 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States. 1904 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company. 1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island. 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. 1972 – First flight of the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (a.k.a. "Warthog"). 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. 2002 – F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow. 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 meters) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate. 2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Births 1838 – John Wilkes Booth; 1899 – Fred Astaire; 1902 – David O. Selznick; 1909 – Maybelle Carter "Mother Maybelle"; 1922 – Nancy Walker; 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford; 1940 – Wayne Dyer; 1946 – Donovan, Graham Gouldman, Dave Mason; 1955 – Mark David Chapman; 1957 – Sid Vicious; 1958 – Rick Santorum; 1960 – Bono; 1965 – Linda Evangelista; 1975 – Hιlio Castroneves; 1978 – Kenan Thompson Deaths 1774 – Louis XV of France; 1798 – George Vancouver (namesake of Vancouver Island, and Vancouver, British Columbia); 1818 – Paul Revere; 1863 – Stonewall Jackson; 1977 – Joan Crawford; 1994 – John Wayne Gacy; 1999 – Shel Silverstein; 2010 – Frank Frazetta; 2012 – Carroll Shelby; 2015 – Chris Burden
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Only 227 days til Christmas. 1820 HMS Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched. 1846 President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the MexicanAmerican War. 1907 Thirty-two Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. 1910 An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. 1927 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. 1942 William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published. 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power. 1949 Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, for the second time. Israel joins the United Nations. 1960 In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement. 1972 The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle. 1984 Eight people perish in a fire at Six Flags Great Adventure's Haunted Castle. 1985 Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England. 1987 Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. 1996 After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board. The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest. 2010 David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after elections produced a hung parliament. 2014 Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into the stand by police officers attempting to defuse a hostile incident. Births 1799 John Lowell, Jr. (Lowell Institute); 1811 Chang and Eng Bunker; 1875 Harriet Quimby; 1888 Irving Berlin; 1904 Salvador Dalν; 1911 Phil Silvers; 1918 Richard Feynman; 1920 Denver Pyle; 1927 Mort Sahl; 1932 Valentino Garavani; 1934 Jim Jeffords; 1941 Eric Burdon; 1946 Robert Jarvik; 1947 Butch Trucks (Allman Brothers Band); 1953 David Gest; 1959 Martha Quinn; 1964 Tim Blake Nelson; 1982 Cory Monteith; 1989 Cam Newton Deaths 1889 John Cadbury; 1891 Edmond Becquerel; 1979 Lester Flatt; 1981 Bob Marley; 1985 Chester Gould (created "Dick Tracy"); 2001 Douglas Adams; 2003 Noel Redding; 2006 Floyd Patterson
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I've been onboard the QE2.
Also, I like this thread.
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The QE II is very impressive, had a chance to take the tour when my mother and brother sailed to England on her. My father flew over and met them, because he had sailed on the QE I, along with a shitload of other GIs, and didn't like it one damn bit.
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1926 The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. 1932 Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home. 1935 Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling. 1937 The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey. 1942 World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507. 1957 Alfonso de Portago crashes during the Mille Miglia, killing himself, his co-driver, Ed Nelson and ten spectators five of whom were children. 1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners. 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fαtima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Marνa Fernαndez y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow". 1986 NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration. 1989 The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline, damaged by earth moving equipment during crash clean-up, explodes killing two more people. 2008 An ~8.0 earthquake occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud. 2015 A train derailment in Philadelphia kills 8 people and injures over 200. A 7.3-magnitude earthquake and six major aftershocks hit Nepal, killing over 200 people. Births 1820 Florence Nightingale; 1850 Henry Cabot Lodge; 1889 Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank); 1907 Katharine Hepburn; 1911 Charles Biro (Daredevil Comics); 1918 Mary Kay Ash, Julius Rosenberg; 1925 Yogi Berra; 1928 Burt Bacharach; 1935 Felipe Alou; 1936 Tom Snyder; 1937 George Carlin; 1942 Billy Swan; 1945 Ian McLagan; 1948 Steve Winwood; 1950 Bruce Boxleitner, Gabriel Byrne, Billy Squier; 1958 Eric Singer (KISS drummer); 1959 Ray Gillen, Ving Rhames; 1961 Billy Duffy; 1962 Emilio Estevez; 1966 Stephen Baldwin; 1968 Tony Hawk; 1969 Kim Fields ('Tootie' from "Facts of Life"); 1970 Jim Furyk, Samantha Mathis, Mike Weir; 1978 Jason Biggs Deaths 1864 J. E. B. Stuart; 1925 Amy Lowell; 1944 Max Brand; 1957 Erich von Stroheim; 1992 Robert Reed (father on "The Brady Bunch"); 2000 Adam Petty; 2001 Perry Como, Alexei Tupolev (designed the Tu-144); 2014 H. R. Giger
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