What happened in History on this date

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Today is the 15th of May.  Here is todays history lesson!

 

• 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence atVienne.
• 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bullad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
• 1525 – The battle of Frankenhausen ends the German Peasants' War.
• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
• 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
• 1602 – Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
• 1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
• 1648 – The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
• 1701 – The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
• 1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
• 1755 – Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
• 1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1791 – Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
• 1792 – War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted .
• 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
• 1800 – George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
• 1811 – Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
• 1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1836 – Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
• 1849 – Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
• 1850 – The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
• 1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
• 1862 – PresidentAbraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force UnionGeneralFranz Sigelout of the Shenandoah Valley.
• 1869 – Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• 1891 – Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• 1904 – The Russian minelayerAmur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and "Yashima".
• 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• 1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
• 1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
• 1919 – Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
• 1928 – Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
• 1929 – A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• 1932 – The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
• 1934 – Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
• 1935 – The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
• 1940 – USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
• 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
• 1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
• 1942 – World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
• 1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
• 1945 – World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
• 1948 – Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
• 1951 – The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
• 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
• 1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
• 1960 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
• 1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
• 1966 – After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.
• 1969 – People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
• 1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States ArmyGenerals.
• 1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
• 1972 – The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
• 1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes AlabamaGovernorGeorge Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
• 1974 – Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
• 1987 – The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
• 1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• 1991 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
• 1997 – The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
• 2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
• 2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
• 2011 – first day of the 2011–2012 Spanish protests, also known as "M15" or "15M".

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Today is May the 16th!  Here is today in history!

 

• 218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
• 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
• 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
• 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
• 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
• 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
• 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
• 1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
• 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
• 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
• 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
• 1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
• 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
• 1877 – 16 May 1877 political crisis in France.
• 1891 – The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
• 1914 – The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
• 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
• 1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
• 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
• 1929 – In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
• 1943 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
• 1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
• 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
• 1953 – American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
• 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
• 1961 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
• 1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
• 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
• 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
• 1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 1983 – Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
• 1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
• 1988 – A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
• 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
• 2003 – In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
• 2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
• 2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

5-16-2012    After hearing of a Canadian driver who hit a moose and then drove 28 miles to work unaware of the accident, one-time presidential hopeful John Edwards takes the stand at his corruption trial and claims he must have rear-ended his mistress, Rielle Hunter.

5-16-2014    After two years of investigation into the mysterious lack of oxygen reported by pilots of the nearly billion dollar a copy F-22 Raptor fighter jet, defense contractor Lockheed Martin adds little flippy vent windows near the front of the canopy to bring fresh air into the cockpit. In another concession to wary pilots, full crank down windows are installed, allowing them to order fast food during in-flight refueling. The F-22 quickly becomes the most popular plane in the nation's arsenal.

 

[emmettcullen93]

today is my parents 14th aniversery yay.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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emmettcullen93 wrote:

today is my parents 14th aniversery yay.

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... does the math and grins.

Mom and Dad would be in their 61st year together if Dad hadn't run off into the void.

Give 'em a hug and a wink from me, Emmett!

[emmettcullen93]

LOL hehe.

of course i will maddy.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-16-2012

    After hearing of a Canadian driver who hit a moose and then drove 28 miles to work unaware of the accident, one-time presidential hopeful John Edwards takes the stand at his corruption trial and claims he must have rear-ended his mistress, Rielle Hunter.

5-16-2014

   After two years of investigation into the mysterious lack of oxygen reported by pilots of the nearly billion dollar a copy F-22 Raptor fighter jet, defense contractor Lockheed Martin adds little flippy vent windows near the front of the canopy to bring fresh air into the cockpit. In another concession to wary pilots, full crank down windows are installed, allowing them to order fast food during in-flight refueling. The F-22 quickly becomes the most popular plane in the nation's arsenal.

 

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Oh that is good!  Little vent windows!  HAHAH!

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  it's May the 17th.  Here is todays history lesson!

• 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
• 1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
• 1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
• 1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
• 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.
• 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
• 1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
• 1809 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
• 1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
• 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the DanishCrown PrinceChristian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
• 1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
• 1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
• 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
• 1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
• 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
• 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancientmechanicalanalog computer.
• 1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
• 1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
• 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
• 1939 – The ColumbiaLions and the PrincetonTigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
• 1940 – World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
• 1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
• 1943 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
• 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: PresidentGamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
• 1969 – Venera program: SovietVenera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
• 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
• 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
• 1974 – Thirty-three civilians are killed and over 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is the highest number of casualties in any one day during The Troubles. An Irish parliament committee, and others, allege that British security forces were involved.
• 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Koreaseizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
• 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoistguerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
• 1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
• 1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
• 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
• 1987 – An IraqiDassault Mirage F1fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
• 1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
• 1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of ThailandSuchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
• 1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
• 1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2004 – Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
• 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
• 2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

5-17-2012    Vermont becomes the first US state to ban the controversial practice of "Fracking".

5-17-2013    University of Vermont College of Medicine reports a sharp drop in Vermont's birth rate over the previous year.

[ROB34466IIIa]

5- 17-2012 In memoriam : Donna Summer.

 

 

:robotsad:

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-17-2012    

Vermont becomes the first US state to ban the controversial practice of "Fracking".

5-17-2013    

University of Vermont College of Medicine reports a sharp drop in Vermont's birth rate over the previous year.

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LOL Maddy!  That has to do with um....er...f****ng, not fracking.  You have it mixed up......  um...er... Oh never mind!

 

Peace!

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its May the 18th!  Here is today in history!

 

• 332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
• 1152 – Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch.
• 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
• 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
• 1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cadiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
• 1565 – The Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
• 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
• 1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
• 1763 – Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.
• 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
• 1803 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
• 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
• 1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.
• 1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
• 1843 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
• 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
• 1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
• 1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
• 1912 – The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai.
• 1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
• 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
• 1927 – The Bath School Disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
• 1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
• 1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
• 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
• 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
• 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
• 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• 1956 – First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
• 1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
• 1959 – Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
• 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
• 1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• 1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
• 1980 – 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
• 1980 – Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
• 1983 – In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
• 1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
• 1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
• 1993 – EU - riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
• 1995 – Shawn Nelson, 35, goes on a tank rampage in San Diego.
• 2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra.
• 2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
• 2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

 

 

Peace!

[ROB34466IIIa]

Dude .. no mentioning of IPO of a certain company on this date ? :robotindifferent:

 

Man .. dez cold ... :robotsurprised:

[Hippie Bowman]

Oh yes!  That too!  /me facebookpalms!

 

Peace!

[ROB34466IIIa]

I take it you're one of the few NOT buying shares today .. :robotlol:

 

Makes at least 2 of us ... :robotwink:

[Hippie Bowman]

Nope!  Not buying!  HEHE!

 

Peace!

[Brenda Connolly]

Ohhh, History. :matte-motes-sunglasses-1:

 

Friday, May 18, 1980:

When we get angry, it is said that we “blow our tops.” This saying obviously came from the angry gods that make volcanoes blow their tops.

On this day in 1980, the 9,677-foot Mt. St. Helens, quiet for 93 years, became extremely angry and blew its top. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the atmosphere and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Forest fires erupted around the volcano and burned out of control. The eruption, and those that followed, left some sixty dead and caused damage amounting to nearly three billion dollars.

Geologists said that the blast, which was felt over one hundred miles away, was probably triggered by two earthquakes. Scientists had been watching the long-dormant volcano since it first emitted some steam and ash on March 26. Eruptions occurred again on May 25 and June 12. Now that’s a long time to stay angry!

 

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[Hippie Bowman]

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

Ohhh, History. :matte-motes-sunglasses-1:

 

Friday, May 18, 1980:

When we get angry, it is said that we “blow our tops.” This saying obviously came from the angry gods that make volcanoes blow their tops.

On this day in

1980

, the 9,677-foot

Mt. St. Helens

, quiet for 93 years, became extremely angry and blew its top. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the atmosphere and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Forest fires erupted around the volcano and burned out of control. The eruption, and those that followed, left some sixty dead and caused damage amounting to nearly three billion dollars.

Geologists said that the blast, which was felt over one hundred miles away, was probably triggered by two earthquakes. Scientists had been watching the long-dormant volcano since it first emitted some steam and ash on March 26. Eruptions occurred again on May 25 and June 12. Now that’s a long time to stay angry!

 

http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

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Thanks for that Brenda!  Woot!

 

 

 

Peace!

[Brenda Connolly]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

Ohhh, History. :matte-motes-sunglasses-1:

 

Friday, May 18, 1980:

When we get angry, it is said that we “blow our tops.” This saying obviously came from the angry gods that make volcanoes blow their tops.

On this day in

1980

, the 9,677-foot

Mt. St. Helens

, quiet for 93 years, became extremely angry and blew its top. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the atmosphere and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Forest fires erupted around the volcano and burned out of control. The eruption, and those that followed, left some sixty dead and caused damage amounting to nearly three billion dollars.

Geologists said that the blast, which was felt over one hundred miles away, was probably triggered by two earthquakes. Scientists had been watching the long-dormant volcano since it first emitted some steam and ash on March 26. Eruptions occurred again on May 25 and June 12. Now that’s a long time to stay angry!

 

http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

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Thanks for that Brenda!  Woot!

 

 

 

Peace!

 

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 A thread like this could actually make me want to stay here and put up with this horrid forum software.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

Ohhh, History. :matte-motes-sunglasses-1:

 

Friday, May 18, 1980:

When we get angry, it is said that we “blow our tops.” This saying obviously came from the angry gods that make volcanoes blow their tops.

On this day in

1980

, the 9,677-foot

Mt. St. Helens

, quiet for 93 years, became extremely angry and blew its top. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the atmosphere and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Forest fires erupted around the volcano and burned out of control. The eruption, and those that followed, left some sixty dead and caused damage amounting to nearly three billion dollars.

Geologists said that the blast, which was felt over one hundred miles away, was probably triggered by two earthquakes. Scientists had been watching the long-dormant volcano since it first emitted some steam and ash on March 26. Eruptions occurred again on May 25 and June 12. Now that’s a long time to stay angry!

 

http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

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Thanks for that Brenda!  Woot!

 

 

 

Peace!

 

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 A thread like this could actually make me want to stay here and put up with this horrid forum software.

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YAY!  Thank you Brenda!  I will be posting everyday!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

Ohhh, History. :matte-motes-sunglasses-1:

Friday, May 18, 1980:

When we get angry, it is said that we “blow our tops.” This saying obviously came from the angry gods that make volcanoes blow their tops.

On this day in

1980

, the 9,677-foot

Mt. St. Helens

, quiet for 93 years, became extremely angry and blew its top. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the atmosphere and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Forest fires erupted around the volcano and burned out of control. The eruption, and those that followed, left some sixty dead and caused damage amounting to nearly three billion dollars.

Geologists said that the blast, which was felt over one hundred miles away, was probably triggered by two earthquakes. Scientists had been watching the long-dormant volcano since it first emitted some steam and ash on March 26. Eruptions occurred again on May 25 and June 12. Now that’s a long time to stay angry!

http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

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Thanks for that Brenda!  Woot!

  Peace!

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 A thread like this could actually make me want to stay here and put up with this horrid forum software.

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5-18-2012    Brenda Connolly rejoins the SL forums. Madelaine McMasters bets she won't last three weeks. (When Madelaine Marbach left SL for good some years back, Brenda bet she couldn't stay away three weeks. Well, I stayed away five!!!)

5-18-2044   Presidental hopeful Mark Zuckerberg withdraws from the race after pictures of him lying face down in a pile of Harvard coeds appear on Facebook.

Welcome back, Brenda!!!

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Brenda Connolly wrote:

Ohhh, History. :matte-motes-sunglasses-1:

Friday, May 18, 1980:

When we get angry, it is said that we “blow our tops.” This saying obviously came from the angry gods that make volcanoes blow their tops.

On this day in

1980

, the 9,677-foot

Mt. St. Helens

, quiet for 93 years, became extremely angry and blew its top. The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the atmosphere and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Forest fires erupted around the volcano and burned out of control. The eruption, and those that followed, left some sixty dead and caused damage amounting to nearly three billion dollars.

Geologists said that the blast, which was felt over one hundred miles away, was probably triggered by two earthquakes. Scientists had been watching the long-dormant volcano since it first emitted some steam and ash on March 26. Eruptions occurred again on May 25 and June 12. Now that’s a long time to stay angry!

http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

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Thanks for that Brenda!  Woot!

  Peace!

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 A thread like this could actually make me want to stay here and put up with this horrid forum software.

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5-18-2012

   Brenda Connolly rejoins the SL forums. Madelaine McMasters bets she won't last three weeks. (When Madelaine Marbach left SL for good some years back, Brenda bet she couldn't stay away three weeks. Well, I stayed away five!!!)

5-18-2044

  Presidental hopeful Mark Zuckerberg withdraws from the race after pictures of him lying face down in a pile of Harvard coeds appear on Facebook.

Welcome back, Brenda!!!

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Morning Maddy!  LOL!  Get your facebook stock yet?

 

Peace!

[Brenda Connolly]

Damn you and your memory! *shakes fist.

[Ceka Cianci]

let the pants waving begin!! \o/

hehehe

[Hippie Bowman]

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Ceka Cianci wrote:

let the pants waving begin!! \o/

hehehe

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LOL Ceka!

 

Peace!