What happened in History on this date

[emmettcullen93]

5. Georgian-Armenian War

Length: 24 days

A border dispute between the Democratic Republic of Georgia and the Democratic Republic of Armenia in 1918 led to armed clashes. The British finally brokered a ceasefire where the two sides shared rule until Soviet rule in 1920.

 

4. Serbo-Bulgarian War

Length: 14 days

A minor border dispute in 1885, known as the Bregovo Dispute, where the Bulgarians forcibly expelled Serbian troops led to both armies meeting. Bulgaria took the offensive and conquered the city of Pirot, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire stepped in and threatened to join the Serbians if Bulgaria did not step down.

 

3. Indo-Pakistani War

Length: 13 days

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a major conflict between India and Pakistan, caused by Pakistan’s pre-emptive strike on 11 Indian airbases in an attempt to conquer Western India. India responded fiercely, killing some 9,000 Pakistani soldiers and capturing almost 100,000. Pakistan would surrender in less than a fortnight.

 

2. 6 Day War

Length: 6 days

Egypt called for unified Arab action against Israel following Israeli threats to Syria. On June 5, 1967, Israel launched a massive attack on Egypt’s airforce, completely decimating it. Israel then attacked and conquered eastern Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights. About a million Arabs were captured under Israel’s new territory.\

 

1. Anglo-Zanzibar War

Length: 45 minutes

Fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar in 1896, the war is the shortest in history. Following the death of the Sultan who had British sympathies, his nephew seized power through a coup. The British wanted another candidate to run Zanzibar, and demanded the nephew abdicate.

When the British’s demands were not met, they opened fired on the far weaker Zanzibar. The nephew fled the country almost immediately, and the British could claim victory.

[Hippie Bowman]

Good stuff Emmett!  Thanks!

 

Peace!

[Drake1 Nightfire]

1897.. third Monday in April...... THE FIRST BOSTON MARATHON!!!!!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-16-1999 Students dancing to Prince's "1999" at a rave party in Boston's Back Bay come to the sudden realization that no imagination is required. Within a year, Prince's song will spark waves of nostalgia everywhere.

4-16-2013 The last physical copy of Rad Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" rolls off the printing presses at Ballantine Books. It is announced that e-book versions of the tome will be retitled "Fahrenheit 95" to reflect the fact that, while the autoignition temperature of book paper is approximately 451°F, the typical e-book reader is specified to operate only up to 95 degrees.

4-16-2014 After more than two years re-analyzing scripture, Rapture prognosticator Harold Camping announces that his persistant inability to predict the end of the world stemmed from his mistaken assumption that it would happen for all at once. "I have now discovered that the Rapture is an individual event. I will make it my life's work to ascertain the date of the Rapture for each of Earth's seven billion inhabitants." explained Camping, who was 93 at the time.

 

[emmettcullen93]

lol great stuff maddy always make me smile

[Hippie Bowman]

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Drake1 Nightfire wrote:

1897.. third Monday in April......

THE FIRST BOSTON MARATHON!!!!!

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YAY!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-16-1999

Students dancing to Prince's "1999" at a rave party in Boston's Back Bay come to the sudden realization that no imagination is required. Within a year, Prince's song will spark waves of nostalgia everywhere.

4-16-2013

The last physical copy of Rad Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" rolls off the printing presses at Ballantine Books. It is announced that e-book versions of the tome will be retitled "Fahrenheit 95" to reflect the fact that, while the autoignition temperature of book paper is approximately 451°F, the typical e-book reader is specified to operate only up to 95 degrees.

4-16-2014

After more than two years re-analyzing scripture, Rapture prognosticator Harold Camping announces that his persistant inability to predict the end of the world stemmed from his mistaken assumption that it would happen for all at once. "I have now discovered that the Rapture is an individual event. I will make it my life's work to ascertain the date of the Rapture for each of Earth's seven billion inhabitants." explained Camping, who was 93 at the time.

 

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LOL Maddy!  I wait everyday for your responses.  Classic!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

Ya know Hippie, you just can't make this stuff up.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Ya know Hippie, you just can't make this stuff up.

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Uh Huh. 

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

lol i can try but ur better maddy!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good day everyone!  Here is today in history for the 17th of April!

With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returns to Earth.

On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise. The mission was headed for a landing on the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon. However, two days into the mission, disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blew up in the spacecraft. Swigert reported to mission control on Earth, "Houston, we've had a problem here," and it was discovered that the normal supply of oxygen, electricity, light, and water had been disrupted. The landing mission was aborted, and the astronauts and controllers on Earth scrambled to come up with emergency procedures. The crippled spacecraft continued to the moon, circled it, and began a long, cold journey back to Earth.

The astronauts and mission control were faced with enormous logistical problems in stabilizing the spacecraft and its air supply, as well as providing enough energy to the damaged fuel cells to allow successful reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Navigation was another problem, and Apollo 13's course was repeatedly corrected with dramatic and untested maneuvers. On April 17, tragedy turned to triumph as the Apollo 13 astronauts touched down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

 

858		Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1492		Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies.
1521		Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1524		Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
1535		Antonio Mendoza is appointed first viceroy of New Spain.
1758		Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate for a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems.
1808		Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.
1824		Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54' 40'.
1861		Virginia become eighth state to secede from the Union.
1864		General Grant bans the trading of prisoners.
1865		Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination.
1875		The game "snooker" is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.
1895		China and Japan sign peace treaty of Shimonoseki.
1929		Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgeson, a former member of the Ziegfield Follies, get married.
1946		The last French troops leave Syria.
1947		Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit.
1961		Some 1,400 Cuban exiles attack the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1964		Jerrie Mock becomes first woman to fly solo around the world.
1969		Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1970		Apollo 13–originaly scheduled to land on the moon–lands back safely on Earth after an accident.
1975		Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.
1983		In Warsaw, police rout 1,000 Solidarity supporters.
Born on April 17
1622		Henry Vaughan, poet
1676		Frederick I, king of Sweden
1741		Samuel Chase, signer of the Declaration of Independence
1820		Alexander Cartwright, sportsman, developed baseball.
1866		Ernest Henry Starling, British physiologist.
1885		Isak Dinesen (Karen Dinesen), Danish writer (Out of Africa).
1894		Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet premier (1958-64).
1897		Thornton Wilder, novelist and playwright (Our Town).
1923		Harry Reasoner, American broadcast journalist.

 

 

 

Peace!

 

 

[emmettcullen93]

good stuff hippie good stuff!

[Hippie Bowman]

Thank you Emmett!  Have a great day!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-17-1781 The first cup of "Continental Tea" is brewed by Benjamin Franklin, who observed that Continentals were now worth less per pound than actual tea leaves. Franklin noted that "While 55 dollar notes produce a full bodied tea with a piquant flavor, one dollar denominations are perfectly suitable for serving casual company".

4-17-1969 Michael Lang's announcement that Woodstock, planned for August of that year, would be "A seminal event", sparks a heated battle between NY state health officials who insist that the concert promoters provide free condoms and local farmers who do not want them gumming up their combines. Lang's rewording of the announcement as "A sentinel event" draws immediate criticism from the ACLU.

4-17-2005 Fledgling Emo Ragtime Rap band "Deja Vu" abruptly ends their first public performance when audience members start tossing food while yelling "Hey, I get the feeling I've heard this before!".

 

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-17-1781

 The first cup of "

Continental Tea

" is brewed by Benjamin Franklin, who observed that

Continentals

were now worth less per pound than actual tea leaves. Franklin noted that "While 55 dollar notes produce a full bodied tea with a piquant flavor, one dollar denominations are perfectly suitable for serving casual company".

4-17-1969

 Michael Lang's announcement that Woodstock, planned for August of that year, would be "A seminal event", sparks a heated battle between NY state health officials who insist that the concert promoters provide free condoms and local farmers who do not want them gumming up their combines. Lang's rewording of the announcement as "A sentinel event" draws immediate criticism from the ACLU.

4-17-2005

Fledgling Emo Ragtime Rap band "Deja Vu" abruptly ends their first public performance when audience members start tossing food while yelling "Hey, I get the feeling I've heard this before!".

 

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So good!  Keep em coming Maddy!   HEHEH!

 

Peace!

[Coby Foden]

April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 258 days remaining until the end of the year.

Past happenings on April 17:

1610 - Henry Hudson begins the voyage that would ultimately lead to his discovery of Hudson's Bay.
1941 - Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany during WWII.
1945 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut,
             Germany, in an effort to prevent the Russians from developing an A-bomb.
1961 - John F Kennedy waits for word on the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1964 - The Ford Mustang automobile is introduced.

1970 - The ill-fated Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth.  <-- Yay! Amazing rescue operation!  :smileyhappy:

1972 - Vietnam war: First antiwar protest of the year is conducted.
1975 - Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge.

 

[Hippie Bowman]

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Coby Foden wrote:

April 17

is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

There are 258 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Past happenings on April 17:

 

1610 - Henry Hudson begins the voyage that would ultimately lead to his discovery of Hudson's Bay.

1941 - Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany during WWII.

1945 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut,

             Germany, in an effort to prevent the Russians from developing an A-bomb.

1961 - John F Kennedy waits for word on the Bay of Pigs invasion.

1964 - The Ford Mustang automobile is introduced.

 

1970 - The ill-fated Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth.

  <-- Yay! Amazing rescue operation!  :smileyhappy:

 

1972 - Vietnam war: First antiwar protest of the year is conducted.

1975 - Cambodia falls to the Khmer Rouge.

 

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SO good Coby!  Thanks!

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good day all!  Here is to day in history for April the 18th.

• 1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
• 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
• 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
• 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
• 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
• 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
• 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
• 1797 – The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
• 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
• 1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
• 1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
• 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
• 1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
• 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
• 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
• 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
• 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
• 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
• 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
• 1923 – Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
• 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
• 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
• 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
• 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
• 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
• 1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
• 1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
• 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
• 1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• 1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
• 1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
• 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
• 1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.
• 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
• 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
• 1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
• 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
• 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
• 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
• 2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
• 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

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Coby Foden wrote:

April 17

is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

There are 258 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Past happenings on April 17:

 

1964 - The Ford Mustang automobile is introduced.

 

 

 

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wow view of the year just went out the door lol. yay my favorite car. own a 67 in rl. and none is sl lol. just a jeep *chuckles*

[Hippie Bowman]

YAY Emmett!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hippie, I dug a little deeper into two of the entries in your list...

4-18-1775 Paul Revere begins his famous ride through the New England countryside after seeing two lanterns in the bell tower of the Old North Church. Unknown at the time, the two lanterns were not the planned signal indicating the arrival of British invasion forces by sea, but where instead lit by two teen lovers who discovered that the moonless night provided insufficient light for undoing all the laces and buttons common to clothing of the period. In one of history's most unfortunate coincidences, a small flotilla of British ships was actually approaching Boston Harbor at that time, bearing gifts of reconciliation from King George III.

4-18-1930 After nearly an entire day without news, BBC radio announcer Bethel "Lispy" Thayer discovers that someone pulled the choke on the 24-Hour News Cycle, flooding the engine. A few minutes of vigorous cranking with the choke wide open restarts the cycle at midnight. In an effort to get back on schedule, April 19, 1930 becomes the biggest news day in BBC history.

4-18-2012 Hippie Bowman posts his 5000th in the "Where are all my friends?" thread. In response to the achievement, the ever erudite and reserved Bowman exclaims "Weeeeeeeee!"

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Hippie, I dug a little deeper into two of the entries in your list...

4-18-1775

Paul Revere begins his famous ride through the New England countryside after seeing two lanterns in the bell tower of the Old North Church. Unknown at the time, the two lanterns were not the planned signal indicating the arrival of British invasion forces by sea, but where instead lit by two teen lovers who discovered that the moonless night provided insufficient light for undoing all the laces and buttons common to clothing of the period. In one of history's most unfortunate coincidences, a small flotilla of British ships was actually approaching Boston Harbor at that time, bearing gifts of reconciliation from King George III.

4-18-1930

After nearly an entire day without news, BBC radio announcer Bethel "Lispy" Thayer discovers that someone pulled the choke on the

24-Hour News Cycle

, flooding the engine. A few minutes of vigorous cranking with the choke wide open restarts the cycle at midnight. In an effort to get back on schedule, April 19, 1930 becomes the biggest news day in BBC history.

4-18-2012

 Hippie Bowman posts his 5000th in the "

Where are all my friends?

" thread. In response to the achievement, the ever erudite and reserved Bowman exclaims "Weeeeeeeee!"

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LOL Maddy!  To many button for no lights huh?  Yes!  Over 5000 now.  I am over the hill!  Sigh!

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-18-2012

 Hippie Bowman posts his 5000th in the "

Where are all my friends?

" thread. In response to the achievement, the ever erudite and reserved Bowman exclaims "Weeeeeeeee!"

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as an addition he has now graduated from forums posting college with his phD

[Hippie Bowman]

Good day all!  Happy Thursday!  Here is today in history for April the 19th!

 

• 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
• 1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
• 1529 – The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
• 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
• 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
• 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
• 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
• 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
• 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
• 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
• 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
• 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
• 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
• 1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
• 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
• 1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
• 1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.
• 1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
• 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
• 1955 – The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
• 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
• 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
• 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
• 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
• 1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
• 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
• 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
• 1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
• • 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
  • 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
  • 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
  • 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
  • 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
  • 1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
  • 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
  • 2005 – His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on the regnal name Benedict XVI.
  • 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
• Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

for 1775 the shot heard around the world... i am related to that general who order first shots on the british actually.

 

1939  conneticut finally approves the bill of rights. (148 years late)

2012   hippie bowmans post of this day in history gets its 100th post.

2029  a all out war is brought up in sl between the elite and noobs on who should sell what where. (my guess is somebody had a bad hair day and blew up at the wrong person.) lol