What happened in History on this date

[Hippie Bowman]

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emmettcullen93 wrote:

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

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Good morning Emmett!  Goot stuff.  LOL!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-19-2012 Second Life™ Resident Valerie Inshan posts her 8000th in the SL Forums, surpassing the collective output of all Lindens since the inception of SL. Inshan's accomplishment, like Irene Muni's before her, is all the more impressive considering that English is a second language for both. When queried about both Inshan and Muni, forumites offered high praise, including "Their answers actually make sense." and "They're hot!".

Never one to leave a good idea go unexpoilted (sic), Linden Lab immediately places hiring advertisements in the classified sections of foreign newspapers. Poor wording and a lack of cultural awareness result in LL being widely perceived as an international marriage brokerage.

[Hippie Bowman]

LOL Maddy!  Good stuff!

 

Peace!

[Coby Foden]

Events on April 20:

... The beginning and the beginning of an end ...

1889 – Adolf Hitler was born, dictator of Nazi Germany
1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the
              surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
              Only ten days later he died in his bunker.

 

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its Friday the 20th!  Here is todays history lesson!

 

 

• 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
• 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
• 1526 – The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
• 1535 – The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting "Vädersolstavlan".
• 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
• 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
• 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
• 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
• 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
• 1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
• 1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
• 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
• 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
• 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
• 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
• 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
• 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
• 1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
• 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
• 1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
• 1912 – Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1914 – 19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
• 1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings.
• 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
• 1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
• 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
• 1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
• 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song "Strange Fruit".
• 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
• 1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
• 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
• 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
• 1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
• 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
• 1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
• 1978 – Korean Air Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
• 1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
• 1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
• 1985 – The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
• 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
• 1998 – German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
• 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
• 2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
• 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
• 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing twelve workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-19-2012

Second Life™ Resident Valerie Inshan posts her 8000th in the SL Forums, surpassing the collective output of all Lindens since the inception of SL. Inshan's accomplishment, like Irene Muni's before her, is all the more impressive considering that English is a second language for both. .

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wooot

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

 "They're hot!".

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lol

has to agree.

[emmettcullen93]

4-20-1872    SF bars are established

4-20-2012   forums news.   friday has finally come for the residents of linden labs some dont mind others scream tgif to some of the elite posters in the forums. news has come of valerie inshans partner has returned from the hospital. woot. good news has come.

[Hippie Bowman]

Good mornin Emmet!  Happy Friday to ya!

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

YAY!

4-20-2012   user emmettcullen93 resident has finally came up with a good ending for his posts and first uses it in hippie bowmans post What happened in History on this date.

 

~EMMETT CULLEN~

[Hippie Bowman]

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emmettcullen93 wrote:

YAY!

4-20-2012   user emmettcullen93 resident has finally came up with a good ending for his posts and first uses it in hippie bowmans post

What happened in History on this date.

 

~EMMETT CULLEN~

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Yay Emmett!

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

lol i just need to get used to puting it there now.

 

~EMMETT CULLEN~

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-20-1993    Doris "Dumpling" and Roscoe "Rolly" Cullen are blissfully unaware that their bouncing baby boy Emmett, who is just showing signs of colic that will persist into his teens, will, in exactly 19 years, write his 800th post in the SL forums.

4-20-2012    Sim borders across SL become clogged with frenises as LL releases Beta Pathfinding and it is quicky discovered that male attachments refuse to pull over and ask for directions.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-20-1993    

Doris "Dumpling" and Roscoe "Rolly" Cullen are blissfully unaware that their bouncing baby boy Emmett, who is just showing signs of colic that will persist into his teens, will, in exactly 19 years, write his 800th post in the SL forums.

4-20-2012    

Sim borders across SL become clogged with frenises as LL releases Beta Pathfinding and it is quicky discovered that male attachments refuse to pull over and ask for directions.

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LOL Maddy!  Classic!

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

lol i almost spit wheaties all over the computer lol.

ty so much maddy not big but on my way.

 

~EMMETT CULLEN~

[Hippie Bowman]

Happy weekend all!  Here is today in history!

 

• 753 BC – Romulus and Remus founded Rome (traditional date).
• 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
• 900 – The Laguna Copperplate Inscription: the Honourable Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon from all their debts by the Commander in chief of Tundun, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah. Luzon, Philippines.
• 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
• 1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
• 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under MexicanGeneralAntonio López de Santa Anna.
• 1863 – Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, declares his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest".
• 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
• 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
• 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A&M graduates who had died in the previous year.
• 1934 – The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
• 1941 – Emmanouil Tsouderos becomes the 132nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1942 – World War II: The most famous (and first international) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore (with 25 fellow Texas A&M graduates who are under his command), while 1.8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the GermanHigh Command headquarters.
• 1952 – Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
• 1960 – Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 9:30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
• 1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
• 1962 – The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
• 1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time.
• 1964 – A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95 kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAPRTG power source is widely dispersed.
• 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
• 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
• 1967 – Greek military junta of 1967–1974: A few days before the general election in Greece, ColonelGeorge Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
• 1970 – The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South VietnamNguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
• 1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
• 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
• 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
• 1993 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
• 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomerAlexander Wolszczan.
• 2004 – Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-21-1738    George "I cannot tell a lie" Washington nicks the bark on his father's prize young English cherry tree with his new hatchet, bringing about its eventual demise. When queried by his father, George humbly admits the deed, gaining his, and the world's, everlasting trust. Thrilled by his success, George runs two miles through the woods to tell his neighbor and friend Lucifer Williams that William's strategy of "gaining credence by admitting guilt" actually works. Washington grows up to become a master of military deception and first President of the United States.

4-21-1975    A young Madelaine McMasters proudly exclaims "Look Mom, no hands!" just moments before being rushed indoors to have asphalt stains scraped off her front teeth.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-21-1738    

George "I cannot tell a lie" Washington nicks the bark on his father's prize young English cherry tree with his new hatchet, bringing about its eventual demise. When queried by his father, George humbly admits the deed, gaining his, and the world's, everlasting trust. Thrilled by his success, George runs two miles through the woods to tell his neighbor and friend Lucifer Williams that William's strategy of "gaining credence by admitting guilt" actually works. Washington grows up to become a master of military deception and first President of the United States.

4-21-1975    

A young Madelaine McMasters proudly exclaims "Look Mom, no hands!" just moments before being rushed indoors to have asphalt stains scraped off her front teeth.

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LOL Maddy!  /me sends you some stain remover!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

ISS Tour -- April 21, 2011

 

Peace!

 

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hippie, check your newspaper or on the internet to see when your local astronomy club has "Star Parties". Then find your spot in Florida here...

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_States&region=Florida

And see if the ISS is visible during a star party. If it is, zoom over there and see if you can get one of the club members to try to follow the ISS with their finder scope while you look through the telescope eyepiece. If you are lucky, you will get a brief glimpse of something that looks a li'l like a dragonfly as the telescope driver tries to chase the ISS across the sky.

If you have a friend with a telescope, see if they're interested in trying this. I've done it many times and it's wonderful.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Hippie, check your newspaper or on the internet to see when your local astronomy club has "Star Parties". Then find your spot in Florida here...

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_States&region=Florida

And see if the ISS is visible during a star party. If it is, zoom over there and see if you can get one of the club members to try to follow the ISS with their finder scope while you look through the telescope eyepiece. If you are lucky, you will get a brief glimpse of something that looks a li'l like a dragonfly as the telescope driver tries to chase the ISS across the sky.

If you have a friend with a telescope, see if they're interested in trying this. I've done it many times and it's wonderful.

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I have a telescope!  I will check it out!  Thanks!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

Hippie, check your newspaper or on the internet to see when your local astronomy club has "Star Parties". Then find your spot in Florida here...

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_States&region=Florida

And see if the ISS is visible during a star party. If it is, zoom over there and see if you can get one of the club members to try to follow the ISS with their finder scope while you look through the telescope eyepiece. If you are lucky, you will get a brief glimpse of something that looks a li'l like a dragonfly as the telescope driver tries to chase the ISS across the sky.

If you have a friend with a telescope, see if they're interested in trying this. I've done it many times and it's wonderful.

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I have a telescope!  I will check it out!  Thanks!

 

Peace!

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/me slaps her forehead. Of course you do!!!! We'll chat in world about how best to do it!

[Hippie Bowman]

Happy Sunday everyone!  Here is to today in history!

• 238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
• 1500 – PortuguesenavigatorPedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
• 1519 – Spanish conquistadorHernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
• 1529 – Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
• 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
• 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
• 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.
• 1889 – At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
• 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
• 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
• 1912 – Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
• 1912 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
• 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
• 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
• 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
• 1945 – World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
• 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
• 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
• 1954 – Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
• 1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
• 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
• 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
• 1983 – The German magazine Der Stern claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
• 1992 – In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
• 1993 – Version 1.0 of the Mosaicweb browser is released.
• 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
• 1997 – The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
• 1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
• 2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
• 2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
• 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.
• 2003 – Election of the fifth Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
• 2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
• 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumiapologizes for Japan's war record.
• 2006 – 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
• 2008 – The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.

 

Peace!

 

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-22-2013     The pinnacle of stealth technology is reached when the US military is unable to find it's prototype F-U2 spyplane, which was scheduled for its maiden flight later that day.

4-22-2162     The failure of laws to keep up with technology, and the perils of long term space travel collide head on when, two years into Earth's first interstellar space mission, ship's chef Mortimer "MmmMmmGood" McKinnen poisons his crewmate Lumbar "Ptooey" Swiggenton, who just never appreciated his cooking. McKinnen is sentenced to death by hanging, a process that lasts nearly 26 years, ending as the ship finally enters the atmosphere of Cygnus Centauri 3 and experiences gravity for the first time since launch.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-22-2013

    The pinnacle of stealth technology is reached when the US military is unable to find it's prototype F-U2 spyplane, which was scheduled for its maiden flight later that day.

4-22-2162

    The failure of laws to keep up with technology, and the perils of long term space travel collide head on when, two years into Earth's first interstellar space mission, ship's chef Mortimer "MmmMmmGood" McKinnen poisons his crewmate Lumbar "Ptooey" Swiggenton, who just never appreciated his cooking. McKinnen is sentenced to death by hanging, a process that lasts nearly 26 years, ending as the ship finally enters the atmosphere of Cygnus Centauri 3 and experiences gravity for the first time since launch.

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26 years hanging in 0 G!  HEHEH!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its Monday the 23rd of April!  Here is todays history lesson.

 

• 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
• 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
• 1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England,
• 1343 – Estonia: St. George's Night Uprising.
• 1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George's Day.
• 1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
• 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
• 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• 1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising – a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
• 1910 – Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
• 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgianport of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
• 1920 – The national council in Turkey denounces the government of SultanMehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
• 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara.
• 1927 – Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday.
• 1932 – The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
• 1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
• 1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
• 1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
• 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
• 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him withJoseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
• 1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
• 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
• 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
• 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
• 1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
• 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York Citytake over administration buildings and shut down the university.
• 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakarsmassacred approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
• 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
• 1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
• 1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
• 1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.

 Video from 4/23/11

 

Peace!