What happened in History on this date

[Hippie Bowman]

LOL!

 

Peace!

[PeterCanessa Oh]

"Furry Lisa" is the anthem of several in-world groups.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

I can play Fur Elise on the piano from memory!  Was the very first song i memorized!  Woot!

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...turns green with envy. If it had a drum part, I might be able to bang it out on my bodhran. Nothing makes people go away faster than my drumming.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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PeterCanessa Oh wrote:

"Furry Lisa" is the anthem of several in-world groups.

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Grabs her razor and heads in-world.

[Hippie Bowman]

HEHE!  I think Fur Elise means For Alice!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

I can play Fur Elise on the piano from memory!  Was the very first song i memorized!  Woot!

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...turns green with envy. If it had a drum part, I might be able to bang it out on my bodhran. Nothing makes people go away faster than my drumming.

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LOL Maddy!  Or my singing!  Sigh!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It April the 28th!  Here is todays History!

• 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
• 1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
• 1253 – Nichiren, a JapaneseBuddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
• 1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
• 1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
• 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
• 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
• 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
• 1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
• 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
• 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German EmperorWilliam I, defusing a possible war.
• 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
• 1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
• 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
• 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
• 1944 – World War II: Nine German S-boots attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
• 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
• 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
• 1949 – Former First Lady of the PhilippinesAurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
• 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
• 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• 1952 – Occupied Japan: The United Statesoccupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
• 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
• 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: U.S. PresidentRichard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
• 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Armyclosed in on victory.
• 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
• 1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
• 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• 1986 – The United States Navyaircraft carrierUSS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
• 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
• 1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agencycounter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
• 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
• 1996 – In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
• 1999 – In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting.
• 2001 – MillionaireDennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
• 2008 – A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-28-2001    Nikkei "Blinkman" Katanawa, inventor of the VCR, dies at 12:00AM.

4-28-2010    Conspiracy theorists "prove" the existence of vampires by showing they are never mentioned in the folklore of Arctic peoples.

4-28-2012    Philip Rosedale is spotted in a video of San Francisco's Castro district annual Walk for the Arts, finally confirming that Second Life's infamous "duckwalk" is indeed mo-cap.

[Hippie Bowman]

LOL Maddy!

 

 

Peace!

[PudgyPaddy]

Today in 1817

Rush-Bagot Agreement

The spirit of the agreement ultimately led to the longest demilitarized and unfortified border between nations in the entire world. It suggests that reasonable people can live next to each other in peace for a very long time.

[Hippie Bowman]

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PudgyPaddy wrote:

Today in 1817

Rush-Bagot Agreement

The spirit of the agreement ultimately led to the longest demilitarized and unfortified border between nations in the entire world. It suggests that reasonable people can live next to each other in peace for a very long time.

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Far out Pudgy!  Thanks for sharing!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  Here is todays history for April the 29th!

• 711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
• 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I.
• 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
• 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.
• 1587 – Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.
• 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
• 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
• 1832 – Évariste Galois released from prison.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
• 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under AdmiralDavid Farragut.
• 1864 – Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the Civil War.
• 1882 – The "Elektromote" – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
• 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
• 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
• 1916 – World War I: The British6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
• 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
• 1945 – World War II: The GermanArmy in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies.
• 1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.
• 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
• 1945 – World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates AdmiralKarl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day.
• 1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
• 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
• 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of JapanHideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
• 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
• 1951 – Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
• 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los AngelesABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• 1965 – Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
• 1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
• 1968 – The controversial musical Hair opens on Broadway.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invadeCambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: PresidentRichard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
• 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
• 1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 mph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
• 1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
• 1997 – The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
• 1999 – The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
• 2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
• 2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
• 2005 – Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.
• 2011 – Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-29-1996    The last of Sinclair Oil's large fiberglass dinosaurs is destroyed en-route to an Oxnard California amusement park when the flatbed trailer on which it was fastened is struck broadside by a little old lady from Pasadena driving a 1983 Ford Meteor.

4-29-2012    Three Georgetown University students are taken to a Cairo hospital after sharing a plate of jalepeno poppers and a molotov cocktail.

4-29-2012    Two Georgetown University students are applauded by Egyptian police after apparently attempting to christen their newest armored personnel carrier "Cleopatra's Revenge" with a bottle of Trader Joe's Pear Champagne.

[Hippie Bowman]

LOL Maddy!  I look forward to this every day!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  It April the 30th!  Here is today in History!

• 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
• 313 – Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
• 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
• 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
• 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
• 1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
• 1671 – Petar Zrinski, the CroatianBan from the Zrinski family, is executed.
• 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
• 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
• 1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
• 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
• 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
• 1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
• 1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
• 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• 1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
• 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase ExpositionWorld's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
• 1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Airescopyrighttreaty.
• 1925 – AutomakerDodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
• 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
• 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
• 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
• 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
• 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
• 1939 – The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.
• 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
• 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
• 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
• 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
• 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
• 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4tornado kills 18 people.
• 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty."
• 1961 – K-19, the first Sovietnuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
• 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
• 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.
• 1967 – The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
• 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned.
• 1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South VietnamesepresidentDuong Van Minh.
• 1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
• 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia.
• 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
• 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
• 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
• 1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
• 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10.
• 2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
• 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
• 2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Dayparade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

 

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

I can play Fur Elise on the piano from memory!  Was the very first song i memorized!  Woot!

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...turns green with envy. If it had a drum part, I might be able to bang it out on my bodhran. Nothing makes people go away faster than my drumming.

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LOL

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

 

4-28-2010

    Conspiracy theorists "prove" the existence of vampires by showing they are never mentioned in the folklore of Arctic peoples.

 

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i could have told u that. lol

[emmettcullen93]

4-30-12    user emmettcullen93 if finally satisfied with his forums badge. yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-30-1932    Dance queen Kathryn "Crazy Legs" Wilson, originator of the "Charleston",  retires from Vaudeville just as the Lindy Hop gains popularity. When asked where she first conceived of the dance, Wilson replied "While waiting in line for the loo."

4-30-2013    Linden Labs announces "Linden Circus", a virtual carnival which disillusioned residents can run away to join. Specially created "Carnie" avatars come complete with five o'clock shadows (male and female) missing teeth, nicotine stained fingertips and shabby clothing. On it's first day of operation, Linden Circus enlists more than half of Second Life's population.

4-30-2032    String Theorists are temporarily vindicated when experimental physicists at CERN's recently completed Ginormous Hadron Collider smash together two proton streams at 42TEV, producing the recently theorized Edsel particle. The particle, which had been hyped as the be-all and end-all of particles, is immediately criticized by the still mostly male physics community as looking too much like a certain female naughty bit.

4-30-2041    The "Loo Theory" of dance is proposed by cultural anthropologists after adoption of updated public space building codes, which require extra restroom capacity for females, correlates strongly with a reduction in the number of new dance moves invented by women.

4-30-2059    Musicologist Louise "Crazy Legs" Pelou discovers the original transcript of "Skip to My Loo". Subsequent misspellings of the title and lyrics obscured the true meaning of the song for more than 200 years.

4-30-2060    Widespread recognition of "Loo Theory" is celebrated in Google's graphic of the day.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-30-1932

    Dance queen Kathryn "Crazy Legs" Wilson, originator of the "Charleston",  retires from Vaudeville just as the Lindy Hop gains popularity. When asked where she first conceived of the dance, Wilson replied "While waiting in line for the loo."

4-30-2013

   Linden Labs announces "Linden Circus", a virtual carnival which disillusioned residents can run away to join. Specially created "Carnie" avatars come complete with five o'clock shadows (male and female) missing teeth, nicotine stained fingertips and shabby clothing. On it's first day of operation, Linden Circus enlists more than half of Second Life's population.

4-30-2032    

String Theorists are temporarily vindicated when experimental physicists at CERN's recently completed Ginormous Hadron Collider smash together two proton streams at 42TEV, producing the recently theorized Edsel particle. The particle, which had been hyped as the be-all and end-all of particles, is immediately criticized by the still mostly male physics community as looking too much like a certain naughty female bit.

4-30-2041

    The "Loo Theory" of dance is proposed by cultural anthropologists after adoption of updated public space building codes, which require extra restroom capacity for women, correlates strongly with a reduction in the number of new dance moves invented by women.

4-30-2059    

Musicologist Louise "Crazy Legs" Pelou discovers the original transcript of "Skip to My Loo". Subsequent misspellings of the title and lyrics obscured the true meaning of the song for more than 200 years.

4-30-2060

    Widespread recognition of "Loo Theory" is celebrated in Google's graphic of the day.

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Oh that is so funny!  I will remember this next time I skip to the loo!

 

Peace!

[Sy Beck]

On this day in 2012 Second Life went down for maintenance and never returned.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Sy Beck wrote:

On this day in 2012 Second Life went down for maintenance and never returned.

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Oh my!  Well at least I am work!  Sigh!

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

lololololol

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its May the 1st!  Here is todays history.

 

• 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.
• 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
• 1328 – Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
• 1576 – Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1707 – The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1751 – The first cricket match is played in America.
• 1753 – Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
• 1759 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
• 1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
• 1778 – American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
• 1785 – Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaiʻi, defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
• 1786 – Opening night of the operaThe Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna, Austria.
• 1794 – War of the Pyrenees: The Battle of Boulou ends, in which French forces defeat the Spanish and regain nearly all the land they lost to Spain in 1793.
• 1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
• 1844 – Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
• 1846 – The few remaining Mormons left in Nauvoo, Illinois, formally dedicate the Nauvoo Temple.
• 1851 – Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.
• 1852 – The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Union Army completes the Capture of New Orleans.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
• 1865 – The Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance
• 1869 – The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
• 1875 – Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it down.
• 1884 – Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
• 1884 – Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
• 1885 – The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.
• 1886 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day culminating in the Haymarket Affair.
• 1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
• 1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
• 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the SpanishPacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
• 1900 – The Scofield mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
• 1901 – The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
• 1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast ofIreland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
• 1925 – The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
• 1925 – The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
• 1927 – The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
• 1927 – The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
• 1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
• 1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
• 1933 – The Roca-Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
• 1940 – The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
• 1941 – World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
• 1944 – 200 Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens as reprisals for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi
• 1945 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath againstBolshevism and for Germany".
• 1945 – The Yugoslavpartisans free Trieste.
• 1946 – Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
• 1946 – The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
• 1947 – Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano; 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
• 1948 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
• 1950 – Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
• 1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
• 1956 – A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
• 1957 – 34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
• 1960 – Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
• 1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
• 1961 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
• 1965 – Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place.
• 1970 – Protests erupt in Seattle, Washington, following the announcement by U.S. PresidentRichard Nixon that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country.
• 1971 – Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
• 1974 – The Argentine terrorist organization Montoneros is expulsed from Plaza de Mayo by president Juan Perón.
• 1977 – 36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.
• 1978 – Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
• 1982 – The 1982 World's Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
• 1982 – Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.
• 1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
• 1987 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• 1989 – Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
• 1990 – The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
• 1991 – Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.
• 1994 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Sennais killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
• 1995 – Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence.
• 2001 – Philippine PresidentGloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
• 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
• 2004 – Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish Presidentin Dublin.
• 2006 – The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
• 2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
• 2008 – The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
• 2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
• 2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
• 2011 – Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks is killed by United States special forces in Islamabad, Pakistan. Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2 in Pakistan.

 

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

may 1st 1901

 

edward cullen is born hehe.

 

welcome to life bro.