What happened in History on this date

[Hippie Bowman]

ITs your rez day?

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

no hippie i was being funny lol

im not even 100 days yet i dont think.

[Madelaine McMasters]

5-1-2013    Rupert Murdoch, deposed head of a once powerful media empire, is caught eavesdropping on patrons at the Olive Garden restaurant where he is employed as a waiter.

5-1-2014    Linden Lab announces "Linden Boxes". Given free to all residents as full-perm library objects, the large cardboard appliance boxes make the perfect home for the indigent. Marxists soon complain that, as everyone on the grid has one, they have been deprived of the joy of stealing from the overlords to gain the admiration of the indolent.

5-1-2045    The last surviving member of the aptly named band Limp Bizkit dies childless, like all the others.

[emmettcullen93]

5-1-12   emmett cullen makes a new fan base.

and actually to amazement maddy is the first membet to join. woot

;P

[Madelaine McMasters]

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emmettcullen93 wrote:

5-1-12   emmett cullen makes a new fan base.

and actually to amazement maddy is the first membet to join. woot

;P

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Where's my tee-shirt?!

[emmettcullen93]

i will make one inworld later hehe. my idea for about 3 weeks now never had the time. lol

but here is what i should look like

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  It's May the 2nd!  Here is todays history!

• 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
• 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
• 1335 – Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.
• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
• 1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.
• 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
• 1611 – King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
• 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
• 1672 – John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
• 1757 – End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757)
• 1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madridrise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808.
• 1816 – Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta.
• 1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
• 1866 – Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
• 1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
• 1879 – The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party is founded in Casa Labra Pub (city of Madrid) by the historical Spanish workers' leader Pablo Iglesias.
• 1885 – Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
• 1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
• 1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
• 1889 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, which gives Italy control over Eritrea.
• 1906 – Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
• 1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
• 1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 1932 – Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
• 1933 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler bans trade unions.
• 1941 – Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power.
• 1945 – World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the Reichstag building.
• 1945 – World War II: Italian Campaign – General Heinrich von Vietinghoff signs the official instrument of surrender of all Wehrmacht forces in Italy.
• 1945 – World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead inmates, most starved to death.
• 1946 – The "Battle of Alcatraz" takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.
• 1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
• 1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• 1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed inGermany.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon. Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.
• 1964 – First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
• 1969 – The Britishocean linerQueen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
• 1972 – In the early morning hours a fire broke out at the Sunshine mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, ID, killing 91 workers.
• 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarineHMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
• 1989 – Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
• 1994 – A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
• 1995 – During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.
• 1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
• 1999 – Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
• 2000 – PresidentBill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
• 2004 – Yelwa massacre of more than 630 nomadMuslims by Christians in Nigeria.
• 2008 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
• 2008 – Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
• 2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad,Pakistan.
• 2011 – The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.

 

Peace!

[Phil Deakins]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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

1751

 – The first 

cricket

 match is played in 

America

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I think that should be the first international cricket match, and I think it was between America and Canada. Or could it be the first time that a cricket match was played in America. I would think that it was little early for the first international but I may wrong. What it wasn't was the first cricket match to be played

[emmettcullen93]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

 

• 2011
   – 
  Osama bin Laden
  , the suspected mastermind behind the 
  September 11 attacks
   and the 
  FBI
  's most wanted man is 
  killed
   by the 
  United States special forces
   in 
  Abbottabad
  ,
  Pakistan
  .

Peace!

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i couldnt make it out of the parking lot that day lol

[PeterCanessa Oh]

Why were you parked in Pakistan?

[emmettcullen93]

in america long story short

there was a newcast and i was there got nearly trampled when everyone heard the new.

not good. lol

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its May the 3rd, and here is todays history!

• 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
• 1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
• 1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
• 1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
• 1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
• 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
• 1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
• 1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
• 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
• 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1867 – The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
• 1877 – Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
• 1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
• 1913 – Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
• 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
• 1916 – The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
• 1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• 1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to issues surrounding its enforcement.
• 1928 – Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
• 1936 – Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to as Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees.
• 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
• 1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
• 1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
• 1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
• 1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules, in Shelley v. Kraemer, that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
• 1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
• 1951 – The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
• 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
• 1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on the CBS network.
• 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
• 1960 – The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
• 1960 – The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
• 1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1.451 feet as the world's tallest building.
• 1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
• 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
• 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
• 1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produced the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
• 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• 2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
• 2002 – A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
• 2003 – New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  It's May the 4th!  Here is todays history.

 

• 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
• 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
• 1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
• 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
• 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
• 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
• 1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• 1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
• 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
• 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
• 1814 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
• 1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.
• 1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat.
• 1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
• 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 1886 – Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• 1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
• 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
• 1912 – Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• 1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
• 1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
• 1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
• 1945 – World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
• 1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
• 1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
• 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.
• 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
• 1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
• 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
• 1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
• 1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
• 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
• 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
• 2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
• 2001 – The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public.
• 2002 – An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people.
• 2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF-5 tornado.

 

Peace!

 

[Madelaine McMasters]

5-4-1676    King Charles II of England cuts the ribbon on the just completed Royal Greenwich Observatory. As per Charles' instructions, the hilltop observatory offers its telescope (designed to be easily operated with one hand) an unobstructed view of the London skyline. Charles is often seen entering the observatory at dusk and exiting again just before dawn... smiling.

5-4-2013    Twelve years to the day after its unveiling, a bizarre mechanical failure in the Milwaukee Art Museum's Calatrava "Wing" causes the articulated roof to tear loose from the building and take flight. Four days later, the butterfly-like structure is found perched on the flower-like top of China's Shanghai building.

[PeterCanessa Oh]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-4-1676

    King Charles II of England cuts the ribbon on the just completed Royal Greenwich Observatory. As per Charles' instructions, the hilltop observatory offers its telescope (designed to be easily operated with one hand) an unobstructed view of the London skyline. Charles is often seen entering the observatory at dusk and exiting again just before dawn... smiling.

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Are you sure?  While I wholeheartedly believe your normally impeccably-researched articles it seems highly unlikely that Charles II would stoop to 'solitary vices' given the number of mistresses he had.  Or perhaps I have misconstrued and he was just happy to have got a night's sleep for a change.

[Madelaine McMasters]

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PeterCanessa Oh wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-4-1676

    King Charles II of England cuts the ribbon on the just completed Royal Greenwich Observatory. As per Charles' instructions, the hilltop observatory offers its telescope (designed to be easily operated with one hand) an unobstructed view of the London skyline. Charles is often seen entering the observatory at dusk and exiting again just before dawn... smiling.

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Are you sure?  While I wholeheartedly believe your normally impeccably-researched articles it seems highly unlikely that Charles II would stoop to 'solitary vices' given the number of mistresses he had.  Or perhaps I have misconstrued and he was just happy to have got a night's sleep for a change.

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He was trying to avoid the plague?

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-4-1676

    King Charles II of England cuts the ribbon on the just completed Royal Greenwich Observatory. As per Charles' instructions, the hilltop observatory offers its telescope (designed to be easily operated with one hand) an unobstructed view of the London skyline. Charles is often seen entering the observatory at dusk and exiting again just before dawn... smiling.

5-4-2013

    Twelve years to the day after its unveiling, a bizarre mechanical failure in the Milwaukee Art Museum's Calatrava "Wing" causes the articulated roof to tear loose from the building and take flight. Four days later, the butterfly-like structure is found perched on the flower-like top of China's Shanghai building.

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Oh that is good Maddy!  Woot!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  Today is May the 5th, and here is today in history!

 

• 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
• 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
• 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
• 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
• 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
• 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
• 1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
• 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S.patent, for a technique of weavingstraw with silk and thread.
• 1809 – The Swisscanton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
• 1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular WarBattle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.
• 1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
• 1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
• 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
• 1862 – Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a Frenchinvasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
• 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
• 1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
• 1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under ColonelNelson Miles.
• 1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.
• 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
• 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• 1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
• 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• 1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language\
• 1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
• 1936 – Italian troops occupyAddis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• 1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
• 1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
• 1941 – EmperorHaile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
• 1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece
• 1945 – World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
• 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• 1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
• 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
• 1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
• 1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
• 1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
• 1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranianembassy in London after a six-day siege.
• 1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
• 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
• 1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
• 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in favor of it.
• 2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
• 2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
• 2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  It's May the 6th and here is todays history lesson!

 

• 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
• 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
• 1536 – King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
• 1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
• 1659 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
• 1682 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
• 1757 – Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
• 1757 – End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757)
• 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
• 1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
• 1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
• 1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
• 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1844 – The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
• 1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
• 1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• 1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
• 1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
• 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
• 1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father.
• 1916 – 21 Lebanese nationalists executed in the Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman wāli.
• 1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
• 1935 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.

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• 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The GermanzeppelinHindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
• 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
• 1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
• 1941 – The first flight of the RepublicP-47 Thunderbolt.
• 1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippinessurrender to the Japanese.
• 1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
• 1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
• 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
• 1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
• 1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
• 1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
• 1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
• 1976 – An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
• 1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
• 1983 – The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
• 1984 – 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul
• 1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the "coaster wars".
• 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
• 1994 – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against PresidentBill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
• 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• 1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
• 1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start.
• 1999 – First elections to the devolvedScottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held.
• 2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
• 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
• 2004 – Aslan Abashidze, leader of Georgia's autonomous republic of Adjara resigns after public protests and months of stalemate with the central authorities.
• 2010 – The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning!  It's May the 7th!  Here is today in history.

 

• 351 – The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
• 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
• 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
• 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
• 1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.
• 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
• 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
• 1763 – Indian Wars: Pontiac's Rebellion begins – Chief Pontiac begins the "Conspiracy of Pontiac" by attacking British forces at Fort Detroit.
• 1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
• 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
• 1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
• 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
• 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
• 1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
• 1915 – World War I: GermansubmarineU-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
• 1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Armycounter-offensive a month later.
• 1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
• 1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
• 1940 – The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
• 1942 – During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navyaircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navylight aircraft carrierShōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• 1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
• 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
• 1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
• 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
• 1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
• 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 1964 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
• 1974 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
• 1986 – CanadianPatrick Morrow became the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
• 1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
• 1992 – The Space ShuttleEndeavour is launched on its first mission (STS-49).
• 1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
• 1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after having been stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
• 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• 1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
• 1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
• 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia
• 2002 – A China Northern AirlinesMD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
• 2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
• 2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
• 2009 – Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.
• 2012 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

hey hippie woot.

here is new history to be made.

5-7-12  i have finally made it to 1000 posts! *falls out of chair as my fingers hurt from all that typing*

 

[Hippie Bowman]

YAY Emmett!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  Today is May the 8th.  Here is todays history.

 

• 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania andCalabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.
• 589 – Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo.
• 1450 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
• 1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
• 1788 – The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
• 1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, FrenchchemistAntoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
• 1821 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia.
• 1846 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
• 1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
• 1886 – PharmacistJohn Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
• 1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
• 1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
• 1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
• 1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
• 1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day.
• 1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• 1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
• 1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against the British rule in India.
• 1941 – The German Luftwaffe launch a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navyaircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• 1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
• 1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
• 1945 – World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
• 1945 – Halifax Riot when thousands of civilians and servicemen went on a rampage through Halifax.
• 1945 – End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
• 1946 – Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
• 1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers of CatholicPresidentNgo Dinh Diemopen fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.
• 1967 – The Philippineprovince of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
• 1970 – The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
• 1972 – Vietnam War – U.S. PresidentRichard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
• 1972 – Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
• 1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
• 1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
• 1978 – First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• 1980 – The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization.
• 1984 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
• 1984 – CorporalDenis Lortie enters the QuebecNational Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
• 1984 – Thames Barrier officially opened.
• 1987 – The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
• 1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESSnetwork outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.
• 1997 – A China Southern AirlinesBoeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.

 

 

Peace!

[Phil Deakins]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

1919

 – 

Edward George Honey

 first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate 

The Armistice

 of 

World War I

, which later results in the creation of 

Remembrance Day

. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day.

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When I was young, the whole country (UK) stopped for a 2 minutes silence each year at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (the time and date when the armistice was signed). Cars/transport/pedestrians stopped in the streets - everything stopped. I've often thought it a shame that that tradition ended.

[emmettcullen93]

mmmmm i wonder that same thing.