What happened in History on this date

[Madelaine McMasters]

5-8-2012    The Wild Things rejoice and the rest of the world mourns as Maurice Sendak vanishes from his bedroom for the very last time.

[Ceka Cianci]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-8-2012    

The Wild Things rejoice and the rest of the world mourns as

Maurice Sendak vanishes from his bedroom for the very last time.

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someone made a wonderful Machinima using charactors of his..i wish i could find it..it was really done well..

 

found it..it was in the machinima forums...

posted up and made by Loki Eliot

The wild rumpus

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Ceka Cianci wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-8-2012    

The Wild Things rejoice and the rest of the world mourns as

Maurice Sendak vanishes from his bedroom for the very last time.

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someone made a wonderful Machinima using charactors of his..i wish i could find it..it was really done well..

 

found it..it was in the machinima forums...

posted up and made by

Loki Eliot

The wild rumpus

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Wonderful it is, Ceka. Thanks for finding it.

And Loki, thank you so much for making it.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Phil Deakins wrote:

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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.

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Wow Phil.  That was a great tradition.  They never should have stopped that.  And we must never forget!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-8-2012    

The Wild Things rejoice and the rest of the world mourns as

Maurice Sendak vanishes from his bedroom for the very last time.

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Oh no Maddy!  I remember that!  Sigh!  RIP Maurice!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

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Ceka Cianci wrote:

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-8-2012    

The Wild Things rejoice and the rest of the world mourns as

Maurice Sendak vanishes from his bedroom for the very last time.

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someone made a wonderful Machinima using charactors of his..i wish i could find it..it was really done well..

 

found it..it was in the machinima forums...

posted up and made by

Loki Eliot

The wild rumpus

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Oh that is good Ceka!

 

Peace!

[Eloise Baily]

1945 - My dad was born.

Miss you Dad. x

El

[Hippie Bowman]

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Eloise Baily wrote:

1945 - My dad was born.

Miss you Dad. x

El

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Awwww!  My Dad is gone now too, and I do miss him!  Sigh!

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Eloise Baily wrote:

1945 - My dad was born.

Miss you Dad. x

El

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Awwww!  My Dad is gone now too, and I do miss him!  Sigh!

Peace!

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So young to lose him, El :-(

Mine's gone too, but he was born in 1920.

Hugs

[Hippie Bowman]

Good day all!  It is May the 9th! Here is todays History lesson!

• 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
• 1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
• 1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
• 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
• 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
• 1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
• 1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
• 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
• 1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
• 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
• 1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
• 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
• 1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
• 1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
• 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
• 1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
• 1918 – World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
• 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
• 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
• 1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
• 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
• 1940 – World War II: The GermansubmarineU-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
• 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Alliedcryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• 1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
• 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of MarshalGeorgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-GeneralHans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field MarshalWilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and AdmiralHans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of theKriegsmarine.
• 1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
• 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
• 1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
• 1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
• 1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
• 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• 1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
• 1960 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
• 1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
• 1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of RepresentativesJudiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against PresidentRichard Nixon.
• 1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
• 1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
• 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
• 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
• 1987 – A PolishLOTIlyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
• 1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
• 2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• 2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
• 2002 – In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
• 2004 – Chechen presidentAkhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.

 

This video is about the skyway bridge in the tampa bay area, near where I live.  The disaster happened on May the 9th 1980.

 

 

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

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Eloise Baily wrote:

1945 - My dad was born.

Miss you Dad. x

El

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Awwww!  My Dad is gone now too, and I do miss him!  Sigh!

Peace!

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So young to lose him, El :-(

Mine's gone too, but he was born in 1920.

Hugs

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mmmmmm mine was born in 1967 still have him. wow i am young. hehe

[Madelaine McMasters]

5-9-2013    Baptist Pastor Sean Harris founds "Punch and Judy", a non-profit bible study and dating service that pairs gay men and lesbian women with the goal of setting them on the straight and righteous path to glory.

5-9-2021    DNA testing reveals that the 51 "virgin babies" born to Punch and Judy couples in the eight years since the organization's founding are either the first recorded cases of human parthenogenesis, or miracles. Pastor Sean Harris, touring the Bimini islands on missionary work with Reverends Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Ted Haggard, was unavailable for comment.

[Hippie Bowman]

OMG So funny!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone! It's May the 10th.  Here is todays history!

 

• 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.
• 1291 – Scottishnobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
• 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
• 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
• 1655 – England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
• 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
• 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North Americantea trade.
• 1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnoldcaptures Fort Ticonderoga.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the Thirteen Colonies begin the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
• 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
• 1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
• 1833 – The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern VietnamLe Van Duyet by Emperor Minh Mang provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.
• 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
• 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
• 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys revolt against their commanding officers at Meerut.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment "Attack-in-depth" assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton is slightly wounded but is immediately promoted to Brigadier general.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
• 1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raiderWilliam Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
• 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with thegolden spike.
• 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. Recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
• 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
• 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1922 – The United States annex the Kingman Reef.
• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.
• 1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
• 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
• 1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
• 1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
• 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
• 1948 – The Republic of China implements "temporary provisions" granting PresidentChiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
• 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
• 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
• 1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
• 1981 – François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first SocialistPresident of France in the French Fifth Republic.
• 1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 156 workers.
• 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
• 1997 – A 7.3 Mw earthquake strikesIran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes.
• 1997 – The Maeslantkering, a storm surge barrier in the Netherlands that is one of the world's largest moving structures, is opened by Queen Beatrix.
• 2002 – F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash anddiamonds.
• 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi,Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
• 2008 – An EF4 tornado strikes the Oklahoma-Kansas state line, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.
• 2008 – War in Darfur: The Justice and Equality Movement and Sudanese government forces clash in Omdurman and Khartoum, the first time the fighting takes place in the nation's capital.

 

Peace!

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-9-2013

    Baptist Pastor Sean Harris founds "Punch and Judy", a non-profit bible study and dating service that pairs gay men and lesbian women with the goal of setting them on the straight and righteous path to glory.

5-9-2021

   DNA testing reveals that the 51 "virgin babies" born to Punch and Judy couples in the eight years since the organization's founding are either the first recorded cases of human parthenogenesis, or miracles. Pastor Sean Harris, touring the Bimini islands on missionary work with Reverends Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Ted Haggard, was unavailable for comment.

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omg maddy that is funny. i want to know what happens in 2042 LOL

[Madelaine McMasters]

5-10-2016    Archeologists discover a branch of the Lascaux cave complex hidden behind a pile of rubble and are suprised to find a wall painting that unambiguously depicts an alien visitor waiting for his partner to sit on a pose ball.

The painting is thought to prove that not only did aliens walk amongst us more than 17,000 years ago, but that they fought off boredom by dancing in virtual worlds. The irony that humans survived and aliens did not is completely lost on the scientific community.

[emmettcullen93]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-10-2016

    . The irony that humans survived and aliens did not is completely lost on the scientific community.

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lol it is because we are superior to our own race.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

5-10-2016

   Archeologists discover a branch of the Lascaux cave complex hidden behind a pile of rubble and are suprised to find a wall painting that unambiguously depicts an alien visitor waiting for his partner to sit on a pose ball.

The painting is thought to prove that not only did aliens walk amongst us more than 17,000 years ago, but that they fought off boredom by dancing in virtual worlds. The irony that humans survived and aliens did not is completely lost on the scientific community.

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That is classic Maddy!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  It's May the 11th!  Here is todays history lesson!

 

• 330 – Byzantium is renamed Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but it is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
• 912 – Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1310 – In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.
• 1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
• 1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.
• 1745 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
• 1792 – CaptainRobert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.
• 1812 – Prime MinisterSpencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.
• 1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
• 1820 – Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
• 1846 – President James K. Polk asked for and received a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War
• 1857 – Indian Revolution: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
• 1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The ironcladCSS Virginia is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
• 1867 – Luxembourg gains its independence.
• 1880 – Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California
• 1891 – The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
• 1894 – Pullman Strike: Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.
• 1907 – 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California.
• 1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
• 1918 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
• 1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benzmerging their two companies.
• 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
• 1942 – William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
• 1943 – World War II: American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
• 1944 – World War II: The Allies begin a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
• 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrierUSS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.
• 1946 – UMNO is created.
• 1949 – Siam officially changes its name to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.
• 1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.
• 1953 – The 1953 Waco tornado outbreak: an F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
• 1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four IsraeliMossad agents capture fugitive NaziAdolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
• 1967 – Andreas Papandreou, Greekeconomist and socialist politician, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
• 1968 – The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor–Danforth line, going to Scarborough in the East, and Etobicoke in the West.
• 1970 – The Lubbock Tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million in damage.
• 1973 – Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
• 1983 – Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 1985 – Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Paradefootball ground during a match against Lincoln City inBradford, England.
• 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• 1987 – In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lungtransplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
• 1995 – In New York City more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
• 1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes theDouglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
• 1996 – The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.
• 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
• 1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
• 2000 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambushRussian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good day all!  Happy weekend!  On this day, May the 12th, Hippie bowman was born in Battle Creek Michigan!

Here is a video of Kellogg's cereals at Battle Creak Michigan!  Best to you each morning!

Okay enough about me!  Here is todays history.

• 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.
• 304 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.
• 922 – After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.
• 1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
• 1264 – The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
• 1328 – AntipopeNicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
• 1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
• 1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
• 1588 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
• 1689 – King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
• 1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolinais taken by British forces.
• 1797 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
• 1821 – The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
• 1862 – U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
• 1864 – American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
• 1865 – American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
• 1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
• 1873 – Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
• 1881 – In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
• 1885 – North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
• 1916 – James Connolly was sat on a chair and shot dead in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, after his role in the Easter Uprising
• 1926 – UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
• 1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
• 1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
• 1937 – George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
• 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
• 1942 – Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
• 1945 – Argentinianlabour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
• 1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
• 1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1952 – Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
• 1955 – Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore's bid for independence.
• 1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
• 1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
• 1962 – Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
• 1965 – The Soviet spacecraftLuna 5 crashes on the Moon.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.
• 1975 – Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant shipSS Mayaguez in international waters.
• 1978 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
• 1981 – Francis Hughesstarves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
• 1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
• 1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
• 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959revolution.
• 2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
• 2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
• 2006 – Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
• 2006 – Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
• 2007 – Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of PakistanIftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
• 2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
• 2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

 

 

 

Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

Good day all!  Happy weekend!  On this day, May the 12th, Hippie bowman was born in Battle Creek Michigan!

Here is a video of Kellogg's cereals at Battle Creek Michigan!  Best to you each morning!

Peace!

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You must have been so excited when the airplane was finally invented and you could see Battle Creek from the air!

Happy Birthday Hippie!!!!

 

 

Meanwhile, in history on this date...

5-12-2013    Hippie Bowman refuses to log into SL, fearing a repeat of 2012's birthday "celebration".

5-12-2014    After 36 years of advertising "Get all the cash and benefits you deserve", personal injury lawyer Lyon Shyster is crushed to death while preparing dinner in his kitchen when the bed in the room overhead crashes through the ceiling. Rescuers at the grizzly scene blame the nearly tragic accident on two tons of cash and benefits found stuffed in Shyster's mattress.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

Good day all!  Happy weekend!  On this day, May the 12th, Hippie bowman was born in Battle Creek Michigan!

Here is a video of Kellogg's cereals at Battle Creek Michigan!  Best to you each morning!

Peace!

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You must have been so excited when the airplane was finally invented and you could see Battle Creek from the air!

Happy Birthday Hippie!!!!

 

 

Meanwhile, in history on this date...

5-12-2013    

Hippie Bowman refuses to log into SL, fearing a repeat of 2012's birthday "celebration".

5-12-2014    

After 36 years of advertising "Get all the cash and benefits you deserve", personal injury lawyer Lyon Shyster is crushed to death while preparing dinner in his kitchen when the bed in the room overhead crashes through the ceiling. Rescuers at the grizzly scene blame the nearly tragic accident on two tons of cash and benefits found stuffed in Shyster's mattress.

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LOL Maddy!  So good!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Happy mothers day!  Here is today in history!

 

• 1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
• 1497 – Pope Alexander VIexcommunicatesGirolamo Savonarola.
• 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
• 1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of ScottishProtestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
• 1619 – DutchstatesmanJohan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
• 1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
• 1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
• 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
• 1787 – CaptainArthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• 1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
• 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
• 1846 – Mexican-American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
• 1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
• 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
• 1861 – Pakistan’s (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with UnionGeneralSherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate GeneralRobert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
• 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
• 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. ItaliancyclistLuigi Ganna will be the winner.
• 1912 – The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
• 1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• 1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
• 1939 – The first commercial FMradio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
• 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
• 1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
• 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
• 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
• 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
• 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
• 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
• 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice PresidentRichard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
• 1958 – The trade markVelcro is registered.
• 1958 – May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
• 1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
• 1963 – The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
• 1967 – Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first MuslimPresident of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
• 1969 – Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
• 1972 – The Troubles: a car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
• 1980 – An F3 tornadohitsKalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
• 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağcaattempts to assassinatePope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
• 1985 – Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• 1989 – Large groups of students occupyTiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
• 1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
• 1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
• 1995 – 33-year-old British mother Alison Hargreaves became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
• 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
• 1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
• 1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
• 2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
• 2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
• 2005 – The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
• 2006 – 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
• 2008 – The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
• 2011 – the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan two bombs exploded killing 98 and wounding 140.

 

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Its May the 14th!  Here is todays history!

 

• 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler ofEngland.
• 1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable).
• 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
• 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an Englishcolony.
• 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
• 1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
• 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
• 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under AdmiralGeorge Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
• 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
• 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpoxvaccination.
• 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
• 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
• 1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
• 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
• 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
• 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the  Leonidas.
• 1889 – The children's charityNational Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
• 1913 – New YorkGovernorWilliam Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• 1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
• 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-classwicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
• 1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
• 1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
• 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
• 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the GermanLuftwaffe.
• 1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
• 1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Sovietmedium bomber, has its first flight.
• 1943 – A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
• 1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
• 1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
• 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
• 1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
• 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
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• 1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
• 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
• 2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of PresidentRoh Moo-hyun.

 

 

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