This Day in History
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July 19 should be remanded Britain day due to all the things that happened.
1333: English forced win a decisive victory over the Scots at the Battle of Halidon Hill
1545: the Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks in port at Portsmouth.
1553: Mary I replaced Lady Jane Eyre as Queen of England, ending a reign of 9 days.
1588: the Battle of Gravelines begins as the Spanish Armada is spotted in the English Channel. Weather and the narrow ships of the English navy would combine to defeat the Armada, a victory that shocked Europe but had no long term tactical effect.
1843: the massive 320 ft, 3,700 ton ocean liner the SS Great Britain is launched. The Great Britain was the first ocean going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller. Brunel would go into create the massive 700ft long, 32,000 ton SS Great Eastern, which could carry 4,000 passengers. Brunel would die shortly after her maiden voyage.
1997: the Provisional IRA agree to a ceasefire, bringing to an end a 25 year campaign of violence.
1333: English forced win a decisive victory over the Scots at the Battle of Halidon Hill
1545: the Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks in port at Portsmouth.
1553: Mary I replaced Lady Jane Eyre as Queen of England, ending a reign of 9 days.
1588: the Battle of Gravelines begins as the Spanish Armada is spotted in the English Channel. Weather and the narrow ships of the English navy would combine to defeat the Armada, a victory that shocked Europe but had no long term tactical effect.
1843: the massive 320 ft, 3,700 ton ocean liner the SS Great Britain is launched. The Great Britain was the first ocean going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller. Brunel would go into create the massive 700ft long, 32,000 ton SS Great Eastern, which could carry 4,000 passengers. Brunel would die shortly after her maiden voyage.
1997: the Provisional IRA agree to a ceasefire, bringing to an end a 25 year campaign of violence.
Giancarlo
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On this day in history on July 20th:
~ 1917: World War I draft lottery went into operation
~ 1968: the first International Special Olympics Summer Games Were held at Soldier Field in Chicago
~ 1969: astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon
~ 1976: America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars
Historical people born on July 20th:
~ 1822: Gregor Mendel (Founder of the modern science of genetics)
~ 1919: Sir Edmund Hillary (First person to reach the top of Mt. Everest and to reach to both the North Pole and South Pole)
Historical person who died on July 20th:
~ 1923: Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa was assassinated (age 55)
~ 1917: World War I draft lottery went into operation
~ 1968: the first International Special Olympics Summer Games Were held at Soldier Field in Chicago
~ 1969: astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon
~ 1976: America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars
Historical people born on July 20th:
~ 1822: Gregor Mendel (Founder of the modern science of genetics)
~ 1919: Sir Edmund Hillary (First person to reach the top of Mt. Everest and to reach to both the North Pole and South Pole)
Historical person who died on July 20th:
~ 1923: Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa was assassinated (age 55)
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July 30
762: Baghdad is founded by the Caliph al-Mansur. The city would go onto become the center of Islamic power before falling to the Mongol forces of Mongke Kahn, under his brother Hulegu would form the Ilkhanate of Persia.
1975: Jimmy Hoffa disappears. He would be declared legally dead on this day in 1982.
762: Baghdad is founded by the Caliph al-Mansur. The city would go onto become the center of Islamic power before falling to the Mongol forces of Mongke Kahn, under his brother Hulegu would form the Ilkhanate of Persia.
1975: Jimmy Hoffa disappears. He would be declared legally dead on this day in 1982.
Sauceistan
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July 31
1790 - The first U.S. patent was given to Samuel Hopkins for potash (potassium carbonate). Wikipedia
1790 - The first U.S. patent was given to Samuel Hopkins for potash (potassium carbonate). Wikipedia
Romanoffia
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Imperial Russia, and the reign of Tsar Nicholas II is also one of my favourite historical subjects. My maternal grandmother's surname was Romanov (a second cousin once removed of the Tsar) and one of my Great-great-grandfathers was Felix Nikolaievich Sumarokov-Elston (Yusupov) on my father's side of the family.Malvad Acronis:
The funny thing is that I can actually use the title "Prince of Russia" as a descendant of Michael I under Imperial Russian Law.
That, and 25¢ will get you put up against the wall and shot in Russia.
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2nd August 1992: Ron Simmons wins the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, becoming the first black World Champion in professional wrestling. Simmons laid the groundwork for superstars like Booker T, Mark Henry and The Rock.
3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sails for India - in the wrong direction. He finds something else entirely.
1936: Jesse Owens wins Gold in the 100 m at the Berlin Olympics. Common myth says Hitler refused to award Owens the medal, but Hitler didn't give any medals out at the Olympics.
3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sails for India - in the wrong direction. He finds something else entirely.
1936: Jesse Owens wins Gold in the 100 m at the Berlin Olympics. Common myth says Hitler refused to award Owens the medal, but Hitler didn't give any medals out at the Olympics.
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I thought the myth was that he refused to shake his hand - which he in fact did do. Owens even said that he did. It just wasn't caught on camera.
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I think it's a mixture of the two.
Either way, on the first day of the competition, over a week before Owens was due to compete, Hitler only shook the hands of German athletes. Upon being informed he had to shake everyone's hand or no ones hand, he choose the latter.
Either way, on the first day of the competition, over a week before Owens was due to compete, Hitler only shook the hands of German athletes. Upon being informed he had to shake everyone's hand or no ones hand, he choose the latter.
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4th August
70: The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by Roman forces led by Titus and including the Tenth and Fifth legions (by now known as the X Fretensis - meaning of the sea strait, earned in battle under Octavian against Sextus Pompey on BCE35 and the V Macedonia from it's headquarters in northern Greece).
1704: Gibraltar is captured by a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet in the War of Spanish Succession. The enclave was ceded in 1713 but remains a disputed territory by Spain.
1914: Germany invades Belgium. In response the UK and Belgium declare war on Germany.
1944: A Dutch informant tips off the Gestapo as to where the family of Anne Frank is hiding. Her mother Edith would starve to death at Auschwitz whilst Anne and her sister Margot does of Typhus at Belsen.
1964: two US navy destroyers the Maddox and the Turner Joy come under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the US, the bodies of three civil rights workers are found after going missing in Mississippi 3 weeks earlier.
1995: Operation Storm, the largest land battle in Europe since WW2, begins as Croatian and Bosniak troops attack Serb forces along a 400 mile front. The assault is a massive success, resulting in the end of the Croatian War of Independence and the gain of a fifth of former Croat territory.
2011: Mark Duggan is shot and killed by Police in Tottenham, London, sparking 4 days of rioting across the capital and other cities.
70: The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by Roman forces led by Titus and including the Tenth and Fifth legions (by now known as the X Fretensis - meaning of the sea strait, earned in battle under Octavian against Sextus Pompey on BCE35 and the V Macedonia from it's headquarters in northern Greece).
1704: Gibraltar is captured by a combined Anglo-Dutch fleet in the War of Spanish Succession. The enclave was ceded in 1713 but remains a disputed territory by Spain.
1914: Germany invades Belgium. In response the UK and Belgium declare war on Germany.
1944: A Dutch informant tips off the Gestapo as to where the family of Anne Frank is hiding. Her mother Edith would starve to death at Auschwitz whilst Anne and her sister Margot does of Typhus at Belsen.
1964: two US navy destroyers the Maddox and the Turner Joy come under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the US, the bodies of three civil rights workers are found after going missing in Mississippi 3 weeks earlier.
1995: Operation Storm, the largest land battle in Europe since WW2, begins as Croatian and Bosniak troops attack Serb forces along a 400 mile front. The assault is a massive success, resulting in the end of the Croatian War of Independence and the gain of a fifth of former Croat territory.
2011: Mark Duggan is shot and killed by Police in Tottenham, London, sparking 4 days of rioting across the capital and other cities.
Romanoffia
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Turn your lights out at 10-11 PM tonight to signify the beginning of WWI.
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4 August:
1100 Henry I is crowned king of England, the first Norman monarch born in England.
1305 William Wallace is captured outside Glasgow by English forces.
1620 The Mayflower leaves Southampton on it's first voyage to the New World.
1914 The first naval clashes of WW1 occur as HMS Amphion sinks a German minelayer off the Thames Estuary and the steamer SS Pfalz is detained attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne, Australia.
1916 Allied forces under British command defeat an Ottoman army in the Battle of Romani, marking the beginning of the Turkish withdrawal from the Sinai.
1926: Harry Houdini spends 91 minutes underwater before escaping, his greatest feat.
1960 Burkina Faso becomes independent.
2010 33 Chilean miners become trapped after a cave in. They would spend 69 days trapped 700m underground.
6 August:
1806 Francis II abdicates, formally ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain
1870 Prussian forces decisively defeat French forces in two battles on one day.
1890 William Kemmler becomes the first person executed via the electric chair.
1814 As 10 German U-Boats leave their base to head into the North Sea, Serbia declares war on Germany and Austria declares war on Russia.
1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel.
1945 The B-29 bomber Enola Gay drops the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima. 70,000 people die instantly.
1962 Jamaica becomes independent.
1965 LBJ signs the Voting Rights Act into law.
2008 Mauritania's President Sidi Abdallahi is overthrown in a military coup.
2012 Curiosity Rover lands on Mars.
1100 Henry I is crowned king of England, the first Norman monarch born in England.
1305 William Wallace is captured outside Glasgow by English forces.
1620 The Mayflower leaves Southampton on it's first voyage to the New World.
1914 The first naval clashes of WW1 occur as HMS Amphion sinks a German minelayer off the Thames Estuary and the steamer SS Pfalz is detained attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne, Australia.
1916 Allied forces under British command defeat an Ottoman army in the Battle of Romani, marking the beginning of the Turkish withdrawal from the Sinai.
1926: Harry Houdini spends 91 minutes underwater before escaping, his greatest feat.
1960 Burkina Faso becomes independent.
2010 33 Chilean miners become trapped after a cave in. They would spend 69 days trapped 700m underground.
6 August:
1806 Francis II abdicates, formally ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain
1870 Prussian forces decisively defeat French forces in two battles on one day.
1890 William Kemmler becomes the first person executed via the electric chair.
1814 As 10 German U-Boats leave their base to head into the North Sea, Serbia declares war on Germany and Austria declares war on Russia.
1926 Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel.
1945 The B-29 bomber Enola Gay drops the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima. 70,000 people die instantly.
1962 Jamaica becomes independent.
1965 LBJ signs the Voting Rights Act into law.
2008 Mauritania's President Sidi Abdallahi is overthrown in a military coup.
2012 Curiosity Rover lands on Mars.
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7 August:
461 Coronation of Otto I, later Otto the Great, as King of the Germans. Otto would become the first Holy Roman Emperor.
1782 George Washington creates the Badge of Military Merit to honour soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed the Purple Heart.
1819 The army of Simon Bolivar, supported by British 'volunteer' legions, defeats a Spanish army in the Battle of Boyaca, definitively winning Colombia's independence.
1933 The Simele Massacre takes place as Iraqi authorities massacre over 3000 Assyrians.
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering sells its first transistor radio in Japan. TTE would go onto become Sony.
1960 The Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
1970 California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1998 al-Qaeda attack the US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, killing 224.
1999 The Islamic International Brigade invades Dagestan from Chechnya.
2012 Three gunmen attack Deeper Life Church in Otite, Nigeria. 19 people are killed in the attack, suspected to be committed by Boko Haram.
Selected Births and Deaths: 1560 Elizabeth Bathory is born. 1106 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, dies.
461 Coronation of Otto I, later Otto the Great, as King of the Germans. Otto would become the first Holy Roman Emperor.
1782 George Washington creates the Badge of Military Merit to honour soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed the Purple Heart.
1819 The army of Simon Bolivar, supported by British 'volunteer' legions, defeats a Spanish army in the Battle of Boyaca, definitively winning Colombia's independence.
1933 The Simele Massacre takes place as Iraqi authorities massacre over 3000 Assyrians.
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering sells its first transistor radio in Japan. TTE would go onto become Sony.
1960 The Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
1970 California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1998 al-Qaeda attack the US Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, killing 224.
1999 The Islamic International Brigade invades Dagestan from Chechnya.
2012 Three gunmen attack Deeper Life Church in Otite, Nigeria. 19 people are killed in the attack, suspected to be committed by Boko Haram.
Selected Births and Deaths: 1560 Elizabeth Bathory is born. 1106 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, dies.
Romanoffia
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Elizabeth Báthory - she was one sick bee-otch.
Liked to take baths in the blood of virgins in an attempt to keep herself young. Now we have BOTOX.
Liked to take baths in the blood of virgins in an attempt to keep herself young. Now we have BOTOX.
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8 August:
1503: James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII. This marriage became the basis of the Stuart claim to the English throne.
1588: The Battle of Gravelines ends in an English victory over the Spanish Armada, which is pushed out of the channel and into the North Sea. Most of the Armada would be wrecked by storms off the Irish coast as it limped back to Spain.
1786: Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1918: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of Allied victories against Germany.
1963: The Great Train Robbery happens in England, with a gang of 15 making off with £2.6 million.
1974: Richard Nixon announces his resignation.
1990: Iraq occupies Kuwait, leading to the First Gulf War.
2008: The Beijing Olympics opens.
Selected Births and Deaths: Alija Izetbegovi? born 1925. First President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nevill Francis Mott died 1996, Nobel Prize Winner for Physics.
9 August:
48 BC: Caesar defeats the army of the Roman Republic led by Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus.
378: Roman Emperor Valens is killed and his army defeated by the Visigoths at the Battle of Adrianople.
1173: Construction of the building that would become known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa begins.
1483: The Sistine Chapel opens in Rome.
1902: Edward VII is crowned King of the Great Britain (and various titles therein)
1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal and helps set a new world record as the US 4x100 relay team wins over the Italians and Germans in silver and bronze.
1944: The US Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council release posters containing the Smokey Bear character for the first time.
1945: Atomic Bomb "Fat Man" is dropped on Nagasaki, killing almost 40,000 outright.
1965: Singapore is ejected from Malaysia, becoming independent, the only country to be created unwillingly.
1969: Followers of Charles Manson murder the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1993: The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses an almost 40 year stranglehold on national leadership.
2012: Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m at consecutive Olympic Games.
Selected Births and Deaths: Phillip Larkin, poet, born 1922. Trajan, Roman Emperor who conquered Dacia, died 117.
1503: James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII. This marriage became the basis of the Stuart claim to the English throne.
1588: The Battle of Gravelines ends in an English victory over the Spanish Armada, which is pushed out of the channel and into the North Sea. Most of the Armada would be wrecked by storms off the Irish coast as it limped back to Spain.
1786: Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1918: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of Allied victories against Germany.
1963: The Great Train Robbery happens in England, with a gang of 15 making off with £2.6 million.
1974: Richard Nixon announces his resignation.
1990: Iraq occupies Kuwait, leading to the First Gulf War.
2008: The Beijing Olympics opens.
Selected Births and Deaths: Alija Izetbegovi? born 1925. First President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nevill Francis Mott died 1996, Nobel Prize Winner for Physics.
9 August:
48 BC: Caesar defeats the army of the Roman Republic led by Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus.
378: Roman Emperor Valens is killed and his army defeated by the Visigoths at the Battle of Adrianople.
1173: Construction of the building that would become known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa begins.
1483: The Sistine Chapel opens in Rome.
1902: Edward VII is crowned King of the Great Britain (and various titles therein)
1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal and helps set a new world record as the US 4x100 relay team wins over the Italians and Germans in silver and bronze.
1944: The US Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council release posters containing the Smokey Bear character for the first time.
1945: Atomic Bomb "Fat Man" is dropped on Nagasaki, killing almost 40,000 outright.
1965: Singapore is ejected from Malaysia, becoming independent, the only country to be created unwillingly.
1969: Followers of Charles Manson murder the pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1993: The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses an almost 40 year stranglehold on national leadership.
2012: Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m at consecutive Olympic Games.
Selected Births and Deaths: Phillip Larkin, poet, born 1922. Trajan, Roman Emperor who conquered Dacia, died 117.
Romanoffia
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August 8, 1974:
Richard Nixon resigns as President of the US.
Richard Nixon resigns as President of the US.
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August 10:
1512: The Battle of Saint-Mathieu takes place in the Iroise Sea off the coast of Brittany. An English fleet under the command of Edward Howard defeated a combined French-Breton fleet. Both the Regent and the Breton flagship Marie-la-Cordelière were sunk after an explosion on the latter as it boarded the former. The Battle, part of the War of the League of Cambrai (itself part of the Italian Wars) had a lasting effect on Breton ideas of unity within France.
1519: Magellan sets off on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. He would die in the Philippines but his deputy, the Basque sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano would complete the journey, the first successful attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
1680: The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico. Pueblo tribesmen, under the command of Popé drive out the Spanish settlers. Spain would reassert their control over New Mexico 12 years later, driven largely by concern over French gains in the Mississippi valley.
1792: The Storming of the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Louis XVI is arrested and his Swiss Guards are massacred by mobs. This was the effective end of the Bourbon monarchy until 1814.
1821: Missouri is admitted to the US as the 24th state.
1905: Negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War begin in New Hampshire, USA.
1949: Harry S Truman signs the National Security Act amendment, creating the Department of Defense.
1961: US forces in Vietnam use Agent Orange for the first time. Between 3 and 5 million Vietnamese were exposed to Agent Orange, and between 150,000 and half a million children were born with birth defects due to Agent Orange. An estimated 400,000 people were killed or maimed by the herbicide.
1988: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the Oklahoma Bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
2009: Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Tren?ín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
Selected Birth and Death: William Willett, born 1856, founder of British Summer Time. Rin Tin Tin, died 1936, German Shepard dog that appeared in 27 Hollywood films and received the most votes for the 1929 Academy Award for Best Actor (The Academy would decide a human - Warner Baxter for his role as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in the film Disraeli).
11 August:
3114 BC: The Mayan Calendar begins.
106: The province of Roman Dacia is formed out of the south-western part of the Dacian kingdom.
1332: Scottish forces under the command of Domhnall II, Earl of Mar, are routed by Edward Balliol's English-backed forces in the Battle of Dupplin Moor. Balliol's army is heavily outnumbered by the Scots.
1812: French forces clash with a combined British-Portuguese army in the Battle of Majadahonda, part of the Penisular War. The battle is a tactical draw with neither side gaining an advantage.
1918: The Battle of Amiens ends in a decisive allied victory.
1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first player to hit 500 home runs in a single season.
1960: Chad proclaims independence.
1972: The last US ground combat unit leaves Vietnam.
1982: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
2012: At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
Selected Birth and Death: Richard Scudamore, born 1959, English businessman and Chief Executive of the Premier League. Rolland 'Red' Bastien, died 2012, high-flying wrestler who innovated in the ring in the late 50s and 60s. Red went onto to train wrestlers such as Sting and The Ultimate Warrior, and ran a lucha libre style promotion in California employing the likes of Konnan and Rey Mysterio Jr years before they became famous in the US.
1512: The Battle of Saint-Mathieu takes place in the Iroise Sea off the coast of Brittany. An English fleet under the command of Edward Howard defeated a combined French-Breton fleet. Both the Regent and the Breton flagship Marie-la-Cordelière were sunk after an explosion on the latter as it boarded the former. The Battle, part of the War of the League of Cambrai (itself part of the Italian Wars) had a lasting effect on Breton ideas of unity within France.
1519: Magellan sets off on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. He would die in the Philippines but his deputy, the Basque sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano would complete the journey, the first successful attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
1680: The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico. Pueblo tribesmen, under the command of Popé drive out the Spanish settlers. Spain would reassert their control over New Mexico 12 years later, driven largely by concern over French gains in the Mississippi valley.
1792: The Storming of the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Louis XVI is arrested and his Swiss Guards are massacred by mobs. This was the effective end of the Bourbon monarchy until 1814.
1821: Missouri is admitted to the US as the 24th state.
1905: Negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War begin in New Hampshire, USA.
1949: Harry S Truman signs the National Security Act amendment, creating the Department of Defense.
1961: US forces in Vietnam use Agent Orange for the first time. Between 3 and 5 million Vietnamese were exposed to Agent Orange, and between 150,000 and half a million children were born with birth defects due to Agent Orange. An estimated 400,000 people were killed or maimed by the herbicide.
1988: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the Oklahoma Bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
2009: Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Tren?ín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
Selected Birth and Death: William Willett, born 1856, founder of British Summer Time. Rin Tin Tin, died 1936, German Shepard dog that appeared in 27 Hollywood films and received the most votes for the 1929 Academy Award for Best Actor (The Academy would decide a human - Warner Baxter for his role as British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in the film Disraeli).
11 August:
3114 BC: The Mayan Calendar begins.
106: The province of Roman Dacia is formed out of the south-western part of the Dacian kingdom.
1332: Scottish forces under the command of Domhnall II, Earl of Mar, are routed by Edward Balliol's English-backed forces in the Battle of Dupplin Moor. Balliol's army is heavily outnumbered by the Scots.
1812: French forces clash with a combined British-Portuguese army in the Battle of Majadahonda, part of the Penisular War. The battle is a tactical draw with neither side gaining an advantage.
1918: The Battle of Amiens ends in a decisive allied victory.
1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first player to hit 500 home runs in a single season.
1960: Chad proclaims independence.
1972: The last US ground combat unit leaves Vietnam.
1982: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
2012: At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
Selected Birth and Death: Richard Scudamore, born 1959, English businessman and Chief Executive of the Premier League. Rolland 'Red' Bastien, died 2012, high-flying wrestler who innovated in the ring in the late 50s and 60s. Red went onto to train wrestlers such as Sting and The Ultimate Warrior, and ran a lucha libre style promotion in California employing the likes of Konnan and Rey Mysterio Jr years before they became famous in the US.
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12 August:
30BC: Cleopatra VII, last of the Ptolemaic leaders of Egypt, commits suicide in Alexandria. The mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony had fled back to Egypt after Anthony was defeated at the Battle of Actium and his remaining legions, including men of Caesar's famous Tenth and Fifth legions, turned against him and defected Caesar's great-nephew Octavian, who became the Emperor Augustus.
1099: Crusader forces under the command of Geoffrey of Bouillon defeat a numerically superior Fatimid Egyptian force at the Battle of Ascalon, securing the Crusader States' southern border with Egypt.
1831: French intervention in the Belgian Revolt stops William I of the Netherlands from suppressing the rebellion.
1883: The last Quagga, a sub-species of Zebra from southern Africa, dies in the Netherlands.
1914: As Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary, one of last major cavalry battles takes place at Haelen in Belgium, with Belgian forces, including 500 riflemen riding bicycles, defeat a German combined cavalry/infantry force.
1944: Alencon is liberated by Free French forces. Meanwhile the week long Wola Massacre, where 40,000 Poles were murdered by German forces trying to convince the participants in the Warsaw Uprising to give up. They didn't. On the same day, Waffen-SS troops massacre over 500 people in Tuscany, Italy.
1950: American POWs are massacred by North Korean troops.
1964: South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's policy of Apartheid.
1977: Space Shuttle Enterprise engages in its first free flight.
1992: Canada, Mexico and the US complete negotiations will form the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.
1994: Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing that year's World Series to be cancelled.
Selected Birth and Death: George IV, born 1762, King of Great Britain. Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall, died 2014, American actress and model.
13 August:
29BC: Octavian holds the first of three Triumphs in Rome.
1521: After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1532: The Duchy of Britanny is absorbed by France.
1704: Battle of Belnheim occurs with English and Imperial German forces defeating a combined French-Bavarian Army. The battle, part of the War of Spanish Succession, was a massive victory for the Grand Alliance, preventing the Holy Roman Empire from losing Vienna and being knocked out of the war, and reducing Bavaria's forces to the extent that themselves were forced to withdraw from the conflict.
1898: Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1913: An acrobat, Otto Witte is allegedly crowned King of Albania. Witte was a fantasist and fact-checking revealed that his account (including a fictional Ottoman prince, a harem and a declaration of war against Montenegro) was false.
1920: The Soviet Red Army attacks Warsaw in the Polish-Soviet War. Polish troops would win the battle and kill or capture over 100,000 Soviet troops. Russian leader Vladmir Lenin would describe it as 'an enormous defeat'. The Poles would go on to win the war.
1937: The Battle of Shanghai begins. It would end in November, with the Empire of Japan taking control of the city.
1942: Construction begins on the facilities that would house the Manhattan Project in Tennessee. On the same day, Walt Disney's Bambi is released in cinemas.
1960: The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961: To prevent the mass emigration of east Berliners to west Berlin, East German authorities close the border between the two sides of the city. Construction of the Berlin Wall begins on this date.
1964: Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
2004: One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Selected Birth and Death: Alfred Hitchcock, born 1899, director and producer. Brian Adams, died 2007, American wrestler best known as Crush of Demolition and Lance Cade, died 2010, also an American wrestler. Both deaths were drug related.
30BC: Cleopatra VII, last of the Ptolemaic leaders of Egypt, commits suicide in Alexandria. The mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony had fled back to Egypt after Anthony was defeated at the Battle of Actium and his remaining legions, including men of Caesar's famous Tenth and Fifth legions, turned against him and defected Caesar's great-nephew Octavian, who became the Emperor Augustus.
1099: Crusader forces under the command of Geoffrey of Bouillon defeat a numerically superior Fatimid Egyptian force at the Battle of Ascalon, securing the Crusader States' southern border with Egypt.
1831: French intervention in the Belgian Revolt stops William I of the Netherlands from suppressing the rebellion.
1883: The last Quagga, a sub-species of Zebra from southern Africa, dies in the Netherlands.
1914: As Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary, one of last major cavalry battles takes place at Haelen in Belgium, with Belgian forces, including 500 riflemen riding bicycles, defeat a German combined cavalry/infantry force.
1944: Alencon is liberated by Free French forces. Meanwhile the week long Wola Massacre, where 40,000 Poles were murdered by German forces trying to convince the participants in the Warsaw Uprising to give up. They didn't. On the same day, Waffen-SS troops massacre over 500 people in Tuscany, Italy.
1950: American POWs are massacred by North Korean troops.
1964: South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's policy of Apartheid.
1977: Space Shuttle Enterprise engages in its first free flight.
1992: Canada, Mexico and the US complete negotiations will form the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.
1994: Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing that year's World Series to be cancelled.
Selected Birth and Death: George IV, born 1762, King of Great Britain. Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall, died 2014, American actress and model.
13 August:
29BC: Octavian holds the first of three Triumphs in Rome.
1521: After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1532: The Duchy of Britanny is absorbed by France.
1704: Battle of Belnheim occurs with English and Imperial German forces defeating a combined French-Bavarian Army. The battle, part of the War of Spanish Succession, was a massive victory for the Grand Alliance, preventing the Holy Roman Empire from losing Vienna and being knocked out of the war, and reducing Bavaria's forces to the extent that themselves were forced to withdraw from the conflict.
1898: Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1913: An acrobat, Otto Witte is allegedly crowned King of Albania. Witte was a fantasist and fact-checking revealed that his account (including a fictional Ottoman prince, a harem and a declaration of war against Montenegro) was false.
1920: The Soviet Red Army attacks Warsaw in the Polish-Soviet War. Polish troops would win the battle and kill or capture over 100,000 Soviet troops. Russian leader Vladmir Lenin would describe it as 'an enormous defeat'. The Poles would go on to win the war.
1937: The Battle of Shanghai begins. It would end in November, with the Empire of Japan taking control of the city.
1942: Construction begins on the facilities that would house the Manhattan Project in Tennessee. On the same day, Walt Disney's Bambi is released in cinemas.
1960: The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961: To prevent the mass emigration of east Berliners to west Berlin, East German authorities close the border between the two sides of the city. Construction of the Berlin Wall begins on this date.
1964: Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
2004: One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
Selected Birth and Death: Alfred Hitchcock, born 1899, director and producer. Brian Adams, died 2007, American wrestler best known as Crush of Demolition and Lance Cade, died 2010, also an American wrestler. Both deaths were drug related.
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14 August:
1040 Duncan I is killed in battle against his cousin, Macbeth. Macbeth will succeed him as King of Scotland.
1352 An Anglo-Breton army wins the Battle of Mauron against French forces supporting the House of Blois. Over 600 members of the French nobility are taken captive and the French commander, Guy II de Nesle, slain.
1415 The Portuguese Empire is formed after Henry the Navigator defeats Marinid forces in the Battle of Ceuta in Morocco. Ceuta had been used as the staging area for the Umayyad invasion of Hispania in 710.
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1901 The first powered flight allegedly took place, by Gustave Whitehead in the Whitehead Number 21.
1935 Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating the first Federal pension scheme.
1936 The last public execution in the United States occurs.
1945 As Japan formally surrenders to the allies, the Viet Minh launches the August Revolution in French Indochina.
1947 Pakistan becomes independent and joins the Commonwealth.
1971 Bahrain declares its independence.
1974 The Second Turkish Invasion of Cyprus begins.
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
1994 Carlos The Jackal is captured.
2010 The first ever Youth Olympic Games is held in Singapore.
2013 Egypt's military government declares a state of emergency after demonstrations in support of ousted President Mohamed Morsi turn violent, with security forces killing hundreds of protesters.
Selected Birth and Death: Doc Holliday, born 1851, American dentist, gambler and gunfighter. Enzo Ferrari, died 1988, founder of Ferrari.
15 August:
717-718 Constantinople is besieged by Arab forces for the second time. The siege, which lasts a year, ends in a decisive Byzantine victory, as - tipped off by Christian sailors who defected from the Egyptian navy - a Byzantine army ambushes and defeats a reinforcing Arab army and the Bulgarian Khan Tervel attacks and defeats the main force. Tervel is hailed as the 'Saviour of Europe' by many of his contemporaries.
927 The Saracens capture and destroy Taranto, in southern Italy.
1057 17 years and a day after defeating Duncan I, Macbeth is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by Duncan's son, Malcolm III.
1519 Panama City is founded.
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic. In Europe, the allies win their first land victory of the war in the Battle of Cer.
1939 The Wizard of Oz premiers.
1944 In Operation Dragoon, allied forces land in Southern France from bases in central and southern Italy, Malta and Algeria.
1960 The Republic of the Congo, later Congo-Brazzaville, declares independence from France.
1962 James Joseph Dresnok becomes the second American serviceman to defect to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
1969 Woodstock opens.
1984 The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in ?emdinli and Eruh.
2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
Selected Birth and Death: Napoleon, born 1769, French general and Emperor. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, died 1975, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh. Rahman and most of his family are murdered in a military coup, plunging the country into chaos for the next two years. Rahman's daughter, Sheikh Hasna, is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
1040 Duncan I is killed in battle against his cousin, Macbeth. Macbeth will succeed him as King of Scotland.
1352 An Anglo-Breton army wins the Battle of Mauron against French forces supporting the House of Blois. Over 600 members of the French nobility are taken captive and the French commander, Guy II de Nesle, slain.
1415 The Portuguese Empire is formed after Henry the Navigator defeats Marinid forces in the Battle of Ceuta in Morocco. Ceuta had been used as the staging area for the Umayyad invasion of Hispania in 710.
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1901 The first powered flight allegedly took place, by Gustave Whitehead in the Whitehead Number 21.
1935 Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating the first Federal pension scheme.
1936 The last public execution in the United States occurs.
1945 As Japan formally surrenders to the allies, the Viet Minh launches the August Revolution in French Indochina.
1947 Pakistan becomes independent and joins the Commonwealth.
1971 Bahrain declares its independence.
1974 The Second Turkish Invasion of Cyprus begins.
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.
1994 Carlos The Jackal is captured.
2010 The first ever Youth Olympic Games is held in Singapore.
2013 Egypt's military government declares a state of emergency after demonstrations in support of ousted President Mohamed Morsi turn violent, with security forces killing hundreds of protesters.
Selected Birth and Death: Doc Holliday, born 1851, American dentist, gambler and gunfighter. Enzo Ferrari, died 1988, founder of Ferrari.
15 August:
717-718 Constantinople is besieged by Arab forces for the second time. The siege, which lasts a year, ends in a decisive Byzantine victory, as - tipped off by Christian sailors who defected from the Egyptian navy - a Byzantine army ambushes and defeats a reinforcing Arab army and the Bulgarian Khan Tervel attacks and defeats the main force. Tervel is hailed as the 'Saviour of Europe' by many of his contemporaries.
927 The Saracens capture and destroy Taranto, in southern Italy.
1057 17 years and a day after defeating Duncan I, Macbeth is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by Duncan's son, Malcolm III.
1519 Panama City is founded.
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic. In Europe, the allies win their first land victory of the war in the Battle of Cer.
1939 The Wizard of Oz premiers.
1944 In Operation Dragoon, allied forces land in Southern France from bases in central and southern Italy, Malta and Algeria.
1960 The Republic of the Congo, later Congo-Brazzaville, declares independence from France.
1962 James Joseph Dresnok becomes the second American serviceman to defect to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
1969 Woodstock opens.
1984 The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in ?emdinli and Eruh.
2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
Selected Birth and Death: Napoleon, born 1769, French general and Emperor. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, died 1975, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh. Rahman and most of his family are murdered in a military coup, plunging the country into chaos for the next two years. Rahman's daughter, Sheikh Hasna, is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
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I'm thinking of ways to improve these posts which at the moment are mostly just copied from wikipedia (the longer entries are combinations of my own knowledge and stuff from wiki) so if anyone has any suggestions (current thoughts are links to more information on the lesser known stuff, listing religious/national holidays) I'm happy to hear them.
Tomb
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Well, Neirr, like you were saying most of these were quick snips from Wikipedia.
Maybe the members working on this could research and look for interesting or more intriguing events for each date.
I know this takes more time, but even if we list 3 events only, it is better and more interesting than 15 events that are not as engaging.
I hope this feedback helps.
~Tomb
Maybe the members working on this could research and look for interesting or more intriguing events for each date.
I know this takes more time, but even if we list 3 events only, it is better and more interesting than 15 events that are not as engaging.
I hope this feedback helps.
~Tomb
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16 August:
1930 The very first British Empire games begins in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games, featured 11 nations (Australia Bermuda, British Guiana, Canada, England, Ireland , Newfoundland, New Zealand Scotland, South Africa, Wales) competing in 59 events across 7 sports (athletics, boxing, diving, lawn bowls, rowing, swimming, wrestling). Host Canada come second in the medal table with 20 golds, 16 silvers and 18 bronze, behind England who top the table with 25 gold, 22 silver and 13 bronze. England's Cecelia Wolstenholme sets a new World Record in the 200 yard breastroke with a time of 2 minutes 54 seconds. Her younger sister Beatrice would win a gold in the 4x110 yards freestyle relay in the 1934 Games, held in London.
Today more than 70 nations take part in the Games, in 261 events from 18 sports. Almost 5,000 athletes took part in the 2014 Glasgow Games, making the Commonwealth second only to the Olympics in terms of largest (and most prestigious) multi-discipline international sporting events.
1945 The last Chinese Emperor, Puyi, is captured by Soviet troops. Puyi had been ruler of Manchukuo under Japanese rule and would be held in a Soviet detention centre until being turned over to Chinese custody following the 1949 victory for the Chinese communists. Puyi would spend 10 years in a detention center before being declared 'reformed' and moved into the general society.
Puyi became a vocal supporter of the Communists, publishing a memoir in which he denounced himself, and worked 1964 until his death he worked as an editor for the literary department of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Following the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Puyi was targeted by the Red Guards, but the intervention of the local public security bureau kept him relatively safe (although he lost his food rations, salary, and various luxuries, including his sofa and desk).
Puyi died in Beijing in 1967.
1966 The House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee starts investigations into Americans it alleges have helped the Vietcong. Anti-War Protesters would attempt to break up the meeting but failed with over 50 arrests made by police. Like Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee, the HUAC engaged in what has been described as witchhunts and by the time the 1966 hearings had taken place had declined from its height in the late 40s (especially during the Hollywood Ten hearings) and the 50s.
Whilst the Committee did - in its early days - catch a few Soviet or former Soviet spies such as Whittaker Chambers, by the 60s it was in terminal decline and had been described as 'the most un-American thing in the country today' by former President Harry S. Truman. In 1960 William Mandel famously blasted the Committee in a hearing in Berkeley, California, as police fought protesters outside the building. Replying to the question "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" from Lead Counsel Richard Arens, Mandel said:
"Honorable beaters of children, sadists, uniformed and in plain clothes, distinguished Dixiecrat wearing the clothing of a gentleman, eminent Republican who opposes an accommodation with the one country with which we must live at peace in order for us and all our children to survive. My boy of fifteen left this room a few minutes ago in sound health and not jailed, solely because I asked him to be in here to learn something about the procedures of the United States government and one of its committees. Had he been outside where a son of a friend of mine had his head split by these goons operating under your orders, my boy today might have paid the penalty of permanent injury or a police record for desiring to come here and hear how this committee operates. If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any way, you are insane!"
The statement was the only one Mandel made to the Committee, responding to every other question with polite variations of "Go to hell." It was a turning point for the Committee.
In 1967 and 68 it called Youth International members (also known as Yippies), Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. On both occasions, Rubin and Hoffman made a mockery of proceedings. Rubin came to one session dressed as a United States Revolutionary War soldier and passed out copies of the United States Declaration of Independence to people in attendance. Hoffman attended a session dressed as Santa Claus. On another occasion, police stopped Hoffman at the building entrance and arrested him for wearing the United States flag. Hoffman quipped to the press, "I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country," paraphrasing the last words of revolutionary patriot Nathan Hale; Rubin, who was wearing a matching Viet Cong flag, shouted that the police were communists for not arresting him also.
In 1969 the Committee changed its name to the Internal Security Committee and limped on until it was disbanded in 1975.
1930 The very first British Empire games begins in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games, featured 11 nations (Australia Bermuda, British Guiana, Canada, England, Ireland , Newfoundland, New Zealand Scotland, South Africa, Wales) competing in 59 events across 7 sports (athletics, boxing, diving, lawn bowls, rowing, swimming, wrestling). Host Canada come second in the medal table with 20 golds, 16 silvers and 18 bronze, behind England who top the table with 25 gold, 22 silver and 13 bronze. England's Cecelia Wolstenholme sets a new World Record in the 200 yard breastroke with a time of 2 minutes 54 seconds. Her younger sister Beatrice would win a gold in the 4x110 yards freestyle relay in the 1934 Games, held in London.
Today more than 70 nations take part in the Games, in 261 events from 18 sports. Almost 5,000 athletes took part in the 2014 Glasgow Games, making the Commonwealth second only to the Olympics in terms of largest (and most prestigious) multi-discipline international sporting events.
1945 The last Chinese Emperor, Puyi, is captured by Soviet troops. Puyi had been ruler of Manchukuo under Japanese rule and would be held in a Soviet detention centre until being turned over to Chinese custody following the 1949 victory for the Chinese communists. Puyi would spend 10 years in a detention center before being declared 'reformed' and moved into the general society.
Puyi became a vocal supporter of the Communists, publishing a memoir in which he denounced himself, and worked 1964 until his death he worked as an editor for the literary department of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Following the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Puyi was targeted by the Red Guards, but the intervention of the local public security bureau kept him relatively safe (although he lost his food rations, salary, and various luxuries, including his sofa and desk).
Puyi died in Beijing in 1967.
1966 The House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee starts investigations into Americans it alleges have helped the Vietcong. Anti-War Protesters would attempt to break up the meeting but failed with over 50 arrests made by police. Like Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee, the HUAC engaged in what has been described as witchhunts and by the time the 1966 hearings had taken place had declined from its height in the late 40s (especially during the Hollywood Ten hearings) and the 50s.
Whilst the Committee did - in its early days - catch a few Soviet or former Soviet spies such as Whittaker Chambers, by the 60s it was in terminal decline and had been described as 'the most un-American thing in the country today' by former President Harry S. Truman. In 1960 William Mandel famously blasted the Committee in a hearing in Berkeley, California, as police fought protesters outside the building. Replying to the question "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" from Lead Counsel Richard Arens, Mandel said:
"Honorable beaters of children, sadists, uniformed and in plain clothes, distinguished Dixiecrat wearing the clothing of a gentleman, eminent Republican who opposes an accommodation with the one country with which we must live at peace in order for us and all our children to survive. My boy of fifteen left this room a few minutes ago in sound health and not jailed, solely because I asked him to be in here to learn something about the procedures of the United States government and one of its committees. Had he been outside where a son of a friend of mine had his head split by these goons operating under your orders, my boy today might have paid the penalty of permanent injury or a police record for desiring to come here and hear how this committee operates. If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any way, you are insane!"
The statement was the only one Mandel made to the Committee, responding to every other question with polite variations of "Go to hell." It was a turning point for the Committee.
In 1967 and 68 it called Youth International members (also known as Yippies), Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. On both occasions, Rubin and Hoffman made a mockery of proceedings. Rubin came to one session dressed as a United States Revolutionary War soldier and passed out copies of the United States Declaration of Independence to people in attendance. Hoffman attended a session dressed as Santa Claus. On another occasion, police stopped Hoffman at the building entrance and arrested him for wearing the United States flag. Hoffman quipped to the press, "I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country," paraphrasing the last words of revolutionary patriot Nathan Hale; Rubin, who was wearing a matching Viet Cong flag, shouted that the police were communists for not arresting him also.
In 1969 the Committee changed its name to the Internal Security Committee and limped on until it was disbanded in 1975.
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Garde à l'eau!
I've been on the exact spot in Weehawkin, New Jersey where Burr and Hamilton had it out. Being shot in New Jersey. Talk about adding insult to injury!Syrixia:
Alta
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On this day in history on the sixteenth of January:
1847: John C. Fremont became the first territorial governor of the U.S. territory of California, appointed by President James Polk.
1861: The Crittenden Compromise, a series of Constitutional amendments that were meant to appease the American South and avert the American Civil War, dies in the Senate.
1916: Montenegro capitulates to the Austo-Hungarian Empire eight days after it is invaded.
1919: Prohibition takes effect in the United States.
1945: With Soviet forces closing in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler retreats to his underground bunker underneath the chancellery, where he will stay for 105 until committing suicide.
1979: The pro-Western Shah of Iran is forced to flee the country, letting a very not-so-Western leader take power.
1991: The Persian Gulf War begins after Saddam Hussein refuses to retreat from Kuwait, which Iraq had occupied for five months.
1847: John C. Fremont became the first territorial governor of the U.S. territory of California, appointed by President James Polk.
1861: The Crittenden Compromise, a series of Constitutional amendments that were meant to appease the American South and avert the American Civil War, dies in the Senate.
1916: Montenegro capitulates to the Austo-Hungarian Empire eight days after it is invaded.
1919: Prohibition takes effect in the United States.
1945: With Soviet forces closing in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler retreats to his underground bunker underneath the chancellery, where he will stay for 105 until committing suicide.
1979: The pro-Western Shah of Iran is forced to flee the country, letting a very not-so-Western leader take power.
1991: The Persian Gulf War begins after Saddam Hussein refuses to retreat from Kuwait, which Iraq had occupied for five months.
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1368: Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, starting the Ming Dynasty and ending almost 100 years of Yuan Mongol rule.
1556: The deadliest earthquake in history hits Shaanxi province in China, killing as many as 830,000 people.
1570: James Stewart, Earl of Moray, is assassinated with a firearm, the first recorded instance of such. Stewart was regent for James VI of Scotland, who would later become James I of England.
1849: Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by Geneva Medical College in New York, becoming the first female doctor in the US.
1879: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends in a British victory. 11 Victoria Crosses would be awarded to members of the 150 strong British and colonial troop garrison, who fended off almost 4,000 Zulu warriors for over a day. Zulu, the 1964 dramatisation of the battle, was released on the 22nd of January, the 95th anniversary of the start of the battle.
1941-45: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the US Congress and recommends that the US conclude a Pact of Neutrality with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany ('41). The Battle of Rabaul signifies the beginning of the New Guinea campaign, with Japanese troops defeating soldiers of the Australian army on the island of New Britain ('42). Montgomery's Eighth Army captures Tripoli in Libya from a combined German-Italian Panzer Army ('43). Australian and American troops inflict a defeat in the last battle on Papua, ending Japanese advances in the New Guinea campaign ('43). The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in Guadacanal ends in a victory for Allied forces under the command of Alexander Patch. ('43). Admiral Donitz of the German Navy begins Operation Hannibal, evacuating 1.2 million people over a 15 week period, including 350,000 soldiers, from Courland, East Prussia and the Polish Corridor in the face of the advancing Red Army ('45).
1961: The Portugese cruise ship Santa Maria is seized by 25 opponents of the fascist Estado Novo regime off the coast of Venezuela. The ship would reach Recife, Brazil where the hijackers surrendered the vessel, along with 900 passengers and crew, in exchange for political asylum. US naval ships, including no less than 4 destroyers, conducted the negotiations and escorted the ship into Recife harbour.
1967: The new town of Milton Keynes is founded in England, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. The town is a design failure, being described as "bland, rigid, sterile, and totally boring." Milton Keynes has been labelled as the "most boring" and "most souless" place in Britain.
1973: US President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. Less than two years later, North Vietnam overruns South Vietnam, ending over two decades of conflict.
1997: Madeline Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State.
1556: The deadliest earthquake in history hits Shaanxi province in China, killing as many as 830,000 people.
1570: James Stewart, Earl of Moray, is assassinated with a firearm, the first recorded instance of such. Stewart was regent for James VI of Scotland, who would later become James I of England.
1849: Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by Geneva Medical College in New York, becoming the first female doctor in the US.
1879: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends in a British victory. 11 Victoria Crosses would be awarded to members of the 150 strong British and colonial troop garrison, who fended off almost 4,000 Zulu warriors for over a day. Zulu, the 1964 dramatisation of the battle, was released on the 22nd of January, the 95th anniversary of the start of the battle.
1941-45: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the US Congress and recommends that the US conclude a Pact of Neutrality with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany ('41). The Battle of Rabaul signifies the beginning of the New Guinea campaign, with Japanese troops defeating soldiers of the Australian army on the island of New Britain ('42). Montgomery's Eighth Army captures Tripoli in Libya from a combined German-Italian Panzer Army ('43). Australian and American troops inflict a defeat in the last battle on Papua, ending Japanese advances in the New Guinea campaign ('43). The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in Guadacanal ends in a victory for Allied forces under the command of Alexander Patch. ('43). Admiral Donitz of the German Navy begins Operation Hannibal, evacuating 1.2 million people over a 15 week period, including 350,000 soldiers, from Courland, East Prussia and the Polish Corridor in the face of the advancing Red Army ('45).
1961: The Portugese cruise ship Santa Maria is seized by 25 opponents of the fascist Estado Novo regime off the coast of Venezuela. The ship would reach Recife, Brazil where the hijackers surrendered the vessel, along with 900 passengers and crew, in exchange for political asylum. US naval ships, including no less than 4 destroyers, conducted the negotiations and escorted the ship into Recife harbour.
1967: The new town of Milton Keynes is founded in England, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. The town is a design failure, being described as "bland, rigid, sterile, and totally boring." Milton Keynes has been labelled as the "most boring" and "most souless" place in Britain.
1973: US President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. Less than two years later, North Vietnam overruns South Vietnam, ending over two decades of conflict.
1997: Madeline Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State.
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Also the Red Army was created.
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1918.
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this day in 1965 Churchill died.
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Red Army was actually January 28th.
24th January:
41 CE: Caligula is assassinated by the Praetorian Guard, his uncle Claudius becomes Emperor.
1679: Charles II dissolves Parliament.
1857: The University of Calcutta is founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
1916: In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1918: Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1946: The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution - which creates the UN Atomic Energy Commission.
1961: Goldsbury B-52 crash. A bomber crashes in North Carolina, prior to the crash, the pilot drops the two nuclear bombs it is carrying.
1972: Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1977: Neofascist supporters of the late General Franco commit what becomes known as the Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, killing 5 and injuring four. The Massacre, and the peaceful reaction by left wingers and trade unionists in the aftermath of the event, hastened the legalisation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and the wider Spanish transition to democracy.
1984: The first Apple Macs go on sale.
1989: The serial killer Ted Bundy is executed by the electric chair in Florida. Bundy confessed to 30 murders in 7 states but the true count is thought to be much higher.
2003: The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operations.
2014: A series of bombings in Cairo kills 7 and injures over 100 others.
2014: The Philippines concludes a peace treaty with the Bangsamoro people, a largely Muslim group that makes up 9% of the Philippine population.
Selected births and deaths: Hadrian, born 76 CE. Neil Diamond, born 1941. Winston Churchill, died 1965. L. Ron Hubbard, died 1986.
24th January:
41 CE: Caligula is assassinated by the Praetorian Guard, his uncle Claudius becomes Emperor.
1679: Charles II dissolves Parliament.
1857: The University of Calcutta is founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
1916: In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1918: Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1946: The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution - which creates the UN Atomic Energy Commission.
1961: Goldsbury B-52 crash. A bomber crashes in North Carolina, prior to the crash, the pilot drops the two nuclear bombs it is carrying.
1972: Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1977: Neofascist supporters of the late General Franco commit what becomes known as the Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, killing 5 and injuring four. The Massacre, and the peaceful reaction by left wingers and trade unionists in the aftermath of the event, hastened the legalisation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and the wider Spanish transition to democracy.
1984: The first Apple Macs go on sale.
1989: The serial killer Ted Bundy is executed by the electric chair in Florida. Bundy confessed to 30 murders in 7 states but the true count is thought to be much higher.
2003: The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operations.
2014: A series of bombings in Cairo kills 7 and injures over 100 others.
2014: The Philippines concludes a peace treaty with the Bangsamoro people, a largely Muslim group that makes up 9% of the Philippine population.
Selected births and deaths: Hadrian, born 76 CE. Neil Diamond, born 1941. Winston Churchill, died 1965. L. Ron Hubbard, died 1986.