What Happened in ?

[Eve]

First poster supplies a year and the next one gives a significant event which took place in that year, and posts a new one
e.g.
1976

reply could be The Montreal Olympics


I will start the ball rolling with

1989

[L e s]

http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/tank-35.jpg


Can a single human being make a difference? Can he or she stop the forces of evil dead in their tracks?
A courageous young man captured the imagination of the whole world, when he singlehandedly stopped the advance of a tank column by standing in its way...

Pictorial history of the events in China in 1989 (http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/tiananmen.html)


What happenned in 1954?

[benhenry]

Children playing with matches:
human beings playing with the power of stars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion):
we blow up an island;
and women wear beautiful swimming suits called bikinis:

Bikini Atol (http://www.bikiniatoll.com/)

Next in time? .....

1969

[amb141]

1969

Mets win the World Series -- what else?

1903 --

[benhenry]

1969
Mets win the World Series -- what else?
1903 --

Now you've made me spit my coffee all over my monitor and keyboard! :eek:

OK, the Miracle Mets!!!! Hoooray!!!!

I love baseball, too, and I've never even seen Brooklyn; and it's not like somebody put a man on the moon or sumthin' at all like that, or maybe some mixed up kids took off all their clothes and played in the mud somewhere close to your home, I think, and might still suffer ear damage from it :cjlol:


1903 --- is still the year, I just couldn't stop from interrupting here.

[Eve]

1903

Richard Pearse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse) flies a heavier-than-air machine in powered flight near Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand, on 31st March. (9 months before the Wright Brothers)


1946

[amb141]

A number of inventors had lurched into the air in powered machines before the Wright Brothers including William(?) Cayley in the middle of the 19th century in a steam powered contraption. But the Wrights were the first to achieve controlled powered flight in a heavier than air machine.

1946

Returning to benhenry's Bikini atoll reference -- in 1946 the bikini bathing suit was introduced at a Paris fashion show.

1564 --

ps. I am no Mets fan but the Miracle Mets were a ... well ... miracle. And you don't see so many miracles these days.

[Eve]

But the Wrights were the first to achieve controlled powered flight in a heavier than air machine.
But Richard Pearse was a NZer :) AND he lived for a time in Milton - I lived there for much of my childhood so he was a local hero.
Also in 1946 I was born :)

1564
Galileo (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml) was born near Pisa




1855

[Silly Billy]

March 9, 1855

The new suspension bridge across the Niagara River, at Niagara Falls, was crossed by a train for the first time today, marking the culmination of a four-year building project. (see attached photo)



New date, 1942

[amb141]

1942

On 28 November 1942 The Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston claimed nearly 500 lives including cowboy star Buck Jones.

1453 --

[killian_sh]

The Fall of Constantinople

1066

[amb141]

1066

The Battle of Stamford Bridge. English King Harold defeats the Norwegian invasion on 25 September of this year. 3 weeks later he was not so fortunate against William the Conquerer.

1517 --

[killian_sh]

1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.



1624

[amb141]

1624

John Smith publishes The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles in which he first goes into the juicy details of the Pocahontas story.

1890 --

[Eve]

1624
War between England and Spain


In got married in 1969 but am sure something else must have happened :)

1969

[benhenry]

Thank you, Eve. I'm not surprised you were married during the year of the Summer of Love. It is something that surrounds you and you carry it with you wherever you go and people can groove to that, man, you are far out.

Woodstock (http://www.woodstock69.com/)



1957

[Eve]

Good heavens was Woodstock that long ago and the start of Sesame Street and Neil Armstrong's moonwalk.Far Out.
There were not 500,000 at my party and the flowers are long gone from my hair :)

[Eve]

1957
The Cavern Club (http://www.cavern-liverpool.co.uk/cavernclub/) opens in Liverpool :jig:

Suppose that was not such a significant event but it is interesting:)



1919

[killian_sh]

1919--

The White Sox lost the World Series in eight games to the Cincinnati Reds.Eight players from the White Sox (later nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds.


1801

[Breezy]

March 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C.


1974

[killian_sh]

1974--
The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and the Bell System.



570 A.D.

[Eve]

1974
Darwin, Australia almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy


1856

[killian_sh]

1856--
Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.



570 A.D.

[Eve]

1856--
Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.I was there a few days ago :) Click (http://www.christchurch.org.nz/)


570 AD
Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was born .



1900

[killian_sh]

Christchurch is a beautiful place Eve.Thanks for the link. :)


1900--
Stephen Crane died of tuberculosis, at age 28, in Badenweiler, Germany.


1291

[Silly Billy]

March 11, 1969 Old Crow, Yukon
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's last northern dog sled patrol leaves for Fort McPherson. The dog sleds are being replaced by snowmobiles, which were invented by a Canadian, Bombardier.

May 4, 1969 St. Louis
Montreal Canadians defeat St. Louis Blues 4 - 0 to win the Stanley Cup in Hockey.

1969
Montreal Expos, Canada's first major league baseball team, begins play in the National League.

New Date 1068

[Eve]

1068
Emperor Go-Sanjo ascends the throne of Japan



1540

[amb141]

1540

Henry VIII marries and divorces Anne of Cleves and marries Catherine Howard

1600 --

[Silly Billy]

1600

Sumo wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan.

Tokyo, called Edo, was made the capital of Japan.

New Date 32 A.D.

[killian_sh]

32 A.D. --
Birth of the Emperor Otho in the city of Ferentium.



1951

[Eve]

1951
Color television introduced in U.S.


1929

[benhenry]

1929 The Great Depression (http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/thecrash.htm)

2003

[Eve]

New Year please, I cant see one ?

[benhenry]

1929 The Great Depression (http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/thecrash.htm) Sorry, Eve, pengy was rushing me.

2003

[Eve]

2003

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/Ba.concorde.g-boac.719pix.jpg/350px-Ba.concorde.g-boac.719pix.jpg

Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic travel to a close





1760

[amb141]

1760 The Great Fire of Boston

1924 --

[benhenry]

1924
When Noel Wein flew an open cockpit bi-plane from Anchorage to Fairbanks (http://www.thebushblade.com/feature3.htm) in 1924 Alaska's first air carrier Wein Airlines was born. Beginning with a three hundred dollar one way Fairbanks to Nome route, Wein built runways, hired pilots, and brought planes from as far away as Germany to serve dozens of bush villages.

1984

[Eve]

1984
The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool
I was there :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Garden_Festival)






1913

[amb141]

1913 Two of New York's landmark buildings are finished, Grand Central Terminal and the Woolworth Building

1967 --

[killian_sh]

1967 --
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. The next day Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution



1452

[Eve]

1452

Birth of Leonardo DaVinci


1899

[Silly Billy]

1899

Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada, on Dec. 1, 1899, now proudly claims the longest covered bridge in the world. It is almost one quarter of a mile long.

New date -- 1900

[Suze]

The 1900 Storm: Galveston, Texas
Remembering the Galveston Hurricane, September 8-9, 1900 in which more than 6000 died.
www.1900storm.com


1942

[Eve]

1942
Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world


1974

[killian_sh]

One for the original geeks :thumb:

1974 --
Dungeons & Dragons officially released.



1766

[amb141]

1766 -- Repeal of the Stamp Act

1981 --

[killian_sh]

1981 --
US President Ronald Reagan appoints the first female US Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor



1999

[Jutsi]

1999
The Euro the New European Currency

JFK Jr. Dies in Plane Accident


1963

[amb141]

1963 -- Hundreds of American radio stations received "official" certificates signifying that they were the first station in the US to play The Beatles

1603 --.

[benhenry]

1963 -- Hundreds of American radio stations received "official" certificates signifying that they were the first station in the US to play The Beatles

1603 --.

Oh gosh... you guys are so highly historically educated that I am afraid sometimes to tread in this thread! I'm sure there are all kinds of more important and significant events that should jump out at the mention of 1603. But that number is in my heart because of the Bayer method of organizing the stars in constellations according to the greek letters... I don't know anything about Bayer, woman or man, but the reference is always there in my star charts and observation logs. It is because of Bayer, he or she?, that we call the important stars in a constellation by groovy names ... like Epsilon Eridani, a particularly beautiful triple star system. And Alpha Centaurii, the near and bright star, and centaurs were educators I think, like you guys. And Delta Leonis... man, I would love to name a daughter that... Delta Leonis, near the heart of the lion. Anyway,

1603 Bayer designation of stars by greek alpha- and- beta, alphabetized, letters.

1981

[Jutsi]

1981:

US-Iran agreement frees 52 hostages held in Teheran since 1979 (Jan. 20); hostages welcomed back in US (Jan. 25).




1992

[Eve]

1992
Barcelona Olympics (http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0114882.html)
This was the first time professional athletes were allowed to compete.





1949

[killian_sh]

1949 --
The year that China became The People's Republic of China.And has been under communist rule ever since.



1611

[Breezy]

The Authorized King James Version (KJV) of the Bible in 1611


1492

[killian_sh]

1492 --
Columbus sailed the ocean blue



1125

[Jutsi]

1125
-May 23 - Lothair of Saxony becomes Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Henry V.
-War ends between Toulouse and Provence.
-The castle of Nassau is built.
-Albert of Aix begins his Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis.
-Magnus the Strong becomes ruler of Sweden.
-June 11 - The Crusaders defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Azaz.


1899

[killian_sh]

1899 --
On November 8, 1899 Tesla's ROV design received United States Patent No. 613,809, "Method of and Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vessels or Vehicles." Tesla's more powerful radio transmitter made his ROV a practical reality and opened up the age of wireless telecommunications.



1918

[Jutsi]

1918
March 1 - German submarine U 19 sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island, Nothern Ireland.
March 3 - World War I: Germany, Austria and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in the war.

March 19 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST went into effect on March 31).


1956

[killian_sh]

1956 --
November of 1956, the US Supreme court declared that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, and the boycott was brought to an end.
Montgomery Bus Boycott (http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/USA/MontBus.html)



1305

[Jutsi]

1305

-Wenceslas III becomes king of Bohemia
-The Papacy removed to France following riots in the Papal State.


101

[benhenry]

101 At this approximate date the collected writings of early christian gnostics was gathered into a "gospel" of Mary Magdalene, beloved friend of Jesus of Nazareth, possible lover and/or wife, and definitely respected colleague of all other early disciples but barely mentioned in their gospels. Fragments of the original parchment scrolls, rescued by a trader on his caravan in the late 20th century, were used by his wife as kindling for campfires until eventualy sold to someone who investigated their possible value. The sayings attributed to Mary Magdalene by the authors of the scrolls show her to be an invaluable leader in the early christian struggle to continue the faith and teachings of Jesus and his other companions.

101 BCE

[amb141]

101 BCE -- The battle of Vercellae ended the attempts by the Germanic barbarians to conquer Rome.

1839 --

[Eve]

1839
Paul Cézanne, French painter was born
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/works.html





1799

[killian_sh]

1799 --
George Washington,the first president of the United States,died of acute laryngitis on December 14.



1555

[benhenry]

1555 Ah HAH! :thumbs: You thought you could fool me with a trick question, didentcha? :wink: Nothing! Nothing happened in 1555. well, just for trying to trick me, you Red Sox fanatic take this.... 1961... yes, I said it! Ha!


1961

[amb141]

>> you Red Sox fanatic<<

You insult me, sir! It is a matter of honor. Pistols at 20 paces!

Actually, for the past 30 years I have rooted for the 26-time World's Champion New York Yankees. But this year, with the reestablishment of Major League Baseball in my hometown of Washington, DC I have returned to the team of my youth -- The Washington Senators (now known as The Nationals) and like all DC fans have been amazed and thrilled by their unexpected success.

1961 -- The American League expands to 10 teams adding clubs in LA and DC (which replaced the original Nationals/Senators franchise after their move to Minneapolis.) Perhaps because of the diluted pitching the mighty Yankees hit a then record 240 home runs and are led by Roger Maris' 61 (eclipsing The Babe's single season record) and Mickey Mantle's 54.


1623 --

alan

[killian_sh]

On the contrary -- 1555, Paul IV becomes Pope. :wink:

1623 --
The Avedis Zildjian Company begins making cymbals at Constantinople.



1824

[amb141]

1824

In the US Presidential election, no candidate wins a majority of the Electoral Vote and for the first and only time the election is settled by the House of Representatives. It is also the first and only time that the winner of the MOST Electoral votes is not inaugurated President.

1998

[killian_sh]

1998 --
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were involved in a chase for the Roger Maris home run record,in which,Mark McGwire emerges the victor with 70 home runs.



1975

[amb141]

1975

The MITS Altair personal computer (named for a planet visited in the Star Trek TV series) is written up in Popular Electronics and is made available in kit form. It is unclear whether the PC revolution begun by the Altair is a good thing or a bad thing.

476 --

[Suze]

476
The Heruli were German auxiliary troops in Rome who mutinied on August 23, 476, bringing to an end the Western Roman imperial line. Was it really a Herulian kingdom, or simply a Herulian king who played an important role in Western civilization? As a people group they hold no major significance; but their leader, Odoacer, stands out distinctly in history. They were Arian

1616

[Silly Billy]

March 25, 1616
William Shakespeare signs his will

April 23, 1616
William Shakespeare dies.

April 25, 1616
Burial of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. On his tomb is the warning:

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.


New date - 44 BC

[Eve]

44 BC
Julius Caesar assassinated (Beware The Ides of March :) )


1953

[benhenry]

In 1953 there was a plan for man. And it included a woman, too. It seems that her strengths might have been overlooked but not her legacy. Great women of science are my heroes, and it is not just because they are smart in bed, too. They have a character and spirit that needs no other reward than the personal knowledge of a job well done. And she had it. And she did it.

DNA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA)

And don't forget Rosalind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin)


1957



Yeppers on that Dragon Bill,
she has the throat and flames and will,
to cook your lunch and coffee, too,
and keep those dark things bright in view.
And when you're tired she won't rest,
she'll boil soup and stir the stew,
and use her chest to comfort you.

[killian_sh]

1957 --
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika (she was kept alive for several days in space with a sophisticated life-support system).



1985

[Eve]

1985

The first British mobile phone call is made (By Ernie Wise to Vodafone)

The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents.

Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia and London raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.



1919

[amb141]

1919 -- Since the Black Sox scandal has already been used -- in 1919 a large tank of molasses burst in Boston's North End and a wave of sticky goo ran down the street at speeds up to 30 MPH. Dozens of people were killed and legend has it that, if the wind is right, you can STILL smell the molasses to this day.

1933 --

[Eve]

1933

The chocolate chip cookie is invented by Ruth Wakefield. :thumbs:

First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster) . :eek:




1961

[amb141]

1961 --

This was the first year that appeared the same viewed rightside up or upside down since 1881. It won't happen again until 6009.

1917 --

[Eve]

1917

The Russian Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917) begins





1912

[amb141]

1912 -- Titanic sinks, Fenway Park opens the next day.

1949

[Eve]

1949
Australian Citizenship comes into being.
Siam changes its name to Thailand.


1871

[killian_sh]

1871 --
The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, burning 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km²) in one day, eventually destroying about 17,450 buildings, and killing about 250 people while leaving another 90,000 homeless.



2004

[Eve]

2004
Athens Olympics
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/Athens_2004_logo.jpg/150px-Athens_2004_logo.jpg



1950

[Breezy]

Besides being the year I was born, 1950 - President Harry Truman ( 'til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and Sends air force and navy to Korea in June.


1842

[killian_sh]

1842 --
University of Notre Dame is founded by Father Edward Sorin of the Congregation of Holy Cross.



323 B.C.

[benhenry]

323 B.C. Man. You guys are much more qualified to be talking about him... but maybe I could offer a personal perspective from the western point of view. Boy.

I was a boy. And the famous story of him, when he was a boy... that is what started it for me, the adventure. The adventure of turning from boy to man. And this guy was the greatest at that adventure. He got an early start and became a man while he was still a boy.

And he made the world become his own through his manly will and boyishly greedy desire. Alexander was Great. He found the strife between boy and man inside of himself and took it on a campaign to become the leader of the world. And every man faces that struggle daily. The strength and will, the power and achievement of a man are nothing without the fire in a boys' desire. A man without a boy in his heart is just a rock.

And boys without rocks are just toys. Selfish and bland, and boring even to themselves, games instead of greatness, show instead of stuff. Alexander wasn't the first to live hard and leave a good looking corpse, and he wasn't the greatest. But for adventure he was grand. A great boy and proud man.

100000 BC

[Eve]

100000 BC
Neanderthal man invents stone tools (I think)


1873

[L e s]

August 4 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).

Should have given up while he was ahead :)


1892

[killian_sh]

1892 --
At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.



1879

[Breezy]

July 19, 1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots-up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.


2003

[killian_sh]

2003 --
Authorities in Pakistan capture Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001



1347

[Suze]

The Black Death was one of the worst natural disasters in history. In 1347 A.D., a great plague swept over Europe, ravaged cities causing widespread hysteria and death. One third of the population of Europe died. "The impact upon the future of England was greater than upon any other European country." (Cartwright, 1991) The primary culprits in transmitting this disease were oriental rat fleas carried on the back of black rats.
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1888

[Eve]

1888
The Year of Jack The Ripper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper)


1951

[L e s]

Colour TV was introduced to the United States of America


43 BC

[Eve]

43BC
Birth of Ovid, Roman poet who wrote 'Metamorphoses'



1955

[L e s]

Heart disease is due for a large increase Blame Kroc and Sanders (http://www.hillsdale.edu/alumni/Reunion/.%5CfiftyYear%5C1%5CIT_%20HAPPENED.pdf)



2002

[Eve]

2002
The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the British throne, and was celebrated with large-scale events throughout London, the capital of the United Kingdom, in June of 2002.

Peggy Lee dies


1960

[L e s]

1960 American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia

1215

[Eve]

1215
The Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede
Translation Here (http://www.magnacartaplus.org/magnacarta/)


1902

[Breezy]

August 22, 1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rode in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.

1812

[Eve]

1812
Born:
Charles Dickens Feb 7th
Robert Browning May 7th



1986

[benhenry]

1986 Voyager! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager)

There was no other flight around the world like this ever before or since.
11000 feet avg. altitude.... See Dick and Jeana fly!



1905

[Eve]

1905
Russian Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1905)




2001

[Breezy]

July 7, 2001 Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 in the first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at the Daytona International Speedway since the death of Dale Earnhardt. Teammate Michael Waltrip ran second, blocking for Jr., an exact mirror of the Daytona 500 where Jr. blocked for Waltrip en route to his first '500 win.


1650

[Eve]

1650
William II, Prince of Orange dies

1914

[L e s]

The assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of
Austria-Hungary, and his wife by a Serbian nationalist on the morning
of June 28th 1914 (http://cyberessays.com/History/21.htm) the spark to the 'Great War' 1914 - 1918

1966

[benhenry]

1966

A skinny kid turns 11 and looks at the starry night sky wishing the Soviets were not kicking, but, yes they were way ahead of the USA in the space race.

February 3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

March 1 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

March 31 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the moon.


1862

[killian_sh]

1862 --
American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia, driving them away.



1774

[Breezy]

May 10, 1774 - Louis XVI becomes King of France.

1974

[Suze]

1974 Faced with impeachment over his role in the Watergate affair, President Nixon resigns, to be succeeded by Vice President Ford.


1455

[benhenry]

1455

Books! Ok, it started with a Bible. Probably not my first choice for a printed book. Socrates, Aristotle, Pythagoras... any of those choices might have saved the west a lot of pain and suffering. But at least books began to be in the domain of people who needed them, instead of people who controlled them.

The Gutenberg press was much more efficient than manual copying, as testament to its effectiveness, it was essentially unchanged from the time of its invention until the Industrial Revolution, some three hundred years later.
The discovery and establishment of the printing of books with moveable type marks a paradigm shift in the way information was transferred in Europe. The impact of printing is comparable to the development of language, the invention of the alphabet, and the invention of the computer as far as its effects on the society.
This event has been awarded number 1 of the Top 100 Greatest Events of the Millennium by LIFE Magazine.



4 BCE



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[Breezy]

Herod the Great died in 4 BC

1649

[Eve]

1649 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded.


1812

[Breezy]

May 11, 1812 - Prime Minster Spencer Perceval is assassinated by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the British House of Commons

1550

[benhenry]

1550

This is not a good year for me. :wink:

The Council Of Trent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Trent)

All the high hierarchy of the Catholic Church meet to decide that when I get my divorce, I will no longer be allowed to receive the sacraments of my childhood faith. But I won't just be a second class citizen in my parish; there is a bonus thrown in here and there...

In the case of a divorce the right of the innocent party to marry again was denied :linda: so long as the other party is alive, even if the other may have committed adultery. :eek:

So there won't be any more big Catholic weddings for me, at least with me as the victim. :thumbs:


1824

[Suze]

1824 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1824)
The U.S. presidential election of 1824 is often considered a realigning election.
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1935

[Eve]

1935
*January 11 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
*First Penguin paperbacks


1951

[L e s]

North Mankato and Mankato have gone through a series of devastating floods. The first was in 1881, however, one of worst was in 1951. It happened because storms dumped eighty-eight inches of snow that winter, and there was a very quick thaw in the spring. The flood was more devastating in North Mankato than Mankato. No one in North Mankato had planned for this big of a flood

http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/mnriver/1951.htm



1826

[Suze]

1826 treaty between U.S. & Hawaii (http://www.hawaii-nation.org/treaty1826.html)

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1900

[L e s]

1900 George Eastman makes first portable camera that's affordable and open to the public

1666

[Eve]

1666

The Great Fire Of London (http://www.angliacampus.com/education/fire/london/history/greatfir.htm)



1936

[L e s]

1936 The Spanish Revoultion (http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/jamesdstuff/blood.html)

2003

[benhenry]

2003

Columbia (http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/)

Some parts fell in Kansas.

I was filling in for my daughter's basketball coach and heard it on the radio on the way to the game.

The girls thought I was crying because they were losing so bad.



The Challenger, the Columbia, and the recent events surrounding my impending divorce in my personal life...

those are the only 3 times I can remember crying in my adult life.

Now that I'm getting all practiced up on it :wink: ,

I can see that choking back those kinds of emotions isn't healthy for a person,
and probably led to some extra years of a painful marriage that didn't do anybody any good.




But 2003 was also wonderful for me...









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!!! MyPcClinic Is Born !!!

Although it took me many, many months to work up the nerve to make friends here... I am very thankful for each extraordinary one.


1973


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[Eve]

1973
Sydney Opera House opened http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House


1878

[L e s]

1878 Isadora Duncan is born (http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/isadora.html)


1514

[benhenry]

1878 Isadora Duncan is born (http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/isadora.html)


1514







What an article. He writes like me! :wink: Thank you, L e s. adios amigo.

[Suze]

1514 - marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor


1920

[Breezy]

August 18, 1920 - 19th Amendment to US constitution is passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage


1799

[Suze]

1799 Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
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2001

[L e s]

2001, Terrorists openly declare war on the world. The destruction of the 'Twin Towers' in New York and the indescriminate death of thousands from many nationalities, (not forgetting the other targets in a co-ordinated attack)

1622

[Eve]

1622
In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25.


1873

[benhenry]

1873

.... I'll come back and fix this one if my memory is wrong, but I am pretty sure that Beethoven would have been writing his Joyful 9th symphony, in spite of his approaching complete deafness. My daughter tells me that he had the legs of his favorite piano cut off so he could squat cross-legged on the floor and lean his ear on the top to get the vibrations and hints of sound as he composed.

I love the 9th just like I love E. Clapton, or P.Floyd or the Fab 4, or Yes, or Who, it's all good. All good.

I think I'll listen to the 9th right now.
While I enjoy that and enjoy the fun here in other places...
I will also be wondering what happened in ...


1849

[L e s]

1849 one of the worlds greatest inventors sees man or rather a boy fly in the first recorded heavier than air machine, a glider.

Sir George Cayley (27 December 1773 - 15 December 1857) was an exuberant polymath from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in Yorkshire. He served for the Whig party on Parliament, and helped found the Polytechnic Institution, serving as its chairman for many years. He was the uncle of the mathematician Arthur Cayley.

Sir George inherited Brompton Hall and its estates on the death of his father, together with the title of Baronet. Captured by the optimism of the times, he engaged in a wide variety of engineering projects. Among the many things that he invented are self-righting life-boats, tension-spoke wheels, caterpillar tractors (which he called the Universal Railway), automatic signals for railway crossings, seat-belts, experimental designs for helicopters, and a kind of prototypical internal combustion engine fuelled by gun-powder. He also contributed in the fields of prosthetics, heat engines, electricity, theatre architecture, ballistics, optics and land reclamation.

He is mainly remembered, however, for his flying machines. To measure the drag on objects at different speeds and angles of attack, he built a "whirling-arm apparatus." He also experimented with free-flying model gliders of various wing sections, in the stairwells at Brompton Hall. These scientific experiments led him to develop an efficient cambered airfoil and to identify the four vector forces that influence an aircraft: thrust, lift, drag, and weight. He discovered the importance of dihedral for lateral stability in flight, and deliberately set the centre-of-gravity of many of his models well below the wings for this reason. Investigating many other theoretical aspects of flight, many now acknowledge him as the first aeronautical engineer.


What happened in 1922

[Eve]

1922
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. 2LO became the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
BBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC)



1877

[Suze]

July 9,1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held

he scene of the first Wimbledon would have been more or less recognisable to present-day followers of tennis, but the equipment and style of play were, perforce, rudimentary in a new sport. The rackets resembled snowshoes in shape and weight, the balls had hand-sewn flannel outer casings and the serving was round-arm rather than overhead.

The champion, from an entry of 22 men - no women were permitted to play in those days - was W. Spencer Gore, aged 27.

[Suze]

July 9,1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held

he scene of the first Wimbledon would have been more or less recognisable to present-day followers of tennis, but the equipment and style of play were, perforce, rudimentary in a new sport. The rackets resembled snowshoes in shape and weight, the balls had hand-sewn flannel outer casings and the serving was round-arm rather than overhead.

The champion, from an entry of 22 men - no women were permitted to play in those days - was W. Spencer Gore, aged 27.
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1616

[Eve]

1616
Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at an island off the Western Australian coast


1801

[L e s]

The Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland were unified to become The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland


1916

[Eve]

1916

More than 1 million soldiers die during The Battle of the Somme including 60,000 soldiers from the British Commonwealth on the first day.


1899

[Suze]

1899 Rudyard Kipling, wrote"The White Man's Burden"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
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1401

[Eve]

1401

The Lollards, a religious sect taught by John Wycliffe, were persecuted for their beliefs. The Archbishop of Canterbury pressured King Henry IV of England to outlaw them as heretics, under the Act De Heretico Comburendo. After travelling to London, William Sawtre was executed by burning for preaching his beliefs.



2005

[Breezy]

August 28, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina grows into a powerful Category 5 hurricane with winds at 175 mph over the Gulf of Mexico, also becoming the 4th most intense hurricane in history with pressure reaching 902 mb. The storm forces a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, which is directly in the projected path of Katrina.
August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes its second landfall as a strong Category 4 hurricane near Grand Isle, Louisiana, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Katrina is estimated as the costliest hurricane ever to hit the U.S.
August 30, 2005 - Intense flooding in 80% of New Orleans results after a number of the city's protective levees are breached due to Hurricane Katrina. The death toll is believed to be in the hundreds, possibly in the thousands.


1847

[Silly Billy]

1847 - Canada is still a colony of Great Britain.

Jan. 1 - Toronto and St. Catherines are connected by telegraph.

July 28 - The government of Canada incorporates the town of Bytown, later to be known as Ottawa, and designated the capital of The Dominion of Canada.

April 18 - The last piece of the Arctic coastline of North America has been surveyed. Dr. John Rae, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Co,pany, reached Lord Manor Bay on the Boothia Peninsula after trecking from overland from Hudson's Bay.

March - Dr. E, D. Worthington of Sherbrooke, Canada East (now Quebec), performed a first - he amputated the leg of an patient unconscious from sulphric ether.

new date 1848

[Eve]

1848

City of Dunedin, NZ was founded
http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=about_history

Brief history. The Otago region attracted Maori settlers more than four centuries ago. Scottish migrants established a town in 1848. Gold was discovered later in central Otago and, with the attendant prosperity, Dunedin became New Zealand's biggest city and the country's industrial and commercial heart. Magnificently-ornate new buildings, many of which still stand today, sprang in the city with kerosene lighting, and freezing and hydroelectric works. In 1879, it was the first city outside the USA to have its own tram system. This was phased out in 1957. With the end of the gold rush, Dunedin was surpassed by other New Zealand cities in importance but remains the South Island's second largest city.



1909

[Silly Billy]

1909

April 6 - An expedition led by Robert Peary is the first to reach the North Pole.

Toronto's Thomas Ryan invents five-pin bowling.

Jan. 11 - The Boundary Waters' Treaty is signded by Canada and the United States concerning the Great Lakes and other boundary waters.

new date 1910

[benhenry]

1910 My God daughter, Haley Dawn, is 19 years old now...

Anyway:

Halley's comet or Comet Halley , periodic comet named for Edmond Halley, who observed it in 1682 and identified it as the one observed in 1531 and 1607. Halley did not live to see its return in 1758, close to the time he predicted. It reappeared in 1835 when it was carefully recorded by visual observers, and in 1910, when its long tail and outbursts of dust jets were observed photographically. For its most recent return in 1985 and 1986, astronomers observed it from the ground and from space. A massive observing effort (1982–89) including visual observations, photography, and studies of the area around the nucleus, was coordinated by the International Halley Watch. Japan, the European Space Agency, and the USSR sent spacecraft to study the comet; the Vega and Giotto probes revealed a darker-than-expected nucleus 8 km (5 mi) wide and 15 km (9 mi) long, and shaped like a potato.

1916

[Silly Billy]

January 27, Winnipeg, Manitoba - Manitoba women are the first to be granted the right to vote in provincial elections.

March 30, Montreal - The Montreal Canadians defeat the Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2 to win the Stanley Cup of Ice Hockey.

March 14, Regina, Saskatchewan - Less than 2 months after the women of Manitoba became the first in Canada to win the right to vote in provincial elections, on this date their Saskatchewan sisters were also granted the privilege.

April 17, Edmonto, Alberta - The women of this province are also granted the right to vote.

June 28, Berlin, Ontario - Citizens vote to change the city's name to Kitchener, a reflection of anti-German feelings.

New Date, 1354 B.C.

[Breezy]

A quote..."True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
-- Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC), Egyptian king

1734

[Silly Billy]

1734
Franz Anton Mesmer, born May 23, discovered what he called animal magnetism and others often called mesmerism. The evolution of Mesmer's ideas and practices led James Braid to develop hypnosis in 1842.

1735

[Suze]

1735 April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.

1635

[Silly Billy]

The speed limit for the Hackney carriage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_carriage) in London is set at 3 m.p.h.

The rickshaw runners go faster than that. I don't think Sherlock Holmes was impressed, although he came after 1635, actually between 1887 and 1927.

new date 1636

[benhenry]

1636 The death of Julius Caesar.








(... :wink: see attachment)


49 BCE

[Suze]

49 BCE
January 49, Julius Caesar crossed the river Rubico. The crossing of the river was the beginning of a civil war, in which general Pompey the Great defended the rights of the Senate.
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1777

[Breezy]

January 3, 1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.


1813

[Silly Billy]

1813

On June 19, 1812 an indignant American President James Madison declared war on Britain. The colony, Canada, was fair game for attack. We call this the War of 1812.

One of Canada's famous citizens, a Queenston woman, Laura Secord, walked 32 kilometres through enemy lines, and treacherous woods and swamps to warn the British of an American attack. She outwitted one U.S sentry by concocting a story of a cow that had strayed. It is a fomous story studied by all Ontario (then Upper Canada) students.

Have you heard of Laura Secord chocolates?

new date 1814

[Silly Billy]

1814

On August 25, 1814, the capital and the president's official residence, as well as other public buildings in Washington were set on fire by British and Canadian troops. Private residences were also wrecked. This was done in retaliation for American attacks at Niagara and York (now Toronto).

The Canadians, being a gentle peace-loving people, just put the citizens under a curfew and left. Image the world today if the Canadians had pressed the advantage.

There is not much about this incident in American history books.

new date 1815

[benhenry]

1815 we grabbed an alligator


...Jeez; I never want to fight the British. They are plumb loco.

I can't believe those early Americans would always pick fights with them.
And the Canadians.
sheesh.
It's some fine luck that Australia wasn't around.

And the Natives who kept their foolish clear-eyes pets alive, because they didn't know what else to do with them.

It has got to be a slim-to-none chance that the United States survived.

When I was a kid I liked reading about this Battle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans). And this war. Because of all the heroic deeds...
and tragically disastrous events. And because of the song lyrics :cjlol: in this song:

Battle of New Orleans (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/battleof.htm)




2061

[Breezy]

January 2061
S M Tu W Th F S
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31


2061 Oddessey Three book

Other than that, I have no idea! Will we still be here?

1616

[benhenry]

2061 Oddessey Three book

Other than that, I have no idea! Will we still be here?



I'm not sure, Breezy. Most of the time I think so. And I also hope that some of our descendents will be on the way to other places. But even if we aren't and they aren't; Halley's Comet will return at this time.

1616

Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church.

Copernicus was a man's man of science. No hemming and hawing like Galileo when he was threatened for his hypotheses. He spoke his mind:

Copernicus: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)

"For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgement of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heaven as its center would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.
“Therefore alongside the ancient hypotheses, which are no more probable, let us permit these new hypotheses also to become known, especially since they are admirable as well as simple and bring with them a huge treasure of very skillful observations. So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. Farewell.”


1991

[Eve]

1991
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web."

Berners-Lee was born in London, England, the son of Conway Berners-Lee and Mary Lee Woods. His parents, both mathematicians, were employed together on the team that built the Manchester Mark I, one of the earliest computers.
The first website
The first website Berners-Lee built (and therefore the first web site) was at http://info.cern.ch/ (which has been archived) and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how one could own a browser, how to set up a web server, and so on. It was also the world's first web directory, since Berners-Lee later maintained a list of other web sites apart from his own.


1987

[benhenry]

Cool web gem about the world wide web, Eve!

1987

I didn't get far studying this year! I've just spent a highly enjoyable 30 minutes reading about :

January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit. In 1999, it will become the capital of Nunavut. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut)
http://bensweb.net/hosted-images/Nunavit-coat-of-arms.jpg



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987




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[Silly Billy]

Apparently about 987 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/987) a Toltec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec) king named Quetzalcoatl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl) arrived here with an army from central Mexico, and (with local Maya allies) made Chichén Itzá his capital, and a second Tula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tula%2C_Mexico). The art and architecture from this period shows an interesting mix of Maya and Toltec styles.
new date 1401

[Suze]

1401 July 9 Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad

1800

[Breezy]

May 15, 1800 - Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy.


1911

[benhenry]

1911


Cool year! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911) But I couldn't get out of January, again. So many firsts in aviation history! the first aerial photo, the first landing on a ship, the first successful seaplane, the first naval air rescue. And the first Auto races at Monte Carlo, which later becomes the Formula 1 grandame on the gran prix circuit.


1955

[Silly Billy]

1955What a year for Rock 'n Roll! Alan Freed announced that he would no longer play cover versions of songs. Early in the year both The Penguin's Earth Angel and Johnny Ace's Pledging My Love both outsold their respective covers by The Crew Cuts and Teresa Brewer.

Rock 'n Roll's national breakthrough in 1955 went hand in hand with the emergence of some of music's most influencial artists. Ray Charles' uninhibited I Got A Woman offered an innivative marriage of blues and gospel and helped lay the foundation for soul music.

On his first recording Bo Diddley, Ellas McDaniel sang his own praises and introduced a pounding, voodooish drum pattern - the Bo Diddley beat - taken up by future stars such as Buddy Holly, The Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springstein among others.

Chuck Berry recorded a revision of the country tune Ida Red, with the new title, Maybellene. Like Berry, Little Richard entered 1955 a bluesman and exited as a rock 'n roller. Tutti Frutti, an outrageous, shrieking piece of nonsence, established Richard as the era's most flamboyant artist.

Fats Domino hit the scene with Ain't That a Shame. The Platters released The Great Pretender.

Undoubtedly, the most important record of 1955 was Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock.

Country-rooted artists were accepted for using Rythm & Blues to create an authentic white form of rock 'n roll. Elvis Presley was tearing up the deep south with his rockabilly music and hip-shaking antics. On November 22, Presley left the small Sun label and signed with RCA records. Within a year, he would have the music industry All Shook Up.

I was just a teenager and these songs are part of my life. I still have scratchy 78"s, 45's, albums, and music charts from that time. Moments To Remember!

new date February 3, 1959. In an Iowa corn field . . .

[benhenry]

February 3, 1959. In an Iowa corn field . . .


HeeHaw! Bill, my first was about 10 years later, in the Summer of Love. :cjlol:

Ok, just kidding; Thanks for the cool information about 1955, the year I was born. I guess my parents knew how to Rock. :)

Anyway, The Day the Music Died; American Pie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_%28song%29)

Without those guys-


the Cream would have had a creampuff for a lead guitar (Clapton even looks a little like Holly)

Buddy Holly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly)

Santana would have had an even harder time getting a start

Richie Valens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Valens)

And the Beatles wouldn't have tried blues-rock like Roll Over...

The Big Bopper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bopper)

Also,

The first Neutrino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino) is officially detected. But where are the rest of them? One of the most puzzling questions in modern physics.

The standard model of subatomic particle interactions requires many, many more neutrinos to be emitted from our star than actually are detected.

Where are they?

Beautiful tanks of hundreds of thousands of gallons of crystal pure heavy water (H3O) in deep underground caves, surrounded by state of the art photoelectric cells in complete darkness... many installations all over the world now... The best Neutrino Detectors money can buy...and nobody can find them.

This is a bummer.

Either the Standard Model of nuclear decay is wrong, which means that the atomic bombs didn't work and fission-powered hydroelectric plants are just pretending to deliver electricity;

Or the Standard Model of Particle interaction is wrong and we can't find our butts with both hands.


1905

[Suze]

1905 Robert Koch awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905
"for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis"


2000

[Eve]

2000 May 3 - A rare conjunction occurs on the New Moon including all seven of the traditional celestial bodies known from ancient times up until 1781 with the discovery of Uranus. The May 2000 conjunction consisted of: the Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.


1946

[benhenry]

1946

Louis Slotin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin)

Louis Slotin (December 1, 1910 – May 30, 1946) was a Canadian-born physicist/chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. He died of massive radiation poisoning after a criticality accident at Los Alamos.
Louis Slotin was born December 1, 1910 in Winnipeg, Canada, to a family of Israel and Sonia Slotin, Yiddish-speaking refugees from Russia. He was the eldest of three children. Slotin received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in 1932 and Master of Science degree in 1933. He went to King's College, London University where he received a doctorate in physical chemistry in 1936. To his friends back home, he managed to give an impression that he had fought for the Spanish Republic and flown with the Royal Air Force.

In 1937 Slotin tried to obtain a job with Canada's National Research Council but was not accepted. The University of Chicago accepted him as a research associate later in the year. The job paid poorly and Slotin's father had to support him for two years. On December 2, 1942, he was around during the start-up of "Chicago Pile 1", the first man-made nuclear reactor created by Enrico Fermi, but there are conflicting accounts of him being actually present at the event.

In 1942, through professor William D. Harkins of the University of Chicago, Slotin got involved with the Manhattan Project, the Allied program to develop the first nuclear weapons. In December 1944 he moved to the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico to work in the bomb physics group of R.F. Bacher. Technically, he got a leave-of-absence from the University of Chicago.

At Los Alamos, Slotin's duties consisted of criticality testing, first with Otto Frisch's uranium experiments, and then with plutonium cores. Criticality testing involved dangerous experiments to bring masses of fissile materials to near-critical levels to establish experimentally their critical mass values. Some sources have erroneously claimed that he was involved with triggering devices.

After the war, Slotin's work was still required in the Los Alamos because, as he said, "I am one of the few people left here who are experienced bomb putter-togetherers." He looked forward to resuming his research into biophysics and radiobiology at the University of Chicago and was training a replacement, Alvin C. Graves. He received US citizenship in 1946.

In May 1946, Slotin, among others, was in a laboratory doing an experiment that involved creation of the beginning of the fission reaction by bringing two half-spheres of beryllium-coated plutonium close to each other. The experiment was nicknamed "tickling the dragon's tail" after a remark by Richard Feynman that it was "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon" due to its flirtations with nuclear chain reaction. Slotin maintained the separation of the half-spheres by a blade of a screwdriver because he apparently distrusted automatic safety mechanisms.

Nine months previously on August 21, 1945, the same cores had produced a burst of ionizing radiation and caused a lethal radiation poisoning to Harry Daghlian, one of the experimenters.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/GentleBenHenry/MPC-Projects/Tickling_the_Dragons_Tail.jpg
Ticling The Dragon's Tail
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/GentleBenHenry/MPC-Projects/Slotin_criticality_drawing.jpg
A sketch used by doctors to determine the amount of radiation to which
each person in the room had been exposed during the excursion.

On May 21, the screwdriver slipped, the two hemispheres touched and created a burst of hard radiation. The "blue glow" of air ionization was observed and a "heat wave" was felt by the scientists in the room. Slotin's instant reaction was to separate the masses by hand, by flipping the upper one to the floor. While he succeeded in ending the critical reaction and shielding seven other observers in the room, he exposed himself to a lethal dose (around 2100 rems, or 21 sv) of neutron and gamma radiation, in history's second criticality accident. In addition to the blue glow and heat, Slotin experienced a sour taste in his mouth and an intense burning sensation in his left hand. As soon as Slotin left the building, he vomited, a common reaction from exposure to extremely intense ionizing radiation.

Slotin's colleagues rushed him to hospital but Slotin was aware of his condition and, realizing he would die, is said to have remarked: "You'll be OK, but I think I'm done for." His parents were informed and a number of volunteers wanted to donate blood but the efforts proved futile. The accident ended all hands-on assembly work at Los Alamos. The incident was at first classified.

Louis Slotin died nine days later on May 30, in the presence of his parents. Two of the other observers also died a couple of years later with symptoms of radiation poisoning.

Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg on June 2, 1946 (though not in a lead coffin, as was later rumored). In 1948, Slotin's colleagues at Los Alamos and the University of Chicago initiated the Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund for lectures on physics. It lasted until 1962.


303

[L e s]

Saint Dionysius Of Augsburg,
was the Bishop of Augsburg and was martyred during the reign of Diocletian in 303 AD. His Feast Day is Febuary 26th.


1126

[benhenry]

1126

China is divided into two parts (http://www.allempires.com/empires/song/song1.htm)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/GentleBenHenry/MPC-Projects/China-Map1.gif

The Jurchen people of the north had moved south and displaced the Liao kingdom on China's southern borders by 1115. The Sung were no match for the mighty Manchurian horsemen, and made an alliance against mutual enemies instead. However the Jin turned on the Sung soon after, and had taken most of northern China by the 1120s. In 1126 they took Kaifeng and the two emperors We Zong and Qin Zong prisoner. A member of the royal family fled south with the Sung court and founded a new dynasty at Nanjing, declaring himself Emperor Gao Zong.

Throughout the 1130s, the Sung, led by the able general Yue Fei, waged war on the Jin, winning many crushing victories. Just as Yue Fei was on the verge of retaking Kaifeng, he was called back to Nanjing, arrested, and together with his son Yue Yun, executed in 1141. This was all the doing of the traitor Qin Hui, who persuaded Gao Zong of the advantages of signing a peace treaty instead of making war. Qin Hui is still much hated in China today for what he did to a noble and valiant patriot.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/GentleBenHenry/MPC-Projects/China-Map2.gif

The "Southern Sung", however, flourished even without its notrthern territories. There were even greater technological and cultural advancments, and the population increased greatly, although the Sung remained militarily weak. But now an even more ominous force loomed: the Mongols. After being unified under Genghis Khan in 1206, they invaded north China, the Jin empire. The Sung, instead of allying with the Jin against a more dangerous enemy, took the chance to ally with the Mongols instead, and Sung and Mongol troops put an end to the Jin Dynasty in 1234 AD. Next the Mongols wiped out the Tanguts, then turned on Sung.

The war was long and bloody as the Sung fought bitterly, but Kublai Khan had defeated the last major Sung armies and reduced the last pockets of resistance by 1279. Despite valiant resistance by patriots like Wen Tianxiang, the 270-year-old Sung Dynasty had fallen.
The Sung Dynasty contributed much to China's culture and literature. Sung paintings and verses are still studied and admired in China and throughout the world. Great leaps were also made in the field of technology The main weakness of the Sung was their military, and this and the usual mix of corrupt officials and weak emperors contributed to their downfall.


Saint Dionysius Of Augsburg,
was the Bishop of Augsburg and was martyred during the reign of Diocletian in 303 AD. His Feast Day is Febuary 26th.
1126

Thanks, L e s. so close. I was hoping to lead somebody into St. George to go with the Dragon tale in 1946. This is such a cool thread.


1768

[Eve]

1768
In 1768, James Cook undertook the first of three voyages to the Pacific, surveying New Zealand, modern Australia (where he named Botany Bay), Tahiti and Hawaii.


1890

[Breezy]

July 10, 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state


1943

[Eve]

1943
Easter occurs on the latest possible date, April 25th. Last time 1886 next time 2038.

1959

[amb141]

1959

The Yankees don't win the pennant, the Go-Go Chicago White Sox (Nelson Fox, Looie Aparicio, Jim Landis, Jungle Jim Rivera, Sherm Lollar, Early Wynn, Billy Pierce, etc) do, but lose the Series to the Dodgers in 5.

1648

[benhenry]

1648

Semion Ivanovich Dezhnev (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Dezhnev) discovers the Bering Strait; thumbnail below.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/GentleBenHenry/MPC-Projects/Bering_Strait-thumb.jpg (http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/GentleBenHenry/MPC-Projects/Bering_Strait.jpg)

Russian explorer who led the expedition that doubled the known extent of the easternmost promontory of the Eurasian continent in 1648, discovering that Asia is not connected to Alaska.

As his biographers concluded, Semion Dezhnev was born at the very beginning of the 17th century in Velikiy Ustiug in northern Russia. Like many of the enterprising Russian northmen of the time, he went to Siberia in search of his fortune, and served in Tobolsk and Yeniseisk. Dezhnev became well-known for his experience and bravery.

In 1647 he was approached by F.A. Popov (a fellow northman from Kholmogory), who invited Dezhnev to join the Nizhekolymskaya (Low Kolyma) party and to sail by the sea from Kolyma towards the east in search of the precious "walrus zub (tooth) and fish bones" (walrus tusks and whale bones). The final destination of the voyage was supposed to be river Anadyr. But the ice conditions on the sea forced the party to abort their mission. That did not stop Dezhnev from trying it again the next year.

In 1648 Dezhnev, Popov, and Fedot Alekseev, another of the chief organizers of the expedition, led the party of about 90 to up to 105 men in seven small Arctic-worthy ships (koch) to river Anadyr. It took them ten weeks of sailing north to get to Anadyr estuary. The participation of Dezhnev in this leg of the voyage is undocumented. Only the activities of Fedot Alekseev can be traced today. From the estuary Dezhnev went up the river and founded Anadyrskiy ostrog (fort).

The same year Dezhnev sailed along the northern shores of the tip of Asia and discovered the Anian Strait between Asia and Alaska, thus proving that the Eurasian and the American continents are not connected. He followed the shoreline and doubled the Chukotka peninsula. In his reports Dezhnev gave the description of this legendary "Tabin-Promontorium", the existence of which was rumored by ancient geographers. Dezhnev also described two islands of chukchi people ("Ostrova zubatykh"), now known as Diomede Islands consisting of Ratmanov Island and Kruzenstern Island, located between Asia and Alaska in what is now Bering Strait. He collected interesting ethnographic data about chukchi people ("zubatiye") who decorated their lower lip with pieces of walrus tusks, stone or bone. The port of arrival of Dezhnev expedition is unknown.

In 1670 prince Boryatinskiy (governor of Yakutsk) entrusted Dezhnev with the mission to Moscow. Dezhnev was to deliver there the "sable treasury" and official documents. It took a year and five months for Dezhnev to successfully accomplish this journey. When he was over 60 years old, the old wounds received during his service at the borders of Russia and hard toil undermined his health. After severe illness Dezhnev died in Moscow in 1673.

The reports about the results of this expedition were buried in the departmental archives for a long time and only at the end of 19th century, following the petition of the Russian Geographic Society, the easternmost promontory of Eurasia was named after Dezhnev. Today we still have only scanty information about Dezhnev himself.

There is also a possibility that part of Dezhnev expedition could had discovered American mainland by reaching Alaska, and founded a settlement there. But this supposition is unconclusive because it could be some other Russian expedition.

1973

[Eve]

1973
France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll despite protests from Australia and New Zealand.

Bobby Darin dies


1902

[benhenry]

1902

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902 (http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1902/press.html)

Professor Dr. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz of Leiden and Professor Dr. Pieter Zeeman of Amsterdam for their pioneering work on the connection between optical and electromagnetic phenomena.

Greatly oversimplified, but to the point. Without Lorentz we would not know the prperties of the particulate nature of the carrier of electric force. Without Zeeman we would not know the properties of the wave nature of photons. without them we would not have things like magnetic resonance interferomenters (MRI) and lasers.

1975

[Breezy]

October 29, 1975 - Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.
*Ron and I got married that year too!

1871

[Eve]

*Ron and I got married that year too! Was a Good Year then Breezy :jig:


1871
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying several square miles in Chicago, Illinois.



1764

[Breezy]

The Currency Act of 1764

1943

[Silly Billy]

January 19, 1943

Princess Julianna of the Netherlands gave birth in Canada, in the Ottawa Civic Hospital, to her third daughter. Queen Wilhelmina in London was notified by phone, and she issued a statement that said in part that, "the little princes is a healthy baby of seven pounds, 12 ounces, which is five ounces more than the average weight." Prince Bernard was the first to be informed.

Netherlanders had been hoping for the birth of a boy who would be the first male heir in the House of Orange-Nassau since 1851.

The war had caused the ruling family to take refuge in friendly countries.

1944

[Breezy]

September 2, 1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.


*that day is Ron's and my recovery birthday!! I never knew about this date re: Anne Frank!

2004

[Silly Billy]

For those of us who have a standing date for Hockey Night In Canada every Saturday night, it was a sad year. The cognoscente will know that;

The 2004-05 NHL season would have been the 88th regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). The season was officially cancelled on February 16, 2005 due to an unresolved lockout that began on September 16, 2004. The loss of the 2004-05 season makes the NHL the first North American professional sports league to cancel an entire season because of a labour dispute. Likewise, it was the first time since 1919 that the Stanley Cup was not awarded to the champion of the league. In 1919, the championship was cancelled due to an outbreak of Influenza.

I used to listen to Foster Hewitt and his son do the play-by-play on the radio from Maple Leaf Gardens before we had a TV(b&w).

Saturday Night Fever is back again!!!


new date 1919

[Eve]

1919
Both my parents were born :)

and

The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.



1893

[Silly Billy]

1919
Both my parents were born :)


My mother was born in 1919. I will be taking her to renew her driver's registration next week. "Go granny, go granny, go granny, go", as The Beach Boys sang.

1893

New Brunswick poet Bliss Carmen published Low Tide on Grand Pré. Like many popular Canadian poets, Carmen linked passion and spirituality with the natural landscape. The stanza following is from the title poem;

The night has fallen, and the tide
Now and again comes drifting home,
Across these aching barrens wide,
A sigh like driven wind or foam:
In grief the flood is bursting home.

1894

[Breezy]

February 21, 1893 - Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents. The first is for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and another for a "Stop Device" (No. 491,992-3). Also No. 492,150 for "Process of Coating Conductors for Incandescent Lamps."

1941

[Eve]

1941
May 26 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal fatally cripple the German battleship Bismarck in torpedo attack.

2000

[Silly Billy]

In 2000 the dreaded Millenium Virus was all the worry. It wasn't even a millenium year. The next millenium started on January 1, 2001.

Of course 2000 was a leap year because every fourth year is a leap year except for century years that are not divisible by 400.

1899

[Eve]

1899
October 11 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.

The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.


1903

[Breezy]

March 2,1903 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.


1940

[Suze]

1940 Invasion of Norway in April 1940.

1755

[Eve]

1755
A Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson, begun in 1746

1956

[Breezy]

July 30, 1956 - A Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.


1929

[Eve]

1929

First phone booths in London

The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind


1888

[benhenry]

1888
Pelorus Jack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelorus_Jack) (?-1912?) was a Risso's dolphin famous for following steamers in Cook Strait, New Zealand.

Pelorus Jack was first seen around 1888 when he appeared in front of a schooner Brindle when it approached the French Pass. Jack was pale with a white head and there were no others of his kind anywhere near. He followed ships that travelled outside Admiralty Bay and Pelorus Sound in Cook Strait. Area is dangerous to ships with rocks and strong currents but no shipwrecks happened when Jack was present.

According to contemporary accounts, Pelorus Jack seemed to guide the ships, preferably steamers, through dangerous passages of the French Pass. It might swim alongside a watercraft for twenty minutes at the time. Sometimes if the crew could not see Jack at first, they waited for him to appear.

Thousands of sailors and travellers saw Pelorus Jack and he was mentioned in local newspapers and depicted in postcards. When a drunk shot and wounded him from a passing streamer Penguin in 1904, the passengers almost lynched the man, and a law was passed to protect Jack. Jack reappeared two weeks later, but tales tell he never helped Penguin again and it was reputedly wrecked later.

Jack was last seen in April 1912. There were various rumours connected to his disappearance, including fears that foreign whalers might have harpooned him. However, it is quite possible that he passed away due to old age.


1897

[Suze]

May 18 1897 famous Director, Writer, Producer, Editor FranK Capra was born

1772


.

[Eve]

Ben, thank you for the story of Pelorus Jack. There was even a song about him (or her, it was never determined)
Our other famous dolphin, Opo, a bottle nose, also had a song, which I remember very well. Opo arrived in the Hokianga Harbour in 1955.
Local Maori regarded Opo as a sacred visitor, who was teaching us to love life to the full, but also to be caring and gentle towards others.
The story of Opo, and both songs are here http://folksong.org.nz/opo/ but have your tissues at the ready :cry:


1772 - October 21st - birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (d.1834)


1902

[Breezy]

April 2, 1902 - "Electric Theatre", the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.


1949

[Eve]

1949
The Council of Europe is founded by the signing of the Treaty of London.
Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.


1999

[Breezy]

March 26, 1999
The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.


1879

[Silly Billy]

Feb. 8, 1879 Sir Stanford Fleming presented a paper to the Royal Canadian Institute proposing that the world be divided into 24 time zones, separated by 15 degrees. Eventually, a scheme was devised where the surface of the planet was divided into twenty four "time zones", each separated by 15° of longitude and offset by one hour from its neighbor. Under this scheme, local time is always close to mean solar time,

Oct. 21. 1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates an electric light bulb that burns for more than 13 hours.

1880

[Breezy]

February 2, 1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana

1913

[Silly Billy]

Quebec, Jan.12
The Quebec Bull Dogs defeat the Sydney Miners 2 games to none to win the Stanley Cup of Ice Hockey.

Detroit, Oct. 7
Henry Ford launches a new production process called "the assembly line" which is expected to revolutionize car production.

1906

[Breezy]

November 9, 1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt leaves for a trip to Panama to inspect the construction progress of the Panama Canal (this was the first time a sitting President of the United States made an official trip outside of the United States).


1999

[Eve]

1999
Photo driver licences and banknotes made out of polymer substrate are introduced to New Zealand.

1806

[Breezy]

March 23, 1806 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their journey home.


1909

[Eve]

1909

January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
July 25 - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.


Next one . .
2003

[Silly Billy]

The Okarito Brown Kiwi

The Okarito Brown Kiwi (Apteryx rowi), also known as the Rowi is a member of the kiwi family (Apterygidae), described as new to science in 2003. The species is part of the Brown Kiwi complex, and is morphologically very similar to other members of that complex. It is found in a restricted area of the Okarito forest on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, and has a population of about only 250 birds.


new year 20 BC

[Eve]

Thanks Silly Billy :) More about the Rowi and Operation Nest Egg here http://www.savethekiwi.org.nz/AboutTheBird/TheKiwiFamily/Rowi.htm

20BC
Agreement was reached between Rome and Parthia
Herod begins reconstruction of his temple which was destroyed in 70BC


1913

[Silly Billy]

In Victoria, British Columbia, painter Emily Carr has produced a large number of works on Indian themes, but can't live from her art work.

She is now recognized as one of Canada's most influencial artists. Her paintings are stunning. How many times have we heard of people being snubbed in their lifetime, only to be immortalized after their death?

This link shows some of her paintings,

http://www.svreeland.com/real-ec.html

new year - 594 BC

[Eve]

In 594BC, the archon Solon made sweeping social reforms in Athens
Solon and the start of Democracy Faced with a revolt of the lower classes against the aristocratic classes of Athens, the city designated a respected citizen, Solon, to reform its government. His new laws (594BC) gave some institutional power and participation to lower and middle class citizens, marking the earliest steps on the road to the invention of democracy

New Date
1786

[Silly Billy]

Davy Crockett was perhaps best known in Tennessee as a noted hunter and for his unique style of backwoods oratory. In Texas, however, he will always be remembered as a heroic participant in the Battle of the Alamo.

Crockett was born 17 August 1786 in what is now northeastern Tennessee. It was not until he was eighteen before he learned to read and write. About that time, he married and started a family of several children.

Perhaps by default, he first became involved in politics as magistrate of his local community. By 1821, he was elected to the State Legislature, and was reelected to that position in 1823. From 1827 through 1833, Crockett served in the Congress of the United States. However, in his run for a fourth term in Congress, he was defeated by a narrow margin.

Disgusted by that time with politics, Crockett bid farewell to Tennessee and headed for Texas in the fall of 1835. There he was well received and seemed to enjoy his new environment, for on 9 January 1836 he wrote a daughter back in Tennessee: "I would rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a seat in Congress for life."

Less than one month later, however, Crockett and a few of his fellow Tennesseans were among the 189 defenders that sacrificed their lives at The Battle of the Alamo in the interest on Texas independence.

431 BC

[Eve]

Davy Crocket - that was interesting Bill.
I like his hat too :) King of the Wild frontier

431 BC
The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulated the notion that the human body has four humors- blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief which dominated medical thinking for centuries. :eek:

Beginning of the Peloponnesian War


New Date
1642

[Silly Billy]

I took two undergrad courses in Greek and Roman History and loved every minute of the time spent. I take every opportunity to watch the History channel when there is a show about the Greeks or the Romans.

1642

Galileo Galilei died

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Galileo.html

Isaac Newton born

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Newton.html

next date is 68 BC

[Breezy]

Huo Guang, official of the western Han Dynasty of China died

1632

[Silly Billy]

In 1632
The earliest recorded female hanging in America was that of Jane Champion in 1632 in Virginia for an unknown offense.

new date - 621 BC

[Eve]

621 B.C.
The Athenian lawgiver Draco issues a code of laws that makes nearly every offense punishable by death. Barbarously cruel or harsh punishment will forever be called "Draconian"


New Date

1954

[Silly Billy]

1954

New Salk Polio Vaccine
Since the introduction of the Salk vaccine the number of deaths caused by poliomyelitis has plunged dramatically. Hopes of health officials have been bouyed by the early results from the work of Dr. Jonas Salk, the first person to have the courage to use large numbers of volunteers (more than 100) in his early polio virus vaccine tests.

Credit also goes to Dr. Raymond Parker at Toronto's Connaught Laboratory and to Dr. Andrew Rhodes of Toronto. Connaught was chosen in 1953 as the first laboratory to produce on a large scale the virus-containing tissue cultures. The U.S.A. National Foundation's Immunization Committee recognized the triumph as "far and away the most significant work in experimental vaccination yet."

Bill's Note
I contracted polio in the throat before I was 10, about the same time. The doctors said I would live or die, because there was no cure or treatment. An iron lung would not have helped the muscles in my throat. Obviously I lived and have had no post-polio symptions.
Also Dr. Sabin was a rival of Dr. Salk. Sabin used a live virus, while Salk used a dead one. Today it is recommended that the Salk vaccine be given first, followed years later by the Sabin vaccine as a booster.

On a different note in 1954

At the final events of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, England's Roger Bannister ran another Miracle Mile, winning the race with a time of 3:58.8, the second fastest time ever recorded. Australia's John Landy was second, while Toronto's Rich Ferguson finished third, setting a Canadian record of 4:04.6

new date is A.D. 455

[Eve]

Polio was such a fear in the 1950's. My (now) best friend had it but made a full recovery. I remember reading June Opie's 'Over My dead Body'. Thank heavens for vaccines.

AD 455
Flavius Petronius Maximus
Became emperor of Rome March AD 455. Died at Rome, 31 May AD 455. A short reign :(


New Date
1908

[Silly Billy]

AD 455
Flavius Petronius Maximus
Became emperor of Rome March AD 455. Died at Rome, 31 May AD 455. A short reign :(

New Date
1908

Also in AD 455, the Vandals captured and sacked Rome.

July 13, 1908 - Women compete in modern Olympic Games for the first time.

and

A 40,000-year-old Neandertal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.

new date is 73-71 B.C.

[Breezy]

Between 73 and 71 BC, a band of escaped slaves — originally a small cadre of about 70 escaped gladiators which grew into a band of over 120,000 men, women and children — wandered throughout and raided the Roman province of Italia with relative impunity under the guidance of several leaders, including the famous gladiator-general Spartacus. The able-bodied adults of this band were a surprisingly effective armed force that repeatedly showed they could withstand the Roman military, from the local Campanian patrols, to the Roman militia, and to trained Roman legions under consular command. Plutarch described the actions of the slaves as an attempt by Roman slaves to escape their masters and flee through Cisalpine Gaul, while Appian and Florus depicted the revolt as a civil war in which the slaves waged a campaign to capture the city of Rome itself.

1951

[L e s]

Earl Tupper introduces Tupperware, making the preservation of leftovers a more convenient, time-saving task

1872

[Breezy]

January 2, 1872 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (28 wives).


1612

[Silly Billy]

In 1612, German astronomer Simon Marius was the first astronomer to mention the Andromeda Galaxy.

next date is 203 B.C.

[MintabiePete]

In 203 B.C The Carthaginians attack the Roman fleet at Utica, while Scipio is occupying Tunis.

New Date is 1972

[L e s]

January 2, 1872 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (28 wives).




28 Wives

28 Wives http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/6389/jawdrop7rg.gif


Wow, that was big of him!

1972 While campaigning for the presidency Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is shot and seriously wounded

New year 1253

[Silly Billy]

In 1253, La Sorbonne was founded by Robert de Sorbon.

Follow-up to 203 B.C.
The Carthaginians attack the Roman fleet at Utica, while Scipio is occupying Tunis.


In 204 B.C. Scipio invaded Africa and menaced Carthage twice defeating the strongest forces the merchants could hire to defend their city. In 203 B.C. Hannibal, after 15 years of campaigning in Italy, was recalled to Carthage and met Scipio at the battle of Zama. Here Hannibal met Roman legions that were led by a general as brilliant as Hannibal himself had been when he first invaded Italy. With Scipio, Rome had both the numbers and strategy on its side. In the afternoon , Hannibal called a halt to the battle and admitted he was defeated.

But Carthage was not entered. The senate of Rome was not satisfied and feared that Carthage would regain its power and attack them again. The Roman army was sent to Carthage where it lay seige to Carthage for three years before they managed to break through the thick walls and take the city. The city was burned, salt was sown in the scorched earth so that nothing would grow, and a curse was pronounced on any man who dared to build on it again. Thus marked the death of the richest city in the world.

next date is 60 B.C.

[Eve]

60 BC
Birth of Prince Ptolemy of Egypt, later Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt

Next date

2006

[Silly Billy]

Torino 2006 - XX Olympic Winter Games

Canadian Womens Ice Hockey Team wins a Gold medal.

Canadian Mens Curling Team wins a Gold medal.

next date is 1240 A.D. - The Horde keeps rolling along.

[Breezy]

1240 A.D.—Albertus Magnus of Cologne, bishop, naturalist, and influential philosopher, agonizes in his De Vegetabilibus over whether a fruit tree has a soul. Albertus' then novel philosophy is that the only way to advance knowledge of nature is by searching for nature's hidden principles rather than by relying on the writings of others, however venerable. Discarding the scholastic concept of fruit as a ready-made product of creation, Albertus held that cultivars developed from wild forms, centuries before Darwin draws similar conclusions about the origin of species.


1962

[Breezy]

June 6, 1962 President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.


1911