This day in history.....
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highwayman
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Inkara1 said:
Highwayman pisses in the corner while whistles tunelessly...
SouthernN'Proud
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Inkara1 said:
That a problem?
Mare
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August 10th
1792: In one of the bloodiest events of the French Revolution, a mob overruns the royal Tuilerie Palace, murdering 600 Swiss Guards, while the Legislative Assembly votes to suspend the monarchy.
1821: Missouri is admitted to the Union as the 24th state. Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Missouri is allowed to permit slavery within its borders.
1831: William Driver, a ship's captain from Salem, Massachusetts, is credited with coining the term "Old Glory" in reference to the American flag.
1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation creating the Smithsonian Institution, with money left for that purpose in the will of English scientist James Smithson.
1921: At the age of 39, Franklin D. Roosevelt notices early signs of poliomyelitis at his summer home in New Brunswick, Canada. The disease will prevent him from ever walking unaided again.
1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the April bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building that killed 168 people and injured over 500 more.
1792: In one of the bloodiest events of the French Revolution, a mob overruns the royal Tuilerie Palace, murdering 600 Swiss Guards, while the Legislative Assembly votes to suspend the monarchy.
1821: Missouri is admitted to the Union as the 24th state. Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Missouri is allowed to permit slavery within its borders.
1831: William Driver, a ship's captain from Salem, Massachusetts, is credited with coining the term "Old Glory" in reference to the American flag.
1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation creating the Smithsonian Institution, with money left for that purpose in the will of English scientist James Smithson.
1921: At the age of 39, Franklin D. Roosevelt notices early signs of poliomyelitis at his summer home in New Brunswick, Canada. The disease will prevent him from ever walking unaided again.
1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the April bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building that killed 168 people and injured over 500 more.
SouthernN'Proud
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Inkara1 said:
I'll take that under sonsideration as well.
Mare
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August 11th
1841: Fugitive slave Frederick Douglass, soon to be a well-known orator, speaks before a mostly white abolitionist meeting for the first time on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket.
1952: Sixteen-year-old Hussein ibn Talal is proclaimed king of Jordan after his father is declared unfit to rule. King Hussein I remains on the throne until his death in 1999.
1956: Abstract painter Jackson Pollock dies at the age of 44 in an automobile accident on Long Island, New York.
1965: Black anger over discrimination and unemployment erupts in the first of six days of rioting in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
1992: The largest mall in the United States, the Mall of America, opens in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1997: Bill Clinton is the first U.S. president to use the line-item veto (a power granted by Congress to the president in April 1996 but ruled unconstutional by the Supreme Court in 1998).
1841: Fugitive slave Frederick Douglass, soon to be a well-known orator, speaks before a mostly white abolitionist meeting for the first time on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket.
1952: Sixteen-year-old Hussein ibn Talal is proclaimed king of Jordan after his father is declared unfit to rule. King Hussein I remains on the throne until his death in 1999.
1956: Abstract painter Jackson Pollock dies at the age of 44 in an automobile accident on Long Island, New York.
1965: Black anger over discrimination and unemployment erupts in the first of six days of rioting in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
1992: The largest mall in the United States, the Mall of America, opens in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1997: Bill Clinton is the first U.S. president to use the line-item veto (a power granted by Congress to the president in April 1996 but ruled unconstutional by the Supreme Court in 1998).
Mare
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August 12th
1851: American inventor Isaac Singer receives a U.S. patent for his sewing machine. He is not the first to patent such a machine, but within a decade he is the world's largest sewing-machine manufacturer.
1867: U.S. president Andrew Johnson suspends Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, an ally of his Radical Republican opponents. Johnson's treatment of Stanton will lead to impeachment hearings against him in 1868.
1898: The United States formally annexes the islands of Hawaii, which become a U.S. territory two years later and a state in 1959.
1972: The last American ground combat troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
1981: The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) launches its first personal computer, which uses the Microsoft operating system MS-DOS.
1851: American inventor Isaac Singer receives a U.S. patent for his sewing machine. He is not the first to patent such a machine, but within a decade he is the world's largest sewing-machine manufacturer.
1867: U.S. president Andrew Johnson suspends Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, an ally of his Radical Republican opponents. Johnson's treatment of Stanton will lead to impeachment hearings against him in 1868.
1898: The United States formally annexes the islands of Hawaii, which become a U.S. territory two years later and a state in 1959.
1972: The last American ground combat troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
1981: The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) launches its first personal computer, which uses the Microsoft operating system MS-DOS.
Mare
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August 13th
1521: A Spanish force under Hernán Cortés, aided by Tlaxcalan allies, completes its capture of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán (the site of present-day Mexico City), after an eight-week siege.
1624: French king Louis XIII makes Cardinal Richelieu his chief minister. Richelieu will firmly rule the country for the next 18 years, bringing it to military prominence in Europe.
1876: German composer Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen premieres in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which Wagner had built for performances of the Ring cycle.
1923: Mustafa Kemal, later known as Atatürk ("Father Turk"), is elected the first president of the republic of Turkey.
1942: Bambi, Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1961: The East German government surrounds West Berlin with temporary fortifications during the night, stopping the flight of East Germans to the West. The barrier is soon replaced by the concrete Berlin Wall.
1521: A Spanish force under Hernán Cortés, aided by Tlaxcalan allies, completes its capture of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán (the site of present-day Mexico City), after an eight-week siege.
1624: French king Louis XIII makes Cardinal Richelieu his chief minister. Richelieu will firmly rule the country for the next 18 years, bringing it to military prominence in Europe.
1876: German composer Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen premieres in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which Wagner had built for performances of the Ring cycle.
1923: Mustafa Kemal, later known as Atatürk ("Father Turk"), is elected the first president of the republic of Turkey.
1942: Bambi, Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1961: The East German government surrounds West Berlin with temporary fortifications during the night, stopping the flight of East Germans to the West. The barrier is soon replaced by the concrete Berlin Wall.
Mare
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August 15th
1057: In events later used by William Shakespeare in one of his greatest tragedies, the Scottish king Macbeth is killed by Malcolm Canmore, the son of King Duncan I, whom Macbeth had murdered 17 years before.
1534: Saint Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order of men, in Paris, France.
1935: American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when their plane crashes in Alaska.
1939: The film version of The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, has its premiere in Hollywood, California.
1947: Indian independence from Britain is proclaimed, with the former colony partitioned into the two nations of India and Pakistan.
1969: On the opening day of the Woodstock Arts and Music Fair in upstate New York, promoters overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands in attendance decide to waive admission fees.
1057: In events later used by William Shakespeare in one of his greatest tragedies, the Scottish king Macbeth is killed by Malcolm Canmore, the son of King Duncan I, whom Macbeth had murdered 17 years before.
1534: Saint Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order of men, in Paris, France.
1935: American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when their plane crashes in Alaska.
1939: The film version of The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, has its premiere in Hollywood, California.
1947: Indian independence from Britain is proclaimed, with the former colony partitioned into the two nations of India and Pakistan.
1969: On the opening day of the Woodstock Arts and Music Fair in upstate New York, promoters overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands in attendance decide to waive admission fees.
Mare
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August 16th
1819: In what becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, 11 people die when government calvary troops attack a large crowd demonstrating for economic and political reform in Manchester, England.
1906: An earthquake measuring at 8.6 on the Richter scale virtually destroys the city of Valparaiso, Chile, killing thousands of people.
1948: Baseball slugger Babe Ruth dies at the age of 53 in New York City.
1960: The island of Cyprus, led by its newly elected president, Archbishop Makarios, declares its independence from Britain.
1977: Singer Elvis Presley, age 42, is found dead at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
1981: American swimmer Mary T. Meagher sets a world record of 57.93 sec for the 100-meter butterfly, three days after setting the world 200-meter butterfly mark.
1819: In what becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, 11 people die when government calvary troops attack a large crowd demonstrating for economic and political reform in Manchester, England.
1906: An earthquake measuring at 8.6 on the Richter scale virtually destroys the city of Valparaiso, Chile, killing thousands of people.
1948: Baseball slugger Babe Ruth dies at the age of 53 in New York City.
1960: The island of Cyprus, led by its newly elected president, Archbishop Makarios, declares its independence from Britain.
1977: Singer Elvis Presley, age 42, is found dead at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
1981: American swimmer Mary T. Meagher sets a world record of 57.93 sec for the 100-meter butterfly, three days after setting the world 200-meter butterfly mark.
Spirit
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August 17th in History
1896: Gold discovered in the Yukon Territory, Canada
1943: Allied forces take control of the island of Sicily
August 17th birthdays
1786: Davy Crockett, US frontiersman killed at the Alamo
1892: Mae West, American actress
1943: Robert De Niro, American actor
1896: Gold discovered in the Yukon Territory, Canada
1943: Allied forces take control of the island of Sicily
August 17th birthdays
1786: Davy Crockett, US frontiersman killed at the Alamo
1892: Mae West, American actress
1943: Robert De Niro, American actor
Mare
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August 17th
My son's Matthew's 6th Birthday!
1790: The federal capital of the United States moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it will remain until it moves again to Washington, D.C., in 1800.
1896: Gold is discovered in Bonanza Creek in the Klondike region of Canada's Yukon Territory. A gold rush in the Klondike and nearby Alaska will begin the following year when news of the strike spreads.
1947: Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno proclaims the country's independence from the Netherlands and becomes its first president.
1962: Peter Fechter, an 18-year-old East German attempting to escape to the West over the Berlin Wall, is shot and killed by East German guards, setting off mass demonstrations in West Berlin.
1969: Hurricane Camille batters Louisiana and Mississippi, killing over 250 people.
1998: President Bill Clinton gives videotaped testimony to a grand jury investigating his relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky. Later that day, he acknowledges the relationship in a televised speech.
My son's Matthew's 6th Birthday!
1790: The federal capital of the United States moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it will remain until it moves again to Washington, D.C., in 1800.
1896: Gold is discovered in Bonanza Creek in the Klondike region of Canada's Yukon Territory. A gold rush in the Klondike and nearby Alaska will begin the following year when news of the strike spreads.
1947: Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno proclaims the country's independence from the Netherlands and becomes its first president.
1962: Peter Fechter, an 18-year-old East German attempting to escape to the West over the Berlin Wall, is shot and killed by East German guards, setting off mass demonstrations in West Berlin.
1969: Hurricane Camille batters Louisiana and Mississippi, killing over 250 people.
1998: President Bill Clinton gives videotaped testimony to a grand jury investigating his relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky. Later that day, he acknowledges the relationship in a televised speech.
Mare
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August 18th
1227: Genghis Khan dies in the district of Qingshui, China, leaving behind a Mongol Empire that he had extended across the Asian continent.
1587: Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in North America, is born to members of the Roanoke Colony on the Virginia coast, whose inhabitants will disappear three years later.
1896: Publisher Arthur Ochs takes over the failing New York Times, which he will build into the leading newspaper in the United States.
1958: Published first in a banned French edition three years earlier, Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita makes its first U.S. appearance. The book sells 100,000 copies in its first three weeks.
1963: James Meredith, after braving riots to enroll as the first African American at the University of Mississippi the year before, graduates with a degree in government.
1977: South African black leader Stephen Biko is arrested for his antiapartheid activities.
1227: Genghis Khan dies in the district of Qingshui, China, leaving behind a Mongol Empire that he had extended across the Asian continent.
1587: Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in North America, is born to members of the Roanoke Colony on the Virginia coast, whose inhabitants will disappear three years later.
1896: Publisher Arthur Ochs takes over the failing New York Times, which he will build into the leading newspaper in the United States.
1958: Published first in a banned French edition three years earlier, Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita makes its first U.S. appearance. The book sells 100,000 copies in its first three weeks.
1963: James Meredith, after braving riots to enroll as the first African American at the University of Mississippi the year before, graduates with a degree in government.
1977: South African black leader Stephen Biko is arrested for his antiapartheid activities.
Mare
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August 19th
14: Augustus, the heir of Julius Caesar and the first emperor of Rome, dies.
1791: African American astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker sends a copy of his first almanac to Thomas Jefferson to disprove Jefferson's belief that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites.
1953: Royalist forces acting on behalf of Reza Shah Pahlavi, with the aid of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, overthrow Iranian premier Mohammad Mossadegh.
1973: Georgios Papadopoulos, leader of the Greek ruling junta since a 1967 coup, abolishes the monarchy and declares Greece a presidential republic. Papadopolous is overthrown later in the year.
1977: Comedian Groucho Marx, the best known of the Marx Brothers, dies in Los Angeles, California.
1991: Communist hard-liners attempt a coup in the Soviet Union, putting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest and declaring a state of emergency. The coup fails two days later.
Learn more about Mihkail Gorbachev.
2003: A suicide bomber destroys the United Nations compound in Baghdād, Iraq, killing 23 people including a high UN official.
14: Augustus, the heir of Julius Caesar and the first emperor of Rome, dies.
1791: African American astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker sends a copy of his first almanac to Thomas Jefferson to disprove Jefferson's belief that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites.
1953: Royalist forces acting on behalf of Reza Shah Pahlavi, with the aid of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, overthrow Iranian premier Mohammad Mossadegh.
1973: Georgios Papadopoulos, leader of the Greek ruling junta since a 1967 coup, abolishes the monarchy and declares Greece a presidential republic. Papadopolous is overthrown later in the year.
1977: Comedian Groucho Marx, the best known of the Marx Brothers, dies in Los Angeles, California.
1991: Communist hard-liners attempt a coup in the Soviet Union, putting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest and declaring a state of emergency. The coup fails two days later.
Learn more about Mihkail Gorbachev.
2003: A suicide bomber destroys the United Nations compound in Baghdād, Iraq, killing 23 people including a high UN official.
Mare
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August 20th
1794: At the Battle of Fallen Timbers on the Ohio frontier, General Anthony Wayne shatters an army of recalcitrant Native Americans, thereby clearing the way for settlement of the Old Northwest.
1940: Exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City by a Spanish Communist, under the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
1968: In response to the reforms in Czechoslavakia known as Prague Spring, Warsaw Pact forces led by the Soviet Union invade Czechoslavakia to reestablish a state loyal to the Soviets.
1977: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which will explore the outer planets before leaving the solar system, carrying with it a phonograph record of human civilization.
1980: Austrian Reinhold Messner becomes the first solo climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1988: Iran and Iraq agree to an United Nations-sponsored cease fire, ending their eight-year war.
1794: At the Battle of Fallen Timbers on the Ohio frontier, General Anthony Wayne shatters an army of recalcitrant Native Americans, thereby clearing the way for settlement of the Old Northwest.
1940: Exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City by a Spanish Communist, under the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
1968: In response to the reforms in Czechoslavakia known as Prague Spring, Warsaw Pact forces led by the Soviet Union invade Czechoslavakia to reestablish a state loyal to the Soviets.
1977: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which will explore the outer planets before leaving the solar system, carrying with it a phonograph record of human civilization.
1980: Austrian Reinhold Messner becomes the first solo climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1988: Iran and Iraq agree to an United Nations-sponsored cease fire, ending their eight-year war.
highwayman
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Voger lives!!
Mare
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August 21st
1831: Virginia slave Nat Turner begins a slave rebellion in Southampton County in which over 50 whites are killed. Turner is captured six weeks later after the rebellion has ended.
1858: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas meet in the first of their series of debates on the subject of slavery during the Illinois senatorial race.
1911: The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci is stolen from the Louvre museum, Paris, France. It is recovered in 1913.
1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state in the Union.
1961: Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison by British colonial authorities in Kenya. He had been imprisoned in 1952 following the Mau-Mau Rebellion.
1983: Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated by allies of President Ferdinand Marcos as he steps off a plane in Manila to end his three-year exile from the Philippines.
1831: Virginia slave Nat Turner begins a slave rebellion in Southampton County in which over 50 whites are killed. Turner is captured six weeks later after the rebellion has ended.
1858: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas meet in the first of their series of debates on the subject of slavery during the Illinois senatorial race.
1911: The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci is stolen from the Louvre museum, Paris, France. It is recovered in 1913.
1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state in the Union.
1961: Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison by British colonial authorities in Kenya. He had been imprisoned in 1952 following the Mau-Mau Rebellion.
1983: Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated by allies of President Ferdinand Marcos as he steps off a plane in Manila to end his three-year exile from the Philippines.
Mare
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August 24th
1572: King Charles IX of France, under the influence of his mother, Catherine de Médicis, orders the mass killing of Huguenots, as the Protestants in France were known, in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
1814: In the last months of the War of 1812, British forces invade Washington, D.C., where they set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1940: Australian-born British pathologist Howard Florey and German-born British biochemist Ernst Chain announce in The Lancet that they have developed penicillin for general clinical use as an antibiotic.
1989: Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti suspends Cincinnati Reds manager and former star player Pete Rose for life for gambling on baseball.
1992: Hurricane Andrew devastates southern Florida, causing $20 billion of property damage and killing 41 people.
79: Italian volcano Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabaie in ashes and mud.
1572: King Charles IX of France, under the influence of his mother, Catherine de Médicis, orders the mass killing of Huguenots, as the Protestants in France were known, in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
1814: In the last months of the War of 1812, British forces invade Washington, D.C., where they set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1940: Australian-born British pathologist Howard Florey and German-born British biochemist Ernst Chain announce in The Lancet that they have developed penicillin for general clinical use as an antibiotic.
1989: Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti suspends Cincinnati Reds manager and former star player Pete Rose for life for gambling on baseball.
1992: Hurricane Andrew devastates southern Florida, causing $20 billion of property damage and killing 41 people.
79: Italian volcano Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabaie in ashes and mud.