This day in history.....

May 19


1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England, is beheaded in the Tower of London after she was convicted of adultery.

1643: Representatives from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a military alliance.

1900: The Tonga Islands are made a British protectorate; they become an independent nation in 1970.

1935: T. E. Lawrence, the British soldier and adventurer known as Lawrence of Arabia, dies in England from a motorcycle accident.

1967: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States ratify a treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
 
1659 The first Khoikhoi War begins
1986 SADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
1994 Kamuzu Banda losses election
1998 Voortrekkerhoogte changes to Thaba Tshwane
 
AlphaTroll said:
1659 The first Khoikhoi War begins
1986 SADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
1994 Kamuzu Banda losses election
1998 Voortrekkerhoogte changes to Thaba Tshwane
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1999 Scrabble outlawed in all dutch talking countries. Scores of 2500000 have been recorded.
 
Mare said:
1643: Representatives from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a military alliance.
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Hey Lopan...would this be considered secessionism? Traitors?

I had the unique experience of having a British professor for the portion of American history in college that dealt with the Revolutionary War. Made ya think about things a little differently to say the least. Our essay question on the final was something like, "Explain why the Colonists should not have been treated as traitors by the British."
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
Hey Lopan...would this be considered secessionism? Traitors?

I had the unique experience of having a British professor for the portion of American history in college that dealt with the Revolutionary War. Made ya think about things a little differently to say the least. Our essay question on the final was something like, "Explain why the Colonists should not have been treated as traitors by the British."
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Honestly, American - British history was hardly taught in school. We did some about the wild west, so I have never really thought about it. When you do everything from the Iron age to the Falklands war, you tend to pick all the juicier bits. Norman invasion, Hundred years war, Tudors, Empire (India and Africa were more imporatnt), Victorian engineers and inventors. Those are just the main bits.

Some dudes that went over the pond and set up camp did it during the Napoleonic era, whilst there was some seriously kick ass fights going on.
 
Lopan said:
Honestly, American - British history was hardly taught in school. We did some about the wild west, so I have never really thought about it. When you do everything from the Iron age to the Falklands war, you tend to pick all the juicier bits. Norman invasion, Hundred years war, Tudors, Empire (India and Africa were more imporatnt), Victorian engineers and inventors. Those are just the main bits.

Some dudes that went over the pond and set up camp did it during the Napoleonic era, whilst there was some seriously kick ass fights going on.
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Guess you lot don't like hearing about how you got your arses handed to you...:D :lloyd:
 
Does anyone? Seriously though the American war of independence doesn't really rank with other battles of the time. Anyways we were a seafaring nation so all our best victories were at sea.

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the "senior service" of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. From approximately 1692 until World War II, the Royal Navy was the largest and most powerful navy in the world.
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If the American war had been a sea battle, You guys would still be singing god save the queen :la:
 
Lopan said:
Does anyone? Seriously though the American war of independence doesn't really rank with other battles of the time. Anyways we were a seafaring nation so all our best victories were at sea.



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If the American war had been a sea battle, You guys would still be singing god save the queen :la:
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Ahh...scarcasm :D
 
You think thats impressive? Try finding a major war between 1815 - 1914. So hard was the British Navy and its ships that war stopped altogether. Now thats a measure of a tough Navy.

NB: Civil wars don't count.
 
Lopan said:
You think thats impressive? Try finding a major war between 1815 - 1914. So hard was the British Navy and its ships that war stopped altogether. Now thats a measure of a tough Navy.

NB: Civil wars don't count.
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Niether does the Spanish-American war, either...:p
 
Gato_Solo said:
Niether does the Spanish-American war, either...:p
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Look boys and girls (points in amazement) - a perfect example of a badly constructed sentence. See the use of the words 'neither' and 'either' in the same sentence, with nothing following on the 'either' to justify it's usage? Wow, amazing, absolutely mindboggling!
 
AlphaTroll said:
Look boys and girls (points in amazement) - a perfect example of a badly constructed sentence. See the use of the words 'neither' and 'either' in the same sentence, with nothing following on the 'either' to justify it's usage? Wow, amazing, absolutely mindboggling!
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So what's yer point, Oblio? :D I've been slaughtering the English language since before you were born. :grinyes:
 
May 20th


1506: Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.

1861: North Carolina votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederate States of America.

1927: U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York in his single-engine aircraft Spirit of St. Louis heading to Paris, France; it is the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.

1969: U.S. and South Vietnamese troops capture Hamburger Hill after one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.

1980: In a referendum, the largely French-speaking province of Québec votes to remain part of Canada.
 
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