This Day In History

[aiw]

2012 Duke football beats UNC and becomes bowl eligible for the first time in 18 years.

That is all.

 

[aiw]

October 21

1520 Magellan discovers what is eventually known as the Straits of Magellan

1797 USS Constitution launched (last sailed Aug 17, 2012!)

1805 Battle of Trafalgar

1854 Florence Nightingale sent to the Crimean War

1861 Civil War's Battle of Balls Bluff

1921 Harding delivers 1st speech against lynching by a sitting president

1944 1st kamikaze attack. Battle of Leyte Gulf

1944 Battle of Aachen. 1st German city to fall to the Americans

1945 Women can vote for the 1st time in France
1959 Guggenheim Museum opens
1983 The meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vaccuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second


Births

1687 Nicolas Bernoulli
1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1833 Alfred Nobel
1917 Dizzy Gillespie
1928 Whitey Ford
1949 Benjamin Netanyahu
1978 Joey Harrington
1990 Ricky Rubio

Deaths

1805 Horatio Nelson (Battle of Trafalgar above)
1992 Jim Garrison (New Orleans DA, JFK fame)

no one else interesting

 

[bfactor]

http://www.history.com/news/history-lis ... =obnetwork

 

[aiw]

I've been to Edison's lab in Florida. He, Ford and Firestone (tire guy) were great friends.

 

[bfactor]

Those History channel lists are amazing.

 

[rome8180]

Oh, goody. I always loved this thread.

 

[aiw]

October 22, 2012

1746 The College of New Jersey is chartered (Princeton, lol at this pic)

1784 Russia founds colony at Kodiak, Alaska

1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes first recorded parachute jump from 3200 feet

1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as first president of Texas

1879 Edison test first practical incandescent light bulb, which lasted 13 hours (pic: Firestone, Edison, Ford, Warren G Harding and some other guy)

1926 J Gordon Whitehead punches Harry Houdini in the stomach. Houdini dies 9 days later from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix

1934 Pretty Boy Floyd shot

1957 First US casualties in Vietnam


1962 JFK orders naval quarantine of Cuba

1972 Kissinger meets with S Vietnam president to discuss cease-fire that US has agreed to with the North


1976 Red dye #4 banned in US. Red M&Ms disappear for years


Births

1734 Daniel Boone
1907 Jimmie Foxx
1920 Timothy Leary
1938 Christopher Lloyd
1952 Jeff Goldblum
1962 Saul Goodman
1974 Jeff McInnis


Deaths

741 Charles "The Hammer" Martel
1906 Paul Cezanne
1934 Pretty Boy Floyd
1992 Red Barber
2009 Soupy Sales

 

[aiw]

Missed yesterday

October 24, 2012


1260 Cathedral of Chartres dedicated

1590 John White returns to ENgland after unsuccessful search for the lost colony

1648 Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War

1795 3rd Partition of Poland. Poland ceases to exist for 123 years

1857 Sheffield FC is world's first football club

1861 World's first transcontinental telegraph completed in US.

1911 2nd Wright glider stays in the air over 9 minutes at Kill Devil Hills

1929 "Black Thursday" stockmarket crash

1945 UN founded

1954 Eisenhower pledges US to support South Vietnam

2002 Police arrest Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Mohammed -- Beltway snipers

2003 Concorde makes last commerical flight

Births

51 Domitian, Roman Emperor
1632 Anton van Leeuwenhoek
1926 Y A Tittle
1930 J P Richardson "The Big Bopper"
1939 F Murray Abraham
1947 Kevin Klein


Deaths

1601 Tycho Brahe
1852 Daniel Webster
1935 Dutch Schultz
1945 Vidkun Quisling
1972 Jackie Robinson
1991 Gene Roddenberry
1994 Raul Julia
2005 Rosa Parks

 

[bfactor]

It's Constitution Day in Lithuania. Congrats, Marty.

 

[aiw]

October 25

1415 Battle of Agincourt. Henry V and England defeat France.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother

1760 George III becomes king of England. King during Revolutionary War and War of 1812.

1917 Day of the October Revolution

1940 Benjamin O Davis is first African-American made general in the Army

1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf

1962 Nelson Mandela sentenced to 5 years in jail

1962 Adlai Stevenson shows Cuban missile photos at UN (BTW, 13 Days is great movie)

Births

1881 Picasso
1912 Minnie Pearl
1928 Marion Ross
1940 Bobby Knight
1944 James Carville
1971 Pedro Martinez


Deaths

1400 Chaucer
1806 Henry Knox
1993 Vincent Price
1999 Payne Stewart

 

[bfactor]

Crazy to think that Payne Stewart has been gone for that long.

 

[rhfarmer]

Crazy to think that Payne Stewart has been gone for that long.

Was thinking the same thing about Chaucer.

 

[ZackM]

There sure are a lot of battles throughout history.

 

[aiw]

November 4th

1429 Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier
1677 Future Mary II marries William of Orange (know we have a couple W&M guys here)
1847 Sir James Young Simpson discovers anesthetic properties of chloroform
1861 Territorial University opens in Seattle (UW)
1890 1st deep level tube stations open in London
1922 Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes first female governor (Wyoming)
1939 FDR implements the Neutrality Act
1942 Battle of El-Alamein Rommel disobeys Hitler and retreats across N Africa
1952 NSA founded
1956 Soviets enter Hungary to end Hungarian revolution
1960 Goodall observes chimps making tools. FIrst observations ever in non-humans
1962 Last atmospheric test detonation of an American nuclear bomb
1966 Arno River flood in Florence
1979 Iran hostage crisis begins
1995 Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
2008 Barack Obama elected

Births

1879 Will Rogers
1916 Walter Cronkite
1916 John Basilone (soldier, portrayed in The Pacific
1918 Art Carney
1930 Dick Groat
1946 Robert Mapplethorpe
1950 Markie Post
1967 Eric Karros
1969 Matthew McConaughey
1975 Orlando Pace


Deaths

1847 Felix Mendelssohn
1928 Arnold Rothstein
1950 Grover Cleveland Alexander
1955 Cy Young
2008 Michael Crichton
2011 Andy Rooney

 

[aiw]

November 9, 2012

1494 Medici expelled from Florence
1620 Pilgrims on Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod
1799 Napoleon leads a coup d'etat ending The Directory
1857 The Atlantic is founded in Boston
1861 First football (handegg) game in Canada
1862 Ambrose Burnside replaces George McClellan as head of the Army of the Potomac
1887 US acquires rights to Pearl Harbor
1888 Mary Jane Kelly killed. Last victim of Jack the Ripper
1906 TR is first sitting president to travel outside of the US. Visits Panama Canal Zone
1917 Stalin enters provisional government of USSR
1918 Kaiser Willhelm II abdicates. Weimar Republic set up.
1921 Partito Nazionale Fascista starts up in Italy (Mussolini)
1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich crushed. Hitler arrested and sent to jail.
1938 Ernst vom Rohm assassinated in Paris. Nazis use this as a prelude to the Kristallnacht
1967 Rolling Stone first published
1979 NORAD detects a massive nuclear strike launch. After raw data analyzed, noted to be an error
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall


Birth

1918 Spiro Agnew
1931 Whitey Herzog
1934 Carl Sagan
1935 Bob Gibson
1971 David Duval
1979 Adam Dunn

Deaths

1516 King Ferdinand of Aragon
1924 Henry Cabot Lodge
1940 Neville Chamberlain
1953 Dylan Thomas
1970 Charles de Gaulle
2003 Art Carney
2004 Stieg Larsson
2006 Ed Bradley

 

[deepdarkblue]

One hundred years ago today, NOD was born. At least, that's what it says at the bottom of the Index page.
NOD, I had no idea you were classmates with Devil66. Grats!

 

[aiw]

lol

 

[aiw]

Nov 10

1674 Treaty of Westminster Anglo-Dutch war ends. Dutch cede New Netherlands ceded to England
1775 USMC founded
1865 Henry Wirz, superintendent of Andersonville, becomes the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes
1871 Henry Stanley says "Dr. Livingston, I presume?"
1898 Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, only instance of overthrow of municipal government in US history
1918 Western Union cable office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia gets top-secret coded message from Europe saying the fighting will cease in WWI on Nov 11, 1918
1942 Germany invades Vichy France
1951 Direct-dial coast-to-coast phone service in US
1958 Hope diamond donated to the Smithsonian
1969 Sesame Street premieres
1970 First time in 5 years no American combat deaths in Vietnam

Births

1483 Martin Luther
1871 Winston Churchill
1925 Richard Burton
1932 Roy Schieder
1956 Sinbad
1959 Linda Cohn
1965 Jamie Dixon
1968 Tracy Morgan
1984 Kendrick Perkins



Deaths

2006 Jack Palance
2007 Norman Mailer

 

[aiw]

November 11

1215 Fourth Lateran Council defines the doctrine of transubstantiation
1620 Mayflower Compact signed
1675 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time
1750 FLat Hat Club Society formed in Williamsburg, VA. FIrst college fraternity
1831 Nat Turner hanged
1839 Virginia Military Institute founded
1864 William Sherman begins burning Atlanta
1889 State of Washington admitted as the 42nd state
1918 Armistice signed in Compeigne, France ending the fighting of WWI. Signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
1921 Tomb of the Unknowns dedicated by Warren G Harding at Arlington National Cemetery
1926 Route 66 founded
1942 Germany completes takeover of Vichy France
1942 2nd Battle of El-Alamein won by Britain
2004 PLO confirms death of Yassir Arafat


Births

1050 Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor
1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1885 George Patton
1891 Rabbit Maranville
1904 Alger Hiss
1922 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
1951 Marc Summers
1962 Demi Moore
1986 Mark Sanchez
1986 Victor Cruz



Deaths

1880 Lucretia Mott
1917 Queen Liliuokalani
1984 Martin Luther King, Sr

 

[DukeNukem05]

aiw, try your own thread: