°°°What happened today?°°°

[Supafly]

1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus ******* his abdication from the throne.

1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.

Birthdays:

1915 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)

1939 – John Cleese, British actor and writer

1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor

 

[Rane1071]

October 28th

1636
Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts. The original name was Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was the first school of higher education in America.

1793
Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin.

1886
The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World."

1904
The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.

1919
The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the passing of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

1962
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the U.S. that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

1970
The U.S and U.S.S.R signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts.

1976
John D. Erlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, entered a federal prison camp in Safford, AZ, to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions.

1996
The Dow Jones Industial Average gained a record 337.17 points (or 5%). The day before the Dow had dropped 554.26 points (or 7%).


Silly Quote of The Day

"I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna."
Spike Lee, Director.

 

[Supafly]

29. Oct 11

1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

1863 – Eighteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.

1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is ************* when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–1919.

1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

Birthdays

1897 – Joseph Goebbels, **** Minister of Propaganda (d. 1945)

1961 – Randy Jackson, American musician

1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress

Republic Day or Cumhuriyet Bayramı (Turkey)

 

[Rane1071]

October 29th

0539 B.C
Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.

1618
Sir Walter Raleigh was ******** under a sentence that had been brought against him 15 years earlier for conspiracy against King James I.

1652
The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.

1682
William Penn landed at what is now Chester, PA. He was the founder of Pennsylvania.

1923
Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as Kemal Ataturk.

1945
The first ballpoint pens to be made commercially went on sale at Gimbels Department Store in New York at the price of $12.50 each.

1959
General Mills became the first corporation to use close-circuit television.

1964
Three men stole the star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The men were later convicted of the crime.

1989
A public mourning, involving over 20,000 East Berliners, was observed with a minute of silence for the people who had been ****** while trying to flee over the Berlin Wall.

1991
The U.S. Galileo spacecraft became the first to visit an asteroid - Gaspra.

1998
The oldest known copy of Archimedes' work sold for $2 million at a New York auction.

2001
KTLA broadcasted the first coast to coast HDTV network telecast.


Silly Quote of The Day

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery.

 

[Supafly]

October 31th

1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.

1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.

1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.

2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

Births

1920 – Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)

1961 – Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director

1967 – Vanilla Ice, American rapper

1984 - Hanna Hilton

1983 - Black Diamond

Samhain in the northern hemisphere, Beltane in the southern hemisphere; begins on sunset of October 31 (Gaels, Welsh people and Neopagans)

 

[larss]

1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards

 

[Rane1071]

November 1st

1512
Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.

1604
"Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.

1755
At least 60,000 people were ****** in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami.

1848
The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.

1856
The first photography magazine, Daguerreian Journal, was published in New York City, NY.

1870
The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.

1894
"Billboard Advertising" was published for the first time. It later became known as "Billboard."

1911
Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya. It was the first aerial bombing.

1952
The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

1963
The U.S.S.R launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.

1998
Iridium inaugurated the first handheld, global satellite phone and paging system.


Silly Quote of The Day

"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right."
Marlon Starling.

 

[Supafly]

1-Nov-11

1520 – The Strait of Magellan is discovered, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during the first global circumnavigation voyage.

1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

1896 – A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.

1951 – Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.

1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there

Birthdays

1934 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (d. 2004)

1942 – Larry Flynt, American adult magazine publisher

1957 – Lyle Lovett, American singer

1972 – Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model

1973 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress and Miss World, 1994

The first day of Samhain, officially started at Samhain Eve, at the sunset of October 31. (Gaels and Neopagans)

World Vegan Day (International)

 

[Rane1071]

November4th

1846
The patent for the artificial leg is granted to Benjamin Palmer.

1880
James and John Ritty patented the first cash register.

1922
In Egypt, Howard Carter discovered the entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

1939
During World War II, the U.S. modified its neutrality stance with the Neutrality Act of 1939. The new policy allowed cash-and-carry purchases of arms by belligerents.

1956
Soviet ****** enter Hungary in order to supress the uprising that had begun on October 23, 1956.

1979
Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months.

1981
The second scheduled flight of the space shuttle Columbia was canceled with only 31 seconds left in the countdown.

1990
Iraq issued a statement saying it was prepared to fight a "dangerous war" rather than give up Kuwait.

1999
The United Nations imposed economic sanctions against the Taliban that controlled most of Afghanistan. The sanctions were imposed because the Taliban had refused to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

2010
Microsoft's Kinect was launched worldwide.



Silly Quote of The Day

"If people get a kick out of running down pedestrians, you have to let them do it."
Paul Jacobs, marketing director for a video game company.

 

[Rane1071]

November 5th

1605
The "Gunpowder Plot" attempted by Guy Fawkes failed when he was captured before he could blow up the English Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated every November 5th in Britain to celebrate his failure to blow up all the members of Parliament and King James I.

1872
In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the presidential election. She never paid the fine.

1895
George B. Selden received the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.

1935
The game "Monopoly" was introduced by Parker Brothers Company.

1940
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term in office.

1956
British and French ****** began landing in Egypt during the Suez Canal Crisis. A cease-fire was declared 2 days later.

1959
The American Football League was formed.

1963
Archaeologists found the remains of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.

1967
ATS-3 launched by U.S. to take the first pictures of the full Earth disc.

1998
Scientists published a genetic study that showed strong evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one ***** (Eston Hemings) of his slave, Sally Hemings.



Silly Quote of The Day


"I don't think the Republicans can damage my character."
Bill Clinton, former U.S. President.

 

[Supafly]

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[Rane1071]

November 6th


1789
****** John Carroll was appointed as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America.

1814
Adolphe Sax invents saxophone.

1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.

1869
The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.

1917
During World War I, Candian ****** take the village of Passchendaele, Belgium, in the Third Battle of Ypres.

1923
Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.

1935
Edwin H. Armstrong announced his development of FM broadcasting.

1952
The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

1965
The Freedom Flights program began which would allow 250,000 Cubans to come to the United States by 1971.

1986
Former Navy radioman John A. Walker Jr., was sentenced in Baltimore to life imprisonment. Walker had admitted to being the head of a ****** spy ring.

1991
Kuwait celebrated the dousing of the last of the oil fires ignited by Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.

2001
Ten people were executed in Beijing, China. The state newspaper of China said that all of the people executed were robbers and killers aged 20-23.


Silly Quote of The Day

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe."
Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President.

 

[Supafly]

November 7th

1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance *** are reportedly ****** in San Vicente, Bolivia.

1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.

Birthdays

1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (d. 1940)

1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician

1957 – King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler

1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress

National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees. (Northern Catalonia)

 

[enndaley]

November 7th, a date which will live in inf-whoops, a month early, never mind.

 

[Rane1071]

November 7th

1637
Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.

1811
The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).

1837
In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while trying to protect his printing shop from a third destruction.

1895
The last spike was driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway in the mountains of British Columbia.

1918
Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets before the military.

1932
"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was broadcast for the first on CBS Radio.

1940
The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. It was known as "Galloping Gertie".

1985
The Colombian army stormed the country's Palace of Justice. The siege claimed the lives of 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices. The Palace had been seized by leftist guerrillas belonging to the April 19 Movement.

1991
Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theater.


Silly Quote of The Day

"Good looking people turn me off. Myself included."
Patrick Swayze, Actor.

 

[Rane1071]

November 8th

1793
The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.

1805
The "Corps of Discovery" reached the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was lead by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana Purchase territory.

1895
Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with electricity discovered the scientific principle involved and took the first X-ray pictures.

1950
During the Korean conflict, the first jet-plane battle took place as U.S. Air ***** Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15.

1965
The soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted on NBC-TV.

1980
Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced that they had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn.

1990
U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national ***** fighting against Iraq.

1993
Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million.

1997
Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.


Silly Quote of The Day

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
Bill Clinton, former U.S. President.

 

[Rane1071]

November 9th


1906
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president.

1918
Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.

1961
Major Robert White flew an X-15 rocket plane at a world record speed of 4,093 mph.

1967
A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight for the Apollo 4 reentry module.

1981
The International Monetary Fund approved a $5.8 billion load to India. It was the highest loan to date.

1984
A bronze statue titled "Three Servicemen," by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.

1992
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting London, appealed for assistance in rescheduling his country's debt, and asked British businesses to invest.

2004
U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians.


Silly Quote of The Day


"How can a guy this politically immature seriously expect to be president?"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., assessing John F. Kennedy's chances in the 1960 U.S. election.

 

[Supafly]

12. Nov 2011

1905 – Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.

1918 – Austria becomes a republic.

1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness *******.

1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.

1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

2003 – Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.

Birthdays:

1897 – Karl Marx, German composer (d. 1985)

1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress and Princely consort of Monaco (d. 1982)

1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and convicted ********

1944 – Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's)

1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer and guitarist (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater

1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress


Birth of Sun Yat-Sen, also Doctors' Day and Cultural Renaissance Day. (Republic of China)

 

[Rane1071]

November 12th

1840
Sculptor Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. His most widely known works are "The Kiss" and "The Thinker."

1859
The first flying trapeze act was performed by Jules Leotard at Cirque Napoleon in Paris, France. He was also the designer of the garment that is named after him.

1927
Joseph Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party leading to Stalin coming to power.

1980
The U.S. space probe Voyager I came within 77,000 miles of Saturn while transmitting data back to Earth.

1982
Yuri V. Andropov was elected to succeed the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.

1984
Space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snared the Palapa B-2 satellite in history's first space salvage.

1995
The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

2002
Stan Lee filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc. that claimed the company had cheated him out of millions of dollars in movie profits related to the 2002 movie "Spider-Man." Lee was the creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil.


Silly Quote of The Day


"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President.

 

[vodkazvictim]

I use to check Wikipedia for things that happened on the day in the year we have.

A thread about this, for members to share big and small, significant or just odd would be a fun thing

So I will share some things that happened today:

1868 – The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is certified, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.

1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor of Tupperware (d. 1983)

1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that ***** 42,000 German civilians.

1953 – Don Black, founder and current webmaster of Stormfront

2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

World Hepatitis Day (International) :1orglaugh

Smart post.
You don't belong on Freeones.
Start making trash-talking posts displaying huge amounts of stupidity, ignorance, arrogance and a stellar misunderstanding of grammar and spelling and I'll consider letting you remain here.