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March 1st in history.....
1803: Ohio enters the Union as the 17th state.
1872: President Ulysses S Grant signs a bill creating Yellowstone National Park, making it the first national park in the United States.
1875: The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing African Americans equal access to public facilities.
1961: President John F. Kennedy creates the Peace Corps by executive order.
1972: Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA basketball player to score 30,000 points.
unclehobart
3/01/05, 08:36am
March 1st in history.....
1972: Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA basketball player to score 30,000 points.
Dontcha mean 30,000 chicks?
March 1st has been a day of goodness. Yellowstone Park, civil rights, Peace Corps. Nice.
Dontcha mean 30,000 chicks?
I thought he'd only shagged 20,000. 30,000 would be 1 a day for 82 years.
March 2nd
1498: Vasco de Gama's Portuguese expedition reaches the island of Mozambique, the most southerly port of call for Arab merchants on the east coast of Africa.
1807: The United States Congress abolishes the slave trade, effective January 1, 1808.
1836: Texas declares its independence from Mexico; the United States does not recognize the new Republic of Texas.
1877: On the basis of its committee's recommendation, the United States Congress rewards all 20 disputed electoral votes in the previous December's presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
1923: Time magazine debuts as a weekly news review.
1974: Stevie Wonder wins five Grammy awards for his album Innervisions.
Dr. Seuss's Seussville
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March 5th
1770: In the Boston Massacre, British troops fire on a raucous mob, killing five Americans and wounding six. Among the victims is Crispus Attucks, a seaman of African American descent.
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1897: The American Negro Academy is formed.
1922: Annie Oakley shoots 98 out of 100 clay pigeons, breaking the existing women's trap-shooting record.
1946: Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, declares that “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the
European Continent.”
1956: The motion picture King Kong is shown on television for the first time.
March 6th
1834: Toronto, Ontario, (originally called York) is incorporated as a city.
1836: About 170 Texans perish at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, when approximately 3,000 Mexicans commanded by general Antonio Lopes de Santa Anna overrun the Republic of Texas garrison.
1857: The United States Supreme Court rules on the Dred Scott case, declaring that African Americans are not U.S. citizens. The decision intensifies ongoing debates about slavery.
1930: Clarence Birdseye, food expert, industrialist, and inventor, introduces prepackaged, quick-frozen food to American consumers.
1980: Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first female member of the Académie Francçaise.
1981: Walter Cronkite, longtime anchor of the CBS evening news, signs off for the last time.
That means tomorrow's a dark anniversary... Dan Rather's first newscast, and the weird sit/squat thing that went with it. I guess he didn't have the "courage" to sit down at first.
March 7th
1778: Captain James Cook first sights the Oregon Coast at Yaquina Bay, near the current site of Newport, Oregon.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone.
1901: The bluebonnet is adopted as the state flower of Texas.
1936: German troops reoccupy the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland, violating the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
1965: On what becomes known as Bloody Sunday, a march through Selma, Alabama, is broken up by police.
1977: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto claims a massive victory in Pakistan's general election. His party is later accused by opposition parties of rigging the vote.
March 10th
1849: Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent. He is the first United States president to do so.
1862: The first paper money in the United States is issued.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first message by voice over wire using his newly invented telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”
1880: The Salvation Army, previously based only in England, is established in the United States in New York City.
1971: Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins a landslide victory in the Indian general election.
A.B.Normal
3/10/05, 06:42am
1876: Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first message by voice over wire using his newly invented telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”
So Mr.Watson must have invented the second telephone or was his invention the answering machine. :swing:
or maybe it was the sexual harrassment lawsuit.
come here,I want you.
The greeting hello is a fairly recent invention. Professor Allen Koenigsberg author of The Patent History of the Phonograph believes the word wasn't in use much before Thomas Edison introduced it as a way to let a caller know you had picked up a ringing phone. Edison preferred "Hello" over Alexander Graham Bell's "AHOY!" as a greeting. In either case, English may be the only language where the telephone greeting has become proper to use in a face-to-face greeting.
A.B.Normal
3/10/05, 07:04am
English may be the only language where the telephone greeting has become proper to use in a face-to-face greeting.
Really, I'll have to try that ,but I usually answer the phone"what the fuck do you want ,I was in the shower" :evilcool:
or
"Who the Hell is this and why are you calling?"
"Thank you for calling Aaron; this is him."
March 11th
1302: According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.
1865: General William T. Sherman takes Fayetteville, North Carolina, and destroys the aresenal there.
1888: From March 11 until March 14, the worst blizzard in history hits the eastern United States, paralyzing the region.
1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. It gives the president authority to aid any nation whose defense is regarded as vital to the United States and to accept repayment.
1959: The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is first performed in New York City. It stars Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil and goes on to win a New York Drama Critics Circle award.
1985: Mikhail Gorbachev is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
March 12th
1868: The south African chief Moshoeshoe I is granted British protection from the Boers, making Basutoland (modern Lesotho) a British protectorate.
1912: The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is founded.
1933: President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first fireside chat by radio, to encourage support for the New Deal.
1938: The Anschluss (annexation) of Austria takes place when German troops invade and occupy the country, and a Nazi government is formed.
1969: Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman marry.
1992: Mauritius becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth.
March 13th
1781: German-born English astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
1868: The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins. Johnson is the first United States president to be impeached.
1881: Alexander II, emperor of Russia, is assassinated by a bomb thrown into his carriage by a member of a revolutionary group, the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will).
1961: The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, age 79, marries Jacqueline Roque, age 37.
March 14th
1743: The first town meeting is held at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.
1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
1883: Karl Marx, Prussian political theorist, economist, and sociologist whose ideas formed the basis of communism, dies in London, England, at the age of 65.
1900: The United States Congress passes legislation transferring all U.S. currency to the gold standard.
1964: Jack Ruby is found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
March 15th
1916: A United States expedition under the command of General John J. Pershing is sent into Mexico to pursue the Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa.
1919: The American Legion is formed in Paris, France.
1937: The first blood bank in the world is established in Chicago, Illinois.
1956: The musical My Fair Lady, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, makes its debut performance in New York City.
1964: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are married in Montreal, Canada.
1989: A large rally in Budapest calls for democracy and national independence for Hungary.
March 16
1516: Louis II, aged nine, succeeds as king of Bohemia and Hungary on the death of Ladislas II.
1802: West Point, site of the United States Military Academy, is founded by the Congress of the United States.
1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published.
Learn more about Nathaniel Hawthorne.
1966: United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, aboard Gemini 8, achieve the first linkup of a crewed spacecraft with another object, an Agena rocket.
1968: United States soldiers massacre hundreds of men, women, and children at the village of My Lai, in South Vietnam.
1971: Simon and Garfunkel win the Grammy Award for Best Album for Bridge Over Troubled Water and the Grammy for Best Record for the title song.
March 17th HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D
1737: The Charitable Irish Society of Boston, Massachusetts, hosts the first nonliturgical celebration of Saint Patrick's Day.
1762: The first Saint Patrick's Day parade in New York, New York, inaugurates a strong traditional celebration among Irish Americans.
1861: The kingdom of Italy is formally proclaimed.
1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1969: Golda Meir is sworn in as Israel's fourth prime minister.
Gato_Solo
3/17/05, 05:04pm
1929...Gato's father was born. ;)
March 18th
1554: Princess Elizabeth, heir apparent to the throne in England, is imprisoned for suspected complicity in Wyatt's Rebellion against her half sister, Queen Mary I of England.
1922: Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the Indian Home Rule movement, is sentenced to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience.
1925: Thousands of people are injured and 689 killed when a tornado, the worst in United States history to date, passes through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that approves statehood for Hawaii. Hawaii officially becomes a state on August 21, 1959.
1967: The Beatle's hit single "Penny Lane" goes Number One. :D
March 19th
1687: The French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is murdered on the banks of the Rio Brazos (in modern Texas) by his mutinous men.
1823: Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico is forced to abdicate by insurgents.
1831: The first recorded bank robbery in history takes place in New York City. The bank robbers make off with about $245,000, some of which is later recovered.
1920: The United States Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles for the second time; the United States does not join the League of Nations.
1977: CBS broadcasts the final episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
1995: Michael Jordan returns to professional basketball after a 17-month period of retirement.
2003: United States forces invade Iraq, beginning the U.S.-Iraq War of 2003.
March 20th
1602: The Dutch East India Company is chartered to establish bases and fortifications against Spain and Portugal, in return for a monopoly of trade in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is first published in book form. :D i remember doing a book report on her!
1956: France recognizes the independence of its protectorate of Tunisia. The bey of Tunis is head of state with Habib ben Ali Bourguiba as prime minister.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry on the Rock of Gilbralter.
:D :D :D
1995: Nerve gas kills 12 people and injures about 5000 on the underground railroad in Tokyo, Japan. Two days later police raid the offices of the Aum Shinrikyo religious sect (founded in 1987) in Kamikuishiki, Honshu.
March 22
1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1763: To raise revenue in the American colonies, the British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, levying a direct tax on colonial legal and commercial documents.
1945: The Arab League is formed in Cairo, Egypt.
1963: The Beatles' first album Please Please Me is released in Britain; it is soon number one on the pop charts. :D
1972: The Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification; it ultimately fails to win enough states to become part of the U.S. Constitution.
March 23
1775: In a speech to the Virginia convention, Patrick Henry utters the immortal words "Give me liberty or give me death!"
1919: Benito Mussolini founds the right wing Fascist Party in Italy.
1925: Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution in schools; teacher John Scopes ignores the ban and is later prosecuted in the so-called "Monkey Trial." :confused:
1983: President Ronald Reagan announces plans for developing a space-based defense system that becomes known as "Star Wars."
1983: Retired dentist Barney B. Clark dies 112 days after receiving the first artificial heart. :crying4:
1996: Lee Teng-hui becomes Taiwan's first democratically elected president.
SouthernN'Proud
3/23/05, 11:29am
1925: Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution in schools; teacher John Scopes ignores the ban and is later prosecuted in the so-called "Monkey Trial." :confused:
Simple, really. He broke a state law. He was prosecuted for doing so. Why would that cause confusion?
March 24th
1882: German scientist Robert Koch announces that he has discovered the bacillus that causes tuberculosis.
1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Tydings-McDuffie Act, granting future independence to the Philippines.
1958: Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll," enters the U.S. Army for two years.
1989: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spills 260,000 barrels of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
1925:Simple, really. He broke a state law. He was prosecuted for doing so. Why would that cause confusion?
Ok wrong smilie there i put........I was reading up on it when i posted it and i found it to be very interesting...especially the opening statements.....Got me to thinking what would have happened if he could have tought it!
And Now Adays how people freak out with....In God We Trust on our $$....... and prayer in schools....and ten commandments in public places.....Would people think different of him now???
"Opening statements pictured the trial as a titanic struggle between good and evil or truth and ignorance. Bryan claimed that "if evolution wins, Christianity goes." Darrow argued, "Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial." The prosecution, Darrow contended, was "opening the doors for a reign of bigotry equal to anything in the Middle Ages." To the gasps of spectators, Darrow said Bryan was responsible for the "foolish, mischievous and wicked act." Darrow said that the anti-evolution law made the Bible "the yardstick to measure every man's intellect, to measure every man's intelligence, to measure every man's learning." It was classic Darrow, and the press--mostly sympathetic to the defense--loved it."
"The prosecution opened its case by asking the court to take judicial notice of the Book of Genesis, as it appears in the King James version. It did. Superintendent White led off the prosecution's list of witnesses with his testimony that John Scopes had admitted teaching about evolution from Hunter's Civic Biology. Chief Prosecutor Tom Stewart then asked seven students in Scope's class a series of questions about his teachings. They testified that Scopes told them that man and all other mammals had evolved from one-celled organism. Darrow cross-examined--gently, though with obvious sarcasm--the students, asking freshman Howard Morgan: "Well, did he tell you anything else that was wicked?" "No, not that I can remember," Howard answered. After drugstore owner Fred Robinson took the stand to testify as to Scope's statement that "any teacher in the state who was teaching Hunter's Biology was violating the law," the prosecution rested. It was a simple case."
March 25th
1634: The first settlers arrive in Maryland and found the town of Saint Mary's.
1807: Britain abolishes the African slave trade.
1957: The Treaty of Rome was signed, providing for the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC), or Common Market.
1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated; he was succeeded by his half brother, Prince Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz.
On this day in 1956:
The lovely and semi-talented Dara Rogers (née Menges) was born and subsequently screamed loudly. Happy Birthday, honey! :D
March 28th
1797: The first U.S. patent for a washing machine was granted to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire.
1834: For the first time in history, the U.S. Senate votes to censure a president, declaring that Andrew Jackson inappropriately removed federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1930: The ancient Turkish city of Constantinople changes its name to Istanbul.
1941: British writer Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning.
1969: In London, Ringo Starr announces that there will be no more public appearances by the Beatles. :crying4:
1979: A nuclear disaster at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania increases public concerns about the safety of nuclear power.
March 29th
1867: The British North America Act establishes the Dominion of Canada, comprising the provinces of Québec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
1932: American comedian Jack Benny makes his radio debut.
1961: The 23rd Amendment is ratified, giving residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.
1973: The last U.S. troops leave Vietnam, ending U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1974: The Mariner 10 spacecraft, launched by NASA in November, is the first spacecraft to visit Mercury and take close-up pictures of the planet.
1961: The 23rd Amendment is ratified, giving residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.
Umm... That one may have been a mistake. :D
March 30th
1858: Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents his idea of attaching an eraser to the top of a lead pencil.
1867: U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia, purchasing Alaska for $7,200,000; critics dub the deal "Seward's Folly."
1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he leaves a Washington, D.C. hotel; drifter John Hinckley, Jr. is promptly arrested for the shooting.
1986: Actor James Cagney, who won Academy Award for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy, dies at 86.
1999: A jury in Portland, Oregon orders Phillip Morris to pay $81,000,000 to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades. :alienhuh:
1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he leaves a Washington, D.C. hotel; drifter John Hinckley, Jr. is promptly arrested for the shooting.
But he did it for love.
PRESIDENT REAGAN SHOT:
March 30, 1981
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.
The president was shot in the left lung, and the .22 caliber bullet just missed his heart. In an impressive feat for a 70-year-old man with a collapsed lung, he walked into George Washington University Hospital under his own power. As he was treated and prepared for surgery, he was in good spirits and quipped to his wife, Nancy, ''Honey, I forgot to duck,'' and to his surgeons, "Please tell me you're Republicans."
March 31st
Terri Schiavo Dies :crying4:
1774: British Parliament responds to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Boston Port Act, which closes the port of Boston; Americans regard this as the first of the so-called "Intolerable Acts."
1870: Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.
1889: The Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris World's Fair, opens in France.
1949: Newfoundland becomes the 10th province in Canada.
1976: The New Jersey Supreme Court sets a precedent, ruling that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan can be taken off life support so she can "die with dignity."
SouthernN'Proud
3/31/05, 09:19am
1967: In London, Jimi Hendrix burned his first guitar on stage on this date. :beardbng: :band:
1967: In London, Jimi Hendrix burned his first guitar on stage on this date. :beardbng: :band:
" "Scuse me, while I kiss this guy. "
*snort, giggle, snort* (http://www.kissthisguy.com/)
April 1st
1621: Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags, and John Carver, governor of Plymouth Colony, sign the first peace treaty between Native Americans and Pilgrims.
1789: The newly established U.S. House of Representatives holds its first full meeting.
1972: The first major league baseball players strike in the U.S. begins.
1979: Following a referendum, Iran is declared an Islamic Republic by the Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
1984: R&B singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in Los Angeles.
1999: Nunavut becomes the third independent territory in Canada; it is the homeland of Canada's Inuit, who comprise the vast majority of the population of Nunavut.
April 2nd
1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, searching for the mythical fountain of youth, discovers Florida.
1792: Congress passes the Coinage Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, then the nation's capital.
1917: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress to enter World War I, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy."
1932: In New York, aviator Charles Lindbergh pays a ransom to secure the return of his kidnapped infant son; the baby is later found murdered.
1982: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, a British dependency; Britain responds by sending in its armed forces to retake the islands.
2003: Special operations forces rescue U.S. soldier Jessica Lynch, who was captured in the early days fighting in Iraq.
April 3rd
1860: The legendary Pony Express begins mail service between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
1882: Jesse James, notorious U.S. bank and train robber, is shot in the back by a member of his own gang seeking to claim reward money.
1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, is executed by electrocution.
1991: The U.N. Security Council passes a cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War.
1996: Theodore Kaczynski is arrested on charges that he is the Unabomber, an anarchist whose homemade bombs killed three and wounded many others over 17 years.
April 4th
1818: Congress approves the U.S. flag with 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars; a star is to be added for each new state.
1850: Los Angeles is incorporated as a city the same year that California is admitted to the United States.
1949: NATO is formed by 12 western democratic nations, including the United States and Great Britain, to safeguard against Soviet aggression.
1964: The Beatles hold the top five spots on Billboard's Hot 100, setting an all-time record.
1968: American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee; in 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the shooting.
April 6th
1830: Joseph Smith founds the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Church of Christ until 1834.
1896: The first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece.
1909: American explorer Robert Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson, and four Inuit guides are the first recorded people to reach the North Pole.
1917: The U.S. declares war on Germany and enters World War I.
April 7th
1919: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record its music, makes its debut in London, England; its song “Tiger Rag” becomes popular.
1940: Educator Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.
1948: The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations dedicated to improving health worldwide, comes into existence.
1949: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play South Pacific, opens on Broadway; it wins a Pulitzer Prize the following year.
1980: U.S. president Jimmy Carter breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran during the hostage crisis.
1994: Civil war erupts in Rwanda a day after an airplane, carrying the nation's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down.
April 9th
1865: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, paving the way for the end of the Civil War.
1959: NASA announces the selection of America's first seven astronauts, chosen to participate in the Mercury program, the nation's first manned space program.
1968: Slain American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.
1970: Paul McCartney announces the official breakup of the Beatles.
April 10th
1790: The first U.S. patent law, protecting inventions against piracy, is approved.
1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York.
1912: The British luxury liner Titanic sets off on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean; five days later it sinks after hitting an iceberg. :crying4:
1925: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is published; it will become one of the most important novels of the 20th century.
1974: Golda Meir, a founder of the state of Israel, announces that she is resigning as prime minister.
April 11th
1951: U.S. president Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur from his commands during the Korean War after the general publicly criticized the administration's war policy.
1970: Apollo 13 blasts off toward the moon; an explosion two days later forces astronauts to abort the mission and make a daring return to earth.
1979: Idi Amin is overthrown as president of Uganda; during his brutal regime, an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed.
SouthernN'Proud
4/11/05, 12:40pm
April 9th 1865: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, paving the way for the end of the Civil War.
:crying4:
April 12th
1861: The American Civil War begins when Confederate troops open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.
1945: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, recently elected to a record fourth term in office, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage; Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as president.
1955: The polio vaccine prepared by U.S. physician Jonas E. Salk is released for general use in the United States.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, aboard Vostok 1, is the first man to travel to space; he makes one orbit of the earth during his 108-minute flight.
1999: A U.S. District Court judge cites President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. :lloyd: :D
April 13th
1796: The first known elephant brought to the United States arrives from Bengal, India.
1943: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American actor to win an Academy Award, for his performance in Lilies of the Field.
1970: An oxygen tank explodes aboard the U.S. lunar landing mission Apollo 13 as it nears the moon, forcing the astronauts to return to Earth.
1997: Golfer Tiger Woods, 21, becomes the youngest person to win the Masters and the first African American and Asian American champion.
April 14th
1775: The first American society for the abolition of slavery is organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia.
1828: American lexicographer Noah Webster publishes the first edition of his dictionary under the title American Dictionary of the English Language.
1865: Confederate malcontent John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Lincoln dies early the next morning.
1910: President William Taft starts an American tradition, throwing out the first ball on opening day of the major league baseball season.
1912: The Titanic strikes an iceberg four days into its maiden voyage; over 1,500 passengers drown when the ship sinks early the next morning. :crying4:
April 15th
1865: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous night at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president.
1912: The British luxury liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg; it is among the worst maritime disasters in history, with over 1,500 dead. :crying4:
1947: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in the 20th century to play in a major league baseball game.
1986: In retaliation for the terrorist bombing of a Berlin discotheque, the United States launches an air raid against Libya; nearly 40 people are killed.
1990: The enigmatic Swedish film actress Greta Garbo dies in New York.
SouthernN'Proud
4/15/05, 09:26am
April 15th
1865: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous night at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president.
From Johnson's hometown newspaper, today's edition. The homestead is now a national park property here. Just in case anybody cares or something. Seems not everybody was proud of the local boy's accomplishments...
Lllliiinnk (http://greene.xtn.net/index.php?table=news&template=news.view.subscriber&newsid=120752)
Gato_Solo
4/15/05, 09:55am
:hmm: So what would you call them (the grafitti artists)? Sore losers? :D
Here's a trivia question, SnP...and not an insult, so please don't take it that way...Why did the South lose the Civil war? They had better soldiers...better generals...etc...so what happened?
SouthernN'Proud
4/15/05, 10:54am
Now ask yourself...do you really want me to answer either of those questions?
That kind of question doesn't have a simple answer, and the answers you do get will all be opinion. That being said, here's this Southerner's opinion: Economics.
While the South was abundant in raw materials, it was enimic in industry. It had tons of cotton it couldn't turn into textile products. It had plenty of ore it couldn't render into ammunition. Considering your line of work, I'm sure you're aware of what happens to a superior army with inferior supply infrastructure.
BTW, here's a bunch more opinions. (http://www.thehistorynet.com/ah/blwhysouthlost/)
Gato_Solo
4/15/05, 11:04am
What I was taught was that the Confederacy lost the war because getting supplies to the front was a royal pain. They had a rail system, but each state had slightly different rail gauges, so the North could use superior numbers to counter the South's superior tactics. :shrug: I would welcome SnP's take on this, as well as him starting a thread of his own. :) I expect it to be a battleground, but I also expect it to be one of ideas, and not insults. ;)
SouthernN'Proud
4/15/05, 11:06am
One main reason why the South lost (and this may seem offbeat because it flies in the face of the common wisdom) is that the South lacked the moral center that the North had in this conflict.
So, one key reason the South lost is that as time went on and the war got serious, Southerners began losing faith in the cause because it really did not speak to them directly.
Oh for the love of fried catfish. Any army that would endorse the behavior of William Tecumseh Sherman has zero right to any moral high ground.
Sherman was every bit the monster Hitler was. I hope his hide is nice and crispy in Hell by now.
Either way, we're talking about supply issues. You say it's logistical, I say it's systematic.
And we're both talking out of our asses, because no one can point ot a single cause with certainty why that type of war was won or lost.
SouthernN'Proud
4/15/05, 11:09am
I would welcome SnP's take on this, as well as him starting a thread of his own. :) I expect it to be a battleground, but I also expect it to be one of ideas, and not insults. ;)
Been there, done that. You start it, I'll contribute as time allows. Busy busy busy today...
April 16th
1912: Pilot Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917: Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia after years of exile to lead the radical socialist Bolshevik party to power during the October Revolution.
1962: Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite becomes anchor of the CBS Evening News.
1999: The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, announces his retirement from professional hockey. :crying4:
April 17th
1492: Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain, giving him a commission to seek a westward passage to Asia.
Learn more about Christopher Columbus.
1861: The Virginia convention votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
1961: U.S.-backed Cuban exiles land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to overthrow Premier Fidel Castro's government; the mission is thwarted and the invaders killed or captured.
1964: The Ford Motor Company unveils its new car, the Mustang. :D
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968.
April 18
1775: Paul Revere begins his legendary midnight ride to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, to warn patriots that British troops were approaching.
1906: A devastating earthquake and subsequent fires ravage San Francisco, California, destroying most of the city's downtown.
1949: Eire formally withdraws from the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
1980: The southern African nation of Rhodesia is renamed Zimbabwe after it is granted black majority rule.
1982: Queen Elizabeth II signs the Constitution Act of 1982, which replaces the British North America Act of 1867 as Canada's Constitution.
April 19th
1775: The "shot heard 'round the world" is fired by British troops at Lexington, Massachusetts, beginning the American Revolution.
1956: American movie star Grace Kelly becomes Princess Grace when she marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
1982: American astronaut Sally Ride is the first woman selected for the NASA program.
1993: After a 51-day siege, U.S. federal agents storm the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas; a fire breaks out killing at least 80 Branch members and leader David Koresh.
1995: A truck bomb blows up outside the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 168 people are killed.
April 20th
1812: George Clinton is the first vice president of the United States to die in office.
1841: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," considered the first detective story, is published in Philadelphia.
1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium.
1968: Pierre Elliot Trudeau is sworn in as Canada's new prime minister.
1812: George Clinton is the first vice president of the United States to die in office.
Hmm... Any relation to the king of funk??? :rofl:
April 22
1864: Congress authorizes the use of the phrase, "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.
1889: A gunshot signals the start of the government-sponsored Oklahoma Land Rush; thousands of Americans rush into the territory to claim land.
1915: At the Second Battle of Pyres during World War I, German troops release deadly chlorine gas on Allied troops; it is the first major use of chemical weapons.
1915: The New York Yankees debut their famous pinstripes and hat-in-the-ring logo.
1970: Earth Day, an event intended to increase public awareness of environmental issues and to promote conservation of the world's resources, was first celebrated.
1976: Barbara Walters signs a record $1 million contract with ABC and becomes the first female nightly news anchor in the United States.
2005:Mare signs her divorce papers to be filed to her hubby! :swing: :D
SouthernN'Proud
4/22/05, 12:08pm
1889: A gunshot signals the start of the government-sponsored Oklahoma Land Rush; thousands of Americans rush into the territory to claim land.
As the thousands of rightful owners are herded into reservations so their land can be taken from them. A real shining moment in US history.
April 26th
1607: A group of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, land at Cape Henry, Virginia, where they will establish the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
1865: Nearly two weeks after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, actor John Wilkes Booth is cornered by a posse of U.S. soldiers; he is either shot or commits suicide.
1983: The Dow Jones Industrial average breaks the 1,200 mark for the first time.
1986: The world's worst nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl' plant in the Soviet Union; hundreds of thousands are exposed to dangerous levels of radioactive debris.
1989: Actress and comedian Lucille Ball, star of the popular television series I Love Lucy, dies in Los Angeles.
SouthernN'Proud
4/26/05, 09:09am
April 26 is Confederate Memorial Day in many states. Take time to remember those who died for the idea of freedom.
There was this girl I had a crush on for most of 7th grade, all of 8th and 9th grade, and most of 10th grade. Her name was Cathy and her birthday is April 26.
Oddly enough, the next girl I liked had the same birthday, but was a year older.
April 27th
1861: After Virginia secedes from the United States, West Virginia secedes from Virginia and forms its own state.
1937: In the United States, the first social security checks were distributed.
1950: Following the institution of apartheid in 1948, South Africa passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating the country's racial groups.
April 28th
1789: Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the British ship Bounty; Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal crew members were set adrift on a small boat.
1945: Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator, is shot by the Italian Resistance in Dongo, Italy; his mistress, Clara Petacci, and members of his entourage are also shot.
1960: French president Charles de Gaulle resigns after his proposals for constitutional reforms are defeated in a national referendum.
1967: World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army for religious reasons; he is later convicted of draft evasion and stripped of his title.
SouthernN'Proud
4/28/05, 09:28am
April 28, 1941:
Papa SnP was born. This event would later bear relevence when his first born offspring would...well, you know how I turned out. :D
:hbd: ol' man!
April 29th
1429: Joan of Arc, a 17-year-old French peasant convinced she has a divine mission to expel the British from France, leads troops into the besieged city of Orléans.
1945: German dictator Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker; the following day they commit suicide.
1980: British-born director Alfred Hitchcock, best known for psychological suspense films such as Psycho, dies at 80.
1984: Britain announces that its administration of Hong Kong will cease in 1997, when it will return the colony to China.
1992: One of the worst riots in U.S. history erupts in Los Angeles, California, when a jury acquits four white police officers of beating black motorist Rodney King.
April 30th
1789: George Washington is inaugurated as the first president of the United States in New York City.
1803: The United States more than doubles its size with the Louisiana Purchase, a vast territory bought from France for $15 million.
1812: The Territory of Orleans enters the Union as the 18th state, the state of Louisiana.
1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first U.S. president to appear on television when NBC begins regular broadcasting with live coverage of the opening of the New York World's Fair.
1945: Refusing to surrender after Germany is defeated by Allied forces at the end of World War II, German dictator Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
1975: The Vietnam War ends when Duong Van Minh, president of South Vietnam, surrenders unconditionally to North Vietnamese communist forces.
May 1
1707: The Act of Union unites England and Scotland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain; both countries adopt a single flag, the Union Jack.
1931: The Empire State Building in New York City has its official opening; at the time, the skyscraper is the tallest in the world.
1941: Citizen Kane, starring and directed by Orson Welles, premieres in New York; it will later be hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.
1945: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels commits suicide as Russian troops storm Berlin at the end of World War II.
1963: James W. Whittaker is the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
1967: American heartthrob Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.
Learn more about Elvis Aaron Presley.
2003: U.S. president George W. Bush declares coalition forces victorious against the regime of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
May 2
1519: Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian scientist, sculptor, and painter of masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa, dies in France.
1670: England's King Charles II grants a charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, giving it a trading monopoly and control over the region around Hudson Bay in North America.
1863: During the American Civil War, Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson is accidentally shot by his own men at Chancellorsville, Virginia; he dies shortly after.
1945: Berlin surrenders to Russian Allied forces after they stormed the German capital during World War II; less than a week later, the war in Europe ends.
1994: South African President F. W. de Klerk concedes defeat and Nelson Mandela claims victory in the country's first multi-racial presidential election.
May 3
1841: New Zealand is proclaimed a British colony.
1934: Famous Funnies, the first comic book to go on sale in the United States, hits newsstands.
1937: American author Margaret Mitchell is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind, her epic novel about life in the south during the Civil War.
1947: Japan introduces a new constitution, in which women vote for the first time.
1979: Margaret Thatcher leads the Conservative Party to victory in Britain's general elections; the next day she is sworn in as the nation's first female prime minister.
May 5th
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
1821: Former French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1921: Chanel No. 5 perfume, created by perfumer Ernst Beaux for Coco Chanel, is launched.
1925: Biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching the theory of evolution, which is outlawed in Tennessee public schools; he is later convicted in the so-called "Monkey Trial."
1961: Astronaut Alan Shepard makes a 15-minute suborbital flight, becoming the first American to travel in space.
1981: Bobby Sands is the first of 10 Irish Republican Army hunger strikers to die in a Belfast prison; they were protesting their treatment as criminals rather than political prisoners.
Hope you don't mind mare, just gonna add this one. The documentary kicks ass
1980
In Britain, the SAS storm the terrorist-occupied Iranian Embassy at Knightsbridge in London. Four gunmen are killed in the attack and all 19 hostages are rescued.
May 6th
1626: Dutch settler Peter Minuit allegedly purchases what is now New York's Manhattan Island from Native Americans for goods worth $24.
1915: In New York City, a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox named Babe Ruth hits his first home run in major league baseball; he later becomes an outfielder.
1937: The German dirigible Hindenburg, the largest airship ever built, bursts into flames upon landing in New Jersey; 36 passengers and crew are killed.
1954: British athlete Roger Bannister is the first person to run a mile in under four minutes.
1994: The Channel Tunnel linking England to France officially opens; it is hailed as one of the century's greatest feats of civil engineering.
March 7th
1847: The American Medical Association, a federation of state and territorial medical associations, is founded in Philadelphia.
1915: The British ship Lusitania is torpedoed by a German submarine off the Ireland coast; 1,198 people are killed, increasing sentiment in the United States to join World War I.
1945: German Nazi forces surrender unconditionally to U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's army in Reims, France; the European phase of World War II officially ends the next day.
1960: Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union.
1994: The masterpiece The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, is recovered undamaged nearly three months after it was stolen.
May 8th
1429: During the Hundred Years' War, the siege of Orléans ends when French troops led by 17-year-old Joan of Arc drive the English from the city.
1794: Antoine Lavoisier, French scientist who is considered the founder of modern chemistry, is guillotined by the revolutionary authorities in Paris, France.
1886: Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents a beverage he names Coca-Cola.
1945: V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) officially goes into effect on the day after Germany surrendered unconditionally to Allied forces.
1967: World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army for religious reasons.
1973: Ending a 71-day siege, armed supporters of the American Indian Movement surrender to federal officials at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
May 9th
1671: Irish adventurer Thomas Blood, known as Colonel Blood, is caught after stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London; he is ultimately pardoned by King Charles II.
1926: American aviators Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett allegedly become the first to fly over the North Pole; evidence later indicates that they may not have reached the pole.
1974: The U.S. House Judiciary Committee begins hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal.
May 10th
1863: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War
1869: A golden spike is driven into the ground in Promontory, Utah, where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet; it marks the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1940: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; at the request of King George VI, Winston Churchill agrees to take over as prime minister.
1941: Nazi deputy Rudolf Hess, apparently seeking a peace deal between Germany and Britain, steals a plane and crash lands in Scotland; he is arrested and imprisoned for the rest of the war.
1994: Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first native African president of South Africa; a new, multi-racial cabinet is formed the following day.
May 11th
1858: Minnesota becomes the 32nd state in the Union.
1949: Siam, in southeast Asia, changes its name to Thailand.
1981: Jamaican born reggae singer Bob Marley dies of cancer.
1997: IBM computer Deep Blue beats chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game series; it is the first time a computer beats an international grand master in a multigame match.
330: Constantinople becomes the new capital of the Roman Empire.
May 12th
1870: Manitoba becomes a province of the Dominion of Canada.
1932: Over two months after he was kidnapped, American aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby is found dead; Lindbergh had paid the ransom on April 2.
1949: Soviet troops end their 11-month land blockade of Berlin, Germany; the blockade was deemed useless since Western powers airlifted food and supplies to the city.
1978: The U.S. Department of Commerce declares that hurricanes will no longer be named exclusively after women. :alienhuh: they can keep their Damn hurricanes, woman named or not!
May 13th
Friday the 13th :alienhuh: :D
1607: Jamestown, Virginia is founded; it is the first permanent English settlement in America.
1846: U.S. President James Polk signs a declaration of war on Mexico two months after fighting begins.
1918: The first U.S. airmail stamps, with a picture of an airplane and costing 24 cents, are introduced.
1940: In his first speech before the British House of Commons, new Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallies the country to war saying, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
1981: Pope John Paul II is shot in the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square; he recovers after weeks in the hospital. :crying4: R.I.P.
So what are you going to do once this thread's been around for a year?
AlphaTroll
5/13/05, 07:01am
Same thing we do everyday Inky....cut & paste :P
So what are you going to do once this thread's been around for a year?
Why? You don't like Inky? :alienhuh: :D
May 14th
1796: British physician Edward Jenner tests the first smallpox vaccine on an eight-year-old boy.
1904: The United States hosts its first Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri.
1948: When British rule over Palestine ends, Israel is proclaimed an independent state and is declared open to Jewish immigration.
1955: The Warsaw Pact is signed by seven European communist nations including the Soviet Union, creating a military alliance in opposition to NATO.
1973: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launches Skylab, the first American space station.
May 15th
1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, marries her third husband James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, who was acquitted of complicity in her former husband's murder.
1930: United Airlines introduces the first stewardesses on a flight from San Francisco, California to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1940: Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States.
1941: Baseball player Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
1957: Great Britain drops a hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific, becoming the third nation, after the United States and the Soviet Union, with thermonuclear capabilities.
1988: The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan nearly a decade after invading the country.
May 16th
1770: At Versailles, Marie-Antoinette marries the future King Louis XVI of France.
1886: U.S. Congress votes to replace the half-dime with a five-cent coin called the nickel.
1929: The first Academy Awards are presented in Hollywood, California; the film Wings wins best picture.
1975: Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei is the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
SouthernN'Proud
5/16/05, 03:08pm
May 16th
1975: Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei is the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
Immediately upon the completion of his ascent, Tabei was overheard to say the immortal words, "Damn, I can see my house from here..."
Immediately upon the completion of his ascent, Tabei was overheard to say the immortal words, "Damn, I can see my house from here..."
Japanese redneck?
I would love to see a 1975 Chevy Stepside with mud-bog tires, a gun rack and the Rebel Flag driving around downtown Tokyo. :D
So what are you going to do once this thread's been around for a year?
I know this may sound wacky, but bear with me. Ive heard that there may be sites that have "this day in history" that isn't 80% American history. Crazy I know. :devious:
America is all the history there is.
We are the past, present and future.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image; make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits.
America is all the history there is.
Right. Come back in a couple of millenia. There may be an opening then. Until then your still in footnote country.
heh that's like calling Microsoft a minor player in the
'puter biz
or the internet (an Algore invention) an incremental improvement or...
by the way
They don't call it "Great Britain" anymore, heh
Hail Britainia Britaina rules the waves...
Man you guys kicked some serious arse in the Falklands huh?
heh that's like calling Microsoft a minor player in the
'puter biz
or the internet (an Algore invention) an incremental improvement or...
by the way
They don't call it "Great Britain" anymore, heh
Hail Britainia Britaina rules the waves...
Man you guys kicked some serious arse in the Falklands huh?
Thought Sir Tim Berners Lee invented the internet. We won the Falklands, and lets face it if you're going to have a war its better to win than have to run away as the communist tanks roll into the grounds of your embassy.
I think as far as history goes you should pipe down. You kinda run out after a few hundred years.
May 17th
1792: A group of brokers meeting at a coffee house in New York City organize the New York Stock Exchange. The first transactions are made under a tree on Wall Street.
1875: The first Kentucky Derby is held at Churchill Downs, Kentucky; racehorse Aristides is the winner.
1954: The U.S. Supreme Court reverses an 1896 ruling that education should be "separate but equal," ruling that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
1973: The U.S. Senate committee investigating Watergate begins its televised proceedings; allegations of wrongdoing in the affair lead to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
That my Limey antagonist was good, Touché!
Well at least you stood with us all through
the cold war and joined us on our recent
happy little jaunt to the Mid-East.
We may be short on history
but we will certainly write the foreseeable future!
One should never bet on foreseeable future. The man who said "The sun never sets on the British Empire" was quite wrong 40 years later.
Although to have an Empire where it is daylight somewhere at any given time is quite big.
SouthernN'Proud
5/17/05, 09:05am
May 17th
1954: The U.S. Supreme Court reverses an 1896 ruling that education should be "separate but equal," ruling that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
1955: The races began segregating themselves voluntarily, leading to forced busing and integration in the 1970s.
I would love to see a 1975 Chevy Stepside with mud-bog tires, a gun rack and the Rebel Flag driving around downtown Tokyo. :D
Real rednecks drive pickups with long, wide beds. This increases the intervals between having to back up at high speed and slam on the brakes with the tailgate down. ;)
1814 Norway's constitution was signed in the town of Eidsvoll.
The day is often referred to as the "children's day, the celebration (http://www.norway.org.uk/facts/Constitution+Day/nationalday.htm) usually puts the kids in focus, starting with parades, then we bring on the hot dogs, soda, ice cream, games and whatnot.
http://www.norway.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/2A4E171B-40FE-45E4-B29A-951ADC1837EE/26798/flaggbarn.jpg
I shouldn't have had that last brownie. *burps*
Professur
5/17/05, 03:22pm
Real rednecks drive pickups with long, wide beds. This increases the intervals between having to back up at high speed and slam on the brakes with the tailgate down. ;)
Rule number one in dealing with rednecks. Never mention the words house and hunting in the same sentence.
One should never bet on foreseeable future. The man who said "The sun never sets on the British Empire" was quite wrong 40 years later.
Q: Why does the sun never set on the English Empire?
A: Even God doesn't trust the English in the dark. :D
Professur
5/17/05, 03:32pm
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Inkara1 again.
SouthernN'Proud
5/17/05, 03:33pm
Rule number one in dealing with rednecks. Never mention the words house and hunting in the same sentence.
hey Hey HEY...watch the racial slurs!
:swing:
Professur
5/17/05, 03:39pm
Are you gonna be at the BBQ?
SouthernN'Proud
5/17/05, 04:09pm
Sadly, no.
Professur
5/17/05, 04:13pm
Then fuck you Redneck. j/k
SouthernN'Proud
5/17/05, 04:42pm
Ya know, BOP had the right idea.
:trout:
Professur
5/17/05, 04:44pm
Ya know, BOP had the right idea.
Now there's summat you don't hear every day.
BeardofPants
5/17/05, 05:03pm
Really? I hear it in my head all the time. :retard:
AlphaTroll
5/18/05, 03:43am
Immediately upon the completion of his ascent, Tabei was overheard to say the immortal words, "Damn, I can see my house from here..."
Call me a pedantic fuck, but didn't she say Tabei was the first woman to ascent Everest?? ;)
Call me a pedantic fuck, but didn't she say Tabei was the first woman to ascent Everest?? ;)
Call me pedantic but shouldn't that be Acsend? :D
Gato_Solo
5/18/05, 05:56am
Call me pedantic but shouldn't that be Acsend? :D
Okay...you're pedantic. :shrug: :lol2:
May 18th
1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed emperor of France by the Senate and Tribunate.
1860: Abraham Lincoln, a former Illinois state legislator, receives the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1896: In Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation is legal as long as "separate but equal" facilities are provided for whites and blacks.
1910: Halley's Comet is seen from earth as it passes in front of the sun; it appears every 76 years.
1980: Mount Saint Helens volcano in Washington state erupts, causing an outbreak of fires, mudslides, and floods; 57 people die in the largest eruption in U.S. history.
Okay...you're pedantic. :shrug: :lol2:
I get the feeling alot of pedants hang around here :D
AlphaTroll
5/18/05, 06:35am
Call me pedantic but shouldn't that be Acsend? :D
No man - I am a freaky Dutchman - reading & writing are necessities, spelling is optional ;)
Call me pedantic but shouldn't that be Acsend? :D
Call me pedantic... but shouldn't it be ascend? :D
Call me pedantic... but shouldn't it be ascend? :D
Probably :lol2: Any other takers
No man - I am a freaky Dutchman...
[pedantic mode=on]Shouldn't that read Dutchwoman? [pedantic mode/off]
Speeling is F7
AlphaTroll
5/18/05, 09:40am
No man - I am a freaky Dutchman.../quote]
[pedantic mode=on]Shouldn't that read Dutchwoman? [pedantic mode/off]
Speeling is F7
Quoting around these here parts:
[quote=AlphaTroll]You need to close the brackets
No man - I am a freaky Dutchman - reading & writing are necessities, spelling is optional ;)
doh!
AlphaTroll
5/18/05, 09:51am
doh!
[Homer Simpson moment]D'oh!!![/Homer Simpson moment]
:P ;)
SouthernN'Proud
5/18/05, 11:13am
Call me a pedantic fuck, but didn't she say Tabei was the first woman to ascent Everest?? ;)
Oops. Consider me chastised.
SouthernN'Proud
5/18/05, 11:15am
May 18th
1860: Abraham Lincoln, a former Illinois state legislator, receives the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
:crying4: And thus began the most prolific cover up in American history, still going strong to this day.
Now y'all KNEW I wasn't about to let this slip past me...
At 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted.
Gato_Solo
5/18/05, 09:50pm
Now y'all KNEW I wasn't about to let this slip past me...
:hmm: That, for some strange reason, has me thinking about Foghorn Leghorn...:hmm:
pwned!
You win some you lose some *cough* wanker *cough*
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.
AlphaTroll
5/19/05, 07:32am
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
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
1999 Scrabble outlawed in all dutch talking countries. Scores of 2500000 have been recorded.
SouthernN'Proud
5/19/05, 08:44am
1643: Representatives from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a military alliance.
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."
Gato_Solo
5/20/05, 01:17am
1999 Scrabble outlawed in all dutch talking countries. Scores of 2500000 have been recorded.
Come again? (http://www.wiseacre-gardens.com/buttons/pics/sounds/foghorn11.wav)
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."
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.
Gato_Solo
5/20/05, 04:40am
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.
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.
Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy)
If the American war had been a sea battle, You guys would still be singing god save the queen :la:
Gato_Solo
5/20/05, 05:04am
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.
Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy)
If the American war had been a sea battle, You guys would still be singing god save the queen :la:
Ahh...scarcasm (http://www.wiseacre-gardens.com/buttons/pics/sounds/porky10.wav) :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.
Gato_Solo
5/20/05, 05:17am
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.
Niether does the Spanish-American war, either...:P
Yup, Has to have a large sea dimension and a sea based invasion otherwise its a scuffle.
Gato_Solo
5/20/05, 05:28am
Yup, Has to have a large sea dimension and a sea based invasion otherwise its a scuffle.
I don't think you are correct in that assessment... (http://www.wiseacre-gardens.com/buttons/pics/sounds/fog1.wav)
AlphaTroll
5/20/05, 05:38am
Niether does the Spanish-American war, either...:P
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!
Gato_Solo
5/20/05, 05:40am
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!
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.
AlphaTroll
5/20/05, 06:12am
Point? Who said I had to have one of those? :hmm:
AlphaTroll
5/20/05, 07:24am
Why does it show last post made by Mare? Am I invisible or summin?
SouthernN'Proud
5/20/05, 09:22am
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.
[dude from Slingblade voice]Mmmmm, I don't reckon we ever had us one o'them Civil Wars over hyar. 'Twarn't nuttin' civil 'bout it. Mmmm-hmmmm. Is 'at mustard on 'em 'air biscuits?[/voice]
Why does it show last post made by Mare? Am I invisible or summin?
oddly I can't see when your online. I just thought you were being invisible. Same goes for BoP.
[dude from Slingblade voice]Mmmmm, I don't reckon we ever had us one o'them Civil Wars over hyar. 'Twarn't nuttin' civil 'bout it. Mmmm-hmmmm. Is 'at mustard on 'em 'air biscuits?[/voice]
Don't know much about it on the whole. Whose side were the Indians on?
May 21st
1881: Clara Barton establishes the American Red Cross, a counterpart to the European humanitarian agency founded in Switzerland in 1864.
1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, when she arrives in Ireland from Newfoundland, Canada.
1945: American movie star Humphrey Bogart marries his To Have and Have Not costar Lauren Bacall.
1961: U.S. president John F. Kennedy commits the country to “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth before this decade is out.”
1991: Rajiv Ghandhi, former prime minister of India, is assassinated during election campaigns; his mother, Prime Minister Indira Ghandhi, was assassinated in 1984.
Gato_Solo
5/22/05, 04:47am
Don't know much about it on the whole. Whose side were the Indians on?
Nice...
1. They weren't Indian. They were, and are, Native American.
2. The Native Americans were fighting to reclaim what was stolen from them. If you wish to say it, yes, it was a war. One started by the British and French, BTW, way back in the 1752. When you folks from the UK were given the hob-nail boot in the ass out of the US, it was our turn to screw over the Native Americans.
3. Didn't the UK get rather embarasses during the Boer War between 1899 and 1904?
Learn from your history, young padawan. :D
http://ecole.wanadoo.fr/college.saintebarbe/victoria/images/carte.jpg
Queen Victoria's Conquests
In her life, Queen Victoria conquered many countries : Egypt in 1881, Canada in 1867, India and she became Empress of India in 1876. After her death in 1901 Edward VII conquered Australia and New Zealand in 1907, South Africa in 1910, Ireland in 1922.
Still looks pretty big to me.
Gato_Solo
5/22/05, 07:17am
http://ecole.wanadoo.fr/college.saintebarbe/victoria/images/carte.jpg
Queen Victoria's Conquests
In her life, Queen Victoria conquered many countries : Egypt in 1881, Canada in 1867, India and she became Empress of India in 1876. After her death in 1901 Edward VII conquered Australia and New Zealand in 1907, South Africa in 1910, Ireland in 1922.
Still looks pretty big to me.
Too bad she couldn't hold them, eh? What are you down to now...just the Falklands, right? :D
May 22nd
1455: England's 30-year Wars of the Roses begin with King Henry VI's Lancastrian forces defeated by the Yorkists in the Battle of St. Albans.
1939: German dictator Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini sign the "Pact of Steel," establishing a military alliance between their countries.
1972: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
1992: Johnny Carson ends his 30-year reign as the popular host of television's "The Tonight Show."
2003: Golfer Annika Sörenstam tees up for the Colonial tournament, becoming the first woman to compete in a PGA Tour event since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945.
Too bad she couldn't hold them, eh? What are you down to now...just the Falklands, right? :D
Well actually dude.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/350px-Commonwealth_map.gif
The Commonwealth encompasses a population of approximately 1.8 billion people, making up about 30% of the world's total. India is the most populous member, with a billion people at the 2001 census, while Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria each contain more than 100 million people. Tuvalu, by contrast, the smallest has only 11,000 inhabitants. The land area of the Commonwealth nations equals about a quarter of the world's land area, with Australia, Canada—the world's second-largest nation by area—and India each having more than 2.5 million square kilometres.
Membership is normally open to countries which accept the association's basic aims. Members are required to have a present or past constitutional link to the United Kingdom or to another Commonwealth member. Consequently, not all members have had direct constitutional ties to the United Kingdom: some South Pacific countries were formerly under Australian administration, while Namibia was governed by South Africa from 1920 until independence in 1990. Cameroon joined in 1995 although only a fraction of its territory had formerly been under British administration through the League of Nations mandate of 1920–46 and United Nations Trusteeship arrangement of 1946–61.
Only one member of the present Commonwealth was never attached to the British Empire or any Commonwealth member: Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony was admitted in 1995 on the back of the triumphal re-admission of South Africa, with support from Mozambique's neighbours, all of whom were members of the Commonwealth and who wished to offer assistance in overcoming the losses incurred as a result of the country's opposition to white minority regimes in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa. In 1997, amid some discontent, Commonwealth Heads of Government agreed that Mozambique's admission should be seen as a special case and did not set a precedent.
Charles de Gaulle once suggested that France, though it was never a member of the British Empire (even if for centuries English/British monarchs claimed the title 'King of France') should apply for Commonwealth membership; this idea was never realised, but may be seen as a follow-up to a proposal made by Churchill to keep a French government in exile during World War II instead of the puppet regime of Vichy France. Egypt, Iraq, and Israel have never shown an interest in joining the Commonwealth, despite their histories of British rule. Similarly Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, and Oman are not members. Nor is the United States, which was formed from former British colonies and maintains close cultural ties with the United Kingdom—for its independence antedates the institution of the Commonwealth by 100 years. Hong Kong also did not join the commonwealth following the end of British rule in 1997, as it was absorbed into a sovereign state, the People's Republic of China.
Because the Commonwealth's member countries were spread out so far and wide around the world, it was common to say (or hear) that "the sun never sets on the British Commonwealth" (originally, "the British Empire"). Even with its declining membership, this remained true, at least on a timezone by timezone basis, until member nation Gambia was realigned from timezone -0100 into Zulu time (http://godscopybook.blogs.com/gpb/2004/11/the_sun_still_d.html).
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Suspension
In recent years the Commonwealth has suspended several members "from the Councils of the Commonwealth" for failure to uphold democratic government. Suspended members are not represented at meetings of Commonwealth leaders and ministers, although they remain members of the organisation. Fiji, which for similar reasons had been outside the Commonwealth 1987–1997, was suspended 2000–2001, after a military coup, as was Pakistan from 1999 until 2004. Nigeria was suspended between 1995 and 1999. Zimbabwe was suspended in 2002 over concerns with the electoral and land reform policies of Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF government, before withdrawing from the organisation in 2003.
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Termination of membership
As membership is purely voluntary, member governments can choose at any time to leave the Commonwealth. Pakistan left the Commonwealth in 1972 in protest at Commonwealth recognition of breakaway Bangladesh, but rejoined in 1989. Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth in 2003 when Commonwealth Heads of Government refused to lift the country's suspension on human rights and governance grounds.
Although Heads of Government have the power to suspend member states, the Commonwealth has no provision for the expulsion of members. However, Commonwealth Realms which become republics automatically cease to be members unless, like India in 1950, they obtain the permission of other members to remain in the organisation as a republic. The Republic of Ireland did not apply for re-admittance after becoming a republic in 1949, as the Commonwealth at the time did not allow republican membership. However the leader of its Opposition at the time, Eamon de Valera, believed the Republic of Ireland's decision not to apply to stay was a mistake. He and his successor as Taoiseach, Sean Lemass, both considered re-applying. Éamon Ó Cuív, a minister in the present Irish Government (and himself de Valera's grandson), raised the issue of the Republic's possible reapplication a number of times in the 1990s. However, the issue arouses both some hostility and disinterest in Ireland, where some people still associate the Commonwealth with British imperialism, even though the majority of member states are now republics. The Republic of Ireland the first nation ever to leave the Commonwealth and not rejoin.
South Africa was effectively prevented from continuing as a member after it became a republic in 1961 as a result of hostility from many members, particularly those in Africa and Asia as well as Canada, to its policy of apartheid. The South African government chose not to apply to remain in the organisation as a republic since it was clear any such application would have been rejected. South Africa was re-admitted to the Commonwealth in 1995, after the end of apartheid in 1990.
The declaration of a republic in the Fiji Islands in 1987, after military coups designed to deny Indo-Fijians in Fiji political power, was not accompanied by application to remain. Commonwealth membership was held to have lapsed until 1997, after racist provisions in the republican constitution were repealed and reapplication for membership made.
In 2004, Bhutan was invited to participate in the Commonwealth, but refused on grounds of national sovereignty.
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Organisation and objectives
Queen Elizabeth II is the nominal Head of the Commonwealth. Some members of the Commonwealth recognize the Queen as head of state. These members are known as Commonwealth Realms; however, the majority of members are republics, and a handful of others are indigenous monarchies. The role of Head of the Commonwealth is best likened to that of a ceremonial president-for-life. In constitutional terms, this position is neither a hereditary monarchy nor an elective presidency. As a result it is not clear whether the current heir apparent to the British and many other Commonwealth thrones, Prince Charles, will automatically assume the position of Head of the Commonwealth or whether another head of state within the Commonwealth might be asked to assume that position.
Since 1965 there has been a London-based Secretariat. The current (2005) Commonwealth Secretary-General is Don McKinnon, a former Foreign Minister of New Zealand. The organisation is celebrated each year on Commonwealth Day, the second Monday in March.
The Commonwealth has long been distinctive as an international forum where highly developed economies (the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) and many of the world's poorer countries seek to reach agreement by consensus. This aim has sometimes been difficult to achieve, as when disagreements over Rhodesia in the 1970s and over apartheid South Africa in the 1980s led to a cooling of relations between Britain and African members.
The main decision-making forum of the organisation is the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), where Commonwealth presidents or prime ministers assemble for several days to discuss matters of mutual interest. CHOGM is the successor to the Prime Ministers' Conferences and earlier Imperial Conferences and Colonial Conferences dating back to 1887. There are also regular meetings of finance ministers, law ministers, health ministers, etc.
The most important statement of the Commonwealth's principles is the 1991 Harare Declaration, which dedicated the organisation to democracy and good government, and allowed for action to be taken against members who breached these principles. Before then the Commonwealth's collective actions had been limited by the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other members.
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Benefits of membership and contemporary concerns
The Commonwealth has often been likened to an English gentlemen's club, and the issue of membership - who is and who is not a member of the organisation - often seems to be more important, and certainly attracts much more attention, than what the organisation actually does. This is because the main benefit of membership is the opportunity for close and relatively frequent interaction, on an informal and equal basis, between members who share many ties of language, culture, and history.
In its early days, the Commonwealth also constituted a significant economic bloc. Commonwealth countries accorded each others' goods privileged access to their markets ("Commonwealth Preference"), and there was a free or preferred right of migration from one Commonwealth country to another. These rights have been steadily eroded, but their consequences remain. Within most Commonwealth countries, there are substantial communities with family ties to other members of the Commonwealth, going beyond the effects of the original colonisation of parts of the Commonwealth by settlers from Britain. Furthermore, consumers in Commonwealth countries retain many preferences for goods from other members of the Commonwealth, so that even in the absence of tariff privileges, there continues to be more trade within the Commonwealth than might be predicted. On the United Kingdom's entry to the European Union, the Lomé Convention preserved some of the preferential access rights of Commonwealth goods to the UK market.
In more recent decades there has been a mutual decline of interest in each other, and the Commonwealth's direct political and economic importance has declined. Britain has forged closer relationships with other European countries through the European Union; Britain's entry was widely felt as a betrayal by citizens of the "Old Commonwealth" whose economies had been developed on the assumption of access to British markets. Similarly, former British colonies have forged closer relationships with non-Commonwealth trading partners and closer geographic neighbours. Reaction to immigration from the new Commonwealth countries into Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s led to the restriction of the right of migration. The Commonwealth today mainly restricts itself to encouraging community between nations and to placing moral pressure on members who violate international laws, such as human rights laws, and abandon democratically-elected government. Key activities today include training experts in developing countries and assisting with and monitoring elections.
Some Commonwealth countries give Commonwealth citizens privileges that are not accorded to aliens: for example, in the United Kingdom, the right to vote is given to all Commonwealth citizens resident in that country. However, these privileges are not on a reciprocal basis, and it is up to each country to decide what privileges it accords to Commonwealth citizenship. These privileges have been largely eroded over the last few decades, although many countries continue to afford special treatment in the area of immigration and visas.
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Cultural links
The Commonwealth is also useful as an international organisation that represents significant cultural and historical links between wealthy first-world countries and poorer developing nations with diverse social and religious backgrounds. The common inheritance of the English language and literature, the common law, and British systems of administration all underpin the club-like atmosphere of the Commonwealth.
Mostly as a result of their history of British rule, many Commonwealth nations share certain identifiable traditions and customs that are elements of a shared Commonwealth culture. Examples include common sports such as cricket and rugby, driving on the left, parliamentary and legal traditions, and the use of British rather than American spelling conventions (see Commonwealth English). None of these is universal within the Commonwealth countries, nor exclusive to them, but all of them are more common in the Commonwealth than elsewhere.
The Commonwealth countries share many links at non-governmental levels, with over a hundred non-governmental organisations that are organised on a Commonwealth wide basis, notably in the areas of sport, culture, education, and other charitable sectors. A multi-sports championship called the Commonwealth Games is held every four years, two years after each Olympic Games. As well as the usual athletic disciplines, the games include sports popular throughout the Commonwealth such as bowls. The Association of Commonwealth Universities is an important vehicle for academic links, particularly through offering scholarships for students to study in universities in other Commonwealth countries. There are also many non-official associations that bring together individuals who work within the spheres of law and government, such as the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
In recent years the Commonwealth model has inspired similar initiatives on the part of France and Portugal and their respective ex-colonies, and in the former case, other sympathetic governments: the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (Community of Portuguese-speaking countries).
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Literature
The shared history of British rule has also produced a substantial body of writing in many languages - Commonwealth literature. There is an Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS (http://www.aclals.org)) with nine chapters worldwide. ACLALS holds an international conference every three years. The 13th Triennial (http://aclals.org/events/2k4/participants.htm) was held in Hyderabad, India, in August 2004; the next will be held in 2007 in Calgary, Canada.
In 1987, the Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers Prize (http://www.commonwealthwriters.com/) "to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin." Caryl Phillips won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004 for A Distant Shore. Mark Haddon won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004 Best First Book prize worth £3,000 for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Although not affiliated with the Commonwealth in an official manner, the prestigious Booker Prize is awarded annually to an author from a Commonwealth country. This honour is one of the highest in literature.
May 23rd
1785: In a letter, Benjamin Franklin describes his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses; the upper portion of the lens is ground for distance and the lower part for reading.
1873: The North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) is established as Canada's national police force; officers are popularly called Mounties. .
1911: The administrative center of the New York Public Library opens on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd streets in Manhattan.
1934: Notorious partners-in-crime Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, commonly known as Bonnie and Clyde, are shot to death in a police ambush in Louisiana.
SouthernN'Proud
5/23/05, 09:04am
Don't know much about it on the whole. Whose side were the Indians on?
To answer the question (and Gato is correct with the nomenclature), the ones who fought were primarily supportive of the Confederacy. Can't really blame them. After all, no one down here tried to enslave them or make it illegal for them to even be present.
To answer the question (and Gato is correct with the nomenclature), the ones who fought were primarily supportive of the Confederacy. Can't really blame them. After all, no one down here tried to enslave them or make it illegal for them to even be present.
Nope, that mostly happened in CA.
SouthernN'Proud
5/23/05, 10:38am
And New England.
Sorry to burst the bubble up yonder, but some history can't be swept under your rug.
And New England.
Sorry to burst the bubble up yonder, but some history can't be swept under your rug.
Yeah, but CA actually changed a law to make it legal. New England used an existing law. ;)
Hey, don't blame me! I wasn't even born back then!
Yer ancestors prolly weren't even in the country then either!
SouthernN'Proud
5/24/05, 09:02am
Hey, don't blame me! I wasn't even born back then!
Judging from my own experience, that doesn't seem to matter much.
Gato_Solo
5/26/05, 06:14am
Judging from my own experience, that doesn't seem to matter much.
AHA! So you admit it! DOn't worry. I forgive you...:sadhug: :devious:
Birthdays:
On May 26, 1907, John Wayne, was born.
1948 Stevie [Stephanie Lynn] Nicks Phoenix AZ, rocker (Fleetwood Mac)
1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait Syracuse NY, comedian
1964 Lenny Kravitz singer/guitar
1966 Helena Bonham Carter actress http://members.cox.net/ais93/helena3a.JPG
Events:
1940 The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
(I actually remember that!)
1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
1977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts OK it was the 25th.
1979 "Dancin' Fool" by Frank Zappa hits #45
1994 President Bill Clinton renewed trade privileges for China and announced his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.(good job Billy)
1994 Pop star Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic.
2004 Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing. (He later received 161 consecutive life sentences.)
To answer the question (and Gato is correct with the nomenclature), the ones who fought were primarily supportive of the Confederacy. Can't really blame them. After all, no one down here tried to enslave them or make it illegal for them to even be present.
So what you are saying is the losers sided with the losers and they lost?
SouthernN'Proud
5/26/05, 08:56am
AHA! So you admit it! DOn't worry. I forgive you...:sadhug: :devious:
I admit nothing. You'll have to make the glove fit. :swing:
May 26th
1521: The Edict of Worms outlaws the German church reformer Martin Luther and his followers, called Lutherans, by imposing on them the Ban of the Holy Roman Empire.
1868: The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends; the Senate falls one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
1896: The Wall Street Journal begins publishing the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1948: The all-white National Party, under Daniel Malan, wins South Africa's general elections; the party immediately begins instituting its policy of apartheid, or racial segregation. .
1972: Richard Nixon, the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union, signs a treaty limiting antiballistic missile sites.
1998: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that most of Ellis Island, former gateway for immigrants to America and now a museum, belongs to New Jersey, not New York.
SouthernN'Proud
5/26/05, 11:01am
May 27th
1868: The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends; the Senate falls one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict him of high crimes and misdemeanors.
They shoulda gone after his predecessor for starting war without the approval of the Senate. Or for ordering the mass execution of 39 American Indians for the crime of not surrendering their homes to white settlers in Minnesota. Or for institutinga tarriff that crippled half the nation's trade capabilities. Or...
Gato_Solo
5/27/05, 12:06am
They shoulda gone after his predecessor for starting war without the approval of the Senate. Or for ordering the mass execution of 39 American Indians for the crime of not surrendering their homes to white settlers in Minnesota. Or for institutinga tarriff that crippled half the nation's trade capabilities. Or...
Much as I like these historical tragedies, they only have as much bearing on me as I let them. I don't hold white people today responsible for slavery. :shrug: That was something I had no control over...FIDO. I also don't blame Africans for selling my ancestors to the white slave merchants. I had no control over that, either...FIDO. Neither do I have control over any of the actions of any sitting President, past or present...FIDO. What I do have control over, somewhat, is me. I do what I can to try to make life more enjoyable for everybody except my ex-wife. :D The past is dead. Learn from it, but don't dwell on it...FIDO.
If you don't know what FIDO means, PM me, and I'll give you the 411.
May 27th
1647: The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts. :devious:
1937: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, opens; at the time of its completion, it is the longest suspension bridge in existence.
1994: Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to live in his native Russia after 20 years in exile.
1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a truce with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, leader of the breakaway state of Chechnya, although fighting continues on both sides.
May 28th
1929: On With the Show, the first talking movie that is all in color debuts at New York City's Winter Garden theater.
1934: The identical Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario, Canada; the girls are made wards of the government and put on display at a themepark called Quintland.
1980: The first Islamic parliament, the Majlis, opens in Iran.
1987: West German Mathias Rust flies a private plane unchallenged through Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's historic Red Square.
1991: The 17-year Marxist rule which brought famine and war to Ethiopia ends when rebel tanks storm the nation's capital, Addis Ababa.
May 29th
1453: Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th U.S. state; it is the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1854: U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories; settlers of the territories would determine the legality of slaveholding.
1953:New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
May 30th
Happy Memorial Day!
1431: After being captured by Burgundian troops and then handed over to English troops, French military leader Joan of Arc is burned as a heretic in Rouen, France.
1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States.
1911: Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 automobile race. :D
1971: The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 was launched on its mission to Mars; it becomes the first artificial satellite of another planet when it orbits Mars the following November.
SouthernN'Proud
6/01/05, 09:21am
June 1:
1796: Tennessee becomes the 16th state to join the Union.
1942: A baby is born in the remote hills of upper East Tennessee. This child shall grow to become a strong and honorable young lady, a medicine woman among her people, spending a lifetime healing their sick and easing their pain. Her example is a beacon to all that know her. She subsequently gave birth to the prodigy known in some circles as...SnP.
Happy birthday Mom! A batch of my soon to be semi world famous often coveted never duplicated stuffed peppers is headed your way! :hug:
FluerVanderloo
6/02/05, 12:35am
June 1:
1861- Robert E. Lee is given command of the army of Virginia
1864- Battle of Cold Harbor
2005- I graduate!
June 2nd
1883: President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom, a family friend 27 years his junior, becoming the first president married in the White House.
1946: Italians vote to replace the country's monarchy with a republic, leading to the abdication of King Humbert II.
1953: Queen Elizabeth II is coronated in Westminster Abbey, after succeeding her father, George VI, to the throne the previous year.
1957: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, interviewed on CBS's Face the Nation, declares, "Your grandchildren in America will live under socialism."
1999: The African National Congress wins 66 percent of the vote in South African elections, leading to the selection two weeks later of the party's leader, Thabo Mbeki, to succeed Nelson Mandela as president.
1953: Queen Elizabeth II is coronated in Westminster Abbey, after succeeding her father, George VI, to the throne the previous year.
[sex pistols] God save the queen, we love our queen. [/sex pistols] :headbng2:
Gato_Solo
6/02/05, 09:42pm
1957: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, interviewed on CBS's Face the Nation, declares, "Your grandchildren in America will live under socialism."
Looks like he was correct in his assessment. Unless you live in a 'red' state. ;)
June 3rd
1937: American divorcee Wallis Simpson weds the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, who had abdicated the British throne to marry her.
1948: The Hale telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time, is dedicated at Mount Palomar Observatory in California.
1959: Singapore gains its independence from Britain, becoming a self-governing state in the Commonwealth of Nations.
1968: Valerie Solanas, an actor and author of the SCUM Manifesto, a pamphlet denouncing men, shoots and wounds artist Andy Warhol at his New York studio.
1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's Islamic revolution, dies, sending millions of Iranians into the streets in mourning.
Learn more about Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1999: Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic agrees with NATO leaders on a peace plan that calls for the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo.
The turning point in the Pacific War began today, June 4, 1942. American intelligence intercepted Japan's plans to capture Midway Island and from there Hawaii. The outnumbered U.S. Fleet ambushed the Japanese armada, but was losing badly. It was not until American dive bombers, navigating by guess and by God, sighted the Japanese carriers below at the precise moment their planes had left to attack the Yorktown. In just five minutes, the screeching dive bombers sank three Japanese carriers, and a fourth shortly after. This providential event turned the War, as Japan was never again able to go on the offensive.
June 4th
1827: The inaugural cricket match between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place at the Lord's ground, London, England.
1896: In Detroit, Henry Ford test-drives his first automobile, the Quadricycle, a two-cylinder engine mounted on four bicycle wheels that has a top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph).
1936: Léon Blum becomes the first Socialist premier of France when he forms a Popular Front coalition government, which introduces a program of extensive social reform.
1942: Near the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, American and Japanese air and sea forces begin the three-day Battle of Midway. The American victory there halts Japan's eastward push.
1987: After winning 107 straight times in the 400-meter hurdles, Edwin Moses loses his first race in nearly ten years when Danny Harris outruns him in Madrid, Spain.
1989: Months of student-led prodemocracy demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square end after the Chinese army crushes the protests.
2003: Television star Martha Stewart is indicted under charges including obstruction of justice and securities fraud, stemming from sales of stock in December 2001.
June 5th
1884: In response to Republican hopes that he will be the party's nominee for president, General William T. Sherman sends a telegram saying, "If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."
1900: Novelist, poet, and journalist Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28, five years after his novel The Red Badge of Courage gained international acclaim.
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation taking the United States off the gold standard, which had required that all paper money and coin be redeemable in gold.
1947: The U.S. secretary of state, General George C. Marshall, calls for a European Recovery Program (the Marshall Plan), funded by the United States, to help European countries recover from World War II.
1967: On the first morning of the Six-Day War, Israel attacks Egypt. By the day's end Israeli forces will have virtually destroyed the air forces of both Egypt and Jordan.
1968: On the night he wins the California Democratic presidential primary, Robert F. Kennedy is shot by Sirhan B. Sirhan in Los Angeles. He dies of his wounds the next day.
June 6th
1703: Work begins on the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, meant by Tsar Peter I (the Great) to be a “window on Europe.”
1884: The group of Republican Party dissidents known as the Mugwumps leaves the party convention, refusing to support its nominee for president, James G. Blaine.
1925: Under Walter P. Chrysler, a former General Motors executive, the Maxwell Motor Corporation becomes the Chrysler Corporation.
1944: In the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as D-Day, over 150,000 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied northern France.
1978: California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, which cuts local property taxes by more than two-thirds, sending many local governments into financial crisis.
1984: The Indian army attacks the sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, killing hundreds of Sikh separatists headquartered there. Four months later, outraged Sikhs assassinate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
SouthernN'Proud
6/06/05, 10:11am
June 5th
1884: In response to Republican hopes that he will be the party's nominee for president, General William T. Sherman sends a telegram saying, "If nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."
Thank God for small favors. Hope he's nice and toasty in Hell right about now.
June 8th
1869: Inventor Ives McGaffey receives a U.S. patent for a "sweeping machine," the first vacuum cleaner.
1915: U.S. secretary of state William Jennings Bryan resigns, believing that President Woodrow Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania will lead the United States into World War I.
1948: The Texaco Star Theatre debuts on NBC. Its host, Milton Berle, goes on to become one of the biggest stars of early television.
1969: James Earl Ray, later convicted for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested at London Airport while traveling under the name Ramon George Sneyd.
1978: A Nevada jury decides that a will in which reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes allegedly left his fortune to a medical institute, four universities, and a number of individuals, is a forgery.
632: Muhammad, the founder of Islam, dies in Medina.
SouthernN'Proud
6/08/05, 09:03am
June 8th
1869: Inventor Ives McGaffey receives a U.S. patent for a "sweeping machine," the first vacuum cleaner.
June 12, 1869: Margo McGaffey, wife of legendary inventor Ives, first utters the soon to become famous phrase: "Get off your ass and help me run this friggin' vacuum cleaner willya?"
Gato_Solo
6/09/05, 12:52am
June 8th
President Ulysses Grant signs an act making the Post Office an executive department.
June 10th
1194: Chartres Cathedral, France, burns down save for the west front. The reconstruction of the cathedral, which begins the same year, heralds the birth of the High Gothic style of architecture.
1776: The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to write a statement of independence from Britain.
1935: Two recovering alcoholics, Bill W. and Dr. Bob S., found Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio, to help each other stay sober.
1957: For the first time in 22 years, the Progressive Conservative Party wins control of the Canadian Parliament. They choose John Diefenbaker as prime minister.
1964: After a 75-day filibuster led by Southern senators, the U.S. Senate votes 71-29 to close debate on the Civil Rights Bill, which passes the Senate nine days later.
1978: Affirmed becomes the last horse to take the thoroughbred Triple Crown in the 20th century when he wins the Belmont Stakes. For the third straight race, Affirmed's rival Alydar finishes a close second.
June 11th
1770: British captain James Cook is the first European to discover the Great Barrier Reef off the northeastern coast of Australia.
1950: Alabama governor George Wallace attempts to block the entry of the first black students to the University of Alabama, but he backs down when faced with federal troops.
1950: Seventeen months after suffering life-threatening injuries in a car accident, Ben Hogan returns to win his second of four U.S. Open golf championships.
1963: In Saigon, South Vietnam, Buddhist monk Quang Duc sets himself on fire to protest the treatment of Buddhists by the government of U.S.-backed president Ngo Dinh Diem.
1986: In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a divided Supreme Court upholds its earlier decision in Roe v. Wade protecting a woman's right to have an abortion.
1987: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first prime minister elected to three consecutive terms as prime minister of the United Kingdom in the 20th century.
June 12th
1630: John Winthrop, the newly selected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, lands at Salem. He will lead the colony for the next two decades.
1937: In the USSR, as part of Joseph Stalin's purges of Communist Party leadership, eight generals in the Soviet army are executed for conspiracy against the government.
1963: Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and considered the most expensive movie ever made to that point, premieres in New York City.
1963: NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Not until 1994 is white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith convicted of the crime.
1964: Nelson Mandela, along with other members of the African National Congress, is sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage, treason, and conspiracy in South Africa.
1979: Pedalled by cyclist Bryan Allen, the Gossamer Albatross becomes the first human-powered vehicle to fly over the English Channel.
June 14th
Happy Flag Day!!!!!
1777: The Continental Congress votes to adopt a flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes as the national emblem of the new United States of America.
1846: In the Bear Flag Revolt during the Mexican War, American settlers capture Sonoma from Mexican forces and declare an independent Republic of California. Mexico cedes the territory to the United States in 1848.
1940: After sweeping through Belgium and the Netherlands to the north, the German army captures Paris, leading to the surrender of France three days later.
1951: UNIVAC, the first commercial, general-use computer, designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, is demonstrated by the Remington Rand company.
SouthernN'Proud
6/14/05, 02:37pm
June 14th
1940: After sweeping through Belgium and the Netherlands to the north, the German army captures Paris, leading to the surrender of France three days later.
What took 'em so long that time to surrender? :swing:
Trying to find someone who wasn't hiding to sign the papers?
June 15th
1215: King John of England signs the Magna Carta, a historic agreement with his barons that protects individual liberties and establishes that not even the king is above the law.
1752: Benjamin Franklin and his son conduct the famous experiment involving a kite and key during a thunderstorm, confirming Franklin's theory that lightning is electrical.
1844: Charles Goodyear receives a U.S. patent for the vulcanization of rubber.
1938: Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds throws his second straight no-hit game, a feat unequaled in baseball history.
1977: Less than two years after the death of longtime ruler Francisco Franco, Spain holds its first democratic elections in 41 years.
1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, visiting a Trenton, N.J., school, corrects the spelling of a student, telling him that "potato" should be spelled "potatoe."
1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, visiting a Trenton, N.J., school, corrects the spelling of a student, telling him that "potato" should be spelled "potatoe."
Then argued with the teacher that it could be spelled either way when he was corrected. :lloyd:
What took 'em so long that time to surrender? :swing:
I take it you haven't heard the French have a discussion.
Requirements:
Wine, red, local. Four of.
Bread, fresh, baguette, local. Four of.
Cheese, smelly, local. Kilo of.
Cigarettes, Camel, filterless. 500 of.
then they can engage in a 8 hour discussion on what they should be discussing.
June 16th
1654: Queen Christina of Sweden, a convert to Roman Catholicism, abdicates her throne.
1904: The action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place on this day, known as Bloomsday after Leopold and Molly Bloom, two of the novel's main characters.
1937: When the government shuts down the debut of The Cradle Will Rock, a proletarian opera written by Marc Blitzstein and directed by Orson Welles, the production moves to an empty theater nearby.
1958: Former Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy is executed for his role in the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956.
1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, is launched into a three-day orbital flight aboard Vostok 6 to study the problem of weightlessness.
1970: Kenneth A. Gibson is elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, becoming the first black mayor elected in a major northeastern city in the United States.
SouthernN'Proud
6/16/05, 10:11am
June 16
1862 Battle of Secessionville
On this day, a Union attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina, is thwarted when the Confederates turn back an attack at Secessionville, just south of the city on James Island.
Gato_Solo
6/18/05, 04:53am
June 16
1862 Battle of Secessionville
On this day, a Union attempt to capture Charleston, South Carolina, is thwarted when the Confederates turn back an attack at Secessionville, just south of the city on James Island.
Bah...the battle of Boone Hall Plantation wasn't that important. ;)
June 18th
1155: Frederick I, after consolidating his power in Germany and Italy, is crowned Holy Roman emperor by Pope Adrian IV in Rome.
1812: Aroused by the impressment of American sailors into the British navy and eager to expand the country's western possessions, the U.S. Congress declares war against Britain to begin the War of 1812.
1815: British, Prussian, and Dutch troops led by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher give French emperor and general Napoleon his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
1940: British prime minister Winston Churchill, speaking to the House of Commons before the Battle of Britain, says British resistance in the battle will be remembered as "their finest hour."
1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger. :swing:
1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
Dang that gurl kicked some ass, huh?
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Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. As a young girl, she wanted to become a professional tennis player and, at one time, was a ranked player on the junior tennis circuit. She attended Stanford University where she earned four degrees. Dr. Ride has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. She also has a Masters degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics. She was accepted into the astronaut corps in 1978 and completed her training as a mission specialist in 1979. On June 18,1983 she became the first American woman to orbit Earth when she flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger. Her second flight was also aboard Challenger in 1984. Dr. Ride was a member of the team chosen to investigate the explosion of Challenger in 1986. She left the astronaut corps in 1987 to join the faculty of Stanford University, her alma mater. Dr. Ride was, and is, concerned about the lack of women scientists and engineers. Her decision to return to Stanford University was evidence of her commitment to finding a solution to the problem. Since 1989, Dr. Ride has been on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego, where she also heads the California Space Institute.
You can write to Dr. Sally Ride at the address listed below. When writing, in order to receive a response, please include a self-addressed, self-stamped envelope.
Dr. Sally Ride
Director
California Space Institute
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day and put the official stamp on a celebration that was going on for almost half a century.
http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/father/history.html
1862
Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories.
1865
Gen. Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Tex., that the slaves were freed. The celebration of the day became known as Juneteenth.
1867
The first running of the Belmont Stakes.
1934
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.
1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved.
1977
Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann, the first male saint from the United States.
1987
The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.
2002
Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai was sworn in.
June 21st
1788: The United States Constitution takes effect after New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it. .
1877: Ten members of the Molly Maguires, a secret society of Irish immigrant coal miners, are executed for their roles in a violent coal strike in Pennsylvania.
1964: Future baseball Hall-of-Famer and U.S. senator Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia Phillies, the first perfect game in the National League in 84 years.
1964: The Haitian National Assembly adopts a new constitution that proclaims François "Papa Doc" Duvalier president for life. He remains dictator of the country until his death in 1971.
1978: Evita, a musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice based on the life of Argentine political figure Eva Perón, opens in London.
1997: The New York Liberty defeats the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57 in the inaugural game of the Women's National Basketball Association.
June 21st
1788: The United States Constitution takes effect after New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it. .
June 22nd
1788: United States politicians look for ways to circumvent the United States Constitution.
June 22
1938: Two years after Adolf Hitler took German boxer Max Schmeling's defeat of American Joe Louis as a sign of Nazi superiority, Louis defeats Schmeling in their rematch by knocking him out in the first round.
1941: Breaking the nonaggression pact signed by the two countries in 1939, Germany invades the Soviet Union, sending over 3 million troops across the border.
1944: President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, known as the GI Bill of Rights, which provides tuition, low-interest mortgages, and other benefits to veterans.
1977: Former attorney general John Mitchell begins serving his sentence for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, becoming the first U.S. attorney general to go to prison.
1978: The U.S. astronomer James W. Christy discovers that the planet Pluto has a moon more than half its diameter, which he names Charon.
June 23rd
1314: In the Battle of Bannockburn, the decisive victory for Scottish independence, forces led by Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, defeat the troops of English king Edward II.
1497: An English expedition led by John Cabot makes the first recorded sighting of North America by a European, landing at what may have been Cape Breton Island.
1901: Painter Pablo Picasso has his first exhibit in Paris, at the age of 19.
1922: German nationalists assassinate foreign minister Walther Rathenau, a German Jew, in response to his policy of paying reparations for Germany's role in World War I.
1947: An American pilot reports seeing objects he describes as "saucers" flying near Mount Rainier in Washington, leading to the popular term "flying saucers."
1964: The Federal Trade Commission requires that a message be placed on all cigarette packages that warns consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health. :brush:
June 25th
1483: In a royal drama later told by Shakespeare, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, takes the crown of England as Richard III, following the death of King Edward IV and the imprisonment of the young Edward V.
1858: China and Britain sign the Treaty of Tianjin, bringing a temporary end to the Second Opium War.
1870: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the world's first oceanside boardwalk is completed.
1894: Railroad workers led by Eugene V. Debs begin a national strike in sympathy with employees at the Pullman railcar company. Later, troops sent by President Grover Cleveland put a violent end to the strike.
1925: The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin's epic comedy set in Alaska, opens. A critical and popular success, it is immediately acclaimed as a landmark in film history.
1963: President John F. Kennedy is received enthusiastically by the residents of West Berlin, divided from the eastern half of the city by the Berlin Wall, when he tells them, "Ich bin ein Berliner."
June 28th
1778: In the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, American forces led by General George Washington and aided by a woman known as Molly Pitcher defeat the British.
1841: The ballet Giselle premieres in Paris, with music by Adolph Charles Adam, choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and the title role danced by Carlotta Grisi.
1914: Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand, leading Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia a month later, beginning World War I.
1928: The plane of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first person to reach the South Pole, disappears on a flight to rescue the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile in the Arctic.
1939: Pan American Airways debuts the first regular transatlantic air service, flying from New York to Lisbon, Portugal, and Marseilles, France.
Learn more about Aviation.
1971: The Supreme Court overturns the conviction of boxer Muhammad Ali for draft evasion, finding that his refusal to fight in Vietnam is based on the religious principles of Islam.
2001: Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is tranferred to The Hague, The Netherlands, to face trial for war crimes allegedly committed during the Wars of Yugoslav Succession.
SouthernN'Proud
6/29/05, 10:47am
June 29:
1972: In Furman v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court rules by a vote of 5-4 that capital punishment, as it is currently employed on the state and federal level, is unconstitutional.
1613: The Globe Theater, where most of Shakespeare's plays debuted, burned down on this day in 1613.
1933: On this day in 1933, actor and director Fatty Arbuckle dies at age 46. Arbuckle was one of Hollywood's most beloved personalities but was banned from film after he was charged with manslaughter.
1934: The first of the six Thin Man movies debuts, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as detective couple Nick and Nora Charles. The low-budget film became an unexpected box office success and won Powell a nomination for the Best Actor Oscar.
June 30th
1859: French acrobat Charles Blondin, known as the Little Wonder, crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1886: Nineteen-year-old Arturo Toscanini makes an acclaimed conducting debut in Brazil as a substitute for the scheduled conductor of the opera Aïda.
1921: President Warren Harding names former president William Howard Taft chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1934: In the "night of the long knives," Adolf Hitler purges the National Socialist, or Nazi, party of its paramilitary stormtrooper wing, killing hundreds of the party's most dedicated followers.
1936: Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia appeals in vain to the League of Nations to halt the Italian invasion of his country.
1936: Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is published. An immediate bestseller, it becomes one of the most popular novels of the century.
July 1st
1823: The former Spanish colonies of Guatemala, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica form the Confederation of the United Provinces of Central America.
1863: The Union army takes heavy losses on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, considered the pivotal battle in the American Civil War.
1867: The British North America Act, passed by the British Parliament, goes into effect, joining four North American colonies in the Dominion of Canada.
1898: Theodore Roosevelt leads a group of volunteers known as the Rough Riders in their charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba at the beginning of the Spanish-American War.
1997: At the end of its 99-year lease on the territory, Britain returns Hong Kong to Chinese control.
July 2nd
1881: President James A. Garfield, waiting for a train in Washington, D.C., is shot by Charles Guiteau, a frustrated office-seeker. Garfield dies of his wounds on September 19.
1889: To regulate commercial trusts and monopolies, Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act, which outlaws any "combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade."
1903: Ed Delahanty, one of the great hitters of baseball's early years, dies at age 35 when he is swept into Niagara Falls after being removed from a train for threatening other passengers.
1937: Pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick J. Noonan disappear without a trace in the South Pacific while attempting to fly around the world.
1961: Writer Ernest Hemingway commits suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, at the age of 61.
1964: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits segregation and discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin.
July 3rd
1608: French explorer Samuel de Champlain establishes the first permanent European settlement in Canada, a trading post along the St. Lawrence River that becomes the city of Québec.
1775: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army of the American colonies at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1819: The first savings bank in the United States opens: the Bank for Savings in New York City.
1863: A Confederate charge led by General George E. Pickett fails to break the Union line in the Battle of Gettysburg, sealing a Union victory and turning the tide of the Civil War.
1962: After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.
1971: American rock singer Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors, dies in Paris of a drug overdose. :beardbng:
July 4th
Happy 4th of July All !!!
1776: The American Continental Congress votes to approve the Declaration of Independence, in which the American colonies proclaim their separation from Britain.
1826: Fifty years to the day after the approval of the Declaration of Independence, which they both had a hand in drafting, former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day.
1845: Writer Henry David Thoreau moves to a small hut by Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lives alone for two years, writing a journal that is published as Walden in 1854.
1910: In Reno, Nevada, Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, knocks out Jim Jefferies, who had retired in 1905 rather than face him. Afterwards, films of the fight are banned in many U.S. cities.
1934: Chemist Marie Curie, who discovered radium, dies of leukemia, a disease caused by prolonged exposure to radiation during her research.
1976: A midnight Israeli commando raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda, planned by future prime minister Ehud Barak, frees more than 100 hostages from an airliner hijacked by pro-Palestinian guerrillas.
July 5th
1811: Venezuela declares its independence from Spain under the leadership of Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Miranda.
1865: Methodist minister William Booth founds the Christian Mission in London, an evangelical and social-welfare ministry that becomes the Salvation Army in 1878.
1932: António de Oliveira Salazar becomes prime minister of Portugal, a country he rules as a dictator for the next 36 years.
1811: Venezuela declares its independence from Spain under the leadership of Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Miranda.
1947: Outfielder Larry Doby debuts for the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in baseball's American League. Three months earlier, Jackie Robinson joined the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers.
1948: The British government adopts the National Health Service Act, which establishes a national system of publicly funded medical services.
1954: Nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley has his first recording session at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. The session produces Presley's rendition of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's "That's All Right."
SouthernN'Proud
7/05/05, 09:37am
1971: American rock singer Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors, dies in Paris of a drug overdose
We think...
July 6th
1415: Religious reformer Jan Hus is burned at the stake as a heretic by the Catholic Church.
1699: Pirate captain William Kidd is arrested in Boston. Sent to trial in England, he is convicted and hanged two years later.
1854: The Republican Party is founded as an antislavery party by former members of the Whig, Democratic, Free Soil, and Know Nothing parties.
1885: French biologist Louis Pasteur uses his newly developed vaccine against rabies to save the life of a young boy, Joseph Meister, who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1917: Arab forces rebelling against the Ottoman Empire capture the port of Al 'Aqabah with the help of British adventurer T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.
1957: tennis player Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win the Wimbledon championship. She wins the U.S. Open later that year and repeats the performance in 1958.
July 7th
1704: Stanislaw Leszczynski is elected king of Poland as Stanislaw I, at King Charles XII of Sweden's instigation, after the deposition of Augustus II the Strong in January.
1754: King's College opens in New York City under a grant from King George II. After the American Revolution it will be renamed Columbia University.
1946: Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini is canonized, becoming the first U.S. citizen to become a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
1969: The Canadian government, led by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, designates English and French as the official languages of the country.
1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates Arizona judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1987: Former National Security Council aide Oliver North begins his televised testimony in the Iran-Contra hearings, testifying that he took no action that was not approved by his superiors.
July 8th
1822: English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns at age 29 while sailing in a storm off the coast of Italy.
1835: The Liberty Bell cracks in Philadelphia while tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall, who died July 6.
1853: Four U.S. ships led by Commodore Matthew Perry enter Tokyo Bay to establish relations with Japan, which had been closed to outsiders since the 17th century.
1871: The first in a series of articles in the New York Times appears exposing the systematic graft practiced in New York City by the Tweed Ring, led by politician William Marcy “Boss” Tweed.
1889: The first issue of the Wall Street Journal appears. :nerd:
1951: The city of Paris, France, celebrates the 2,000th anniversary of its founding.
July 9th
1816: Delegates from colonies in southern South America declare their independence from Spain as the United Provinces of South America, later known as Argentina.
1850: U.S. president Zachary Taylor dies after an attack of food poisoning five days earlier. He will be succeeded by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
1900: Queen Victoria of Great Britain gives the royal assent to the Australian Federation Bill, establishing an autonomous Commonwealth of Australia on January 1, 1901.
1924: The Democratic Party convention takes over 100 ballots to nominate a compromise candidate, John W. Davis, a lawyer and former ambassador, for president against incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
1967: American Leonard Bernstein conducts a concert with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate Israel's victory in the Six-Day War.
1992: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton chooses Tennessee senator Al Gore to be his running mate. :lol2:
1850: U.S. president Zachary Taylor dies after an attack of food poisoning five days earlier. He will be succeeded by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
Who proceeded to install the first bathtub in the White House. ;)
July 10th
1890: Wyoming is admitted to the Union as the 44th state.
1892: The violent strike of steelworkers at Carnegie Steel's Homestead works ends when the state militia disperses the strikers. Four days earlier, company guards had shot into the picketers, starting a riot.
1913: The National Weather Service records a temperature of 57°C (134° F) in California's Death Valley, the highest temperature ever measured in the United States.
1925: The so-called Monkey Trial of teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution begins in Dayton, Tennessee. The trial matches nationally famous lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.
1953: Four months after the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders arrest Lavrenty Beria, his longtime head of security. Beria is executed later that year for treason.
1999: After playing to a scoreless tie through regulation and overtime, the U.S. women's soccer team defeats China in a shootout, 5 goals to 4, to win their second World Cup.
July 11th
1766: Olaudah Equiano, author of one of the first autobiographical slave narratives, buys his freedom from slavery in the West Indies.
1804: Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr shoots his political rival Alexander Hamilton, the former treasury secretary, in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton dies the next day.
1905: W. E. B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter, and other prominent African Americans meet in Niagara Falls to found the Niagara Movement to demand full citizenship rights for African Americans.
1979: Skylab, the first American space station, reenters the Earth's atmosphere after over six years in space, disintegrating over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1987: The world population reaches 5 billion, double the number of people on the planet in 1950.
1996: The UN War Crimes Tribunal issues international arrest warrants for Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. The tribunal indicted the two on charges of war crimes and genocide in 1995.
July 12th
1906: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus, found guilty of treason in a case that divided French society at the turn of the century, is cleared of the charges. Soon after, he is awarded the Legion of Honor.
1974: Former Nixon White House adviser John D. Ehrlichman is convicted of a charge connected with his supervision of the "plumbers," a covert group aimed at stopping press leaks.
1984: Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket in the U.S. when Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale chooses the New York congresswoman to be his running mate.
1990: Boris Yeltsin, chairman of the Russian congress of deputies, announces to a meeting of the Soviet Communist Party that he is resigning from the party.
1998: Led by two goals by midfielder Zinedine Zidane, host country France wins the soccer World Cup 3-0 over Brazil, the defending champion.
July 20th
1871: The province of British Columbia joins the Dominion of Canada.
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1881: Sioux leader Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army under a promise of amnesty.
1944: A bomb meant to assassinate German dictator Adolf Hitler explodes at his headquarters, killing four. Hitler survives, and the senior military staff who conspired against him are executed.
1954: An agreement between France and the Vietminh forces led by Ho Chi Minh ends the First Indochina War. The agreement calls for a temporary partition of the country into North and South Vietnam.
1969: U.S. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on the moon, where Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon's surface.
1989: The military regime of Myanmar puts Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition movement to restore democracy in the country, under house arrest.
July 21st
1773: Pope Clement XIV dissolves the Jesuit order of priests. The ban remains in effect until 1814, when the Jesuits are revived by Pope Pius VII.
1861: Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquires his nickname "Stonewall" in the Confederate Army's convincing victory in the first Battle of Bull Run.
1925: A Tennessee jury finds high school teacher John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, and he is fined $100.
1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the first woman prime minister in the world. She holds the position for the majority of the next two decades.
1970: Egypt completes the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River, a major Soviet-funded project that creates Lake Nasser and provides much of the country's electrical power.
July 21st
1925: A Tennessee jury finds high school teacher John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, and he is fined $100. .
Aah yes, the Scopes "Monkey" trial.... now THAT opened up a big'ol can of worms.
SouthernN'Proud
7/21/05, 12:15pm
July 21st
1925: A Tennessee jury finds high school teacher John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, and he is fined $100.
Of course nowadays, if they don't teach evolution and/or try to teach anything else, they lose their job. Man, we sure have changed our collective minds on things, huh?
1861: Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquires his nickname "Stonewall" in the Confederate Army's convincing victory in the first Battle of Bull Run.
Too little too soon sadly. My oh my how different things could have been. :crying4:
July 22
Mare's "D" Day!
1917: Aleksandr Kerensky is named prime minister of the Russian Provisional Government established after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. He only lasts in office until the Bolshevik revolution that fall.
1933: In his monoplane, the Winnie Mae, American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo around-the-world flight. The flight takes him 7 days, 18 hr, 49 min.
1934: Bank robber John Dillinger, labeled by the FBI as "public enemy number one," is gunned down by federal agents as he leaves the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
1937: President Franklin Roosevelt suffers his first major legislative defeat when the U.S. Senate rejects his bid to expand the Supreme Court.
1977: The Chinese Communist Party expels the “Gang of Four,” who had tried to seize power after the death of Mao Zedong. Deng Xiaoping is reinstated as deputy premier.
July 23rd
1548: Mary, Queen of Scots, aged six, leaves Scotland for her arranged future marriage to the French dauphin Francis.
1858: The British government removes the restriction that prevents Jews from serving in Parliament, which allows Lionel Nathan Rothschild to join the House of Commons.
1900: The first Pan-African Congress in London, organized by Henry Sylvester Williams, draws delegates from Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and Europe. W. E. B. Du Bois gives the keynote address.
1952: The Free Officers, a revolutionary group led by Gamal Abdel Nasser, ousts Egypt's King Faruk I in a coup. Nasser himself comes to power two years later.
1967: A police raid of an after-hours bar in Detroit, Michigan, sparks rioting by African Americans in the city. Forty-three people are killed in the riots.
1996: Kerri Strug clinches the Olympic gold medal for the U.S. women's gymnastics team when she makes a final vault despite having torn ligaments in her ankle in a previous vault.
July24th
1701: The French trader Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, founds Detroit (originally La Ville d'Etroit, “city of the strait”) to control the fur trade in the region.
1847: American religious leader Brigham Young and his followers arrive in the Great Salt Lake Valley, where they found the settlement that becomes Salt Lake City.
1866: In an early step in Reconstruction, the process of rebuilding the United States after the Civil War, Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the Union after the war.
1959: Vice President Richard Nixon, while visiting a model kitchen in a U.S. exhibition in Moscow, holds an impromptu debate with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev about the merits of communism and capitalism.
1974: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must turn over his tapes of White House conversations regarding the Watergate scandal to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
1983: Tipped off by opposition manager Billy Martin, umpires nullify a home run hit by George Brett against the New York Yankees, ruling that the amount of pine tar on Brett's bat violates baseball rules.
1701: The French trader Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, founds Detroit (originally La Ville d'Etroit, “city of the strait”) to control the fur trade in the region.
Many would say it's been all downhill since. :D
Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up 'till now.
Jacobs: Well, let's see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil. And, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And, Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it, he took her best summer dress out of the closet, and put it on, and went to town.
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