Shokan

http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/

Some interesting ones from mine, which October 24th.

1945 The United Nations is born
On this day in 1945, the United Nations Charter, which was adopted and signed on June 26, 1945, is now effective and ready to be enforced.
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations. The growing Second World War became the real impetus for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union to begin formulating the original U.N. Declaration, signed by 26 nations in January 1942, as a formal act of opposition to Germany, Italy, and Japan, the Axis Powers.
The principles of the U.N. Charter were first formulated at the San Francisco Conference, which convened on April 25, 1945. It was presided over by President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and attended by representatives of 50 nations, including 9 continental European states, 21 North, Central, and South American republics, 7 Middle Eastern states, 5 British Commonwealth nations, 2 Soviet republics (in addition to the USSR itself), 2 East Asian nations, and 3 African states. The conference laid out a structure for a new international organization that was to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, . . . to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, . . . to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom."
Two other important objectives described in the Charter were respecting the principles of equal rights and self-determination of all peoples (originally directed at smaller nations now vulnerable to being swallowed up by the Communist behemoths emerging from the war) and international cooperation in solving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems around the world.
Now that the war was over, negotiating and maintaining the peace was the practical responsibility of the new U.N. Security Council, made up of the United States, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China. Each would have veto power over the other. Winston Churchill called for the United Nations to employ its charter in the service of creating a new, united Europe-united in its opposition to communist expansion-East and West. Given the composition of the Security Council, this would prove easier said than done.



1861 Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line
On this day in 1861, workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company link the eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allows instantaneous communication between Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. Stephen J. Field, chief justice of California, sent the first transcontinental telegram to President Abraham Lincoln, predicting that the new communication link would help ensure the loyalty of the western states to the Union during the Civil War.
The push to create a transcontinental telegraph line had begun only a little more than year before when Congress authorized a subsidy of $40,000 a year to any company building a telegraph line that would join the eastern and western networks. The Western Union Telegraph Company, as its name suggests, took up the challenge, and the company immediately began work on the critical link that would span the territory between the western edge of Missouri and Salt Lake City.
The obstacles to building the line over the sparsely populated and isolated western plains and mountains were huge. Wire and glass insulators had to be shipped by sea to San Francisco and carried eastward by horse-drawn wagons over the Sierra Nevada. Supplying the thousands of telegraph poles needed was an equally daunting challenge in the largely treeless Plains country, and these too had to be shipped from the western mountains. Indians also proved a problem. In the summer of 1861, a party of Sioux warriors cut part of the line that had been completed and took a long section of wire for making bracelets. Later, however, some of the Sioux wearing the telegraph-wire bracelets became sick, and a Sioux medicine man convinced them that the great spirit of the "talking wire" had avenged its desecration. Thereafter, the Sioux left the line alone, and the Western Union was able to connect the East and West Coasts of the nation much earlier than anyone had expected and a full eight years before the transcontinental railroad would be completed.

1940 Advent of the Eight-Hour Day

After a long and frustrating struggle to win government and popular support, proponents of the forty-hour work week finally saw their dreams become legislative reality in 1940. On this day, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 passed into law, mandating shorter work hours.

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1918 Lawrence of Arabia captures Damascus

A combined Arab and British force captures Damascus from the Turks during World War I, completing the liberation of Arabia. An instrumental commander in the Allied campaign was T.E. Lawrence, a legendary British soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Lawrence, an Oxford-educated Arabist born in Tremadoc, Wales, began working for the British army as an intelligence officer in Egypt in 1914. He spent more than a year in Cairo, processing intelligence information. In 1916, he accompanied a British diplomat to Arabia, where Hussein ibn Ali, the emir of Mecca, had proclaimed a revolt against Turkish rule. Lawrence convinced his superiors to aid Hussein's rebellion, and he was sent to join the Arabian army of Hussein's son Faisal as a liaison officer.

Under Lawrence's guidance, the Arabians launched an effective guerrilla war against the Turkish lines. He proved a gifted military strategist and was greatly admired by the Bedouin people of Arabia. In July 1917, Arabian forces captured Aqaba near the Sinai and joined the British march on Jerusalem. Lawrence was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In November, he was captured by the Turks while reconnoitering behind enemy lines in Arab dress and was tortured and sexually abused before escaping. He rejoined his army, which slowly worked its way north to Damascus. The Syrian capital fell on October 1, 1918.

Arabia was liberated, but Lawrence's hope that the peninsula would be united as a single nation was dashed when Arabian factionalism came to the fore after Damascus. Lawrence, exhausted and disillusioned, left for England. Feeling that Britain had exacerbated the rivalries between the Arabian groups, he appeared before King George V and politely refused the medals offered to him.

After the war, he lobbied hard for independence for Arab countries and appeared at the Paris peace conference in Arab robes. He later wrote a monumental war memoir, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) under an assumed name to escape his fame and acquire material for a new book. Discharged from the RAF in 1935, he was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident a few months later.

1946 Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg


On October 1, 1946, 12 high-ranking Nazis are sentenced to death by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. Among those condemned to death by hanging were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi minister of foreign affairs; Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force; and Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior. Seven others, including Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's former deputy, were given prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life. Three others were acquitted.

The trial, which had lasted nearly 10 months, was conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the United States, the USSR, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace to crimes of war and crimes against humanity. On October 16, 10 of the architects of Nazi policy were hanged one by one. Hermann Goering, who at sentencing was called the "leading war aggressor and creator of the oppressive program against the Jews," committed suicide by poison on the eve of his scheduled execution. Nazi Party leader Martin Bormann was condemned to death in absentia; he is now known to have died in Berlin at the end of the war.

1965 Suharto crushes Indonesian coup


A communist coup against Indonesian President Sukarno is crushed by General Suharto, the Indonesian army chief of staff. In the aftermath, Suharto moved to replace Sukarno and launched a purge of Indonesian communists that resulted in thousands of deaths. In 1967, Suharto assumed full executive authority and in 1968 was elected president. Reelected every five years until his resignation in 1998, Suharto stabilized his nation and oversaw significant economic progress. However, he was criticized for his repressive rule and for Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, which left an estimated 100,000 Timorese dead from famine, disease, and warfare.

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No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

Dragonlich

My birthday is tomorrow, the 17th:

- 1972: WATERGATE BURGLARS ARRESTED...
- 1940: Marshal Petain becomes premier of occupied France

Not much else to report, unless you count some Russian ballet guy defecting to the US as important...

Oh, and you're not invited; go away.

(Note: I assume there's plenty of other stuff that happened on this day; it's just not listed on the website.)

warrrreagl

My birthday is November 11, which is Armistice Day around the Western World, and Veteran's Day in the U.S.

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Living is easy with eyes closed.

T.U.B.

Oh... [silence]... I didn't knew this was on my birthday...

Shokan

Uh, what?

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Legalize it.

platypus

May 11.

1981 Bob Marley dies

Reggae legend Bob Marley dies of cancer on this day in 1981 in Miami Beach, Florida. Marley, born in Jamaica in 1945, began recording in his late teens. He formed his band, the Wailers, in 1963. In the early 1970s, the band's records began to catch on outside Jamaica, assisted by Eric Clapton's cover of "I Shot the Sheriff." Marley's music influenced countless later musicians.


1997 IBM's Deep Blue beats human chess champ

On May 11, 1997, IBM's computer, "Deep Blue," beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov when Kasparov resigned the sixth and final match in the highly publicized play-off. Not only was this the first time a computer defeated a reigning human grandmaster, but it was also the first time Kasparov ever lost a multigame championship match to any opponent. The game was a rematch, following a February 1996 match in which Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, winning three games, losing one, and tying two.

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blkdmnd

1991
POLICE BRUTALITY CAUGHT ON VIDEO:

At 12:45 a.m. on March 3, 1991, robbery parolee Rodney G. King stops his car after leading police on a nearly 8-mile pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles, California. (Rodney got his ass whipped)



1931
"The Star-Spangled Banner" becomes official

President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional act making "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States.


The rest is boring.

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Memalvada

January 9

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"The weak are food for the strong, so die and let me feast!" - Makoto Shishio (RK)

Ashton

vermin

1964 Viet Cong attack Special Forces at Nam Dong

At Nam Dong in the northern highlands of South Vietnam, an estimated 500-man Viet Cong battalion attacks an American Special Forces outpost. During a bitter battle, Capt. Roger C. Donlon, commander of the Special Forces A-Team, rallied his troops, treated the wounded, and directed defenses although he himself was wounded several times. After five hours of fighting, the Viet Cong withdrew. The battle resulted in an estimated 40 Viet Cong killed; two Americans, 1 Australian military adviser, and 57 South Vietnamese defenders also lost their lives. At a White House ceremony in December 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Captain Donlon with the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War.

1957 Paul McCartney meets John Lennon

1971 Louis Armstrong dies

Other than that, not much.

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potpie

Off the top of my head:

May 5

Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
Japanese Boy's day.
Cinco de Mayo.
Karl Marx was born.

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(I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)

Jesus Pimp

1841 Supreme Court rules on Amistad mutiny

At the end of a historic case, the U.S. Supreme Court rules, with only one dissent, that the African slaves who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus are free under American law.

In 1807, the U.S. Congress joined with Great Britain in abolishing the African slave trade, although the trading of slaves within the U.S. was not prohibited. Despite the international ban on the importation of African slaves, Cuba continued to transport captive Africans to its sugar plantations until the 1860s, and Brazil to its coffee plantations until the 1850s.

On June 28, 1839, 53 slaves recently captured in Africa left Havana, Cuba, aboard the Amistad schooner for a life of slavery on a sugar plantation at Puerto Príncipe, Cuba. Three days later, Sengbe Pieh, a Membe African known as Cinque, freed himself and the other slaves and planned a mutiny. Early in the morning of July 2, in the midst of a storm, the Africans rose up against their captors and, using sugar-cane knives found in the hold, killed the captain of the vessel and a crewmember. Two other crewmembers were either thrown overboard or escaped, and Jose Ruiz and Pedro Montes, the two Cubans who had purchased the slaves, were captured. Cinque ordered the Cubans to sail the Amistad east back to Africa. During the day, Ruiz and Montes complied, but at night they would turn the vessel in a northerly direction, toward U.S. waters. After almost nearly two difficult months at sea, during which time more than a dozen Africans perished, what became known as the "black schooner" was first spotted by American vessels.

On August 26, the USS Washington, a U.S. Navy brig, seized the Amistad off the coast of Long Island and escorted it to New London, Connecticut. Ruiz and Montes were freed, and the Africans were imprisoned pending an investigation of the Amistad revolt. The two Cubans demanded the return of their supposedly Cuban-born slaves, while the Spanish government called for the Africans' extradition to Cuba to stand trial for piracy and murder. In opposition to both groups, American abolitionists advocated the return of the illegally bought slaves to Africa.

The story of the Amistad mutiny garnered widespread attention, and U.S. abolitionists succeeded in winning a trial in a U.S. court. Before a federal district court in Connecticut, Cinque, who was taught English by his new American friends, testified on his own behalf. On January 13, 1840, Judge Andrew Judson ruled that the Africans were illegally enslaved, that they would not be returned to Cuba to stand trial for piracy and murder, and that they should be granted free passage back to Africa. The Spanish authorities and U.S. President Martin Van Buren appealed the decision, but another federal district court upheld Judson's findings. President Van Buren, in opposition to the abolitionist faction in Congress, appealed the decision again.

On February 22, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing the Amistad case. U.S. Representative John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829, joined the Africans' defense team. In Congress, Adams had been an eloquent opponent of slavery, and before the nation's highest court he presented a coherent argument for the release of Cinque and the 34 other survivors of the Amistad.

On March 9, 1841, the Supreme Court ruled that the Africans had been illegally enslaved and had thus exercised a natural right to fight for their freedom. In November, with the financial assistance of their abolitionist allies, the Amistad Africans departed America aboard the Gentleman on a voyage back to West Africa. Some of the Africans helped establish a Christian mission in Sierra Leone, but most, like Cinque, returned to their homelands in the African interior. One of the survivors, who was a child when taken aboard the Amistad as a slave, eventually returned to the United States. Originally named Margru, she studied at Ohio's integrated and coeducational Oberlin College in the late 1840s, before returning to Sierra Leone as evangelical missionary Sara Margru Kinson.

1847 U.S. forces land at Vera Cruz

During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott invade Mexico three miles south of Vera Cruz. Encountering little resistance from the Mexicans massed in the fortified city of Vera Cruz, by nightfall the last of Scott's 10,000 men came ashore without the loss of a single life. It was the largest amphibious landing in U.S. history and not surpassed until World War II.

The Mexican-American War began with a dispute over the U.S. government's 1845 annexation of Texas. In January 1846, President James K. Polk, a strong advocate of westward expansion, ordered General Zachary Taylor to occupy disputed territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers. Mexican troops attacked Taylor's forces, and on May 13, 1846, Congress approved a declaration of war against Mexico. In March 1847, General Scott's forces landed near Vera Cruz, and by March 29, with very few casualties, the Americans had taken the fortified city and its massive fortress, San Juan de Ulua. In April, Scott began his devastating march to Mexico City, which ended on September 14, when U.S. forces entered the Mexican capital and raised the American flag over the Hall of Montezuma.

In February 1848, representatives from the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, formally ending the Mexican War, recognizing Texas as part of the United States and extending the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean.

1862 Battle of the Ironclads

During the American Civil War, the CSS Virginia, a captured and rebuilt Union steam frigate formerly known as the Merrimac, engages the USS Monitor in the first battle between iron-fortified naval vessels in history.

The Confederate navy's addition of iron plates to the captured USS Merrimac steam frigate temporarily made it an unstoppable force in the disputed waters of the Civil War. After seeing the Merrimac in action, the Union navy constructed its own ironclad, the USS Monitor. On March 8, 1862, the Virginia attacked a Union squadron of wooden-hulled vessels in Hampton Roads off the Virginia coast. The USS Congress, a frigate, and the USS Cumberland, a sailing sloop, were easily sunk by the Virginia, which suffered no noticeable damage. Late that night, the USS Monitor arrived in the area. With its deck nearly at the water level, the Monitor had an unassuming appearance, but it was a formidable match for the Confederate ironclad.

On March 9, the two vessels engaged each other, and both the Monitor and the Virginia suffered direct hits that failed to penetrate their iron shells. Finally, after four hours, a cannon blast from the Virginia hit the Monitor's pilothouse, temporarily blinding the ship's captain, Union Lieutenant John L. Worden. The Virginia was thus allowed to escape to Norfolk, Virginia, and the Battle of the Ironclads ended in a draw. Two months later, the Virginia was trapped in Norfolk by advancing Union forces, and its Confederate crew blew up the fearful vessel rather than allow it to fall into Union hands.

1932 China's last emperor is Japanese puppet

Henry Pu Yi, who reigned as the last emperor of China from 1908 to 1912, becomes regent of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, comprising the Rehe province of China and Manchuria.

Enthroned as the emperor Hsüan-T'ung at the age of three, he was forced to abdicate four years later in Sun Yat-sen's republican revolution. He took the name of Henry and continued to live in Beijing's Forbidden City until 1924, when he was forced into exile. He settled in Japanese-occupied Tianjin, where he lived until his installment as the puppet leader of Manchukuo in 1932. In 1934, he became K'ang Te, emperor of Manchukuo. Despite guerrilla resistance against his puppet regime, he held the emperor's title until 1945, when he was captured by Soviet troops in the final days of World War II.

In 1946, Pu Yi testified before the Tokyo war crimes tribunal that he had been the unwilling tool of the Japanese and not, as they claimed, an instrument of Manchurian self-determination. Manchuria and the Rehe province were returned to China, and in 1950 Pu Yi was handed over to the Chinese communists, who imprisoned him at Shenyang until 1959, when Chinese leader Mao Zedong granted him amnesty. After his release, he worked in a mechanical repair shop in Peking.

Birthday Board: March 9

1854 - Eddie (Edwin Fitzgerald) Foy, Sr. (actor, comic, dancer: entertained on the musical stage and in vaudeville for four decades; father of The Seven Little Foys)

1902 - Will Geer (Ghere) (actor)

1914 - Fred Clark (actor: Sunset Boulevard, Bells Are Ringing, The Caddy)

1918 - Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison) (writer of Mike Hammer mysteries: I the Jury, My Gun Is Quick, Kiss Me Deadly, Vengeance Is Mine)

1920 - Carl Betz (actor: Deadly Encounter, The Meal, Spinout)

1923 - Andre Courreges (fashion designer)

1923 - James Buckley (politician)

1925 - Billy Ford (singer: group: Billy & Lillie: La Dee Dah, Lucky Ladybug)

1927 - Jackie Jensen (baseball: Boston Red Sox Outfielder: Baseball Writer's Award [1958])

1932 - Keely Smith (Dorothy Keely) (singer: That Old Black Magic, How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?; ex-Mrs. Louis Prima)

1933 - Lloyd Price (songwriter: Lawdy Miss Clawdy; pianist; singer: Stagger Lee, Personality, I'm Gonna Get Married; record label owner; producer; booking agent)

1934 - Yuri Gagarin (Russian cosmonaut: the first man to travel in space)

1934 - Joyce Van Patten (actress: Monkey Shines, The Goodbye Guys, Bad News Bears, Breathing Lessons)

1936 - Marty Ingels (Ingerman) (actor: If It's Tuesday This Must be Belgium)

1937 - Mickey Gilley (American Country Music Entertainer, Male Vocalist and Single of the Year [1976]: Bring It on Home to Me, Stand By Me; You Don't Know Me; owner: Gilley's Club; Jerry Lee Lewis' cousin)

1940 - Raul Julia (actor: The Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman; received four Tony award nominations: Proteus, Mack the Knife)

1941 - Jim Colbert (golfer)

1942 - Bert Campaneris (baseball)

1942 - Mark Lindsay (saxist, singer songwriter: group: Paul Revere & the Raiders: The Great Airplane Strike, Good Thing, Him or Me - What's It Gonna be, Indian Reservation; solo: Arizona, Silver Bird)

1943 - Bobby Fischer (chess champion)

1943 - Trish Van Devere (Patricia Dressel) (actress: Hollywood Vice Squad, All God's Children, The Day of the Dolphin, Deadly Currents)

1948 - Jimmie Fadden (singer, musician: harmonica, guitar: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr. Bojangles, An American Dream, Make a Little Magic, Modern Day Romance, Long Hard Road [The Sharecropper's Dream])

1950 - Andy North (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1978 and 1985])

1951 - Spencer Thomas (football)

1971 - Emmanuel Lewis (actor: Webster)

Chart Toppers: March 9

1958
Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry

The Stroll - The Diamonds

You Are My Destiny - Paul Anka

I Beg of You - Elvis Presley
1966
These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra

California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas

Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind

The Ballad of the Green Berets - SSgt Barry Sadler
1979
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart

Fire - Pointer Sisters

Tragedy - Bee Gees

Golden Tears - Dave and Sugar
1988
Father Figure - George Michael

Can't Stay Away from You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

Face to Face - Alabama

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uncle phil

december 10...

•Treaty of Paris ends Spanish-American War...
•Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

ratbastid

Winston Churchill was knighted, the Library of Congress was founded, the Apple IIc was introduced, and (eeek!) <i>Barbara Streisand was born</i>!!!

SecretMethod70

February 10

1846 Mormons begin exodus to Utah

Their leader assassinated and their homes under attack, the Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, begin a long westward migration that eventually brings them to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

The members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had been persecuted for their beliefs ever since Joseph Smith founded the church in New York in 1830. Smith's claim to be a modern-day prophet of God and his acceptance of polygamy proved controversial wherever the Mormons attempted to settle. In 1839, Smith hoped his new spiritual colony of Nauvoo in Missouri would provide a permanent safe haven for the Saints, but anti-Mormon prejudice there proved virulent. Angry mobs murdered Smith and his brother in June 1844 and began burning homes and threatening the citizens of Nauvoo.

Convinced that the Mormons would never find peace in the United States, Smith's successor, Brigham Young, made a bold decision: the Mormons would move to the still wild territories of the Mexican-controlled Southwest. Young had little knowledge of the geography and environment of the West and no particular destination in mind, but trusting in God, he began to prepare the people of Nauvoo for a mass exodus.

On this day in 1846, Young abandoned Nauvoo and began leading 1,600 Mormons west across the frozen Mississippi in subzero temperatures to a temporary refuge at Sugar Grove, Iowa. Young planned to make the westward trek in stages, and he determined the first major stopping point would be along the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs. He sent out a reconnaissance team to plan the route across Iowa, dig wells at camping spots, and in some cases, plant corn to provide food for the hungry emigrants. The mass of Mormons made the journey to the Missouri River, and by the fall of 1846, the Winter Quarters were home to 12,000 Mormons.

After a hard journey across the western landscape, Young and his followers emerged out onto a broad valley where a giant lake shimmered in the distance. With his first glimpse of this Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Young reportedly said, "This is the place." That year, some 1,600 Mormons arrived to begin building a new civilization in the valley. The next year, 2,500 more made the passage. By the time Young died in 1877, more than 100,000 people were living in the surrounding Great Basin, the majority of them Mormons.

Young, however, had not escaped the troubles that plagued the Church in the East. By early 1848, the Mormons' haven became a U.S. territory after the American victory in the Mexican War. The Mormons had finally found a permanent home along the Great Salt Lake, but its isolation and freedom from persecution was short-lived.


Also:
1996 Checkmate: Chess-playing computer beats human champion (Gary Kasparov)

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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

hotzot

april 30th

Hitler blows his brains out in 1945
Vietnam war ends for US in 1975

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Soothe

April 20th (4:20 hehe)

-Two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. At 11:20 a.m.,

-Hitlers Birthday

-Jesus resurected

-Celebration of maryjane

Bunch of other boring stuff, these are the only things that are interesting. Maybe I am a spawn of satan?

myMHz

ALVIN YORK KILLS 25 AND CAPTURES 132:

During World War I, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York is credited with single-handedly killing 25 German soldiers and capturing 132 in the Argonne Forest of France. The action saved York's small detachment from annihilation by a German machine-gun nest and won the reluctant warrior from backwater Tennessee the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Funny thing is this guy died the year I was born.

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"The radio business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.

There's also a negative side."

phredgreen

i'm still not gonna tell the day, but i beleive that my birthday signals the beginning of the robot takover. all pheer this excerpt:

1984 Robot kills worker
A factory robot in Jackson, Michigan, caught a 34-year-old worker and crushed him against a safety bar. The National Institute of Safety and Health said this was the first robot-related fatality in the United States.

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- Thomas Paine

JadziaDax

1973 Americans Must Drive 55
A federal speed limit of 55 miles per hour was imposed across the United States. The new limit was intended to increase safety and fuel economy, and studies show that it succeeded. It also made speed-happy drivers cranky, and led to widespread speeding.

1900 A Car Named Mercedes
A new 35-horsepower car built by Daimler from a design by Emil Jellinek was completed. The car was named for Jellinek's daughter, Mercedes.

1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as president of Poland
Lech Walesa, well-known Polish labor leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is sworn in as the first noncommunist president of Poland since the end of World War II. His victory was another sign of the Soviet Union's lessening power and communism's waning influence in Eastern Europe.

1964 A famously controversial comedian is convicted for obscenity
Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to four months in a New York jail for violating obscenity laws during his nightclub act. After the longest and costliest obscenity trial in history, Bruce was convicted for his "anthology of filth," as the prosecutor termed it. Bruce never served any time, however, because he died of a drug overdose in August 1966 while the case was on appeal.

1949 Robin and Maurice Gibb born
Twin brothers Robin and Maurice Gibb are born on this day. Together with their brother Barry, they later formed the Bee Gees (for "Brothers Gibb") and scored a record-breaking number of hits.

1972 Joni Mitchell goes gold
Joni Mitchell's album For the Roses goes gold.

1849 Dostoevsky reprieved at last minute
On this day, writer Fyodor Dostoevsky is led before a firing squad and prepared for execution. He had been convicted and sentenced to death on November 16 for allegedly taking part in antigovernment activities. However, at the last moment he was reprieved and sent into exile.

1845 Voice synthesizer
The first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, was demonstrated to the public in Philadelphia on this day in 1845. The device, developed by German inventor Joseph Faber, used a keyboard connected to a series of reeds, bellows, and chambers that mimicked the human mouth, tongue, teeth, larynx, and lungs. The machine produced sixteen basic syllables and could pronounce any word in any Western language. A mechanical head attached to the machine seemed to emit the strange-sounding but recognizable speech. P.T. Barnum exhibited the invention in London, where it was seen by Alexander Graham Bell's father, who was developing a system to teach deaf people to speak at the time.

1998 Virus infects MCI
A particularly vicious virus invaded systems at MCI WorldCom on this day in 1998. Unlike other viruses, the Remote Explorer bug was capable of damaging a system even if users did not download a file or open an e-mail attachment. The virus faked security privileges held by the system's administrator, then infected other computer servers and PCs on the network.

1998 Microsoft ordered to stop blocking rival
On this day in 1998, Microsoft was ordered to stop blocking holiday e-mail cards from Blue Mountain Arts. Blue Mountain Arts had sued Microsoft for blocking its holiday cards shortly after Microsoft launched a similar service.

1997 Another Drink for Coke
Coca-Cola went Christmas shopping on this day and came home with a rather hefty present: Orangina, the "sparkling" French beverage formerly owned by Pernod Richard. Coke’s new toy cost a cool $840 million, which caught Wall Street off-guard; financial insiders believed that Orangina’s price tag had originally been in the $600 to $700 million range. However, Coca-Cola officials were angling to expand their roster of "non-cola" drinks and Orangina, which ranked second to Coke in overall market share in France, seemed like a potentially savvy addition to the American soft-drink giant’s roster of beverages. Meanwhile, Pernod Richard planned to use the money from the deal to boost its international offerings of "wines and spirits."

1941 Churchill and Roosevelt discuss war and peace
On this day, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a series of meetings with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on a unified Anglo-American war strategy and a future peace

Bill O'Rights

<b>August 4</b>

1. <u>1944</u> The Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.

2. <u>1914</u> As World War I erupts in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States; a position a vast majority of Americans favored.

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus

It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

rogue49

December 20th

* 1946 HO CHI MINH FIGHTS FRENCH
* 1989 The U.S. invades Panama
* 1995 NATO assumes peacekeeping duties in Bosnia

JackBlack

May 10th

-In South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.

-1924 J. Edgar Hoover begins his legacy with the FBI

-1954 "Rock Around the Clock" released

-Wall.st, 1837 The Panic of 1837

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JStrider

Feb 8

1984 JStrider was born

1985 Jaguar’s Founder Dies

1936 General Motors founder, William Durant, filed for personal bankruptcy

1964 The Iraqi National Oil Company was incorporated in Baghdad

1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory when he captures Roanoke Island in North Carolina

1949 Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, the highest Catholic official in Hungary, is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Communist People's Court

1692 Abigail Williams and Betty Parris are declared by a doctor to be "under an evil hand," precipitating a series of sensational accusations in the town of Salem, Massachusetts

1915 Birth of A Nation debuts

1924 Coast-to-coast radio

1953 Walt Disney appears on Toast of the Town

1915 D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, a landmark film in the history of cinema, premieres at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles

1911 Elizabeth Bishop is born

1887 In a well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempt to assimilate Native Americans, President Grover Cleveland signs an act to end tribal control of reservations and divide their land into individual holdings

1996 President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which instituted sweeping changes over the country's telecommunications law

1957 John Von Neumann dies

1924 First coast-to-coast radio broadcast

1928 a short-wave station in Hartsdale, New York, received a radio signal conveying a television image. John Logie Baird, a key developer of early television, sent the picture, a still image of a woman.
(first porn on tv?)

1962 MACV established

1895 U.S. Gold Supply Running Dry

1943 Britain's Indian Brigade begins guerrilla operations in Burma

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MikeyChalupa

29 October 1974

STOCK MARKET CRASHES:

Black Tuesday hits Wall Street as investors trade 16,410,030 shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929, a period of wild speculation. By then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. Among the other causes of the eventual market collapse were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a weak agriculture, and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated.

Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. Panic set in, and on October 24--Black Thursday--a record 12,894,650 shares were traded. Investment companies and leading bankers attempted to stabilize the market by buying up great blocks of stock, producing a moderate rally on Friday. On Monday, however, the storm broke anew, and the market went into free fall. Black Monday was followed by Black Tuesday, in which stock prices collapsed completely.

After October 29, 1929, stock prices had nowhere to go but up, so there was considerable recovery during succeeding weeks. Overall, however, prices continued to drop as the United States slumped into the Great Depression, and by 1932 stocks were worth only about 20 percent of their value in the summer of 1929. The stock market crash of 1929 was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, but it did act to accelerate the global economic collapse of which it was also a symptom. By 1933, nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce. It would take World War II, and the massive level of armaments production taken on by the United States, to finally bring the country out of the Depression after a decade of suffering.

Oh yeah, and it's Winona Ryder's birthday.

-Mikey

Snoogans

August 6


1890: First execution by electric chair

1945: Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima

1983: I arrived

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G_Whiz

September 5

1774 the First Continental Congress convened.

1877 Chief Crazy Horse was killed

1905 The Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty was signed ending the Russo-Japanese War. Teddy Roosevelt later got the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating this treaty.

1914 the Battle of the Marne started

1975 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford


And on a couple of birthday notes, I share a birthday with Louis XIV, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jesse James, Jack Valenti, Bob Newhart and Raquel Welch.

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