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Post by Imperial General Someguy on May 18, 2007 0:52:22 GMT -5
May 18th...
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England has Mary Queen of Scots arrested. 1643 - Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power. 1649 - An Act declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. 1780 - New England's Dark Day: never-explained complete darkness falls on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 2 pm. 1848 - Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo – Mexico ratifies the treaty thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of five other modern-day U.S. states to the USA for USD $15 million. 2005 - The final Star Wars film and third episode in the series, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, debuted on this day. It broke current box office records, earning over $50 million on opening day.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on May 18, 2007 7:26:35 GMT -5
Oh yeah... today's the anniversary of Star Wars episode three.
Okay, it's time to have Star Wars month!
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Post by Comrade_Chin on May 18, 2007 7:48:22 GMT -5
Is it just me or almost everyone here is a Star Wars fan.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on May 18, 2007 9:09:18 GMT -5
1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier kidnapped during his first voyage). 1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery. 1962 - A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's infamous rendition of Happy Birthday. (I love this)
And, of course everyone is a Star Wars fan! Why wouldn't they be!
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Post by Lixa-^_^ on May 18, 2007 16:26:22 GMT -5
Hmmmmm. Anne Boleyn. Gave birth to Lizzie 1, right? Good for her, Muahaha, idiot Henry. 1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. Go Dracula!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAAAAAA!
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Post by zoza on May 18, 2007 16:29:54 GMT -5
Hmmmmm. Anne Boleyn. Gave birth to Lizzie 1, right? Good for her, Muahaha, idiot Henry. 1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. Go Dracula!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAAAAAA! that's her in my avatar I mean Miranda Richardson anyway So thank you Anne Boleyn RIP without you and you're daughter I might have had a different avatar EDIT: ok that doesn't really make sense - never mind.
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Post by Lixa-^_^ on May 18, 2007 17:11:44 GMT -5
Lol.
Dracuuuuuulaaaaa!
Ooh, tomorrow's doctor who's episode, 42!
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Post by Nutzkie on May 23, 2007 2:44:45 GMT -5
May 23rd...
On this date in 1934:
Infamous outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are gunned down by area law enforcement agents in a roadside ambush outside of Bienville, Louisiana.
What always got me about this duo is that they always seemed to know that this was coming. They realized that eventually they would find themselves in a fight they couldn't win, and that they would go down in a blaze of glory. "Live hard and die young" was a mantra which they both whole-heartedly embraced, and blithely accepted.
Nowhere is this attitude better reflected than through the pen of Bonnie herself. Just a few weeks before the couple's violent end, she paused to write this poem which she called "The Trail's End:"
You've read the story of Jesse James of how he lived and died. If you're still in need; of something to read, here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang I'm sure you all have read. how they rob and steal; and those who squeal, are usually found dying or dead.
There's lots of untruths to these write-ups; they're not as ruthless as that. their nature is raw; they hate all the law, the stool pigeons, spotters and rats.
They call them cold-blooded killers they say they are heartless and mean. But I say this with pride that I once knew Clyde, when he was honest and upright and clean.
But the law fooled around; kept taking him down, and locking him up in a cell. Till he said to me; "I'll never be free, so I'll meet a few of them in hell"
The road was so dimly lighted there were no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds; if all roads were blind, they wouldn't give up till they died.
The road gets dimmer and dimmer sometimes you can hardly see. But it's fight man to man and do all you can, for they know they can never be free.
From heart-break some people have suffered from weariness some people have died. But take it all in all; our troubles are small, till we get like Bonnie and Clyde.
If a policeman is killed in Dallas and they have no clue or guide. If they can't find a fiend, they just wipe their slate clean and hang it on Bonnie and Clyde.
There's two crimes committed in America not accredited to the Barrow mob. They had no hand; in the kidnap demand, nor the Kansas City Depot job.
A newsboy once said to his buddy; "I wish old Clyde would get jumped. In these awful hard times; we'd make a few dimes, if five or six cops would get bumped
"The police haven't got the report yet but Clyde called me up today. He said,"Don't start any fights; we aren't working nights, we're joining the NRA.
"From Irving to West Dallas viaduct is known as the Great Divide. Where the women are kin; and the men are men, and they won't "stool" on Bonnie and Clyde.
If they try to act like citizens and rent them a nice little flat. About the third night; they're invited to fight, by a sub-gun's rat-tat-tat.
They don't think they're too smart or desperate they know that the law always wins. They've been shot at before; but they do not ignore, that death is the wages of sin.
Some day they'll go down together they'll bury them side by side. To few it'll be grief, to the law a relief but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.
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Post by dieter on May 23, 2007 10:27:34 GMT -5
Those two share some similarities with Mickey and Mallory Knox, from Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Can I say they were awesome without getting lambasted? At the very least, their bloody demise left some pretty graphic "crime scene" (justice scene?) photos.
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Post by Thorius Maximus on May 23, 2007 11:15:22 GMT -5
Pope Alexander III creates the Manifestis Probatum which recognizes the Portucalence Country as independent.
The Netherlands declare independence from Spain.
A Mickey Mouse cartoon with voice is first launched.
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Post by Nutzkie on May 24, 2007 11:11:10 GMT -5
May 24th...
On this date in 1830:
The first passenger railroad in the United States inaugurates service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills, Maryland.
On this date in 1844:
Samuel F. B. Morse opened America's first telegraph line by transmitting the phrase "What hath God wrought?" between Washington and Baltimore.
On this date in 1883:
The Brooklyn Bridge, linking the borough of Brooklyn to the island of Manhattan, is opened to traffic.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on May 25, 2007 10:01:35 GMT -5
May 25th!
1977 - George Lucas' film Star Wars, is released, and becomes an instant hit.
That's the only one that really matters. But for those who don't give a crap about Star Wars... here's other stuff:
1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw. 1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. 1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides. 1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison. 1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 1940 - World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins. 1961 - Apollo program: U.S. president John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade. (He got his goal, too bad he didn't live to see it... which makes me want to CRY!) 1986 - Hands Across America, a benefit event, takes place. 2001 - 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. 2001 - 64-year-old Sherman Bull, of New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Apparently, the old and blind had a great big huge victory in 2001...
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Post by Nutzkie on May 27, 2007 3:01:38 GMT -5
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Post by Nutzkie on Jun 4, 2007 12:57:22 GMT -5
June 4th...On this date in 1944: Operating off of Rio De Oro, Africa as part of Task Group 22.3, the American destroyer USS Chatelain depth charged and damaged the Nacospeak submarine U-505, forcing the sub to the surface. Boarding parties from the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, commanded by Captain Daniel Gallery, then captured the submarine, marking the first time that an enemy vessel had been captured by the American navy since the HMS Nautilus was captured by the USS Peacock in 1815. Today, the U-505 sits on public display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
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Post by Nutzkie on Jun 6, 2007 12:44:26 GMT -5
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Jun 6, 2007 13:00:08 GMT -5
1654 - Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne. 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum. 1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes. 1808 - Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain. 1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train. 1859 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day). 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Memphis - Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates. 1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States. 1934 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 1939 - Nacospeak dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning Nacospeak volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War. 1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. (Ooh. D-Day!) 1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another 2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. 2005 - the United States Supreme Court votes to ban medical marijuana in Gonzales v. Raich.
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Post by Thorius Maximus on Jun 6, 2007 14:01:49 GMT -5
King João III of Portugal was born (1502)
King José I of Portugal was born (1714)
King Albert II of Belgium was born (1934)
The fourth portuguese viceroy of India João de Castro died (1548)
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Jun 8, 2007 8:56:31 GMT -5
June 8th
68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade. 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières - American invaders are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec. 1783 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. 1861 - American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union. 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys - Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan. 1949 - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is published. 1949 - Such celebrities as Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members. (Dear God? Helen Keller?) 1968 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1984 - Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of New South Wales, Australia. 1999 - War on Drugs: The government of Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion US dollars, in its gross national product. 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium.
Births 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959) 1925 - Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States 1933 - Joan Rivers, American comedian and author 1940 - Nancy Sinatra, American singer
Deaths 632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570) 1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737) 1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
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Post by Nutzkie on Jun 30, 2007 12:29:54 GMT -5
June 30th...
On this day in 1908:
A large body, probably a comet fragment, explodes over the Podkamennaya-Tunguska River, near the province of Evenkia, Siberia, devestating several thousand square miles of forest.
The highly unusual occurance has since become known as "The Tunguska Event."
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Post by Nutzkie on Jul 16, 2007 10:40:30 GMT -5
July 16th...On this day in 1945: Gadget, the world's first nuclear device, is detonated at 5:30 AM local time, at the Trinity test range near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The explosion yielded a force roughly equivalent to 17,000 tons of TNT.
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