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Post by mrmatt on Oct 23, 2007 22:22:11 GMT -5
Oct 23...
Battle of Westport, Missouri. Biggest battle west of the Mississippi River. Confederate General Sterling Price having raided into Missouri now has to fight his way out from between two seperate Union forces moving to catch him. After some initial success against the Federals under Curtis Sterling's force is attacked by Union troops under Pleasenton. This allows Curtis's troops to rally and they both plow into Sterling's Confederates causing a route. Both sides lost around 1500, but that was around 20% of Sterling Price's total force. Though it was hoped in the Confederacy that the mass raid would cause a backlash at the polls for President Lincoln the raid did little to hurt the 1864 presidential election for Lincoln.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 24, 2007 7:14:32 GMT -5
This day in 2001: My dachshund is born.
1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. 1857 - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England. 1861 - The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. 1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel. 1926 - Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. 1929 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange. (October sucks for the stock market!) 1995 - A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and SE Asia. [2] 1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 24, 2007 20:42:14 GMT -5
Yea, Dachshund! We forgot one for yesterday: 2007 - Space Shuttle Discovery takes off with a female pilot at the controls to dock with the International Space Station which is currently under the command of a female captain!
Oct. 24, 1863 - General Don Carlos Buell, after a lack luster persuit of Confederate forces after the Battle of Perryville, is replaced by William Rosecrans. Rosecrans, a hero from early war operations in western Virginia, unfortunately would prove a disappointment to the administration as well being defeated in late 1863 at Chickamagua and then bottled up at Chattanooga.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 25, 2007 7:29:27 GMT -5
October 25th
Today, 20 years ago, my childhood best friend was born.
1415 - The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt. 1813 - War of 1812: Canadians and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of Chateauguay. 1936 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis. 1938 - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". (I didn't like Swing music that much either) 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf, largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between Imperial Japanese Navy and US Third and Seventh Fleets. (It ends tomorrow) 2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP (WHOO!) 2004 - Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.
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Post by YFWE on Oct 25, 2007 8:10:28 GMT -5
I must add this... born on this date... 1962 - Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Let us celebrate... Also dying on this date... 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (Long live The Canterbury Tales. ) 1993 - Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911) :'[ 1999 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957) If you don't recall, this is the guy who died in a plane crash and was pretty much a big deal in the news for a while.
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Post by YFWE on Oct 26, 2007 8:36:54 GMT -5
October 26th!!
1774 - The first Continental Congress adjourns. 1825 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. 1861 - The Pony Express officially ceased operations (=[) 1905 - Norway becomes independent from Sweden. (Without this, there would be no Norway pavilion at Epcot. Commence celebration.) 1948 - Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania. (Picture that, if you will...) 1965 - The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs). 1979 - Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May. 1984 - John D. McCollum shoots and kills himself after spending a day listening to Ozzy Osbourne records; a lawsuit is later filed by his parents over the song "Suicide Solution", but the case is eventually thrown out. 2001 - The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. (Oh, what a glorious day...) 2003 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego. (Interesting considering the current happenings)
NOTABLE BIRTHS 1865 - Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912) (Cool name. Couldn't tell you what he did, though.) 1942 - Bob Hoskins, British actor (= <3) 1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator (Sorry, hold on a sec, I just threw up in my mouth a little...) 1962 - Cary Elwes, British actor (I want to play a game...) 1977 - Jon Heder, American actor (Napoleon lives on.) 1984 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater (She sure fell off the face of the earth.)
AAANNNNDD....
Today is National Day in Austria!
Let us dance.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 26, 2007 8:39:39 GMT -5
Don't forget the creator of Family Guy was born today. But, I merely like the show.
And I was born 20 years ago at 1:08 pm.
Good day for the Beatles.
Sad for the Pony Express and the US.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 26, 2007 18:53:24 GMT -5
Ugh sorry I missed yesterday. Quick step back to October 25... 1861 - The keel of the US Navy's first Ironclad, USS Monitor is laid on this date at Greenpoint, Long Island. Designed by John Ericsson, the Monitor was unlike any vessel the world had ever seen. It's hull was armored to the water line and it had a distint, and revolutionary revolving turret. This curious look led to the Monitor having many doubters and it was often ridiculed by being called a "cheese box on a raft". The Monitor would prove its worth however at the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 9th, 1862 when it fought the CSS Virginia, formally the Merrimac, to a standstill. This was the worlds first duel between ironcald warships.
On to October 26th...
1776 - Benjamin Franklin sets sail for France. The politically gifted Franklin was sent to France to procure French support for the American Revolution on this date. Franklin, though a lover of high society was no fool. Well aware that the French were still within the "Enlightenment" period, a period which exorted the simple life and virtues of the working man, Franklin would show up to the French court in home spun suits and without a wig. This endeared him to the French aristocracy but did not convince either Fraces Prime Minister or King. It would not be till a year later after the brilliant victory at Saratoga for American forces that France would pitch in on our side and indeed male the American victory possible.
1864 - The notorious guerilla "Bloody Bill" Anderson is ambushed and finally killed by Union troops in Missouri. Often running with other notorious guerillas and bushwackers such as Quantrill, Anderson was one of the most savage and blood thirsty partisans operating in the Missouri - Kansas region. Anderson and his men would ambush and kill both Union soldiers or unionist civilians. One reason for his hatred of all things Unionist was because of the death of his sister. Anderson's 3 sisters were rounded up with members of Quantrill's family by Union forces attempting to capture the guerillas. Unfortunately the building holding the ladies collapsed and Bloody Bill's 14 year old sister was killed, his other sisters were injured. In retaliation Quantrill and Bloody Bill organized a raid on Lawrence, Kansas where they murdred over 150 men and boys. Bloody Bill is said to have killed 14 himself. When Union forces finally caught up with Bloody Bill on this date in 1864 he was shot twice in the head and his corpse was put on display as a warning to other guerilla's.
Happy Birthday Ashley! Is'nt history fun!?
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Post by dieter on Oct 26, 2007 19:06:46 GMT -5
Ride with the Devil is a decent movie to watch, if you're into the whole Bushwacker vs. Jayhawker fighting during the American Civil War. I own it. I enjoy it. The Lawrence raid is suitably epic.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 26, 2007 19:49:30 GMT -5
Hmm, I'll have to look into that. When was it made? Lawrence was a tradgedy that's for sure. but its one of the best, most easily recognizable examples of just how bad Kansas and Missouri were prior to and during the Civil War.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 27, 2007 8:15:38 GMT -5
I love the historical stuff that happened on October 26.
Also, in 1984, Terminator came out in theatres.
Now onto October 27th:
300th day in the year...
1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state. 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of the biggest in world. 1936 - Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. (I never understood why a King would give up his throne for some American divorcee)
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Post by YFWE on Oct 27, 2007 16:40:20 GMT -5
In addition... 1992 - United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy. (Don't ask don't tell... xD) 2004 - The Boston Red Sox sweep the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series for the first time in 86 years. Manny Ramírez is named MVP. NOTABLE BIRTHS!! 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919) 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997) 1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer 1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002) 1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer 1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer 1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver) 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality Also, today is Navy Day in the US!! Who American-wise here knew? I sure didn't!
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 27, 2007 19:22:36 GMT -5
I tend to ignore most things military and sport related. But that's me. I respect the military, but I'm not into them.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 27, 2007 19:41:59 GMT -5
October 27th...
1864 - CSS Albermarle is sunk by a Union strike force from the US Navy. The Albermarle, though not as destructive as the Virginia or Alabama was a constant threat to Union Naval operations in and around the North Carolina coast. However it was smart enough not to try to barge its way through the powerful Union blockading fleet. Instead it bidded its time discouraging further Union pushes up the North Carolina inland water ways. Thus it was decided that a small detachment of men led by the adventurous Lt. Cushing would assend the Roanoke River on a launch to Plymouth, NC where the Albermarle was docked. The challenge was that the Albermarle had a crew of 60 and Plymouth was a fortified town with a garriosn of several thousand Confederate troops. Upon sneaking his small craft and party to within sight of the Confederate Ironclad Cushing was called to by a picket several times before the alarm was sounded. Fortunately, though he had his clothing shot full of holes he and his men were able to get along side the Albermarle and jam a torpedo under its water line which was detonated with a pull line. The Albermarle was doomed, but Cushing and his men were in deep trouble themselves and barely escaped capture. Cushing himself was thrown overboard by the explosion and spent the night trying to swim back to the fleet. Albermarle was the only Confederate Ironclad to be sunk specifically by the Navy.
Also on this day the Battle of Hatcher's Run in 1864. The culminating battle of the Siege of Petersburg in 1864, Hatcher's Run was an attempt by Grant to cut off the last western running rail line into the besieged city before winter set in. Ordering Meade's Army of the Potomac to do it, three whole Union Corp were sent forward. Unfortunately the Confederate lines were defended far better than initially thought. Thus it was decided to manuver allowing for the Union 2nd Corp, under Hancock, to attack on the as well. This manuver by the first two corp opened a gap in the lines of assault, Confederate exploited this breech and over 1700 Union troops became casualties. This battle was devastating to the battle weary and worn 2nd Corp and it would remain a reserve corp for the remainder of the siege.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 28, 2007 8:38:32 GMT -5
October 28
306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor. 1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established. 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University. 1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established. 1775 - American Revolutionary War A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans. 1864 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Union Army forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia. 1868 - Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, an electrical vote recorder. 1886 - In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. 1918 - World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted its independence from Austria-Hungary. 1918 - The Nacospeak fleet is immobilized when sailors mutiny en masse and disobey an order to leave port five times; 1,000 would ultimately be arrested. (That just sounds cool, Nacospeak sailors mutinying) 1919 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. (I don't like Alcohol myself, but Prohibition was incredibly retarded) 1936 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. 1941 - Holocaust in Kaunas, Lithuania: Nacospeak SS forces arrange the massacre of more than 9,000 Jews of the Kaunas ghetto. After the victims assembled on the Demokratu square at 6 am to be shot they are buried in gigantic ditches. \ 1942 - Holocaust: 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Cracow are deported by Germans to Belzec death camp. 1942 - Holocaust: SS directive orders all Jewish children's mittens and stockings to be sent from the death camps to the SS families. 1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. 1954 - The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy. 1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is re-celebrated in New York Harbor.
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 28, 2007 17:23:48 GMT -5
October 28th... 1940 - Mussolini's army, already occupying Albania, invades Greece in what will prove to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce's forces. Everyone, including Mussolini's Chief of the Army and Adolf Hitler believed this would be a fruitless and imbessial campaign.
1962 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1964 - Thai pilots bomb and strafe North Viet Nam villages who publicly claim the attacks are propigated by US. United States deneys claims.
1965 - Viet Cong commandos damage and destroy a number of allied aircraft in two separate raids on U.S. air bases, including Chu Lai, on the coast of the South China Sea in Quang Tin Province, I Corps.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 29, 2007 7:30:59 GMT -5
October 29
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris. 1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France 1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. 1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle) 1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross. 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee. 1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated. 1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. 1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. 1921 - Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA. 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday," ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. 1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews. Knesset. 1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight. 1961 - Syria exits from the United Arab Republic. 1969 - The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. 1986 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway. 1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. 1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. 1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962. (I watched this on TV)
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Post by YFWE on Oct 29, 2007 8:46:03 GMT -5
Notable Births...
1942 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (d. 1995) (Happy Trees, y'all!!) 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, American actor 1957 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor, Best known as the voice of Homer Simpson 1961 - Randy Jackson, American musician 1967 - Rufus Sewell, English actor 1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress 1981 - Amanda Beard, American swimmer 1983 - Maurice Clarett, American football player (College football fans remember this guy? I do all too well. xD)
And deaths...
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554) (Quite the sad way to die..) 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847) (Pulitzer Prize anyone?)
And today is Republic Day in Turkey!!!!! =D
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Post by mrmatt on Oct 29, 2007 20:24:17 GMT -5
"1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee. "
Little extra on this one, Wauhatchie was one of the few night battles of the American Civil War. The supply route opened by Union forces became known as the "Cracker line" becasue of the hardtack crackers that were sent into Chattanooga for the besieged troops.
Also on this date October 29th...
1956 - Israel invades Egypt starting the Suez Crisis. This is one of several locations throughout the world where the Cold War became out. Egypt was supported by the Soviet Union and engaged in sporadic raids against Israel's borders. Israel was soon joined by Great Britian and France who were angered by the Egyptian leader, General Nesser, and his demands that Britian leave Egypt. France also believed Nesser was responcible for several raids against the French colony of Algeria. The UN demanded an immediate cease fire and both the US and the USSR made ominous threats warning each other to stay out of it. Forces finally withdrew in late 1956, early 57.
1971 - US troop levels in Viet Nam fall for the 5th year in a row and would continue to do so until there were less than 75,000 troops in South Viet Nam in 1972.
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Oct 30, 2007 7:12:49 GMT -5
October 30
637 - Antioch surrendered to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. 1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle. 1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time. 1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history. 1863 - Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East 1920 - The Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney. 1922 - Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic. 1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations. 1941 - 1,500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) were sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp. 1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid breaking all the windows in Moscow. 1961 - Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Josef Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
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