This Day In History - The Orange Mane

REB · 11-09-2005, 06:15 PM

1918: German Kaiser Wilhelm is deposed.
Learn more about William II of Germany and Prussia.

1923: In Munich, armed policeman and troops loyal to Germany's democratic government crush the Beer Hall putsch (revolt), Hitler's first attempt at seizing control of the German government.
Learn more about Adolf Hitler.

1938: In Germany, Nazis set synagogues on fire, smash the windows of Jewish shops, and arrest thousands of Jews in a single night that comes to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass.
Learn more about the Holocaust.

1965: New York and much of the northeast coast of North America suffer the largest power failure in history, leaving thirty million people in the dark.
Learn more about electric power systems.

1989: German citizens begin to demolish the Berlin Wall, which has separated East Germany from West Germany since 1961.
Learn more about the Berlin Wall.

Don't say I never taught you anything

REB

1-2-3-!!!!!!!

REB · 11-10-2005, 04:09 PM

1775: The U.S. Marine Corps is established.
Learn more about U.S. Marine Corps.

1801: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to legislate against dueling.
Learn more about Tennessee.

1871: Anglo-American journalist and African explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Central Africa.
Learn more about David Livingstone.

1951: Direct-dial transcontinental telephone service becomes available.
Learn more about the telephone.

1994: Iraq recognizes the independence of Kuwait.

REB · 11-11-2005, 08:23 PM

1620: Pilgrim emigrants sign the Mayflower Compact, giving themselves the power to govern their planned settlement in New England.
Learn more about Plymouth Colony.

1887: Four labor activists accused of murdering eight Chicago police officers at the Haymarket Square Riot are executed by hanging in Illinois.
Learn more about the Haymarket Square Riot.

1917: Liliuokalani, first Hawaiian queen and last reigning sovereign of Hawaii (1891-1895), dies in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 79.
Learn more about Hawaii.

1918: World War I ends.
Learn more about World War I.

1921: Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, during a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.
Learn more about the Unknown Soldier.

1965: Rhodesia, the African country later known as Zimbabwe, declares its independence from Britain.

Bronco_Beerslug · 11-12-2005, 05:43 AM

http://tinyurl.com/6kf8q

INTEREST
1799 First meteor shower on record
1948 Japanese war criminals sentenced
1990 Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan

AUTOMOTIVE
1946 First drive-in banking service

CIVIL WAR
1864 The destruction of Atlanta begins

COLD WAR
1982 Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union

CRIME
1996 High school sweethearts murder their newborn child

ENTERTAINMENT
1907 Katharine Hepburn born

LEAD STORY
1980 VOYAGER 1 FLIES NEAR SATURN:

LITERARY
1889 DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born

OLD WEST
1867 U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indians

VIETNAM WAR
1969 Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story

WALL STREET
1996 Jackson Takes on Texaco

WORLD WAR II
1944 Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz

Born on this day.............
November 12
Grace Kelly
1929-1982

Actress; born in Philadelphia, PA; married Prince Rainier III of Monaco; films include Rear Window.
Find out more >>
Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917)
DeWitt Wallace (1889 - 1981)
Seth Nicholson (1891 - 1963)
Nadia Comaneci (1961 - )
Wallace Shawn (1943 - )
Booker T. Jones (1944 - )
Tonya Harding (1970 - )
Charles Manson (1934 - )
Click here for complete Biography
David Schwimmer (1966 - )
Click here for complete Biography
http://tinyurl.com/bwtnq

REB · 11-12-2005, 09:38 AM

1799: American astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the first meteor shower on record, the Leonids meteor shower, from a ship off the Florida Keys.

1948: An international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo passes death sentences on seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Tojo Hideki, who served as premier of Japan from 1941 to 1944.
Learn more about Tojo Hideki.

1971: U.S. President Richard Nixon proclaims the end of the U.S. offensive role in the Vietnam War and withdraws 45,000 troops.
Learn more about the Vietnam War.

1980: Voyager I comes within 78,000 miles of Saturn.

REB · 11-15-2005, 10:10 PM

11/15

1777: The American Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation of the United States of America and sends them to the states for ratification.
Learn more about the Articles of Confederation.

1889: A military coup forces Brazilian emperor Pedro II from the throne and a democratic republic is proclaimed.
Learn more about Pedro II.

1965: Craig Breedlove reaches a speed of over 600 miles per hour in his jet-powered Spirit of America, setting a new land speed record.
Learn more about land speed records.

1969: A Vietnam War moratorium rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., draws a crowd of 600,000 protestors.

REB · 11-19-2005, 08:30 PM

1620: The Mayflower arrives off of the coast of Cape Cod.
Learn more about the Mayflower.

1863: American president Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Learn more about the Gettysburg Address.

1954: The first automatic toll collection machine is placed in service at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway.
Learn more about transportation.

1969: American astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan LaVern Bean are the third and fourth humans to walk on the surface of the moon.
Learn more about the Apollo missions.

Today's Web Pick

The Gettysburg Address
On this day in 1863 United States president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, honoring those who died in the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg earlier that year

REB · 11-20-2005, 08:41 PM

1620: Peregrine White is born aboard the Mayflower, anchored near the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She is the first child ever born of English parents in New England.
Learn more about the Mayflower.

1866: Howard University, the first university for African-American students, is founded in Washington, D.C., as the Howard Theological Seminary.
Learn more about Howard University.

1917: British military tanks penetrate German lines in the Battle of Cambrai in northeastern France. It is the first large-scale use of tanks.
Learn more about tanks.

1945: The International Military Tribunal opens trial in Nürnberg, Germany. Twenty-four individuals are charged with a variety of crimes and atrocities.
Learn more about war crimes trials.

1967: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announces the formation of the National Commission on Product Safety.

REB · 11-21-2005, 07:42 PM

1783: French physicist Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon.
Learn more about hot air balloons.

1942: The Alcan Highway in Alaska is completed.
Learn more about transportation.

1945: The United Auto Workers staged the first postwar strike at the General Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan.

REB · 11-22-2005, 09:53 AM

1906: "S-O-S" is adopted as the international distress signal.
Learn more about international morse code.

1927: Carl Eliason of Wisconsin patents the snowmobile.
Learn more about the snowmobile.

1935: The first transpacific air-mail flight leaves San Francisco.
Learn more about the U.S. Postal Service.

1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Learn more about John F. Kennedy.

1969: The lunar module of Apollo 12 (launched November 14) lands on the southeastern Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon.

REB · 11-23-2005, 06:14 AM

1863: Fighting begins in the Battle of Chattanooga.
Learn more about the Battle of Chattanooga.

1945: With the end of WWII all rationing stops in the United States, with the exception of sugar. Food remains scarce everywhere else and the black market continues to exist throughout Europe.
Learn more about rationing.

1973: Representative Yvonne Burke gives birth to a daughter, Autumn Roxanne Burke, becoming the first member of Congress to become a mother while in office.
Learn more about women and employment.

Today's Web Pick

Franklin Pierce (White House)
Today is the anniversary of the 1804 birth of Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States; the White House offers an illustrated biography.

I don't remember learning anything about this Pierce fellow in school...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fp14.html

REB · 11-25-2005, 04:03 PM

1795: Stanislaw II Augustus abdicates as king of Poland following the third partition of his country between Prussia, Russia, and Austria.
Learn more about Stanislaw.

1874: Southern and midwestern farmers form the Greenback Party after the depression of the early 1870s.

1917: Russia holds its last free election for more than 50 years.
Learn more about Russian history.

1923: America hears the first radio program transmitted from Great Britain. The piano concert, broadcast from London, began with the greeting "Hello, America!"
Learn more about radio.

1952: Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap premieres in London; it will have the longest run in theater history.
Learn more about Agatha Christie.

2001: Scientists in a Boston research clinic announce the first successful cloning of a human embryo.

REB · 11-28-2005, 09:38 AM

1520: Portuguese-born Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic.
Learn more about Ferdinand Magellan.

1895: The first American (gasoline-powered) automobile race takes place in Chicago.
Learn more about automobiles.

1919: American-born Nancy Astor is the first woman in British history elected to a seat in Parliament.
Learn more about Nancy Astor.

1929: American explorer Richard Byrd begins his flight over the South Pole.
Learn more about Richard Byrd.

1943: The first conference between the leaders of the three major Allied powers—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin—begins in Teheran, Iran.

alkemical · 11-28-2005, 09:57 AM

i like this thread

REB · 11-29-2005, 01:41 PM

1864: U.S. military forces attack a Cheyenne encampment at Sand Creek, massacring over four hundred men, women, and children.
Learn more about the Cheyenne people.

1890: The first Army-Navy football game is played between the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy.
Learn more about American football.

1929: American explorer Richard Byrd passes over the South Pole, becoming the first man to fly over both poles.
Learn more about Richard Byrd.

1945: Yugoslavia becomes a federated republic.
Learn more about Yugoslavia.

1947: The United Nations (U.N.) adopts a plan for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab zones with Jerusalem under U.N. trusteeship, sparking fights between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.
Learn more about Israel.

1963: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Born on This Day

C. S. Lewis, English author (1898)

Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist leader (1811)

Busby Berkeley, American stage and motion-picture director (1895)

Rascal · 11-29-2005, 02:27 PM

Cool thread.

REB · 11-29-2005, 03:01 PM

Well thanx guys. I figurredd id learn us all aliddle sumpin

REB · 11-30-2005, 10:39 AM

1782: A preliminary peace treaty between the colonies and England is signed in Paris.
Learn more about the American Revolution.

1918: Denmark recognizes Iceland as an independent kingdom.
Learn more about Iceland.

1939: Russia invades Finland, beginning the Russo-Finnish War.
Learn more about the Russo-Finnish War.

1954: In Alabama, a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house into the living room, where it strikes a woman on the hip.
Learn more about meteorites.

1966: Britain grants independence to Barbados, a British crown colony in the West Indies.

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Born on This Day

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American writer and humorist (1835)

Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom (1874)

Shirley Chisholm, American legislator (1924)

Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, writer, and composer (1912)

Abbie Hoffman, 1960s radical (1936)

Billy Clyde Puckett · 11-30-2005, 10:55 AM

Winston Churchill - Some of the greatest quotes ever.

REB · 11-30-2005, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Guy

Winston Churchill - Some of the greatest quotes ever.

Yes indeed...

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes...ton_Churchill/

Billy Clyde Puckett · 11-30-2005, 11:06 AM

"Of course I am obviously drunk, madam and you are obviously ugly" May not be word for word correct, but you get the idea

REB · 11-30-2005, 11:08 AM

lol yea. I like this one too...
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Rascal · 11-30-2005, 11:37 AM

Read his history of the english speaking people. Long but a good read especially if you are history buff.

Where are you getting these REB?

Reason I ask is because it says "Learn more about the Russo-Finnish War." and I would like to go to the site and see what is says about some of the stuff it mentions.

REB · 11-30-2005, 11:43 AM

Here ya go rascal...http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx

REB · 12-01-2005, 04:14 PM

1913: The first drive-in gas station opens in Pittsburgh.
Learn more about gasoline.

1935: Chiang Kai-shek is elected chairman of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) Executive Council, thereby becoming virtual ruler of China.
Learn more about Chiang Kai-shek.

1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Learn more about Rosa Parks.

1955: The first remote-control railroad passenger car goes into service.
Learn more about railroads.

1959: A camera mounted on the nose of a missile takes the first color picture of Earth from space.

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Born on This Day

Woody Allen, American director, actor, and writer (1935)

Bette Midler, American actor and singer (1945)

Richard Pryor, American actor, director, screenwriter, and stand-up comic (1940)

11-09-2005, 06:15 PM	#1
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	This Day In History 1918: German Kaiser Wilhelm is deposed. Learn more about William II of Germany and Prussia. 1923: In Munich, armed policeman and troops loyal to Germany's democratic government crush the Beer Hall putsch (revolt), Hitler's first attempt at seizing control of the German government. Learn more about Adolf Hitler. 1938: In Germany, Nazis set synagogues on fire, smash the windows of Jewish shops, and arrest thousands of Jews in a single night that comes to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. Learn more about the Holocaust. 1965: New York and much of the northeast coast of North America suffer the largest power failure in history, leaving thirty million people in the dark. Learn more about electric power systems. 1989: German citizens begin to demolish the Berlin Wall, which has separated East Germany from West Germany since 1961. Learn more about the Berlin Wall. Don't say I never taught you anything REB 1-2-3-!!!!!!!

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11-10-2005, 04:09 PM	#2
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1775: The U.S. Marine Corps is established. Learn more about U.S. Marine Corps. 1801: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to legislate against dueling. Learn more about Tennessee. 1871: Anglo-American journalist and African explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Central Africa. Learn more about David Livingstone. 1951: Direct-dial transcontinental telephone service becomes available. Learn more about the telephone. 1994: Iraq recognizes the independence of Kuwait.

11-11-2005, 08:23 PM	#3
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1620: Pilgrim emigrants sign the Mayflower Compact, giving themselves the power to govern their planned settlement in New England. Learn more about Plymouth Colony. 1887: Four labor activists accused of murdering eight Chicago police officers at the Haymarket Square Riot are executed by hanging in Illinois. Learn more about the Haymarket Square Riot. 1917: Liliuokalani, first Hawaiian queen and last reigning sovereign of Hawaii (1891-1895), dies in Honolulu, Hawaii, at age 79. Learn more about Hawaii. 1918: World War I ends. Learn more about World War I. 1921: Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia, during a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding. Learn more about the Unknown Soldier. 1965: Rhodesia, the African country later known as Zimbabwe, declares its independence from Britain.

11-12-2005, 05:43 AM	#4
Bronco_Beerslug Angling in the Deep Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Texas Riviera, Southern Mountains Posts: 24,281	http://tinyurl.com/6kf8q INTEREST 1799 First meteor shower on record 1948 Japanese war criminals sentenced 1990 Akihito enthroned as emperor of Japan AUTOMOTIVE 1946 First drive-in banking service CIVIL WAR 1864 The destruction of Atlanta begins COLD WAR 1982 Yuri Andropov assumes power in the Soviet Union CRIME 1996 High school sweethearts murder their newborn child ENTERTAINMENT 1907 Katharine Hepburn born LEAD STORY 1980 VOYAGER 1 FLIES NEAR SATURN: LITERARY 1889 DeWitt Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, is born OLD WEST 1867 U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indians VIETNAM WAR 1969 Seymour Hersh breaks My Lai story WALL STREET 1996 Jackson Takes on Texaco WORLD WAR II 1944 Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz Born on this day............. November 12 Grace Kelly 1929-1982 Actress; born in Philadelphia, PA; married Prince Rainier III of Monaco; films include Rear Window. Find out more >> Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) DeWitt Wallace (1889 - 1981) Seth Nicholson (1891 - 1963) Nadia Comaneci (1961 - ) Wallace Shawn (1943 - ) Booker T. Jones (1944 - ) Tonya Harding (1970 - ) Charles Manson (1934 - ) Click here for complete Biography David Schwimmer (1966 - ) Click here for complete Biography http://tinyurl.com/bwtnq

11-12-2005, 09:38 AM	#5
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1799: American astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass witnesses the first meteor shower on record, the Leonids meteor shower, from a ship off the Florida Keys. 1948: An international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo passes death sentences on seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Tojo Hideki, who served as premier of Japan from 1941 to 1944. Learn more about Tojo Hideki. 1971: U.S. President Richard Nixon proclaims the end of the U.S. offensive role in the Vietnam War and withdraws 45,000 troops. Learn more about the Vietnam War. 1980: Voyager I comes within 78,000 miles of Saturn.

11-15-2005, 10:10 PM	#6
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	11/15 1777: The American Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation of the United States of America and sends them to the states for ratification. Learn more about the Articles of Confederation. 1889: A military coup forces Brazilian emperor Pedro II from the throne and a democratic republic is proclaimed. Learn more about Pedro II. 1965: Craig Breedlove reaches a speed of over 600 miles per hour in his jet-powered Spirit of America, setting a new land speed record. Learn more about land speed records. 1969: A Vietnam War moratorium rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., draws a crowd of 600,000 protestors.

11-19-2005, 08:30 PM	#7
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1620: The Mayflower arrives off of the coast of Cape Cod. Learn more about the Mayflower. 1863: American president Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Civil War cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Learn more about the Gettysburg Address. 1954: The first automatic toll collection machine is placed in service at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway. Learn more about transportation. 1969: American astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan LaVern Bean are the third and fourth humans to walk on the surface of the moon. Learn more about the Apollo missions. Today's Web Pick The Gettysburg Address On this day in 1863 United States president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, honoring those who died in the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg earlier that year

11-20-2005, 08:41 PM	#8
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1620: Peregrine White is born aboard the Mayflower, anchored near the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. She is the first child ever born of English parents in New England. Learn more about the Mayflower. 1866: Howard University, the first university for African-American students, is founded in Washington, D.C., as the Howard Theological Seminary. Learn more about Howard University. 1917: British military tanks penetrate German lines in the Battle of Cambrai in northeastern France. It is the first large-scale use of tanks. Learn more about tanks. 1945: The International Military Tribunal opens trial in Nürnberg, Germany. Twenty-four individuals are charged with a variety of crimes and atrocities. Learn more about war crimes trials. 1967: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announces the formation of the National Commission on Product Safety.

11-21-2005, 07:42 PM	#9
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1783: French physicist Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon. Learn more about hot air balloons. 1942: The Alcan Highway in Alaska is completed. Learn more about transportation. 1945: The United Auto Workers staged the first postwar strike at the General Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan.

11-22-2005, 09:53 AM	#10
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1906: "S-O-S" is adopted as the international distress signal. Learn more about international morse code. 1927: Carl Eliason of Wisconsin patents the snowmobile. Learn more about the snowmobile. 1935: The first transpacific air-mail flight leaves San Francisco. Learn more about the U.S. Postal Service. 1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Learn more about John F. Kennedy. 1969: The lunar module of Apollo 12 (launched November 14) lands on the southeastern Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon.

11-23-2005, 06:14 AM	#11
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1863: Fighting begins in the Battle of Chattanooga. Learn more about the Battle of Chattanooga. 1945: With the end of WWII all rationing stops in the United States, with the exception of sugar. Food remains scarce everywhere else and the black market continues to exist throughout Europe. Learn more about rationing. 1973: Representative Yvonne Burke gives birth to a daughter, Autumn Roxanne Burke, becoming the first member of Congress to become a mother while in office. Learn more about women and employment. Today's Web Pick Franklin Pierce (White House) Today is the anniversary of the 1804 birth of Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States; the White House offers an illustrated biography. I don't remember learning anything about this Pierce fellow in school... http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fp14.html

11-28-2005, 09:57 AM	#14
alkemical Guerrilla Ontologist rorrim\|mirror Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Future Posts: 42,695 Adopt-a-Bronco: Prima Materia	i like this thread

11-29-2005, 02:27 PM	#16
Rascal RIP Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,581 Adopt-a-Bronco: Turf	Cool thread.

11-25-2005, 04:03 PM	#12
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1795: Stanislaw II Augustus abdicates as king of Poland following the third partition of his country between Prussia, Russia, and Austria. Learn more about Stanislaw. 1874: Southern and midwestern farmers form the Greenback Party after the depression of the early 1870s. 1917: Russia holds its last free election for more than 50 years. Learn more about Russian history. 1923: America hears the first radio program transmitted from Great Britain. The piano concert, broadcast from London, began with the greeting "Hello, America!" Learn more about radio. 1952: Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap premieres in London; it will have the longest run in theater history. Learn more about Agatha Christie. 2001: Scientists in a Boston research clinic announce the first successful cloning of a human embryo.

11-28-2005, 09:38 AM	#13
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1520: Portuguese-born Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic. Learn more about Ferdinand Magellan. 1895: The first American (gasoline-powered) automobile race takes place in Chicago. Learn more about automobiles. 1919: American-born Nancy Astor is the first woman in British history elected to a seat in Parliament. Learn more about Nancy Astor. 1929: American explorer Richard Byrd begins his flight over the South Pole. Learn more about Richard Byrd. 1943: The first conference between the leaders of the three major Allied powers—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin—begins in Teheran, Iran.

11-29-2005, 01:41 PM	#15
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1864: U.S. military forces attack a Cheyenne encampment at Sand Creek, massacring over four hundred men, women, and children. Learn more about the Cheyenne people. 1890: The first Army-Navy football game is played between the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy. Learn more about American football. 1929: American explorer Richard Byrd passes over the South Pole, becoming the first man to fly over both poles. Learn more about Richard Byrd. 1945: Yugoslavia becomes a federated republic. Learn more about Yugoslavia. 1947: The United Nations (U.N.) adopts a plan for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab zones with Jerusalem under U.N. trusteeship, sparking fights between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Learn more about Israel. 1963: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Born on This Day C. S. Lewis, English author (1898) Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist leader (1811) Busby Berkeley, American stage and motion-picture director (1895)

11-30-2005, 10:39 AM	#18
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	1782: A preliminary peace treaty between the colonies and England is signed in Paris. Learn more about the American Revolution. 1918: Denmark recognizes Iceland as an independent kingdom. Learn more about Iceland. 1939: Russia invades Finland, beginning the Russo-Finnish War. Learn more about the Russo-Finnish War. 1954: In Alabama, a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house into the living room, where it strikes a woman on the hip. Learn more about meteorites. 1966: Britain grants independence to Barbados, a British crown colony in the West Indies. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Born on This Day Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American writer and humorist (1835) Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom (1874) Shirley Chisholm, American legislator (1924) Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, writer, and composer (1912) Abbie Hoffman, 1960s radical (1936)

11-30-2005, 10:55 AM	#19
Billy Clyde Puckett Billy=Semi Tough Big Guy Looking down on KC, SD and Oakland Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: between 5,000 and 10,000 feet elevation Posts: 12,665 Adopt-a-Bronco: John Elway	Winston Churchill - Some of the greatest quotes ever.

11-30-2005, 11:06 AM	#21
Billy Clyde Puckett Billy=Semi Tough Big Guy Looking down on KC, SD and Oakland Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: between 5,000 and 10,000 feet elevation Posts: 12,665 Adopt-a-Bronco: John Elway	"Of course I am obviously drunk, madam and you are obviously ugly" May not be word for word correct, but you get the idea

11-30-2005, 11:08 AM	#22
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	lol yea. I like this one too... He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

11-30-2005, 11:37 AM	#23
Rascal RIP Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,581 Adopt-a-Bronco: Turf	Read his history of the english speaking people. Long but a good read especially if you are history buff. Where are you getting these REB? Reason I ask is because it says "Learn more about the Russo-Finnish War." and I would like to go to the site and see what is says about some of the stuff it mentions.

11-30-2005, 11:43 AM	#24
REB LP.org/L4L.org "This one's for John!" 3:16 Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: 'I guess he'd rather be in Colorado' Posts: 8,723	Here ya go rascal...http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx

12-01-2005, 04:14 PM	#25
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