°°°What happened today?°°°

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11. May

1310 – In France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics.

1820 – Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.

1924 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1949 – Israel joins the United Nations.

1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive **** Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.

1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

Birthdays:

1720 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)

1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)

1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)

1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American Nation of Islam leader

1935 – Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)

1957 – Peter North, Canadian pornographic actor

1978 – Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress

National Technology Day (India)

 

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12. May

304 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the ********* of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.

1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.

1881 – In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.

1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.

1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. (Come on guys, you KNEW it was a german again )

1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.

1962 – Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.

1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.

2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan. (Is there no end to the stupidity of texan politicians???)

Birthdays:

1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)

1839 – Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam's Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1913)

1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)

1921 – Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)

1928 – Burt Bacharach, American composer
1928 – Henry Cosby, American songwriter (d. 2002)

1937 – George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008)

1942 – Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)

1959 – Ving Rhames, American actor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOn1dFmFds

1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor

1963 – Vanessa A. Williams, American actress

1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder

1978 – Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter (Time to stop only thinking about Iran and just politics, war and so on)

International Nurses Day (International)

 

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17. May

1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.

1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.

1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.

1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.

1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.

1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.

2004 – Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.

2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.

Birthdays

1904 – Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)

1942 – Taj Mahal, American musician

1946 – Udo Lindenberg, German musician

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8YiEIyPUw

1961 – Enya, Irish singer and songwriter

1965 – Trent Reznor, American musician (Nine Inch Nails)

International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia aka IDAHO

 

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Zuckerberg got married...

 

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June 11


631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.

1429 – Hundred Years' War: start of the Battle of Jargeau.

1770 – Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.

1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.

1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.

1970 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.

1998 – Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school ***** in which ******** are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

Birthdays:

1864 – Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)

1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)

1910 – Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine biologist and inventor (d. 1997)

1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor

1947 – Richard Palmer-James, British lyricist and guitarist (King Crimson, Supertramp)

1949 – Frank Beard, American drummer (ZZ Top)

1950 – Lynsey de Paul, British singer and songwriter
1950 – Graham Russell, British guitarist and vocalist (Air Supply)

1956 – Joe Montana. American football player

1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor

Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawaii, United States

 

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June 13

1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in *****.

1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns. (I am a descendant of these two)

1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".

1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last US Number 1 song.

1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to **** Pope John Paul II in 1981.

Birthdays:

1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter, author of Struwwelpeter (d. 1894)

1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8MWYzUHJrA

1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor

1973 – Leeann Tweeden, American model and television presenter

1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer

1986 – Ashley Olsen, American actress
1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress (Well, they are twins, you know)

Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church

Quote of the Day

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

 

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Been slacking for some time ^^

July 28th

1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France during the French Revolution.

1854 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy, is commissioned.

1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.

1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.

1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be immediately executed.

1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations.

2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

Birthdays:

1902 – Karl ******, Austrian-born English philosopher (d. 1994)

1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist (d. 1981)

1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet

1954 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela

1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFJ44gPE3M

1990 – Soulja Boy, American rapper

National Tree Planting Day (Australian schools)