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Hephaestion · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: This Day In History...

C'mon... it's a game we can all play, all year 'round.

List the "important" (or simply significant to you) things that have happened on This Day In History, whenever it is you read this thread... a thread which could conceivably outstrip the "Word Game" thread for total overall number of posts... And might even lead to one or more spin-off threads...
I'll start off with the first one, from ten years ago...

Left Turn · Revolutionary Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 446 Location: BC

Wikipedia: September 20

leftcoastguy · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:07 am Post subject:

September 21, 1621

King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling

Amy Grace · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:18 am Post subject:

It's my oldest brother's birthday today. I met him around this time of year 5 years ago.

leftcoastguy · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:

Kewl

Happy birthday brother! Smile

The Evil Twin · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:42 am Post subject:

September 23

Things I found interesting about this day, taken from Wikipedia and the BBC:

1529 - The Siege of Vienna begins as Suleiman I (Ottoman Empire) begins his attack on the city.

1932 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1952 - Rocky Marciano knocked Jersey Joe Walcott out in the thirteenth round, becoming the new Heavyweight Champion.

1962 - The Jetsons aired for the first time. Razz

1980 - Bob Marley's last concert Crying or Very sad

Born on this day:

63 BC - Augustus Caesar, First Roman Emperor (d. 14)

edited to correct date from 22 to 23 Embarassed

TS. · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:55 am Post subject:

TET, is it possible that you typed in September 23 on Wiki by mistake? Cause when I looked up September 23 on Wiki I got the same list you posted.

ETA: Now corrected. See TET's post below.
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VanLuke · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:34 am Post subject:

I think I posted this on another thread but here it is again. He lists some interesting political events.

Geoff Parrish: Radical Day In History.

Historical events that you never had to memorize in school:

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17576

The link leads to September but he covers all 12 months

The Evil Twin · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:34 am Post subject:

The Evil Twin · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:38 am Post subject:

Today (September24) was the day that Ben Johnson "won" the gold medal in 1988 against Carl Lewis and was officially the "world's fastest man" for about one day. Razz

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Clog-boy · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:21 am Post subject:

September 25:

1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.
(Such a shame, eh Norse?)

1976 - The Rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home
(Nice job, Larry!)

1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
(Democracy in Afghanistan in 1980?! That has to be a mistake..! Rolling Eyes

)

2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.
(So...?!)

Born:
1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)

1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain

1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency

1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer

1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player

1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor

1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)

1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor

1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host

1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model

1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman (Saputo) and sports executive (Montreal Impact)

1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player

1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper

1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
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Hephaestion · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject:

September 25, 1828

Hephaestion · Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

October 7, 1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming.

He died five days later.

The Matthew Shepard Foundation
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al-Qa'bong · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject:

Hebron commemorates anniversary of massacre in Ibrahimi mosque

Hephaestion · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject:

1830- Josiah Henson 1789-1883 arrives in Upper Canada from Maryland with his wife and four children on the Underground Railway. The escaped American slave becomes pastor of a local church and starts a technical school. He is the model for the hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that Abraham Lincoln said started the US Civil War. Strom Thurmond vows revenge.

1886 - A large gift from the French, "Liberty Enlightening the World", is dedicated in New York Harbour by President Grover Cleveland. 120 years later, the title of this famous statue is to cause much eye-rolling in Iraq.

1889- Stanley Park is dedicated in Vancouver; named after the same guy who later becomes most famous as a hockey trophy. In recent years, the park becomes a hunting ground for tracking and murdering "peeping toms".

1914- The Canadian War Cabinet orders the registration of all 'alien enemies,' specifically Germans and Austrians; and creates 'concentration camps' to house internees and their families. Prescott Bush and Adolph Schickelgrüber take note.

1903- Evelyn Waugh, British writer, is born in London in 1903. He is seen as cultured, witty and urbane throughout his career; once his diaries are read following his death, he is seen as a "homo".

1919 - The U.S. Congress enacts the Volstead Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act. The Bronfmann and Seagram's empires really take off...

1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of the Italian government and introduces fascism to Italy. Prescott Bush licks his lips.

1942- Canadian Health Minister Ian Mackenzie and Alaska Secretary E.L. Bartlett cut a ribbon to open the Alcan Military Highway, later known as the Alaska Highway. The fate of the northern environment is sealed.

1965 - Pope Paul VI issues a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Jews, however, do not absolve the Catholic Church for the murder of countless Jews over the centuries...

1980- Pierre Elliott Trudeau unveils the National Energy Program (NEP) in the new federal budget. Alberta enters a state of hysteria, bombast and high dudgeon, from which it has never admitted recovering.

1998- Glen Murray, an out gay man, is elected mayor of Winnipeg, becoming the first out person elected mayor of a Canadian city. Former mayor Bill Norrie, who has consistently refused to proclaim Gay Pride Day, swallows his tongue.
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Hephaestion · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject:

148 years ago yesterday, James Douglas (with "the Hanging Judge" Matthew Begbie at his side) officially proclaimed British Columbia to be a colony of England.

The Left Coast has never been the same since...
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The Evil Twin · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:

I just remembered from reading another site: 12 years ago yesterday, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Considering the big hype given to the so-called "War on Terror", one would think this anniversary would have recieved more coverage in the MSM. Rolling Eyes

BTW, what happened to these rightwing anti-government types that were running around in the 90s? The ones warning about a "fascistic New World Order" taking away people's rights and liberties? Well, now the US has a government that is actually doing many of the exact same things these militia types were so paranoid about. Why are they so quiet? WTF? Confused

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TS. · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject:

Because they are running the government now?
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The Evil Twin · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:01 am Post subject:

Hephaestion · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:03 am Post subject:

Ninety years ago: The Halifax Explosion

Eighteen years ago: Montreal's École Polytechnique killings
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Caissa · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject:

Sixty-six years- Pearl Harbour

Hephaestion · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:58 pm Post subject:

Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Richie Valens died in an airplane crash.

Don Maclean later had a bit of a hit with a song about it.
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Tehanu · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject:

Which is now in my head, thanks so very much. Oh well, better than some of the other earworms I've been stuck with recently!

Hephaestion · February 3 1978

Also this day in history:

Hephaestion · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

Today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Hephaestion · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:23 am Post subject:

26 years ago yesterday: In Toronto, Morality Squad officers appear at the gay paper The Body Politic office with search warrant but leave empty-handed after brief search.

26 years ago Monday: Toronto police charge all nine members of the gay paper The Body Politic editorial collective with publishing obscene material, related to "Lust with a very proper stranger," article on etiquette of fist-fucking in April issue.
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Hephaestion · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:03 am Post subject:

29 years ago today: White Night riots

(and tomorrow is Harvey Milk's birthday)
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DSquared · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:35 am Post subject:

25 years ago today: The Gimli Glider
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Hephaestion · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject:

JMG re-prints a post:

Hephaestion · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, MATTHEW SHEPARD WAS BRUTALLY BEATEN IN LARAMIE. HE DIED FROM HIS INJURIES FIVE DAYS LATER

TS. · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject:

Remember, remember, the fifth of November
The gunpowder, treason and plot.
For I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot

403 years ago today Guy Fawkes, along with other conspirators, tried to blow up King James I and both the Commons and the Lords at the state opening of Parliament.

Happy Guy Fawkes Day.
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anne cameron · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

Yeah, well, at least he tried!!

Good on ya, Guy!!!

We'll light fires to celebrate the attempt.

Three cheers for Guy Fawkes
hip hip hooray!!

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DSquared · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:35 am Post subject:

November 8th 1965: 173rd Airborne ambushed, claiming the life of 48 American soldiers in Vietnam
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DSquared · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject:

90 years ago today: November 11, 1919 at 11:00 AM, the Armistice which ended WWI was signed and came into effect.
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Tehanu · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject:

And that was supposed to be the war to end all wars.

Hephaestion · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject:

Just a little late: Nov. 9-10 marked the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.

News story on 70th anniversary observances.
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Hephaestion · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject:

Thirty years ago today, Harvey Milk and George Moscone were shot and killed by Dan White in San Francisco City Hall.
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TS. · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject:

On December 6, 1989 Marc Lepine entered L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed Genevieve Bergeron, Helen Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganiere, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. Since 1991 this day has been designated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
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sandy47 · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:02 am Post subject:

I remember it well. It was the only time during my extended stay in the UK that Canada was ever mentioned in the news.

DSquared · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:58 am Post subject:

December 10 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Hephaestion · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:50 am Post subject:

50 years ago today, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash in rural Iowa.

Thirteen years later, Don McLean had a huge hit on his hands

DSquared · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:47 am Post subject:

March 24th, 1999: Bombing campaign against Kosovo begins

It is also the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster.
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DSquared · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:33 am Post subject:

April 5, 1997: Major snowstorm moves into Southern Manitoba, dumping snow that would eventually melt into the "Flood Of The Century."
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DSquared · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject:

April 20th, 1999: More American bombs dropped on Kosovo than any other time during the campaign

Ironically enough, it is also the 10-year anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting.
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Hephaestion · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

Today marks the 30th anniversary of San Francisco's White Night riots, which happened after a court handed down the most lenient sentence possible to Dan White (voluntary manslaughter) for the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone.
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Hephaestion · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject:

Today is Harvey Milk's birthday. He would be 79.
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Hephaestion · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject:

It's Towel Day!

m0nkyman · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: