I been thinking about this for some time now. And I guess I never know if I don't try it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The idea is to post something that happened on the day you post it. Can be anything. Birth of someone famous (or your birthday <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />), a discovery, a disaster, ...
Simple, no?

Examples from the last couple of days:
-02 may 1775: Benjamin Franklin finishes his studies about the gulfstream.

-03 may 1860: Vito Volterra is born in Ancona, Italy

-04 may 1825: Thomas Huxley (also known as Darwin's bulldog) is born in Ealing, UK.

-05 may 2005: Setharmon starts a new thread.
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
I ment:
-05 may 1963: First human liver transplant performed by Thomas Starlz in Denver, USA.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

4/05/05 : i'm still sitting in my chair with my pants wide open, because I had a "eat&drink all you can in 3 houres" session...

Hmmm... It's 05-05-05 You have to mention the obvious!!

Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May) is a national holiday in Mexico, which commemorates the victory of Mexican forces, led by General Ignacio Zaragoza, over the French, on May 5, 1862. This holiday is rapidly becoming a favorite celebration in the United States as well. Cinco de Mayo is observed on May 5th each year and is marked by celebrations, fiestas, parades and parties.

06 may 1840

In England the first (mail) stamp is introduced.

didn't Creed make a song about that?

06.05.2005
The Federal Republik of Germany joins the Nato at the 06.05.1955

07 may 1952

Geoffrey Dummer publishes the first concept of/for a computerchip.

08.05.1945

With the inception of the capitulation of Germany, wich was undersign the evening before, the World War II is ending in Europe.

08 may 1794

Antoine Lavoisier dies on a guillotine in Paris, France.

09 may 1882

William Ford improves de "stethoscoop" (to the instrument still used by docs today).

09 May 1950

Based on an idea from Jean Monet, submits France foreign Minister Robert Schuhmann at 9.May 1950 as a gamete for the european cooperation and first hop, the creating oh a Coal and Steel-Productionsunit.
This Submit is knowing as the Schuman-Statement and is ending in the creating of the Montanunion, the basement of the European Union wich we have today.

9.5.1815 : Schiller dies. One of Germany's greatest writers. Friend of Goethe.

because Spick is back with spiffier internet line! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

10 May 2005

Texas Instrument shows in Dayton (Ohio) the first silicon-transistor

WHOOT <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Oh and the Channel Islands were liberated from Nazi occupation 60 years ago today, one day after VE Day! 10 May 1945. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" />

10 may 1860

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff "discover" the element cesium.

Where was it hiding? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

You cleary haven't checked under your seat. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />

11 may 1918

Richard Feynman is born in New York.

11 May 330

The roman Emperor Konstantin I. inaugurates his new Capitol City Konstantinopel.

12 May 1820
The Birthday of Florence Nightingale

12 may 1803

Justus von Liebig is born in Darmstadt, Germany

13 may 1637

Cardinal Richelieu introduces the "table knife" en forbit people to use their daggers on the dinnertable.

14 may 1796

First vaccination ever, performed by Edward Jenner.

15 may 1501

First music book printed by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice, Italy

May 15, 1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France.

15 may, 1869
- Women's suffrage : In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.

15 May 1928
Mickey Mouse is for the first time in a Movie (Plane Crazy).

16 may 1946

Jack Mullin gives a demonstration of the first magnetic tape recorder.

16 May 1929
In Hollywood, California the first Academy Awards are handed out.

May 16, 1866
- Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.

Root beer is a beverage made from some combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark, nutmeg, anise, and molasses among other things.

May 16, 1943
- World War II: SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop put an end to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first mass uprising in Poland against the Nazi occupation during the Holocaust.
As such, he was responsible for crushing the rebellion and restoring order in the ghetto; an action which cost the lives of thousands of innocent victims. After the close of the Second World War, Stroop was found guilty of war crimes and executed by the Polish authorities in 1952.

16 May 2005
Larian presents the first Screenshots of their new grafik engine

17 may 1979

The highest voltage ever (man made) is achieved in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
321.5 million volt.

May 17, 1846 - The Saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax.

18 may 1787

In Toulouse, France, the first ingraved glass is produced.

May 18th 1765
- Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec.

Born on May 18th 1920
- Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)

19 may 1914

Max Perutz (the biochemic) is born in Vienna, Austria.

May 19th 1536
- Anne Boleyn, the second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII of England, was beheaded for adultery.

20 may 1940

Igor Sikorsky gives a demonstration with his first helicopter.

21 may 1921

Andrej Sacharov is born in Moscow.

21 may 1927
- Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight.

22 may 1973

Robert Metcalf invents the ethernet.

22 may 2005
Galadriël realizes that Seth and I are the only ones that are keeping this tread alive <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

22 may 1908
- The Wright Brothers patent their aircraft

22 may 1967
- The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.

Now I realize I could have said that the 17:th May is Norways national day. Think it celebrate their liberation from Sweden (don't know if it was because they weren't a part of Sweden anymore or if they left the union between the two countries. Maybe it was both <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />...).

Übereil

23 may 1785

Benjamin Franklin invents bifocale glasses.

May 22, 1967 - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, the longest-running children's series on television, airs its first episode.

May 23: Victoria Day in Canada (2005)

May 23 1533
- The marriage of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII of England was annulled.

May 23 1934
- American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.

May 23

1906 - Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

1923 - Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline.

1929 - The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, was released.

24 May 1607
english Traders establish with Jamestown the first durable Settlement from England in Nothamerika.

24 may 1892

Thomas Alva Edison ask for a patent on "the electric railroad"

May 24, 1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Can't be a record. I'm sure any woman can do better.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" />

Yes that is true. I bet I could give him a run for his money! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

May 24, 1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is written

25 may 1941
- World War II: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.

25 may 1948

Andrew Moyer gets a patent on producing penicillin in high numbers.

May 25 1968 - In St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

May 25 1977 - Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) opens a limited run in theaters before expanding to become the highest grossing movie to date.

May 25 2004 - The theatrical version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (movie) is released on DVD.

May 25, 2005 - Why today is important, because I say so. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

May 25 2005 European Champions League Final...A.C.Milan -v- Liverpool F.C.
Ataturk Stadium,Istanbul,Turkey.

I'd add: "Today is the first day of the rest of your/my life..."

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

25 May 2005
- HandEFoods birthday! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" />

25 may 1521
- Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and a heretic by the Diet of Worms.

May 25, 1981 - Using three suction cups, and garbed in a Spiderman costume, Daniel Goodwin climbs Chicago's Sears Tower. It took him 7 hours.

26 May
1828 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg

1897 - Bram Stoker's novel Dracula goes on sale in London.

Diet ? DIET ???

And Worms ???

I mean ... didn't the collective of Worms to be presented as a diet for some strange aristocrat anymore ? I guess they just wanted to live peacefully in their earth-holes, then ?


<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

May 26 1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public

26 may 1676

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek sees for the first time animalculen.Under his microscoop.

27 may 1895
- Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.

27 may 1940
- World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.

27 may 1963
- Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.

27 may 1995
- In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.

Birthdays
27 may 1922
- Christopher Lee, actor (Saruman in LOTR, as Count Dooku in "Attack of the Clones")

27 may 1971
-Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, singer (d. 2002), (died in a planecrash)

Sorry if I posted too many events but they were all very intresting to me.

May 27, 1911: birthdate of American actor Vincent Price

May 27, 1647: The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.

27 May 1940,British and French begin evacuation of Dunkirk. (Operation Dynamo)

27 may 1994

In Princeton man creates the highest temp° ever on earth.
510,000,000 °C.

May 27

1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.

1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

28 may 1971

The Russian Mars3 is launched and will be the first Marslander

May 28 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.

May 29 1849 - Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time"
.
1944 - British troops occupy Aprilia,Italy.

may 29 1977
- Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
(women on top!!)

Birthdays
may 29 1917
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1903
- Bob Hope, British-born American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
1956
- LaToya Jackson, musician
1958
- Annette Bening, actress
1959
- Rupert Everett, actor
1959
- Adrian Paul, actor
1961
- Melissa Etheridge, musician
1963
- Lisa Whelchel, actress
1967
- Noel Gallagher, musician
1975
- Melanie Brown, musician, actress

May 29 must have been a fruitful day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> (and that's not even half of it!)

May 29 1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.

May 29 1985 - Heysel Stadium disaster: In Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured during a riot at a European Cup match.

29 may 1898

The Nobelprices are "founded".

A match between Liverpool and Juventus. Almost all who died ware Italian soccer fans.
On 29 may 2005 a monument to remember them (and against violence in soccer) is revealed.

30 may 1898

Morris Travers discovers krypton , together with sir Ramsay. (They also discovered neon)

30 May 1431
In Rouen, France, 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal.

31 may 1578

The catacombs under Rome are discovered - by accident.

June 01 1965

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover radiation in space.

01 June 1855
The american adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua and reinstates slavery.

june 02 1686

Isaac Newtons Principia gets published by the Royal Society

June 1/2 2005, Lews gets absaloutely no sleep due to working on homework, and gets in a lot of trouble the next day because he is very upset.


Thats a prediction anyways.

june 03 1657

William Harvey dies in Roehampton, UK.

june 04 1929

In Rochester (NY) George Eastman shows the first ever technicolour movie.

june 05 1981

Doc. Michael Gottlieb defines a new disease: aids

06 june 1972
David Bowie releases the classic album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars".

june 06 1683

Ashmolean, the first museum in the world opens its doors in Oxford.

Great album... (I've acually heard it! On LP! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />)

06 June 2005

Sweden celebrate their National Day for the first time ever. I might be back later with info on what we're celebrateing (since I don't know).

Übereil

Really great, the first celebration of the Swedish Nationnal Day. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

[color:"orange"] Happy Nationnal Day Ubereil [/color]
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" />

Barta

07 june 1914

The Alliance is the first ship to travel through the Panama canal

07 june 2005

GTA: San Andreas is released on PC/Xbox (in the US)

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/party.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />



Waits in front of mailbox with a can of cofee and shivers of cafiene overdose <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/offtopic.gif" alt="" />

Now Morbo,
What's the real reason why
you're having things shipped in coffee cans? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

Tsel <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

June 7 1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".

Today is important why i can come here to tell you there im already in university again, lol, i'm just kidding btw today i dont know any important dates - 12 june here is like "valentine day" - in portuguese - dia dos namorados.

Thats it ppl sometimes i'll start to come back here again, ty all who concerned about me.

Hi Shyon <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

8 June 1783
The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.

Welcome back Shyon! Are you feeling better?

June 8, 1953 - The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.

June 9 '68 B.C. (I hope I say this correct?)
- Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.

June 9, 1934
- Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.

Shyon! Great to hear such good news from you again!! I hope you do well at university! Don't force your body yet, boy!!

June 9 Births

1961 - Michael J. Fox, actor

1963 - Johnny Depp, actor

1981 - Natalie Portman, actress

10 June 1190
Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.

Friday June 10th...My last day at work before I Jet off for sunnier climes. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> I am off to Kos Island tomorrow. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Nice Spick <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

June 10 2005: My last day in school for this year (schoolyear that is). No I'll have a holiday (or is it vacation <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />) til August 22 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

Übereil

Isn't this ironic. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

June 10 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".

@ Üb
You are already finished with school, while here they still have to start their finals <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> It's not fair <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" />

10 June 1935
- Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio. This is the traditional date of the first day of sobriety of Dr. Bob Smith, AA's cofounder. (later they had to search for more members <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> you can't call it a club untill there are at least 5 members in it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> )

hmm June the 11th .....

kilroy was here

ooh some ppl maybe too young to remember this phenomonem <astounding that that really is a word <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />



edit ps; heh strange how the mind fades I actually typed in the wrong name <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

June 11 1509 - Marriage of King Henry VIII of England and Katherine of Aragon.

12 June 1963
Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.

It's still June 11th here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> , so:

Kamehameha Day, official state holiday of Hawai'i, United States, in honor of its first monarch.

12 june 1964
- Anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by the South African government.

12 june 1987
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

June 12 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.

June 13, 2005 - Michael Jackson not guilty on all counts
Singer acquitted in alleged child molestation case

@ Lady Sarah
You took the words out of my mouth!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

Now it is preserved forever on this forum Gal! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

June 14
1942 - Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.

1937 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.

1993 - A weeklong product tampering scare, later proven to be a hoax, occurs as customers throughout the USA discover syringes in unopened cans of Diet Pepsi Cola.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

15 june 1752
- Benjamin Franklin conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm.

15 june 763 BC
- Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

June 15

1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He transfuses 12 fluid ounces (350 ml) of sheep blood to a 15-year-old boy. The boy later dies and Baptiste is accused of murder.

1969 - Hee Haw debuts on CBS television, quickly becoming an institution.

16 June
1976 - Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.

June 17 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

June 17 1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart starts her attempt to become the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean She was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was pilot and Lou Gordon, mechanic.

June 17 1994 - Following a televised highway chase and a failed attempt at suicide, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

20 June
451 The Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.

June 20 Birthdays

1946 - Bob Vila, handyman
1949 - Lionel Richie, musician
1952 - John Goodman, U.S. actor
1954 - Michael Anthony, musician, Van Halen
1960 - John Taylor, musician, Duran Duran

June 21 - National Aboriginal Day in Canada. This date was chosen because it corresponds to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and because for generations, many Aboriginal groups have celebrated their culture and heritage at this time of year.

June 21, 1948 - The world's first stored-program electronic digital computer successfully executed its first program. That program was written by Tom Kilburn who, along with F.C. (Freddie) Williams, designed and built the machine. It was called the "Small Scale Experimental Machine", but was soon nicknamed the "Baby". [Source]

June 21 2003 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />

I have it!!! And it's great too!! Also read the book "The Goblet of Fire" first, the movie will be out around novembre 2005 in Belgium. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

June 21, 1734
- A black slave known as Marie-Joseph Angélique was tortured and then hanged in New France.

Then again, the movies are pretty worthless. Espesially if you've read the books some 10+ times <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />.

Übereil

June 24 1999 - The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for $497,500. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

24 june Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Québec, Canada
The Fête nationale du Québec ("Quebec National Holiday") is the official day of Quebec, a province of Canada. The festivities occur on June 23 and June 24 and are organized by the Comité organisateur de la fête nationale ("national holiday organizing committee"). Originally, June 24 was a holiday honouring the patron saint of Canada, St. John the Baptist. The day still is in fact very often called la Saint-Jean by the population of Quebec.

Although the holiday only has official status in Quebec, it is also celebrated by francophones in other Canadian provinces and in the United States as a festival of French Canadian culture. In these contexts, it is more often called Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day.

Congratulations Québec!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" />

25 June 1950

The beginning of the Korean War.

June 26

1541 Conqueror of the Incas assassinated


Francisco Pizarro, the governor of Peru and conqueror of the Inca civilization, is assassinated in Lima by Spanish rivals.


ouch....

June 27 1967 - World's first ATM installed in Enfield, London.
June 27 1972 - ATARI is established by Nolan Bushnell.

June 28 1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified from WBA title re-match, for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.

June 28

1888 Robert Louis Stevenson sets sail for the South Seas


Writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his family leave San Francisco for their first visit to the South Seas on this day in 1888. Stevenson, an adventurous traveler plagued by tuberculosis, was seeking a healthier climate. The family finally settled in Samoa, where Stevenson died in 1894.

June 29 1995 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.

30 June 1908
The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia

June 30th - my mom's birthday - <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/birthday.gif" alt="" /> MA!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/birthday.gif" alt="" />

well <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/birthday.gif" alt="" /> Bearded Mum <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

brought the family out for dinner then presents for Mama! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" />

thanks for the warm wishes, Mea! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/birthday.gif" alt="" /> to Janggut's mommy!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" />

1 july 2005 The first day of the Belgian summervacation has started!!! WOOHOO!!!!

July 4 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress approves a Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain forming the United States of America.

23 july 1952
- King Farouk of Egypt abdicated after a coup d'état.

On July 23, 2005 a series of attacks took place in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. At least 83 people1 have been killed, with over hundreds wounded, from blasts suspected to have been car bombs.

The first attack (01:00 local time or 22:00 UTC) seems to have taken place in a market, and later on, hitting the Ghazala Gardens hotel, a 176-room four-star establishment in the Naama Bay area, some 6 km from the town centre. The hotel has been "destroyed", according to witnesses. Nile TV, according to CNN, claims that there were three others separate blasts. The blasts were quite powerful, shaking windows miles away, and fire and smoke could be seen from the Namma Bay, a strip of beachfront hotels.

A group calling itself Abdullah Azzam Brigades has claimed responsibilty for the attacks. On a website the group stated that "holy warriors targeted the Ghazala Gardens hotel and the Old Market in Sharm el-Sheikh" and claimed it has ties to Al-Qaida. The authenticity of this statement has not been verified. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

July 23 - National Vanilla Ice Cream Day (U.S.A.)

July 23, 1892 - birthdate of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. From his speech to the UN in 1963: [color:"orange"]... until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: ... until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; ... until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; ... until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; ... until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained... [/color]

July 24 1704-English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar.
........1975-Applol 18 returns to Earth.

25 July 2004
Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th (consecutive) Tour de France.


And Yesterday he got the 7th victory <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

25 july 1909
– French aviator Louis Blériot made the first crossing of the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine.

25 july 1978
– Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England.

25 july 2000
– Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crashed after takeoff in Paris, killing 113 people.

and confirms his retirement from bicycle racing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

26 July 1991
Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan

July 26 1945- Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister.
........1943- Mick Jagger born.

On July 26, 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is born when U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice.

July 27, 1940 - Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.

August 6 1945
- World War II: Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Force, dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 80,000 people instantly.

August 6, 1991 - The very first website went online. It was built by Tim Berners-Lee, who later, in 1994, founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

I hope some of us did stood still that today it was the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I saw the documentary on Canvas tonight and I was really shocked by the images of the little children, burned untill they were black. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> I hope such things may never happen again!!

August 7, 1960
- Independence Day in Côte d'Ivoire

7 august 1876
Margaretha Zelle is born in Leeuwarden, Holland. She is better known as Mata Hari.

August 12, 1851
- Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.

August 12, 1985
- Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520 of 524 on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.

August 13 1942 - Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, Bambi, premiers.

To my dearest grandfather who is now looking upon me, have a happy birthday where ever you are, without pain and grief, only happiness and joy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" />


13 August 1913
- Harry Brearley developed stainless steel.

August 13 1960
-Independence Day for the Central African Republic

13 august 1918
- Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

Birthdays
13 august 1926
- Fidel Castro, revolutionary and politician

august 16, 1977
Rock & Roll legend Elvis Presley died at age 42 in his Graceland Mansion in Memphis Tennessee.

17.08.1807
Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

19 august 1848
- California Gold Rush: The New York Herald reported news to the East Coast of the United States that a gold rush was on in California.

august 21, 1772
- A coup led by Gustav III was completed by adopting a new Instrument of Government, ending the Age of Liberty in Sweden.

august 21, 1959
- Hawaii was admitted as the 50th U.S. state.

august 21, 1986
- Toxic gas erupted from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people.


Birthdays august 21
1956 - Kim Cattrall, actress (from Sex and the City)
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, actress (The Matrix trilogy)
1984 - Alizée, french singer (song 'Moi Lolita')

August 23

1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1968 - Ringo Starr temporarily quits The Beatles

24 august 79
- Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae with volcanic ash.

24 august 1572
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: a massacre of Huguenots began. An estimated 70,000 people were killed in France in the following weeks.

24 august 1847
- Charlotte Brontë finishes Jane Eyre.

24 august 1853
- Potato chips first prepared. Long life that inventor!! Yummie!

24 august 1992
- Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida

and this can go on and on and on and .... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

On the 26th of September (sorry folks it is the 26th here already) my Dad was born ..hmm eleventeen years ago or so <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

25 august 19??
Mea's grandmother decided that she would deliver a baby boy the next day, and so she did... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/birthday.gif" alt="" /> to Mea's dad! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bday_jump.gif" alt="" />

25 august 1814
- Washington, D.C. was burnt down during the War of 1812.

25 august 1830
- Belgium revolts from the Netherlands <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bday_jump.gif" alt="" />

Mea & Gal are living in places where there seem to be slight temporal distortions... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

August 25: the Opiconsivia Roman festival was held in honor of Ops.
Opiconsivia was also a surname of Ops herself. The Latin word consivia (or consiva) derives from conserere ("to sow"). Hence, the word Opiconsivia may be interpreted as meaning "the sowing of crops", since Ops ultimately means "crops" in the sense of "riches, goods".

26 August 1968
The Beatles' Hey Jude is released as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label.

on the 27th of August Mea realized that it isn't September yet <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

And Gal did too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> *Gal is looking for a hole in the ground to hide herself* <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

27 august 2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.

8 September 1504
Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.

WOW this statue is sexually offensive. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Florence / Firenze is my favourite place in Italy.

Barta

@ Stone
Now I see why they have waited so long to unveil it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/offtopic.gif" alt="" />

Florence greatest treasure :

9 september 1999
- Final Fantasy VIII is released in the United States

Birthdays

9 september 1828
- Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
9 september 1935
- Chaim Topol, Israeli actor ("Tevye the Milkman" in the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof")
9 september 1966
- Adam Sandler American actor and comedian

FF VIII sucked

I wouldn't know, since I never played it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> but thanks for the advice <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

oh, I forgot some famous people that had died today

9 september 1569
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter

1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter

1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader

First reaction was that he was Lenin's second man, then I looked at his birthyear... Trotskij, that's the guy I was thinking off! I think...

Übereil

10th September 2005, Exeter City -v- Cambridge United . St.James park, 3:00pm kick Off.

10 september 1960:
- Mickey Mantle hit what is thought to be the longest home run in major league baseball, an estimated 643 feet (160 m).

Births
10 september 1938
- Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer

10 september 1941
- Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)

10 september 1960
- Colin Firth, English actor (Bridget Jones's diary)

4-0 to City...Yeeeeeeeesssssss. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

11th of september 2001 : Two planes crashes on the World Trade Center in New York.

Barta

12 September
490 BC Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon

1959 Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color

1990 The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

@ Barta
You forgot about the one that crashed into the pentagon and the other one that was suppoosed to hit the white house I believe. Anyway, 3000 people got killed in that horrible drama, among them lots of fire-men, ambulancers, and volunteers.
The attack on the WTC was one of the biggest terrorist attacks ever. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Yep i know about the 4 planes but i wanted to write something short.
It would be difficult to explain why.
So i choosed the 2 planes which killed the greatest number of people.

Barta

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" />

October 4th 2005
World animal day: On this day we treat our animals with something special.
But sadly enough, it's not our pets that need such extra treats, but all the animals in cages, used for testing, circus and other inhumane procedures.
Let's all think about:
-the many greyhounds in Spain, that are abused when they loose their ability to win races,
-the grizzlybears in Asia that are used to tap of gallfluids. They are kept in tiny cages, not even big enough to turn,
-the many baby seals, beaten to dead to preserve their white fur.
-whales, the hunt on these mammals is open again
-seahorses, captured to be dried out and used as a natural version of the Viagra pill
-cats in China, skinned alive, because the meat would taste better after the load of adrenaline that went through the cat's body
-circus animals that live in small cages and have to learn stupid tricks to entertain us, every single day
-there are still too many animals on this world, that need a loving home, or their freedom.
We have a women's day, a mother and father's day, even grandparents day. I'm glad that there is an animals day too. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" />

11 october 1954
Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam.

11 october 1999
- The Lord of the Rings movies begin principal photography.

Births
11 october 1957
- Dawn French, Welsh comedienne <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />


11 october
United States - National Coming out day (not a federal holiday)

18 dec 1865
- Slavery in the United States was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.

1892
- The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

2002
- The film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is released worldwide.

This thread didn't even last one whole year <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Nothing important happened today. I ate 'Parisare' (named after the capital of France <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />, toast, with a hamburger and a roasted egg. Don't know why it's called that...) for lunch. I've had a headache all day and been pretty tired.

Übereil