On this day: 13 March 1781 (http://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9396859&event=all#event), Uranus was discovered.

When I was in grade school, we had to each give an oral report on a planet we'd chosen.

One kid started his report with the deathless words...

"Uranus is large and gaseous."

Teacher was not amused.

On this day: 13 March 1781 (http://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9396859&event=all#event), Uranus was discovered.

The burning question is....

Did the discoverer need two hands and a funnel?

Lol!

Lol + 1! :)

[quote=DarkFantasy96]You probably remember Coke as better because it was made with real sugar instead of corn syrup. A lot of people think it was the glass bottles, but it's not... In Costa Rica the soda was AMAZING.

(although paul, I think they still make it with sugar in Ireland. Not sure. It was good there anyways.)[/quote. Sometimes when I go to a taqueria I get a Mexican coke in a bottle. There made with sugar and they do taste better.

Not so bad surrounded with vodka either.

14 March:

1991-The Birmingham Six. Six Irishmen convicted of the Birmingham Pub Bombings had those conviction quashed at the Old Bailey in London.

Paddy Hill-Hugh Callaghan-Richard McIlkenny-Gerry Hunter-Billy Power-Johnny Walker.

The six claimed to have confessed to the bombings after being beaten in police custody. 21 people died in two pub bombings.

Not so bad surrounded with vodka either.
vodka and coke? ewwwwwwwwe!

Not so bad surrounded with vodka either.
What kinda freakin' Irishman drinks vodka!?!?

What kinda freakin' Irishman drinks vodka!?!?
with all the illegals he's got around him, i'm surprised the pubs have anything but vodka....i wonder if the have ice yet?

To hell with that clear liquor. I like mine brown: Jack Daniels, Crown Royal, Wild Turkey, Knob Creek, etc.

March 14, 1879
Albert Einstein born


On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany.



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To hell with that clear liquor. I like mine brown: Jack Daniels, Crown Royal, Wild Turkey, Knob Creek, etc.
You know... Bourbon is my mom's drink of choice. I always hated it until recently. Can't drink it straight though. If I'm doing shots it's gonna be vodka or tequila or occasionally rum. I'm a very slow drinker with a relatively high alcohol tolerance, so if I stick with mixed drinks I'll piss it out before I feel it... So generally I take shots and use the mixed drink as a chaser... alternate, you know... And I never drink beer. By the time I finish it, it's warm and disgusting.

You know... Bourbon is my mom's drink of choice. I always hated it until recently. Can't drink it straight though. If I'm doing shots it's gonna be vodka or tequila or occasionally rum. I'm a very slow drinker with a relatively high alcohol tolerance, so if I stick with mixed drinks I'll piss it out before I feel it... So generally I take shots and use the mixed drink as a chaser... alternate, you know... And I never drink beer. By the time I finish it, it's warm and disgusting.


I always get incredibly sick when I drink vodka so I stay away from it.
If I'm doing shots,it's gotta be Jack Daniels or Jagermeister. Last time I did tequila shots I came home with $40 more than I went with and was told I was on stage with a bunch of other friends dancing. I'll stick to drinking that mixed.
As for beer,I'm not a big fan of beers like Budweiser and the such.
I prefer the dark and red lagers,they never last long enough to get warm

OFFICAL STATEMENT:

I dont drink vodka, tho its very popular, especially with women.

15 March 44
The Ides of March

In 44 Roman dictator Julius Caesar was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated this day, the Ides of March, by a group of nobles, among whom were Cassius and Brutus.


1937 - In Chicago, IL, the first blood bank was established at the Cook County Hospital.

Julius was one of the great men of history. They'll be talking about him just minutes before the sun explodes 50 billion years from now.

15 March 44
The Ides of March

In 44 Roman dictator Julius Caesar was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated this day, the Ides of March, by a group of nobles, among whom were Cassius and Brutus.



today is my sisters birthday,I always tease her about being born on the day of a brutal assassination :D

My Lai Massacre: 16 March 1968 - This Day in History (http://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9396862&event=all#event)

On this day in 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers in the hamlet of My Lai, considered a stronghold of the Viet Cong.


1945:http://www.britannica.com/bcom/images/dot.gifU.S. Marines captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II.

On this date in 1751,James Madison,the fourth US President was born in Virginia.--------------------------------------------------------------"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise,every expanded prospect." James Madison

1756 - St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in New York City for the first time. The event took place at the Crown and Thistle Tavern.



Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Be sure to wear something green today, or look to get pinched!

Also on this date, 1804, Jim Bridger, mountain man, was born.





Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Be sure to wear something green today, or look to get pinched!

To you too, es.
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Slan.

Have a good day.

18 March 1931

Nevada legalizes gambling

&

"Six Weeks" Divorce


:drinktoth

19 March


1957 - Elvis Presley bought the mansion he called Graceland.

19 March


1957 - Elvis Presley bought the mansion he called Graceland.



Was it called something else before he bought it ?

Was it called something else before he bought it ?
nope, it was named after the previous owner's daughter, Grace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland).

20 March


Tunisia gains independence from France, 1956 (http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Tunisia)

21 March


1961 - The Beatles played at Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time.


1963 - Closing of Alcatraz prison

21 March


1961 - The Beatles played at Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time.




Burns: Beatles, eh? Oh, yes. I seem to remember their off-key caterwauling on the old Sullivan show. What <was> Ed thinking?

22 March


1934 - The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, GA.

1963 - The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in the U.K.


:banana:

25 March



1306 - Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scotland.

1655 - Saturn's largest moon is discovered.

Was Robert the Bruce the fella who learned patience while he was hiding out in a cave from the British ( and who DID'NT hide out in a cave from the British) and watched a spider build his web?

Or, was that William Wallace?

Bruce and the Spider (http://hazel.forest.net/whootie/stories/bruce_and_spider_scotland.html)

1885 - Eastman Kodak (Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co.) produced the first commercial motion picture film in Rochester, NY.

1938 - Herman Goering warned all Jews to leave Austria.

1945 - The battle of Iwo Jima ended.

1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared East Pakistan to be the independent republic of Bangladesh.

Bruce and the Spider (http://hazel.forest.net/whootie/stories/bruce_and_spider_scotland.html)



Ah, thanks.
Here's another event that occured on this date~~~


March 26, 1941

Naval warfare gets new weapon

On this day, Italy attacks the British fleet at Suda Bay, Crete, using detachable warheads to sink a British cruiser. This was the first time manned torpedoes had been employed in naval warfare, adding a new weapon to the world's navies' arsenals.

The manned torpedo, also known as the "Chariot," was unique. Primarily used to attack enemy ships still in harbor, the Chariots needed "pilots" to "drive" them to their targets. Sitting astride the torpedo on a vehicle that would transport them both, the pilot would guide the missile as close to the target as possible, then ride the vehicle back, usually to a submarine. The Chariot was an enormous advantage; before its development, the closest weapon to the Chariot was the Japanese Kaiten--a human torpedo, or suicide bomb, which had obvious drawbacks.
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28 March


1797 - Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine. (http://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9396874&event=all#event)

1930 -Constantinople renamed Istanbul

March 28

1979: A water pump failed at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant 10 miles from Harrisberg PA.

The Authorities declared an emergency, but didnt inform the public for 5 hours after the leak.

29 March


1848 - Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam.

1867 - Dominion of Canada created.

Wow, I didn't know Niagara Falls had stopped flowing. Sucks for all the tourists that chose that day to go up there. :p

wow that is wierd.i need to go there.i think waterfalls are so beautiful.sucks they built all that manmade crap next to it and made it look like a concrete dump.i like more natural scenery.

Wow, I didn't know Niagara Falls had stopped flowing. Sucks for all the tourists that chose that day to go up there. :p

Since it happened in the mid-1800's & in winter, I doubt it impacted tourism all that much.

The Falls can be turned off. The flow (http://www.niagarafallslive.com/Facts_about_Niagara_Falls.htm) over the American Falls was stopped completely for several months in 1969.

30 March


1858 - Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil.

1964 - "Jeopardy" debuted on NBC-TV.


:D

Remember the ladies......


March 31, 1776

Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies”

In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain.

The future First Lady wrote in part, "I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors…Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

Nearly 150 years before the House of Representatives voted to pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, Adams’ letter was a private first step in the fight for equal rights for women. Recognized and admired as a formidable woman in her own right, the union of Abigail and John Adams persists as a model of mutual respect and affection; they have since been referred to as “America’s first power couple.” Their correspondence of over 1000 letters written between 1762 and 1801 remains in the Massachusetts Historical Society and continues to give historians a unique perspective on domestic and political life during the revolutionary era.

Abigail bore six children, of whom five survived. Abigail and John’s eldest son, John Quincy Adams, served as the sixth president of the United States. Only two women, Abigail Adams and Barbara Bush, have been both wives and mothers of American presidents

and then they gave them driving licences :(

31 March

1880 - Wabash, Indiana, became the first town to be completely illuminated with electric light.

1889 - In Paris, the Eiffel Tower officially opened.

1958 - Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was released.

:D

Hooray for Wabash Indiana!
We're SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cutting edge.....

Also, I read somewhere that the opening bars of "Johhny B. Goode" were recorded and sent with a space probe. Something for any potential aliens to puzzle over.

1 April

1748 - The ruins of Pompeii were found.

1778 - Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, created the "$" symbol.

2 April


1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida.

1956 - "The Edge of Night" and "As the World Turns" debuted on CBS-TV.

3 April


1862 - Slavery was abolished in Washington, DC.

1922 - Stalin succeeds Lenin.

1953 - "TV Guide" was published for the first time.

4 April

1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.

1968 - Martin Luther King assassinated.

1975 - Bill Gates & Paul Allen form a little partnership.

I wonder who the 6 Senators were who voted against the US entering the War. Brave sorts, they were. I have often thought that the two World Wars were basically one war, with a 20 year break in between to let the little tots grow up to be cannon fodder, and 500 years from now, it's probably how the historians will look at this time period.

I wonder who the 6 Senators were who voted against the US entering the War. Brave sorts, they were. I have often thought that the two World Wars were basically one war, with a 20 year break in between to let the little tots gorw up to be cannon fodder, and 500 years from now, it's probably how the historians will look at this time period.

At the end of WW1 the western empires left the German people to live in terrible poverty, [a little revenge goes a long way].

The conditions were planted by them for the rise of the nazis, then when the nazis turned on them, they went crying to Washington to bail them out.

Yes, too bad no one listened to Wilson and his 14 Points. The French and English bigwigs thought he was a pantywaist, and that the US hadn't suffered enough to call the shots.

Speaking of German poverty, their currency was so worthless that once, in 1920's Germany, a lady left a basket of reichmarks outside a shop. When she returned, someone had stolen the basket and left the money. The Treaty of Versailles was a joke. No self -respecting nation would put up with such a thing.

Yes, too bad no one listened to Wilson and his 14 Points. The French and English bigwigs thought he was a pantywaist, and that the US hadn't suffered enough to call the shots.

Speaking of German poverty, their currency was so worthless that once, in 1920's Germany, a lady left a basket of reichmarks outside a shop. When she returned, someone had stolen the basket and left the money. The Treaty of Versailles was a joke. No self -respecting nation would put up with such a thing.

Yep. I was reminded of Germany's fate the other day.
On the radio a journalist had just returned from Zimbabwe.

He was talking about this woman whose 3 daughters had died if AIDS, this woman was taking care of her 9 grandchildren by herself, she is a street cleaner in Harare, she earns, one hunderd and fifty million dollars a month.

About 2 US dollars.

5 April


1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.

1792 - U.S. President George Washington cast the first presidential veto.

1843 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong to be a British crown colony.

6 April


1789 - The first U.S. Congress began regular sessions at the Federal Hall in New York.


1830 - Joseph Smith and five others organize the Mormon Church in Seneca, NY.


1927 - William P. MacCracken, Jr. earned license number ‘1’ when the Department of Commerce issued the first aviator’s license.

7 April

1652 - The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.


1933 - Prohibition ended in the United States.

:drinktoth

1977 - Toronto Blue Jays play their first game.

1830 - Joseph Smith and five others organize the Mormon Church in Seneca, NY.




And it's been non stop fun for the Mormons ever since. Just ask any 7 year old in a loving marriage to a bedridden 89 year old.

8 April


1789 - The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.

1946 - The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.

1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.

1990 - I was born!

Happy B-day, babe. :flowers:










Now show us your boobs. :D

9 April

1865 - General Robert E. Lee and his 26,765 troops surrendered to Union General Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This event was effectively the end of the U.S. Civil War.

1965 - The Astrodome in Houston, Texas opened.

2003 - Fall of Baghdad.

The surrender was the single most momentous event in the history of our nation.


Surrender at Appomattox



April 9, 1865


Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the mighty Union Army of the Potomac captured the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., on April 3, 1865, and had Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's ragged Army of Northern Virginia on the run. Grant quickly sent his hardened veterans slogging to the west on muddy roads after Lee's Rebel army, realizing that if he kept up the pressure he had a very good chance of defeating Lee and ending the war.

With three times as many men as Lee could muster, Grant had been able to apply pressure to all sides of Lee's army as it struggled to escape the Union onslaught. But Grant was well aware that the Rebel soldiers and their sly leader were still a formidable force with a demonstrated capability of turning dire circumstances into victory.

The stressful days and anxious, sleepless night were telling Grant's normally solid disposition. An aide reported that he suffered from "one of his sick headaches, which are rare but cause him fearful pain, such as almost overcomes his iron stoicism." When Grant stopped for the night on April 8, 1865, he was almost without strength from the blinding pain, and sought relief by applying mustard plasters to his wrists and neck and soaking his feet in hot water. Though an aide reminded him that his migraines were often followed by good news, Grant did not feel better and went to bed. At midnight, a message from Lee denying the necessity of surrender was delivered to Grant, and he was seen pacing in the yard before dawn with both hands pressed to his temples.

Shortly after 11:00 A.M. on April 9, 1865, a courier rode up and delivered a message from Lee requesting a meeting to discuss the surrender of his army. "When the officer arrived," said Grant, "I was still suffering with the sick headache; but the moment I saw the note I was cured." While his staff cheered, Grant dispatched a message to Lee to meet him at Appomattox Court House.

"Then there is nothing left for me but to go and see General Grant, and I had rather die a thousands deaths," said Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the morning of April 9, 1865. That morning Lee had dressed in his finest uniform. "I have probably to be General Grant's prisoner and thought I must make my best appearance," he calmly explained to a fellow officer, but his heart was breaking. The end was at hand -- the end of the war, the end of the bloodshed and deprivation, but also the end of the country for which he and his men had so nobly fought. As he looked out over the battlelines, he briefly contemplated shirking the difficult task: "How easily I could be rid of this, and be at rest! I have only to ride along the line and all will be over! . . . But it is our duty to live. What will become of the women and children of the South if we are not here to protect them?" Lee instructed his corps commanders to send out flags of truce to suspend the hostilies and wrote a note to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant requesting an interview to arrange the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Word soon came from Grant that he was pushing to the front to meet with Lee. Gen. James Longstreet came up as Lee was preparing to leave for Appomattox Court House. Still game, Longstreet said to Lee, "General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out."

As he rode toward the town, Lee sent his aide, Col. Charles Marshall, ahead to locate a suitable house for the meeting. Marshall asked the first citizen he came upon in Appomattox Court House, Wilmer McLean, for assistance. McLean took Marshall to his own home, which proved to be the most prosperous looking in the town. Lee arrived at 1:00 P.M., took a seat near a small table in a corner of the parlor, and sat quietly waiting for Grant to arrive. After half an hour, Lee heard the sound of boots mounting the front steps. Lee rose as Grant entered, and the two men met in the middle of the room and greeted each other with a handshake.

"In about a half an hour we heard horses, and the first thing I knew General Grant walked into the room . . . He looked as though he had a pretty hard time . . . dusty and a little soiled," remembered Col. Charles Marshall, the aide who accompanied Gen. Robert E. Lee into the McLean house at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. The most momentous event in the history of the nation -- the surrender of Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac -- was about to take place.

The two generals talked of their first meeting in the Mexican War, made introductions to the officers in the room, and engaged in a wandering conversation that Lee at last brought back to the surrender. "What General Lee's feelings were I do not know, as he was a man of much dignity, with an impassable face, it was impossible to say whether he felt inwardly glad that the end had finally come, or felt sad over the result," wrote Grant. "But my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letters, were sad and depressed . . . Our conversation grew so pleasant that I almost forgot the object of our meeting . . . General Lee called my attention to the object."

"I suppose, General Grant," said Lee, "that the object of our meeting is fully understood. I asked to see you to ascertain upon what terms you would receive the surrender of my army." "The terms I propose," replied Grant, "are those stated substantially in my letter of yesterday -- that is, the officers and men surrendered to be paroled and disqualified from taking up arms again until properly exchanged, and all arms, ammunition, and supplies to be delivered up as captured property."

The generous terms were accepted, and Grant started writing them out. When he was writing the part about delivering up all arms, he looked up at Lee's dress sword, then added a sentence excluding officers' side arms from those to be turned over.

Appomattox Ct. H., Va.
Apl 9, 1865
General R.E. Lee
Commanding C.S.A.

General:
In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th instant, I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit:
Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate. The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly exchanged, and each company or regimental commander to sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
The arms, artillery, and public property to be parked, and stacked, and turned over to the officers appointed by me to receive them. This will not embrace the side arms of the officers, nor their private horses or baggege. This done, each officer and man will be allowed to return to his home, not to be disturbed by the United States authorities so long as they observe their paroles, and the laws in force where they may reside.
Very respectfully,
U.S. Grant, Lt-G

Lee looked up from the surrender terms and said to Grant, "This will have a very happy effect on my army." He could only be pleased, especially with the last sentence, which put him and his men out of jeopardy of charges of treason. He hesitated before saying, "There is one thing I would like to mention. The cavalrymen and artillery men in our army own their own horses . . . I would like to understand whether these men will be permitted to retain their horses."

"Well, the subject is quite new to me," responded Grant. "I take it that most of the men in the ranks are small farmers, and as the country has been so much raided by the two armies, it is doubtful whether they will be able to put in a crop to carry themselves and their families through the next winter without the aid of the horses they are now riding. I will instruct the officers I shall appoint to receive the paroles to let all men who claim to own a horse or mule to take their animals home with them to work their little farms."

"General, say the word and we'll go in and fight 'em yet," shouted some of the men crowding around Gen. Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1865, when he rode back into the lines held by the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee had just surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House. His appearance had caused the usual cheer to erupt, but it queckly fell silent when the men saw the countenance of their beloved general. The normally solid composure had cracked and his great distress was evident.

With tears running down his cheeks, Lee said, "Men, we have fought the war together, and I have done the best I could for you. You will all be paroled and go to your homes until exhanged. My heart is too full to say more." As Traveller moved through the throng, the men voiced their love and devotion for the gray man on the gray horse. They reached ut and touched Lee's uniform, patted Traveller, and sobbed their farewell to the only commander their army had known.

As the news spread, more and more men flocked to Lee. He passed on to an apple orchard, where he stayed briefly to arrange details of the surrender, then rode on to his headquarters. "There was," wrote one soldier, "a general rush from each side of the road to greet him as he passed, and two solid walls of men were formed along the whole distance. Their officers followed, and behind the lines of men were groups of them, mounted and dismounted, awaiting his coming . . . As soon as he entered this avenue of old soldiers, the men who had stood to their duty in so many battles, wild, heartfelt cheers arose which so touched General Lee that tears filled his eyes and trickled down his cheeks as he rode his splendid charger, hat in hand, bowing his acknowledgements." The exhibition of feeling on his part found quick response from the men, whose cheers changed to choking sobs as . . . they waved their hats as he passed . . . One man extended his arms, and with an emphatic gesture said, "I love you just as well as ever, General Lee!"

Fascinating Fact: These terms were probably more than Grant was authorized to offer, but he knew President Lincoln would agree. He had told Grant: "I want no one punished, treat them liberally all around. We want those people to return to their allegiance to the Union and submit to the laws."

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10 April

1790 - The U.S. patent system was established.

1825 - The first hotel opened in Hawaii.

1958 - Bobby Darin recorded "Splish Splash."

Bobby Darin was one of the all-time greats.

11 April



1814 - Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau. He was banished to the island of Elba.


1865 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.


1970 - Apollo 13 is launched.

11 April



1814 -1. Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau. He was banished to the island of Elba.


1865 -2. Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.


1970 -3. Apollo 13 is launched.


1. But not for long--9 months later, he escaped.

2. The full text of Lincoln's last speech:
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/last.htm

3."Houston, we have a problem." I wonder if the launch was on a Friday. The British Admiralty was so fearful of that bad-luck day that they refused to launch ships on Fridays.

12 April

1833 - Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe.

1945 - Harry Truman inaugerated as 33d President of the U.S.

1981 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.

13 April


1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.


1959 - A Vatican edict prohibited Roman Catholics from voting for Communists.


1970 - An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing.


1979 - The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ended after 101 hours.

Not a Good Day in History, April 14

1865 U.S.A. Lincoln Assassination

14th April 1865 : President Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died the next day

1912 Atlantic Ocean Titanic Strikes Iceberg

14th April 1912 : The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg just before midnight on 14th April.



( On a happier note, today is my Dad's birthday. He would have been 81 years old today.)

April 15, 1912
Royal Mail Steamer Titanic lies at the bottom of the North Atlantic, slipping under the calm sea at about 2:30 AM, taking with her some 1500- odd souls, both famous and infamous, rich and poor, young and old, passenger and crew--mostly passengers.
Two thirds of the saved were crew members.

Among the dead--John Jacob Astor, world's richest man, who politely asked if he could accompany his young bride into a life boat and was turned down--his body was found several days later, crushed almost beyond recognition, carrying several thousand dollars in his pocket. Money, among other things, was worthless that night-- Benjamin Guggenheim, who dressed in his finest clothes when he realized the ship was doomed and ensured his place in history by stating, "I've dressed in my best and am prepared to go out like a gentleman"--Captain Smith, who was making his final voyage on the sea that night and looking forward to retirement and who , when asked previously what his life at sea had been like, replied, "Uneventful"--Mr. and Mrs. Strauss, owners of Macys'. Mrs. Strauss refused to leave her husbands' side, and when last seen, were sitting calmly upon two deck chairs, awaiting their doom.-- The Goodwin family of England, third class steerage passengers, mother, father and several young children, all of whom drowned together when they realized they'd been locked beneath decks and by the time the gates were unlocked, it was much too late.

We carry numerous issues of newspapers across the country that covered this horrendous and heartbreaking event. 96 years after the tragedy, and with many many other tragedies and sensational stories to choose from, these newspapers remain the number one most requested items in our collection.

Truly a story for the ages.

God rest Titanic and her passengers.

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16 April


1705 - Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton.


1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.


1922 - Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record.


1977 - The ban on women attending West Point was lifted.

17 April


1524 - New York Harbor was discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.


1810 - Pineapple cheese was patented by Lewis M. Norton.


1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled its new Mustang model.


1970 - Apollo 13 returned to Earth safely after an on-board accident with an oxygen tank.

18 April


1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that "the British are coming."


1846 - The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House.


1934 - The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth, Texas.


1950 - The first transatlantic jet passenger trip was completed.

18 April


1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that "the British are coming."


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I wonder if Revere, Dawes, et al really did shout-"The BRITISH are coming" since the colonies belonged to Britain--ALL the colonists were technically British.
Most likely, he shouted " The Redcoats are coming!"
I'm a nitpicker, I know.

(PS. ES, I think us two are the only ones who post on this thread anymore.)

I wonder if Revere, Dawes, et al really did shout-"The BRITISH are coming" since the colonies belonged to Britain--ALL the colonists were technically British.
Most likely, he shouted " The Redcoats are coming!"
I'm a nitpicker, I know.
as patriots, i doubt they saw themselves as "British subjects".

(PS. ES, I think us two are the only ones who post on this thread anymore.)
but you're far from the only ones reading it:thumbs:

Yeah-The American History Thread.

Yeah-The American History Thread.
if you have something to add, feel free.

I thought I did.

Here's something European.

April 19, 1943

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising is mercilessly put down.

There ya see, much more interesting.

Maybe not more interesting--AS interesting. :)
We Yanks do tend to think history begins and ends at our shores. I suppose many people around the globe think the same--if they even think of history at all, alas.

Nah, just you Yanks do that.
The rest of us live in the real world.

There ya see, much more interesting.

Feel free to post as you see fit. I go here (http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/dayselect-misc.htm), and pull what seems to be interesting to me.

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21 April

753 BC - Today is the traditional date of the foundation of Rome.


1689 - William III and Mary II were crowned joint king and queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.


1836 - General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas.


1918 - German fighter ace Baron von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down and killed during World War I.


1984 - In France, it was announced that doctors had found virus believed to cause AIDS.

21 April

1945: Red Army troops enter outlaying suberbs of Berlin.

April 22,753BC ~~~

Rome is founded

April 22, 1778~~

John Paul Jones, one of my all time favorite guys, leads American Raid on Whitehaven, England

April 22, 1915~~

those fun loving Germans introduce mustard gas

April 22, 1915~~

those fun loving Germans introduce mustard gas
i thought chlorine gas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_gas#Use_as_a_weapon) was used 1st?:confused:

That is exactly right, according to yr link. Chlorine gas was first used by the Germans April 22, 1915 at Ypres.
Now I wonder where mustard gas was first used, and by whom.

PS That was my bad. The History Channel says today was the first use of
"poison " gas. I goofed and said "mustard" gas.
Sorry to all.

That is exactly right, according to yr link. Chlorine gas was first used by the Germans April 22, 1915 at Ypres.
Now I wonder where mustard gas was first used, and by whom.
being a fun loving German, the 1st thing i think of when i hear mustard, is bratwurst....even if the gas isn't related to the condiment.:o

being a fun loving German, the 1st thing i think of when i hear mustard, is bratwurst....even if the gas isn't related to the condiment.:o

I've distributed bratwurst gas a few times.

23 April

1348 - The first English order of knighthood was founded. It was the Order of the Garter.

1789 - U.S. President George Washington moved into Franklin House, New York. It was the first executive mansion.

1895 - Russia, France, and Germany forced Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China.

1988 - Kanellos Kanelopoulos set three world records for human-powered flight when he stayed in the air for 74 miles and four hours in his pedal-powered "Daedalus".

On this date, April 24.

In 1792, the national anthem of France, "La Marseillaise," was composed by Captain Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

In 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.

In 1877, federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South.

In 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

In 1915, the Ottoman Empire began the brutal mass deportation of Armenians during World War I.

In 1953, British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth ll.

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PS. Thomas Jefferson's personal library created the foundation of the Library of Congress. Being a bankrupt spendthrift, he had to sell his books for pennies on the dollar to make ends meet.

I've been to the LoC a few times. I've even been down in the stacks, thanks to my Smithsonian internship. I like it there. However, I'd much rather go to an open stacks library.

That's interesting, D. I've never been there but would love to go. I've read they have to add so many miles of shelving a year to handle their huge collection.

At my own library, we have a Guttenberg Bible, also a hand written collection of sonnets from Lord Byron himself. People are always donating us stuff--good for them!

Our annual used book sale is coming up in a few weeks--you can get next to new or first edition books for CHEAP--like, fifty cents to a dollar each!