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Topic Started: Apr 9 2012, 01:57 AM (5,135 Views)
Lewington
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Happy Dominion Day!
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Happy Dominion Day!
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Myles
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Happy Dominion Day!
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First aerial dogfight victory (1915)



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I just read that yesterday.
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7/7 bombings (10 years)
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Srebrenica (20 years)
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I still find it hard to imagine that was 20 years ago.
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Well, human nature doesn't change, especially in the black hole of Europe known as the Balkans.
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Surrender of Napoleon (1815)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NYqovAarA
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"1945 – The Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, replacing Winston Churchill as Prime Minister with Clement Attlee."
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Sinking of the USS Indianapolis (July 30, 1945)
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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 1990 (25 years)
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The unexpected death of Warren G. Harding (90 years)
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Petar
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Operation Storm (20 years)

A more detailed post coming on later.
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What a healthy, bouncing Little Boy!
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I don't think I see him bouncing, Simon. :P
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As a cultural note for Petar, it appears both Little Boy and Fat Man were named after characters in the Humphrey Bogart movie The Maltese Falcon.
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Interesting. I do suppose that those two bombs weren't the stuff the dreams were made of. :P
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Also, August 15 - the Battle of Sinj and the first round of the Alka (300 years)

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Victory over Japan Day (70 years)
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Log Revolution (25 years)
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As of Wednesday, HM will be the longest reigning monarch in our history.

God save the Queen!
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Most certainly. God Save the Queen!
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Today is the royal day. God Save the Queen!
Edited by Lewington, Sep 9 2015, 12:53 PM.
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http://www.steynonline.com/7159/the-survivor
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Funny, today Canada entered the second war. And here we are refighting it.
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14 years on now.
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Indeed. I am deliberately avoiding television today.
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October 1

1801 – With the signing of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France in return for the Tuscany area of Italy

It has come up once or twice. ;)

1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Yugoslav National Army forces invaded the area surrounding Dubrovnik, Croatia, beginning a seven-month siege of the city.
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Nasty stuff.
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The worst car in the history of automotive industries has entered into mass production 35 years ago.

Happy birthday, Yugo! :D

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It actually sort of sounds like a good modernish car name.

You-go.
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Happy Trafalgar day!
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The Immortal Memory.
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The seventieth anniversary of the United Nations.

Simply noting the fact that China, Saudi Arabia, and Cuba sit on the Human Rights Council is all that I feel the need to say about the current state of the United Nations.
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Not everyone subscribes to your narrow, Western-centric, xenophobic-exclusivist definition of "rights," "council," and "human."

;)
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No, but they are lesser for not doing so.
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Happy St Crispin's day everybody, and all that means.
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Balaclava too.
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Death of Alfred the Great, 1,116 years.
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The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, 150 years.
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The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, 150 years.
"A measure passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America."
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January 28, 1986 - the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (30 years)

"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
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The battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor (1898) and the first Teddy bear goes on sale (1903).

Should call February 15 Teddy Day.
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Battle of Verdun, 1916 (100 years)

I'm a day late.
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There are many beautiful aircraft out there, but the Spitfire tops the poll in my view.
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The Spitty is truly a sight to behold. A beautiful machine.
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