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Topic Started: Apr 9 2012, 01:57 AM (5,133 Views)
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February Revolution. The beginning of the end for poor Russia.
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Abdication of Nicholas II.
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I expected you to say it is 45 years since Don Corleone entered cinema history. :D
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Well, I didn't know... Shame on me.

Ironically enough, I'm holding a presentation on the death of the old Empires today. Guess it is such a day. :P

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Beware the Ides of March. :blink:
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Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia on this day 150 years ago.

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The U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased on this day from Denmark 100 years ago.
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Woodrow Wilson asks the United States Congress to make the world safe for democracy, on this day 100 years ago.
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WHEREAS, The Imperial German Government has committed repeated acts of war against the people of the United States of America; therefore, be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, which has thus been thrust upon the United States, is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.

The United States declares war on Germany, April 6, 1917.
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Truly an historic day.
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The Prime Minister, Governor-General, and "Britain's" Prince Charles are all at the monument today, as per the CBC.
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Without doubt one of the finest run battles of the war.
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Good grief, I can't even believe it was five years ago I posted that.
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Basil Fawlty
Apr 12 2017, 12:49 AM
Good grief, I can't even believe it was five years ago I posted that.
And I can't believe I remembered a quote by Simon from five years ago. :P
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Oh, that's nothing. I remember one from WI days (2010) about the Suez Canal. Something about "if we will not be allowed to buy it, we shall be forced to take it."
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Apparently today is the day in 1947 when the British tried to blow up Heligoland. Sounds like fun.
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Big bangs always sound like fun. Let's try it again!
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Well, then:

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April 18, 1942 (75 years)
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Basil Fawlty
Apr 18 2017, 10:38 PM
Well, then:

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April 18, 1942 (75 years)
I'm always fine with more bombers.

Certainly not the largest bang, but one that did shake things up.
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I took the line about the Suez Canal from an excellent television series about Disraeli.

Which quote of mine did you remember, Petar?
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Simon Darkshade
Apr 9 2012, 07:12 AM
One of the finest run battles of the war.
This one, about Vimy Ridge.
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Battle of Messines (1917)

BANG!
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Thirty years.
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Basil Fawlty
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Now that's funny. I just saw a movie about the Berlin Wall last night.
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Invention of the first bicycle (1817)
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150 years.
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Passchendaele (100 years)
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It's been 70 years since the partition and independence of India.
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Basil's other WW2 thread reminded me to post this and I figured that it would belong here better.

Operation Jubilee and the Dieppe Raid, 75 years - yesterday.
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Happy 35th birthday to Commodore 64!
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Our Russian friends released this tweet earlier in the morning:

https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/900398021623656450

In a completely unrelated topic, today is also the 78th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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The death of Princess Diana, twenty years.
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May the people's Princess rest in peace. She has done a lot for us in Europe's favourite battleground, and she is remembered fondly for her humanitarian work here.
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Beginning of the Little Rock Crisis (1957)

Interestingly, it seems the National Guard unit that was first deployed during it later visited Petar's neck of the woods after the Yugoslav wars.
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Voyager 1 was launched on this day in 1977. It crossed into interstellar space five years ago. The thing still works.
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Sep 5 2017, 10:16 AM
Voyager 1 was launched on this day in 1977. It crossed into interstellar space five years ago. The thing still works.
And connected to this:

First episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation aired on this day 20 years ago.

Live long and prosper!
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1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

Seems to be a busy day.

The 70th anniversary of the creation of a separate USAF was a few weeks back.
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Execution of Ernesto "Che" Guevara (50 years)
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Apparently this is the day North Korea exploded its first nuclear bomb, in 2006.
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Execution of Mata Hari (1917)
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Alaska Transfer Day (1867).

This is the actual day this picture should be used:

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Martin Luther publishes the Ninety-five Theses, beginning the Protestant Reformation. (500 years)
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That is probably the most significant anniversary posted in this thread.
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The Bolshevik Revolution (1917)

Possibly the most odious anniversary posted in this thread.
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Battle of Cambrai (1917)
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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..." :)

Which reminds me that I need a white tux.
Edited by Petar, Nov 26 2017, 10:02 PM.
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On this day in 1972, Pong was released.

People were more easily amused back then.
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