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| Topic Started: Apr 9 2012, 01:57 AM (5,133 Views) | |
| Basil Fawlty | Mar 9 2017, 04:51 AM Post #251 |
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February Revolution. The beginning of the end for poor Russia. |
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| Petar | Mar 15 2017, 09:09 AM Post #252 |
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Abdication of Nicholas II. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Mar 15 2017, 11:03 AM Post #253 |
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I expected you to say it is 45 years since Don Corleone entered cinema history.
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| Petar | Mar 15 2017, 11:40 AM Post #254 |
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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. ![]() |
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| Basil Fawlty | Mar 15 2017, 11:56 AM Post #255 |
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Beware the Ides of March.
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| Basil Fawlty | Mar 30 2017, 07:27 AM Post #256 |
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Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia on this day 150 years ago.
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| Basil Fawlty | Mar 31 2017, 07:59 AM Post #257 |
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The U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased on this day from Denmark 100 years ago. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Apr 3 2017, 02:52 AM Post #258 |
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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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| Basil Fawlty | Apr 6 2017, 07:44 AM Post #259 |
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The United States declares war on Germany, April 6, 1917. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Apr 9 2017, 05:39 PM Post #260 |
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| Lewington | Apr 9 2017, 10:36 PM Post #261 |
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Truly an historic day. |
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| Lewington | Apr 9 2017, 10:46 PM Post #262 |
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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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| Petar | Apr 11 2017, 11:56 PM Post #263 |
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Without doubt one of the finest run battles of the war. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Apr 12 2017, 12:49 AM Post #264 |
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Good grief, I can't even believe it was five years ago I posted that. |
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| Petar | Apr 13 2017, 10:23 PM Post #265 |
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And I can't believe I remembered a quote by Simon from five years ago.
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| Basil Fawlty | Apr 13 2017, 11:58 PM Post #266 |
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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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| Basil Fawlty | Apr 18 2017, 06:45 PM Post #267 |
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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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| Petar | Apr 18 2017, 09:09 PM Post #268 |
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Big bangs always sound like fun. Let's try it again! |
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| Basil Fawlty | Apr 18 2017, 10:38 PM Post #269 |
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Well, then: April 18, 1942 (75 years) |
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| Petar | Apr 19 2017, 01:26 AM Post #270 |
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I'm always fine with more bombers. Certainly not the largest bang, but one that did shake things up. |
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| Simon Darkshade | Apr 19 2017, 03:09 PM Post #271 |
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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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| Petar | Apr 19 2017, 08:05 PM Post #272 |
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This one, about Vimy Ridge. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jun 7 2017, 06:41 PM Post #273 |
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Battle of Messines (1917) BANG! |
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| Lewington | Jun 12 2017, 03:22 PM Post #274 |
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![]() Thirty years. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jun 12 2017, 10:11 PM Post #275 |
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Now that's funny. I just saw a movie about the Berlin Wall last night. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Jun 12 2017, 11:09 PM Post #276 |
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Invention of the first bicycle (1817) |
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| Lewington | Jul 2 2017, 12:23 AM Post #277 |
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| Petar | Jul 30 2017, 08:31 PM Post #278 |
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Passchendaele (100 years) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Aug 15 2017, 07:48 PM Post #279 |
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It's been 70 years since the partition and independence of India. |
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| Lewington | Aug 20 2017, 03:23 PM Post #280 |
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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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| Petar | Aug 22 2017, 10:13 PM Post #281 |
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Happy 35th birthday to Commodore 64! |
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| Lewington | Aug 23 2017, 09:57 PM Post #282 |
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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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| Lewington | Aug 31 2017, 12:21 PM Post #283 |
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The death of Princess Diana, twenty years. |
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| Petar | Sep 1 2017, 05:57 PM Post #284 |
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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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| Basil Fawlty | Sep 4 2017, 06:18 PM Post #285 |
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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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| Basil Fawlty | Sep 5 2017, 10:16 AM Post #286 |
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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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| Petar | Sep 28 2017, 03:09 PM Post #287 |
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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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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 1 2017, 11:52 AM Post #288 |
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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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| Petar | Oct 9 2017, 08:36 AM Post #289 |
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Execution of Ernesto "Che" Guevara (50 years) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 9 2017, 09:45 PM Post #290 |
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Apparently this is the day North Korea exploded its first nuclear bomb, in 2006. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 15 2017, 08:11 AM Post #291 |
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Execution of Mata Hari (1917) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 18 2017, 05:28 PM Post #292 |
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Alaska Transfer Day (1867). This is the actual day this picture should be used:
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| Basil Fawlty | Oct 31 2017, 10:13 AM Post #293 |
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Martin Luther publishes the Ninety-five Theses, beginning the Protestant Reformation. (500 years) |
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| Lewington | Oct 31 2017, 11:04 AM Post #294 |
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That is probably the most significant anniversary posted in this thread. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Nov 2 2017, 06:28 AM Post #295 |
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| Basil Fawlty | Nov 7 2017, 08:50 AM Post #296 |
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The Bolshevik Revolution (1917) Possibly the most odious anniversary posted in this thread. |
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| Basil Fawlty | Nov 20 2017, 06:19 AM Post #297 |
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Battle of Cambrai (1917) |
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| Basil Fawlty | Nov 26 2017, 09:25 PM Post #298 |
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| Petar | Nov 26 2017, 09:58 PM Post #299 |
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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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| Basil Fawlty | Nov 29 2017, 05:41 PM Post #300 |
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On this day in 1972, Pong was released. People were more easily amused back then. |
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