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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Tue May 04 2021 2:39pm

kevinchess1 wrote:
Tue May 04 2021 2:13pm
And also Michael Barrymore birthday
Hoping he has an uneventful day
Michael Ciaran Parker (born 4 May 1952), known by his stage name Michael Barrymore, is an English actor, comedian and television presenter of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. These included Strike It Lucky, My Kind of People, My Kind of Music and Kids Say the Funniest Things. In 1993, he headlined the Royal Variety Performance.

At his peak, Barrymore was voted the UK's favourite television star several times, and became one of the highest-paid stars on television from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s. He presented the popular game-show Strike It Lucky as well as his own variety show Barrymore. He starred in Bob Martin from 2000 to 2001, a comedy drama in which he played the title role of a failing television game-show host.

After his peak of popularity in the mid-1990s, Barrymore appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and other shows including The Friday Night Project, Graham Norton's Bigger Picture, This Morning, The Sharon Osbourne Show and The Saturday Night Show.

His television career effectively ended after the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001 following a party at Barrymore's house in Essex. Barrymore was the subject of police investigations and legal action around the case over several years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrymore
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Post by Richard Frost » Wed May 05 2021 9:52am

5th May 2021

A selection of birthdays
1818 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), born in Trier, Prussia (d. 1883)
1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist and suffragette, born in Old Trafford, Manchester, England (d. 1960)
1887 Geoffrey Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, Archbishop of Canterbury (1945-61), born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England (d. 1972)
1900 Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), born in Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford, Ireland (d. 1963)
1923 Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney), born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (d. 1994)
1942 Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], American country singer ("Stand By Your Man"), born in Itawamba County, Mississippi (d. 1998)
1988 Adele [Adele Laurie Blue Adkins], Briish pop-rock singer-songwriter ("Rolling In The Deep"; "Someone Like You"), born in Tottenham, London
1994 Celeste [Epiphany Waite], British singer (Not Your Muse), born in Culver City, California

On this day in history

553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
1430 Jews are expelled from Speyer, Germany
1494 On 2nd voyage to New World Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay
1646 King Charles I surrenders in Scotland
1665 Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
1762 Russia & Prussia sign Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years' War
1764 Smolny Institute forms in St Petersburg for noble girls
1778 George Washington appoints Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Inspector General of the Continental Army
1789 French Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614 at Versailles, summoned King Louis XVI
1792 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre commissioned to measure the meridian between Dunkerque to Rodez to calculate accurate length of the metre
1809 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Aargau Canton, Switzerland
1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent for weaving straw
1814 British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York
1816 American Bible Society organized in New York
1835 King Leopold I of Belgium opens Brussels-Mechelen railway
1840 Thomas Carlyle begins his famous lecture series "The Hero as Divinity", later collected in his book "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History"
1842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours in Hamburg, Germany
1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1854 British Commodore James Plumridge attacks Finnish settlements in Gulf of Bothnia, killing civilans and destroying British-owned goods.
1855 New York City regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
1861 Alexandria, Virginia - Confederate troops abandon the city
1862 French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
1862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia
1863 Irish boxer Joe Coburn KOs American Mike McCoole in the 67th round in his first defence of Heavyweight C'ship of America in Charlestown, Maryland
1864 Atlanta Campaign: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
1864 Battle of Wilderness, Virginia (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga to Atlanta
1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend, Ohio)
1870 The British and Foreign Society for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind adopts Braille as best format for blind people
1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1877 Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles
1881 Anti-Jewish rioting in Kiev, Ukraine
1886 The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fires upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.
1891 Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor
1893 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange
1908 Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1915 German U-20 captures and sinks British schooner Earl of Lathom
1916 US Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1917 Eugene Bullard gains his pilot's license from Aéro-Club de France and becomes the 1st African-American military pilot (French Air Service)
1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1920 US President Woodrow Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1920 Italian migrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti charged with murder of a paymaster at a US shoe factory in Massachusetts, both are later executed
1921 Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
1921 Perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel
1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
1925 Dayton teacher John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1925 Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa.
1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
1930 Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1930 Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 185 in a tour match for Australia v Leicestershire at Aylestone Road, Leicester
1932 Japan & China sign a peace treaty
1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
1940 Norwegian government-in-exile forms in London
1941 2 Fokker employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England
1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1942 British assault on Diego Suarez, Madagascar
1942 US begins rationing sugar during WW II
1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1944 Mahatma Gandhi freed from prison
1944 Soviet offensive against Sebastopol, Crimea
1945 Mauthausen Concentration camp in Austria liberated by US forces from 41st Reconnaissance Squadron
1945 Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1945 Uprising against occupying SS troops in Prague
1945 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
1945 World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases
1947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1948 1st squadron of jet aircraft aboard a carrier
1949 Statute of Council of Europe drawn up
1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej crowned King Rama IX of Thailand in the Royal Palace in Bangkok
1951 "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk for this novel "The Caine Mutiny"
1954 Military coup in Paraguay led by general Alfredo Stroessner
1955 Indian parliament accepts Hindu divorce
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1956 World championships of judo are 1st held in Tokyo
1957 Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria
1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for Death in the Family
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1962 "West Side Story" soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1964 Separatists riot in Quebec
1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
1966 Borussia Dortmund of West Germany win 6th European Cup Winner's Cup against Liverpool of England 2-1 in Glasgow
1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site
1971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara for historical novel "Killer Angels"
1976 Train collision at Schiedam, Netherlands, kills 24
1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building
1980 Konstantinos Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece
1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 29th Eurovision Song Contest: Herreys for Sweden wins singing "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" in Luxembourg
1986 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces Cleveland, Ohio chosen as the site of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1987 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1988 Eugene A Marino installed as 1st African American archbishop
1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York
1990 35th Eurovision Song Contest: Toto Cutugno for Italy wins singing "Insieme: 1992" in Zagreb
1991 A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after Salvadoran man is shot by police
1992 American country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 performances
1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
1994 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
1996 "Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 performances
1996 Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe
1997 Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
1999 34th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw win
2000 Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
2002 Jacques Chirac wins the French Presidential election for a second term defeating Jean-Marie Le Pen leader of the far-right National Front
2005 Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third consecutive term in UK general election
2006 The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army
2007 Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
2012 Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970
2012 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
2012 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (89,102): Chelsea beats Liverpool, 2–1; Didier Drogba scores winner for Blues' 7th title
2013 10 people are killed in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria
2013 5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California
2014 China announces it will upgrade Ethiopia's infrastructure in an effort to improve a China-Africa strategic partnership
2014 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Briton Mark Selby beats countryman Ronnie O'Sullivan 18-14, the first of 3 world titles
2015 Scientists announce the discovery of the oldest & most distant galaxy known to man, EGS-zs8-1
2015 Archaeornithura meemannae, the oldest known prehistoric bird, is discovered
2015 "Traveller" debut album by Chris Stapleton is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album, 2016; Billboard Album of the Year, 2016)
2016 Fort McMurray wildfires: Canadian province of Alberta declares a state of emergency as evacuation of 80,000 people continues
2017 Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue, is made a dame by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
2018 Former Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson suffers a brain haemorrhage and is hospitalised; recovers
2018 Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product
2019 Violent clashes between Israel and Gaza militants over three days have left 4 Israelis and 23 Palestinians dead
2019 King Vajiralongkorn is crowned King of Thailand, first monarch to be crowned in nearly seven decades during a three-day celebration in Bangkok
2019 At least 41 people die when a Russian Aeroflot plane catches fire after an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow
2019 Oil tanker explosion kills 55 in Niamey, Niger
2020 Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 3.65 million, US cases pass 70,000 while the UK becomes the most affected in Europe with 29,427 known deaths
2020 São Luis, in Maranhão state becomes the first Brazilian city to enter lockdown because of COVID-19 as its health services struggle to cope
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Post by Richard Frost » Thu May 06 2021 10:14am

6th May

WORLD PASSWORD DAY
Each year on the first Thursday in May, World Password Day promotes better password habits. Passwords are critical gatekeepers to our digital identities, allowing us to access online shopping, dating, banking, social media, private work, and life communications.

In a cyber world, secure passwords are important. Other than keeping your information offline, long, unique and complex passwords protect your valuable information best. Another tactic is changing your passwords every few months or any time you think your accounts have been compromised.

A selection of Birthdays

1856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and father of psychology, born in Freiberg, Austrian Empire (d. 1939)
1868 Gaston Leroux, French writer (The Phantom of the Opera), born in Paris (d. 1927)
1895 Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor and silent movie idol (The Sheik, Eagle), born in Castellaneta, Italy (d. 1926)
1899 Billy Cotton, British bandleader and entertainer, born in Smith Square, London (d. 1969)
1912 William "Bill" Quinn, American actor (Star Trek, The Birds, Rifleman, All in the Family), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
1913 Stewart Granger, English actor (Prisoner of Zenda, King Solomon's Mines), born in London, England (d. 1993)
1915 Orson Welles [George], American actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds), born in Kenosha, Wisconsin (d. 1985)
1924 Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist, born in Bromley, Kent, England (d. 1992)
1943 Andreas Baader, German left-wing militant and leader of the Red Army Faction, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1977)
1944 Anton Furst, American production designer (Batman), born in London (d. 1991)
1950 Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band - "Pick Up The Pieces"), born in Dundee (d. 1974)
1951 Davey Johnstone, Scottish guitarist, and musical director (Elton John's band, 1971–1977, 1982–present), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
1953 Tony Blair, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1997-2007), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
1953 Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer/manager
1961 George Clooney, American actor (ER, Batman, The Descendants), born in Lexington, Kentucky
1993 Naomi Scott, English actress (Aladdin, Charlie's Angels), born in London, England
2019 Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, British son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, born in London, England

On this day in history

878 Battle of Edington: Alfred the Great and his West Saxon army defeat Viking army of Guthrum the Old [earliest possible date]
1312 Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna
1432 Renaissance masterpiece The Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck is consecrated at St Bravo's Cathedral, Belgium, commissioned by wealthy merchants
1527 Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome, ending the Renaissance
1529 Battle at Gogra: Mughal Emperor Babur beats Afghans and Bengals
1541 King Henry VIII orders a bible in English be placed in every church in England
1542 Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, then capital of Portuguese India
1598 Archduke Albrecht & Isabella become rulers of the Southern Netherlands
1604 Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina
1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods, believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape
1642 Ville Marie (Montreal) forms
1644 Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
1672 Brandenburg monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
1682 Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles ( The Sun King)
1733 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni
1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
1757 Battle of Prague: Frederick II of Prussia's forces defeat Austrian army
1787 1st African American Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston
1794 Haiti, under Toussaint Louverture, revolts against France
1804 Suriname sold to Great Britain (until Feb 1816)
1835 James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald (price 1 cent).
1837 US blacksmith John Deere creates the first steel plough in Grand Detour, Illinois
1840 World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain
1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 Linus Yale patents Yale lock
1851 New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
1851 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts
1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
1860 San Francisco Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club forms
1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille sets sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
1861 Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th states to secede from US
1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, fought in Virginia begins (Battle of Port Walthall Junction), Union victory (US Civil War)
1864 Battle of Wilderness, fought in Virginia, Confederate General James Longstreet seriously injured (Overland Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
1864 Union Army General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign (US Civil War)
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
1882 Epping Forest, England, dedicated by Queen Victoria
1882 Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin
1889 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris opens with the recently completed Eiffel Tower serving as the entrance arch
1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
1896 Samuel Pierpont Langley flies his unpiloted Number 5 aircraft using a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River, USA. The aircraft travels almost 3/4 of a mile - ten times further than any previous heavier-than-air flying machine.
1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
1902 Zulu assault at Holkrantz, South Africa
1906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street, San Francisco allows United Railroads to run electric streetcars
1906 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia claims right to legislate by decree and restricts the power of the Duma (Russian Parliament)
1909 Indian nationalist Sri Aurobindo acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case in Calcutta, India
1910 George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII
1913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, northern Albania
1914 British House of Lords rejects women's suffrage
1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1915 The Allies on Cape Helles launch three attacks to enlarge their beachheads; after terrible losses, they advance about three miles
1916 Belgian troops march into Kigali, German East Africa
1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German South West Africa to South Africa
1933 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
1935 British King George V & Queen Mary celebrate silver jubilee
1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
1937 German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground
1938 Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Adolf Hitler)
1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck for "The Grapes of Wrath"
1941 Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union, replacing his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov
1941 At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show
1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
1945 General Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1945 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)"
1948 Revival of Jerome Kerns and Clifford Grey's rags-to-riches musical "Sally" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 36 performances
1950 "Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 performances
1954 English athlete Roger Bannister becomes first to run a sub-4 minute mile, recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road Track, Oxford
1955 West Germany joins NATO
1957 Italian government of Antonio Segni resigns
1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F. Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing vessels
1960 US President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Jakarta
1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader) freed in Mexico
1961 Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party
1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
1962 Antonio Segni elected President of Italy
1962 Pathet Lao breaks cease fire and conquer Nam Tha Laos
1962 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
1964 Joe Orton's play "Entertaining Mr Sloan" premieres in London
1965 Lawry & Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies
1966 Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
1966 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England
1966 The Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" in the US
1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania
1967 Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22)
1967 Zakir Husain elected 1st Muslim president of India
1968 Street battle between students & troops in Paris, 1,000 injured
1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
1969 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark announces an amnesty for all offences associated with demonstrations since 5 October 1968, resulting in the release of, among others, Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting
1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mt Everest
1970 Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch sacks two ministers in the Irish government over allegations of illegal arms importation
1970 European Cup Final, San Siro, Milan: Feyenoord beats Celtic, 2-1; first time title won by a Dutch club
1972 Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order
1974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
1974 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns amidst controversy over his aide Günter Guillaume's ties with the Stasi (East German secret service)
1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
1975 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
1976 An earthquake strikes Friuli in Northern Italy, causes 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages
1977 "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl" released in UK
1978 South Africa military goes into Angola
1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
1979 Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout" premieres in NYC
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 "Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 14 performances
1981 US expels Libyan diplomats
1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
1986 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1987 Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH
1987 Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
1987 American televangelist Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God after revelations of an alleged rape of a church secretary
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs v Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes
1989 34th Eurovision Song Contest: Riva for Yugoslavia wins singing "Rock Me" in Lausanne
1990 Former president P. W. Botha quits South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in South Carolina
1991 Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9"
1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
1992 Werder Bremen of Germany win 32nd European Cup winner's Cup against AS Monaco of France 2-0 in Lisbon
1993 STS-55 (Columbia) lands
1994 Channel tunnel linking England & France officially opens
1994 US House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban
1994 Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election
1996 Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of President Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war
1996 The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1997 Army Staff Sgt Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape
1997 Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1997 The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history
2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque
2002 Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist
2002 Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX
2002 "The Good Stuff" single released by Kenny Chesney (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)
2004 TV sitcom "Friends" airs season finale in 10th and final season in US (52.5 million viewers)
2007 "Shrek the Third" directed by Chris Miller and Raman Hui with voices by Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy premieres in Westwood Ca.
2008 Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.
2010 The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs
2011 The US Department of Labor states that 244,000 jobs were created in April, with 235,000 added in February and 221,000 in March, but unemployment continues to grow, reaching 9%
2012 François Hollande elected 24th President of France
2012 Greek parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures
2013 10 people are killed and 26 people are injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
2013 13 people are killed in clashes with Bangladeshi police in Dhaka
2013 15 people are killed and 50 are injured after a bomb detonates at a political rally in Pakistan
2014 Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, releases a 57 minute video boasting about abducting schoolgirls in Nigeria
2017 Bus crash in Arusha region, Tanzania kills 35
2017 84 abducted schoolgirls released in exchange for Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria
2017 France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory
2019 Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei announces a moratorium on the death penalty for gay sex and adultery after worldwide condemnation over new Sharia laws
2019 French telecom company Orange and its former CEO with other executives go on trial in France for psychological harassment of their staff that unions claim resulted in 19 suicides and 12 other attempts
2019 One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction according to a major new UN report
2019 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Judd Trump wins his first world crown beating John Higgins of Scotland, 18-9
2020 UK becomes the first European country to report over 30,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19
2020 Irish organisation repays a 170 year old favor, raising over $2 million (to date) for US Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation badly affected by COVID-19. In 1840s Choctaw Nation sent $170 to aid Irish potato famine.
2020 At least 90,000 healthcare workers worldwide infected by COVID-19, more than 260 nurses have died according to International Council of Nurses
2020 Former intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi sworn in as new Iraqi Prime Minister, 3rd to be nominated in six months
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Post by Richard Frost » Fri May 07 2021 10:21am

7 May 2021

“Vesak”, the Day of the Full Moon
"Vesak", the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world. It was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B.C., that the Buddha was born. It was also on the Day of Vesak that the Buddha attained enlightenment, and it was on the Day of Vesak that the Buddha in his eightieth year passed away.

The General Assembly, by its resolution 54/115 of 1999, recognized internationally the Day of Vesak to acknowledge the contribution that Buddhism, one of the oldest religions in the world, has made for over two and a half millennia and continues to make to the spirituality of humanity. This day is commemorated annually at the UN Headquarters and other UN offices.

A selection of birthdays

1812 Robert Browning, English poet (Pied Piper), born in London, England (d. 1889)
1833 Johannes Brahms, German composer and conductor (Hung Dances), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1897)
1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer of the late-Romantic period (1812 Overture; Swan Lake), born in Votkinsk, Russia (d. 1893)
1847 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (Liberal: 1894-95), born in London (d. 1929)
1917 David Tomlinson, British actor (Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Helter Skelter), born in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England (d. 2000)
1917 William Geoffrey Biddle, English bomb disposal expert, born in Bromley, Kent, England (d. 1997)
1919 Eva Perón [Evita], Argentine First Lady (1946-52) actress, suffragette, unionist and humanitarian who was inspiration for A.L. Webber's musical "Evita", born in Los Toldos, Argentina (d. 1952)
1938 Johnny Caldwell, Irish flyweight boxer (Olympic bronze 1956), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 2009)
1940 Angela Carter, English novelist (Magic Toyshop) and journalist, born in Eastbourne, England (d. 1992)
1944 Richard O'Sullivan, British comedy actor (Man About the House), born in Chiswick, London
1956 Anne Dudley, British classical and film composer (The Full Monty), born in Beckenham, Kent
1980 Kate Lawler, English reality television personality and disc jockey (won 1st Big Brother), born in London, England

On this day in history

558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens, convened by Pope Gregory X
1355 1,200 Jews of Toledo, Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay
1429 English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army
1579 Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
1624 Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1638 Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
1660 Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
1663 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
1664 Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles. (The Sun King)
1697 Stockholm's medieval royal castle is destroyed by fire, the Codex Gigas (world's largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript) survives by being thrown out a window
1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation
1718 The city of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
1727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1748 French troops conquer Maastricht in the War of the Austrian Succession
1765 HMS Victory launched; Admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, 40 years later
1771 Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
1775 Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1792 Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
1794 Influential Gothic romance "The Mysteries of Udolpho" is published by Ann Ratcliffe in London
1800 Indiana Territory organized
1824 Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th (Choral) Symphony, often regarded as his greatest work, premieres in Vienna
1832 Greece becomes independent, Otto of Bavaria is chosen as king
1836 The settlement of Mayagüez elevates Puerto Rico to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain
1840 Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, kills 317
1846 First printed copies of "Poems" by Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë received, published under pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell (2 copies sold)
1848 Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 Argentina & Brazil sign a navigation pact
1861 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
1862 Battle of West Point, Virginia (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 Much of Enschede, Netherlands, destroyed by fire
1864 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1864 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction, Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassination attempt
1867 Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite in England, the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive material
1873 US marines attack Panama
1875 German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1877 Cincinnati Enquirer first uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
1885 John E W Thompson named US minister to Haiti
1888 Édouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys" premieres in Paris
1891 Battle in Bunyoro: Capt F Lugard stops Muslim rebellion, 300 killed
1895 Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver in St. Petersberg. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
1902 La Soufrière volcano on St Vincent kills 1,680 people
1907 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
1908 Emperor Franz-Joseph celebrates his golden jubilee with festivities throughout the Austro-Hungarian empire
1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 British House of Commons rejects women's right to vote
1913 An ambassadorial conference in St Petersburg, Russia, awards the town of Silistria to Rumania in compensation for Bulgaria's other territorial gains in the First Balkan War
1915 RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost
1919 A draft of the Versailles Treaty is shown to Germans
1920 USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
1922 Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1924 Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1927 Angelos Sikelianos organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek Delphic ideal.
1928 The United Kingdom lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for "Bridge of San Luis Rey"
1930 Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
1934 Princess Juliana of the Netherlands opens Juliana Canal between Maastricht and Maasbracht
1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley for his play "Men in White"
1934 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1938 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1941 British House of Commons votes for Winston Churchill (477-3)
1941 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA, it becomes 1st record to be designated "gold"
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1943 British 11th Hussars occupy Tunis
1943 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
1943 US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia
1943 US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia
1944 German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia
1945 World War II: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands
1945 World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims
1945 Princess Irene Brigade moves into The Hague, Netherlands
1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
1945 SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1946 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1947 Paraguayian government unleashes contra revolt
1948 Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death
1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer
1953 "Can Can" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances
1953 Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile
1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1954 US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership of NATO
1955 USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain
1955 West European Union established
1956 Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
1958 US Air Force Major Howard Johnson sets world aircraft altitude record in a Lockhead F-104
1960 Webster and Fain's musical "Christine", based on Hilda Wernher's novel "My Indian Family", closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances
1960 "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
1960 Michael Tal beats Mikhail Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy
1961 "Young Abe Lincoln" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 27 performances
1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H. White (Making of President 1960)
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
1966 Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1969 Lt General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
1970 "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1975 US President Gerald Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1977 "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
1977 22nd Eurovision Song Contest: Marie Myriam for France wins singing "L'oiseau et l'enfant" in London
1979 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
1980 Yugoslav President Josip Tito is buried
1980 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore NYC for 12 performances
1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
1983 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: New York Islanders beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1984 $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1986 Iraq bombs a Tehran oil refiner
1986 30th European Cup: Steaua Bucuresti beats Barcelona (0-0, 2-0 on penalties) at Seville
1987 105°F in Sacramento, CA
1987 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on TV comedy "Cheers"
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
1989 Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1991 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs
1992 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge, Long Island, for selling cocaine
1992 Champion Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr. retires after winning 7,057 thoroughbred horse races
1992 US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is recovered 3 months after it was stolen
1995 "On the Waterfront" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 performances
1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1996 Comedian Martin Lawrence suffers a nervous breakdown
1997 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)
1997 Science fiction film "The Fifth Element" written and directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich is released. Then the most expensive European film ever made.
1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the then largest industrial merger in history
1999 Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
1999 In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 Jury finds "The Jenny Jones Show" and Warner Bros. liable in death of Scott Amedure, after purposely deceiving Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later kills Amedure, jury awards Amedure's family $25 million
2002 A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2003 Arsenal thrash Southampton, 6-1 at Highbury to start Gunners' amazing English Premier League record 49-game unbeaten streak; ends 24 October, 2004 with 2-0 defeat at Manchester United
2006 52nd British Academy Television Awards: "Help" Best Comedy, "Doctor Who" Best Drama
2007 Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University announces he has discovered the tomb of Herod the Great at Herodium, West Bank
2008 Dmitry Medvedev is sworn in as the 3rd President of the Russian Federation
2011 "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, premieres in - opening weekend makes $350.6m
2012 NATO air strike kills 14 and wounds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
2012 Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six-year term as President of Russia
2012 Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth
2013 55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
2013 The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs
2013 4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines
2013 20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
2013 8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa, India
2013 Jolly Nero, an Italian cargo ship, crashes into the port of Genoa, killing seven people
2013 Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage
2014 Fighting between pro-Russian and Kiev forces continue amid fears internationally of a civil war in the Ukraine
2015 British General Elections: Conservative Party win outright majority and David Cameron returns as Prime Minister
2015 Underwater explorers discover a silver ingot of Captain William Kidd's treasure near Madagascar
2017 Emmanuel Macron wins France's presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen
2017 MTV becomes 1st major awards show to adopt gender-neutral categories - Emma Watson best film actor, Millie Bobby Brown best TV actor
2017 “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” becomes the highest grossing Indian box office film ever earning $120 million
2018 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years
2018 More mudslides in Rwanda kill 18 people bringing the year's death toll to 200
2018 Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study
2018 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Welshman Mark Williams beats John Higgins of Scotland, 18-16; as promised, does his press conference in the nude
2018 Iran-Contra figure Oliver North announced as the new President of the US National Rifle Association
2018 Met Gala 2018 "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' is hosted by Anna Wintour, Amal Clooney, Donatella Versace and Rihanna wearing a Pope-inspired outfit
2019 Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin "magic mushrooms"
2019 Turkish electoral body decides to re-run the Istanbul mayoral election, won by the opposition, amid worldwide criticism
2019 Venezuela's Congress strips opposition lawmakers of immunity and accuses them of treason
2019 Hackers seize control of the computer system of the US city of Baltimore, demanding a ransom in Bitcoins to unlock them
2020 UK economy heading for its worst crash in 300 years (-14%), since 1706, according to Bank of England forecast
2020 US Father and son arrested for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, after video of the killing surfaces
2020 Toxic leak at Indian chemical factory near Visakhapatnam kills at least 13 and injures many when it tried to reopen after lockdown
2020 US unemployment claims hit 33.3 million or 20% of the workforce, vs two months ago unemployment 3.5%, a 50-year low
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat May 08 2021 11:04am

8th May

8-9 May
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War

A Selection of Birthdays

1737 Edward Gibbon, English historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), born in Putney, England (d. 1794)
1786 Thomas Hancock, British engineer, founded British rubber industry, born in Malborough, Wilshire (d. 1865)
1846 Oscar Hammerstein, German opera and playwright (Kohinoor), born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1919)
1855 John Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing, born in Chicago, Illinois
1898 Vera Chapman, English writer and Tolkien Society founder, born in Bournemouth, England (d. 1996)
1913 Sid James [Solomon Joel Cohen], South African-born British character and comedy actor (Hancock's Half Hour, Carry On), born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (d. 1976)
1920 Tom of Finland [Touko Laaksonen], Finnish fetish artist, born in Helsinki (d. 1991)
1921 Graham Leonard, Bishop of London, most senior Anglican to convert to Catholicism since the reformation (d. 2010)
1926 David Attenborough, English naturalist, TV producer and host (BBC "Life" and "Our Planet" series), born in London, England
1930 Heather Harper, Northern Irish operatic soprano (Britten's War Requiem), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2019)
1940 Peter Benchley, American novelist (Jaws, The Deep), born in NYC, New York (d. 2006)
1942 Norman Lamont, MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
1942 Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer
1944 Gary Glitter [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
1944 Bill Legend [Fifield], British musician and rock drummer (T. Rex), born in Barking, Essex
1963 Terry Christian, British writer, radio and television presenter, born in Old Trafford, Lancashire, England
1964 Dave Rowntree, British drummer (Blur - "Country House"; Coffee &TV"), and politician, born in Colchester, Essex, England
1975 Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop ("Bailamos"; "Hero"), born in Madrid, Spain
1976 Ian "H" Watkins, Welsh pop singer (Steps - "Heartbeat"; "Stomp"), actor, and television personality, born in Llwynypia, Wales
1980 Michelle McManus, Scottish pop singer ("All This Time"), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1983 Matt Willis, British pop singer, bassist (Busted), and television personality. born in Tooting, London, England

On this day in history

535 John II's reign as Catholic Pope ends
589 Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo
615 St Boniface IV's reign as Catholic Pope ends
685 St Benedict II's as Catholic Pope ends after 11 months with his death
1348 Ship from Bordeaux carrying the Black plague, lands in Melcombe Regis (now Weymouth), Dorset
1360 Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French, ending the first phase of the Hundred Years' War
1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
1521 Parliament of Worms installs edict against Martin Luther
1541 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his expedition discover the Mississippi River
1624 Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor & Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1639 William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island
1660 English parliament declares Charles Stuart to be King Charles II of England
1721 Michelangiolo dei Conti succeeds Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
1741 France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg
1784 Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough, South Carolina)
1787 First US prison reform society formed, the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons led by Dr. Benjamin Rush
1792 British Captain George Vancouver sights and names Mt Rainier, Washington
1792 US establishes the military draft
1821 Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia
1823 "Home! Sweet Home!" by John Howard Payne is 1st sung in London
1834 Prussia, Austria and Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
1835 1st instalment of Hans Christian Andersen "Fairy Tales" published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark
1840 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
1842 Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
1846 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto, Texas
1847 Scot Robert Thompson patents rubber tyre
1852 Second London protocol signed reaffirming Danish federation control of independent Duchies of Holstein, Lauenburg and Schleswig
1858 John Brown holds antislavery convention
1862 Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell, Virginia
1863 Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
1864 Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway bridge, Virginia (Drewry's Bluff)
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton
1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House begins
1871 British-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
1877 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1878 David Edward Hughes' paper on the idea for a microphone is read before the Royal Society of London by Thomas Henry Huxley
1879 George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs the first of many contracts with the Congolian monarch
1882 David Belasco's "La Belle Russe" premieres in NYC
1885 Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge in Bristol, England
1886 Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells the first Coca-Cola (contained cocaine)
1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1896 Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire
1898 The first games of the Italian Football League are played
1899 The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens
1899 Ernest Rutherford publishes his discovery of two different kinds of radiation (Alpha and Beta Particles)
1901 A British appointed commission estimates today that some 1,250,000 Indians have died after a severe drought, lasting since 1899
1902 Mount Pelée on the French overseas island of Martinique erupts, wiping out the city of Saint-Pierre, killing 30,000 and leaving only two survivors
1905 Union of Unions organizes In Russia under the chairmanship of Paul Miliukov and joins liberal groups demanding parliamentary government and universal suffrage
1907 Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after beating "Philadelphia" Jack O'Brien on points in 20 rounds in Los Angeles, California
1909 American Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6) in NYC
1909 British runner Henry Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31) in the Polytechnic Marathon in London
1912 Film and television production and distribution studio Paramount Pictures is founded
1916 German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes killing 679 German soldiers
1916 Irishmen Eamon Kent, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Sean Houston are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
1919 Appingedam soccer team forms
1919 Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, leads to the creation of Remembrance Day
1921 Sweden abolishes capital punishment
1923 Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* v Somerset at Bath
1924 Arthur Honegger's "Pacifica 231" premieres
1924 Memel territories given to Lithuania
1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1926 A Philip Randolph organizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1929 Soviet government contract Albert Kahn Associates architectural firm to design the USSR's 1st tractor plant
1931 Operette "Land of Smiles" premieres in London
1933 Mahatma Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India
1936 Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife faints when he returned to track
1938 Stravinsky's "Dumbarton Oaks" premieres in Washington, D.C.
1941 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
1942 Aircraft carrier USS Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack in Coral Sea
1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1943 Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
1944 33 communist resistance fighters sentenced to death
1945 Canadian troops move into Amsterdam
1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
1945 German General Wilhelm Keitel formally surrenders to the Allies represented by the United States, the UK, France and the Soviet Union in Berlin
1945 V-E Day: World War II ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender
1946 Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn
1947 Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki, who had volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz to gain information about the Holocaust, is arrested by Polish communist police
1949 West German constitution approved
1950 Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
1951 Dacron men's suits introduced
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1952 "Of Thee I Sing" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1952 "Shuffle Along" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 4 performances
1952 5th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "La Ronde" Best Film
1956 John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" premieres in London
1957 South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm, arrives in the United States on a state visit
1958 US VP Richard Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed and spat upon by protesters in Peru
1958 "Dracula" film starring Christopher Lee as the eponymous vampire, directed by Terence Fisher is the first Hammer Horror film released
1959 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship. 200 drown just yards from shore
1960 1st performance of Ferde Grofé's "San Francisco Suite", with Grofé conducting, in San Francisco
1960 USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
1961 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport, Texas
1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1962 Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" starring Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford, and directed by George Abbot opens at Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 965 performances, and wins 6 Tony Awards
1962 1st Atlas Centaur Launch
1962 London trolley buses (electrically powered buses using overhead supply) go out of service
1962 Oskar Schindler and his wife Emilie Schindler are honored for saving 1200 Jews during WWII, in a ceremony on the Avenue of the Righteous, Jerusalem
1963 1st James Bond film, "Dr. No", starring Sean Connery, premieres in US
1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression from its neighbors
1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
1967 The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental
1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
1969 Cambodia recognizes the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
1969 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
1970 Beatles release 12th, and final, studio album, "Let It Be", in conjunction with the film of the same name
1970 Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1970 Thousands of students protest against the Vietnam War following the Kent State shootings in Ohio
1971 Courtney, Courtney, and Link's musical "Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater, NYC, after 5 performances
1972 Sabena aircraft at Lod International Airport, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
1973 Indians holding South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
1974 50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
1974 Canadian government of Pierre Trudeau falls
1974 FC Magdenburg of East Germany win 14th European Cup Winner's Cup against AC Milan of Italy 2-0 in Rotterdam
1976 Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's musical "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" closes at Mark Hellinger, NYC, after 7 performances
1976 The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain
1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
1979 The Cure release their debut album "Three Imaginary Boys" (Boys Don't Cry in US, Australia)
1980 World Health Organization announces smallpox has been eradicated
1980 1st non-stop trans-North American balloon flight departs Fort Baker, California. Maxie Anderson and son Kristian pilot the Kitty Hawk for five days.
1984 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1984 Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles
1984 Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
1984 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics in retaliation for the American boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, George Strait, and Reba McEntire win
1985 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1987 Gary Hart quits US democratic presidential race due to affair with Donna Rice
1987 The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kill 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland
1988 "Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 46 performances
1988 Francois Mitterrand elected President of France
1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in New York City
1989 Paul McCartney releases remake of "Ferry Cross the Mersey" in aid of those affected by the Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool football fans
1989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands
1990 Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway
1990 Reindependence Day of Estonia
1993 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware
1993 Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train and 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1994 Jim Cartwright's play "The Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon Theater, NYC after 9 performances
1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
1994 Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
1994 Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica
1994 President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1994 Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge.
1996 South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution
1996 Paris Saint-Germain of France win 36th European Cup Winner's Cup against Rapid Wien of Austria 1-0 in Brussels
2001 36th Academy of Country Music Awards: Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill & Toby Keith win
2005 The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.
2007 A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed with Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist Party) as First Minister and Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) as Deputy First Minister
2008 Dmitry Medvedev appoints Vladimir Putin as Russian Prime Minister
2010 Barrow AFC wins English FA Trophy at Wembley, makes them only team to win it at both Old & New Wembley stadiums
2011 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Shoal Creek G&CC: Tom Lehman wins second of 3 Champions Tour majors with par on 2nd playoff hole against Australian Peter Senior
2012 Dmitry Medvedev is confirmed as Russian Prime Minister by the State Duma, after being nominated by Vladimir Putin
2013 33 people are killed after an overloaded bus falls into a river in Himachal Pradesh, India
2013 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi receives a four year prison sentence for fraud
2013 Sir Alex Ferguson announces his retirement as Manchester United's manager at the end of the season
2014 World's oldest astrolabe (mariner's navigator tool) c. 1498 from Portuguese shipwreck of explorer Vasco da Gama found near Al Hallaniyah Island, Oman
2016 Sadiq Khan (L) is elected Mayor of London, - 1st Muslim mayor of a major Western city
2018 President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal
2018 Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths
2018 Paris St-Germain seals the French domestic football treble with a 2-0 win over 3rd Div Les Herbiers in the French Cup Final at the Stade de France
2018 Largest-ever wave at 23.8m recorded in the South Hemisphere at Campbell Island by New Zealand scientists
2019 Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that Facebook should be split up and regulated in "New York Times" Op-Ed essay
2019 Thailand's general elections official results show opposition Pheu Thai Party won most seats but still unable to form government, due to rules favoring the military
2019 UK goes a week without using a coal-fired power station for first time in 137 years due to use of more renewable energy
2019 Iran announces it will stop complying with parts of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal
2019 Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp signs new abortion law, the so-called "heart-beat bill" (comes into effect Jan 2020)
2019 Singapore passes sweeping "anti-fake news" laws bill
2019 Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi who spent eight years in prison on death row for blasphemy arrives in Canada
2020 Two US White House staffers test positive for COVID-19 and three members of the coronavirus task force go into self-isolation after possible exposure to the virus
2020 11-year old Brazilian skateboarder Gui Khury creates world record by performing 1st 1080 degree turn on a vertical ramp
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun May 09 2021 9:53am

9th May 2021

World Migratory Bird Day
During this year’s event, World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) will imbue the activity of birdwatching, a past time enjoyed by millions. WMBD will teach participants at more than 700 locations from Argentina to Canada how to identify birds, how to connect with them, and how to delve deeper into bird biology, investigating such topics as the difference between birdsong and call, the mysteries of migration, and the astounding power of flight.

9 May – 15 May CHRISTIAN AID WEEK
Initiated in 1945, this fund raising week raises money for work with the needy throughout the world; mainly done by house to house collections and sales of goods of various kinds.

LOST SOCK MEMORIAL DAY
May 9th recognizes a fun and unique holiday, National Lost Sock Memorial Day. It is time to say “good-bye” to all of the single socks, the ones where their mates have been lost to the unknown. Where do all the missing socks go? Is there a washing machine heaven? This is a question people have been trying to solve for many centuries. An answer may never be found to this problem, and life will go on. How sad to have lost such a close-knit friend!

A Selection of Birthdays

1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author (Dante's Inferno, Divina Commedia), born in Florence, Republic of Florence (d. 1321)
1740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville), born Roccaforzata, Taranto, Italy (d. 1816)
1860 J.M. [James Matthew] Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan), born in Kirriemuir, Angus (d. 1937)
1873 Howard Carter, British archaeologist and egyptologist who found King Tutankhamun's tomb, born in London (d. 1939)
1893 William Moulton Marston, American psychologist (inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector) and writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman), born in Saugus, Massachusetts (d. 1947)
1910 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
1912 Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (From Russia With Love, Fort Apache), born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico (d. 1963)
1919 Arthur English, British comedian and actor (Malachi's Cove, Are You Being Served?), born in Aldershot, Hampshire, (d. 1995)
1920 Richard Adams, English author (Watership Down), born in Newbury (d. 2016)
1930 Joan Sims, British actress ("Carry on" films, As Time Goes By), born in Laindon, Essex, (d. 2001)
1934 Alan Bennett, England, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball)
1935 Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children's books (Mr. Men and Little Miss), born in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire (d. 1988)
1936 Albert Finney, English actor (The Dresser, Under the Volcano), born in Salford, England (d. 2019)
1936 Glenda Jackson, English actress (Women in Love), born in Cheshire.
1941 Pete Birrell, British rock bassist (Freddie & The Dreamers - "I'm Telling You Now") born in Wythenshawe, Cheshire, England
1942 Mike Millward, English guitarist (The Fourmost - "A Little Loving"), born in Bromborough, Cheshire (d. 1966)
1947 Anthony Higgins, British actor (A Walk with Love and Death, Something for Everyone), born in East Northamptonshire, England
1952 Patrick Ryecart, actor (Silas Mariner)
1957 Tessa Peake-Jones, British television and film actress (Only Fools and Horses - "Raquel"), born in Hammersmith, London, England
1965 Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, English musician and actor (Curiosity Killed Cat - Keep Your Distance), born in London, England

On this day in history

328 Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria
1092 Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated in Lincoln, England
1386 Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England (oldest diplomatic alliance in the world still in force)
1450 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated
1460 Courtyard of the episcopal palace in Atrecht (akak Arras) has witch burnings
1502 Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his 4th and final trip to the New World
1519 Austrian adel and burgerij in uprising against central government
1573 Polish Parliament selects Duke of Anjou as king
1588 Duke Henri de Guise's troops occupy Paris
1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London, captured running from the tower with the jewels
1689 English King William III declares war on France
1726 Three men arrested during a February raid on Mother Clap's molly-house (a coffee house catering to homosexuals) in London are executed by hanging at Tyburn, England
1738 Britain sends fleet to the Mediterranean Sea & West Indies
1753 King Louis XV disbands French parliament
1754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1766 John Byron back in England after trip around the world
1768 John Hancock pays duties on 25 pipes of wine, only one fourth of his ship's carrying capacity. British officials accuse him of unloading the rest at night to avoid paying duties on the entire cargo.
1785 British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1788 British parliament accepts abolition of slave trade
1793 Explorer Alexander Mackenzie sets out on his second expedition to the Pacific from Fort Fork (arrives at Pacific 22nd July)
1816 Lady Caroline Lamb publishes the Gothic novel "Glenarvon", a thinly disguised account of her affair with Lord Byron which also depicts her husband William Lamb
1837 "Sherrod" burns in the Mississippi River below Natchez, Mississippi; 175 die
1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
1862 Battle of Farmington, Mississippi
1862 Battle of Fort Pickens, Florida, Pensacola evacuated by Confederates
1862 US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island
1864 -20] Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
1864 Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling)
1864 Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1865 President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring armed resistance in the South is virtually at an end; this is the commonly accepted end date of the American Civil War
1868 Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony in C, premieres
1868 The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded
1873 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression
1874 London's Victoria Embankment opens
1874 The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, plying two routes
1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day becomes the Independence Day of Romania.
1882 Telegraph Hill RR Co (Cable Cars) in San Francisco organized
1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London
1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
1899 John Burr patents an improved rotary blade lawn mower in the US
1901 The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne, though the first working session will not be until 21 May
1901 A financial panic begins in the USA following the struggle between two groups to control the railroads between the Great Lakes and the Pacific
1904 The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
1908 Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
1911 Fire breaks out at Empire Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland
1914 J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
1915 German & French fight Battle of Artois
1916 British-France Sykes-Picot conference over division of Turkey
1922 The International Astronomical Union formally adopt Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system, which with only minor changes, is still used today
1925 Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem, laid
1926 1st flight over the North Pole claimed by Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett. Later discovery of Byrd's diary suggests they may have turned back 150 miles short of the pole due to an oil leak.
1927 Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia, and the Australian Parliament convenes there for the first time.
1930 John Masefield is appointed British Poet Laureate by King George V
1932 Piccadilly Circus, London, first lit by electricity
1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike
1936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
1936 Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen
1941 Louis Buchalter is arraigned in New York state court on the 1936 Joseph Rosen murder along with three other murders
1943 5th German Panzer army surrenders in Tunisia
1943 Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
1944 Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana
1944 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested
1944 Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
1944 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1945 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested
1945 Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested
1945 Victory celebration at Red Square
1945 World War II: Partisans liberate Ljubljana.
1945 World War II: Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army
1945 World War II: The Soviet Union marks Victory Day
1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are formally liberated by the British
1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by his son Umberto II who reigns for only 34 days before the monarchy is abolished
1949 Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway, London
1949 Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco
1950 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
1950 Norman Dello Joio's opera, "The Triumph of St. Joan", premieres in Bronxville, New York
1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
1955 German Federal Republic (West Germany) joins NATO
1956 First ascent of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain in the Nepalese Himalayas by Japanese climbers Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu
1956 War Reparations and Peace Settlement between Philippines and Japan was finally signed at Malacañang Palace under Magsaysay administration
1958 Russian Mikhail Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
1958 "Vertigo", American film noir psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, is released
1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1960 US becomes the first country to legalize the birth control pill
1962 The Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone
1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits Egypt
1965 The Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert, at the Royal Albert Hall in London
1965 Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1966 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1967 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
1967 Gijs van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam
1969 Following his release from prison Ian Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist holds a 'victory' meeting
1971 23rd Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Jack Klugman & Jean Stapleton win
1971 Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42)
1971 Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
1974 US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1976 "So Long 174th St" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 16 performances
1977 Hotel Poland in Amsterdam destroyed by fire, 33 killed
1977 Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
1977 Patty Hearst let out of jail
1978 "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 1604 performances
1978 Corpse of kidnapped Italian ex-premier Aldo Moro found
1979 Iranian-Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is the 1st Jew executed by the Islamic government firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran
1980 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
1980 Slasher horror film "Friday the 13th" is released in US cinemas
1981 The Motherland Monument at 62 m (203 ft) high is opened in Kiev, Ukraine in ceremony attended by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
1982 Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine" premieres in NYC
1983 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Ronnie Milsap, and Sylvia win
1984 Sculptor Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000
1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1987 32nd Eurovision Song Contest: Johnny Logan for Ireland wins singing "Hold Me Now" in Brussels
1988 Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Canberra
1988 Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms
1989 "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
1989 Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press
1989 VP Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"
1990 NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
1990 Sampdoria of Italy win 30th European Cup Winner's Cup against Anderlecht of Belgium 2-0 in Gothenburg
1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession (conviction overturned 2006)
1991 Michael Landon appears on The Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
1992 Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned 41st Miss Universe
1992 Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War
1992 Salem Village Witchcraft Victims' Memorial dedicated in Danvers (formally Salem Village) to mark 300 year anniversary of trials
1992 37th Eurovision Song Contest: Linda Martin for Ireland wins singing "Why Me" in Malmo
1993 "Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
1993 "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 performances
1993 Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
1993 Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies" premieres in NYC
1993 Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years
1994 "Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances
1994 Mass murderer Joel Rifkin found guilty in New York
1996 Singer-Songwriter Geddy Lee is made an Officer of the Order of Canada
1997 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
1998 43rd Eurovision Song Contest: Dana International for Israel wins singing "Diva" in Birmingham
1999 45th British Academy Television Awards: "Father Ted" Best Comedy, "The Cops" Best Drama
2001 Accra Sports Stadium Disaster: 129 Ghanaian football fans die in a stampede caused by the firing of teargas by police following a decision by the referee in a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko
2002 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected militants among them deported
2002 In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130
2004 Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed in a land mine bomb blast under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya
2005 Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched
2006 Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
2006 George Preca is canonized as the first Maltese saint in history
2009 Jacob Zuma is sworn in as President of South Africa
2012 Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars
2012 A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board
2012 United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same-sex marriage
2013 Everton Manager David Moyes is announced as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor at Manchester United (he only lasts 10 months)
2015 A gun fight erupts in Macedonian town of Kumanovo between police and Albanian separatists adding to the government crisis
2016 Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippine presidential election, promising war on drug trade and killing of criminals
2016 Boris Johnson resigns as Mayor of London, succeeded by Sadiq Khan
2017 US President Donald Trump dismisses FBI Director James Comey
2017 Moon Jae-in elected President of South Korea after a snap election to replace Park Geun-hye
2017 Fossil of Chinese feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis (baby dragon in Chinese)
2017 Jakarta’s Christian governor Ahok jailed for 2 years for blasphemy
2018 Manchester City smashes EPL records in 3-1 win over Brighton - most goals (105), most points (97) and most wins (31)
2018 Historic win in Malaysian general election by opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan led by 92 year old former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, defeating Prime Minister Najib Razak and ending 61 years of rule by the Barisan National coalition
2018 Walmart takes a majority stake in Indian online retailer Flipkart for 16 billion
2018 India's Supreme Court criticises the country’s archaeological conservation body for failing to protect the Taj Mahal from discoloration and green slime
2018 President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and some Iranians react angrily to President Trump pulling the US out the Iran Nuclear deal
2018 Dam bursts after heavy rains near Solai, Kenya, killing at least 41
2018 Nicaraguan anti-government protests involving tens of thousands take place in Managua and Matagalpa y Chinandega
2018 Oldest viral DNA, a form of hepatitis B, reported discovered in 7,000 year old skeleton found in Germany
2018 Argentina announces talks with the IMF amid a new financial crisis with interest rates at 40%
2019 English clubs create football history by taking all 4 final spots in Europe's 2 major competitions; Chelsea & Arsenal qualify in Europa Cup after 'miracle' Champions League wins for Liverpool & Spurs
2019 Pope Francis introduces new rules on reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, criticized for not going far enough
2019 New Australian $50 bank note misspells responsibility as "responsibilty" on 46 million notes
2019 French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin (72) successfully crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel arriving in Martinique
2019 At least 65 migrants drown off the coast of Tunisia when their boat capsizes after leaving Libya according to the UN
2019 Archaeologists hail Anglo-Saxon tomb found 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as full report of its contents published
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Post by kevinchess1 » Sun May 09 2021 12:25pm

Richard Frost wrote:
Fri May 07 2021 10:21am
1980 Kate Lawler, English reality television personality and disc jockey (won 1st Big Brother), born in London, England
No she didn't
I remember watching it. It was a bloke called Craig something gave all his winning to his poorly sister.
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun May 09 2021 12:43pm

kevinchess1 wrote:
Sun May 09 2021 12:25pm
Richard Frost wrote:
Fri May 07 2021 10:21am
1980 Kate Lawler, English reality television personality and disc jockey (won 1st Big Brother), born in London, England
No she didn't
I remember watching it. It was a bloke called Craig something gave all his winning to his poorly sister.
Yes Craig Phillips
The builder, now 48, famously gave his prize money to his friend with Down's syndrome, Joanne Harris, to pay for her heart and lung transplant.

He has since gone on to forge a successful media career as a DIY and home improvement expert, and has hosted a number of design shows.
Yes my source obviously has it slightly wrong.
Kate Lawler (born 7 May 1980) is an English television personality, presenter, model and DJ. She became the first female winner of Big Brother UK after winning the third series of the reality series in 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Lawler
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A selection of birthdays

1850 Thomas Lipton, Scottish yachtsman (5-time America's Cup challenger) and tea merchant (Lipton Tea), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1931)
1888 Max Steiner, Austrian composer (Gone With the Wind), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1971)
1899 Fred Astaire [Austerlitz], American stage and screen tap dancer, singer ("Night And Day"; "Cheek To Cheek"; "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"), and actor (Royal Wedding; Easter Parade; Swingtime), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1987)
1915 Denis Thatcher, husband of British PM Margaret (1979-90), born in London, England (d. 2003)
1915 Monica Dickens, British author and founder of the Samaritians in the US, born in London, England (d. 1992)
1940 Arthur Alexander, American singer-songwriter ("Lonely Just Like Me"), whose songs were covered by The Beatles ("Anna"), The Rolling Stones ("You Better Move On"), and Bob Dylan ("Sally Sue Brown"), born in Sheffield, Alabama (d. 1993) [1] [2]
1940 Bill Cash, British politician (C, born in London
1946 Maureen Lipman, actress (Educating Rita, Wonderworks)
1946 Donovan [Philips Leitch], Scottish guitarist and singer-songwriter ("Sunshine Superman"; "Mellow Yellow"; "Season Of The Witch"), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1957 Sid Vicious [John Simon Ritchie], English musician and bassist (Sex Pistols), born in London (d. 1979)
1960 Bono [Paul Hewson], Irish rock singer and lyricist (U2 - "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"; "Desire"; "Beautiful Day"; "One"), born in Dublin, Ireland
1967 Young MC [Marvin Young], British American rapper (Bust a Move), born in London, England
1968 Al Murray, British comedian
1991 Emily McEnroe, daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe

On this day in history

1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
1278 Jews in England imprisoned on charges of coining
1291 Scottish nobles recognize authority of English King Edward I
1294 Temür Khan declared Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
1427 Jews are expelled from Bern, Switzerland
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for his first voyage to the New World (disputed)
1503 Christopher Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague
1534 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland
1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen mother Mary
1570 Tsar Ivan IV becomes Protestant
1624 Dutch admirals Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
1643 Essex County, Massachusetts is founded, which contains the town of Salem in which the notorious witch-trials will occur in 1692
1652 John Johnson, a free African American, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Virginia
1655 Jamaica captured by the English
1676 Bacon's Rebellion begins, frontiersmen vs Virginia government
1768 John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for "The North Briton" severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
1774 Louis XVI ascends to throne of France
1775 Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and issues paper currency for 1st time
1775 Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia names George Washington Supreme Commander
1775 American Revolution: Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga, New York
1787 British Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings, Governor-General of Bengal
1796 French government arrest 10 utopists
1796 Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge
1796 Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam
1797 1st US Navy ship, the "United States," is launched
1801 First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America (1st US foreign war)
1804 British Prime Minister Henry Addington resigns, replaced by William Pitt the Younger
1816 British steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor
1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling
1824 The National Gallery in London opens to the public in its temporary home in a townhouse on Pall Mall
1837 Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1849 Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in NYC (22 killed)
1857 Indian Mutiny against rule by the British East India Company begins with the revolt of the Sepoy soldiers in Meerut
1861 Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, Missouri
1862 Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee
1864 Battles at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
1864 Skirmish at Ny River, Virginia
1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union troops at Irwinsville Georgia (US Civil War)
1865 Major General Sam Jones, the Confederate military leader in Florida, South Carolina and South Georgia, surrenders to Union forces
1869 Golden Spike driven, completing the 1st US Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah and connecting the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific
1870 Jem Mace & defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr & 17 minutes, & neither is struck by a punch
1871 Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war
1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US presidency by Equal Rights Party at Apollo Hall, NYC
1876 Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
1879 Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa
1881 Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation
1883 First appendectomy performed in North America by Abraham Groves in Canada
1893 Imperial Institute in London opens
1894 Hong Kong government declares port is infected with the plague. The outbreak will go on to kill 20,489 over 29 years.
1902 Dutch soccer club FC Blauw-Wit (Blue-White) is formed in the Kinkerbuurt area of Amsterdam; merge with VV De Beursbengels in 2015
1902 Portugal goes bankrupt, but its parliament passes a bill converting its external debt. Contributing to Portugal's troubles is recent revolt in its colony of Angola, put down 6 September
1906 Russian Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1906 Italian King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss President Ludwig Forrer open Simplon tunnel
1907 Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue" premieres in Paris
1910 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
1910 Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
1910 The British House of Commons pass three major resolutions on political reform
1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
1915 Canadian physician Cluny MacPherson first presents his gas mask invention to the British War Office
1916 Disastrous fire in Ellendale, North Dakolta
1916 Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam
1917 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1918 HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
1919 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed
1921 Luigi Pirandello's "Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore" premieres
1922 Dr Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar
1922 The United States annexes the Kingman Reef in n the North Pacific Ocean
1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
1925 To control demonstrations against foreigners, British troops in Shanghai fire into a crowd, leading to a boycott against British goods
1929 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Walter Hagen wins 4th Open title, by 6 strokes from fellow American Johnny Farrell
1930 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
1930 Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v Yorkshire at Sheffield
1931 Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey
1932 Dutch Government declares "Wilhelmus" as the Netherlands' national anthem
1932 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France
1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
1933 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banished to Netherlands
1936 Manuel Azaña elected the second President of the Spanish Republic
1936 Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt
1937 Busmen strike in London
1938 Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
1940 Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
1940 World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France
1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister
1940 World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent
1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland
1941 British House of Commons & Holborn Theatre damaged in an air raid
1941 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on Radio Orange warns against treason
1942 World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign
1944 Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan
1944 Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal A decision of the United States Supreme Court
1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1945 Soviet troops occupied Prague
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" closes at Century Theater NYC after 69 performances
1948 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
1948 Winston Churchill visits The Hague
1950 1st Netherlands-US telex sent
1952 "Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 4 performances
1952 5th Cannes Film Festival: "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice" directed by Orson Welles and "Two Cents Worth of Hope" directed by Renato Castellani jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1955 8th Cannes Film Festival: "Marty" directed by Delbert Mann wins Palme d'Or
1956 French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
1956 9th Cannes Film Festival: "The Silent World" directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle wins the Palme d'Or
1957 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon
1957 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concerto premieres in Moscow
1959 Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan
1960 John F. Kennedy wins presidential primary in West Virginia
1960 US atomic submarine USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe
1961 "Beyond the Fringe" premieres in London
1963 Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
1966 25°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1967 Rolling Stones Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
1967 Stockholm Vietnam Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam and Cambodia
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the US and North Vietnam
1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam
1969 In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children"
1972 Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into reservoir, killing 77
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 An Irish Republican Army bomb starts a fire that destroys the Belfast Co-operative store
1973 Establishment of Frente Polisario in Mauritania
1973 Martial Artist and Actor Bruce Lee collapses in Golden Harvest studios in Hong Kong and is rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital where doctors diagnose him with cerebral edema
1978 "Angel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1978 22nd European Cup: Liverpool beats Club Brugge 1-0 at London
1979 Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
1979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka [From May 2]
1980 "Happy New Year" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 17 performances
1981 Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Presidency of France
1983 Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
1984 Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua
1985 Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hits #1 on UK pop chart
1988 Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000
1989 General Manuel Noriega's Panama government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin
1990 "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Square Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
1992 "Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
1993 Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok kills 145
1993 Paul Cézanne still life painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC
1993 Dutch Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol
1994 "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font, NYC; runs for 16 performances
1994 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years, at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland (after "warm-up" shows in Las Vegas and London)
1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
1994 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists
1995 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire win
1995 Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Féin
1995 In South Africa, 104 miners killed in an elevator accident
1995 Real Zaragoza of Spain win 35th European Cup Winner's Cup against Arsenal of England 2-1 in Paris
1996 "Twister" disaster film written by Michael Crichton starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton premieres
1996 2 US Marine helicopters collided during joint US & British war games
2000 India's population reaches 1 billion, baby girl Aastha born at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital chosen as symbolic billionth
2003 The May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence takes place.
2004 Laureus World Sports Awards, Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon, Portugal: Sportsman: Michael Schumacher; Sportswoman: Annika Sörenstam; Team: England Men's National Rugby Union team
2005 A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, it malfunctions and does not detonate
2006 Giogio Napolitano is elected President of Italy, first former communist to become President
2008 Philippine court acquits Imelda Marcos in a 17-year-old case of 32 counts of illegal transfer of wealth totaling $863 million in Swiss bank accounts
2011 Christina Perri releases her debut studio album, "lovestrong"
2012 The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed
2012 Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370
2014 The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election
2014 59th Eurovision Song Contest: Conchita Wurst for Austria wins singing "Rise Like a Phoenix" in Copenhagen
2015 61st British Academy Television Awards: "The Graham Norton Show" Best Comedy, "Happy Valley" Best Drama
2016 Indian fertility clinic announces that a 70 year old woman has successfully gave birth to a baby boy
2017 USGS releases a report saying that some glaciers in Montana have receded by 85% in the last 50 years
2017 US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office
2017 Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billion
2018 Rafael Nadal breaks John McEnroe's record for successive set wins on a single surface (49 on carpet) with 6-3, 6-4 win over Diego Schwartzman at the Madrid Open (clay)
2018 Israel fires missiles at 70 Iranian targets inside Syria after Iran fires missiles into the Golan Heights, with claims Israel struck first in attack on Baath
2018 New record auction price for a Latin American artwork of $9.76 million for Diego Rivera's "The Rivals"
2018 R&B Singer R. Kelly's songs removed from Spotify playlists after sexual abuse allegations
2018 China announces plans for the world's largest weather-control mechanism, rain-inducing machines for the Tibetan Plateau (area the size of Alaska)
2018 Mahathir Mohamad is sworn in as the seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia, the world's oldest leader at 92
2019 YouTube dispute between beauty vloggers James Charles and Tati Westbrook viewed more than 40 million times
2019 Rihanna announces her new upmarket fashion label Fenty with world's largest luxury group LVMH, their first black female designer
2019 Taxi service Uber becomes a public company opening on the New York Stock Exchange
2019 US begins raising tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports to 25% after trade talks fail
2020 Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 rise above 4 million with death toll above 270,000, according to Johns Hopkins university.
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Post by Richard Frost » Tue May 11 2021 9:56am

11th May 2021

TWILIGHT ZONE DAY
Always observed on May 11th, Twilight Zone Day features mysterious twists and turns highlighted with eerie background music and unexplainable occurrences.

The television show The Twilight Zone was created, written, and narrated by Rod Serling. It premiered on October 1, 1959. The episodes were wildly popular, stretched the imagination, and captivated viewers. The show aired from 1959-1964. Rod Serling also created the show’s spin-off called Night Gallery.

Each episode presented unique stories that led the viewer on a journey into an unknown situation. The characters often revealed their backstories through intense exchanges. Settings ranged from the wild west to penthouse suites. And yet each story took place in the 5th dimension, in The Twilight Zone.

A selection of Birthdays

1861 Frederick Russell Burnham, American scout and adventurer whose friendship with Baden-Powell inspired the founding of the international scouting movement, born in Tivoli, a Dakota Sioux Indian reservation in modern-day Minnesota, (d. 1947)
1888 Irving Berlin [Israel Isidore Baline], American composer and lyricist considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history (God Bless America, White Xmas), born in Tyumen, Russian Empire (d. 1989)
1892 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Most Foul, The V.I.P.s), born in London (d. 1972)

1897 Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1899 Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1901 Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyenne Autumn)
1902 Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Unen Kaivo)
1904 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion), born in Figueres, Spain (d. 1989)
1912 Foster Brooks, American comedian and actor (The Villain, Oddballs, Mork & Mindy), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2001)
1912 Phil Silvers, American comedian and actor (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1985)
1924 Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United)
1941 Eric Burdon, British rock vocalist (Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"; "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"; War - "Spill The Wine"), born in Walker-on-Tyne, England
1941 Graham Miles, English snooker player, born in Birmingham, England (d. 2014)
1950 Jeremy Paxman, English broadcaster (University Challenge, Newsnight), born in Leeds,
1951 Mike Sleman, English rugby union winger (32 caps; British and Irish Lions 1980; Liverpool RUFC), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2020)
1954 John Gregory, English football manager

On this day in history

330 Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes the capital of the Roman Empire
868 "The Diamond Sutra", the world's oldest surviving and dated printed book is printed in Chinese and made into a scroll
1068 Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London
1189 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg for the Third Crusade
1310 Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics
1421 Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
1502 Christopher Columbus begins 4th & last trip to the "Indies"
1625 Peasants besiege Frankenburg estate in Upper Austria
1647 Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam
1674 Netherlands & Cologne sign peace treaty
1678 French admiral Jean d'Estrees' fleet runs aground on Aves-islands, Curacao
1689 Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
1690 English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1745 Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
1749 British parliament accepts Consolidation Act, to reorganise the Royal Navy
1772 Amsterdam theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed
1784 Britain & Tippu Sahib of Mysore sign peace treaty
1792 Columbia River discovered & named by US Captain Robert Gray
1800 French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck give a lecture first outlining his theories of evolution at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France
1812 Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Some observers consider it disgusting and immoral.
1812 British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons. Ironically, descendants of both later stand for the same seat in Parliament at the same time but neither win.
1813 In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1820 Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that would later take a young Charles Darwin on his famous scientific voyage
1833 "Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in North Atlantic; kills 215
1841 Naval Officer and Explorer Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound
1858 Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
1862 Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia
1864 Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)
1864 General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
1865 Confederate Brigadier General Meriwether Jeff Thompson surrenders at Jacksonport, Arkansas
1867 Treaty of London drawn, concerning Luxembourg
1881 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa" premieres in Prague
1891 The Otsu Scandal: While visiting Japan, Prince Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II) survives an assassination attempt
1893 Cyclist and Founder of the Tour-de-FranceHenri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle world record, travelling 35.325 km (21.95 miles) an hour
1894 American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
1900 James J. Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 23 for heavyweight boxing title
1904 Industrialist and Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
1907 Bank of San Francisco incorporated
1907 A derailment outside Lompoc, California, kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot
1910 Montana's Glacier National Park forms
1911 The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
1917 King George V grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
1921 Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality
1921 The Allied Supreme Council warns Germany to pay reparations or the entire Ruhr Valley will be occupied; Germany agrees
1924 Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election
1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Poet Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1924 Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie begin their first joint venture (later merge into Mercedes-Benz)
1925 Communist Party of Holland splits
1925 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
1926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean
1927 Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer
1927 Louis B Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
1928 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: Walter Hagen wins 3rd of his 4 Open Championship titles, 2 strokes ahead of fellow American Gene Sarazen
1929 Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin, Texas
1931 Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails, beginning financial collapse of Central Europe
1931 "M" Fritz Lang's first sound film starring Peter Lorre premieres in Berlin
1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
1942 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
1942 Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner's collections of short stories, "Go Down, Moses", is published
1943 Hermann Goering division in Tunisia surrenders
1943 US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st US territory recaptured)
1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer
1945 US Marines conquer Awatsha Draw, Okinawa
1946 United Malays National Organisation is created.
1947 BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
1947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
1948 Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa
1948 Luigi Einaudi elected President of Italy
1949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1949 Siam renames itself Thailand
1950 Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
1950 Eugene Ionesco's first play "La Cantatrice Chauve" (The Bald Soprano) premieres in Paris
1951 American engineer Jay Forrester applies for patent for computer core memory
1953 Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)
1953 Winston Churchill criticizes US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory
1955 Israel attacks Gaza
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 Gabriel Paris forms government of Colombia
1958 US performs its second atmospheric nuclear test of the day, this one at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4
1959 Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer's musical "Once Upon A Mattress", starring Carol Burnett and directed by George Abbott, opens at Phoenix Theatre, NYC; runs for 244 performances
1960 French liner "France" launched
1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1962 Antonio Segni becomes President of Italy
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 US sends troops to Thailand
1963 "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2
1963 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
1965 "Flora, the Red Menace" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 87 performances
1965 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument
1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1966 European Cup Final, Heysel Stadium, Brussels: Fernando Serena scores the winner as Real Madrid beats Partizan Belgrade, 2-1; Madrid's 6th title
1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 14 performances
1967 Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for membership of the EEC
1968 Actor and Singer Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"
1968 Students & police battle in Paris, 100s injured
1968 Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor-Danforth Line, going to Scarborough in the east, Etobicoke in the west
1969 British comedy troupe Monty Python forms, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin
1970 Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
1972 John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Dutch government of Uyl forms
1973 Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed
1973 Ground-breaking Indian crime film "Zanjeer" directed by Prakash Mehra and starring "The Angry Young Man" Amitabh Bachchan released
1974 "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7
1974 Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
1975 Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
1975 Natalie Cole releases her debut album "Inseparable" (wins 2 Grammys)
1976 Emmy 3rd Daytime Award presentation
1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" (based on poetry by T. S. Eliot) directed by Trevor Nunn first premieres in the West End, London
1983 Alan Jay Lerner and Charles Strouse's musical "Dance a Little Closer" opens & closes at Minskoff Theater, NYC, after 1 performance
1983 Aberdeen win 23rd European Cup Winner's Cup against Real Madrid of Spain 2-1 in Gothenburg
1983 Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth
1984 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
1985 56 die and at least 265 are injured at Bradford City football ground in the worst fire in English football history
1985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 Madonna's "Crazy For You" single goes #1
1985 Pope John Paul II arrival in Netherlands marred by violent protest
1987 1st heart-lung transplant take place in Baltimore
1988 France performs nuclear test
1988 KV Mechelen of Belgium win 28th European Cup Winner's Cup against Ajax of Netherlands 1-0 in Strasbourg
1988 Racing Car driver Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
1989 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 US President George H. W. Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1993 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Mary Chapin Carpenter win
1993 Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire
1994 Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater, NYC; runs for 1,503 performances
1994 "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" released in France
1994 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
1995 More than 170 countries agree to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons [1]
1996 Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
1997 "Play On!" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 61 performances
1997 Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov 3.5-2.5 in chess
1998 India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device
2000 India's population officially reaches 1 billion - Astha Arora named India's billionth baby
2002 Last performance of the musical Cats in London's West End
2002 Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.
2007 Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão
2008 Charo makes a guest appearance on the Latin-themed VH1 reality show Viva Hollywood
2008 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Sergio García of Spain claims the biggest win of his career to date in a sudden-death playoff over American Paul Goydos
2009 An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded
2010 Imelda Marcos wins election to the House of Representatives of the Philippines, representing Ilocos Norte province
2010 David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after forming a coalition government between the Liberal Democrats and his own Conservative Party
2012 Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation
2013 43 people are killed in two car bombings in Reyhanlı, Turkey
2013 Bayern Munich set a new Bundesliga points record of 91
2013 Barcelona wins its fourth La Liga title in four years
2013 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (86,254): Wigan Athletic upsets Manchester City, 1-0; Ben Watson scores 90+1' winner
2014 Thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China
2014 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: German Martin Kaymer leads after each round to win by 1 stroke ahead of Jim Furyk; first 8-figure purse in golf with winner's share $1.8 million
2015 Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York
2016 Brazilian senate votes to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial for budgetary violations
2018 Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself
2018 Most popular names in the US for 2017 revealed as Emma for girls, Liam for boys
2019 South African parliamentary elections return ruling Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC party to power with reduced majority (58%)
2019 Militants attack Zaver Pearl-Continental Hotel in Gwadar, Pakistan killing five, Balochistan Liberation Army claim responsibility
2019 Carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere hit levels not seen for 3 million years at 415 parts per million, according to the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
2019 American actress and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano urges women to go on a "sex strike" after Georgia state passes new abortion law
2020 Colombian airline Avianca, and world's 2nd oldest, becomes 1st major airline to file for bankruptcy
2020 World Health Organization warns “extreme vigilance” needed as many countries begin easing lockdowns
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