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Post by Richard Frost » Fri May 21 2021 10:36am

21 May 2021

International Tea Day
Recognizing the long history and deep cultural and economic significance of tea around the world, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 21 May as International Tea Day, Tea production and processing are a main source of livelihoods for millions of families, particularly in developing countries.

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
Held every year on 21 May, the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development celebrates not only the richness of the world’s cultures, but also the essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace and sustainable development. The United Nations General Assembly first declared this World Day in 2002, following UNESCO’s adoption of the 2001 Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, recognizing the need to “enhance the potential of culture as a means of achieving prosperity, sustainable development and global peaceful coexistence.”

World Meditation Day
It’s more than a New Age distraction—meditation is becoming more and more common as modern life gets more and more complex. Friday 21st of May is World Meditation Day! Hopefully homes, schools and workplaces will be thrumming with the sound of concentration and enlightenment, as people globally chant ॐ and attain Nirvana.

A Selection of Birthdays

120 BC Aurelia Cotta, Mother of Julius Caesar, born in Rome (d. 54 BC)
1471 Albrecht Dürer , German Renaissance painter and printmaker (Adam and Eve), born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1528)
1688 Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d. 1744), born in London,
1722 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, German composer and violinist, born in Bayreuth (d. 1790)
1780 Elizabeth Fry, English prison & social reformer, Quaker Minister, born in Norwich, (d. 1845)
1799 Mary Anning, British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist (Jurassic marine fossil beds of Lyme Regis), born in Lyme Regis, Dorset (d. 1847)
1841 Joseph Parry, Welsh composer and musician, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (d. 1903)
1860 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924), born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (d. 1927)
1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, American inventor (hydroplane) and founder of the US aviation industry, born in Hammondsport, New York (d. 1930)
1893 Arthur Carr, English cricket captain (England v Australia 1926), born Mickleham, England (d. 1963)
1904 Fats Waller [Thomas Wright], American jazz singer and composer (Ain't Misbehavin', Hot Chocolate), born in NYC, New York (d. 1943)
1905 Edward Lockspeiser, British composer and musicologist (Debussy: His Life and Mind), born in London (d. 1973)
1907 Dandy Nichols [Daisy Sander], British actress (Till Death Us Do Part, Confessions of a Window Cleaner), born in London, England (d. 1986)
1916 Harold Robbins, American author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
1917 Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla), born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada (d. 1993)
1921 Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist and an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights (1975 Nobel), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1989)
1927 George Levy, English antique dealer and heritage campaigner (d. 1996)
1927 Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), born in Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire (d. 1959)
1930 Stanley Wells, English scholar of Shakespeare (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham), born in Hull, England
1931 Desmond Wilcox, English broadcaster (BBC, ITV), born in Welwyn Garden City, England (d. 2000)
1940 Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist who collaborated with The Beatles, born in Norwich, England (d. 2013)
1944 Marcie Blane [Blank], American pop singer (Bobby's Girl), born in Brooklyn, New York
1944 Mary Robinson, Irish politician, President of the Republic of Ireland (1990-97), born in Ballina, Ireland
1947 Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor (Titanic), born in Brisbane, Australia
1948 Leo Sayer, British singer (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, When I Need Love), born Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
1949 Andrew Neil, Scottish newspaper editor, (Sunday Times), born in Paisley, Scotland
1952 Mr. T [Lawrence Tureaud], American actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T), born in Chicago, Illinois
1957 Nadine Dorries, British politician (C), born in Liverpool, England
1958 Monte Lynch, Guyanese-born English cricketer (Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player), born in Plaisance, British Guiana
1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (Milwaukee Cannibal), born in West Allis, Wisconsin (d. 1994)
1961 Tim Lever, British musician (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
1964 Carolyn Lawrence, American actress and voice actress (SpongeBob SquarePants), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1973 Noel Fielding, British comedian (The Mighty Boosh, The Great British Baking Show), born London
1979 Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician, Member of the Scottish Parliament, born in Glasgow
1985 Frustaci Septuplets, four boys and three girls (daughter Christina stillborn, three more die later) born to Patricia Frustaci, first known septuplets born in the US
1985 Kano [Robinson], English rapper and actor, born in London, England
1985 Mutya Buena, British pop singer (Sugababes - "Push the Button"), born in London, England
1988 Jonathan Howson, English footballer, born in Morley, England. (Middlesbrough, Norwich City, Leeds United, England U21s)
1992 Olivia Olson, American singer and actress (Love Actually - "Joanna"), born in Los Angeles, California
1994 Tom Daley, English diver, born in Plymouth,

On This day in History

878 Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily
879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state
996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III as Holy Roman Emperor in St Peter's Basilica in Rome
1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 French crown prince Louis enters England, having been invited by barons at war with King John
1260 Hao Jing, envoy of Mongol leader Kublai Khan imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao at the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong while attempting to negotiate with the Song
1281 Kublai Khan's second invasion of Japan begins with an attack on Tsushima Island but meets fierce resistance; his troops are forced to withdraw
1382 Earthquake centered on Dover Straits with estimated magnitude of 6.0 causes widespread damage, including to Canterbury Cathedral
1420 Treaty of Troyes: Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the throne of France upon the death of King Charles VI of France
1471 King Edward IV enters London
1499 Francisco De Bobadilla appointed Governor of the Indies, succeeding Christopher Columbus
1502 Portuguese explorer João Da Nova discovers St Helena
1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold
1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War
1792 Mount Unzen on Japan's Shimabara Peninsula, erupts creating a tsunami, killing about 15,000; Japan's deadliest volcanic eruption
1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism of House of Orange
1809 Battle of Aspern-Essling: Austrian archduke Charles beats Napoleon and his army. Napoleon's first defeat in 10 years.
1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1840 Captain William Hobson proclaims British sovereignty over New Zealand; the North Island by treaty and the South Island by 'discovery'
1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1854 Frederic Mistral, Joseph Roumanille, and five other Provencal poets found Félibrige, a literary and cultural association
1856 Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces
1861 Richmond, Virginia, is designated the Confederate Capital
1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins
1864 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1866 1st-class debut of cricketer Fred Grace aged 15 years 159 days at the Magdalen Ground, Oxford
1871 -July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
1879 Battle of Iquique: Chilean naval forces overcome Peruvian ships (War of the Pacific)
1881 American Red Cross founded by Pioneering Nurse and Humanitarian Clara Barton
1892 Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
1894 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine. His last words were reputed to be "Courage, camarades! Vive l'anarchie!"
1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) forms in Paris
1904 France recalls its ambassador to the Vatican to protest the Pope's attempt to discipline two French bishops; this is yet another incident driving France and the Catholic Church apart
1906 Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1906 The US and Mexico sign an agreement over distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande, increasingly diverted to the US for irrigation
1908 1st American horror movie silent film "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" premieres in Chicago
1911 French troop enter Fez in Morocco to quell anti-European agitation
1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (daylight saving time)
1917 The Great Fire of Atlanta: at least 10,000 people were displaced, but there was only one fatality
1918 US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1920 Mexican President Venustiano Carranza is executed by army generals after fleeing an armed rebellion in Mexico
1922 Rollin Kirby's "On the Road to Moscow" is the 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill for his play "Anna Christie"
1924 Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap and kill Bobby Franks to demonstrate their supposed intellectual superiority by committing a "perfect crime"
1925 George Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, becomes British High Commissioner in Egypt
1925 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes for the North Pole
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after first solo air crossing of Atlantic
1929 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris
1932 1st Curtis Cup for Women's team amateur golf: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (UK)
1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman
1933 Mount Davidson Cross, San Francisco, lit by US President Franklin D. Roosevel via telegraph
1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens
1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1938 Batsman Don Bradman scores 143 for Australia v Surrey, in 198 mins, with 11 fours
1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht, northern France
1940 Paul Reynaud forms French government
1941 SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II
1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme, Crete
1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia
1945 Australian Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 Nazi SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler captured
1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 French government of René Mayer resigns
1955 "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
1956 US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1957 French government of Guy Mollet resigns
1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquer Morotai Island
1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1960 Leontyne Price becomes the first African American to sing the lead at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in "Aida"
1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama
1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 Fire in Belgian resort kills 19
1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
1966 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
1966 Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 A "loyalist" group calling itself the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 performances
1968 Paul McCartney and girlfriend Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1969 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment
1969 Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia win 9th European Cup Winner's Cup against FC Barcelona of Spain 3-2 in Basel
1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 Chelsea win 11th European Cup Winner's Cup against Real Madrid 2-1 in Athens (replay)
1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1971 White Night riots occur in San Francisco after Dan White is given a lenient sentence for assassinating Mayor George Moscone and the openly gay elected official Harvey Milk
1972 "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1972 "Lost in the Stars" based on the novel "Cry the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 performances
1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal
1972 The Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) kidnaps and shoots dead William Best (19), a soldier in the Royal Irish Rangers stationed in Germany whilst on leave at home
1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances
1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini" premieres in NYC
1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 Electric Light Orchestra releases "Telephone Line" in the UK; it would peak in the Top 10 in UK & US
1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 Dan White convicted of the voluntary manslaughter of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay councilor Harvey Milk. The conviction on a lesser charge outraged the gay community and led to the White Night riots.
1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1980 "Star Wars Episode V - Empire Strikes Back", produced by George Lucas opens in cinemas in UK and North America
1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 Reggae musician Bob Marley receives a Jamaican state funeral
1982 British troops land on Falkland Islands
1983 "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 David Bowie's "Let's Dance" single goes #1
1985 Israel exchanges 1,150 prisoners with the PFLP-GC in return for 3 Israeli soldiers
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Military coup in Fiji under Lt. Col Sitivani Rabuka
1988 "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
1988 "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins her 3rd LPGA C'ship by 3 strokes from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 43rd Cannes Film Festival: "Wild at Heart" directed by David Lynch starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern wins the Palme d'Or
1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1992 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1994 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 performances
1994 South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, NY
1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1996 "You're Makin' Me High" single released by Toni Braxton (Grammy Award Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 1997)
1997 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1998 In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 Indonesian president Suharto resigns after 31 years in power
1999 All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2001 French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2001 The Enron Corporation's power generating venture in India, the Dabhol Power Company, serves formal notice that it will terminate its power supply contract and pull out
2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2003 38th Academy of Country Music Awards: Toby Keith, Martina McBride & Kenny Chesney win
2004 Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 Stanislav Petrov awarded World Citizen Award for averting a potential nuclear war in 1983 after correctly guessing Russian early warning system at fault
2005 50th Eurovision Song Contest: Helena Paparizou for Greece wins singing "My Number One" in Kiev
2005 English FA Cup Final, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (71,876): Arsenal beats Manchester United, 5-4 on penalties after 0 – 0 (a.e.t.); Gunners' 10th title
2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2006 The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 Cutty Sark, the last surviving tea clipper, is badly damaged by fire in Greenwich, England.
2008 UEFA Champions League Final, Moscow: Manchester United beats Chelsea, 6-5 on penalties after scores tied at 1-1 after extra time; first all-English final in the competition's history
2012 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
2012 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
2013 Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One
2014 José Mário Vaz is elected President of Guinea-Bissau
2014 Russian President Putin signs agreements with China in Beijing in relation to trade and infrastructure
2014 Thai army declares martial law and closes down several news stations
2015 Rapper & TV star Flavor Flav arrested near Las Vegas on charges including speeding and driving under the influence
2016 Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, leader of the Afghan Taliban is reportedly killed by a US drone in Pakistan
2016 On same card, American boxer Jermell Charlo KOs John Jackson in 8th to claim vacant WBC super welterweight title, and Jermall Charlo beats Austin Trout on points to retain IBF version; first twins to hold world championships in same weight division
2016 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Manchester United beats Crystal Palace, 2-1 (a.e.t.); Jesse Lingard scores 110' winner
2017 BTS wins the Top Social Artist at the Billboard Awards, becoming the first Kpop group to win any Billboard Award
2017 Barnum & Bailey Circus performs for the last time at the Nassau Coliseum in NYC after 146 years
2017 IPL Cricket Final, Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad: Mumbai Indians beat Rising Pune Supergiant by 1 run; Krunal Pandya 47 (38)
2017 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Greystone G&CC: Defending champion Berhard Langer wins by 5 strokes from Scott Parel & Scott McCarron
2018 Mushrooms have poisoned more than 800 in western Iran, killing 11
2018 US Justice Department says it is expanding its internal investigation into whether FBI infiltrated Donald Trump's 2016 campaign
2018 Teenager who started California's 2017 Eagle Creek Fire ordered to pay $36.6 million to cover damages by district judge
2018 Former US president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama sign deal with Netflix to produce films and series
2018 Truckers begin a 10 strike in Brazil, blocking roads in protest at the price of diesel leading to country-wide shortages
2019 More than 600 people, 75% children, identified as HIV in a month in Sindh province, Pakistan, thought to be due to use of infected needles
2019 Indonesian President Joko Widodo confirmed as winning re-election, defeating Prabowo Subianto with 55.5% of the vote
2019 Nepalese Sherpa Kami Rita sets a new record for the number of climbs of Mt Everest - 24
2019 Washington is the first US state to legalize human composting
2019 Austria's far-right Freedom Party resigns from the ruling coalition after two of their ministers are sacked for offering government contracts for political influence in a video
2019 Omani author Jokha Alharthi is the first Arabic writer to win the Man Booker International Prize for her novel "Celestial Bodies" with her translator Marilyn Booth
2019 Protests across American cities defending abortion rights after several US states pass new abortion laws
2019 Oldest and most distant gravitational waves detected from collision of two black holes with first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered, 7 billion light years away
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat May 22 2021 9:57am

22nd May 2021


International Day for Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day)
A United Nations–sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues.

The International Day for Biological Diversity falls within the scope of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals. In this larger initiative of international cooperation, the topic of biodiversity concerns stakeholders in sustainable agriculture; desertification, land degradation and drought; water and sanitation; health and sustainable development; energy; science, technology and innovation, knowledge-sharing and capacity-building; urban resilience and adaptation; sustainable transport; climate change and disaster risk reduction; oceans and seas; forests; vulnerable groups including indigenous peoples; and food security. The critical role of biodiversity in sustainable development was recognized in a Rio+20 outcome document, "The World We Want: A Future for All".

Sherlock Holmes Day
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, says the character was originally inspired by Joseph Bell, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for whom Doyle had worked as an assistant. Like Holmes, Bell was famous for his ability to draw broad conclusions from minute observations.

Francis “Tanky” Smith, a policeman and master of disguise who was Leicester’s first private detective, is also thought to have influenced the character. Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes story first appeared in print in 1887 and continued to be published for the next forty years, until shortly before the author’s death. During this time, the detective had countless adventures, usually accompanied by his loyal friend and assistant, Dr. Watson.

World Fiddle Day
World Fiddle Day is an annual music celebration day. Even though World Fiddle Day was created in 2012, it gained popularity all over the world within a few years. It was created to celebrate and to teach the playing of bowed string instruments throughout the world by conducting participatory and inclusive events. The fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, used by the players in all genres including classical music.

World Fiddle Day happens once a year and is meant to celebrate everything that everyone loves about the chirpy, fun and feisty art of fiddle music. The fiddle is always known to be something positive, with all the songs and notes it produces high energy, entertaining, and bringing something positive. Making the room dance, wherever the sound of a fiddle is played.

Around the world, this day is celebrated with dancing, music, and of course plenty of fiddle playing!

A Selection of Birthdays

1770 Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, 7th child and 3rd daughter of King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, born in Buckingham House, London (d. 1840)
1813 Richard Wagner, German composer (The Ring of the Nibelung, Flying Dutchman), born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany (d. 1883)
1826 George Parr, English cricketer (legendary Notts batsman, 1st Eng touring capt), born in Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1891)
1859 Arthur Conan Doyle, British author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life. born Edinburgh, (d. 1930
1897 Robert Neumann, Austrian-British author (Waters of Babylon), born in Vienna (d. 1975)
1903 Yves Rocard, French physicist (helped develop the atomic bomb for France), born in Vannes, France (d. 1992)
1907 Laurence Olivier, English actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer), born in Dorking, Surrey (d. 1989)
1907 Hergé [Georges Prosper Remi], Belgian comic book creator (The Adventures of Tintin), born in Etterbeek, Belgium (d. 1983)
1924 Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian], French-Armenian singer (Monsieur Carnavel, Tin Drum), born in Paris, France (d. 2018)
1930 Harvey Milk, American politician and gay activist, born in Woodmere, New York (d. 1978)
1933 Don Estelle [Ronald Edwards], British actor and singer (It Ain't Half Hot Mum), born in Crumpsall, Lancashire (d. 2003)
1936 George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (helped invent LCD displays), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2014)
1943 Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist (Nobel Peace Prize 1976), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2020)
1946 George Best, Northern Irish footballer (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), born in Belfast
1946 Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager (Everton), born in Ryton, County Durham (d. 2015)
1950 Bernie Taupin, British singer and lyricist (writes with Elton John), born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire
1954 Jerry Dammers, British keyboardist (The Specials), born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India
1959 [Steven] Morrissey, British rock vocalist (The Smiths), born in Davyhulme, Lancashire
1967 Brooke Smith, American actress (Grey's Anatomy - Dr. Erica Hahn), born in NYC, New York
1970 Naomi Campbell, English model and actress (Cool as Ice, Unzipped), born in London, England
1972 Anna Belknap, American actress (CSI NY), born in Damariscotta, Maine
1978 Katie Price, British model
1987 Novak Đoković [Djokovic], Serbian tennis player (18 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Belgrade, Serbia

On this day in History

334 BC The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus
760 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1176 Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo
1200 Treaty of Le Goulet signed between France and England
1370 Jews are expelled and massacred in Brussels, Belgium
1377 Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls denounceing doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe
1455 Opening battle in England's 30-year Wars of the Roses. Richard of York takes St Albans, capturing King Henry VI
1526 Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac
1570 1st atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' (Theatre of the World), published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp with 70 maps
1594 Earl Mauritius and Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen
1629 Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of Lubeck
1659 France, England & Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty
1746 Russia and Austria sign treaty of cooperation
1762 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg, reaffirming the status quo that existed before the Seven Years' War
1784 Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy
1799 Napoleon makes statement in support of re-establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1807 Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond, Virginia (acquitted)
1819 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)
1826 HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage to survey Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
1836 Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "St Paul" premieres in Dusseldorf
1840 The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished
1843 1st wagon train with 700 - 1000 migrants, departs Independence, Missouri for Oregon
1849 Abraham Lincoln receives a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions
1856 Violence in the US Senate, South Carolina rep Brooks uses a cane on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner
1858 Confederación Granadina (now Colombia) forms
1863 General Ulysses S. Grant begins siege on Vicksburg
1863 War Department establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
1864 Battle of North Anna River, Virginia (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown)
1868 Train robbery at Marshfield, Indiana by the Reno Brothers Gang, who make off with $98,000
1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
1888 Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers
1892 Dr Washington Sheffield invents the toothpaste tube
1897 The Blackwall Tunnel, London, under the River Thames is officially opened
1900 Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player
1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt signs a treaty with Mexico under which both countries agree to submit a long-standing dispute over interest payments to the Court of Arbitration at The Hague
1903 Launch of the White Star Liner SS Ionic.
1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
1906 Wright Brothers are granted a patent for their "flying machine," having applied for one 3 years earlier (patent no. 821,393)
1906 A British garrison leaves Esquimalt, on the Pacific coast, after a military occupation that began in 1858: the last British soldiers stationed in Canada
1907 Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Middlesex v Somerset
1909 1st San Francisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched
1915 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 in Gretna, Scotland
1915 Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, only mountain other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century
1916 Battle of Verdun: French troops assault Fort Douaumont but fail to recapture it after hours of dogged fighting
1919 A. E. Douglass establishes the relative dates of two archaeological sites using ancient wood samples, marking a major step forward in the dating of archaeological sites
1926 Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
1927 8.3 Nan-Shan earthquake strikes Tsinghai, China, over 40,900 killed
1931 Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida
1933 First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster by Aldie and John Mackay saw "something resembling a whale"
1933 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
1936 Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland
1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" in Berlin, Germany
1940 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis
1940 UK Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to decide with General Maxime Weygand a strategy to save the city
1941 British troops attack Baghdad
1942 Mexico declares war on Nazi-Germany & Japan
1943 RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
1945 6th US Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
1946 First US rocket (WAC Corporal) to reach edge of space fired from White Sands Missile Range New Mexico
1947 "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece
1947 1st US ballistic missile fired
1950 Celal Bayar elected President of Turkey
1950 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
1950 Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London
1954 Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
1955 Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
1956 "Bob Hope Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1957 South Africa's government approves race separation in universities
1960 Tsunami generated by a magnitude 9.4-9.6 earthquake in Chile strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM, severely damaging virtually all coastal towns between the 37th and 44th parallels
1960 A magnitude 9.4-9.6 earthquake strikes near the city of Valdivia in Chile, the strongest ever recorded, causing multiple tsunamis and killing 1,000-7,000 people
1961 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle) opens
1962 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth win
1962 Netherlands telephone network becomes completely automated
1962 Major Robert A Rushworth, USAF, takes X-15 to 30,600m
1962 Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board
1963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
1963 European Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: José Altafini scores twice as AC Milan edge Benfica, 2-1 for first title to an Italian club
1965 "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66
1965 Beatles' "Ticket to Ride" single goes #1
1966 18th Emmy Awards: "The Fugitive", Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore win
1967 Egyptian President Nasser closes the Straits of Tiran to Israel
1967 Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
1969 Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
1970 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1971 A British soldier is killed by members of the Official Irish Republican Army in Belfast
1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world checkers champion
1972 US President Nixon begins visit to Moscow
1972 Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting of William Best by the Official Irish Republican Army
1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up
1974 Soccer team Veendam forms
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-179
1977 Final European scheduled run of the Orient Express (after 94 years)
1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada
1979 Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG v East Africa & Singapore v Argentina)
1981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
1985 "A View to a Kill", 14th James Bond film, last to star Roger Moore, also starring Grace Jones and Christopher Walken, premieres in San Francisco
1987 30 killed in a Texas tornado
1988 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Sherri Turner birdies final 2 holes to win her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Amy Alcott
1988 Károly Grósz succeeds party leader Janos Kádár in Hungary
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
1990 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
1990 North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
1991 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea
1992 India launches its Agni rocket
1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 4th UEFA Champions League Final: Juventus beats Ajax (1-1, 4-2 on penalties) at Rome
1998 Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton
2001 Laureus World Sports Awards, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco: Sportsman: Tiger Woods; Sportswoman: Cathy Freeman; Team: French Men's National Football team
2002 American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of 4 girls in the bombing of the 16th St Baptist Church
2002 37th Academy of Country Music Awards: Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride & Alan Jackson win
2003 In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
2004 Manmohan Singh becomes the 13th Prime Minister of India
2004 The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also kills one local resident.
2004 57th Cannes Film Festival: "Fahrenheit 9/11", directed by Michael Moore wins the Palme d'Or. First documentary to win.
2004 English FA Cup Final, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff (71,350): Manchester United beats Millwall, 3-0; Ruud van Nistelrooy scores 2 and Cristiano Ronaldo 1 in Red Devils' 11th title win
2005 58th Cannes Film Festival: "The Child" directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne wins the Palme d'Or
2006 Results from the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 are announced. 55.4% of voters vote to become independent from the Serbia and Montenegro Union.
2006 Laureus World Sports Awards, Parque del Fórum, Barcelona, Spain: Sportsman: Roger Federer; Sportswoman: Janica Kostelić; Team: Renault F1 team
2010 Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' remains are reburied in Frombork Cathedral, Poland after a 200 year search for his tomb
2010 UEFA Champions League Final, Madrid: Internazionale beats Bayern Munich, 2-0; Inter's 3rd title and first treble (Italian Serie A & Cup)
2011 An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950
2011 19th Billboard Music Awards: Eminem, Recovery win
2011 64th Cannes Film Festival: "The Tree of Life" directed by Terrence Malick wins the Palme d'Or
2011 57th British Academy Television Awards: "Harry & Paul" Best Comedy, "Sherlock" Best Drama
2012 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
2013 British Army Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered near the Royal Artillery Barracks in London by two Islamic terrorists, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
2014 Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha stage a coup in Thailand, suspending kingdom's constitution and taking control of government, the 12th since the country's first coup in 1932
2015 Ireland becomes 1st country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote
2015 Pakistan begin the first test-playing nation cricket tour of Zimbabwe since 2009
2016 69th Cannes Film Festival: "I, Daniel Blake," directed by Ken Loach wins the Palme d'Or
2016 US President Barack Obama arrives in Vietman for a 3 day tour
2016 Independent Alexander Van der Bellen defeats Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer by just 31,000 votes to become President in Austrian elections
2016 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Greystone G&CC: Germany's Berhard Langer wins sixth of 13 Champions Tour majors by 6 strokes from Olin Browne
2017 Japanese researchers from University of Yamanashi report birth of mice from freeze-dried sperm stored on the International Space Station
2017 South Africa's Western Cape province declares a drought disaster - worst for 113 years
2017 Suicide bombing at Manchester Arena, England, after Ariana Grande concert kills 22 and injures 59
2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is questioned by members of the European parliament in Brussels in wake of its security scandal
2018 Outbreak of Nipah virus confirmed to have killed 10 including a nurse in Kozhikode, India
2018 Australian court finds Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson guilty of covering up sexual abuse in 1970s, most senior Catholic priest to be convicted (His conviction was overturned by the District Court of New South Wales in December 2018)
2019 Protests break out in Jakarta, Indonesia against the re-election of President Joko Widodo, killing six people and injuring 200
2019 UN General Assembly votes for a motion condemning UK occupation of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean and for them to reunite with nearby Mauritius
2019 Washington State becomes the 1st US state to legalize composting human bodies
2020 China unveils new national security legislation against Hong Kong at its annual legislative session
2020 Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi killing 97 with just two survivors
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun May 23 2021 8:56am

23rd May 2021

World Turtle Day
World Turtle Day® on May 23. The day was created as a yearly observance to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats around the world.

International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
In 2003, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its partners launched a global Campaign to End Fistula in line with international targets to improve maternal health and with the goal of reducing the number of obstetric fistula patients, especially in developing countries.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF THE BAB Baha’i
The Bab heralded the arrival of Baha’ullah and was co-founder of the Baha’i faith. He first declared his mission in Persia in 1844. He inaugurated the Baha’i calendar which numbers itself from the year of this declaration.

ZARATOSHT NO DISO Zoroastrian (Shahenshahi; Parsi) [26 December (Tuesday) (Iranian)]
This is the death anniversary of the Prophet Zarathushtra. Tradition records he was assassinated at the age of 77. It is customary to visit the Fire Temple, and ponder upon the Gathas, the Hymns of Zarathushtra, which embody his eternal message to humanity.

PENTECOST / WHIT SUNDAY Christian (Western Churches)
Pentecost, named after the Jewish festival when the disciples of Jesus first proclaimed the Gospel after the gift of the Holy Spirit,is seen as the ‘birthday’ of the Church. Its alternative name comes from the custom of baptizing converts dressed in white.

A Selection of Birthdays

1100 Qinzong, last Emperor of Song Dynasty in China, born in China (d. 1161)
1617 Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian and collector (Ashmolean Museum), born in Litchfield (d. 1692)
1799 Thomas Hood, English poet and composer (The Song of the Shirt), born in London (d. 1845)
1844 `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
1883 Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (The Mark of Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1939)
1890 Herbert Marshall, English actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes), born in London, England
1900 Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (occupied Poland) who was executed at Nuremberg, born in Karlsruhe, Baden, German Empire (d. 1946)
1911 Betty Nuthall, English tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1930), born in Surbiton, England (d. 1983)
1912 John Payne, American actor(The Restless Gun, Miracle on 34th Street),born Roanoke, USA (d. 1989)
1912 Marius Goring, British actor (Stairway to Heaven, The Red Shoes), born Isle of Wight, (d. 1998)
1914 Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)
1918 Dennis Compton, England cricket batsman & footballer (5,807 Test runs, Arsenal 1950 FA Cup), born Hendon (d. 1997)
1921 Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader ("Bad Penny Blues"), and broadcaster (BBC2 - Best Of Jazz, 1967-2007; BBC4 - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, 1972-2008), born Eton, (d. 2008)
1921 James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)
1924 Desmond Carrington, British radio host (The Music Goes Round), born in Bromley (d. 2017)
1928 Nigel Davenport, British actor (Without a Clue, Masada), born in Cambridge, England (d. 2013)
1928 Jeannie Carson [Shufflebottom], British-born comedian, actress, singer and dancer (As Long as They're Happy; An Alligator Named Daisy), born Yorkshire
1938 Graham "Johnny" Ball, British TV personality and mathematics educator (Play School), born Bristol
1950 Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin politician & IRA member, born Derry, Northern Ireland (d. 2017)
1951 Don Warrington [Donald Williams], Trinidadian-born British actor (Rising Damp), born in Trinidad
1965 Melissa McBride, American actress (The Walking Dead), born in Lexington, Kentucky
1966 Graeme Hick MBE, English cricket batsman (65 Tests, 6 x 100s; 120 ODIs; Worcestershire), born in Harare, Zimbabwe
1967 Philip Selway, British alternative-rock singer-songwriter and drummer for Radiohead, born Oxfordshire
1967 Freddie "Junior" Waite, British reggae-rock drummer (Musical Youth - "Pass the Dutchie"), born Birmingham
1977 Richard Ayoade, English comedian, actor and director (The IT Crowd), born London,

On this day in History

1040 Battle of Dandanaqan: Tughril's Seljuk army defeats Ghaznavid force, near Merv (present-day Turkmenistan), brings about the fall of the Ghaznavid Empire
1059 Henri I crowns his son King Philip I (called the Amorous) of France
1275 King Edward I of England orders cessation of persecution of French Jews
1420 Jews of Syria and Austria expelled
1421 Jews of Austria imprisoned & expelled
1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the English
1493 King Charles VIII & Maximilian I of Austria sign Peace of Senlis
1536 Pope Paul III installs Portuguese inquisition
1544 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V recognizes King Christian III of Denmark
1555 Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
1568 Battle of Heiligerlee, Groningen: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, thousands killed
1568 The Netherlands declares independence from Spain
1576 Astronomer Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
1609 Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place
1611 Matthias von Habsburg chosen King of Bohemia
1618 Second Defenestration of Prague: Two Catholic Lords Regent and their secretary are thrown out of a window & amazingly are not seriously injured by the 70 foot (21m) fall. Triggers the Thirty Years' War.
1647 Willem II sworn in as viceroy of Holland
1660 King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
1667 King Afonso VI of Portugal flees
1701 Pirate Legend Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and the murder of William Moore
1706 Battle of Ramillies during War of the Spanish Succession.: General John Churchill (1st Duke of Marlborough) defeats French; 17,000 killed
1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il Bugiardo" premieres in Mantua
1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1844 Declaration of Bab (Baha'i festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
1853 Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1861 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe, Virginia
1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession from the Union
1862 Valley Campaign: Stonewall Jackson takes Fort Royal, Virginia
1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan
1864 Battle of North Anna, Virginia, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1865 -24] Victory parade in Washington, D.C. (Grand Review)
1865 Flag flown at full mast over White House for the first time since Lincoln was shot
1867 Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms (it didn't get the "Royal" until 1904)
1878 Attorney John Henry Smyth named US minister to Liberia
1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, British Columbia
1894 William Love hosts groundbreaking ceremonies for Love Canal. (Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, infamous as the location of a 70-acre (28 ha; 0.11 sq mi; 0.28 km ) landfill that became the site of an enormous environmental disaster in the 1970s.)
1898 1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco
1900 William Harvey Carney becomes the first African-American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Civil War at the Battle of Fort Wagner
1901 Ottawa Mint Act receives Royal Assent
1901 US captures leader of Filipino rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)
1903 1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
1907 The single chamber Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1908 Dirigible explodes over San Francisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none killed
1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary during WW I
1917 Dutch 2nd Chamber approves 1908 conscription draft
1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens
1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei
1922 Future World Heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney suffers his only professional defeat in 15-round unanimous points decision against Harry Greb at Madison Square Garden, NY
1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1923 Launch of Belgium's SABENA airline: first flight from Brussels to Lympne, England
1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
1928 Bomb attack on Italian embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
1931 Whipsnade Zoo opens in Bedfordshire, England
1932 Australian cyclist Hubert Opperman sets paced world records 1,384km in 24 hours, and 1,609km (1,000 miles) in 28 hours, 55 minutes, 39 seconds at Melbourne Motordrome
1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde - are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana
1934 The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers
1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 Composer Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1939 Adolf Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland
1939 Submarine USS Squalus sinks in the Gulf of Maine, drowning 26, 33 remaining crew rescued from a depth of 243 ft (74 m) by divers using newly developed heliox air systems (divers later awarded the Medal of Honor)
1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires and Luftwaffe
1941 In his 20th World Heavyweight Boxing title defence Joe Louis knocks out Buddy Baer in round 1 at New York's Madison Square Garden
1943 -24] 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1943 Novelist Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1944 British and Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo, Italy
1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1944 Operation Buffalo: Allied break out from Anzio bridgehead
1945 The Allies arrest the members of the Nazi Flensburg government, including Admiral Karl Donitz, formally dissolving Nazi Germany
1945 German island of Helgoland in the North Sea surrenders to British
1945 Fascist Politician and Nazi Propagandist Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) arrested at Danish boundary
1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature
1948 Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones
1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London
1951 Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet signed in Beijing, formally establishes Chinese sovereignty over Tibet
1956 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco
1958 Chinese Revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong starts the "Great Leap Forward" movement in China
1958 Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1962 15th Cannes Film Festival: "Keeper of Promises" directed by Anselmo Duarte wins the Palme d'Or
1963 16th Cannes Film Festival: "The Leopard" directed by Luchino Visconti wins the Palme d'Or
1964 Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45)
1965 Franz Jonas elected President of Austria
1965 Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River, Malawi, kills 150
1966 The Beatles release single "Paperback Writer"
1967 Government bans submarines near South Africa
1968 AC Milan of Italy win 8th European Cup Winner's Cup against Hamburger SV of West Germany 2-0 in Rotterdam
1968 Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969 Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes
1969 The Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1969 22nd Cannes Film Festival: "If..." directed by Lindsay Anderson wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1970 Grateful Dead's 1st performance outside US (England)
1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1970 A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage
1971 Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
1974 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed
1975 28th Cannes Film Festival: "Chronicle of the Years of Fire" directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina wins the Palme d'Or
1977 Benin adopts its constitution
1977 US Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman & John Mitchell
1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1978 General strike in Peru
1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
1980 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Neil Burton
1980 33rd Cannes Film Festival: "All That Jazz" directed by Bob Fosse and "Kagemusha" directed by Akira Kurosawa jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
1980 Horror film "The Shining" released directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, based on book by Stephen King
1981 Peter Sutcliffe is convicted for the "Yorkshsire Ripper" murders of 13 women at the Old Bailey in London and sentenced to life sentences for each
1981 Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 501
1981 Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benítez (22) becomes the youngest 3-division world champion in history by knocking out WBC World Super Welterweight champion Maurice Hope in 12 rounds in Las Vegas
1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina
1982 Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
1982 Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders a saint
1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1984 "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", 2nd in the film series, directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford, opens in the US
1984 37th Cannes Film Festival: "Paris, Texas" directed by Wim Wenders wins the Palme d'Or
1984 Crime epic film "Once Upon a Time in America" directed by Sergio Leone starring Robert De Niro and James Woods premieres at Cannes
1985 President Ronald Reagan awards Jimmy (James) Stewart the Presidential Medal of Freedom and promotes him to Major General on the Retired List
1986 US & Western Europe veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1988 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
1988 41st Cannes Film Festival: "Pelle erobreren" directed by Bille August wins the Palme d'Or
1989 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
1989 42nd Cannes Film Festival: "Sex, Lies, & Videotape" directed by Steven Soderbergh wins Palme d'Or
1990 Cost of rescuing savings & loan failures is put at up to $130 billion
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,856.26
1990 34th European Cup: Milan beats Benfica 1-0 at Vienna
1991 Last Cuban troops leave Angola
1992 US President George H. W. Bush orders Coast Guard to intercept boats with Haitian refugees
1994 270 pilgrims die in the bustle round Mina, Saudi-Arabia
1994 Roman Herzog elected President of Germany
1994 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" finale airs this week in syndication
1994 47th Cannes Film Festival: "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino wins the Palme d'Or
1998 The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
1999 52nd Cannes Film Festival: "Rosetta" directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne wins the Palme d'Or
2000 Eminem releases 3rd studio album "The Marshall Mathers LP", is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy - Best Rap Album, 2001)
2001 9th UEFA Champions League Final: Bayern Munich beats Valencia (1-1, 5-4 on penalties) at Milan
2001 Marco Siffredi becomes the first person to snowboard down Mount Everest via the Norton Couloir (some share record accreditation with Stefan Gatt)
2002 The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland
2003 The Euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999
2004 Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2006 41st Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans and Keith Urban win
2007 UEFA Champions League Final, Athens: Filippo Inzaghi scores twice as AC Milan beats Liverpool, 2-1 for 7th title
2008 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.
2010 63rd Cannes Film Festival: "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul wins the Palme d'Or
2014 Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria
2015 60th Eurovision Song Contest: Mans Zelmerlow for Sweden wins singing "Heroes" in Vienna
2016 Chinese archaeologists announce findings of earliest use of barley in China to make beer, Shaanxi province 3400-2900 BC
2017 UK raises terror threat level to critical following Manchester bombing
2017 US President Donald Trump meets Pope Francis at the Vatican
2018 Hamburg, Germany, becomes the first city to ban diesel cars on some roads
2019 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins re-election in a landslide over the opposition Congress Party, world's largest-ever democratic election with over 600 million voters
2019 More than 170 tornadoes reported in a week in US states of Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa, killing seven and causing widespread damage
2019 Fifty children rescued from an international paedophile ring on the dark web in Thailand, Australia and the US by Interpol under Operation Blackwrist, main organizer sentenced to 146 years
2019 Six migrant children have now died in US custody in eight months prompting calls for an investigation
2019 Brazilian cosmetics group Natura buys UK's Avon for $2 billion, creating the world's fourth-largest cosmetics company
2019 The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama
2019 Prototype of new high-speed train that will float above the track, capable of travelling 600km an hour (370 mph), unveiled by Chinese Railway Rolling Stock Corporation in Qingdao
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Post by Richard Frost » Mon May 24 2021 10:48am

24th May 2021

 European National Parks Day!
Every year European Day of Parks takes place on and around 24th of May. It aims to bring people closer to nature and raise public awareness on the importance of the natural beauty preserved in Protected Areas and the importance of conservation and sustainable management of those places.

Escargot Day
French for edible snails, Escargot is believed to have been the first animals to be farmed by man. Archaeological evidence has left traces of this type of heliciculture going back thousands of years.

Escargot, or cooked land snails, are now consumed across the whole of what used to be the Roman Empire. Snails are an excellent form of protein, tasty, low in fat, and (since they can’t run very fast) they’re probably pretty easy to catch!

Escargot Day is the day when it’s time to put this small but important dish into the spotlight.

A selection of birthdays

15 BC Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander, born in Roma, Italia, Roman Empire (d. 19)
1544 William Gilbert,Physician and physicist (researcher into magnetism), born Colchester, (d. 1603)
1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale, born in Danzig, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1736)
1803 Charles Lucien Bonaparte, French prince of Canino and Musignano, born in Paris (d. 1857)
1819 Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland (1837-1901), born in London (d. 1901)
1836 Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer, born in York, England (d. 1925)
1841 Charles Napier Hemy, British painter, born in Newcastle, England (d. 1917)
1850 Ernest Albert Waterlow, English water-color painter, born in London (d. 1919)
1854 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, admiral (WWI), born in Graz, Austrian Empire (d. 1921)
1895 Samuel I Newhouse Sr., American businessman and publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour), born in NYC, New York (d. 1979)
1913 Audrey Brown, British 4 X 100m runner (Olympic silver 1936), born in Bankura, India (d. 2005)
1923 Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 1986)
1926 Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor (The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show, Crook Anonymous), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1927 John Kelly Jr, American rower (Olympic bronze single sculls 1956; president US Olympic Committee) and brother of Grace Kelly, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1985)
1928 William Trevor, Irish writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune), born in Mitchelstown, Ireland (d. 2016)
1931 Michael Lonsdale, French actor (The Day of the Jackal, Moonraker), born in Paris, France (d. 2020)
1941 Bob Dylan [Robert Zimmerman], American singer-songwriter ("Blowin' In The Wind"; "The Times They Are A-Changin'"; "Positively Fourth Street") and cultural icon, born in Duluth, Minnesota
1942 Derek Quinn, British guitarist (Freddie and the Dreamers - "I'm Telling You Now"), born in Manchester, England (d. 2020)
1943 Gary Burghoff, American actor (Radar - M*A*S*H), born in Bristol, Connecticut
1946 Steve Upton, British-Welsh rock drummer (Wishbone Ash, 1969-90 - There's the Rub; Locked In), born in Wrexham, Wales
1947 Cynthia Plaster Caster [Cynthia Albritton], American artist who made plaster casts of celebrity penises and breasts, born in Chicago, Illinois
1949 Roger Deakins, English cinematographer (Blade Runner 2049), born in Torquay, Devon, England
1960 Kristin Scott Thomas, British actress (The English Patient, Mission: Impossible), born in Redruth, Cornwall, England
1960 Guy Fletcher, British musician and keyboardist (Dire Straits), born in Maidstone, Kent
1964 Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker (Olympic gold 1988), born in Bradford, England
1964 Elizabeth McColgan, British running star (world record 5 km indoor), born in Dundee, Scotland
1966 Eric Cantona, French footballer and actor (Looking for Eric), born in Marseille, France
1969 Jacob Rees-Mogg, British politician, Leader of the House of Commons (2019-), born in London, England
1972 Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer (Dawson's Creek, Riverdale, Arrowverse), born in Rye, New York
1973 Dermot O'Leary, British-Irish television presenter (The X Factor), born in Colchester, Essex, England
1977 Kym Valentine, Australian actress (Neighbours), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1985 Tim Bridgman, British racing driver, born in Harlow, England
1986 Jordan Metcalfe, English actor (Genie in the House), born in Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire
1998 Daisy Edgar-Jones, British actress (Normal People), born in London

On this day in History

1086 Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scots
1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt
1276 Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral
1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
1370 Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV
1487 Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, first printed catalogue of an institutional library
1621 The Protestant Union is formally dissolved
1660 English king Charles II visits Netherlands
1667 French troops attack into Southern Netherlands
1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
1697 English King William III travels through northern Europe
1738 John Wesley is converted, launching the Methodist movement; celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day
1775 John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress
1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins
1815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola, Florida
1822 Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain
1824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published by Boston firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon
1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1832 The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference
1844 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message
1847 German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is awarded the Patron's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, London in recognition of 'the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey
1854 Escaped slave Anthony Burns arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act
1856 Pottawatomie Massacre: John Brown and abolitionist settlers kill five pro-slavery settlers in Franklin County, Kansas
1861 Alexandria, Virginia occupied by Federal troops
1861 Union Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1862 Westminster Bridge across The Thames opens in London, England, second bridge replacing earlier bridge fallen into decay
1866 Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1873 Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit" ("The King Has Spoken") premieres at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
Fireworks
1873 Alexandra Palace opens on Queen Victoria's 54th birthday with a grand celebration including concerts, recitals and fireworks
1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die
1881 Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur and NY Governor Cleveland
1884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
1887 Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E African Association at East African harbors
1890 Leo von Caprivi succeeds Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany
1890 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1890 Tivoli Theater of Varieties opens in London
1894 Lowell Observatory, Arizona, first begins observations of Mars with an eighteen-inch telescope, leads its builder Percival Lowell to conclude there are canals on Mars
1895 Henry Irving becomes the first actor to receive a knighthood
1901 Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales
1902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
1908 Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 Conscription begins in Britain
1916 French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1916 US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1918 British officer General Poole lands at Murmansk, the Russian port on the Barents Sea
1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 Bulhoek Massacre: police commissioner Colonel Theodore Truter leads 6 squadrons and artillery detachment against Israelite religious sect collected at annual gathering on land of leader Enoch Mgijima at Ntabalanga; 190 killed
1922 Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6°C)
1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
1923 Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British Prime Minister
1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) (nicknamed the "Flying Finn")
1928 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
1930 Amy Johnson becomes the 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1930 21 year old Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 252 not out in a tour match for Australia v Surrey at Kennington Oval, London
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1933 Dmitri Shostakovich's Preludes premieres in Moscow
1934 Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
1936 Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
1940 Dutch army demobilizes
1940 German tanks reach Atrecht, France
1940 Adolf Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
1941 German athlete Rudolf Harbig runs world record 1,000m in 2:21.5 at Dresden, Germany
1941 German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive
1943 Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania's anti fascists
1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1948 Benjamin Britten's "Beggar's Opera" premieres at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, England
1951 Racial segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants ruled illegal
1951 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1953 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
1954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st African American to head an American Medical Association unit (New York County)
1954 German airline Lufthansa forms
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1956 Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna
1956 1st Eurovision Song Contest: Lys Assia for Switzerland wins singing "Refrain" in Lugano
1957 Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
1958 Cuban President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania)
1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in Great Britain
1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
1961 NASA Explorer Ionosphere research mission fails to reach Earth orbit
1961 Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit
1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
1964 18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win
1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession in England
1968 French President Charles de Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse
1968 FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City
1968 American boxer Bob Foster defeats holder Dick Tiger for the world light-heavyweight Championship at Madison Square Gardens, New York (goes on to defend title 14x)
1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1969 "Sugar, Sugar" single released by cartoon band The Archies (Billboard Song of the Year, 1969)
1970 Peter Green quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
1970 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union
1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
1972 Glasgow Rangers of Scotland win 12th European Cup Winner's Cup against Dynamo Moscow 3-2 of the Soviet Union 3-2 in Barcelona
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 27th Cannes Film Festival: "The Conversation" directed by Francis Ford Coppola wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1975 Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington, D.C.)
1976 Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title in Munich
1976 In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines
1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns
1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1978 American management consultant Marilyn Loden first coins the term "glass ceiling" to describe invisible career barriers for women
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 32nd Cannes Film Festival: "Apocalypse Now" directed by Francis Ford Coppola and "Die Biechtrommel" directed by Volker Schlondorff jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages
1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona, Spain
1982 Liberation of Khorramshahr; Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War
1983 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as Chancellor of Austria
1985 -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British Prime Minister to visit Israel
1986 Reginald Huffstetler trod water for 985 hrs
1987 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: American Jane Geddes wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up American Betsy King
1987 Golden Gate Bridge 50th anniversary: Over 800K people show up, 300K walk on bridge at same time, span temporarily flattens from weight (San Francisco, California)
1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
1988 Section 28 passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality. Repealed 2001/2004
1989 "Indiana Jones & Last Crusade", directed Stephen Spielberg,produced by George Lucas premieres
1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages after winning a libel action against satirical magazine Private Eye (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal).
1989 33rd European Cup: Milan beats Steaua Bucuresti 4-0 at Barcelona
1990 A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both
1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement
1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey
1993 Star Trek episode "Second Chances" airs guest starring Mae Jemison, the 1st real life astronaut to appear on the show
1993 46th Cannes Film Festival: "Ba wang bie ji" directed by Chen Kaige and "The Piano" directed by Jane Campion jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels is involved in a car crash
1995 3rd UEFA Champions League Final: Ajax beats Milan 1-0 at Vienna
1997 Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Michigan
1997 STS 84 (Atlantis 19), lands
1997 Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful
1998 51st Cannes Film Festival: "Mia aioniotita kai mia mera / Eternity and a Day" by Theo Angelopoulos wins the Palme d'Or
1999 Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.
2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2000 8th UEFA Champions League Final: Real Madrid beats Valencia 3-0 at Saint-Denis
2001 Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.
2001 The Democrats gain control of the US Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent
2002 Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2003 48th Eurovision Song Contest: Sertab Erener for Turkey wins singing "Everyway That I Can" in Riga
2003 Paul McCartney performs in his first-ever concert in Russia, in Moscow's Red Square, to a crowd of over 100,000 people
2004 North Korea bans mobile phones.
2008 53rd Eurovision Song Contest: Dima Bilan for Russia wins singing "Believe" in Belgrade
2009 62nd Cannes Film Festival: "The White Ribbon" directed by Michael Haneke wins the Palme d'Or
2009 Manchester United wins 1-0 at Hull City Stadium to win English Premier League title for 3rd consecutive season, for a second time; equals Liverpool's record of 18 league titles
2009 IPL Cricket Final, New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, RSA: Deccan Chargers beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 6 runs; Herschelle Gibbs top scores, 53 (48)
2009 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Canterbury GC: Michael Allen wins his lone major title by 2 strokes from runner-up Larry Mize
2010 Andrew Wakefield, doctor at the center of MMR vaccination scare, struck off the UK medical register after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct
2013 Rafael Correa is sworn into a third term as President of Ecuador
2014 Yingluck Shinawatra, former prime minister of Thailand, is detained by the army after a military coup
2014 UEFA Champions League Final, Lisbon: Real Madrid beats cross town rivals Atlético Madrid, 4-1 after extra time; scores locked at 1-1 in regulation; Los Blancos record 10th title
2015 68th Cannes Film Festival: "Dheepan" directed by Jacques Audiard wins the Palme d'Or
2015 IPL Cricket Final, Eden Gardens, Kolkata: Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings by 41 runs; Lendl Simmons top scores, 68 (45)
2015 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, French Lick Resort: Defending champion Colin Montgomerie of Scotland wins by 4 strokes from Mexican Esteban Toledo
2016 Kaduna state in Nigeria declares a state of emergency due to 'Tomato Ebola', as moth destroys 80% of tomato crops
2016 Bill Cosby is ordered to stand trial in a sexual assault case in Norristown
2017 UEFA Europa League won by Manchester United 2-0 against Ajax in Stockholm
2018 Record US fentanyl seizure of 120lbs (54kg) confirmed by police in Nebraska in April, enough to kill 26 million people, one of largest drug busts in US history
2018 Actor Morgan Freeman accused of sexual harassment by several women in CNN report
2018 At least 14 children reported mauled to death by wild dogs near Khairabad, India after closure of slaughterhouses
2018 US President Donald Trump cancels summit with North and South Korea because of hostile statements from North Korea
2018 US President Donald Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson for racially orientated criminal conviction - transporting a white woman across state lines [1]
2018 World's largest cat-proof fence (44km) completed at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, central Australia to protest endangered species
2018 Bangladeshi police reported to have shot 52 suspected drug traffickers in anti-narcotics crackdown in 10 days
2018 US President Donald Trump signs into law the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act easing financial regulations and reducing oversight for banks
2019 Brazil's Supreme Court votes to make homophobia and transphobia crimes
2020 The New York Times prints front page with nearly 1,000 names of people who have died from COVID-19, as the US toll nears 100,000
2020 Millions of cicadas in a once in 17-year event about to emerge from the earth in the US south posing crop danger and noise issues, according to scientists from Virginia Tech
2020 British PM Boris Johnson refuses to sack his senior aide Dominic Cummings, after it is revealed he broke the country's lockdown rules to drive across the country
2021 RCA releases "Diamond Dogs", David Bowie's 8th studio album, recorded in London and the Netherlands, with cover design by artist Guy Peellaert, it peaks in the U.S. charts at No. 5, and goes to No. 1 in the U.K. and Canada
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Post by Richard Frost » Tue May 25 2021 11:19am

25th May 2021

Tap Dance Day
Tap Dance Day officially began in 1989 and celebrates the heritage and origins of the dance genre, along with the notable tap dancing greats, including Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, the Mark Brothers, and more.

Tap dance first appeared in the 19th century as dancers from across the world combined their ideas in the New World. At first, tap dancing was a marginal activity that began in slave communities. Owners would take instruments and drums away from slaves so they began improvising, using their feet instead to act as percussion.

Over the years, they developed their techniques and many began to wear clogs in an attempt to create better sounds when they tapped their feet on the floor. Before long, tap dancing developed into a distinct art form, separate from traditional dancing styles imported from overseas. Tap dancers developed a unique sense of timing and rhythm. They learned how to move and tap their feet at the same time, laying the foundation for the tradition we have today.

A Selection of Birthdays

1713 John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63), born in Parliament Square, Edinburgh, Midlothian (d. 1792)
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher, Lecturer and Poet (Concord Hymn), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1882)
1846 Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria, born in Buckingham Palace, London (d. 1923)
1877 Billy Murray, Irish-American vaudeville and early recording popular music tenor, known as the 'Denver Nightengale' ("Shine On, Harvest Moon"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1954)
1878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American actor and tap dancer (Stormy Weather; The Little Colonel), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1949)
1880 Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist who helped identify the Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome, born in Nantes, France (d. 1967)
1886 Rash Behari Bose, Indian revolutionary leader against British Raj in India, born Bengal, (d. 1945)
1913 Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster, born in Richmond, Surrey, England (d. 1965)
1921 Hal David, American lyricist ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; "What The World Needs Now Is Love";"Do You Know the Way to San Jose"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
1927 Robert Ludlum, American spy novelist (Bourne Identity), born in NYC, New York (d. 2001)
1933 Ray Spencer, English footballer, born in Kings Norton, Birmingham (d. 2016)
1934 David Burke, English actor (The Woman in Black), born in Liverpool, England
1939 Sir Ian McKellen, English film and theatre actor (Lord of the Rings; X-Men), born in Burnley Lancs
1942 Brian "Blinky" Davison, British rocker (The Nice), born in Leicester, England (d. 2008)
1942 Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (29 Welsh caps), born in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales (d. 2013)
1943 John "Poli" Palmer, British rocker (Family), born in Evesham, Worcestershire
1944 Frank Oz, American muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show), born in Hereford, England
1945 Dave Lee Travis [David Griffin], British DJ and presenter (Top of the Pops], convicted of indecent assault, born in Buxton, Derbyshire
1951 Bob Gale, American screenwriter (Back to the Future), born in University City, Missouri
1958 Paul Weller, English guitarist (Jam - "This is Modern World"; Style Council), born in Woking, Surrey
1959 Cathryn Harrison, English actress (Old Woman in Black Moon), born in London, England
1959 Julian Clary, English television personality, born in Surbiton, Surrey, England
1970 Robert Croft, Welsh cricket spin bowler, broadcaster (England 21 Tests, 49 wickets; Sky Sports), born in Morriston, Swansea
1976 Cillian Murphy, Irish actor (28 Days Later), born in Douglas, County Cork, Ireland
1977 Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ (a Guinness World Record for the longest radio DJ marathon ever, lasting 198 hours of non-stop broadcasting), born in Haarlem, Netherlands
1979 Jonny Wilkinson, English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player, born in Frimley, England
1982 Adam Boyd, English footballer, born in Hartlepool, England
1993 Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets (United States' first set of surviving sextuplets), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

On this day in History

1085 Alfonso VI of León and Castile captures the Muslim taifa of Toledo
1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ
1521 Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers
1522 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England, earning the nickname "Tumbledown Dick" as a result of his abrupt fall from power
1660 King Charles II of England lands in Dover
1716 Great Britain and Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Westminster, a defensive pact
1720 The Ship "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, bringing Europe's last major plague outbreak. Kills around 100,000
1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1810 The Primera Junta (local government) is established in Argentina
1810 In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Spanish Viceroy Cisneros during Semana de Mayo
1816 Collection of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge published by John Murray in London, including "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel"
1825 American Unitarian Association founded
1837 The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1842 Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect, to the Royal Bohemian Society, Prague
1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ
1862 First Battle of Winchester, Virginia
1864 Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia
1868 Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen
1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec
1878 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore" premieres in London, their first international success
1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency
1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1900 Retired London fire master Eyre Massey Shaw aged 70 reputedly becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics for sailing (disputed)
1911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
1914 British House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill
1915 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of the Ukrainian People's Republic
1927 Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford
1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1934 Béla Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer" premieres
1937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths
1940 German troops conquer Boulogne
1940 Golden Gate International Exposition reopens
1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1943 Riot at Mobile, Alabama, shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1943 Trident conference in Washington, D.C. (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes King
1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111
1948 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Norwood Hills CC: Ben Hogan scores a convincing 7 & 6 win over Mike Turnesa in the Tuesday final for his 2nd PGA crown
1948 Polish war hero Witold Pilecki is executed by communist police after a show trial in Warsaw
1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired at Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
1959 Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev visits Angola
1959 US Supreme Courtt rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
1961 US President John F. Kennedy announces US goal of putting man on the Moon before end of decade
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania and Zambia
1964 16th Emmy Awards: "The Dick Van Dyke Show", Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore win
1965 Dave Davies of The Kinks stumbles and is knocked unconscious on stage
1965 India and Pakistan border fights
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston at 2:12 of round 1 at Central Maine Civic Center, Lewiston to retain his WBC/WBA heavyweight boxing title
1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelically painted Rolls Royce
1967 European Cup Final, Estádio Nacional, Lisbon: Glasgow Celtic beats Internazionale, 2-1; first British team to win the Cup
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
1969 "Midnight Cowboy" directed by John Schlesinger and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1970)
1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 The Provisional Irish Republican Army throw a time bomb into Springfield Road British Army base in Belfast, killing British Army Sergeant Michael Willetts and wounding seven officers
1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Peronist Hector Campora installed as President of Argentina
1973 George Harrison releases single "Give Me Love" in UK
1973 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
1973 26th Cannes Film Festival: "The Hireling" directed by Alan Bridges and "Scarecrow" directed by Jerry Schatzberg jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Original "Star Wars" movie (Episode IV – A New Hope), directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, first released
1977 21st European Cup: Liverpool beats Borussia Monchengladbach 3-1 at Rome
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground
1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1979 Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
1981 Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars Episode VI), produced by George Lucas first released
1983 1st US National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1983 Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357
1983 France performs nuclear test
1983 Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs
1983 27th European Cup: Hamburg beats Juventus 1-0 at Athens
1985 Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
1986 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY
1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
1988 32nd European Cup: PSV Eindhoven beats Benfica (0-0, 6-5 on penalties) at Stuttgart
1989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
1994 Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated
1995 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report detailing People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over prior two decades
2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2000 53rd Cannes Film Festival: "Dancer in the Dark" directed by Lars von Trier and starring Björk (Best Actress) wins the Palme d'Or
2000 Laureus World Sports Awards, Monte-Carlo Sporting, Monaco: Sportsman: Tiger Woods; Sportswoman: Marion Jones (rescinded); Team: Manchester United FC
2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
2001 54th Cannes Film Festival: "The Son's Room" directed by Nanni Moretti wins the Palme d'Or
2002 A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2002 China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people
2002 47th Eurovision Song Contest: Marie N for Latvia wins singing "I Wanna" in Tallinn
2003 Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
2003 56th Cannes Film Festival: "Elephant" directed by Gus Van Sant wins the Palme d'Or
2005 13th UEFA Champions League Final: Liverpool beats Milan (3-3, 3-2 on penalties)
2007 The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time
2008 61st Cannes Film Festival: "The Class" directed by Laurent Cantet wins the Palme d'Or
2008 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oak Hill CC: Jay Haas wins his second title in the event by 1 stroke from Germany’s Bernhard Langer
2009 North Korea conducts its second nuclear test while also conducting several missile tests
2009 Thailand’s economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter of 2009, contracting the most in a decade and plunging the nation into recession
2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show
2011 46th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Brad Paisley win
2012 Up to 116 people massacred, includes women & children,by Syrian army in Houla, in Homs province
2012 SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
2013 17 children are killed by a gas cylinder explosion on a school bus in Gujrat, Pakistan
2013 Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80
2013 UEFA Champions League Final, London: Arjen Robben scores twice as Bayern Munich beats Borussia Dortmund, 2-1 in first all-German final
2014 Petro Poroshenko is elected President of Ukraine
2014 Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania
2014 67th Cannes Film Festival: "Winter Sleep" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan wins the Palme d'Or
2014 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, GC at Shore Harbor: Colin Montgomerie of Scotland wins first of 3 Champions Tour majors by 4 strokes from Tom Watson
2017 Pitched battles between Islamic State-linked militants and Philippine government troops in and around Marawi, leave 43 dead, with thousands fleeing
2017 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004
2017 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins, starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine premieres in Los Angeles - 1st superhero film directed by a woman
2018 Harvey Weinstein turns himself in to New York police to face charges of rape, a criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct
2018 Barbados elects first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, leads the Barbados Labour Party to victory
2019 Tornado tears through El Reno, Oklahoma. killing two and injuring dozens
2019 72nd Cannes Film Festival: Bong Joon-ho's South Korean film "Parasite" wins the Palme d'Or, Mati Diop, first black woman in competition wins Grand Prix award for "Atlantics"
2019 Boat capsizes on Lake Mai-Ndombe, western Democratic Republic of Congo, drowning at least 45 with 200 missing
2019 First ever albino panda footage in the wild released (taken in April) from China's Wolong National Nature Reserve
2020 Video of African American George Floyd's arrest and murder while restrained in Minneapolis police custody shows he was pinned to the ground by police officer Derek Chauvin's knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, ignites widespread condemnation and nationwide protests
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Chadwick wrote:
Tue May 25 2021 9:56pm
Richard Frost wrote:
Tue May 25 2021 11:19am
25th May 2021
Towel Day.

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Yes, I saw that, Some of these days like the events section are very biased towards the USA. It is hard to know what to include sometimes, today is also,

Wine Day
On May 25th each year, wine lovers everywhere pour a glass of their favourite wine to celebrate Wine Day.

Made from fermented grapes or other fruits, wine is an alcoholic beverage. During the fermentation processes, yeast consumes the sugars in the grapes converting it into alcohol. Different grapes produce different wines. Winemakers will combine different wines to create more complex flavours. Wines made from fruit or honey are often named according to the variety of fruit used.

Geek Pride Day
Some people are old enough to remember when being called a geek was derogatory and meant that you were probably pale, non-athletic, wore thick glasses, had almost no friends, and were only good at activities that could be done indoors on a chair in your underwear. Thankfully, the word “geek” has evolved greatly over the years, and now usually means a person who is fascinated with a certain complicated subject—be it mathematics, video games, fantasy literature, science fiction films or one of many others—and knows almost everything there is to know about it. That actually sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it? So why not celebrate all of the geeks in this world this Geek Pride Day?

Missing Children’s Day
Missing Children’s Day each year shines a spotlight on child safety. The observance also honours the professionals dedicated to protecting children.

Most children who go missing do come home. Whether they’ve wandered off or there was a misunderstanding, many find their way back to their family. According to the Polly Klaas Foundation, 99.8 percent come home. Of those who are abducted, 9 percent are kidnapped by family. Only a small fraction are stranger abductions. But the fact remains, if it happens to any child, it happens to too many.

Brown-Bag It Day
National Brown-Bag-It-Day recognizes the benefits of packing your lunch for work or school. Taking your lunch to work or school is an effective way to save money and to ensure you and your family are eating healthy.
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Post by Richard Frost » Wed May 26 2021 11:20am

26 May 2021

VESAKHA PUJA / WESAK / BUDDHA DAY Buddhist
Wesak is the biggest of Buddhist festivals. Theravadins celebrate the birth, enlightenment and final passing away of Gautama Buddha. Mahayanists have separate days for each of them and on Bodhi Day celebrate the enlightenment of the Buddha. Houses are decorated with lanterns and garlands, and temples are ringed with little oil lamps. People often send ‘Wesak cards’ to their friends, and lay people come together at monasteries at this time.

Blueberry Cheesecake Day
There isn’t much in life that people love more than the rich, tangy flavour of an indulgent cheesecake. Life can be so much sweeter when everyone has the opportunity to be introduced to blueberry cheesecake!

A crumbly graham cracker or cookie crust with a rich cheesy base is topped with a blueberry syrup and then capped with fresh blueberries. This might just be the only thing that could possibly be better than the New York original!

Blueberry Cheesecake Day was established to ensure that people everywhere know how incredible this dessert is and are given the permission they need in order to celebrate appropriately.

World Product Day
Products are one of the main aspects of businesses everywhere that helps keep people moving and the economy growing. However, how products are developed and how resources are used can be a tricky thing to understand, especially in the global context.

If you work in an industry where your products affect the lives of individuals each day or are just looking to understand how the product industry works, then check out the holiday known as World Product Day, a day dedicated to helping others share their experiences in the economy through their company jobs. Help make World Product day popular by learning more about it!

Dracula Day
Of all of the monsters known to man, which one could possibly be considered more iconic than Count Dracula? The quintessential vampire, Count Dracula has inspired tens of films and stories the world over, not to mention the virtual immortality of the character during as a beloved Halloween character.

For all of these reasons, it’s undeniable that this icon of horror more than deserves his own day so the world can show its appreciation for his contributions to the worlds of cinema and literature over the centuries. So put on your fangs, and let’s sink out teeth right into this, shall we?

No, you don’t have to wait for Halloween to actually celebrate this demonic character now that there is a day dedicated to him. Although you may want to recap on what he actually looks like in the famous 1992 Dracula movie, just to be sure n all.

Senior Health & Fitness Day
For Grandma, Grandpa, Granny, Gramps, Nana, Papa, and all our well-loved elders, Senior Health & Fitness Day is a time to explore the many senior-friendly physical activity options and to understand the importance of exercise and nutrition for ongoing health and illness-prevention.

A healthy diet can boost energy and immunity, and regular exercise is necessary to retain bone mass and lower the risk of fractures and to build muscle strength and reduce the risk of falls.

Various community events will be staged on Senior Health & Fitness Day, and seniors are encouraged to attend for health screenings and diet and exercise information sessions.

Low-impact, non-competitive exercise program choices may include stretching, walking and swimming, all designed to increase strength and flexibility. And although Grandma is probably an excellent cook, she may be able to pick up a few healthy tips to make her legendary meals even more delicious and nutritious.

Paper Airplane Day
Every day, there are hundreds of people all over the world who are showing Wilbur and Orville Wright that their feat of creating an airplane wasn’t really all THAT impressive. After all, all it takes is a simple piece of paper and a few clever folds, and you can create an airplane all on your own as well! Paper Airplane Day celebrates this humble bit of aeronautics and reminds us of the role it played in our youth, and can still play in our present.

Children and adults alike can enjoy making and playing with paper airplanes. There’s something magical in being able to make a piece of paper fly through the air, mimicking that of a real airplane. It’s a fun and enjoyable way to acknowledge all the amazing aspects an airplane has to offer and a chance to come together to celebrate this impressive invention. The act of flying a paper airplane is a stimulating, pleasurable, and inexpensive way to keep entertained.

A selection of Birthdays

1623 William Petty, English political economist and statistician (Treatise of Taxes and Contributions), born in Romsey, England (d. 1687)
1863 Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (sport's first 3-division world champion; Middleweight, Light Heavyweight, Heavyweight), born in Helston, England (d. 1917)
1867 Mary of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, born in Kensington Palace, London (d. 1953)
1874 Henri Farman, British-French aviator who broke several aviation records, born in Paris (d. 1958)
l Jolson [Asa Yoelson], American-Lithuanian jazz singer and silent actor (Mamie, Swanee), born in Seredžius, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1950)
1893 Eugene Goossens, British conductor and composer (Perseus), born in London, England (d. 1962)
1904 George Formby, British singer and comedian, born in Wigan, Lancashire, England (d. 1961)
1907 John Wayne [Marion Robert Morrison], American actor (Green Berets, True Grit), born in Winterset, Iowa (d. 1979)
1908 Robert Morley, British actor (Marie Antoinette, The Young Ones, How the Other Half Loves), born in Semley, Wiltshire, England (d. 1992)
1909 Matt Busby, Scottish soccer forward (Manchester City, Liverpool) and manager (Manchester United 1945-69, 70–71; Scotland 1958), born in Orbiston, Bellshill, Scotland (d. 1994)
1911 Ben Alexander, American actor (Dragnet, All Quiet on the Western Front), born in Goldfield, Nevada (d. 1969)
1913 Peter Cushing, English actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who), born in Kenley, Surrey, England (d. 1994)
1914 Archie Duncan, Scottish actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1979)
1923 Roy Dotrice, British actor (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Amadeus) and narrator (A Song of Ice and Fire), born in Guernsey, Channel Islands (d. 2017)
1925 Alec McCowen, English actor (Never Say Never Again), born in Tunbridge Wells (d. 2017)
1926 Joseph Horovitz, British composer, born in Vienna, Austria
1941 Reg Bundy, Reginald Sutherland Bundy was a British dancer, actor and television presenter best known for his drag persona H.I.H. (Her Imperial Highness) Regina Fong. Bundy first developed Regina Fong in 1985, and quickly achieved a regular spot at the Black Cap gay pub in Camden Town, London and also the Royal Vauxhall Tavern (d. 2003)
1949 Jeremy Corbyn, British politician (Labour Party leader 2015-), born in Chippenham, England
1953 Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster and former politician known for presenting Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys. A former member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate from 1984 to 1997 and Kensington and Chelsea from 1999 to 2005.
1954 Alan James Hollinghurst FRSL is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2004 Booker Prize.
1958 Margaret Colin, American actress (Independence Day,Three Men & a Baby), born Brooklyn,New York
1959 Wayne Hussey, English musician (Mission-Lover for Life), born in Bristol, England
1959 Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, comedian (Police Academy), born in Syracuse, New York
1962 Colin Vearncombe, singer-songwriter (Black-Wonderful Like), born Liverpool, (d. 2016)
1966 Helena Bonham Carter, British actress (Harry Potter, Fight Club, The King's Speech, Enid, The Wings of the Dove), born in London
1971 Matt Stone, American actor, animator & producer (South Park, The Book of Mormon), born Houston
1972 Patsy Palmer [Julie Merkell], British actress (Eastenders), born in London, England
1979 Elisabeth Harnois, American actress (CSI), born in Detroit, Michigan
1990 Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra

On this day in history

451 The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
961 German King Otto II crowned
1328 William of Ockham [Occam] forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
1538 Geneva expels Protestant Reformer and Theologian John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1596 England, France & Netherlands sign Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
1637 Mystic Massacre: in 1st battle of Pequot War in Connecticut about 500 Pequot Native Americans are killed by Colonial forces
1647 Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut
1736 Battle of Ackia (Louisiana), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French
1770 The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1805 Lewis and Clark first sight the Rocky Mountains
1805 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy
1824 Brazil is recognized by the US
1828 Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg
1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
1857 US slave Dred Scott and family freed by owner Henry Taylor Blow, only 3 months after US courts ruled against them in Dred Scott v. Sandford
1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi occupies Palermo, Italy
1861 US Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
1861 Union blockades towns of New Orleans and Mobile
1864 Battle of Dallas,begins near Paulding County,Georgia(Atlanta Campaign),Union victory(US Civil War)
1864 -30] Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia
1865 Battle of Galveston Texas, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
1868 US President Andrew Johnson is acquitted by the Senate by one vote during his impeachment trial
1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
1884 Australian cricket fast bowler Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 against an England XI in a tour match in Birmingham; match over in just 4 hours
1894 German Emanuel Lasker becomes undisputed World Chess Champion by beating Austrian-American defending titleholder Wilhelm Steinitz, 10-5 (4 draws) in Montreal
1896 Dow Jones index begins with an average of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
1896 Last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1896 James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California
1897 "Dracula" by Irish author Bram Stoker is published by Archibald Constable and Company in London
1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
1904 In two days of bitter fighting, the Japanese Army soundly defeats the Russians at Kinchan and captures the forts at Nanshan
1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms
1906 Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London, England
1908 At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made, rights acquired by the United Kingdom
1911 Germany passes legislation organizing Alsace & Lorraine as an autonomous state with a legislature
1913 Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate
1915 H. H. Asquith forms a coalition government in the United Kingdom
1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
1918 Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat
1919 The Supreme Council of Allies, meeting at Versailles, decides to recognize two White Russian leaders, Admiral Kolchak and General Denikin, and support them against the Bolsheviks
1922 Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke
1923 Inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race for cars starts through public roads around Le Mans, France; inaugural winners: André Lagache and René Léonard (France) for Chenard & Walcker
1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1924 US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law restricting immigration
1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
1927 Henry Ford & the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford/Tin Lizzie
1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
1933 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms
1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
1936 1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends
1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1938 US House of Representatives Committee on un-American Activities forms
1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky
1941 Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sights German battleship Bismarck
1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: Afrika Korps vs British army
1943 Edwin Barclay of Liberia becomes first president of a black country to visit US
1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
1943 Prime Minister Winston Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1946 US Patent filed for a hydrogen bomb
1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government under D. F. Malan with an apartheid policy
1951 Vaughan Williams' "Pilgrim's Progress" premieres in London
1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
1955 Conservatives led by Anthony Eden win British parliamentary election
1955 Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
1956 fire on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, kills 103 crew
1956 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Lew Hoad wins his first and only French title; beats Sven Davidson of Sweden 6-4, 8-6, 6-3
1956 French Championships Women's Tennis: American Althea Gibson wins her only French singles title; beats Angela Mortimer of England 6-0, 12-10
1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
1963 15th Emmy Awards: "The Dick Van Dyke Show", E G Marshall & Shirley Booth win
1963 Organization of African Unity forms
1963 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Roy Emerson beats home favourite Pierre Darmon 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
1963 French Championships Women's Tennis: Australian Lesley Turner wins the first of 2 French titles; beats England's Ann Jones 2-6, 6-3, 7-5
1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
1965 Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
1966 Buddhist sets himself on fire at US consulate in Hué, South Vietnam
1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 EMI releases "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" a few days early in the UK; it would go to number one for 15 weeks in the US and 22 weeks in the UK
1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their 2nd bed-in for peace (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
1970 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2
1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT accord
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank
1972 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) plant a bomb in Oxford Street, Belfast, killing a 64 year old woman
1972 In the Republic of Ireland, the Special Criminal Court is re-instituted to deal with crimes arising out of the Northern Ireland conflict; as part of the measures trial by jury is suspended
1973 Bahrain adopts its constitution
1973 Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1
1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14-year old is trampled
1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
1975 "Rhinestone Cowboy" single released by Glen Campbell (Billboard Song of the Year, 1975)
1977 George Willig climbs the South Tower of NYC's World Trade Center, famously fined 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1981 The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due)
1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor carrying Chinook helicopters and destroyer HMS Coventry hit in Falkland war: 39 crew members die
1982 35th Cannes Film Festival: "Missing" directed by Costa Gavras and "Yol" directed by Serif Goren and Yilmaz Güney jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
1982 26th European Cup: Aston Villa beats Bayern Munich 1-0 at Rotterdam
1983 Space Shuttle Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
1983 NASA launches Exosat
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Floods kill 14 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1984 US President Ronald Reagan rules out US military intervention in Iran-Iraq war
1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
1989 Danish parliament allows same-sex marriage
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1993 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time
1993 1st UEFA Champions League Final: Marseille beats Milan 1-0 at Munich
1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton
1999 7th UEFA Champions League Final: Manchester United beats Bayern Munich 2-1 at Barcelona
2000 Sci-Fi Author Arthur C. Clarke is knighted"for services to literature"at ceremony Colombo, Sri Lanka
2001 Super Rugby Final, Canberra: Fullback Andrew Walker kicks 5 penalties & 3 conversions as the ACT Brumbies win their first title; beat Coastal Sharks (Durban), 36-6
2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars
2002 Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia
2002 55th Cannes Film Festival: "The Pianist" directed by Roman Polanski wins the Palme d'Or
2002 Eminem releases his 4th studio album “The Eminem Show” (2002 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award Best Rap Album 2003)
2003 Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
2004 The New York Times publishes admission of journalistic failings, claims its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism during buildup to 2003 Iraq War helped promote belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004 The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 39th Academy of Country Music Awards: Toby Keith & Martina McBride win
2006 The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
2012 A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvinkaa kills 2, wounds 7
2012 Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents
2012 57th Eurovision Song Contest: Loreen for Sweden wins singing "Euphoria" in Baku
2013 The Mumbai Indians defeat the Chennai Super Kings to win the Indian 20/20 Premier League
2013 66th Cannes Film Festival: "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" directed by Abdellatif Kechiche wins the Palme d'Or. The two main actresses in the film, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux also awarded
2013 IPL Cricket Final, Eden Gardens, Kolkata: Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs; Kieron Pollard 60 no (32)
2013 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Kōki Idoki of Japan wins his lone PGA event by 2 strokes from Jay Haas and Kenny Perry
2014 Narendra Modi becomes the 15th Prime Minister of India
2014 World Health Organization confirms that Ebola has reached Sierra Leone
2014 Protests across Thailand in response to military coup; General Prayuth warns of a crackdown in demonstrations continue
2017 Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Ricky John Best killed, Micah David-Cole Fletcher injured defending Muslim teenager in Portland, Oregon
2018 Ireland votes to repeal their 8th amendment to allow legalized abortion, 66.4% vote yes
2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Kiev: Real Madrid beats Liverpool, 3-1 for third straight title. Zinédine Zidane first manager to win 3 consecutive titles
2019 Nine climbers die in a week on Mt Everest after overcrowding leads to a huge queue to reach the summit
2019 Ken Wyatt becomes Australia's first Aboriginal minister in government as the minister for indigenous Australians
2019 Senior PGA Championship, Oak Hill CC: American Ken Tanigawa wins his first career major title by 1 stroke ahead of Scott McCarron
2020 Costa Rica becomes the first county in Central America to legalize same-sex marriage
2020 US restricts travel from Brazil as the country posts world's second highest number of recorded cases of COVID-19
2020 J. K. Rowling begins publishing children's story "The Ickabog" online in installments
2020 Twitter adds warning labels to warn about inaccuracies in US President Donald Trump's tweets for the first time
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Post by Richard Frost » Thu May 27 2021 11:16am

27th May 2021

Sun Screen Day
As Baz Luhrmann once sang “If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.” It’s sage advice! Years of health campaigns have ensured that we all know that sun screen is very important. In fact, it’s essential to wear and regularly reapply sunscreen when out in the sun.

Sun screen defends the skin from damaging ultraviolet rays by forming a protective barrier – used properly, sun screen can help prevent skin cancer. Exposure to the sun also damages the skin and can worsen signs of ageing, so wearing sun screen will also keep your skin looking younger.

Cellophane Tape Day
It’s clear and it’s shiny and it seals in some of the greatest treasures the world has ever seen. Well… Kind of. It’s been used for sealing letters and wrapping presents, putting up notes and attaching things to homework assignments. It’s companion is the stapler, and it lives on the desks of office workers and teachers alike, and it has one scientific property that seems purely magical. That’s right, we’re talking about cellophane tape, often called ‘Scotch Tape’ thanks to the famous brand, and Cellulose Tape day is all about celebrating this amazing adhesive tape!

Map Reading Week
Being able to read a map is a fundamental life skill and the basis of all outdoor activities. We want to create an annual event that encourages everyone to improve their map-reading skills!

During Map Reading Week, Ordnance Survey and other outdoor organizations will be providing help and support with all kinds of map reading and navigation. Whether it’s planning a journey using a road map, finding an address or even creating your own map, we want everyone to share the passion for these practical artworks.

A selection of Birthdays

1820 Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess (daughter of Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte and his second wife, Catharina of Württemberg, daughter of King Frederick I of Württemberg) and socialite, born in Trieste, Italy (d. 1904)
1822 Henry Wylde, English composer and conductor, born in Bushey, Hertfordshire (d. 1890)
1837 "Wild Bill" Hickok [James Butler], American cowboy and scout, born in Troy Grove, Illinois (d. 1876)
1852 Billy Barnes, English cricketer (England all-rounder 1880-90), born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire (d. 1899)
1867 Arnold Bennett, English novelist (Anna of the Five Towns), born in Hanley, Staffordshire, England (d. 1931)
1870 Lionel Palairet, British cricketer (elegant England bat in the Golden Age), born in Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England (d. 1933)
1887 Frank Woolley, English cricketer (long-running England left-arm all-rounder), born in Tonbridge, Kent (d. 1978)
1908 Alex Brown, English snooker player, born in London (d. 1995)
1913 Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (Southwark England), born in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales (d. 1995)
1918 Kam Fong Chun, American actor (Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, P.I.), born Kalihi, Hawaii (d. 2002)
1920 Gwyneth George, Welsh cellist and teacher, born on the Mumbles, Wales (d. 2016)
1922 Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), born London, (d. 2015)
1923 Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State (1973-77) and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
1934 Harlan Ellison, American sci-fi author and screenwriter (Star Trek-"The City on the Edge of Forever"), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2018)
1935 Mal Evans [Malcolm Frederick Evans], British Beatles roadie and assistant, born Liverpool, (d. 1976)
1936 Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party
1939 Donald "Don" Williams, American country singer (I Believe in You), born in Floydada Texas (d. 2017)
1943 Cilla Black [Priscilla White], pop singer and TV personality (Blind Date), born in Liverpool, (d. 2015)
1946 Lewis Collins, English actor, (The Professionals, Who Dares wins, Robin of Sherwood)(d. 2013)
1951 John Conteh, British boxer, WBC Light Heavyweight crown (1974-77), born in Liverpool
1955 Richard Schiff, American actor (The West Wing), born in Bethesda, Maryland
1957 Duncan Goodhew, English 100m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1980), born London
1961 Cathy Silvers, actress (Happy Days, Foley Square), born in NYC, New York
1965 Todd Bridges, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish), born in San Francisco, California
1967 Paul Gascoigne, soccer player
1968 Rebekah Brooks, English journalist (implicated in News International phone hacking scandal), born in Warrington,
1970 Tim Farron, British politician (Liberal Democrat)
1970 Joseph Fiennes, English actor (Enemy at the Gates, Shakespeare in Love), born in Salisbury
1971 Paul Bettany, English actor (A Beautiful Mind), born in London
1975 Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality, born in Claverling, England

On this day in History

927 Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia
1120 Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death
1281 Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge
1529 30 Jews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1660 Denmark & Sweden sign The Treaty Of Copenhagen, ends Second Northern War
1679 Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest & imprisonment) passes in England
1689 Anthonie Heinsius succeeds G Fagel as Grand Pensionary of Holland
1692 Court of Oyer and Terminer ("to hear and determine") established by Governor of Massachusetts to hear accusations of witchcraft
1703 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
1738 Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov in eastern Europe
1796 James S McLean patents his piano
1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland, large rebel force kills local militia
1813 Americans capture Fort George, Canada
1849 Opening of the Great Hall at Euston station in London
1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, destroyed by tornado
1856 Doctor William Palmer (the Rugeley Poisoner) found guilty of poisoning in Stafford, England
1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1863 CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River, Georgia, 18 die
1863 Siege of Port Hudson in Louisiana by Union forces. Lasts 48 days, longest American military siege
1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia
1873 Heinrich Schliemann discovers "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia
1878 Australian cricket fast bowler Fred Spofforth takes 10-20 (6-4 and 4-16) in quick-fire 9 wicket tour match win over the MCC in London
1883 Tsar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
1893 Audath Yisroel forms at Kattowitz (Katowice) Poland
1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1896 Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255, leaving thousands homeless
1898 Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the Wells" premieres in London
1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa
1903 Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
1905 Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history
1906 1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
1907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
1908 Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1910 Reform of Prussian three-class voting system fails
1916 President Woodrow Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a league of nations
1917 Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
1918 Third Battle of Aisne: German offensive overcomes British forces (WWI)
1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927 Tomáš Masaryk re-elected President of Czechoslovakia for a second time
1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape
1930 The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public
1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplane at Langley Field, Virginia
1931 Swiss Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon from Augsburg, Germany
1933 Austrian communist party banned
1933 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
1933 Walt Disney's short film "3 Little Pigs" released (Academy Award Best Animated film 1934)
1933 Martin Heidegger gives his inaugural rectoral address on “The Self-Assertion of the German University”, taken by some take as supporting the Nazi regime
1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to pedestrians
1938 Cricket batting genius Don Bradman scores 145 not out for Australia v Hampshire at Southampton, completing 1,000 runs before the end of May for the second time, the only touring batsman to England ever to perform the feat
1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during WWII
1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops
1941 FDR declares state of emergency after a German U-boat sinks the American flagged SS Robin Moor
1941 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
1942 Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1942 Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim
1942 Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is mortally wounded by a grenade thrown by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid; he would die a week later
1943 French resistance under Jean Moulin meets secretly in Paris
1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1944 Jean-Paul Sartres' "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris
1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid
1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1952 European Defense Community forms
1953 Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1956 French raid in Algiers
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1958 Maiden flight of the F-4 Phantom II
1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
1961 1st black light is sold
1961 Fiorentina of Italy win European Cup Winner's Cup against Glasgow Rangers 4-2 Florence (2nd leg)
1961 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' ½"
1961 60th Men's French Championships: Manuel Santana beats Nicola Pietrangeli (4-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2)
1961 60th Women's French Championships: Ann Haydon beats Yola Ramirez (6-2, 6-1)
1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya
1964 European Cup Final, Praterstadion, Vienna: Internazionale beats Real Madrid, 3-1 for their first title
1965 10th European Cup Final, San Siro, Milan: Jair da Costa scores winner as defending champions Internazionale beat Benfica, 1-0
1966 55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes
1966 6 French fighters crash above Spain
1967 Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and count them in the national census
1968 The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1969 Walt Disney World construction begins at Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida
1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal, 10th highest mountain
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11
1971 24th Cannes Film Festival: "The Go-Between" directed by Joseph Losey wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
1975 Worst vehicle disaster in UK; bus of elderly women plunge into Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38
1977 30th Cannes Film Festival: "Padre Padrone" directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani wins the Palme d'Or
1977 The Sex Pistols release "God Save the Queen", sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
1979 Pope John Paul II ordains John J O'Connor as a bishop
1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1980 The Gwangju Massacre: South Korean airborne and army troops retake city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 possibly many more
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 34th Cannes Film Festival: "Man of Iron" directed by Andrzej Wajda wins the Palme d'Or
1981 25th European Cup: Liverpool beats Real Madrid 1-0 at Paris
1984 Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day; Italian Open 1984, beats Virginie Ruzici, Carling Basset and Chris Evert in the final 6-3 6-3; only 7th player to beat Evert on clay
1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1985 Inaugural bands parade for President Reagan
1986 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1986 Norway Showcase groundbreaking
1986 President Reagan orders 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled
1987 31st European Cup: Porto beats Bayern Munich 2-1 at Vienna
1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
1990 Caesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia
1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1991 Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi Museum in Florence, killing 6
1994 Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia after 20 years in exile
1994 "The Flintstones" live action movie, starring John Goodman and Rick Moranis, opens
1995 Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia
1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reach the North Pole
1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
1998 Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo
2000 Super Rugby Final, Canberra: Crusaders claim their 3rd consecutive title with a 20-19 win over the ACT Brumbies; flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens kicks 5 penalties for the winners
2001 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Ridgewood CC, NJ: 5-time British Open champion Tom Watson wins first of 6 Champions Tour major titles with a 1 stroke win over Jim Thorpe
2005 DreamWorks computer-animated film "Madagascar" with voices by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith is released.
2006 Earthquake strikes Java, Indonesia at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta, killing over 6,600 people
2006 "Pan's Labyrinth" fantasy film on the Spanish Civil War written and directed by Guillermo del Toro debuts at Cannes
2007 60th Cannes Film Festival: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" directed Cristian Mungiu wins Palme d'Or
2007 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Ocean Course: Denis Watson of Zimbabwe wins his lone major title by a 2 stroke margin from Eduardo Romero of Argentina
2009 South Africa enters the global recession; the first recession for South Africa in 17 years
2009 UEFA Champions League Final, Rome: Barcelona beats Manchester United, 2-0; first Spanish treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and Champions League
2012 A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
2012 65th Cannes Film Festival: "Amour" directed by Michael Haneke wins the Palme d'Or
2012 58th British Academy Television Awards: "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle" Best Comedy, "The Fades" Best Drama
2012 IPL Cricket Final, M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets; Manvinder Bisla top scores, 89 (48)
2012 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, The GC at Harbor Shores: Englishman Roger Chapman wins first of 2 Champions Tour major titles of the year by 2 strokes from John Cook
2013 75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
2013 The largest flag ever made at 5 tons with 44 miles of thread is unveiled in Romania
2014 The director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde calls for "tougher regulation and tighter supervision" of banking sector
2016 3 ships in 3 days sink carrying immigrants across the Mediterraneann, drowning over 700 people
2017 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London: Arsenal beats Chelsea, 2-1; Aaron Ramsey scores 79' winner as Arsène Wenger becomes most successful manager in FA Cup history, winning his 7th title
2017 In Bangalore, India, white puffy toxic foam begins spilling out of Varthur Lake onto city streets
2018 South Korean boy band BTS are the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 with their album "Love Yourself: Tear"
2018 Italian PM-designate Giuseppe Conte gives up attempt to form coalition government after President Sergio Matarella vetoes his choice of economy minister
2018 Oil workers for Brazilian state oil company Petrobrás join the truckers' national strike
2018 IPL Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai: Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets; Shane Watson top scores, 117 no (57); SK's 3rd IPL title
2018 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, GC at Harbor Shores: Englishman Paul Broadhurst wins by 4 strokes from American Tim Petrovic
2019 Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz removed from office after a no-confidence vote in parliament, Vice Chancellor Hartwig Löger appointed interim chancellor
2019 European Parliament elections result in centralist parties losing their majority with liberals, the Greens and nationalists picking up more votes
2019 World's rivers widely contaminated with antibiotics according to new global study of 711 sites
2020 America's COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Johns Hopkins figures) equal to number of US servicemen and women killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan put together
2020 Spain begins 10 days of mourning for victims of COVID-19 with death toll just under 27,000
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Post by Richard Frost » Fri May 28 2021 12:22pm

28th May 2021

28 May ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASCENSION OF BAHA’U’LLAH Baha’i
Commemorates the death of Baha’u’llah at Bahji, near Acre, in 1892. His shrine there has become the place towards which all Baha’is face when praying.

Hamburger Day
Man who invented the hamburger was smart; Man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
Matthew McConaughey

Amnesty International Day
Human rights have been a hot topic in local and international politics since the 1960’s. Whether fighting for the right to marry the person of our choice or to end abuses like child labor all over the globe, Amnesty International has been in the trenches trying to make the world a better place. Amnesty International Day works to promote human rights and raise awareness of their abuses and how our choices affect them every day.

Menstrual Hygiene Day
Menstruation is a natural process in which blood which was created by the body to cushion an egg is flushed from the body if the owner of the said egg does not become pregnant. It is a normal action which millions of women across the world experience, and this day seeks to remove any taboo associated with it.

After all, the body’s process which allows for the conception of children should be celebrated, surely?

Brisket Day
The word primal has many meanings, but all of them come back to one meaning “first.” The word speaks of the beginnings of things, from our ancient lineage as human beings, to the animalistic force that lives within each of us. Appropriate to our thinking, then is the meaning of primal when applied to cuts of meat.

The primal cuts are those that are severed from the carcass first before the smaller and less important cuts are removed. The brisket is among these cuts, and while it requires a little know-how to make it properly, when properly made it is nothing less than the choicest of the primal cuts. Brisket Day encourages you to explore this cut and everything it has to offer.

Don’t Fry Day
Although it might sound more like a dieter’s mantra, Don’t Fry Day is actually an initiative of the Council for Skin Cancer Prevention.

With the days of tanning and basking in the sun all day long behind us, the words on everyone’s lips these days is ‘slip, slop, slap and wrap’, encouraging sun worshippers to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen (SPF 30 and above is ideal), slap on a hat, and wrap on sunglasses. This day is a great opportunity to teach kids about being sun smart in a light-hearted way.

Rather than staying out in the sun all day, why not celebrate by holding an indoor picnic and having a movie marathon? Or if the weather’s nice, grab some friends, a beach umbrella, and have some sun-smart fun in the great outdoors. Just remember to follow the rules, and slip, slop, slap and wrap between the hours of 10 and 4!

A selection of Birthdays

1660 George I, King of England (1714-27), born in Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1727)
1738 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician and freemason who proposed and became the namesake of the guillotine, born in Saintes, France (d.1814)
1759 William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister (Tory: 1783-1801, 1804-06), born Hayes, Kent, (d. 1806)
1779 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and musician, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1852)
1830 Carl Filtsch,Transylvanian composer&pianist child prodigy,born Mühlbach (Sebeș),Romania (d.1845)
1851 Dick Barlow, English cricketer (immortal England all-rounder of 1880s), born in Bolton (d. 1919)
1865 Gerrit Grijns, Dutch researcher and co-discoverer of vitamin B1 (thiamine), born in Leerdam, Netherlands (d. 1944)
1879 Milutin Milanković, Serbian astronomer and geophysicist (linked long-term changes in climate to astronomical factors affecting the amount of solar energy received at Earth’s surface), born in Dalj, Austria-Hungary (d. 1958)
1883 George Dyson, British organist and composer ( The Canterbury Pilgrims), born in Halifax (d. 1964)
1883 Clough Williams-Ellis, British architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales, born in Gayton, Northamptonshire, England (d. 1978)
1908 Ian Fleming, English author (James Bond novels), born in London, England (d. 1964)
1910 Arthur Trappier, American jazz drummer (Blanche Calloway: Fats Waller), born in Georgetown, South Carolina (d. 1975)
1911 Jean-Pierre Levy, French resistance leader during WWII, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1996)
1911 Dame Thora Hird, British actress, comedian, presenter and writer (Last of the Summer Wine, The Love Match), born in Morecambe, Lancashire (d. 2003)
1916 Gerald McArthur, British Scotland Yard detective who caught the Great Train Robbers (d. 1996)
1919 Frank Middlemass, British actor (Heart Beat, As Time Goes By, Oliver Twist), born in Eaglescliffe, County Durham, England (d. 2006)
1925 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone (Doktor Faust), born in Zehlendorf, Germany (d. 2012)
1930 Julian Slade, English popular composer (Salad Days), born in London (d. 2006)
1931 Carroll Baker, American actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
1933 John Karlen, American actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey), born in Brooklyn, New York
1940 Betty Shabazz, American educator and civil rights activist who was the widow of Malcolm X, born in Pinehurst, Georgia (d. 1997)
1943 Tony Mansfield [Anthony Bookbinder], British rock drummer (Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - "Little Children"), born in Salford, Lancashire, England
1944 Gladys Knight, American singer known as the Empress of Soul (The Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia"), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1944 Rudy Giuliani, American Mayor of New York City (Republican: 1994-2001) at the time of the September 11 attacks, born in NYC, New York
1944 Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens, Northern-Irish actress, voice artist and singer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
1944 Faith Brown, British actress and impressionist
1949 Sue Holderness, English actress (Marlene-Only Fools & Horses, Sandbaggers), born in London
1968 Kylie Minogue, Australian pop singer-songwriter ("Can't Get You Out of My Head"), and actress, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

On this day in history

585 BC Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians at war with the Medes leads to a truce. One of the cardinal dates from which other dates calculated.
640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
1037 Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"
1156 Battle at Brindisi: Norman-Sicillian King William beats Byzantine fleet under John Doukas and Alexios Bryennios
1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau, Silesia
1358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution
1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1588 Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
1644 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby (English Civil War)
1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1741 Spain and Bavaria sign treaty
1754 Battle of Jumonville Glen: forces led by George Washington kill French Canadian officer Joseph Coulon de Jumonville
1830 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee The Trail of Tears, painting by Robert Lindneux, 1942
1845 Fire in Quebec, Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
1849 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands and Albrecht of Prussia separate
1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in US Civil War
1866 Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms
1871 Paris communards revolt put down
1889 Édouard and André Michelin incorporate the Michelin tyre company
1892 Sierra Club formed by Environmental Philosopher John Muir and others in San Francisco, for conservation of nature
1900 Total solar eclipse occurs
1900 In China, rioters provoked by Boxers burn the Fengtai Railway Station, where many Belgians work
1900 Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, flees its capital, Pretoria, goes to Watervalboven to evade the advancing British
1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia v South Africa
1918 Azerbaijan gains independence and declares itself a Democratic Republic
1918 The Armenian National Council declares Armenia independent from the Russian Empire
1923 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days
1928 Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corporation merge
1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand
1934 Jack Hobbs scores his 197th (or 199th) & last 1st class cricket century at 51 years &163 days of age
1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy
1934 The Glyndebourne festival in Sussex, England, inaugurated
1936 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.
1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic
1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
1941 Allied troops begin evacuation of Crete
1942 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
1946 US Patent filed for a hydrogen bomb
1946 Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
1948 Israeli Air Force is officially founded shortly after the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
1949 French Championships Men's Tennis: Frank Parker retains title; beats fellow American Budge Patty 6-3, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4
1949 French Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont wins her second French singles crown; beats Nelly Adamson Landry of France 7-5, 6-2
1951 Radio programme "Crazy People" (later titled The Goon Show) premieres on the BBC, created by Spike Milligan
1952 The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 French government of Prime Minister Pierre Pflimlin resigns; 200,000 demonstrate against Charles de Gaulle
1958 European Cup Final, Brussels: Francisco Gento scores the winner in extra time as Real Madrid beats AC Milan, 3-2; 3rd consecutive title for Los Blancos
1959 Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters" premieres in London
1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, become 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1960 59th Men's French Tennis Championships: Nicola Pietrangeli beats Luis Ayala (3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3)
1960 59th Women's French Tennis Championships: Darlene Hard beats Yola Ramirez (6-3, 6-4)
1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on the Orient Express (after 78 years)
1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
1963 Estimated 22,000 die in a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal (India)
1964 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet
1964 1st Prime Minister of India cremated in New Delhi
1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
1967 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Violin concert
1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 European Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid: AC Milan striker Pierino Prati scores 3 in 4-1 win over Ajax; second title for I Rossoneri
1970 Arms Trial Begins: several men are charged in a Dublin court with conspiracy to illegally import arms for use by the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
1971 Paul McCartney releases "Ram", his 2nd solo album
1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1972 White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.
1972 Four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast
1974 26th Emmy Awards: M*A*S*H, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win, 1st Daytime Award presentation and "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" wins 5 awards, including Cicely Tyson for Dramatic Performance
1974 Italian fascists bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
1975 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 18 launches
1975 19th European Cup: Bayern Munich beats Leeds United 2-0 at Paris
1975 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is established by the Treaty of Lagos
1976 29th Cannes Film Festival: "Taxi Driver" directed by Martin Scorsese wins the Palme d'Or
1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky kills 168
1978 Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.
1979 European Market accepts Greece as member
1980 24th European Cup: Nottingham Forest beats Hamburg 1-0 at Madrid
1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain
1984 George Soros founds the Soros Foundation Budapest to help countries free themselves from communism
1985 Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for mating of STS 51-G
1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
1987 Mathias Rust, 18 year old West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing near Red Square, Moscow in USSR
1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
1990 Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
1990 Eugenia Charles' Dominican Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)
1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
1991 "Forever My Lady" debut studio album by Jodeci is released (Billboard Album of the Year, 1992)
1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
1993 Polish government of Suchocka falls
1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
1995 48th Cannes Film Festival: "Underground" directed by Emir Kusturica wins the Palme d'Or
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1996 Pavlo Lazarenko becomes Prime Minister of Ukraine
1997 Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis (fungal lung infection)
1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
1997 Tornado in Jarrell, Texas kills at least 28
1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt Everest for 3rd time
1997 5th UEFA Champions League Final: Borussia Dortmund beats Juventus 3-1 at Munich
1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display
1999 Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase
2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct
2003 11th UEFA Champions League Final: Milan beats Juventus (0-0, 3-2 on penalties) at Manchester
2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become Prime Minister of Iraq's interim government
2005 Super Rugby Final, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders claim their 5th title with a 35-25 win over the NSW Waratahs; Dan Carter lands 3 conversions & 2 penalties for the winners
2006 59th Cannes Film Festival: "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" directed by Ken Loach wins the Palme d'Or
2006 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oak Tree GC: Jay Haas wins his first of 3 Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the third playoff hole against Brad Bryant
2008 The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2010 "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" single released by Alicia Keys (Billboard Song of the Year, 2010)
2011 UEFA Champions League Final, London: FC Barcelona beats Manchester United, 3-1; 4th title for Barça
2011 IPL Cricket Final, M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai: Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs; Murali Vijay 95 (52), Ravichandran Ashwin 3/16
2014 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt
2016 Harambe, a gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo, is shot after dragging a 3 year old boy who had slipped into its enclosure (Cincinnati, Ohio)
2016 UEFA Champions League Final, Milan: Real Madrid beats cross-town rivals Atlético Madrid, 5–3 on penalties after a 1–1 draw at the end of extra time; record-extending 11th title
2017 70th Cannes Film Festival: Swedish film "The Square" directed Ruben Ostlund wins the Palme d'Or
2017 Floods and landslides in Sri Lanka kill at least 151
2017 Tom Dumoulin wins the 100th Giro d’Italia in Milan, 1st Dutchman to win
2017 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, Trump National GC: A week after winning The Tradition, Bernhard Langer of Germany triumphs by 1 stroke from Vijay Singh
2018 Coco-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink - Lemon-Do on island of Kyushu, Japan
2018 One million French smokers quit in one year after anti-smoking measures introduced according to Public Health France
2019 Johnson & Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create "opioid epidemic", first of 2,000 cases against US pharmaceutical firms
2020 Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declares State of Emergency in Minneapolis and activates the Minnesota National Guard after protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody
2020 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani calls for new protections for women after the 'honor killing' of a 14-year old by her father
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