This Day In History...

[Capulet]

I'm creating a permanent thread that will list some events that have occurred on this day in history.

Hopefully, everyday I will add a new post to this thread.

DISCUSS.

This Day In History...
Feburary 11th, 2005 A.D.​

* 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
* 731 - Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
* 824 - Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
* 1531 - Henry VIII of England recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
* 1543 - Battle of Wayna Daga - Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
* 1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
* 1790 - Society of Friends petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
* 1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.
* 1808 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
* 1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
* 1810 - Napoléon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
* 1812 - Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
* 1814 - Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union
* 1826 - University College London is founded under the name University of London.
* 1837 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
* 1843 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
* 1858 - The Blessed Virgin Mary reputedly appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
* 1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
* 1873 - King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
* 1889 - Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890
* 1902 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
* 1903 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
* 1905 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
* 1908 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
* 1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
* 1919 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.
* 1928 - 1928 Winter Olympic Games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
* 1929 - Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
* 1937 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
* 1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
* 1941 - First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
* 1943 - General Dwight Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
* 1945 - Yalta Conference ends.
* 1948 - John Costello succeeds Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland.
* 1953 - President Dwight Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
* 1953 - The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
* 1961 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
* 1963 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their first album, including "Please, Please Me".
* 1964 - At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
* 1964 - Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
* 1964 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
* 1968 - Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.
* 1968 - Madison Square Garden III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York City
* 1971 - US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
* 1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
* 1978 - Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
* 1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
* 1981 - 100,000 gallons (380 m³) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaiminating 8 workers
* 1986 - Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky, released by the USSR, leaves the country.
* 1987 - Philippines constitution goes into effect.
* 1990 - James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown.
* 1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
* 1991 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
* 1999 - Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the sun. It had been the eighth furthest since 1979.

 

[LLXerxes]

edit: delete post.

 

[Warman17]

yeah...but it's February 10th here.

 

[LLXerxes]

yeah...but it's February 10th here.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD.

cough
time zones
cough

please delete the last 3 posts.

sniffle

 

[Verbose]

I'm creating a permanent thread that will list some events that have occurred on this day in history.

Hopefully, everyday I will add a new post to this thread

If your daily posts will be as meaty as this test run, there should be plenty of stuff for people to ask about/discuss.

What's "gerrymandering"?

 

[shunzhi]

if using firefox...enter dict gerrymandering into address bar

 

[bombshoo]

Oops I voted wrong! Meant to say I liked it. I am sorry I replied, but I didn't want to be a downer, and I felt guilty. A mod can delete this post.

 

[Capulet]

Yeah, maybe we should have discussion.

Haha, I don't care.

Go right ahead, post. Next update coming in minutes.

 

[Reno]

This is a good idea for a thread, Thumbs up!

 

[BananaLee]

Go right ahead, post. Next update coming in minutes.

Well, unless you meant 1,110 minutes...

Very good idea, methinks.

 

[Capulet]

Sorry, I forgot last night.

This Day In History...
Feburary 12th, 2005 A.D.​

1354 - Treaty of Stralsund settled border disputes between the duchies of Mecklenburg and Pomerania.
1541 - Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 - A year after after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1689 - The Convention Parliament convened and declared that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Catholic British monarch, had constituted an abdication.
1719 - The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest still existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded
1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah.
1737 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.
1771 - Gustav III became the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "ate himself to death".
1817 - Chilean patriotic army, after cross the Andes, defeat Spanish troops on the battle of Chacabuco
1818 - Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Independence of Chile near Concepcion, Chile
1825 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
1832 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
1892 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1912 - Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, abdicated.
1912 - China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1915 - In Washington, DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
1934 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
1938 - Anschluss: German troops enter Austria.
1946 - Operation Deadlight ended after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1951 - Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at Golestan Palace in Teheran at age of 17.
1973 - Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in SI units on signs.
1973 - Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.
1994 - 1994 Winter Olympics open in Lillehammer, Norway.
1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.
1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 - The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.
2002 - An Iran Air Tours (subsidiary of Iran Air) Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119
2004 - Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, California, on National Freedom to Marry Day, ordered his county clerk to revise marriage licenses to allow gay and lesbian couples to legally wed.
2004 - Mattel Inc. spokespeople announced the split of Barbara Millicent Roberts and Ken Carson after 43 years of dating.

 

[Capulet]

1771 - Gustav III became the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "ate himself to death". - Uhhh, does anyone know what the hell happened there?

Gerrymandering is when a political party redistricts a state's congressional districts for political gain.

It was coined by President Madison's second Vice President, whos name was Gerry, I think.

Gerrymandering is what the Republicans and Tom DeLay did in Texas...

 

[pawpaw]

1771 - Gustav III became the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "ate himself to death". - Uhhh, does anyone know what the hell happened there?

Gerrymandering is when a political party redistricts a state's congressional districts for political gain.

It was coined by President Madison's second Vice President, whos name was Gerry, I think.

Gerrymandering is what the Republicans and Tom DeLay did in Texas...

in sweden before lent and 40 days of fasting before easter the pig out on hotwedges/semloa ( buns filled with whipped cream and almond paste ) well he ate a bunch plus lots other food plus wine!! ( several swedish poster here who know better than me details )

the texas gerrymandering just undid what the democratic redistricting did several years before--don't pretend boths sides don't do it.

 

[Capulet]

I didn't say the Democrats haven't done it, but the Republicans doing it is what makes me mad, haha.

 

[greekguy]

The republicans are...

well just look at my sig.

 

[deo]

Great Idea!

Why dont you edit the first post every day + post it on another post

 

[Verbose]

in sweden before lent and 40 days of fasting before easter the pig out on hotwedges/semloa ( buns filled with whipped cream and almond paste ) well he ate a bunch plus lots other food plus wine!! ( several swedish poster here who know better than me details )

the texas gerrymandering just undid what the democratic redistricting did several years before--don't pretend boths sides don't do it.

Nah, you're pretty much spot on.
(Though the 18th c. word is "hetvägg" and today this kind of pastry is known as a "semla".)
Old king Adolf Frederik was a pretty sorry figure himself. He happened to rule during Sweden's stint with parliamentarism in the 18th c. where the king only controlled six votes in the house of lords. Him and the queen tried to put together a coup d'état that was foiled by parliament. At this point the king was stripped of even the formal power of signing the laws passed by parliament. He was replaced with a carved stamp of his signature.
He spent the remainder of his days carving snuffboxes, pupping his teenage mistress the famous beauty Caroline Taube, and overeating.
His son Gustaf III managed a successful coup d'état in 1772 and reinstated royal absolutism (abolished 1721).

And thanx for the "gerry..." thingie.

 

[viper275]

This thread is great. Here are a couple links you may want: this, this, and this.
Edit: The last link seems to have only today, so tomorrow you'll still have today's history. Just click the "This day in history" section again and it'll give you the right one .

 

[Capulet]

Two updates today, no time yesterday to do the 13th.

This Day In History...
Feburary 13th, 2005 A.D.​

* 1130 - Innocent II is voted Pope.
* 1542 - Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
* 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
* 1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
* 1689 - William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
* 1692 - Massacre of Glencoe : About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
* 1866 - Jesse James robs his first bank.
* 1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
* 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
* 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
* 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
* 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.
* 1934 - The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
* 1935 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
* 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis.
* 1945 - World War II: The Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany (see Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
* 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls.
* 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
* 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.
* 1974 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
* 1978 - Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
* 1979 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge
* 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1988 - 1988 Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
* 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
* 1991 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad killing hundreds of Iraqis civilians.
* 1996 - The Nepalese People's War began.
* 1997 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
* 2000 - The last original Peanuts comic strip appears in newspapers a day after Charles M. Schulz died.
* 2001 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
* 2002 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani an honorary knighthood.
* 2004 - Travis Metcalfe from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.

 

[Capulet]

This Day In History...
Feburary 14th, 2005 A.D.​

* 1014 - Pope Boniface I recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.
* 1076 - Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1556 - Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
* 1743 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
* 1779 - James Cook is killed by the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
* 1803 - Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress which conflicts with the Constitution is void.
* 1804 - Karadjordje led the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
* 1849 - In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
* 1854 - Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas is completed.
* 1859 - Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
* 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone. So did Elisha Gray.
* 1879 - The War of the Pacific broke out when Chilean armed forces occupied the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
* 1895 - First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest (St James's Theatre in London).

* 1899 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
* 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
* 1900 - Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
* 1903 - The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Dept. of Commerce and Dept. of Labor).
* 1912 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
* 1912 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
* 1918 - The movie Tarzan of the Apes is released.
* 1918 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (1 February according to the Julian calendar).
* 1920 - The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
* 1924 - IBM corporation founded.
* 1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangsters rivalling Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
* 1936 - AG Weser launches the first of 162 U-boats (last one launched on March 1, 1945).
* 1943 - World War II:Rostov, Russia is liberated.
* 1943 - World War II: The Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia.
* 1944 - World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
* 1945 - Bombing of Dresden in World War II: The British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force began to fire-bomb Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
* 1945 - Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.
* 1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the US-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
* 1946 - The Bank of England is nationalized.
* 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
* 1949 - The Knesset (Israeli parliament) first convenes.
* 1952 - 1952 Winter Olympic Games open in Oslo, Norway.
* 1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized (Berkeley, California).
* 1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
* 1966 - Australian currency is decimalized.
* 1979- In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
* 1980 - 1980 Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York.
* 1980 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from CBS Evening News.
* 1985 - CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
* 1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
* 1989 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
* 1989 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit.
* 1998 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
* 2004 - In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.