Happy birthday to Anthony James "Tony" Grant Notable birthday: 1650 William III, King of England (1689-1702). 1948 Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of England. History today: 1922 The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House 1930 Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi. 1935 Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated. 1940 German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war. 1951 The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact. 1951 French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam. 1960 New Orleans integrates two all-white schools.
Happy birthday to Gareth Ian "Gary" Ablett Notable birthday: 1933 Larry King, journalist and long-time talk show host. History today: 1897 The Great "City Fire" in London. 1923 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures. 1926 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union. 1942 Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad. 1949 Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco. 1952 Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe. 1969 Apollo 12 touches down on the moon.
Was just about to post words to the same extent. You start a thread like this you can't just waltz in and out as and when. This needs some more serious ****ing commitment dribs. Louise Redknapp is turning into Carol Vorederman btw. Def still would but only just as her face always has the expression like someone is forcing her (weird) nose towards some sort of faecal matter.
Happy birthday to Jay Spearing Notable birthday: 1844 Carl Benz, pioneer of early motor cars. History today: 1939 Germany reports four British ships sunk in the North Sea, but London denies the claim. 1960 John F. Kennedy Jr., elder son of US Pres. John F. Kennedy (assassinated three days before JFK Jr.'s third birthday); co-founded George magazine in 1995; died in plane crash, July 16, 1999. 1963 The body of assassinated President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
If today is your birthday ,happy birthday to you and many happy returns, History today: 1925 The League of Nations orders Greece to pay an indemnity for the October invasion of Bulgaria. 1926 British reports claim that German soldiers are being trained in the Soviet Union .
Happy birthday to Ross Barkley Notable birthday: Lauren London. 1963 Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, first to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping History today: 1484 Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany. 1955 A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama 1978 The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan. 1983 The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan. 1983 Military Junta dissolves in Argentina. 2006 Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji. 2007 A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Neb., before taking his own life
Happy birthday to Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton Historical Events 1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede 1714 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1953 - US President Harry Truman announces American development of the hydrogen bomb 1954 - Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. 1999 - Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate
Happy birthday to:Anthony Richard "Tony" Pulis . History today: 1956 The Egyptian government makes Islam the state religion. 1965 Eighteen are arrested in Mississippi for the murder of three civil rights workers. 1975 The Irish Republican Army calls an end to a 25-day cease fire in Belfast. 1979 The Shah leaves Iran. 1991 The Persian Gulf War begins. The massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq — Operation Desert Storm — ended on February 28, 1991, when President George Bush declared a cease-fire, and Iraq pledged to honor future coalition and U.N. peace terms. -
Notable birthday. Bob Shankly History today: 1570 Pope Pius V issues the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicates Queen Elizabeth of England. 1601 Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, is beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason. - 1944 U.S. forces destroy 135 Japanese planes in Marianas and Guam. 1952 French colonial forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina. 1956 Stalin is secretly disavowed by Khrushchev at a party congress for promoting the "cult of the individual."
It's the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland this year. Great things, magic mushrooms
Notable birthday. Gerrez Daniel Craig History today: 1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston. 1781 Maryland ratifies the Articles of Confederation. She is the last state to sign. 1797 The Directory of Great Britain authorizes vessels of war to board and seize neutral vessels, particularly if the ships are American. 1815 To put an end to robberies by the Barbary pirates, the United States declares war on Algiers. 1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico on Sam Houston's 43rd birthday. 1853 The Territory of Washington is organized. 1 865 President Abraham Lincoln rejects Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plea for peace talks, demanding unconditional surrender. 1867 The first Reconstruction Act is passed by Congress. 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes is declared president by one vote the day before the inauguration. 1889 Congress passes the Indian Appropriations Bill, proclaiming unassigned lands in the public domain; the first step toward the famous Oklahoma Land Rush. 1896 Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, is sentenced to two years of hard labor in the state pen for cattle rustling. He would only serve a small portion of the sentence. 1901 Congress passes the Platt amendment, which limits Cuban autonomy as a condition for withdrawal of U.S. troops. 1908 An international conference on arms reduction opens in London. 1908 Gabriel Lippman introduces the new three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences. 1917 Congress passes the Jones Act making Puerto Rico a territory of the United States and makes the inhabitants U.S. citizens. 1923 In Italy, Mussolini admits that women have a right to vote, but declares that the time is not right. 1930 Novelist D.H. Lawrence dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at the age of 45. 1943 The center of Berlin is bombed by the RAF. Some 900 tons of bombs are dropped in a half hour. 1945 MacArthur raises the U.S. flag on Corregidor in the Philippines. 1946 Ho Chi Minh is elected president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. 1951 The U.S. Navy launches the K-1, the first modern submarine designed to hunt enemy submarines. 1955 Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' famous arrest for the same offense. 1956 France grants independence to Morocco. 1965 More than 150 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes bomb two bases in North Vietnam in the first of the "Rolling Thunder" raids. 1968 The siege of Khe Sanh ends in Vietnam, the U.S. Marines stationed there are still in control of the mountain top. 1973 Federal forces surround Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which is occupied by members of the militant American Indian Movement who are holding at least 10 hostages. 1974 A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concludes that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up. 1978 Czech pilot Vladimir Remek becomes the first non-Russian, non-American in space. 1981 The United States plans to send 20 more advisors and $25 million in military aid to El Salvador. - See more at: http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history#sthash.RAaHNgYy.dpuf
Notable birthday. Happy birthday to Simon Mignolet History today: 1888 Louisa May Alcott dies just hours after the burial of her father. 1899 Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman's discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid. 1901 A would-be assassin tries to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen. 1914 German Prince Wilhelm de Wied is crowned as King of Albania. 1916 The Allies recapture Fort Douamont in France during the Battle of Verdun. 1928 A Communist attack on Beijing results in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fleeing to Swatow. 1939 In Spain, Jose Miaja takes over Madrid government after a military coup and vows to seek "peace with honor." 1943 British RAF fliers bomb Essen and the Krupp arms works in the Ruhr, Germany. 1945 Cologne, Germany, falls to General Courtney Hodges' First Army. 1947 Winston Churchill opposes the withdrawal of troops from India. 1948 During talks in Berlin, the Western powers agree to internationalize the Ruhr region. 1953 Upon Josef Stalin's death, Georgi Malenkov is named Soviet premier. 1960 The Swiss grant women the right to vote in municipal elections. 1965 The United States announces that it will send 3,500 troops to Vietnam. 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his plan to establish a draft lottery. 1973 President Richard Nixon imposes price controls on oil and gas. 1975 Iran and Iraq announce that they have settled the border dispute. 1980 Islamic militants in Tehran say that they will turn over the American hostages to the Revolutionary Council. 1981 President Reagan announces plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs. 1987 The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. At least 26 are dead.
