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[Road2Victory]

1945- World War II Ends

[Road2Victory]

2001- 9/11 14 year anniversary /me salutes 

2012- Benghazi attacks 

[Ryahn]

American Revolution

1781 Battle of Yorktown begins

 

Automotive

1938 Auto inventor Charles Duryea dies

 

Civil War

1863 Union generals blamed for Chickamauga defeat

 

Cold War

1959 Khrushchev and Eisenhower offer views on summit meeting

 

Crime

1988 A cult leader kills one of his followers

 

Disaster

1918 Flu epidemic hits Philadelphia

 

General Interest

48 B.C. Pompey the Great assassinated

1066 William the Conqueror invades England

1542 Cabrillo encounters California

1989 Marcos dies in exile

1994 Estonia sinks

 

Hollywood

1901 TV host Ed Sullivan born

 

Literary

1634 John Milton’s drama, Comus, performed

 

Music

1991 Miles Davis dies

 

Old West

1542 Cabrillo discovers San Diego Bay

 

Presidential

1967 President Johnson honors American soldier

 

Sports

1941 Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400

1960 Ted Williams hits home run in last major league at-bat

 

Vietnam War

1968 Battle for Thuong Duc begins

1972 Weekly casualty figures contain no U.S. fatalities

 

World War I

1918 British soldier allegedly spares the life of an injured Adolf Hitler

 

World War II

1942 General Arnold fights for unique bombers

[Road2Victory]

2015- Ryahn Enters IRON

[Ryahn]

2015- Ryahn Enters IRON

I see what you did there. 

[Road2Victory]

 

2015- Ryahn Enters IRON

I see what you did there. 

 

LOL 

[Ryahn]

1890 Yosemite National Park established

 

American Revolution

1776 Patriots learn of increased French support

 

Automotive

1908 Ford Motor Company unveils the Model T

 

Civil War

1864 Rose Greenhow dies

 

Cold War

1949 Mao Zedong proclaims People’s Republic of China

1988 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes head of Supreme Soviet

 

Crime

1993 A 12-year-old girl is kidnapped

 

Disaster

1987 Earthquake rocks Southern California

 

General Interest

1918 Lawrence of Arabia captures Damascus

1936 Franco heads Spain

1946 Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg

1965 Suharto crushes Indonesian coup

2005 Terrorists strike again in Bali

 

Hollywood

1962 Johnny Carson makes debut as Tonight Show host

 

Literary

1856 First installment of Madame Bovary is published

2013 Tom Clancy, author of mega-selling techno thrillers, dies

 

Music

1920 Scientific American reports that radio will soon be used to transmit music to the home

 

Old West

1890 Congress creates Yosemite National Park

 

Presidential

1924 Jimmy Carter is born

 

Sports

1961 Roger Maris breaks home-run record

 

Vietnam War

1961 South Vietnam requests a bilateral defense treaty

 

World War I

1918 Crisis in Germany

 

World War II

1944 Experiments begin on homosexuals at Buchenwald

[Road2Victory]

2015: Ryahn is too crazy

[Ryahn]

2015: Ryahn is too crazy

2015: R2V will never reach 20,000 posts without the help of Ryahn

 

 

PS: You should get on IRC more often so we can chat

[Road2Victory]

 

2015: Ryahn is too crazy

2015: R2V will never reach 20,000 posts without the help of Ryahn

 

 

PS: You should get on IRC more often so we can chat

 

LOL its only been a year and im nearing 12k

[George Jarvis]

November 1

1952 - 'Murica tests the first Hydrogen bomb

1993 - The EU is officially established

[Road2Victory]

Daylight Saving times ends

[dagonslayer51]

December 8: 

• 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
• 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
• 1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
• 1596 – Luis de Carabajal the younger, one of the first Jewish authors in the Americas, died in an auto-da-fé during the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City.
• 1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
• 1813 – Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
• 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
• 1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
• 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
• 1914 – World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 1922 – Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State.
• 1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropistRobert S. Brookings.
• 1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
• 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
• 1949 – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
• 1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
• 1962 – Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
• 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
• 1966 – The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
• 1969 – An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90—the worst crash of a DC-6.
• 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
• 1972 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. The crash is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
• 1974 – A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
• 1980 – John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
• 1982 – In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed.
• 1987 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
• 1987 – Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
• 1987 – The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
• 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
• 1988 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
• 1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
• 1991 – The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
• 1998 – Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
• 2004 – The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
• 2007 – Three unidentified gunmen storm an office of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan. Three PPP supporters are killed.
• 2009 – Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 and injure 448.
• 2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
• 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
• 2013 – Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.

[Road2Victory]

You know you could basically copy and paste some stuff a year ago and then still be correct, wow isn't that the power of history

[dagonslayer51]

Why do all that when you can just type the date and copy it from wikipedia?

[Road2Victory]

Nah you can look back it shouldn't be that hard  

[dagonslayer51]

But it takes time. And it is boring

[Road2Victory]

LOL

[dagonslayer51]

Sloth is my second name

[Road2Victory]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/benjamin-franklin-giant-ship-1.3382129