September 11, 201511 yr comment_798084 2001- 9/11 14 year anniversary /me salutes 2012- Benghazi attacks Report
September 28, 201511 yr comment_800637 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 Report
October 2, 201511 yr comment_801296 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 Report
October 2, 201511 yr comment_801315 2015: Ryahn is too crazy2015: R2V will never reach 20,000 posts without the help of Ryahn PS: You should get on IRC more often so we can chat Report
October 2, 201511 yr comment_801340 2015: Ryahn is too crazy2015: 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 Report
November 1, 201510 yr comment_809969 November 11952 - 'Murica tests the first Hydrogen bomb1993 - The EU is officially established Report
December 8, 201510 yr comment_815841 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. Report
December 9, 201510 yr comment_816026 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 Report
December 10, 201510 yr comment_816184 Why do all that when you can just type the date and copy it from wikipedia? Report
December 28, 201510 yr comment_819595 http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/benjamin-franklin-giant-ship-1.3382129 Report
February 5, 201610 yr comment_826507 5th February: 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. Report
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