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March 23
1944 Germans slaughter Italian civilians
On this day, German occupiers shoot more than 300 Italian civilians as a reprisal for an Italian partisan attack on an SS unit.
Since the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943, German troops had occupied wider swaths of the peninsula to prevent the Allies from using Italy as a base of operations against German strongholds elsewhere, such as the Balkans. An Allied occupation of Italy would also put into their hands Italian airbases, further threatening German air power.
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MASS SUICIDE IN JONESTOWN: November 18, 1978 People's Temple leader Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in remote northwestern Guyana. The few cult members who refused to take the cyanide-laced fruit-flavored concoction were either forced to do so at gunpoint or shot as they fled. The final death toll was 913, including 276 children thats not good .... Yeah, that guy was crazy.
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Post by Mike Lohmer on Jun 27, 2005 12:24:09 GMT -8
AMELIA EARHART DISAPPEARS: July 2, 1937
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pocahontas got married jamestown was founded pochohauntasas had first child pchohAS(whats the point in terying to spell her name anyhow?)left for england wth jon
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Post by b33fburrito on Jun 27, 2005 12:27:52 GMT -8
MASS SUICIDE IN JONESTOWN: November 18, 1978 People's Temple leader Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in remote northwestern Guyana. The few cult members who refused to take the cyanide-laced fruit-flavored concoction were either forced to do so at gunpoint or shot as they fled. The final death toll was 913, including 276 children thats not good .... Yeah, that guy was crazy. Glad I wasnt alive to experience it......
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General Interest
DE VALERA RESIGNS: February 18, 1948
After 16 years as head of independent Ireland, Eamon de Valera steps down as the taoiseach, or Irish prime minister, after his Fianna Fýil Party fails to win a majority in the Dýil ýireann (the Irish assembly). As a result of the general election, the Fianna Fýil won 68 of the 147 seats in the Dýil, and de Valera resigned rather than lead a coalition government. In his place, John A. Costello, leader of the Fine Gael Party, joins with several smaller groups to achieve a majority and becomes Irish prime minister.
Eamon de Valera, the most dominant Irish political figure of the 20th century, was born in New York City in 1882, the son of a Spanish father and Irish mother. When his father died two years later, he was sent to live with his mother's family in County Limerick, Ireland. He attended the Royal University in Dublin and became an important figure in the Irish-language revival movement.
In 1913, he joined the Irish Volunteers, a militant group that advocated Ireland's independence from Britain, and in 1916 participated in the Easter Rising against the British in Dublin. He was the last Irish rebel leader to surrender and was saved from execution because of his American birth. Imprisoned, he was released in 1917 under a general amnesty and became president of the nationalist Sinn Fýin Party. In May 1918, he was deported to England and imprisoned again, and in December Sinn Fýin won an Irish national election, making him the unofficial leader of Ireland.
In February 1919, he escaped from jail and fled to the United States, where he raised funds for the Irish Republican movement. When he returned to Ireland in 1920, Sinn Fýin and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) were engaged in a widespread and effective guerrilla campaign against British forces.
In 1921, a truce was declared, and in 1922 Arthur Griffith and other former Sinn Fýin leaders broke with de Valera and signed a treaty with Britain, which called for the partition of Ireland, with the south becoming autonomous and the six northern counties of the island remaining part of the United Kingdom. In the period of civil war that followed, de Valera supported the Republicans against the Irish Free State (the new government of the autonomous south), and was imprisoned by William Cosgrave's Irish Free State ministry.
In 1924, he was released and two years later left Sinn Fýin, which had become the unofficial political wing of the underground movement for northern independence. He formed Fianna Fýil, and in 1932 the party gained control of the Dýil ýireann and de Valera became Irish prime minister.
For the next 16 years, de Valera pursued a policy of political separation from Great Britain, including the introduction of a new constitution in 1937 that declared Ireland the fully sovereign state of ýire. During World War II, he maintained a policy of neutrality but repressed anti-British intrigues within the IRA.
In 1948, he narrowly lost re-election due to a negative public reaction against his party's long monopoly of power. Out of office, he toured the world advocating the unification and independence of Ireland. His successor as taoiseach, John Costello, officially made Ireland an independent republic in 1949 but nonetheless lost the prime minister's office to de Valera in the 1951 election. The relative Irish economic prosperity of the 1940s declined in the 1950s, and Costello began a second ministry in 1954, only to be replaced again by de Valera in 1957.
In 1959, de Valera resigned as prime minister and was elected Irish president--a largely ceremonial post. On June 24, 1973, de Valera, then the world's oldest head of state, retired from Irish politics at the age of 90. He passed away two years later.
ENTERTAINMENT
February 18
1929 First Academy Awards announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founded in 1927, announces the winners of the first Academy Awards. The names were published on the back page of the academy's newsletter, and Variety also published the names, on page 7, a few days later. Awards were handed out at a banquet in May, which was broadcast live on radio. Although the first awards were for films made in 1927-1928, they weren't announced until February 1929. Wings won the Best Picture award; Janice Gaynor won Best Actress and Emil Jannings won Best Actor. Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone both won Best Director awards.
The winners received gold statuettes, designed by art director Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by George Stanley. However, the awards weren't nicknamed "Oscars" until 1931, when a secretary at the academy noted the statue's resemblance to her Uncle Oscar, and a journalist printed her remark.
The awards were broadcast on radio until 1953, when the first televised Academy Awards program aired. Since then, the Oscars have become one of the world's most watched television events, drawing as many as one billion viewers worldwide. Hosts of the award show have included Will Rogers, Jack Benny, Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bob Hope, who hosted the ceremony some 20 times.
1952 Your Show of Shows wins Emmy
Your Show of Shows, a comic variety show featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, wins the Best Show Emmy in 1952. The program featured 90 minutes of live comedy every week, and was one of the Top 20 most highly rated shows for three of its four years.
1995 Get Smart's last episode
A one-season revival of Get Smart, the 1960s comedy about bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart, is cancelled after only seven episodes. The original series, developed by Mel Brooks and starring Don Adams, aired from 1965 to 1970.
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Post by Silivrentolwen on Jun 27, 2005 12:56:43 GMT -8
On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo a Navy intelligence vessel, is engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast when it is intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. According to U.S. reports, the Pueblo was in international waters almost 16 miles from shore, but the North Koreans turned their guns on the lightly armed vessel and demanded its surrender. The Americans attempted to escape, and the North Koreans opened fire, wounding the commander, Lloyd Bucher, and two others. With capture inevitable, the Americans stalled for time, destroying the classified information aboard while taking further fire. Several more crew members were wounded, including Duane Hodges, who later died from his injuries.
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Post by Shady on Jun 27, 2005 12:56:49 GMT -8
Tony Blair became PM on my birthday (in 97?) I also share a birthday with David Beckham.
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Here's two that I found that were interesting:
August 9th
1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.
1995 Jerry Garcia dies
Jerry Garcia, lead singer of the Grateful Dead, dies just days after his 53rd birthday. Garcia helped form the psychedelic rock group in 1965 and toured with it for more than 30 years, developing a tremendously loyal fan following. When one 19-year-old fan using LSD died in 1989, the band began broadcasting announcements asking fans to act responsibly. Garcia, who struggled with heroin addiction, was arrested for drug possession in 1985. He died of a heart attack while at a drug rehab center in California.
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Post by alix on Jun 27, 2005 13:29:21 GMT -8
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1692 Teenage girls are declared to be under the spell of a witch
Abigail Williams and Betty Parris are declared by a doctor to be "under an evil hand," precipitating a series of sensational accusations in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Williams and Parris were the teenage niece and daughter of local pastor Samuel Parris, who was immediately suspicious of the influence of his slaves, Tituba and John Indian.
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Post by 3D on Jun 27, 2005 13:39:16 GMT -8
Mines the longest so far
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Post by Silivrentolwen on Jun 27, 2005 13:47:05 GMT -8
Mines the longest so far Well,you where only supposed to post the first paragraph lol
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Post by Saraisonfya! on Jun 27, 2005 13:49:58 GMT -8
FDR INAUGURATED: March 4, 1933 On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his "New Deal"--an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare--and told Americans that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Although it was a rainy day in Washington, and gusts of rain blew over Roosevelt as he spoke, he delivered a speech that radiated optimism and competence, and a broad majority of Americans united behind their new president and his radical economic proposals to lead the nation out of the Great Depression. Now isn't that something. -Toxic-
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PEARL HARBOR BOMBED: December 7, 1941
At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II.
With diplomatic negotiations with Japan breaking down, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers knew that an imminent Japanese attack was probable, but nothing had been done to increase security at the important naval base at Pearl Harbor. It was Sunday morning, and many military personnel had been given passes to attend religious services off base. At 7:02 a.m., two radio operators spotted large groups of aircraft in flight toward the island from the north, but, with a flight of B-17s expected from the United States at the time, they were told to sound no alarm. Thus, the Japanese air assault came as a devastating surprise to the naval base.
Much of the Pacific fleet was rendered useless: Five of eight battleships, three destroyers, and seven other ships were sunk or severely damaged, and more than 200 aircraft were destroyed. A total of 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,200 were wounded, many while valiantly attempting to repulse the attack. Japan's losses were some 30 planes, five midget submarines, and fewer than 100 men. Fortunately for the United States, all three Pacific fleet carriers were out at sea on training maneuvers. These giant aircraft carriers would have their revenge against Japan six months later at the Battle of Midway, reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy in a spectacular victory.
The day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, President Roosevelt appeared before a joint session of Congress and declared, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." After a brief and forceful speech, he asked Congress to approve a resolution recognizing the state of war between the United States and Japan. The Senate voted for war against Japan by 82 to 0, and the House of Representatives approved the resolution by a vote of 388 to 1. The sole dissenter was Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a devout pacifist who had also cast a dissenting vote against the U.S. entrance into World War I. Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war against the United States, and the U.S. government responded in kind.
The American contribution to the successful Allied war effort spanned four long years and cost more than 400,000 American lives.
December 7
1787 The First State
In Dover, Delaware, the U.S. Constitution is unanimously ratified by all 30 delegates to the Delaware Constitutional Convention, making Delaware the first state of the modern United States.
Less than four months before, the Constitution was signed by 37 of the original 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia. The Constitution was sent to the states for ratification, and, by the terms of the document, the Constitution would become binding once nine of the former 13 colonies had ratified the document. Delaware led the process, and on June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution, making federal democracy the law of the land. Government under the U.S. Constitution took effect on March 4, 1789.
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October 17
1941 Konoye government falls
On this day in 1941, the government of Prince Fumimaro Konoye, prime minister of Japan, collapses, leaving little hope for peace in the Pacific.
Konoye, a lawyer by training and well studied in Western philosophy, literature, and economics, entered the Japanese Parliament's upper house by virtue of his princely status and immediately pursued a program of reform. High on his agenda was a reform of the army general staff in order to prevent its direct interference in foreign policy decisions. He also sought an increase in parliamentary power. An antifascist, Konoye championed an end to the militarism of Japanese political structures, especially in light of the war in Manchuria, which began in 1931.
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