THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[A Horse Named Stranger]

7 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

How could you mis October 7th, 2020, the day a fly landed on Mike Pence's head during the VP debate. 

Fine.

7. October

1776 Tsarevich Paul makes the fateful decission to marry Sophie Dorothee von Württemberg in St. Petersburg. Catherine the Great later got rid of her foolish husband.

1919 KLM gets founded. Making it the world's oldest airline.

1949 Berlin (East) The GDR passes its constitution and becomes an indepdent state for the next 40 years. It becomes its National holiday.

1950 The Chinese PLA enters Tibet

1974 Constitutional change in GDR. Re-Unification is no longer an objective

1977 You know the place by now. Protests against the state during its national hollidays lead to a wave of arrests and harsh sentences in the GDR

1979 Bremen. The Green party gets elected into a state parliament for the first time

1982 A crime against music is committed. Broadway premier for Cats

1985 Palestinian terrorists manage to capture the cruise liner Achille Lauro

1989 On what turns out to be its final birthday massive protest against the GDR errupt all across the country. In Plauen 20.000 people gather for its first Saturday Rallye

1991 Zagreb an aircraft of the Yugoslavian armed forces fires a rocket on Croatia's goverment building. No injuries or casualties.

1996 Fox News goes on Air for the first time

2001 The US begin Operation Enduring Occupation Freedom against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

2003 Once again an Austrian artist ventures into the politics of another country. Schwarzenegger beats Gray Davis in a recall election in California

2006 The body of Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaia is discovered in the elevator of her appartment block. She was shot dead.

 

[LongRider]

8 October

1860  Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.

1952  USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage in a civilian disaster, the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. The British press dub her "the angel of platform 6".

1967  Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.  Guevara, who was wounded in the attack, was captured and shot. 

1978  Australia’s Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.

1982  Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.

1991  Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, making the country fully independent.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

8. October

1804 Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines declares himself Emperor of Haiti in Hispaniola

1809 Franz I of Austria appoints von Metternich as his foreign minister

1814 Norwegians vote for their MPs.

1862 Bismarck gets appointed as foreign minister of Prussia (Biasmarck and von Metternich are arguably the two most consequential politicians in 19th century continental Europe)

Happy Birthday: Leart Paqarada *(1994). (also to Flinten Uschi, I suppose (*1958)

RIP: Willy Brandt (+1992)

Didn't realize a political giant like Brandt passed away on the birthday of the political midget von der Leyen.

Edited October 9, 2023 by A Horse Named Stranger

[LongRider]

9 October

1701  The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

1776  Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.

1824  Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.

1834  Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.

1979  Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky made his NHL debut, with the Edmonton Oilers.

1917  Thelonious Monk, among the first creators of modern jazz, was born.

1940  John Lennon, British musician and songwriter was born.

 1944  John Entwistle, British musician of The Who was born.

1948  Jackson Browne, American musician was born.

 

Edited October 9, 2023 by LongRider

[Bironic]

19 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

8. October

1809 Franz I of Austria appoints von Metternich as his foreign minister

1862 Bismarck gets appointed as foreign minister of Prussia (Biasmarck and von Metternich are arguably the two most consequential politicians in 19th century continental Europe)

While I do agree that those two were very influential, I wouldn't go so far two call them the two most consequential(unless you define continental europe as Prussia/German & Austrian Empire and it also hinges on what you define as the 19th century)... there were many others...

Edited October 9, 2023 by Bironic

[A Horse Named Stranger]

28 minutes ago, Bironic said:

While I do agree that those two were very influential, I wouldn't go so far two call them the two most consequential(unless you define continental europe as Prussia/German & Austrian Empire and it also hinges on what you define as the 19th century)... there were many others...

Well, Metternich was effectively the guy that put the nails in Napoleon's coffin.

[Bironic]

1 hour ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Well, Metternich was effectively the guy that put the nails in Napoleon's coffin.

Even if that were true (austria was kind of a latecomer in the downfall of Napoleon) it would still make him less influential than Napoleon himself... which when you follow the historic definition of the 19th century (ca. 1789-1914 and not 1801-1900) would make Napoleon the most consequential politician of that century (by quite a far margin probably)...

Anyway... back to topic: the musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe died today in 1973

Edited October 9, 2023 by Bironic

[A Horse Named Stranger]

Just now, Bironic said:

Even if that were true (austria was kind of a latecomer in the downfall of Napoleon) it would still make him less influential than Napoleon himself... which when you follow the historic definition of the 19th century (ca. 1789-1914 and not 1801-1900) would make Napoleon the most consequential politician of that century (by quite a far margin probably)...

Yeah, that was my screw up. Meant 19th century.

Was not really paying attention.

Anyway. Metternich first arranged the wedding of Napoleon to that Austrian princess, and then he was the one who engineered Austria switching sides to off Napoleon. Post-Napoleonic order in central europe was vastly his design.

[Bironic]

Yes but Napoleon remains the figure that shaped the century, not Metternich... his order was trying to put the genie back into the bottle, which worked partially at best and eventually dissolved completely(post 1848)...  Napoleon would have probably fallen anyway (probably a bit later but still...)even if Austria didn't switch sides because Napoleon couldn't hope to fight against UK, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Portugal etc. all at once... So yes Metternich was very important, especially in the first couple of years after Napoleon(even though you could make the case for the Zars being actually more influential), but Metternich was a man of the ancient regime and their time was gone even before Napoleon...

[LongRider]

5 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Yeah, that was my screw up.

If one screws up on this thread, there is always someone out there to note it and make a correction.        That is part of the fun of this thread.    

[LongRider]

10 October.... is the 283rd day of the year 2023. There are 82 days remaining until the end of this year.

1780  The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000-30,000 in the Caribbean.

1846  English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest satellite of the planet Neptune.

1911  The Kowloon-Canton Railway (split into MTR East Rail Line and Guangshen Railway now) commences service between Kowloon and Canton.

1911  The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.

1928  Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

1944  Holocaust: 800 Gypsy children are murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp.

1946 Charles Dance, English actor born this day.

 

[Corvinus85]

10 October

732 - Battle of Tours - perhaps one of the most consequential battles in medieval Western European history - the Franks led by Charles Martel decisively defeated the invading Umayyad army.

 

[LongRider]

11 October.....is the 284th day of the year 2023. There are 81 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1634  The Burchardi flood – “the second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.

1767  Surveying for the Mason–Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

1852  The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

1865  Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

1899  Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.

1975   Saturday Night Live debuted on NBC and became a landmark in American television.

1984  American astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first woman to walk in space.

2000  The International Women of the Year Association awarded the title Greatest Woman Achiever of the Century to Russian cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova, the first woman in space.

[LongRider]

12 October....is the 285th day of the year 2023. There are 80 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1216  King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.

1692  The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.

1823  Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.

1964  The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.

1979  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

1999  The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.

2005  The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

[LongRider]

13 October... is the 286th day of the year 2023. There are 79 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1307  Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a “confession” of heresy.

1773  The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.

1845  A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.

1884  Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.

1946  France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.

1976  The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy. 

 

[LongRider]

14 October....is the 287th day of the year 2023. There are 78 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1322  Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.

1586  Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.

1656  Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.

1888  Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds.

1926  The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.

1947  American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier.

1964  Baptist minister and social activist Martin Luther King, Jr., was named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

1894  E. E. Cummings, American poet born on this day.

[LongRider]

15 October...is the 288 h day of the year 2023. There are 77 days remaining until the end of this year.

1783  The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).

1951  Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives.

1956  Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.

1996 Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.

1997  The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

2003   China became the third country to launch a crewed spaceflight; Shenzhou 5, which was piloted by Yang Liwei, orbited Earth 14 times during the 21-hour flight.

1844   Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential of all modern thinkers, was born in Prussia.

[lacuna]

1 hour ago, LongRider said:

1996 Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.

1966.

Tho 1996 might have been the year when I wrote an essay in English class on the BPP, so...

Edited October 15, 2023 by lacuna

[LongRider]

16 October...is the 289th day of the year 2023. There are 76 days remaining until the end of this year.

1384  Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.

1793  Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.

1834  Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.

1841  Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

1916  In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.

1946  Nuremberg Trials: Ten of the 12 defendants sentenced to death at the Nürnberg trials, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, were executed.

1978  Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

 

[Fragile Bird]

On 10/9/2023 at 11:23 AM, LongRider said:

9 October

1701  The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

 

I highly recommend Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House if you want to know the real reason the university was founded!