A Horse Named Stranger Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 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 and Mr. Chatywin et al. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 8, 2023 Author Share Posted October 8, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 (edited) 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 9, 2023 Author Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bironic Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bironic Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bironic Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 10, 2023 Author Share Posted October 10, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 10, 2023 Author Share Posted October 10, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 11, 2023 Author Share Posted October 11, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 12, 2023 Author Share Posted October 12, 2023 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. Fragile Bird 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 13, 2023 Author Share Posted October 13, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 14, 2023 Author Share Posted October 14, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 15, 2023 Author Share Posted October 15, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacuna Posted October 15, 2023 Share Posted October 15, 2023 (edited) 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 and Fragile Bird 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRider Posted October 16, 2023 Author Share Posted October 16, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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