THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[LongRider]

@Fragile Bird Do you by chance remember what year(s) this happened?

[Fragile Bird]

54 minutes ago, LongRider said:

@Fragile Bird Do you by chance remember what year(s) this happened?

You know, I’ve looked at lists of British shipwrecks and I don’t see anything like what I saw on Digging for Britain. I’ll have to wait for the replay of the episode because I’ve deleted it, I just checked. The closest thing I’ve seen is a Channel storm in 1705 where 13 naval ships sank, but it doesn’t say anything about merchant ships with the naval ships. I also checked the episode lists on Wikipedia, but they’re incomplete. Such a loss of ships should be listed on the disaster lists.

I was hoping someone recognized the story.

Looking at the disaster list, it’s astonishing to see how many British admirals were lost in disasters. There was even a case where a ship was docked, being repaired, there were hundreds of visitors on board including an admiral, and the ship heeled over and everyone drowned.

[LongRider]

@Fragile Bird

Did you see this wiki page?  It lists all the episodes, might help.     Digging for Britain - Wikipedia

[LongRider]

24 October... is the 297th day of the year 2023 and there are 68 days remaining until the end of this year.

1260  The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

1851  William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.

1861  The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.

1901  Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.  She was the first person to survive going over the falls.

1929  “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

1964  Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia.

1973  Yom Kippur War ends.

1980  The government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union.

[Corvinus85]

24 October 1648 - the Peace of Westphalia, which ends The Thirty Years' War, possibly the most destructive war in Europe until WWI.

[LongRider]

25 October...is the 298th day of the year 2023. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1616  Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

1854  The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).

1917   the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. 

1920  After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.

1924  The forged Zinoviev Letter is published in the Daily Mail, wrecking the British Labour Party’s hopes of re-election.

1938  The Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as “a degenerated musical system.. turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people”, warning that it leads down a “primrose path to hell”.

1940  Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

2004  Fidel Castro, Cuba’s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.

1962  Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.

1962  Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.

[Bironic]

29 minutes ago, LongRider said:

1917   the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia.

Russia used the Julian calendar at the time, so the October Revolution actually happened November 7 of that year according to the Gregorian calendar...

[Corvinus85]

23 minutes ago, Bironic said:

Russia used the Julian calendar at the time, so the October Revolution actually happened November 7 of that year according to the Gregorian calendar...

Doesn't Russia still use the Julian calendar? Especially for holidays and such. 

[Bironic]

15 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said:

Doesn't Russia still use the Julian calendar? Especially for holidays and such. 

The Orthodox church of Russia still uses the Julian calendar (so christmas is on a different day to the western churches for example). The Soviet Union changed to the Gregorian Calendar in 1918 and this is still the case in all former Soviet republics. So if you are russian you  have christmas twice a year, one secular and one religious...

My original point was that it can get confusing if someone lists dates and uses two different calendars without mentioning it. So it's easier to stick just to the much more common and precise gregorian calendar.

Edited October 25, 2023 by Bironic

[Corvinus85]

25 October

1415 - Battle of Agincourt - the last major English triumph in the Hundred Years' War; the English would enjoy a period of dominance until their defeat at the Siege of Orléans in 1429.

1760 - start of the reign of George III as British monarch, the only British king most Americans knew by name until Charles III. 

[LongRider]

Flag at half-mast for the shooting victims in Lewiston, Maine.   

26 October... is the 299th day of the year 2023. There are 66 days remaining until the end of this year.

1597  Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.

1689  General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.

1811  The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.

1905  Norway becomes independent from Sweden.

1977  The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.

1947  Hillary Rodham Clinton, born on this date in Chicago, Illinois

[Corvinus85]

26 October

1881 - the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone, AZ, probably the most famous gunfight in the Wild West, immortalized in numerous pictures, paintings, and films.

1944 - ending of the Battle of Leyte Gulf (23-26 October) - the largest naval battle in WWII, and the largest in history by some criteria regarding ship displacement. It was a decisive victory for the Allies. While Midway may represent the turning point in the Pacific theater, Leyte Gulf pretty much spelled the end for the Japanese Imperial Navy posing a serious threat.

1994 - considering current events, a good thing happened then: Israel-Jordan peace treaty. If only...

Edited October 26, 2023 by Corvinus85

[LongRider]

On 10/16/2023 at 11:31 AM, Fragile Bird said:

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

I'm reading it now, also, picked up the second book in the series, Hell Bent published this year in January.   Interesting so far, a bit different type of fantasy for me, so far so good!       Thanks for the tip.

[Corvinus85]

27 October 

1962 (Cuban Missile Crisis) - Vasily Arkhipov, XO of the Soviet submarine B-59 refuses to cooperate with his captain and the political officer to launch a nuclear torpedo at American warships which were trying to force the submarine to surface, thus likely averting nuclear war.

 

[LongRider]

27 October... is the 300th day of the year 2023. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

1275  Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

1553  Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

1827  Bellini’s third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano

1838  Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.

1904  The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.

1967  Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.

1981  The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

1986  The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

2004  Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.  And so ended the “Curse of the Bambino”—an alleged hex on the team that resulted from its 1920 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.

1858  Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 33rd Governor of New York, 25th Vice President of the United States, 26th President of the United States, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)

[LongRider]

29  October...is the 302nd day of the year 2023. There are 63 days remaining until the end of this year. 

312  Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius’ body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

1390  First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

1618  English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.

1787  Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

1886  The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1922  The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.

1941  The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the “Great Action”.

1969  The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

[LongRider]

30 October...is the 303rd day of the year 2023. There are 62 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1501  Ballet of Chestnuts – a banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.

1864  Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”.

1905  Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia’s first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.

1945  Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.

1973  The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time.

1983  The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

[LongRider]

31 October... is the 304^th day of the year 2023. There are 61 days remaining until the end of this year.

1864  Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.  Happy Statehood Day Nevada!  159 years.   

[Corvinus85]

1 November

1520 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the passage around the tip of South America, which becomes known as the Strait of Magellan.

1604 & 1611 - Othello, and The Tempest, respectively are performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace; fortuitous date for Shakespeare.

1894 - start of the reign of Nicholas II, last tsar of the Russian Empire.

1922 - end of the Ottoman Empire. The last sultan, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

[Leofric]

November 1st - All Saints Day

1458 - in a move no one was expecting, the Spanish Inquisition was established.

1952 - the U.S detonated the first hydrogen bomb

1955 - The Vietnam War started between North and South Vietnam.