THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[LongRider]

@maarsen   Thanks for the clarification.    That helps me to better understand the issues.

[maarsen]

13 hours ago, LongRider said:

@maarsen   Thanks for the clarification.    That helps me to better understand the issues.

This is the sort of thing you see all the time when people have their situation relaxed. 'Don't use that new freedom! It isn't  good for you!'

[A Horse Named Stranger]

9. November

The most German day in modern history. But first small visit to France.

1799 Napoleon and his brother Lucien launch a succesful coup, thus effectively putting an end to the French Revolution

1843 Hamburg, Germany. Hamburgs oldest theatre, the Thalia Theater gets founded.

1888 London. Jack the Ripper claims his (presumably) fifth and final victim. Mary Jane Kelly

Now to Germany

1918. The November Revolution in Germany puts an end to the reign of House Hohenzollern. Unlike the French and the Russians the monarch was allowed to walk away from the throne alive to spend his years in the Dutch exile.

1923 Beer Hall Putsch.

1938 The Night of Broken Glass

1939 Venlo, The Netherlands. German Intelligence Service arrests Richard Henry Stevens and Sigismund Payne Best of the British SIS. That move rendered a huge part of the British espionage network on the continent useless. The so called Venlo Incident was also used as justification for the Invasion of the Netherlands by the Germans.

1949 The Foreign Ministers of the US, the UK and France agree to start talks with the Federal Republic of Germany.

1965 Marcos wins the Presidential eleciton in the Phillippines

1967 United States. First issue of the Rolling Stone Magazine get published.

1983 Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Freddy Heineken (yes, from the family of Brewers) and his driver get abducted.

1985 Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the 13th World Chess Champion.

1989 back in Germany. Protests in the GDR lead to the down fall of the SED lead regime and the Berlin Wall gets torns down.

Happy Birthday: Misha Tal (*1936 +28.06.1992) and to my best friend Daniel (*1981)

 

Edited November 9, 2023 by A Horse Named Stranger

[LongRider]

9 November...is the 313th day of the year 2023. There are 52 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1923  

Alice Coachman, the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal, was born.  At the 1948 Olympics in London, her teammate Audrey Patterson earned a bronze medal in the 200-metre sprint to become the first Black woman to win a medal. In the high-jump finals Coachman leaped 5 feet 6 1/8 inches (1.68 m) on her first try. Her nearest rival, Britain’s Dorothy Tyler, matched Coachman’s jump, but only on her second try, making Coachman the only American woman to win a gold medal in that year’s Games. 

[gruff one]

USMC born 10 November 1775, oorah!

[LongRider]

10 November... is the 314th day of the year 2023. There are 51 days remaining until the end of this year.

1975  The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald            Gordon Lightfoot lyrics

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'
The lake it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy

 

With a load of iron ore, twenty six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a 'bone to be chewed'
When the gales of November came early

 

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland

Then later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
When the wave broke over the railin'
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealin'

 

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind

 

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck
Sayin', "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At 7 p.m. a main hatchway caved in
He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"

 

The captain wired in, he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

 

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

 

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen

And farther below, Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald

 

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call, 'Gitche Gumee'
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early

 

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More info on the Edmund Fitzgerald at the link

The Edmund Fitzgerald – Canadian History Ehx (canadaehx.com)

Edited November 11, 2023 by LongRider

[Bironic]

11. November 1918: on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the armistice that brings the end of World War One comes into force. Thus ending more than 4 years of carnage, horror and loss of life…

Historians often consider WWI the single most important event in the 20th Century, the starting point of so many of its political developments.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

11 hour of the elventh day, of the eleventh month is the start of carneval season in Germany.

For those who are wondering, some regions in Germany celebrate it, it's basicallly shitty mardi gras.

[LongRider]

11 November...is the 315th day of the year 2023. There are 50 days remaining until the end of this year.

1922  Kurt Vonnegut.  Born this day Indianapolis, Indiana 

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works; further collections have been published after his death.   

 

And so on. 

[A Horse Named Stranger]

On 11/10/2023 at 1:48 PM, gruff one said:

USMC born 10 November 1775, oorah!

It was also the Birthday of Hachiko (10.November *1923, +9. March 1935)

 

[DireWolfSpirit]

Nov 12th- Of note born on this day

https://www.onthisday.com/images/person-of-interest.svgSun Yat-sen(1866-1925)

Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China, born in Xiangshan [now Zhongshan], Guangdong, Qing Dynasty

[LongRider]

12  November...is the 316th day of the year 2023. There are 49 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1970  The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.

 

[DireWolfSpirit]

Having trouble with my edit function, but also wanted to mention Neil Young and Grace Kelly birthdays

So, so many, many songs from the former- 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2023 by DireWolfSpirit

[LongRider]

13 November... is the 317th day of the year 2023. There are 48 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1907  Paul Corno achieves the first helicopter flight in an experimental machine he invented.  

The Cornu helicopter is reported to have made a number of short hops, rising perhaps 1.5 or 2 metres (5–7 feet) into the air and staying aloft for something less than one minute. This was long enough for Cornu to learn that the control systems he had designed were ineffective, and he abandoned the machine soon thereafter.

Modern engineering analyses have demonstrated that the Cornu helicopter could not have been capable of sustained flight. 

[LongRider]

14 November...is the 318th day of the year 2023. There are 47 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1963  Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast.

Surtsey ("Surtr's island" in Icelandic, Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsʏr̥(t)sˌeiː] ⓘ) is an uninhabited volcanic island located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. At 

63.303°N 20.605°W Surtsey is the southernmost point of Iceland.[1] It was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 metres (430 feet) below sea level, and reached the surface on 14 November 1963. The eruption lasted until 5 June 1967, when the island reached its maximum size of 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi). Since then, wave erosion has caused the island to steadily diminish in size: as of 2012, its surface area was 1.3 km2 (0.50 sq mi).[2] The most recent survey (2007) shows the island's maximum elevation at 155 m (509 ft) above sea level.[3]

Surtsey - Wikipedia

[Corvinus85]

1971 - Mariner 9 enters Mars orbit, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

[LongRider]

15 November...  is the 319th day of the year 2023. There are 46 days remaining until the end of this year. 

Microsoft released Xbox, a video game console system.  Ever since then, the world has slid into chaos!  Blame it all on Xbox.

[LongRider]

16 November... is the 320th day of the year 2023. There are 45 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1992  The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. This an incredible find!

from Wikipedia "The Hoxne Hoard (/ˈhɒksən/ HOK-sən)[2] is the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain,[3] and the largest collection of gold and silver coins of the fourth and fifth centuries found anywhere within the former Roman Empire.[4] It was found by Eric Lawes, a metal detectorist in the village of Hoxne in Suffolk, England in 1992. The hoard consists of 14,865 Roman gold, silver, and bronze coins and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery.[5] The objects are now in the British Museum in London, where the most important pieces and a selection of the rest are on permanent display. In 1993, the Treasure Valuation Committee valued the hoard at £1.75 million (about £3.79 million in 2021)."   

 Hoxne Hoard - Wikipedia

This link goes to a search page which shows photos of many items from the hoard.  Stunning!

Hoxne Hoard - Search Images (bing.com)

[LongRider]

17 November...  is the 321st day of the year 2023. There are 44 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1973  During the Watergate scandal, U.S. President Richard Nixon held a press conference in which he declared, “I am not a crook.”   (Spoiler alert- He was a crook.)

 

[DireWolfSpirit]

Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address

https://www.wjcl.com/article/this-day-in-history-abraham-lincoln-gettysburg-address-1700388541/45884071