THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[LongRider]

1 minute ago, Leofric said:

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

Love this!  

[LongRider]

1 November...is the 305th day of the year 2023. There are 60 days remaining until the end of this year.  of Christmas advertising hell.  (sometimes the adverts go past the big day.)  

1911  The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.   Wiki sez that in this conflict there was the first aerial reconnaissance mission and the first aerial bomb was dropped by Sottotenente Giulio Gavotti, on Turkish troops in Libya, from an early model of Etrich Taube aircraft.  While new technologies were used to overcome the Turks, they used their old technology of rifles to shoot down the first aircraft.  

[A Horse Named Stranger]

1897 Torino, Italy. Juventus gets founded

Happy Birthday Larry Flynt (*1942 + 10. Feburary 2021)

[LongRider]

2 November... is the 306th day of the year 2023. There are 59 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1960..In a landmark British trial, a jury ruled that D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene, thereby allowing Penguin Books to publish the work in its entirety; an expurgated version had previously been released.

The novel was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and Japan. 

[A wilding]

15 hours ago, LongRider said:

1960..In a landmark British trial, a jury ruled that D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene, thereby allowing Penguin Books to publish the work in its entirety; an expurgated version had previously been released.

"Is it a book that you would want your wife or your servants to read?"

 

[LongRider]

3 November...is the 307th day of the year 2023. There are 58 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1957  The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, which carried the dog Laika, the first living creature to be shot into space and orbit Earth.  While the dog was not going survive the trip and the satellite was destroyed reentering Earth’s atmosphere on April 14, 1958.   It wasn't until 2002 revealed that she only survived 4 to 6 hours after the launch due to overheating and panic.  Read more about Laika at the link.  

Laika | Background, Spaceflight, & Facts | Britannica

[A Horse Named Stranger]

1793 Paris, France. Revolutionary and Author Olympe de Gouges gets executed. I guess she qualifies is one of the very first feminists.

1906, Tübingen, Germany. Psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer introduces the symptons of a new disease/disorder. Which is later named after him. (Ironically it's also the birthday of Gerd Müller *1945 +15.08.2021)

1946 Japan Proclamation of its post war consitution (taking effect on the 3rd of May 1947)

1954 Japan, movie premiere for the first Godzilla movie.

 

Happy Birthday: Gerd Müller (check above) and Dolph Lundgren (*1957)

 

[LongRider]

3 November... 1868: John W. Menard becomes the first African American to be elected to Congress.

Menard, (1838 - 1893), an American publisher and politician who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1868, the first African American to win election to the U.S. Congress, defeating a white candidate, 5,107 to 2,833 in an election in Louisiana's Second Congressional District. However, his opponent contested his election, and he was denied his seat by the House.

[LongRider]

4 November...is the 308th day of the year 2023. There are 57 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1960  At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.  She observed chimps using stalks of grass to pull termites out of a termite mound.  They also stripped off the leaves to make the twigs easier to use in the termite mounds, this is a form of tool modification.  This was a ground changing discovery as prior to this it was thought that only humans could make tools. 

2008  Barak Hussian Obama elected as the 44th President of the USA, and the first African American elected as president. 

 

[Corvinus85]

Remember, remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot. 

1605 - Guy Fawkes is caught with a number of gunpowder barrels underneath Parliament. He was part of a conspiracy that aimed to destroy Parliament and kill king James I.

1872 - Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time in defiance of US voting laws and is fined $100.

1940 - FDR wins the presidential election for a 3rd term, the only US president to do so.

 

[LongRider]

5 November... is the 309th day of the year 2023. There are 56 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1872  Women’s suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.  

Upon receiving the sentence of a $100 fine (roughly $2,150 USD today), she told the judge, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.”

In 1906—just nine years before New York State granted women the right to vote and 14 years before the 19th Amendment was finally ratified—Anthony died at age 86.

Now, almost 150 years after Anthony’s arrest, President Donald Trump has announced plans to posthumously pardon the activist. Fittingly, the news arrived on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which enfranchised many—but not all—American women upon its August 18, 1920, ratification.

Trump pardoned S B Anthony?  I would not be surprised if he didn't and still doesn't know who she is.  

[LongRider]

6 November... is the 310th day of the year 2023. There are 55 days remaining until the end of this year.  

1572   Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia.      "In 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was among those who noticed a new bright object in the constellation Cassiopeia. Adding fuel to the intellectual fire that Copernicus started, Tycho showed this “new star” was far beyond the Moon, and that it was possible for the universe beyond the Sun and planets to change.

Astronomers now know that Tycho’s new star was not new at all. Rather it signaled the death of a star in a supernova, an explosion so bright that it can outshine the light from an entire galaxy. This particular supernova was a Type Ia, which occurs when a white dwarf star pulls material from, or merges with, a nearby companion star until a violent explosion is triggered. The white dwarf star is obliterated, sending its debris hurtling into space."

More here:   The Tycho Supernova: Death of a Star - NASA  

[Corvinus85]

7 November

1940 - in an event that became a teachable moment for civil and structural engineering courses, and even for basic physics regarding resonant vibration, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapses due to intense oscillations caused by the wind.

 

[LongRider]

7 November...  is the 311th day of the year 2023. There are 54 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. 

1492  The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.  The fall of the meteorite through the Earth's atmosphere was observed as a fireball at a distance of up to 150 kilometers from where it eventually landed, and the sound of the impact was reported to have been heard 100 away.   A one meter hole was created by the impact, and what is left of the meteorite is in a museum in Ensisheim. 

[A Horse Named Stranger]

1825. Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. A young lawyer by the name of Jereboam O. Beauchamp kills the politician Solomon P. Sharp to restore the honour of his wife.

1991 NBA Star Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. announces that he is HIV positive and retires from professional Basketball. He would return a year later to play alongside a number of NBA super stars around Michael Jordan to win the Olympic Gold Medal in the first incarnation of the so called "Dream Team"

Happy Birthday:

Marie Curie (1867), Aron Nimzowitsch (1886).

RIP

Steve McQueen (+1980), Leonard Cohen and Janet Reno (+2016)

 

Edited November 7, 2023 by A Horse Named Stranger

[LongRider]

7 November

2020  I have just realized I missed an important cultural event that happened today.  Yes, boys and girls, this was the date that Rudy Guiliani gave his press conference at Four Seasons Total Lanscaping, just a couple of doors down from the dildo shop. 

Four Seasons Total Lanscaping Comment

[LongRider]

8 November... is the 312th day of the year 2023. There are 53 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1901  Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

The Gospel riots (Greek: Ευαγγελικά, Evangelika), which took place on the streets of Athens in November 1901, were primarily a protest against the publication in the newspaper Akropolis of a translation into modern spoken Greek of the Gospel of Matthew, although other motives also played a part. The disorder reached a climax on 8 November, "Black Thursday", when eight demonstrators were killed.[a][1]   

Gospel riots - Wikipedia

[Bironic]

1 hour ago, LongRider said:

8 November... is the 312th day of the year 2023. There are 53 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1901  Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

The Gospel riots (Greek: Ευαγγελικά, Evangelika), which took place on the streets of Athens in November 1901, were primarily a protest against the publication in the newspaper Akropolis of a translation into modern spoken Greek of the Gospel of Matthew, although other motives also played a part. The disorder reached a climax on 8 November, "Black Thursday", when eight demonstrators were killed.[a][1]   

Gospel riots - Wikipedia

The Greek language question is one of these historical things that seem so hard to understand nowadays... but I didn't know it actually turned into actual killing of people. Thanks for sharing it!

[LongRider]

2 hours ago, Bironic said:

The Greek language question is one of these historical things that seem so hard to understand nowadays... but I didn't know it actually turned into actual killing of people. Thanks for sharing it!

Really it is a fascinating bit of history.  What caught my attention was that the translation wanted to capture Greek as it is spoken for the Gospel of Mattew.  Reminded me of how difficult it was to get the New Testament printed into English in England in the early 1500s.  The histories of the getting the bible translated into the languages of the common people is amazing in it's not just the violence brought against those that would translate the books, but the commitment of those who wanted to make the translations. 

I thought killing people for this had been left behind, but apparently not.  This issue though, is more than just printing the books in a specific language, it reflected the conflicts of the language in the society at large.  As you said, difficult to understand, and amazing history.    Thanks for your comment! 

If one would like a quick look at the history of the printing of bibles in English, here is a page with a brief history. 

Born Out of Persecution: History of the Early English Printed Bible | Born Out of Persecution: History of the Early English Printed Bible | Cedarville University  

Edited November 8, 2023 by LongRider

[maarsen]

According to the article the root cause of the conflict was the desire to purge the Greek spoken language of Ottoman influences. Using  classical  Greek from before their conquest bt the Ottomans would accomplish this but publishing a book in the modern spoken Greek was a step back.