THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[LongRider]

19 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

Yeah, yeah I know.  However, the readers of this thread are happy to correct me whenever I f*ck up the posting.   

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27 November...  is the 331st day of the year 2023. There are 34 days remaining until the end of this year.

2001  A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.  

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28 November...  is the 332nd day of the year 2023. There are 33 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1582  In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.

1962  American comedian and actor Jon Stewart, who hosted (1999–2015) the satiric television news program The Daily Show, was born.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

13 hours ago, LongRider said:

28 November...  is the 332nd day of the year 2023. There are 33 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1582  In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.

1962  American comedian and actor Jon Stewart, who hosted (1999–2015) the satiric television news program The Daily Show, was born.

Also the birthday of Ewald Lienen (*1953*) (apologies to Jon Sewart but Ewald is just that tiny bit more awesome).

Edited November 29, 2023 by A Horse Named Stranger

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29 November...  is the 333rd day of the year 2023. There are 32 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1972  Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.   

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30 November...  is the 334th day of the year 2023. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year.

1786  Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.

1934  The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.  LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley.  It set two world records for steam traction, becoming the first locomotive to reach the officially authenticated speed of 100 miles per hour (161 km/h) on 30 November 1934,[1] and setting the longest non-stop run of 422 miles (679 km) on 8 August 1989 while in Australia.

Retired from British Railways in 1963 after covering 2.08 million miles, Flying Scotsman earned considerable fame in preservation under the ownership of, successively, Alan Pegler, William McAlpine, Tony Marchington, and, since 2004, the National Railway Museum. As well as hauling enthusiast specials in the United Kingdom, the locomotive toured extensively in the United States and Canada from 1969 until 1972, and Australia in 1988 and 1989. Flying Scotsman has been described as the world's most famous steam locomotive.  The Flying Scotsman is currently owned by the National Railway Museum in York, England.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

2 hours ago, LongRider said:

30 November...  is the 334th day of the year 2023. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year.

1786  Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.

1934  The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.  LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design of Nigel Gresley.  It set two world records for steam traction, becoming the first locomotive to reach the officially authenticated speed of 100 miles per hour (161 km/h) on 30 November 1934,[1] and setting the longest non-stop run of 422 miles (679 km) on 8 August 1989 while in Australia.

Retired from British Railways in 1963 after covering 2.08 million miles, Flying Scotsman earned considerable fame in preservation under the ownership of, successively, Alan Pegler, William McAlpine, Tony Marchington, and, since 2004, the National Railway Museum. As well as hauling enthusiast specials in the United Kingdom, the locomotive toured extensively in the United States and Canada from 1969 until 1972, and Australia in 1988 and 1989. Flying Scotsman has been described as the world's most famous steam locomotive.  The Flying Scotsman is currently owned by the National Railway Museum in York, England.

Notable Brithdays:

Magnus Carlsen (*1990) and one of his sherpas Laurent Fressinet (*1981) were both born on the 30th of November.

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1 December... is the 335th day of the year 2023. There are 30 days remaining until the end of this year.

1948  Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries”.   

The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known after the Persian phrase tamám shud (Persian: تمام شد),[note 1] meaning "is over" or "is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th-century poet Omar Khayyám.

Following a public appeal by police, the book from which the page had been torn was located. On the inside back cover, detectives read through indentations left from previous handwriting: a local telephone number, another unidentified number, and text that resembled a coded message. The text has not been deciphered or interpreted in a way that satisfies authorities on the case.  More at wikipedia Somerton Man - Wikipedia

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2 December ...  is the 336th day of the year 2023. There are 29 days remaining until the end of this year.

1954 The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

2001  Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  

[kissdbyfire]

1 hour ago, LongRider said:

1954 The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.”

I wonder if they could see Congress right now, especially the House. I wonder what Welch would say about the cruelty of the current politicians and their sense of decency. 

Edited December 2, 2023 by kissdbyfire

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3 December... is the 337th day of the year 2023. There are 28 days remaining until the end of this year.   

1910  Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

1973  Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.   

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4 December...  is the 338th day of the year 2023. There are 27 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1996  The unmanned space vehicle Mars Pathfinder was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in order to explore the surface of Mars.

2006  An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km south of Tokyo.

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5 December... is the 339th day of the year 2023. There are 26 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1945  Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.     Flight 19 - Wikipedia  Still, a very interesting story. 

2005  The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.

Edited December 5, 2023 by LongRider

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6 December... is the 340th day of the year 2023. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1897  London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.

1933  U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is not obscene.

2001  The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.

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7 December

1941 - a day of infamy; Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

1965 - the Catholic-Orthodox Declaration; Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously withdraw the excommunications declared in 1054 which caused the Great Schism. (of course, the churches were never going to unite, but this was a strong show of unity and desire for tighter collaboration)

1972 - launch of Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission to the Moon.

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8 December... is the 342nd day of the year 2023. There are 23 days remaining until the end of this year.

1941  Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines. These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7 in the United States.

1990  Lech Wałęsa—who had led Solidarity, Poland's first independent trade union, and had received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983—won Poland's first direct presidential election by a landslide.

1998  The United Nations General Assembly declared anti-Semitism a form of racism.

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[A Horse Named Stranger]

In the spirit of Japanese American things...

Happy  Birthday GM Hikaru (Nakamura). (*9.12.1987).

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9 December... is the 343rd day of the year 2023. There are 22 days remaining until the end of this year.

1868   The world's first traffic light was erected near Westminster Bridge in London; however, it was removed a month later after a gas leak caused one of the lights to explode. 

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10 December...  is the 344th day of the year 2023. There are 21 days remaining until the end of this year. 

1884  Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

1907  The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.

1948  The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.