THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[Loge]

13 hours ago, LongRider said:

27 August 1883

The biggest explosion the world has ever known – an estimated 13,000 times greater than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima – happened on this day as eruptions of the Krakatoa volcano reached their climax.

Krakatoa: The World’s Mightiest Explosion - On This Day

The biggest volcanic eruption on record is the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora

[LongRider]

28 August 1963

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech addressing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

 

1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes media darling at the Munich Olympics; wins gold in the teams all-round; follows with 2 gold and a silver.

 

[LongRider]

29 Aug 1930

The last 36 St Kildan islanders left for the Scottish mainland. Williamina Barclay was the island's nurse and had raised their request to leave. She then oversaw the evacuation as the government's representative on the island.

Check out the link, this a very interesting story.  

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/24/last-man-st-kilda-evacuation

[Zorral]

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the pumping stations failed and the levees protecting New Orleans were breached; revealing as well Brownie was incapable of doing the FEMA job.

https://www.nola.com/multimedia/photos/remembering-hurricane-katrina-18-years-later-photos-after-the-storm-in-new-orleans/collection_1ae901f2-ca7a-11e9-a269-c31141550f2b.html#3

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/local_events/photos-18th-anniversary-of-hurricane-katrina-commemorated-near-levee-break-in-lower-ninth-ward/collection_cf504fd0-452b-11ee-8663-535ffeffa4b4.html#4

Edited August 29, 2023 by Zorral

[dog-days]

2 hours ago, LongRider said:

29 Aug 1930

The last 36 St Kildan islanders left for the Scottish mainland. Williamina Barclay was the island's nurse and had raised their request to leave. She then oversaw the evacuation as the government's representative on the island.

Check out the link, this a very interesting story.  

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/24/last-man-st-kilda-evacuation

Everything about St Kilda is fascinating, except maybe the birdshit.

Still getting my head around how the islanders could let themselves be terrorised by a Wee Free for twenty-four years. 

[LongRider]

1 hour ago, dog-days said:

Still getting my head around how the islanders could let themselves be terrorised by a Wee Free for twenty-four years. 

What does 'a Wee Free' mean?  

[dog-days]

1 minute ago, LongRider said:

What does 'a Wee Free' mean?  

Free Church of Scotland. One of the unsmiling, hell is waiting, fear the Lord, ye sinners, kinds of Christianity, or at least it was in the nineteenth century. 

For a quarter of a century, the islanders had a priest who made them attend church so much that it damaged their subsistence economy. They seem to have half-worshipped priests from the mainland after good experiences with a couple of earlier ones. 

[LongRider]

7 minutes ago, dog-days said:

Free Church of Scotland. One of the unsmiling, hell is waiting, fear the Lord, ye sinners, kinds of Christianity, or at least it was in the nineteenth century. 

For a quarter of a century, the islanders had a priest who made them attend church so much that it damaged their subsistence economy. They seem to have half-worshipped priests from the mainland after good experiences with a couple of earlier ones. 

Thanks for the interesting explanation.      

[Phylum of Alexandria]

August 30, 70 AD: Roman soldiers under orders of the Emperor Titus destroy the rebuilt Temple of Jerusalem as the culmination of their imperial siege. The destruction marks the end of what we now call the Second Temple Period in Judaism. As a result, the Rabbinical Pharisaic tradition becomes the dominant strain of Jewish faith, while the lure of the incipient Christian movement grows in strength.

[LongRider]

30 August 1918

Socialist Revolutionary Fanya Kaplan attempts to kill Lenin after he dissolves the Russian Constituent Assembly. She's executed four days later.  Her action was a contributory factor in Lenin triggering the Bolshevik Red Terror, in which perhaps 100,000 people were killed.

 

The Beatles "Hey Jude" was released on a 7-inch single 30 August 1968 in the United Kingdom, backed with "Revolution" on the B-side.  It had been released on 26 August 1968 in the United States.

Edited August 30, 2023 by LongRider

[A Horse Named Stranger]

30. August

 

1963 the so called Red Phone gets installed as a result from the Cuba crisis

1965 Bob Dylan's sixth album Highway 61 Revisited gets published, it includes Like a Rolling Stone

1972 Happy Birthday to Cameron Diaz and Pavel Nedved

2022 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev dies

[mcbigski]

On 8/27/2023 at 2:48 PM, A Horse Named Stranger said:

And I assume the event, that caused the moon to be blasted off from the planet was an even more powerful event.

The best bang since the Big One.

[LongRider]

30 August 1797

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born. She was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; which is considered an early example of science fiction.   Do you think the midwife said "It's alive! It's alive!" when she was born? 

I almost missed you Mary, glad I didn't.  

[LongRider]

30 August

1997... Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris.  Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul were also killed.

1854... cholera outbreak in London.  Leads to John Snow's famous dot-map graphic of those who died

[A Horse Named Stranger]

31. August

1888 the body of Mary Ann Nichols is discovered in London Whitechapel. She is widely considered as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.

1928 World Premiere of Brecht's 3 Penny Opera in Berlin.

1935 Happy Birthday to Eldridge Cleaver

1962 Trinidad and Tobago become independent

1990 Reunification treaty is signed in Germany

1994 Last of the Russian troops withdraw from Estonia and Latvia (well for the time being at least). Last of the Russian army also departs Germany and are sent of by Yeltsin and Kohl. Sinn Fein declares and unilateral armistice

 

 

[Fragile Bird]

Jean Beliveau, one of the greatest hockey players ever, was born on this day in 1931.

[The Sunland Lord]

01.09.

1785 Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna

1939 - Germany invades Poland and World War 2 starts

1954 - Rear Window by Hitchcock is released 

1962 - The UN announces the Earth's population has hit 3 billion 

1969 - Gaddafi deposes King Idris in Lybia

1972 - Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky in Reykjavik (chess)

Birthdays:

1923 - Boxer Rocky Marciano

1966 - Basketball player Tim Hardaway

Death:

1914 - Martha, last known passenger pigeon in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 1, 2023 by The Sunland Lord

[A Horse Named Stranger]

A bit more happened

1923 A giant Earthquake destroy the Japanese City of Yokohama (7.9 on the Richter scale)

1941 Within the German empires Jews are forced to wear the infamous star and the word Jew visibly on their clothing

1963 Singapore becomes indepdendent from the UK

1969 Germany partially decriminalizes homosexuality (decriminalization for acts between men above the age of 21). (Full decriminalization in 1994). The infamous § 175 of the German criminal code

1983 Soviet Airforce shoots down a Korean Airlines jet, that accidentally crossed into Soviet Air Space

 

[LongRider]

1 September

"Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England was published #OTD in 1773.

Phillis Wheatley was the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

That the one with Angelic Train shizzle isn't it?