THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

[Fragile Bird]

September 16

A fragile bird was hatched.

Edited September 17, 2023 by Fragile Bird

[LongRider]

1 hour ago, Fragile Bird said:

September 16

A fragile bird was hatched.

Happy Birthday little birdie!     

[LongRider]

17 September

1849  Harriet Tubman and her two brothers Ben and Harry escaped slavery.  Her two brothers went back into slavery and Harriet went with them, only to escape again a couple of months later and used the Underground Railroad to gain her freedom.

 

[LongRider]

18 September

1943, Yolande Beekman arrives in Nazi-occupied France to work as a radio operator for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance, and radio operator was one of the more dangerous roles.  She was captured in January 1944, and was shot at Dachau concentration camp in September 1944.

2020,  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court (1993–2020), died at age 87.    

2014, Scottish voters rejected a referendum that would have made Scotland an independent country.

1973, East and West Germany and The Bahamas are admitted to United Nations.

[LongRider]

19 September

1893, the Electoral Act is signed into Aotearoa (New Zealand) law. All women over 21 who were 'British subjects', including Māori women, gain the right to vote.  Over 90,000 women vote in November 1893.

[Phylum of Alexandria]

I'm gonna post a little ahead to make sure I don't forget.

20 September, 1948: A little boy named George is born in the port city of Bayonne, NJ. 

Happy name day, sir!

[LongRider]

21 September

19 bce The Roman poet Virgil, best known for his national epic the Aeneid, died.

1934 The Canadian musician and poet Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal, Canada.

1937 English writer J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, a fantasy that became a classic, was published.

1947 American novelist, Steven King, was born in Portland, Maine.

1915 Stonehenge is sold by auction for 6,600 pounds sterling ($11,500) to a Mr. Chubb, who buys it as a present for his wife. He presents it to the British nation three years later.

[dog-days]

For my next post, I swear it'll be about something that isn't a Scottish battle. 

...

But for now on with the Battle of Prestonpans! 21 September 1745.   

Instead of charging the Hanoverian forces head-on in the afternoon, Charles Stuart for once listens to good advice – they wait till the early hours of the morning, then a local man leads them on a path through the marshy ground, one so narrow they have to go three abreast. But it works; the inexperienced dragoons on the left flank of the Hanoverian army panic and flee as soon as the Jacobites attack. The infantry are left exposed, and they break too. 

The English General Sir John Cope had his name rather ruined following his hasty retreat after losing a fifteen-minute battle. Possibly unfairly, given the generally low quality of his troops; he was the sort of guy who sends notes to his superiors along the lines of 'these gunners are a disaster; pls send better gunners' and gets completely ignored and subsequently blamed when the gunners run away before firing a shot. So unlike the modern workplace. 

Edited September 21, 2023 by dog-days

[LongRider]

2 hours ago, dog-days said:

So unlike the modern workplace. 

This seems so funny to me.   
 

Feel free to contribute to the thread, Scottish battles and other Scottish history is all welcome.   

[dog-days]

18 hours ago, LongRider said:

This seems so funny to me.   
 

Feel free to contribute to the thread, Scottish battles and other Scottish history is all welcome.   

Have just realised today is a very important date. 

It is of course Bilbo Baggins's birthday. (Frodo's too.) On this day in the 3001st year of the Third Age, Bilbo held his farewell party. The best historical dates are always the fictional ones. 

Edited September 22, 2023 by dog-days

[LongRider]

1 hour ago, dog-days said:

It is of course Bilbo Baggins's birthday. (Frodo's too.)

Lovely!  Don't want those important dates to sneak by us.  

[DireWolfSpirit]

On this day FloJo passed in her sleep. 

On the short list for All-Time greatest Track&Field athletes, to this day still owning the Worlds best Womens times ever recorded in the 100m and 200m sprints.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/21/1200371618/remembering-olympic-gold-medalist-florence-flo-jo-griffith-joyner

Edited September 22, 2023 by DireWolfSpirit

[LongRider]

23 September

2023  Fall Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere

2006  In Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Federation Internationale de Basketball world championship for women, Australia defeats Russia 91-74 to win its first women's world title in basketball.

1930 Ray Charles, American singer and songwriter born this day in Albany, Georgia.

1846 German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

12 hours ago, LongRider said:

23 September

2023  Fall Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere

2006  In Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Federation Internationale de Basketball world championship for women, Australia defeats Russia 91-74 to win its first women's world title in basketball.

1930 Ray Charles, American singer and songwriter born this day in Albany, Georgia.

1846 German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

1889 Japan founding of the Nintendo company.

[Tywin et al.]

25 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

1889 Japan founding of the Nintendo company.

Whoa, it's that old? The hell did they make back then?

[A Horse Named Stranger]

7 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

Whoa, it's that old? The hell did they make back then?

Cards. No, not Pokemon trading cards. Playing cards. Probably not Pokemon themed. But that company started out as a playing card manufacturer.

[Tywin et al.]

26 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Cards. No, not Pokemon trading cards. Playing cards. Probably not Pokemon themed. But that company started out as a playing card manufacturer.

That's kind of shocking. I recall reading that the company was in a bad place until Pokémon, aka, hand crack, blew up.

I'll have to look more into the company's history. 

Edited September 24, 2023 by Tywin et al.

[LongRider]

24 September

1995 The BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, debuted on British television, and it became one of the most acclaimed adaptations of Jane Austen's classic novel.

1991 The alt rock album Nevermind was released by the band Nirvana.  

1970 The Soviet Luna 16 lands, completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon.

1936  Birthday of Jim Henson, puppeteer who created the “Muppets”.

 

[Tywin et al.]

40 minutes ago, LongRider said:

1995 The BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice, starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, debuted on British television, and it became one of the most acclaimed adaptations of Jane Austen's classic novel

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was better.

[LongRider]

1 minute ago, Tywin et al. said:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was better.

::eyeroll::  Nothing is better than A&E's P&P   (hint Colin Firth)