This Day in History

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Did you know that it was on this day in 1098 during the First Crusade the massacre of Ma’arrat al-Numan takes place as crusaders breach the town’s walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants? After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.

[Danno 1,228]

Did you know that it was on this day in 1098 during the First Crusade the massacre of Ma’arrat al-Numan takes place as crusaders breach the town’s walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants? After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.

I like the whole "Day in history" posting idea..... why not offer more than one sentence?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I like the whole "Day in history" posting idea..... why not offer more than one sentence?

Feel free to contribute any significant events, births, or deaths that occurred on this day.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

2000 – The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

On this day in history in the year 2003 I was constipated.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Did you know that it was on this day in 1098 during the First Crusade the massacre of Ma’arrat al-Numan takes place as crusaders breach the town’s walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants? After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.

I like the whole "Day in history" posting idea..... why not offer more than one sentence?

He offered two sentences. Next year we will reflect on this day in history as the day that Danno forgot how to count.

[mawilson 2,133]

On this day in history in the year 2003 I was constipated.

Link?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

There, this should close the thread for today.

http://www.on-this-day.com/

December 12

• 1787 - Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
  
• 1792 - In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.
  
• 1800 - Washington, DC, was established as the capital of the United States.
  
• 1805 - Henry Wells was born in Thetford, VT. He was one of the founders of the American Express Company and he teamed up with William Fargo to form the Wells Fargo Company.
  
• 1863 - Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was born. His most known work is "The Scream."
  
• 1870 - Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker to be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives.
  
• 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.
  
• 1897 - The comic strip "The Katzenjammer Kids" (Hans and Fritz), by Rudolph Dirks, appeared in the New York Journal for the first time.
  
• 1899 - George Grant patented the wooden golf tee.
  
• 1900 - Charles M. Schwab formed the United States Steel Corporation.
  
• 1901 - The first radio signal to cross the Atlantic was picked up near St. John's Newfoundland, by inventor Guglielmo Marconi.
  
• 1912 - The Mother's Day International Association was incorporated with the purpose of furthering meaningful observations of Mother's Day.
  
• 1915 - The first all-metal aircraft, the German Junkers J1, made its first flight.
  
• 1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town in Nebraska. The farm village was for wayward boys. In 1979 it was opened to girls.
  
• 1925 - The "Motel Inn," the first motel in the world, opened in San Luis Obispo, CA.
  
• 1937 - Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat "Panay" on China's Yangtze River. Japan apologized for the attack, and paid $2.2 million in reparations.
  
• 1946 - A United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate to be the site of the UN's headquarters. The land was offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
  
• 1947 - The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor.
  
• 1951 - The U.S. Navy Department announced that the world's first nuclear powered submarine would become the sixth ship to bear the name Nautilus.
  
• 1955 - It was announced that the Ford Foundation gave $500,000,000 to private hospitals, colleges and medical schools.
  
• 1955 - British engineer Christopher Cockerell patented the first hovercraft.
  
• 1963 - Kenya gained its independence from Britain.
  
• 1975 - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to a charge of trying to kill U.S. President Ford in San Francisco the previous September.
  
• 1982 - 20,000 women encircled Greenham Common air base in Britain in protest against proposed cite of U.S. Cruise missiles there.
  
• 1983 - Car bombs were set off in front of the French and U.S. embassies in Kuwait City. Shiite extremists were responsible for the five deaths and 86 wounded. Total of five bombs went off in different locations.
  
• 1984 - In a telephone conversation with U.S. President Reagan, William J. Schroeder complained of a delay in his Social Security benefits. Schroeder received a check the following day.
  
• 1985 - 248 American soldiers and eight crewmembers were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed in Gander, Newfoundland after takeoff.
  
• 1989 - Britain forcibly removed 51 Vietnamese from Hong Kong and returned them to their homeland.
  
• 1989 - Leona Helmsley was fined $7 million and sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion.
  
• 1994 - The Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992.
  
• 1994 - IBM stopped shipments of personal computers with Intel's flawed Pentium chip.
  
• 1995 - The U.S. Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against the American flag.
  
• 1995 - Two French airmen shot down over Bosnia arrived home after almost four months of being held captive by the Bosnian Serbs.
  
• 1997 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
  
• 1997 - The U.S. Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs.
  
• 1997 - Denver Pyle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  
• 1998 - The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved the final article of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict.
  
• 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
  
• 2000 - Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 and injured 500.
  
• 2000 - The Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking 10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all major league baseball records and all professional sports records.
  
• 2001 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.
  
• 2001 - Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his role in the infiltration of U.S. military bases and in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years before.
  
• 2001 - In Beverly Hills, CA, actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760.
  
• 2002 - North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons.
  

Birthdays

• Gustave Flaubert 1821
  
• Edvard Munch 1863
  
• Edward G. Robinson 1893
  
• Robert Covington 1914
  
• Frank Sinatra 1915
  
• Joe Williams 1918
  
• Bob Barker 1923
  
• Ed Koch 1924
  
• Robert N. Noyce 1927
  
• Connie Francis 1938
  
• Dionne Warwick 1940
  
• Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) 1942
  
• Grover Washington Jr. 1943
  
• Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers) 1943
  
• Wings Hauser 1947
  
• Paul Rodgers (Bad Company) 1949
  
• Cathy Rigby 1952
  
• Sheila E. 1957
  
• Cy Curnin (Fixx) 1957
  
• Sheree J. Wilson 1958
  
• Tracy Ann Austin Holt 1962 - Tennis player
  
• Mädchen Amick 1970
  
• Jennifer Connelly 1970
  
• Mayim Bialik 1975
  

[웃 910]

On this day in history (1963) the great nation of Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/dec-12-1963-kenya-gains-independence/

Edited December 12, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

2001 - The Israeli Cabinet cuts off contact with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Israel also announced that they would send troops to arrest suspected terrorists.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

On this day in history (1963) the great nation of Kenya gained independence from the United Kingdom.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/dec-12-1963-kenya-gains-independence/

Interestingly enough, for Obama, that was also the date that his Kenyan certificate of live birth was filed.

Edited December 12, 2011 by Crusty Old Perv

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

1545 – Council of Trent begins.

1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.

1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

1941 – World War II: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.

1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.

1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.

1962 – NASA Relay 1 launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.

1988 – Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

2000 – Al Gore concedes the U.S. presidential election to George W. Bush.

2002 – Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.

2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).

National Cocoa Day (USA)

World Violins Day

Ice Cream Day

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Ice Cream Day

Pfft. I like August 5th better: Beer Day