Today In History

h k d 1 · Guest

well this topic was initiated originnally by qstr who kept it also updated but it went
blown with the site. as he hasn't copyrighted it, I think it would be worthful that someone
resumed it, so I will go ahead to mention what happened as of today in history:

June 12th, XXXX

1099 - Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.

1442 - Alfonso V of Aragon was crowned King of Naples.

1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.

1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.

1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. However, evidence has surfaced that indicates that the game of baseball was played before 1800.

1898 - Philippine nationalists declared their independence from Spain.

1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.

1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.

1923 - Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.

1931 - Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws.

1935 - The Chaco War was ended with a truce. Bolivia and Paraguay had been fighting since 1932.

1937 - The Soviet Union executed eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.

1941 - In London, the Inter-Allied Declaration was signed. It was the first step towards the establishment of the United Nations.

1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung announced that he would support Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in the war against Japan.

1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS.

1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971.

1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.

1981 - Major league baseball players began a 49 day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation.

1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.

1987 - Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa was sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.

1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1990 - The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declared its sovereignty.

1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings, but he was held liable in a civil suit.

1998 - Compaq Computer paid $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corp. in largest high-tech acquisition.

1998 - A jury in Hattiesburg, MS, convicted 17-year-old Luke Woodham of killing two students and wounding seven others at Pearl High School.

1999 - NATO peacekeeping forces entered the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia.

2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.

hkd1 · Guest

June 13

1415 - Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa.

1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.

1898 - The Canadian Yukon Territory was organized.

1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.

1922 - Charlie Osborne started the longest attack on hiccups. He hiccuped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991, 11 months after his hiccups ended.

1923 - The French set a trade barrier between the occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany.

1927 - Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

1927 - For the first time an American Flag was displayed from the right hand of the Statue of Liberty.

1940 - Paris was evacuated before the German advance on the city.

1944 - Germany launched 10 of its new V1 rockets against Britain from a position near the Channel coast. Of the 10 rockets only 5 landed in Britain and only one managed to kill (6 people in London).

1949 - Bao Dai entered Saigon to rule Vietnam. He had been installed by the French.

1951 - U.N. troops seized Pyongyang, North Korea.

1977 - James Earl Ray was recaptured after his escape from prison 3 days earlier.

1981 - At a parade in London a teen-ager fired six-blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

1983 - The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in March 1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by Pioneer 10.

1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title. They beat the L.A. Lakers in four games.

1994 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Exxon Corp. and Captain Joseph Hazelwood to be reckless in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

1995 - France announced that they would conduct eight more nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

2000 - In Pyongyang, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il welcomed South Korea's President Kim Dae for a three-day summit. It was the first such meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea.

Darth-Vader · Guest

Sorry HKD1, but hmmm, the pic is self explanatory buddy..

walrus · Guest

June 16, 1971.. tupac was born.

hkd1 · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 40

to change some today birthdays

Edouard Daladier 1884

Ian Carmichael 1920

Robert Arthur 1925

Eva Bartok 1929

Paul McCartney 1942

Isabella Rossellini 1952

Alison Moyet 1961

PeicyP. · Member Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 28

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hkd1 · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 40

080619

0240 BC - Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth using two sticks.

1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories.

1867 - Mexican Emperor Maximillian was executed.

1933 - France granted Leon Trotsky political asylum.

1937 - The town of Bilbao, Spain, fell to the Nationalist forces.

1942 - Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty were married. They were divorced in June of 1946.

1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY. They had been convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

1961 - Kuwait regained complete independence from Britain.

1988 - Over 3,000 East Germans gathered at the Berlin Wall to hear Michael Jackson. Jackson was performing a concert on the other side of the wall in West Berlin.

Darth-Vader · Guest

Today in history: when I realized some $hit I shouldve realized a long time ago.

hkd1 · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 40

if you could predict the future then you could realize a lot of ''$$$$'''s

hkd1 · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 40

1782 - The U.S. Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States.

1791 - King Louis XVI of France was captured while attempting to flee the country in the so-called Flight to Varennes.

1837 - Queen Victoria ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.

1910 - Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaimed martial law and arrested hundreds.

1923 - France announced it would seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying its war debts.

1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was murdered in Beverly Hills, CA, at the order of mob associates angered over the soaring costs of his project, the Flamingo resort in Las Vegas, NV.

1963 - The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two countries.

1967 - Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned the conviction.

1994 - In Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson pled innocent to the killing of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Darth-Vader · Guest

hkd1 · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 40

1814
Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax was born. He was the inventor of the saxophone.

2003
In London, Eminem gave a $450,000 necklace to a fan in the front row of a concert. He had announced while from the stage that "I'm going to give this to the sexiest woman I see."

hkd1 · Member Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 40

1243 - The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by the Mongols.

1483 - Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.

1541 - Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru, was murdered by his former followers.

1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.

1900 - The United States announced that it would send troops to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China.

1907 - Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.

1925 - Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered in Hollywood.

1945 - The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.

1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.

1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."