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WillDekkard
09-22-2010, 04:58 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - September 22nd
c/p from Wikipedia
* 66 – Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
* 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
* 1499 – Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
* 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over England and Dutch.
* 1598 – Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
* 1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
* 1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen of the Great Britain.
* 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
* 1784 – Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
* 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
* 1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
* 1792 – Primidi Vendιmiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar.
* 1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he is directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were buried.
* 1851 – The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
* 1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
* 1866 – Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
* 1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
* 1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".
* 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published
* 1893 – The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
* 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
* 1908 – The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
* 1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
* 1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
* 1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
* 1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peρa Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
* 1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
* 1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
* 1944 – World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
* 1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
* 1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
* 1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
* 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
* 1970 – Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
* 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
* 1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
* 1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
* 1985 – The Plaza Accord is signed in New York City.
* 1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
* 1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
* 1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
* 1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
* 1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
* 2003 – David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
* 2006 – The F-14 Tomcat is retired from the United States Navy.
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Night Prowler
09-22-2010, 05:21 AM
looks like the last 3 years were boring.....:tehe:

WillDekkard
09-23-2010, 03:54 AM
looks like the last 3 years were boring.....:tehe:

I can't remember what I ate for supper last night. Guess if it isn't documented, it didn't happen? . . . ? lol.

Night Prowler
09-23-2010, 04:30 AM
I can't remember what I ate for supper last night. Guess if it isn't documented, it didn't happen? . . . ? lol.

I haven't had supper in 3 years....:lol: