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Comment by truth on October 14, 2012 at 9:29am

Chuck Yeager Broke The Sound Barrier 65 Years Ago Today

Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the speed of the sound in a rocket plane on Oct. 14, 1947. Exactly 65 years later, Felix Baumgartner will try to become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound.

When asked how he felt about blasting through the sound barrier on the same day as the U.S. Air Force Captain, Baumgartner responded on the Red Bull Stratos blog:

In 65 years, it goes to show there are still challenges to overcome and you should never lose sight of trying to achieve them. I would be proud to be a part of that group of explorers.

Comment by Billybob Cornfed on September 28, 2011 at 4:14pm

were there any UFO's sighted in the vicinity of the initial outbreak?

 

Comment by calgarycmmc.com on September 18, 2011 at 3:01pm

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Comment by Nota Khan on September 11, 2011 at 5:14am

Let's not forget:

1973:Bloody coup against Popular Unity government of democratically elec...

1991: Bush Sr's NWO speech:

 

Comment by Nota Khan on September 10, 2011 at 10:14am

2001 - Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Announces Defense Department Cannot Track $2.3 Trillion

2001 - FEMA Arrives in New York City

2001 - Afghan Opposition leader and former defense chief Ahmed Shah Massoud dies in a suicide attack

1964 - Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms

1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf

1939 - Canada declares war on Germany

1926 - Germany joins League of Nations

1913 - 1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens

1905 - Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes

Comment by Maria De Wind on August 31, 2011 at 2:44pm

August 31 is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previous, Byzantine Empress Theodora, dies without children to succeed the throne, thus ending theMacedonian dynasty.
• 1218 – Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
• 1314 – King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
• 1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
• 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
• 1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
• 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
• 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1876 – Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
• 1886 – An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
• 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
• 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
• 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
• 1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
• 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
• 1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
• 1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
• 1941 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
• 1943 – The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
• 1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
• 1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
• 1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• 1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
• 1963 – Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia
• 1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
• 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.
• 1982 – Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
• 1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
• 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner  Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
• 1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
• 1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
• 1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
• 1996 – Saddam_Hussein´s troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Massoud_Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK. ^[1],^[2]
• 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
• 1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
• 1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
• 1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
• 2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
• 2006 – Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
• 2010 – The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police procedural television series in the United Kingdom, is aired on ITV1.

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aidan of Lindisfarne
  • Raymond Nonnatus
  • August 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)
• Day of Our Language or Limba Noastra (Moldova)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet Union in 1991
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malaysia from the United Kingdom in 1957.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United Kingdom in 1962.

 

Comment by Maria De Wind on August 30, 2011 at 12:36pm

It wasn't ONLY the British who were involved in the opium trade which led to two Opium Wars

Comment by Billybob Cornfed on August 30, 2011 at 12:30pm

Yep, I think we should make it a holiday - now to get our govt to quit limiting it!

Comment by Billybob Cornfed on August 30, 2011 at 10:07am

Hey Maria...nice list! I think Nostradamus took a heavy hit on his bong this day in history too...jk...

Comment by Maria De Wind on August 30, 2011 at 9:56am

August 30

• 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
• 1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
• 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
• 1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
• 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell^{[disambiguation needed]} during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
• 1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
• 1813 – Creek War – Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
• 1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
• 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
• 1862 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
• 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
• 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
• 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
• 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• 1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
• 1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• 1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
• 1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
• 1942 – World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
• 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
• 1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
• 1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
• 1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
• 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• 1963 – The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
• 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
• 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
• 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
• 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
• 2010 – The first shooting spree in Slovakia's history takes place in Bratislava.

 

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