What happened

[The_Seeker]

Because no general discussion board could be taken seriously without one...here's our...what happened...on your birthday?  Especially two or three monstrous-esque events if you can.

Here are mine:
1855-The Devil's Footprints appear in southern Devon
1587-Mary Queen of Scots is executed
Day of Saint Jerome Emiliani (patron saint of orphans, Baron Orelius should understand the irony)

[Devious Viper]

612 BC - Destruction of Nineveh.
30 BC-    Cleopatra commits suicide
1861 -    Battle of Wilson's Creek
1966 -    (Year I was born) 1st lunar orbiter launched by US and Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
1969 -    A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1977 -    In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over a year's period.
1981 -    The head of John Walsh's son Adam is found in Hollywood, Florida. This event will later prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the Missing Children's Act, giving the Federal Bureau of Investigation greater authority to track the disappearance of children. It also makes Walsh a national spokesman against crime and eventually leads to the establishment of America's Most Wanted.


~ Viper ~

[Phantom X]

Just the more interesting ones...

1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1494 - Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1692 - Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1600 people are killed and 3000 are seriously injured.
1862 - The United States and United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
1905 - Norway dissolves its union with Sweden.
1917 - World War I: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.
1938 - The Douglas DC-4 makes its first test flight.
1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Midway ends.
1945 - King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1948 - Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1965 - The US Supreme Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1967 - The Israeli forces occupy Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
1977 - 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera. The Israelis charged the facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1991 - Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
1993 - Prince changes his name to a symbol and comes to be referred to as "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
2006 - British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.

[Devious Viper]

Just the more interesting ones...

Cool...

...1935 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France...

Dude, you need to get out more!!

  JK!!

[Phantom X]

We definatly need more smilies, I desperatly want to show this face to the Viper. Also, I just go that off Wiki, they have a crap load of stuff.

[Devious Viper]

More smilies?? What on earth for?

[Morticia]

Here are some of mine:

September 19
1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers

1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or first Battle of Saratoga

1796 George Washington's farewell address as president

1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes

1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn

1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat

1864 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia

1873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic

1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540

1893 New Zealand grants women the vote

1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)

1929 Adam West, actor (Batman) born

1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby

1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes

1941 HMCS Levis (Corvette) torpedoed

1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London

1949 Twiggy, British actress/model born

1955 Juan Peron, president of Argentina since 1946, was deposed and exiled in a military coup,

1957 Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of 2 miles

1957 The first underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada) - I was a year old!

1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland

1968 A baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic

1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers

1979 Robert is born (Robert who?)

1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)

1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert  (I'm sure some of you will think this is an extremely Monstrous event!  I, however, still have the album on vinyl LOL)

1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service

1983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)

1988 Israel launches first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

1992 Joint Task Force Marianas stands down after providing assistance to Guam after Typhoon Omar

1995 The Washington Post publishes the "Unabomber's Manifesto"

~Morticia

[Phantom X]

Me^ ^DV

[Dark Lord M]

Feb. 16

600 - Pope Gregory I decreed that "God bless you" was the correct response to a sneeze.
1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.
1279 - Afonso III of Portugal dies. His son Denis succeeds the Portuguese throne.
1568 - The entire population of the Netherlands - three million people - was sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy; see Eighty Years' War.
1742 - Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1804 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1838 - Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal were killed by Zulus.
1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC, becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.
1859 - The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch.
1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1866 - Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War
1868 - In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).
1883 - Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time.
1899 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.
1918 - Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany.
1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1934 - Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund
1934 - Commission of Government sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland.
1936 - Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
1940 - Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, is boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.
1943 - World War II: USSR reconquers Kharkov.
1945 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.
1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.
1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1961 - Explorer 9 launched. (See Explorer program)
1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1972 - NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point.
1978 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
1983 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
1986 - The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1987 - The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
1991 - Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.
1998 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.
1999 - In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
1999 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.

[Lord Pisces luffy]

Feburary 27

1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.

1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France.

1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.

1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong.

1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered.

1703 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile, Alabama.

1793 - The Giles resolutions are introduced to the United States House of Representatives asking the House to condemn Alexander Hamilton's handling of loans.

1801 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.

1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.

1827 - The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1844 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.

1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that was largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

1861 - Rudolf Steiner founder of Anthroposophy (a spiritual science) is born in Austria.

1861 - A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters.

1864 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.

1879 - Announcement of the discovery of artificial sweetener saccharin.

1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.

1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.

1900 - The FC Bayern München (Munich) is founded.

1921 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.

1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.

1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.

1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered Carbon-14

1942 - World War II: the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier, is sunk by Japanese warplanes.

1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, United States explodes, killing 74 men.

1948 - The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia.

1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.

1963 - The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

1967 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortus provocatus .

1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.

1976 - The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.

1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo.

1990 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on five criminal counts.

1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."

1996 - Satoshi Tajiri creates the hit media franchise Pokémon.

1999 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.

2002 - Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.

2002 - 2002 Gujarat violence: a train catches fire a few minutes after it leaves the Godhra railway station, killing an estimated 58 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya and triggering riots that lead to the death of 1000 people, mostly Muslims.

2003 - Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.

2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines kills 116, its worst terrorist attack.

2004 - Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.

2005 - Pre-pay price capping on the Transport for London Oyster card is introduced.

[Devious Viper]

1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.

2 May 1997 - Labour Party Member of Parliament Tony Blair elected Prime Minister of Britain. Official death of the British Labour Party 

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[Bloody Angel]

1856
U.S. Army troops from Fort Tejon and Fort Miller prepare to ride out to protect Keyesville, California, from Yokut Indian attack.

1877
Chief Crazy Horse surrenders to U.S. troops in Nebraska.Crazy Horse brought General Custer to his end.

1910
George V becomes the King of England

1937
The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

1942
General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese.

1944
The Red Army besieges and captures Sevastopol in the Crimea.

1945
Axis Sally makes her final propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.

1960
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

1962
The first nuclear warhead is fired from a Polaris submarine.

1987
Black South African workers go on strike over whites only election





Birthdays

I had to share my birthdays with

1501
Pope Marcellus II.

1758
Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary.

1856
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist.

1953
Tony Blair, British Prime Minister.

[Devious Viper]

BA -

A happy one in England: 1966 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders

Sadly, death by hanging had just been abolished

[Devious Viper]

Incidentally, see

http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Moors_murders

for explanation.

[Bloody Angel]

Incidentally, see
http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Moors_murders
for explanation.

I already knew them. I like serial killers. It's a charm of mine
Well done, btw.