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    I always enjoy reading this particular section of the BBC news site, I am sure others have them, but it reminds us of times gone by and how far things have come.

    BBC ON THIS DAY | 10 | 1955: US evacuates Pacific islands
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    On this day...
    0060 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
    1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
    1535 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
    1549 Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil
    1635 Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
    1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster MA
    1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier
    1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
    1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
    1746 English Pelham government resigns
    1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
    1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England
    1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
    1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
    1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
    1824 Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú
    1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
    1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
    1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US
    1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
    1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
    1860 John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
    1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
    1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
    1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)
    1866 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
    1868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
    1870 City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
    1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York NY)
    1878 Peace of Zanjón
    1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
    1879 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
    1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
    1880 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
    1881 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman" premieres in Paris
    1882 Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka" premieres in St Petersburg
    1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee WI, kills 71
    1890 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
    1897 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
    1899 -39ºF (-39ºC), Milligan OH (state lowest temperature record)
    1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
    1900 Peter Ostlund skates world record 500 meter (45.2 seconds)
    1904 Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
    1906 Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
    1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
    1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
    1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs Australia at MCG
    1913 Edward Sheldons "Romance" premieres in New York NY
    1916 Conscription begins in Britain

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    • #3
      was thinking more a little light reading and recalling, with a morning coffee.........not reading the entire history of the world every sitting
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      Should raw analytical data ever be passed to policy makers?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by T_igger_cs_30 View Post
        was thinking more a little light reading and recalling, with a morning coffee.........not reading the entire history of the world every sitting

        One man's light reading is another man's dissertation...

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Kansas Bear View Post
          One man's light reading is another man's dissertation...
          Or he drinks to much coffee
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          Should raw analytical data ever be passed to policy makers?

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          • #6
            I remember watching BBC World, and they had this break between the news and some other programe where they had this "This Week in the News" secton, and they literally had something from like 300's BC on it. Made me LOL

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            • #7
              On this day...
              0303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
              1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date)
              1574 France begins 5th Holy War against Huguenots
              1660 Charles XI becomes king of Sweden
              1668 Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued
              1672 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
              1689 Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England
              1778 Baron von Steuben joins the Continental Army at Valley Forge
              1792 Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
              1792 Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres
              1804 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
              1813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA
              1820 Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
              1821 College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; 1st US pharmacy college
              1822 Boston is incorporated as a city
              1836 Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
              1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
              1847 Battle of Buena Vista, México; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
              1852 "H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops
              1854 Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein
              1861 By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
              1861 Dutch Premier Floris A van Hall resigns
              1861 President-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington DC to take office
              1869 Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
              1870 Mississippi is re-admitted to US
              1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
              1883 Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
              1883 American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Philadelphia)
              1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed
              1886 London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad
              1886 Tsjaikovski's symphony "Manfred" premieres
              1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco
              1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
              1892 1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA
              1894 Stanley Cup Montréal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play
              1895 William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
              1895 Jaap Eden skates world record 10 km (17:56)
              1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
              1898 In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus
              1900 Steamer "Rio de Janeiro" sinks in San Francisco Bay
              1900 Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
              1903 Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
              1904 Control of Panamá Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million
              1905 Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago
              1906 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for heavyweight boxing champion in 20 rounds
              1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
              1910 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
              1910 George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" premieres in London
              1915 Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
              1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
              1916 Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
              1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun
              1917 February revolution begins in Russia
              1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy
              1921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA
              1923 German Republic day with laws against worker
              1923 Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
              1927 President Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC predecessor)
              1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers
              1934 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
              1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY
              1938 Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
              1939 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
              1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
              1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio", released
              1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood CA
              1943 General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
              1943 German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
              1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
              1945 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
              1945 Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
              1945 Operation Grenade General Simpson's 9th Army crosses Ruhr

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