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CaptainCrunch · 12-06-2017, 11:37 AM

Dec 6

963 - Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of the Protonotary and begins his papacy as the Anti-Pope of Rome (Hey do you think if a pope and an antiope collide that it would destroy God?)

1648 - Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of any who are sympathetic to King Charles I, which paves the way his trial

1768 - First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published

1865 - The 13th Amendment of the Constitution is adopted banning Slavery

1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published

1884 - The Washington Monument is completed

1897 - London becomes the first city to license taxicabs

1916 - The Central Powers capture Bucharest

1917 - Finland gains its Independence

1917 - a 3 KT munitions ship explosion rips through Halifax killing nearly 200 people

1917 - The USS Jacob Jones becomes the first American Destroyer sank by enemy action when it is struck by a Torpedo

1928 - The Colombian Military is sent to suppress a strike by United Fruit Company workers.

1933 - United States Judge John M Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

1941 - Canada and the UK declare war on Finland to support the Soviet Union. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Ally Agents. Professor Charles Xavier is named the first Dean

1953 - Vladimar Nobokov completes Lolita

1956 - A violent Water Polo match breaks out at the Melbourne Olympics when the Russians play the Hungarians against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution

1957 - A launch pad explosion of the Vanguard VT3 thwarts the American's first attempt to launch a satellite.

1969 - at the Altamont free concert featuring the Rolling Stones 18 year old Meredith Hunter is beaten to death by the Hell's Angels

1971 - Pakistan severs ties with India which leads to the India-Pakistan War

1989 - Marc Lepine murders 14 woman at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal

1998 - Hugo Chavez wins the Venezuela Presidential Election

2006 - Nasa reveals photo's taken by the Mar's Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid Water on Mars.

12-06-2017, 11:37 AM	#49
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	Dec 6 963 - Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of the Protonotary and begins his papacy as the Anti-Pope of Rome (Hey do you think if a pope and an antiope collide that it would destroy God?) 1648 - Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of any who are sympathetic to King Charles I, which paves the way his trial 1768 - First Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published 1865 - The 13th Amendment of the Constitution is adopted banning Slavery 1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published 1884 - The Washington Monument is completed 1897 - London becomes the first city to license taxicabs 1916 - The Central Powers capture Bucharest 1917 - Finland gains its Independence 1917 - a 3 KT munitions ship explosion rips through Halifax killing nearly 200 people 1917 - The USS Jacob Jones becomes the first American Destroyer sank by enemy action when it is struck by a Torpedo 1928 - The Colombian Military is sent to suppress a strike by United Fruit Company workers. 1933 - United States Judge John M Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene. 1941 - Canada and the UK declare war on Finland to support the Soviet Union. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Ally Agents. Professor Charles Xavier is named the first Dean 1953 - Vladimar Nobokov completes Lolita 1956 - A violent Water Polo match breaks out at the Melbourne Olympics when the Russians play the Hungarians against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution 1957 - A launch pad explosion of the Vanguard VT3 thwarts the American's first attempt to launch a satellite. 1969 - at the Altamont free concert featuring the Rolling Stones 18 year old Meredith Hunter is beaten to death by the Hell's Angels 1971 - Pakistan severs ties with India which leads to the India-Pakistan War 1989 - Marc Lepine murders 14 woman at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal 1998 - Hugo Chavez wins the Venezuela Presidential Election 2006 - Nasa reveals photo's taken by the Mar's Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid Water on Mars. __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!