Official Today in History Thread

[CaptainCrunch]

I took a couple of days off.

But here's Dec 4th in history

1259 - Louis IX of France and Henry II of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, England renounces its claim to French controlled territory in England including Normandy in exchange for the French withdrawing support for English rebels

1619 - Thirty eight colonists arrive in Virginia and declare that the day will be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to God.

1674 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan. The mission would eventually become Chicago

1783 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York US General George Washington bids farewell to his men

1791 - The first edition of the Observer the first Sunday Newspaper in the world is published.

1861 - The 109 electors of the states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander Stephens as Vice President

1864 - Sherman's March to the sea. At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Kilpatrick prevent Confederate troops under Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman 's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean

1881 - First edition of the LA times is published

1906 - Alpha Phi Alpha the first black college faternity is founded at Cornell

1909 - The first Grey Cup is played. the Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26-6. Varsity Blues rookie QB Ricky Ray passes for 3 touchdowns.

1909 - The Montreal Canadians is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association

1918 - Woodrow Wilson sales for the WW1 peace talks in Versailles becoming the first US President to travel to Europe while in office

1942 - Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends

1945 - By a vote of 65 to 7 the US Senate approves US participation in the UN

1954 - The first Burger King opens

1956 - The million dollar quartet of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time

1965 - The Grateful Dead perform for the first time as the Grateful Dead

1967 - US and South Vietnamese troops engage the Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta

1969 - Black Panthers Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a police raid in Chicago

1971 - The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi

1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassi president of the CAR crowns himself as Emperor Bokassi 1 of the Central African Empire

1982 - The Peoples Republic of China adopts its current constitution

1991 - George H W Bush orders 28000 troops to Comalia

1998 - the second module of the ISS is launched named the Unity Module

[Knalus]

Captain crunch, you would like a YouTube series called “The Great War”, covering the events 100 years ago, week by week, in WW1.

[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by Knalus

Captain crunch, you would like a YouTube series called “The Great War”, covering the events 100 years ago, week by week, in WW1.

Agree, there are many hours to be binged there

[Dion]

On November 5th, 2017 Flames GM Brad Treliving relieved Glen Gulutzan and his coaching staff from thier coaching duties immediately.

On November 5th 2017 Flames GM Brad Treliving announces that former Flames coach Darryl Sutter has agreed to coach the Flames for the remaining 2017 season with an option for next year.

[McG]

Originally Posted by Dion

On November 5th, 2017 Flames GM Brad Treliving relieved Glen Gulutzan and his coaching staff from thier coaching duties immediately.

On November 5th 2017 Flames GM Brad Treliving announces that former Flames coach Darryl Sutter has agreed to coach the Flames for the remaining 2017 season with an option for next year.

Had me right up to “November”!

[Dion]

On this day in 1945 five Grumman TBM Avengers (flight 19) disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle, never to be found.

Even if the “Lost Patrol” didn’t fall victim to the supernatural, there’s no denying that its disappearance was accompanied by many oddities and unanswered questions. Perhaps the strangest of all concerns Lieutenant Taylor. Witnesses later claimed that he arrived to Flight 19’s pre-exercise briefing several minutes late and requested to be excused from leading the mission. “I just don’t want to take this one out,” he supposedly said. Just why Taylor tried to get out of flying remains a mystery, but it has led many to suggest that he may have not been fit for duty. Also unexplained is why none of the members of Flight 19 made use of the rescue radio frequency or their planes’ ZBX receivers, which could have helped lead them toward Navy radio towers on land. The pilots were told to switch the devices on, but they either didn’t hear the message or didn’t acknowledge it.

What really happened to Flight 19? The most likely scenario is that the planes eventually ran out of gas and ditched in the ocean somewhere off the coast of Florida, leaving any survivors at the mercy of rough seas and deep water. In 1991, a group of treasure hunters seemed to have finally solved the puzzle when they stumbled upon the watery graves of five World War II-era Avengers near Fort Lauderdale. Unfortunately, it was later found that the hulks belonged to a different group of Navy planes whose serial numbers didn’t match those of the fabled “Lost Patrol.” Many believe the wrecks of Flight 19 and its doomed rescue plane may still lurk somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, but while the search continues to this day, no definitive signs of the six aircraft or their 27 crewmen have ever been found.

http://www.history.com/news/the-myst...e-of-flight-19

[calgaryrocks]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I took a couple of days off.

But here's Dec 4th in history

1259 - Louis IX of France and Henry II of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, England renounces its claim to French controlled territory in England including Normandy in exchange for the French withdrawing support for English rebels

1619 - Thirty eight colonists arrive in Virginia and declare that the day will be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to God.

1674 - Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan. The mission would eventually become Chicago

1783 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York US General George Washington bids farewell to his men

1791 - The first edition of the Observer the first Sunday Newspaper in the world is published.

1861 - The 109 electors of the states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander Stephens as Vice President

1864 - Sherman's March to the sea. At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Kilpatrick prevent Confederate troops under Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman 's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean

1881 - First edition of the LA times is published

1906 - Alpha Phi Alpha the first black college faternity is founded at Cornell

1909 - The first Grey Cup is played. the Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26-6. Varsity Blues rookie QB Ricky Ray passes for 3 touchdowns.

1909 - The Montreal Canadians is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association

1918 - Woodrow Wilson sales for the WW1 peace talks in Versailles becoming the first US President to travel to Europe while in office

1942 - Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends

1945 - By a vote of 65 to 7 the US Senate approves US participation in the UN

1954 - The first Burger King opens

1956 - The million dollar quartet of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time

1965 - The Grateful Dead perform for the first time as the Grateful Dead

1967 - US and South Vietnamese troops engage the Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta

1969 - Black Panthers Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a police raid in Chicago

1971 - The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi

1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassi president of the CAR crowns himself as Emperor Bokassi 1 of the Central African Empire

1982 - The Peoples Republic of China adopts its current constitution

1991 - George H W Bush orders 28000 troops to Comalia

1998 - the second module of the ISS is launched named the Unity Module

haha

[CaptainCrunch]

Today Dec 5th

1408 Emir Edigu of the Golden Horde reaches Moscow

1484 - Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis Desideranties Affectivbus, a Papal Bull that appoints Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out witchcraft in Germany

1492 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the Island of Hispaniola (Haiti)

1496 - Prince Manuel I or Portugal issues a decree ordering Heretics from the country

1766 - In London James Christie holds his first auction.

1848 - President James Polk informs Congress that large amounts of gold have been found in California

1931 - The Cathedral of Christ our Savior in Moscow is ordered destroyed by Stalin

1932 - Albert Einstein is issued a US Visa

1941 - The Battle of Moscow, Soviet General Georgy Zhukov orders his counter offensive

1941 - England declares war on Finland, Romania and Hungary

1942 - Operation Crossbow is initiated as Allied Air Power begins to attack secret German weapons bases.

1952 - The great cold fog descends on London combined with air pollution it kills 12,000 people in a matter of months

1955 - ED Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1964 - Captain Roger Donion is awarded the first Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War

1983 - Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina

2004 - The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the UK

2014 - The first launch of the Orion

[CaptainCrunch]

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.

[FLAMESRULE]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Dec 6

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

Wait. What?? X-Men is based on a true story??

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Dec 6

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

Cap'n, that number should be nearly 2000 people I believe.

[CaptainCrunch]

Yup your correct. The number they also talk about is that the people of Halifax gathered to watch the ship burn and when it exploded something like 1000 people were blinded by things like flying glass and debris.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Cap'n, that number should be nearly 2000 people I believe.

5000 wounded, 2000 dead, including Vince Coleman, Dispatcher

[karl262]

Today is probably a bad day for Mitsubishi sales in Hawaii

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by GGG

5000 wounded, 2000 dead, including Vince Coleman, Dispatcher

Do these numbers only account for the explosion/tsunami or do they include deaths from exposure as a result of the subsequent snow storm?

The number of 25,000 homeless post explosion that faced an early season heavy snow storm.

[CaptainCrunch]

December 7th

574 - Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity. He abdicates in favor of his General Tiberius and proclaims him Caesar.

1703 - The great storm hits southern Great Britain. winds gust to 120 mph and 9000 people die

1732 - The Royal Opera House opens in London

1787 - The State of Delaware is the first state to ratify the Constitution.

1842 - The first concert of the New York Philharmonic

1869 - Jesse James commits his first bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri

1904 - Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peteret. Spiteful is the first warship powered by fuel oil and the trials lead to the end of the use of coals in ships of the Royal Navy.

1917 - The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary

1930 - W1XAV in Boston telecasts the first television commercial in the United States during the show The Fox Trappers. The first ad is for IJ Fox Furriers.

1941 - The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour. The United States loses the Battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania. The Tennessee and Maryland were damaged but returned to duty.

4 battleship were sunk, four were damaged, 188 aircraft were destroyed, 2335 killed 1,142 wounded.

The Japanese attacked using 6 aircraft carriers 23 fleet submarines, 5 midget subs, 414 aircraft and accompanying support and escort ships.

1949 - The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.

1963 - Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. Young Ricky Ray is shown picking his nose in slow motion.

1972 - Apollo 17, the last moon landing is launched. They take the Blue Marble Photograph as they leave the Earth



1982 - Charles Brooks Jr is executed in Texas and becomes the first person in the US to be executed by Lethal Injection

1987 - Mikail Gorbachev arrives in United States for a Summit with Ronald Reagan

1995 - Galileo arrives at Jupiter 6 years after its launch

1999 - A&M Records sues Napster alleging Copyright infringement

2003 - The Conservative Party of Canada is official registered following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the PC Party of Canada

2017 - Marriage Amendment Bill to recognize Same Sex Marriage passes in Australia.

[puffnstuff]

The Ricky Ray digs amuse me greatly.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

The Ricky Ray digs amuse me greatly.

Every time I see a football story I have to throw Ricky Ray in.

I almost threw a Captain Kirk in the Tiberius one.

[CaptainCrunch]

December 8th

1660 - A woman appears on the English stage for the first time in the role of Desdemona in a production of Othello

1813 - Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

1854 - In his Apostiolic constitution Deus Pope Pius IX programs the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin

1912 - Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility of war breaking out

1922 - Northern Ireland ceases to be a part of the Irish Free State

1941 - US President Franklin D Roosevelt declares that December 7 to be a date which lives in infamy, after which the US declares war on Japan

1941 - Japan simultaneously invades Shanghai, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, The Philippines and the Dutch East indies simultaneous to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

1953 - President Eisenhower delivers his "atoms for Peace" speech which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power plants to schools, hospitals and research institutions around the world.

1871 - The Indian Navy attacks Karachi

1980 - John Lennon is murdered in New York City

1987 - The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed

1987 - A Israeli tank commander kills four Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident on the Israel Gaza border which leads to the events that spark the First Intifada

1991 - The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States

2010 - With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfull launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft

2010 - The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus

[Suzles]

If you are looking for a notable birthday you can include me!!!! 60 today!!

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