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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Japan's Meiji Constitution Goes into Effect (1889) The Imperial, or Meiji, Constitution was the fundamental law of the Empire of Japan from 1890 until 1947. Enacted after the Meiji Restoration, it provided for a form of constitutional monarchy based on the Prussian model. The constitution allowed the active Emperor to wield considerable political power, but the control was to be shared with an elected assembly LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Skeleton of "Lucy" Discovered (1974) "Lucy," a 3.2 million-year-old female hominid of the species Australopithecus afarensis, was discovered by scientists in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. An unprecedented 40% intact, Lucy was the first fossil hominid to really capture public notice. Although she was 3 feet, 8 inches tall and looked somewhat like a chimpanzee, her bipedal knee structure indicates that she walked upright, like a human LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin Debuts in US (1926) Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin was a seminal film in cinematic history and was based on the real-life 1905 uprising aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. Eisenstein deliberately wrote the film as a revolutionary propaganda piece and used it to test his theories of "montage," a form of movie collage consisting of a series of short shots edited into a coherent sequence LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
AndyW Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 5862 Credit: 10,957,677 RAC: 18 |
The in-space repairs on Hubble became one of the landmarks of manned space flight. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/9/newsid_4618000/4618415.stm |
Whiskey Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 981 Credit: 640,589 RAC: 0 |
Sunday 7 December 1942, a day that will live in infamy, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. My late wife was born at 23-00hrs on that day. Sunday 7 December 2008 at 23-00hrs, my Mum died. Join the #1 UAE Team. |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Kecksburg UFO Incident (1965) Many believe that the large fireball observed in the sky above Ontario, Canada, and six US states in 1965 was nothing more than a passing meteor. However, residents of the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, claim that a car-sized, acorn-shaped object with hieroglyphic-like markings crashed in a nearby wood. Kecksburg LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Battle of the River Plate (1939) The Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval battle of World War II, involved the Admiral Graf Spee, a German pocket battleship. Its crew had been under orders to sink British merchant ships, a practice known as commerce raiding, but avoid combat with enemy forces. During the Royal Navy's attack on the ship, the German vessel suffered some superficial damage and set a course for Montevideo Battle LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
James Naismith Invents Basketball (1891) Looking for an activity for his students during indoor gym classes, Naismith nailed a peach basket to each end of a gymnasium, created two teams of nine players, and thus invented basketball. The sport was inspired in part by a game Naismith had played as a child called "Duck on a Rock." One month later, Naismith published rules for the game, which did not allow for what is known today as dribbling. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Louisiana Purchase Completed (1803) American settlers in the western territories depended on the Mississippi River's port of New Orleans for commerce. When Spain retroceded New Orleans to France in 1800, Americans feared their access to the river would be blocked, so President Thomas Jefferson sent negotiators to broker a deal for the port city. Ultimately, Napoleon sold the entire Louisiana territory, including New Orleans, to the US for approximately 3 cents per acre LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
AndyW Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 5862 Credit: 10,957,677 RAC: 18 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/26/newsid_4631000/4631713.stm
The tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 13 countries. At least 128,000 people died in Indonesia alone. Many months later, bodies were still being discovered in some countries. In Thailand a British forensic team continues its work identifying up to 2,000 victims. There was a massive international response. Six months after the disaster about $12bn (£7bn) around the world had been pledged in aid. But rebuilding in many of the stricken areas is slow and thousands of people remain homeless. The UN has said it expects much of the reconstruction work to take up to five years. Governments affected by the disaster are now working to build a tsunami early warning system. The Boxing Day sea surge was triggered when an earthquake caused the sea floor to jolt vertically by about 10m (33ft), which displaced hundreds of cubic kilometres of water. The resulting waves travelled at speeds of up to 800km/h (497mph). |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Charles Darwin Sets Sail on HMS Beagle (1831) The theory of evolution, which Darwin first expressed in The Origin of Species, was the result of his discoveries as a naturalist on board the HMS Beagle. His book explained evolution through the principles of natural selection and aroused widespread debate among scientists and religious leaders. Darwin spent the rest of his life studying the results of that expedition and developing his theory of evolution LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 |
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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last major armed conflict between the Lakota Sioux and the US. After the death of Sitting Bull, a band of Sioux, led by Big Foot, fled south, but was captured by the 7th Cavalry on December 28, 1890. The next day, the Sioux were ordered disarmed. During the tension that ensued, a weapon discharged, US troops opened fire, and within minutes almost 200 men, women, and children were dead. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
The Curse of the Bambino (1920) According to baseball lore, a curse was placed on the Boston Red Sox after Babe Ruth, the "Bambino," was sold to the New York Yankees in 1920. Before the sale, the Red Sox had won 5 World Series titles; the Yankees had never even played in a series. Following the sale, the Yankees went on to win 26 World Series titles. The Red Sox, meanwhile, failed to win another series for more than 8 decades, finally breaking the "curse" in 2004. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
US President Woodrow Wilson Introduces His Fourteen Points (1918) Wilson presented his Fourteen Points, a program intended to lay the foundation for peace in Europe after WWI, to the US Congress in 1918. The idealistic message laid the groundwork for the creation of the League of Nations. It successfully encouraged the Central Powers to yield, and thus became the basis for the terms of Germany's surrender. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Joan of Arc Goes on Trial (1431) Joan of Arc was a French military leader and heroine who was canonized as a saint in 1920, nearly 500 years after she was burned at the stake. Claiming to be inspired by religious visions, Joan organized the French resistance that forced the English to end their siege of Orléans in 1429 and led an army to Reims where she had the dauphin, Charles VII, crowned king. Captured and sold to the English by the Burgundians, she was later tried for heresy and executed. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Marilyn Monroe Marries Joe DiMaggio (1954) Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio after a two-year courtship that captivated America. The marriage lasted just 274 days, collapsing amid reports of her infidelity and his violence and jealousy, but the two became close again after Monroe divorced Arthur Miller. When Monroe was found dead in August 1962, it was DiMaggio who claimed her body and arranged her funeral. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Ivan the Terrible Is Tsar of Russia (1547) Ivan IV was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title "tsar." The early part of his reign saw modernization and peaceful reforms, but after a near-fatal illness and the death of his wife in 1560, his mental state rapidly deteriorated. His later reign was marked by extreme violence in both his personal and political life and bad decisions that led to war and famine in Russia LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Jim Thorpe's Olympic Medals Posthumously Restored (1983) Jim Thorpe, an American Olympian, was considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports history. He won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon but was stripped of his awards after reports surfaced that he had played minor league baseball before participating in the 1912 Olympic Games. At the time, strict rules barred professional athletes from Olympic competition LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Iran Releases 52 American Hostages (1981) On November 4, 1979, Iranian students calling themselves the "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line" seized the US embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. Tensions between the US and Iran had intensified following the CIA-backed removal of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953, and the students justified the hostage-taking by calling it an act of retaliation. After 444 days, the 52 remaining hostages were released. LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
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