Cymruambyth 
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December 7. Today is the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Reply #561. Dec 07 10, 12:20 AM
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spidersghost43
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A very greatful shoutout to the survivors of that fateful day and a prayful remembrance to those who perished. Your sacrifice is not forgotten.
Reply #562. Dec 07 10, 6:59 AM
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Cymruambyth
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1653 - Oliver Cromwell sworn in as Lord Protector of England. There goes Christmas!
1915 - Einsrtein publishes his Theory of Relativity.
Reply #563. Dec 16 10, 3:00 PM
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CmdrK
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On this day in 1960 France detonated its first atomic bomb.
Welcome to the jungle.
Reply #564. Feb 13 11, 3:40 PM
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| Greatguggly
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March 2, 1917...The Jones Act was enacted granting Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship.
Reply #565. Mar 02 11, 11:00 AM
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Ilona_Ritter
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March 3 - 1991 Rodney King was beaten by cops which sparked a huge riot in Los Angeles.
Reply #566. Mar 03 11, 7:12 PM
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REDVIKING57
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March 4th,1681.
Charles II granted a Royal Charter to William Penn,entitling him to establish a colony in North America - Pennsylvania.
Reply #567. Mar 04 11, 6:45 AM
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CmdrK
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What, no one remembers? On this day in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was assassinated.
Reply #568. Mar 15 11, 8:27 PM
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daver852
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Reply #569. Mar 17 11, 4:37 PM
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| naerulinnupesa
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60 years ago today was the day when Jehovah's Witnesses from different parts of the USSR were deported to Siberia. "Enemies of the state" they were called - even small babies. Was that Stalin's idea of an especially cruel April's Fools joke?
Reply #570. Mar 31 11, 3:45 PM
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| naerulinnupesa
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It's April 1st here already.
Reply #571. Mar 31 11, 3:47 PM
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daver852
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On this day, 150 years ago, the refusal of a band of Yankee mercenaries to cease illegally occupying an outpost called Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor sparked the first engagement of what is popularly called the War of Northern Agression.
Reply #572. Apr 12 11, 8:22 AM
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spidersghost43
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Today is the 66th anniversary of the passing of FDR
Reply #573. Apr 12 11, 10:45 AM
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REDVIKING57
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Fifty years ago today the 'Space Race' began in earnest. Russian fighter pilot Colonel Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space,aboard Vostok 1. He died 7 years later,aged just 34,in a military training flight.
Reply #574. Apr 12 11, 10:48 AM
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spidersghost43
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Today in 1865 Abraham Lincoln (considered by many The United States' Greatest President) was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Fords Theater.
Reply #575. Apr 14 11, 10:58 AM
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Professer
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Fifty years ago, shortly before midnight on 16 April 1961, a group of some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs.
The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution.
Instead, it turned into a humiliating defeat which pushed Cuba firmly into the arms of the Soviet Union and has soured US-Cuban relations to this day.
The Bay of Pigs is a large isolated inlet on Cuba's southern coast.
There is little here apart from mosquitoes and a crocodile-infested swamp.
The beach at Playa Giron, a village with a small airstrip at the mouth of the Bay of Pigs, was the invaders' primary target. (To this day, it is referred to in Cuba as the Playa Giron invasion.)
A simultaneous landing was planned near the village of Playa Larga, 35km away at the far end of the bay.
Reply #576. Apr 14 11, 11:46 AM
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| Greatguggly
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On April 18, 1942 American warplanes, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, conducted an extremely daring raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities for the first time. Coming just four months after Pearl Harbor and during a string of Japanese victories in the South Pacific, the raid provided a much needed morale boost for the American fighting man as well as the general public. It also planted the seeds of doubt in the Japanese population who had been assured by their leaders that they were invulnerable to attack.
Reply #577. Apr 18 11, 11:55 AM
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| naerulinnupesa
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Today 25 years ago there was a devastating explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Reply #578. Apr 26 11, 8:27 AM
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| C30
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26th April 1865........General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered what was left of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Reply #579. Apr 26 11, 2:06 PM
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REDVIKING57
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April 28th.2001. Ten years ago today,Dennis Tito became the first 'space tourist'. He paid a reputed $20 million to visit the International Space Station.
Reply #580. Apr 28 11, 6:45 AM
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