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1912 - Amundsen announcement that his expedition had reached South Pole
Reply #981. Mar 07 12, 10:21 AM
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paulmallon
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Mar 28, 1979:
Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
At 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat
Reply #982. Mar 28 12, 2:37 PM
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paulmallon
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4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
4/4/68: Dr. Martin Luther King is assinated
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
Reply #983. Apr 04 12, 10:21 AM
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| trojan11
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1814: Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
Reply #984. Apr 04 12, 1:02 PM
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| Greatguggly
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Kurt Cobain of the rock band Nirvana died April 5, 1994 from a apparently self-inflicted shotgun wound. Layne Staley of the rock band Alice in Chains died April 5, 2002 from an overdose mixture of cocaine and heroin.
Reply #985. Apr 05 12, 4:54 PM
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boxjaw
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RMS Titanic arrived at Queenstown (Cobh) to pick up passengers before heading for New York.
Reply #986. Apr 11 12, 10:52 AM
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boxjaw
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RMS Titanic is congratulated by other ships on it's maiden voyage. She also receives messages of ice in the sea lanes.
Reply #987. Apr 12 12, 3:49 AM
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boxjaw
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RMS Titanic covers 519 miles at the end of the third day of her voyage.
Reply #988. Apr 12 12, 8:43 PM
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boxjaw
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She covered 386 miles the day before.
Reply #989. Apr 12 12, 8:46 PM
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boxjaw
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RMS Baltic reports large quantities of field ice about 250 mile ahead of Titanic. Message was given to Capt. Smith who gives message to J. Bruce Ismay, head of White Star Line. He then pockets the message.
Reply #990. Apr 13 12, 10:57 AM
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boxjaw
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RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg at approximately 11:40 P.M. local time or 2:40 A.M. GMT.
Reply #991. Apr 14 12, 11:09 AM
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| Greatguggly
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Loretta Lynn 4/14/35
Pete Rose 4/14/41
Reply #992. Apr 14 12, 2:44 PM
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| Greatguggly
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oops. Sorry, thought this was the born on this day thread.
Reply #993. Apr 14 12, 2:45 PM
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tezza1551
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The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy 1840–1928
(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic")
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
Steel chambers, late the pyres
Of her salamandrine fires,
Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
Over the mirrors meant
To glass the opulent
The sea-worm crawls — grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
Jewels in joy designed
To ravish the sensuous mind
Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
Dim moon-eyed fishes near
Gaze at the gilded gear
And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" ...
Well: while was fashioning
This creature of cleaving wing,
The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
Prepared a sinister mate
For her — so gaily great —
A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
Alien they seemed to be;
No mortal eye could see
The intimate welding of their later history,
Or sign that they were bent
By paths coincident
On being anon twin halves of one august event,
Till the Spinner of the Years
Said "Now!" And each one hears,
And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
Reply #994. Apr 15 12, 5:39 AM
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boxjaw
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Very beautiful poem. The first time I've had the privilege of reading that. Thank you tezza.
Reply #995. Apr 15 12, 6:41 AM
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paulmallon
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Apr 15, 1947:
Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson's groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New York City's Shea Stadium. Robinson's was the first-ever number retired by all teams in the league.
And some ship sunk.
Reply #996. Apr 15 12, 8:57 AM
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boxjaw
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
Reply #997. Apr 19 12, 2:53 AM
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paulmallon
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On April 20, 1986, the Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan scores 63 points in an NBA playoff game against the Boston Celtics, setting a post-season scoring record. Despite Jordan’s achievement, the Bulls lost to the Celtics in double overtime, 135-131. Boston swept the three-game series and went on to win the NBA championship.
Reply #998. Apr 20 12, 8:49 PM
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paulmallon
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May 6, 1937:
The Hindenburg disaster
The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers.
Reply #999. May 06 12, 1:38 PM
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boxjaw
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1788 - The U.S. Constitution is ratified.
Reply #1000. Jun 21 12, 6:35 AM
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