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The 21st night of september?
anyone know what was so significant about this day?
anyone know what was so significant about this day?
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Originally Posted by shaolin
no please inform me. I am very interested...
that is the 5th of November chapOriginally Posted by JFMartiMcDandruff
V for vendetta
Originally Posted by WaveyJonesLocker
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
Originally Posted by thegoat121886
[h2]Events[/h2]
- 1217 - Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo are killed in Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
- 1745 - Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
- 1792 - The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
- 1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.
- 1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
- 1896 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- 1897 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is published in the New York Sun.
- 1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
- 1921 - A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
- 1934 - A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
- 1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
- 1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
- 1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
- 1942 - On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1942 - On the end of Yom Kippur, the Germans ordered Konstantynów Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto - established in Biała Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynów, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more.
- 1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
- 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
- 1961 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
- 1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
- 1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
- 1970 - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
- 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
- 1976 - Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
- 1981 - Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice.
- 1989 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
- 1991 - Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
- 1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
- 1994 - Frailsian NT'er jayswisz was born due to a broken condom thus labeling him an accident.
- 1999 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
- 2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
- 2001 - AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 31 people
- 2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
- 2004 - The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
- 2004 - Construction of the Burj Dubai starts.
- 2008 - Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
i can't say i'm ready for the oregon rains thoughOriginally Posted by JFMartiMcDandruff
glad it's over
it's wayy too hot here in cali. Too hot!
its about to get hotter this weekOriginally Posted by JFMartiMcDandruff
glad it's over
it's wayy too hot here in cali. Too hot!