This date in History!!

[CannonBall]

0451 According to some sources, this was the date of the Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' victory over Attila the Hun.

1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

1519 Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

1596 Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.

1633 Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.

1737 Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or first Battle of Saratoga

1792 French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.

1835 Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes

1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn

1849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California

1854 Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.

1857 The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.

1860 The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.

1862 Battle of Luka, Miss

1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat

1864 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia

1870 Bersaglieri corps enters Rome through Porta Pia and completes the unification of Italy; see capture of Rome.

1871 Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.

1873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic

1879 Cliftonville Football Club, the oldest club in Ireland, are founded by John McCredy McAlery.

1881 Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States.

1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540

1891 The single track St. Clair tunnel under the St. Clair River is opened by the Grand Trunk Railway. Construction had commenced in 1888 upon this tunnel which connects Sarnia with Port Huron.

1893 New Zealand grants women the vote

1917 Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1926 The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.

1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)

1929 Adam West, actor (Batman) born

1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE
1930 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church was formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios

1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby

1939 A German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by Fairey Battle gunner Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near Aachen. This is the RAF's first aerial victory of the Second World War.

1940 Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the Japanese Purple code.

1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes

1941 HMCS Levis (Corvette) torpedoed

1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

1949 Twiggy, British actress/model born

1952 The U.S. bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England.

1954 New Zealand's Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.

1955 Juan Peron, president of Argentina since 1946, was deposed and exiled in a military coup,

1957 Bathyscaph Trieste, in a dive sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in the Mediterranean, reaches record depth of 2 miles

1959 Brion Gysin makes his first cut-up in the Beat Hotel in Paris.

1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland

1962 James Meredith, an African-American, is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

1967 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.

1968 A baby was born on Golden Gate Bridge yes the event slowed traffic

1969 John Lennon leaves The Beatles but does not make a public announcement

1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers

1970 Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen. The Jordanians knock out 30 of the Syrian tanks.

1977 The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations

1979 A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.

1979 Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman.

1979 Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.

1979 Robert is born

1979 The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).

1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)

1980 Our lil Silver is born!!

1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket

1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert

1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service

1982 The first sideways smiley face was invented!!

1983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.

1984 The popular American sitcoms The Cosby Show and Who's The Boss? premiere on NBC and ABC respectively.

1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)

1986 Federal health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

1988 Israel launches first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)

1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens

1990 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

1991 tzi the Iceman is discovered by a couple of German tourists.

1992 Joint Task Force Marianas stands down after providing assistance to Guam after Typhoon Omar

1995 The Washington Post publishes the "Unabomber's Manifesto"

2000 The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building was attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares "war on terror".

2002 Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.

2003 A referendum is held in Latvia to decide the country's accession to the European Union.

2003 Hurricane Isabel disapates over the Atlantic Ocean after giving a hard hit in the Bahamas and on the US east Coast.

2003 Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.

2006 Richard Hammond has his near-fatal crash in the Vampire Dragster.

[Ghryphen]

[Shadowspirit]

happy bday silver

I'm guessing that is what this is about.

[Stoke]

Silvers Birthday and National Talk Like A Pirate Day......coincidence? I think not.

Happy Born Nekkid day!!!!!!! You're getting closer and closer to that pudding eating age..... One day you will look back fondly on your youth and then wonder where you put your teeth.

Arrgh

YouTube - funny happy Birthday song

[Stang]

I guess I better say something..happy bi...naw don't feel like it .

[Danerune]

Happy B-day Silver!! Sorry it is a belated one as the name of the thread really didn't give me a clue being all obvlivious and stuff.