Fun On this date in history...

So does this mean Lincoln will be a force ghost in Episode VII?

 

Unless this is the alternate timeline from Watchmen I am fairly confident Nixon was not president in 1977 OR when he did his interview with David Frost.

 

How do you get the dedication of the Empire State but not what happened at Imola in 1994? Granted it affects more than Americans so may be outside the scope of your myopic worldview, but it's a significant event in the modern era.

 

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By "Another" do you mean his only? I believe in fact checking enough to do my OWN research here and have found that Frost's series of interviews with Nixon were done in March/April of 1977.

In your defense the first of the edited TV specials did AIR on May 4th.

 

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In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena.

In 1934, the first Three Stooges short for Columbia Pictures, "Woman Haters," was released.

In 1973, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, the first of its Triple Crown victories.

In 1981, Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in his 66th day without food.

 

I watched the film based off of Sands, Hunger, about a month ago. God it was a brutal movie. Very well made for a first feature though.

 

Well, if I may...

On May 6th...

In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

In 1910, Britain's Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before.

In 1937, the German airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built, exploded shortly after arriving at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground were killed.

In 1942, U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all U.S. troops in the Philippines to the Japanese.

In 1954, in Oxford, England, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field's most notorious barrier, the four-minute mile, with a time of 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds.

In 1970, hundreds of colleges and universities across the U.S. shut down as thousands of students joined a nationwide campus protest against the Vietnam War.

In 1994, in a ceremony presided over by England's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterand, a rail tunnel under the English Channel was officially opened, connecting Britain and the European mainland.

Hope I'm not stepping on toes by posting this first.

 

So you can get this non-event but not the Allied landings at Gallipoli or the death of Ayrton Senna de Silva, which prompted three days of national mourning in Brazil in 1994 and saw thousands flock to Imola this year to commemorate it?

Perhaps mods should rename the thread "On this date in history from an absurdly uncultured, American-centric position". I would hate for new users to expect that a global perspective might be possible.

 

Or... you could post the things that you think are important.

 

If she literally posts ALL the important historical events that happened on this day in history she'll have nothing to post next year

 

Don't be silly, she just reposts the same stuff each year.

 

Too bad Zaz isn't around anymore... they'd be pals.

 

In 1789, America's first inaugural ball was held in New York in honor of President George Washington, who'd taken the oath of office a week earlier.

In 1824, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, had its premiere in Vienna.

In 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France.

 

Gary Cooper was an unbelievably wooden actor. High Noon hasn't aged very well.

 

If you want to call him that, smile!

 

Some aspects of the film do work though. The cinematography the injury makeup that remains consistent (nobody becomes magically healed in the next scene), the song though is unbelievably awful.

 

High Noon is one of the all-time awesome classic westerns and Gary Cooper is a master of playing tough guys who keep their feelings to themselves. He's not wooden; he's subtle.

 

In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River.

In 1902, the volcano Mt. Pelee on the island of Martinique erupted, completely destroying the city of Saint-Pierre and killing about 30,000 people.

In 1944, the first "eye bank" designed to preserve corneal tissues for transplants was established at New York Hospital.

In 1973, militant American Indians who'd held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered.