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2014-10-05, 11:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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October 6, 1966, LSD was made illegal in California. Most of the rest of the world soon followed.
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2014-10-06, 01:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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October 6th - 1889, Thomas Edison shows the first motion picture
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2014-10-06, 02:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oct 6th 1973: the Yom Kippur war starts when a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria attack Israel in an attempt to reclaim land that has been under Israeli control since the Six Day War in 1967.
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2014-10-06, 11:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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1927 - Debut of "The Jazz Singer," the first full-length talking picture.
1949 - Japanese-American broadcaster, Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose), was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 10,000 for treason.I'm not being sarcastic. Speaking big and blue is just my thing.
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2014-10-06, 11:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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October 7th
1571 - The Battle of Lepanto between the Holy League (principally Spanish and Italian ships) and the Ottoman Empire, and the beginning of the end of Ottoman dominance of the Mediterranean. According to some historians, the true mastermind in command was Lluis de Requesens i Zúñiga, but John of Austria, the bastard half-brother of King Philip, was credited with the command for propaganda reasons.
Edit: Spelt the poor chap's name the Castellano way, for shame. Not sure about Zúñiga; pretty sure it should be Zunyiga but I can't find support for that online so I'll leave it.Last edited by Aedilred; 2014-10-07 at 02:29 AM.
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2014-10-07, 02:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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1370: Six of the cantons of the Swiss Confederacy sign a contract called the "Pfaffenbrief" (Priestly letter? Difficult translation). It contains a number of legal points, but the most important among them is that all people, even members of the church, are responsible to the local justice in their territories and have no right to try and appeal to a distant or foreign court of any kind instead, which includes ecclesiastical courts.
1763: King George III declares that settlers in North America should limit themselves to only those areas east of the Appalachian mountains.
1769: Cook lands on New Zealand and claims it for the crown.
1912: The Royal Dutch Airline, the world's first airline company, is founded.
1950: The Chinese People's Liberation Army begins with the occupation of Tibet.
1959: Lunik III successfully makes the first photograph of the other side of the moon.
2003: Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected governor.Resident Vancian Apologist
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2014-10-07, 09:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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October 7, 1337: King of England Edward III declares himself to be the rightful King of France rather than Philippe VI. This is the starting point of a series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years' War, which will last until 1453 (formal peace will be signed in 1475). By the end of the conflict, the population of France will be reduced by half, due to the combination of plague, famine and war. From that point on, England will be an island nation, having lost nearly all its possessions on the continent. The two countries will remain enemies most of the time until 1904, when they finally find a good enough motive (in the form of a common enemy, Germany) to get to an agreement.
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2014-10-07, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's certainly the common perception, and France does occupy an almost unmatched "old enemy" status in the English mindset although I have previously questioned the accuracy of it. For quite a while, the HYW was itself basically a French civil war with the English forming a third party allied to the Burgundians. For much of the 16th and 17th centuries, the real Big Bad as far as England/Britain was concerned was Spain, and France was a useful ally and often good friend against it. Things changed a bit under Louis XIV and the early colonial period was one of high tension and frequent warring, but after the question of dominance was effectively settled in 1815 general policy again became if not actually chummy at least not actively hostile. From about 1815 onwards - and certainly from 1853 - Britain and France were more often than not on the same side.
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2014-10-07, 01:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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There was also the period of history from 1066- roughly 1200ish with the reign of King John where England wasn't distinctly its own entity and the nobles usually had just as much land in France, if not more.
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2014-10-07, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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To be honest, in the pre-Westphalian era (after 1453) England is relatively unusual in that it is pretty easy to draw a line round it and say "this is England, and everything else isn't". Pretty much everywhere else in Europe, including France, was a terrible mess in terms of trying to work out what was what. Even England had dubious bits - much of the border region with Scotland, Ireland, and the constitutional status of various bits and pieces of England itself is still open for question (Cornwall and, most recently, Doncaster, not to mention Wales).
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2014-10-07, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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I agree that this common perception is an over-generalization. There were times of peace in that era, and even two instances where the two countries were allied (both cases were short-lived). However, you can see on this page no less than 16 instances of war (some very small, some big) with the French and English on opposite sides between the Hundred Years' War and Napoleon. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain was Big Bad from the French point of view as well, because it was squeezed between Spanish owned territories (in Germany, and Spain itself). But that didn't automatically translate into alliances. In fact, England allied with Spain against France in some instances, and with France against Spain in others. Then France allied with Spain against England, making the graph complete.
Then once Napoleon was gone, things went somewhat better, with some trade treaties and even joint military action. But trust wasn't ever great, and the race for colonies heated things up again. Coincidentally, I'm reading The War That Ended Peace by Margaret Macmillan right now: As it turns out, around 1900 Britain first looked to ally with Germany, until the naval buildup by Wilhelm II convinced the UK governement that the Entente Cordiale with the French was a safer deal.DM in Mummy's Mask I, II, III | Keshkaru and Ozkrak in Extinction Curse | Marzena in Age of Worms | Elrembriel in Wrath of the Righteous | Gurmok in Nightmare in Katapesh | DM in Catacombs of Ravenloft Avatar courtesy of Neoseph7
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2014-10-07, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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October 7, 1998: Matthew Shephard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
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2014-10-08, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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October 8th, 1952: the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash is the UK's worst peace-time train accident. Three trains crash into each other, killing 112 and injuring more than 300.
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2014-10-08, 08:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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October 8, 1871: The Great Chicago Fire destroys approximately 8 km2 of the city, killing an estimated 300 and leaving 100000 people homeless, a third of Chicago's population. On the same day, major forest fires erupt in several places around Lake Michigan, killing thousands and laying waste to several towns.
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2014-10-08, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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October the Eighth, 451 CE: The Council of Chalcedon is formed. It is an ecumenical council that repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of Monophysitism and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
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2014-10-09, 03:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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9th October 1967: Che Guevara is shot and killed in Bolivia.
1963: More than 2000 people are killed when a massive landslide causes a huge wave to overtop the Vajont Dam in Italy. Five villages are completely destroyed.
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1936: the Hoover Dam starts transmitting electricity to power homes in Los Angeles.
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October 9, 1940: John Lennon is born.
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2014-10-09, 10:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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October 9, 1981: The law abolishing the death penalty in France is enacted.
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2014-10-10, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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October 10, 1846: Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
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2014-10-10, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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AD 19: Roman General Germanicus dies, likely from poison. His more famous son was Caligula. Maybe if daddy had been around, he wouldn't have turned out so messed up.
1582: To go along with our old discussion, October 10, 1582 did not exist in many Catholic countries due to implementation of the Gregorian calendar. It would be funny if that happened nowadays and you had to explain to your child that he did not get a birthday this year, because the pope said so.
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2014-10-10, 11:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's my dad's birthday...
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1877 - The U.S. Army holds a West Point funeral with full military honors for Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer, killed the previous year at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
1920 - Bill Wambsganss completes the only triple play in World Series history turned.
1935 - Porgy and Bess, the first great American opera, premieres on Broadway.
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2014-10-11, 01:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Same goes for today, along with the past few days.
October 11, 1809: Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, Meriwether Lewis (of Lewis and Clark fame) dies in an inn called the Grinder's Stand. Whether his death was due to murder or suicide is up to debate and gives mystery to the circumstances of his demise.
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2014-10-12, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Lots of fun stuff on October 12!
1216 King John of England loses his Crown Jewels in The Wash. And to think, I usually just lose socks.
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2014-10-12, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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October 12, 539 BC: Cyrus the Great and his army take the city of Babylon.
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2014-10-12, 01:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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October 12, 1492: Christoffer Columbus lands on the Bahamas, becoming the first (well-documented) European to reach America.
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2014-10-12, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thus, did the first undocumented immigrant come to our great nation.
October 12th, 1917: New Zealand suffered 2,735 casualties in the First Battle of Passchendaele, during World War 1.
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2014-10-12, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-12, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-10-12, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Columbus's discovery is certainly the most momentous event for October 12, but there are other interesting ones.
October 12, 1960: During a debate at the United Nations General Assembly, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev interrupts the Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong by banging his shoe on the table.DM in Mummy's Mask I, II, III | Keshkaru and Ozkrak in Extinction Curse | Marzena in Age of Worms | Elrembriel in Wrath of the Righteous | Gurmok in Nightmare in Katapesh | DM in Catacombs of Ravenloft Avatar courtesy of Neoseph7
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2014-10-13, 08:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Today in history I was born. Truly a magical day for everyone.
The cornerstone for the white house was also laid.