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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 9, 2012 21:59:40 GMT
Dec 09.
2012 - Against the odds, Liverpool FC fight back in an incredible game against West Ham to win 3-2.
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Post by The Legendary Barb on Dec 9, 2012 23:13:13 GMT
Why is everything still happening in Nov, what has happened to Dec!!.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 10, 2012 18:31:53 GMT
Why is everything still happening in Nov, what has happened to Dec!!. I don't know what you're talking about Barb.... er... well, maybe I do.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 10, 2012 18:39:45 GMT
Dec 10.
1768 - The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in London by George III. Joshua Reynolds was its first president.
1845 - British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.
1901 - The first Nobel prizes were awarded.
1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.
1979: Stuntman Eddie Kidd accomplished a "death-defying" motorcycle leap. During the spectacle he crossed an 80ft gap over a 50ft sheer drop above a viaduct on a 400cc motorcycle.
1998 - Six astronauts opened the doors to the new international space station 250 miles above the Earth's surface.
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 11, 2012 12:43:23 GMT
I just noticed some suspicious edits!
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 11, 2012 12:48:07 GMT
I just noticed some suspicious edits! Yours were as bad! ;D
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 11, 2012 18:47:40 GMT
Dec 11.
1719 - The first recorded sighting of the Aurora Borealis was in New England.
1792 - France's King Louis XVI went before the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the following January.
1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor.
1941: Germany and Italy announced they are at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers.
1981 - Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. He lost his 61st fight to Trevor Berbick.
1987 - Charlie Chaplin's trademark cane and bowler hat were sold at Christie's for £82,500.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 12, 2012 18:29:02 GMT
Nov 12. 1792 - In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn. 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London. 1955 - British engineer Christopher c*ckerell patented the first hovercraft. 1963 - Kenya gained its independence from Britain. 1992: Princess Anne became Mrs Timothy Laurence after a small family wedding in Scotland. 1997 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. 2000 - Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, that killed 168 and injured 500. 2001 - In Beverly Hills, CA, actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shoplifting and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760. 2012 - 12/12/12, 12.12:12 passed without incident
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 12, 2012 23:15:16 GMT
Hey you missed the last man on the moon on the 7th of December!!
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Dec 12, 2012 23:16:05 GMT
Also you only got 4 days left for the "on this day" thread, then it will have been a year, and you gonna have to think of a new thread I think!
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 13, 2012 10:44:38 GMT
Also you only got 4 days left for the "on this day" thread, then it will have been a year, and you gonna have to think of a new thread I think!Or I just continue telling you about other things that happened on this day. Admitedly, it will be a pain cross referencing what I've already written (but since the world is going to end on December 21st it'll only be for 5 days!) OR, maybe it IS time for a new thread!!
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 13, 2012 17:40:51 GMT
Dec 13.
1577 - Five ships under the command of Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth, England, to embark on Drake's circumnavigation of the globe. The journey took almost three years.
1642 - New Zealand was discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman.
1913 - It was announced by authorities in Florence, Italy, that the "Mona Lisa" had been recovered. The work was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911.
1929 - Actor Dick Van Dyke was born.
1985 - Phil Collins made his U.S. TV acting debut on "Miami Vice" playing a drug dealer.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 14, 2012 23:18:30 GMT
Dec 14.
1503 - Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant Nostradamus was born at St. Remy, Provence, France.
1903 - Orville Wright made the first attempt at powered flight. The engine stalled during take-off and the plane was damaged in the attempt. Three days later, after repairs were made, the modern aviation age was born when the plane stayed aloft for 12 seconds and flew 102 feet.
1918 - For the first time in Britain women (over 30) voted in a General Election.
1972: The last manned space mission to the Moon began its return to Earth, bringing to an end the US programme of lunar exploration.
1995 - Classified documents from the White House were released that revealed the FBI had spied on John Lennon and his anti-war activities during the early '70s in a possible attempt to have Lennon deported.
1999 - Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the "Peanuts" comic strip. The last original "Peanuts" comic strip was published on February 13, 2000.
2003: The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was captured by US soldiers.
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 15, 2012 17:46:08 GMT
Dec 15.
1815 - Jane Austen's "Emma" was published.
1840 - Napoleon Bonapart's remains were interred in Les Invalides in Paris, having been brought from St. Helena, where he died in exile.
1944 - A single-engine plane carrying U.S. Army Major Glenn Miller disappeared in thick fog over the English Channel while en route to Paris.
1973 - J. Paul Getty III was found in southern Italy after being held captive for five months, during which his right ear was cut off and sent to a newspaper in Rome.
1993 - The prime ministers of Britain and the Republic of Ireland (John Major and Albert Reynolds respectively) made the "Downing Street Declaration," stating the basis for trying to achieve peace in Northern Ireland.
1998 - Andrew Lloyd Webber was acquitted on charges that he plagiarized a 20-year-old song to write the theme from "The Phantom Of The Opera."
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Post by Mr Jinx on Dec 16, 2012 14:05:08 GMT
And so we turn full circle....
December 16.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1809 - Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.
1901 - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time.
1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.
2001 - British newspaper, The Observer, reported that a notebook had been found at an al-Quaida training camp in southern Afghanistan. The notebook contained a "blue print" for an bomb attack on London's financial district.
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