It Happened on this date

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One Hundred years ago today.

Ian Fleming is born. He will become a famous English writer and invent the James Bond character.

The first long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower (Paris, Europe).

Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement which will spread over the entire globe within the next decades.

The very first intercontinental car race is born, leading from New York to Paris.

Frenchman Henri Farman pilots the first passenger flight.

Mother's Day is observed for the first time (West Virginia).

In Siberia, Russia, a large meteoroid causes a 10-15 megatons TNT explosion (1, 000 times Hiroshima the bomb).

Robert Peary starts his famous Arctic exploration, he will be the first man to reach the North Pole.

A new US law department is founded, it will later become well known as the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).

Thomas Selfridge is the first person to die in an aeroplane crash. The pilot was Orville Wright who was also severely injured.

Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile. It's the first car to feature a steering wheel on the left.

Famous western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia.

Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two.

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[Bo]

5TH February





U.S. 2002 U.S.A. John Walker Lindh 5th February, 2002 : The American John Walker Lindh who was captured on November 25, during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting for the Taliban is indicted by A federal grand jury on 10 charges, alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans. On July 15th Walker accepted the plea bargain offered which meant he would plead guilty to two charges: — serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons, also consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his twenty-year sentence. In return, all other charges would be dropped. He is currently serving his sentence at ADMAX in Florence, Colorado, the federal Supermax facility .

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U.S. 1922 U.S.A. Readers Digest First Published 5th February, 1922 : DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Wallace publish the first Reader's Digest magazine designed to provide abridged articles on a wide variety of subjects, for easy reading. They publish and direct market the magazine themselves, the success of the magazine has led to a circulation of over 10 million copies in the United States and is still believed to be the best-selling consumer magazine in the country.

UK 1931 England Sir Malcolm Campbell 5th February, 1931 : Sir Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record on Daytona Beach of 245 MPH with his racing machine Bluebird beating the previous record of 231 MPH by 14 MPH . The new record now stands at 245 MPH.





UK 1953 UK Sweet Rationing 5th February, 1953 : After 13 years of sweet rationing since the beginning of World War II sweet rationing has ended in Great Britain and children all over the country are heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today. The most popular sweets are toffee apples, bars of nougat, chocolates, lollipops and liquorice.




Space 1971 Space Apollo 14 5th February, 1971 : Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the fifth human to walk on the moon with astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell .

U.S. 1974 U.S.A. Patty Hearst 5th February, 1974: Patty Hearst is Kidnapped by the leftist group, The Symbionese Liberation Army

UK 1982 UK Freddie Laker 5th February, 1982: Laker Airways the first of the low cost airlines operating out of the UK has collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors and the company chairman Sir Freddie Laker asked Clydesdale Bank to appoint a receiver.


1983 Bolivia Klaus Barbie 5th February, 1983 : Klaus Barbie, 69, Known as the ( Butcher of Lyon ) who was chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, during Nazi occupation, was flown to France today where he was indicted for "crimes against humanity."



Afghanistan 1989 Afghanistan Soviets Withdraw 5th February, 1989 : The last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. In 1979 in attempts to destroy Afghan rebels, who had been armed by U.S. hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops are sent to Afghanistan where the fighting is bloody, costly, and ultimately 13,000 Russian soldiers are left dead and over 22,000 wounded. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops depart Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia's "Vietnam."

1994 Bosnia Bombing of Market 5th February, 1994 : A mortar bomb explodes in the main market square in Sarajevo killing 68 and wounding 200 people.

U.S. 1994 U.S.A. Murder Trial 5th February, 1994 : Byron de la Beckwith is convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader Medger Evers 31 years earlier, ending the lengthiest murder case in American history. The movie Ghosts of Mississippi dramatised the story including the original crime and the trials that followed .




UK 1996 England GM Food 5th February, 1996 : The first genetically modified, or GM, food goes on sale in British supermarkets. The first GM puree based on GM tomatoes with the rotting gene removed.


Lebanon 2006Lebanon The Danish embassy in Beirut is burnt 5th February, 2006 : Demonstrators in Beirut have set fire to the Danish embassy as a protest against the publication of cartoons that depict the Prophet Mohammed. Numerous Lebanese attend a rally, and clashes break out with the security forces that are sent to protect the compound. Lebanese leaders condemn the attack, and the Interior Minister announces his resignation. This comes a day after mobs in Syria have torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus.

[Bo]

6th February


February 6: Sami National Day (Sami people); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)



1820 – Sponsored by the American Colonization Society, the first African American emigrants departed New York to establish a settlement in present-day Liberia.

1833 – Otto became the first modern King of Greece.

1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.

1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football club, a number of their fans and journalists covering the team, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.

2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.

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6th February


February 6: Sami National Day (Sami people); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)



1820 – Sponsored by the American Colonization Society, the first African American emigrants departed New York to establish a settlement in present-day Liberia.

1833 – Otto became the first modern King of Greece.

1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.

1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football club, a number of their fans and journalists covering the team, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.

2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.

liberia...meaning liberty....the us president's name was MONROE..hence the capital city of liberia's name .....MONROVIA...

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IVAN GROZNY....called IVAN THE TERRIBLE....the word grozny can also mean wonderment in russian.....

the russian word for red...and beautiful are the same.....hence ..red square...

[Bo]

liberia...meaning liberty....the us president's name was MONROE..hence the capital city of liberia's name .....MONROVIA...

Didnt know that Joe , well spotted

[Bo]

7th February


457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire

1074 – Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.

1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.

1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.

1783 – American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
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1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.

1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.

1900 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
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1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.

1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.

1951 – Korean War: Sancheong-Hamyang massacre

1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.

1964 – The Beatles first arrived in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.

1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
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1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.

1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.

1991 – Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.

1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.

1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.

1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.

2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.

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siege of ladysmith...........british and colonial forces surrounded by one third as many boer farmers.....

white city in west london named after british commander of ladysmith.......

great pub there called Jan Smuts......named after the boer commando leader....

[Bo]

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great pub there called Jan Smuts......named after the boer commando leader....[/QUOTE]

Aw that sounded like a strip club ,

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great pub there called Jan Smuts......named after the boer commando leader....

Aw that sounded like a strip club , [/QUOTE]

lots of them round the corner in shepherds bush.....

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during the siege of mafeking.(second boer war).....the commander of the besieged forces (BADEN POWELL, of boy scout fame)....was very reluctant to feed the blacks in the town, especially the children as they were useless to the efforts of the defenders....

[tommie]

The famous one and only Tommie was born on this day 1944 in Dublin

[Pammy]

The famous one and only Tommie was born on this day 1944 in Dublin

I suppose ya want a Happy Birthday Tommie................ok then Happy Birthday Tommie...

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The famous one and only Tommie was born on this day 1944 in Dublin

a great day for dublin......and the pubs in enniskerry.....

[tommie]

a great day for dublin......and the pubs in enniskerry.....

Great days ,Joe,,rockin' the #44,,singing,,,"ye should never shove yer Granny off the bus" ,,then into Prossers for a few Jars