On This Day in History II

1791 - President Ten Cent Jimmy - birthday

1968 - Timothy James McVeigh - birthday. Halted the clintons dictatorial military moves against the United States citizens.

43 BCE
As a result of wounds sustained in the battle of Forum Gallorum against Mark Antony, consul Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus died. Although Pansa supported Julius Caesar, after his death he was for maintaining the Republic. In his last hours, Pansa advised young Gaius Octavius not to believe in Cicero and the Senate, who would turn against him when there was an oppurtunity. Panda had a magnificent funeral.

1635
The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1918
World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

1942
World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.

1968
Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.

1985
Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months. [the original formula using fructose instead of real sugar: no longer 'the real thing']

1558
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.

1704
The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

1800
The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.

1862
American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.

1916
Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

1916
Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship ship .

1918
First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

1980
Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

1916 - ship ship - interpretation - for the remaining 19 men left on Elephant Island. for the real story, Frank Worsley was the navigator who was soley responsable for the rescue. he went on to other feats of glory, returned to south georgia, at the exact time Shackletons body was sent back to be burried there per his wifes instructions.

1853 - William Beumont - death ( now aint that some shit )

404 BC
Peloponnesian War: Lysander’s Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.

1607
Eighty Years’ War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.

1792
Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.

1829
Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

1846
Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.

1847
The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.

1862
American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

1898
Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.

1901
New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

1915
World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

121 CE
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, writer and philosopher was born. The times of this rule (161-180 CE) fell into a very difficult period: constant wars and natural disasters (Tiber’s outflow, hunger, street riots, fires, locust, plague). The main enemies of Rome were the Germanic tribes and the Parthians. Marcus Aurelius lived a modest, peaceful life, in consonance with strict stoic principles. He had a deep sense of duty to serve the country and its citizens. He took care of good relations with the Senate, carried out reforms in the field of administration and civil law.

1478
The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.

1607
English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

1805
First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.

1865
American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for most states.

1865
Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

1933
The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

1945
World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.

JWB wasnt shot dead. 3 things. Dr Mudd reset his broken large leg bone. autopsy showed his little leg bone broken. and they said they had to use a wanted poster in order to identify him............the most popular person in the world, save none.

and his large leg bone was broken only two inches from the ball joint, according to Mudd. autopsy said little leg broken 3 inches up. ( yeah, someone staged the guy to take the fall and when the guy objected, his leg was crushed from behind by someone who purposley broke his bone )