On This Day in History II

1898 - Andy Cooper - birthday ( best pitcher ever for ' saved games '. also pitched 16 shut out innings with one walk of a 17 inning tie game during a playoff game at the end of his career. ) " he threw more junk than Fred Sanford "

Little Rock / Born / 1937 / Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr.
Baltimore Orioles fame

1888 - Buck Wheat
Brooklyn baseball fame

May 30

On this day in 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by the English. 19 years old.

Red Lily wrote:May 30

On this day in 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by the English.  19 years old.

Compiegne's gate WAS its drawbridge. it drew up into its sally.

On the night of June 1, 2001 the Nepalese royal family was all but wiped out in a terrible shooting massacre.

The murders were committed by the Crown Prince Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah (far left).

A drunk Dipendra ambushed his family during a dinner party and unleashed a hail of bullets that would transform the small country.

Nine people including his mother and father, King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, were killed.

Dipendra then shot himself, slipped into a coma and was declared brain dead soon after being crowned monarch.

His uncle, Prince Gyanendra, then ascended the throne.

A disagreement is said to have sparked the massacre, with tensions flaring after Dipendra's parents objected to his plans to marry a local aristocrat.

In 2008, the 240 year-old monarchy was formally abolished.

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nepal is so afraid of india annexing it that it has a law where no one can sneak out a paki or indian diamond. i count 75-150 100ct+ stones still in that subcontinent that the muslims had before the Hope diamond was stolen from them.

1982-Rock the Casbah

1946 - Donald John Trump - birthday

June 26

On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents were executed after a shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation, following a period of growing conflict between the government and US First Nations activists.

Jack Coler and Ronald Williams had been following a car on the reservation when its occupants began shooting at them, leaving Coler's car (pictured) riddled with bullets.



The two agents had been seeking a suspected thief. They died in the opening minutes of the exchange of gunfire.

American Indian Movement activist Joe Stuntz was killed by police during the response to the shooting.

Three men were arrested over the deaths, but ultimately only Leonard Peltier (pictured below) was convicted. He was sentenced to two life sentences and remains in jail.