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What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Fri Jun 26 2020 9:23am

26th June
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
NATIONAL COCONUT DAY
NATIONAL BEAUTICIAN’S DAY
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE PUDDING DAY
NATIONAL TAKE YOUR DOG TO WORK DAY

A selection of events from history.

1498 Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1870 Richard Wagner's opera "Valkyrie", second in his Ring Cycle premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1912 Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1925 "The Gold Rush", directed, starring and written by Charlie Chaplin, is released
1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st book in J. K. Rowling's best-selling series, is published
2017 Theresa May's UK Conservative minority party strike deal to govern with Northern Ireland's DUP with guarantee of 1 billion funding
2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Post by Richard Frost » Sat Jun 27 2020 8:38am

27th June

NATIONAL ORANGE BLOSSOM DAY
NATIONAL ICE CREAM CAKE DAY
NATIONAL PTSD AWARENESS DAY
NATIONAL SUNGLASSES DAY
NATIONAL ONION DAY
SUMMERSGIVING
NATIONAL HIV TESTING DAY

A selection of events from history.

1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
1746 Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye
1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonists attack Motlousi in Matabeleland
1893 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
1954 1st atomic power station opens - Obninsk, near Moscow in Russia
1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London
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Post by Richard Frost » Sun Jun 28 2020 10:04am

28th June

NATIONAL LOGISTICS DAY - https://nationaldaycalendar.com/nationa ... y-june-28/
NATIONAL INSURANCE AWARENESS DAY
NATIONAL ALASKA DAY
NATIONAL PAUL BUNYAN DAY - https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/ ... y-june-28/

This day in history, a selection of events.

1389 Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
1820 Tomato is proven to be non-poisonous by Colonel Robert Gibbon eating a tomato on steps of courthouse in Salem, New Jersey
1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London
1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan
1919 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France
1962 Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
1973 Northern Ireland Assembly elections take place
1996 "Nutty Professor" starring Eddie Murphy opens in theatres in the USA
2003 "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, premieres at Disneyland
2015 Greek Credit Crisis: Greek government says banks closed for a week and ATM withdrawals restricted after European Central Bank refused to supply emergency funds
2018 Power company uncovers Neolithic wooden trackway 2,300 years old in Suffolk, England. One of the largest archaeological digs in Europe at 16,000 square meters
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by blythburgh » Mon Jun 29 2020 8:31am

The nice thing about this is you can see what happened on a special day for you or a loved one.
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Mon Jun 29 2020 8:33am

blythburgh wrote:
Mon Jun 29 2020 8:31am
The nice thing about this is you can see what happened on a special day for you or a loved one.
It is but just a selection, a much more comprehensive list can be found here https://www.onthisday.com/today/events.php
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by blythburgh » Mon Jun 29 2020 8:54am

Yes but it is fun to have a quick dekko.
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What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Mon Jun 29 2020 10:06am

29th June

Statistics Day
NATIONAL ALMOND BUTTERCRUNCH DAY
NATIONAL CAMERA DAY
Cream Tea Day
NATIONAL WAFFLE IRON DAY

A selection of events from history.

512 A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1377 French raid at Rye, England
1534 Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 Former Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Cromwell indicted as a heretic
1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England, burns down during a performance of "Henry VIII"
1786 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1863 George Armstrong Custer, aged 23, appointed Union Brigadier General
1863 Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1899 Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1949 South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1971 The first British national Scrabble competition was staged in London on this day and won by Stephen Haskell, a young teacher. He notched up an aggregate score of 1,345 points from three games.
1976 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1981 Hu Yaobang became Chairman of the Communist Party of China on this day. His death eight years later would lead to the notorious Tiananmen Square Massacre.
1990 World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed in New Zealand
2000 Eminem's mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit, after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than I do" from her son's single 'My Name Is'
2007 Enya receives an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway
2008 Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter
2008 Glastonbury music festival in England; Leonard Cohen the highlight singing ""Hallelujah"
2014 Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announces establishment of worldwide "caliphate" at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq
2015 Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks
2017 Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"

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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by BeautifulSunshine » Mon Jun 29 2020 11:48am

Richard Frost wrote:
Mon Jun 29 2020 8:33am
blythburgh wrote:
Mon Jun 29 2020 8:31am
The nice thing about this is you can see what happened on a special day for you or a loved one.
It is but just a selection, a much more comprehensive list can be found here https://www.onthisday.com/today/events.php
Please do, certainly, definitely post the whole list - I feel imutual is missing out.
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by pakefield » Mon Jun 29 2020 12:14pm

Heard the weather forecast again just now. German Bight ....

Thanks to Richard I now that German Bight means and the shortened list of what happened today in the past is enough for me. If it is a special day I can always choose to google to get more info
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Re: What can we celebrate today?

Post by Richard Frost » Mon Jun 29 2020 12:33pm

pakefield wrote:
Mon Jun 29 2020 12:14pm
Heard the weather forecast again just now. German Bight ....

Thanks to Richard I now that German Bight means and the shortened list of what happened today in the past is enough for me. If it is a special day I can always choose to google to get more info
There is no danger that anything Thunderbog suggests I should do with this thread will get done by me. If anyone wants to be pedantic it could be said that by posting the link I have also posted the full list.

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