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23
May
2013
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On May 23, 1960, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured and will stand trial in Israel. Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organised Adolf Hitler's "final solution of... more »
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May
2013
In the opening battle of England's War of the Roses, the Yorkists defeat King Henry VI's Lancastrian forces at St. Albans, 20 miles north-west of London. Many Lancastrian nobles perished, including Edmund Beaufort, the duke of Somerset, and the... more »
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21
May
2013
Five years to the day that American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first pilot to accomplish a solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, female aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first pilot to repeat the feat, landing her plane in... more »
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20
May
2013
According to recently released documents, the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG) of Federal Bureau of Investigation allows agency reading your e-mail without having a warrant.
Last week, the American Civil... more »
Comments: 3 | by herodotus Kim Dotcom Wrote “The United States vs. You”!
The 48-pages long white paper titled “The United States vs. You”, signed and written by Kim Dotcom, is breaking the MegaUpload case into small pieces, once again. The paper is Dotcom’s story on how the US decided to seize his file-sharing service... more »
Comments: 0 | by herodotus On This Day in History: May 20, 1506 - Christopher Columbus Dies!
On May 20, 1506, the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Valladolid, Spain. Columbus was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century. He explored... more »
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May
2013
T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name on this day in 1935. The legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar succumbed to injuries suffered in a... more »
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18
May
2013
At 8:32 a.m. PDT, Mount St. Helens, a volcanic peak in south-western Washington, U.S.A., suffers a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness.
Called Louwala-Clough, or "the Smoking... more »
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17
May
2013
In Washington, D.C. (Good 'Ole U.S.A.), the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, begins televised hearings on the escalating Watergate affair. One week later, Harvard law... more »
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May
2013
The Seven Years War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, officially begins when England declares war on France. However, fighting and skirmishes between England and France had been going on in North America for... more »
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12
May
2013
At London's Westminster Abbey, George VI and his consort, Lady Elizabeth, are crowned king and queen of the United Kingdom as part of a coronation ceremony that dates back more than a millennium.
George, who studied at Dartmouth... more »
Comments: 0 | by herodotus On This Day in History: May 11, 1812 - British Prime Minister Assassinated!
In London, Spencer Perceval, prime minister of Britain since 1809, is shot to death by demented businessman John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons. Bellingham, who was inflamed by his failure to obtain government compensation for war... more »
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May
2013
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister on this day in 1940, following the latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
In... more »
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09
May
2013
On this day in 1950, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1911-1986) publishes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. With this book, Hubbard introduced a branch of self-help psychology called Dianetics, which quickly caught fire and, over time,... more »
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08
May
2013
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war... more »
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May
2013
On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198... more »
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06
May
2013
On this day in 1937, the airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crew members.
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Comments: 0 | by herodotus INVASIO BARBARORVM SOMNIUM APOSTATAE IULIANI
First online experiments on INVASIO BARBARORVM SOMNIUM APOSTATAE IULIANI mod with Pertevnial.THE FALL OF ROME AND DARK AGES PERIOD ! Barbarian Invasion. The era of the Great Migration and the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The invasion of huge... more »
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05
May
2013
Napoleon Bonaparte, the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, dies on this day, in 1821 as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
The Corsica-born... more »
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04
May
2013
On May 4, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat reached agreement in Cairo on the first stage of Palestinian self-rule.
The agreement was made in accordance with the Oslo Accords, signed in... more »
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May
2013
On this day in 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, Machiavelli became one of the fathers of modern political theory.
Machiavelli entered... more »
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May
2013
Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland's Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a... more »
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May
2013
On May 1, 1851, 'The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations', or 'The Great Exhibition', sometimes referred to as the 'Crystal Palace Exhibition' opens. Inside the Crystal Palace, a giant glass-and-iron hall designed by Sir... more »
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April
2013
On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending... more »
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29
April
2013
Microsoft has finally started a nasty marketing war directly against the search giant and ended any pretence of niceness between the companies. Microsoft has released a series of attack ads in the United States that have upped the ante... more »
Comments: 0 | by herodotus On This Day in History: April 29, 1429 - Joan of Arc Relieves Orleans!
During the Hundred Years' War, on this day in 1429, the 17-year-old French peasant Joan of Arc leads a French force in relieving the city of Orleans, besieged by the English since October.
At the age of 16, "voices" of Christian... more »
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28
April
2013
On this day in 1996, 28-year-old Martin Bryant begins a killing spree that ends in the deaths of 35 men, women and children in the quiet town of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia.
Bryant, who is believed to have an extremely low IQ... more »
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27
April
2013
For all new, and older Members, this applies now to all of SI (News Section, Members Page etc). This will be stickied when it is complete (still a WiP). As this has become an issue again I have had to re-post them. Please bare with me, as there... more »
Comments: 0 | by herodotus On This Day in History: April 27, 4977 B.C. - The Universe is Created!
On this day in 4977 B.C., the universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets.
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26
April
2013
On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used... more »
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April
2013
On this day in 1915, Australian and New Zealand forces, known as ANZACs landed at what is now known as Anzac Cover, at Gallipoli and faced the well-entrenched Turkish forces stationed there.
he landing scheme was a simple one, in... more »
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24
April
2013
On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organisation of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by... more »
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23
April
2013
According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptised on... more »
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22
April
2013
On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it... more »
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21
April
2013
According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. Actually, the Romulus and Remus myth originated sometime in the fourth century... more »
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20
April
2013
On this day in 1999, two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, U.S.A.. At about 11:20 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, dressed in long trench coats, began shooting students... more »
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19
April
2013
In Warsaw, Poland on April 19th, 1943 Nazi forces attempting to clear out the city's Jewish ghetto are met by gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. With the Soviet Army virtually at the gates of Warsaw,... more »
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18
April
2013
In Massachusetts, in North America Colonies, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As... more »
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17
April
2013
On April 17, 1790, American statesman, printer, scientist, and writer Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia at age 84.
Born in Boston in 1706, Franklin became at 12 years old an apprentice to his half brother James, a printer and... more »
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16
April
2013
On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. One month before, Czar Nicholas II had been forced from power when Russian... more »
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