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The Terminator · 05-01-2011, 11:08 PM

On this day May 1 2011 bin laden is confirmed dead and in U.S custody.

GeoffC · 05-02-2011, 04:52 AM

May 2nd

2011 - Death of Sir Henry Cooper [OK - it probably was yesterday]...

1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.

1611 – King James Bible is published for the first time in London...

1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later....

1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg...

1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.....

1519 – Death of Leonardo da Vinci....

astrangerhere · 05-02-2011, 06:39 AM

May 2

On this day in 1594, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew was entered in the Stationers' Register.

From Wikipedia:

Quote:

The Stationers' Register was a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London. The company is a trade guild given a royal charter in 1557 to regulate the various professions associated with the publishing industry, including printers, bookbinders, booksellers, and publishers in England. The Register itself allowed publishers to document their right to produce a particular printed work, and constituted an early form of copyright law. The Company's charter gave it the right to seize illicit editions and bar the publication of unlicensed books.

GeoffC · 05-03-2011, 06:01 AM

May 3rd ....

1715 – "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years).

1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city....

1837 – The University of Athens is founded.

1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.

1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.....

1616 – Death of William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on April 23, according to the Julian calendar)

GeoffC · 05-04-2011, 03:49 AM

May 4th ....

Star Wars Day !

1471 – Wars of the Roses in England: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales....

1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III....

1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile...

1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.

1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.........

1849 – Death of Hokusai.

Bilbo1967 · 05-04-2011, 05:45 AM

May 4th

Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea (1953).

Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (2000).

The Royal Canadian Navy is created (1910).

astrangerhere · 05-04-2011, 06:25 AM

On this day in 1948 Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead was published. A front-page editorial in the London Sunday Times lobbied to have the book withdrawn for its "incredibly foul and beastly," language, but most reviewers ranked it among the best war novels.

GeoffC · 05-05-2011, 03:32 AM

May 5th ...

2011 - The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110....

1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta....

1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.....

1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.....

International Midwives' Day.

astrangerhere · 05-05-2011, 06:08 AM

May 5th

On this date in 1927 Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published. Woolf's own evaluation while working on it:

Quote:

Never never have I written so easily, imagined so profusely.... Soft & pliable, & I think deep, & never a word wrong for a page at a time.

Ea · 05-05-2011, 07:52 AM

May 5th

1945 - The German occupation of Denmark during WW2 ended

The Terminator · 05-06-2011, 12:19 AM

Wow by the amount of thing that you guys are posting on here you must spend a lot of time on it. And Google

GeoffC · 05-06-2011, 05:08 AM

May 6th ....

1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome

1536 – King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.

1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.

1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

1994 – Opening of the English Channel Tunnel.

2011 - Death of Arthur Laurents, writer of stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy...

1915 – Birth of Orson Welles.....

astrangerhere · 05-06-2011, 07:11 AM

On this day in 1862 Henry David Thoreau died at the age of forty-four, from bronchial and respiratory problems.

GeoffC · 05-07-2011, 04:43 AM

May 7th .....

1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans.

1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded...

1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people....

1915 – World War I: German submarine SM U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania.

1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published....

2011 – Death of Seve Ballesteros ....

GeoffC · 05-08-2011, 04:16 AM

May 8th .....

1450 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.

1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.

1886 – Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.....

1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day....

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05-01-2011, 11:08 PM	#61
The Terminator Retired Posts: 2,552 Karma: 37638420 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver Island Canada Device: Kobo Touch, Optimus One (2.3), Nexus 7 (4.2)	On this day May 1 2011 bin laden is confirmed dead and in U.S custody.

05-02-2011, 04:52 AM	#62
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	May 2nd 2011 - Death of Sir Henry Cooper [OK - it probably was yesterday]... 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. 1611 – King James Bible is published for the first time in London... 1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.... 1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg... 1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano..... 1519 – Death of Leonardo da Vinci....

05-03-2011, 06:01 AM	#64
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	May 3rd .... 1715 – "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years). 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.... 1837 – The University of Athens is founded. 1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction..... 1616 – Death of William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on April 23, according to the Julian calendar)

05-04-2011, 03:49 AM	#65
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	May 4th .... Star Wars Day ! 1471 – Wars of the Roses in England: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.... 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.... 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile... 1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom......... 1849 – Death of Hokusai.

05-04-2011, 05:45 AM	#66
Bilbo1967 Not scared! Posts: 13,424 Karma: 81011643 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Midlands, UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10, Huawei M5 10	May 4th Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea (1953). Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (2000). The Royal Canadian Navy is created (1910).

05-04-2011, 06:25 AM	#67
astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,754 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	On this day in 1948 Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead was published. A front-page editorial in the London Sunday Times lobbied to have the book withdrawn for its "incredibly foul and beastly," language, but most reviewers ranked it among the best war novels.

05-05-2011, 03:32 AM	#68
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	May 5th ... 2011 - The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110.... 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.... 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. 1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles..... 1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration..... International Midwives' Day.

05-05-2011, 07:52 AM	#70
Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	May 5th 1945 - The German occupation of Denmark during WW2 ended

05-06-2011, 12:19 AM	#71
The Terminator Retired Posts: 2,552 Karma: 37638420 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver Island Canada Device: Kobo Touch, Optimus One (2.3), Nexus 7 (4.2)	Wow by the amount of thing that you guys are posting on here you must spend a lot of time on it. And Google

05-06-2011, 05:08 AM	#72
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	May 6th .... 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome 1536 – King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church. 1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City. 1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. 1994 – Opening of the English Channel Tunnel. 2011 - Death of Arthur Laurents, writer of stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy... 1915 – Birth of Orson Welles.....

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05-06-2011, 07:11 AM	#73
astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,754 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	On this day in 1862 Henry David Thoreau died at the age of forty-four, from bronchial and respiratory problems.

05-07-2011, 04:43 AM	#74
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	May 7th ..... 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans. 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded... 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people.... 1915 – World War I: German submarine SM U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania. 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published.... 2011 – Death of Seve Ballesteros ....

05-08-2011, 04:16 AM	#75
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	May 8th ..... 1450 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. 1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris. 1886 – Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine..... 1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day....