This day in history

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

October 23 4004 BC

According to 17th century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr. John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m.

Happy birthday, world!

[Saras]

[serb]A clique of reactionary fascist aggressors attempt to seize power from the people of Hungary, only to be crushed by socialist comrades of the Hungarian people from Glorious Russian Empi... ahem, USSR[/serb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Saras
[serb]A clique of reactionary fascist aggressors attempt to seize power from the people of Hungary, only to be crushed by socialist comrades of the Hungarian people from Glorious Russian Empi... ahem, USSR[/serb]

Hungarian freedom fighters

Serb

[Zkribbler]

QUOTE] October 23 4004 BC

According to 17th century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr. John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m.
[/QUOTE]

That was a stupid day to start the world. You'd have thunk it'd been started on Jan. 1, 0001.

I mean, you start the world, then look over at the calendar, see it's already the 23rd, and gasp, "Where has the time gone?!"

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by The White Rabbit

Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!

[germanos]

October 23 4004 BC

According to 17th century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr. John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m.

Originally posted by Zkribbler

That was a stupid day to start the world. You'd have thunk it'd been started on Jan. 1, 0001.

I mean, you start the world, then look over at the calendar, see it's already the 23rd, and gasp, "Where has the time gone?!"

Why on earth would you create the world in autumn ...
Or does this mean that Man comes indeed from sub-Saharan Africa?

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by germanos




Why on earth would you create the world in autumn ...
Or does this mean that Man comes indeed from sub-Saharan Africa?

What a question...; man does come from sub-Saharan Africa!
Does apolyton question your sanity???? Time to get a move on it seems..

(drunk) posts rule

[Dis]

Big day for my state. Okay no one actually celebrates anything. But it is a state holiday.

Happy birthday Nevada. Hallween and my state's birthday fall on the same day, coincidence? I think not.

I think I'll have a beer to celebrate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada

Let's see what else happened this day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_31

Queen releases their single: Bohemian Rhapsody.

hmm, I heard about this before. The Rueben James was sunk by the germans before they had declared war on us.

[Zkribbler]

Nov. 6th: The Feast Day of St. Leonard, patron saint of thieves and criminals.

[BeBMan]

Nov 9th:

1938 "Reichskristallnacht"

1989 Fall of the Berlin wall

[Zkribbler]

Also on Nov. 9:

Australian warship Sydney sinks German Emden
On this day in 1914, in the first ever wartime action by an Australian warship, the cruiser Sydney sinks the German raider Emden in the Indian Ocean during the first autumn of World War I.

When World War I broke out in the summer of 1914, the Emden was part of Germany’s East Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Maxmilian von Spee. While the rest of the squadron set out for the coast of South America, Spee allowed the ship’s commander, Karl von Muller, to detach the ship from the rest of the squadron in order to effectively threaten British commerce where it was vulnerable, in the Indian Ocean. Beginning on September 10, the Emden wreaked havoc on Allied commercial interests in the Indian Ocean, raiding the towns of Madras and Penang and capturing over 20 unarmed merchant vessels. Muller’s crew also sank two warships, a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer.


On November 9, the Australian light cruiser Sydney surprised the Emden as the latter ship was raiding a British wireless communications station on the Cocos Islands. The attack killed 134 of the ship’s crew members, while Muller and the other survivors were taken prisoner by the British. British newspapers at the time praised Muller for his chivalry towards the crews and passengers of the captured vessels. "If all the Germans had fought as well as the captain of the Emden," claimed The Times, "the German people would not today be reviled by the world."


Despite the demise of the Emden on November 9, the exploits of its crew continued, as Muller had put a landing party ashore at nearby Direction Island. The group promptly seized a schooner and sailed to Yemen, crossing the Red Sea and braving Arab attacks on its way to Damascus and finally to Constantinople in May 1915.

[Zkribbler]

Nov. 11:

World War I (the war to end all wars) ends!

[Lord Avalon]

Nov 12:

1929: Grace Kelly was born
1944: Brits sink the battleship Tirpitz
1954: Ellis Island closes
1980: Voyager I flies near Saturn

[Saras]

Nov 13 - R.L.Stevenson is born in 1850.

[Krill]

November 14: Children's Day in India, Day of the Colombian Woman in Colombia.

Policarpa Salavarrieta

* 1228 – Frederick of Isenberg was executed for the murder of his cousin Engelbert of Berg, the Archbishop of Cologne.
* 1817 – BolÃvar's War: Colombian seamstress Policarpa Salavarrieta (pictured) was executed by firing squad by the Spanish in Bogotá for working as a spy for the revolutionary forces in New Granada.
* 1889 – Nellie Bly, reporter for the New York World, departed on her successful attempt to travel Around the World in Eighty Days, eventually completing her journey in only seventy-two days.
* 1940 – World War II: Coventry Cathedral and much of the city centre of Coventry, England were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.
* 1971 – NASA's Mariner 9 reached Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
* 1990 – Germany and Poland signed the German-Polish Border Treaty, confirming their border at the Oder-Neisse line, which was originally defined by the Potsdam Agreement in 1945.
* 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna.