On this day..............

Emma Jansen 1 wrote:This is the clever showing off I think.

y2johnny wrote:is that better?

Barb Dwyer wrote:On this day In 1979 the first rap single was released (Chris Evans told me on the way to work)

Bwfc1958 wrote:

y2johnny wrote:is that better?

No. They're still half sentences, except now they're all in bold.

Bwfc1958 wrote:Nope. Still the same.

Is it just me?

y2johnny wrote:

September 15
1588		The Spanish Armada, which attempted to  invade England, is destroyed by a British  fleet.
1776		The British occupy Manhattan.
1788		An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the  Netherlands is ratified at the Hague.
1858		The Butterfield Overland Mail Company begins  delivering mail from St. Louis to San Francisco. The company’s motto is: "Remember, boys, nothing on God’s earth  must stop the United States mail!"
1862		Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, securing  the rear of Robert E. Lee’s forces in Maryland.
1891		The Dalton gang holds up a train and takes  $2,500 at Wagoner, Oklahoma.
1914		President Woodrow Wilson orders the Punitive  Expedition out of Mexico. The Expedition, headed by General John Pershing, had been  searching for Pancho Villa, a Mexican  revolutionary.
1916		Armored tanks are introduced by the British  during the Battle of the Somme.
1928		Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming  discovers, by accident, that the mold penicillin has an antibiotic effect.
1935		In Berlin, the Reich under Adolf Hitler adopts  the swastika as the national flag.
1937		Prime Minister of England Neville Chamberlain  flies to Germany to discuss the future of Czechoslovakia with Adolf Hitler.
1939		The Polish submarine Orzel arrives in Tallinn,  Estonia, after escaping the German invasion of Poland.
1950		U.N. Forces, lead by the U.S. Marine Corps,  invade occupied Korea at the port of Inchon.  Considered the greatest amphibious attack in history, it is the zenith of General Douglas MacArthur’s career.
1959		Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Soviet leader  to visit the US.
1961		Hurricane Carla comes ashore in Texas, the  second-most powerful ever to make landfall  in that state.
1963		Four young African-American girls are killed  by the bombing of a church in Birmingham,  Alabama.
1966		US President Lyndon Johnson urges Congress  to adopt gun control legislation in the wake  of Charles Whitman’s sniper attack from the  University of Texas’s Texas Tower; in all, Whitman shot and killed 15 people before  being shot dead himself by an Austin police  officer.
1968		The USSR launches Zond 5, which becomes  the first spaceshipt to orbit the moon and  reenter Earth’s atmosphere.
1971		The environmental group Greenpeace is  founded.
1981		Sandra Day O’Connor is unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee  to become the first female justice on the US Supreme Court.
1983		Menachem Begin resigns as premier of  Israel.
1990		France announces it will send 4,000 troops to  join those of other nations assembling in the  Persian Gulf to protect Saudi Arabia and force  Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein to withdraw  troops from occupied Kuwait.
1998		MCI WorldCom begins operations after a  landmark merger between World Com and  MCI Communications.
2004		National Hockey League commissioner Gary  Bettman announces a lockout of the players  union.
2008		The largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US history is filed by Lehman Brothers financial  services firm.
Born on September 15
1789		James Fenimore Cooper, novelist whose works include The Pioneers and Last of the  Mohicans.
1857		William Howard Taft, 26th president of the  United States (1909-1913).
1889		Robert Benchley, humorist.
1890		Agatha Christie, English writer of mystery novels.
1890		Claude McKay, poet and novelist, part of the  Harlem Renaissance.
1894		Jean Renoir, French film director  (Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game).
1901		Sir Howard Bailey, British engineer who gave  his name to a prefabricated bridge used  extensively during World War II.
1926		Bobby Short, singer and pianist.
1945		Jesse Norman, soprano.
1946		Oliver Stone, film director and screenwriter  (Platoon, JFK).
1958		Wendie Jo Sperber, actress (I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Back to the Future).
1961		Dan Marino, American football pro quarterback  who led Miami Dolphins to 10 playoffs in his  17-year career and set many NFL passing records.
1977		Tom Hardy, actor; won a BAFTA Rising Star Award for Inception.
1984		Prince Harry of Wales, Prince of Wales; currently fourth in line of succession to the  British throne

Come on Bonce, i know you and Breaders like this history malarkey!!!

Happy Birthday to Prince Harry BTW!!!  

Numpty 28723 wrote:Isn't today September 16?

So it is, may i borrow your username please i have been up since quarter to 5, sorry! September 16
1620		The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower.
1668		King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne.
1747		The French capture Bergen-op-Zoom, consolidating their occupation of Austrian Flanders in the Netherlands.
1789		Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France,L’Ami du Peuple.
1810		A revolution for independence breaks out in Mexico.
1864		Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee.
1889		Robert Younger, in Minnesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison.
1893		Some 50,000 "Sooners" claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush.
1908		General Motors files papers of incorporation.
1920		Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York’s Wall Street financial district.
1934		Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich.
1940		Congress passes the Selective Service Act, which calls for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1942		The Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands is raided by American bombers.
1945		Japan surrenders Hong Kong to Britain.
1950		The U.S. 8th Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and begins heading north to meet MacArthur’s troops heading south from Inchon.
1972		South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army.
1974		Limited amnesty is offered to Vietnam-era draft resisters who would now swear allegiance to the United States and perform two years of public service.
1975		Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announce the decision to begin offering fellowships to women.
1978		An earthquake estimated to be as strong as 7.9 on the Richter scale kills 25,000 people in Iran.
1991		The trial of Manuel Noriega, deposed dictator of Panama, begins in the United States.
1994		Britain’s government lifts the 1988 broadcasting ban against member of Ireland’s Sinn Fein and Irish paramilitary groups.
2007		Military contractors in the employ of Blackwater Worldwide allegedly kill 17 Iraqis in Baghdad’s Nisour Square, further straining relations between the US and the people of Iraq.
Born on September 16
1838		James J. Hill, railroad builder.
1875		James Cash Penney, founder and owner of the J.C. Penny Company department stores.
1885		Karen Horney, psychoanalyst who exposed the male bias in the Freudian analysis of women.
1891		Karl Doenitz, German Admiral who succeeded Hitler in governing Germany.
1893		Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, biochemist who isolated vitamin C.
1925		Charlie Byrd, jazz guitarist.
1925		B.B. King, blues guitarist.
1926		John Knowles, writer; won first-ever William Faulkner Foundation Award (A Separate Peace, 1961).
1927		Peter Falk, actor, best known for his role as detective Columbo in the TV series of the same name.
1943		James Alan McPherson, author; first African American to win Pulitzer Prize for fiction (Elbow Room, 1978).
1948		Rosemary Casals, pro tennis player whose efforts to gain greater equality for women in the sport led to many changes.
1950		Henry Louis Gates Jr., critic and scholar.
1952		Mickey Rourke, actor, screenwriter, professional boxer; won Golden Globe (The Wrestler, 2009).
1954		Earl Klugh, jazz guitarist.
1956		David Copperfield, magician.

Sluffy wrote:David Copperfield's birthday today then.

I assume it's the magician and not the comedian, if so I once saw his show live and was really impressed with it.

(Just thought I'd add to the thread after all Johnny's hard work).