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10 years ago - March 11, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

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10 years ago - March 11, 2011 - Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

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March 17, 1991: I gave birth to The Kid. This pregnancy was a complete SURPRISE!! His due date was April 1. He is a wonderful, handsome, fun, caring young man.😍
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My brother's birthday is tomorrow. He was born in the winter. My birthday is a week later, and I'm a spring baby. And it will be my second in lockdown, although not as bad as last year, but no birthday dinner out, that's for sure. :(
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My brother's birthday also.
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Happy 40th John Hinckley Day

I watched this unfold in the college union big screen ...2 months earlier my friend was shouting "Someone please shoot him" in the same place.
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https://www.bing.com/search?q=fifteenth ... ORM=OTDHYL
1870
African American men get the vote

Following a difficult ratification, the US Constitution's 15th Amendment is adopted, formally granting all adult Black men, regardless of 'previous condition of servitude,' the right to vote. By the late 1870s, southern states will nevertheless take various steps to disenfranchise Black voters. It will take another 50 years for American women, of any race, to win the right to vote.
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Those of us who grew up near Boston had a holiday that most Americans don't have, Patriots' Day on April 19th commemorating the battles at Concord and Lexington in 1775.

For the last 120 years or so the UK and the US have been friends. However never forget that the US was founded in violent revolt against the British with whom we fought two wars. Sure its all "Fawlty Towers" and "Downton Abbey" now but then it was a life and death struggle.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow got many of his facts wrong but his poem still resonates. We must always be ready to take down the British again! ;)

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”

Then he said “Good night!” and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war:
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon, like a prison-bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.

Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street
Wanders and watches with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers
Marching down to their boats on the shore.

Then he climbed to the tower of the church,
Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry-chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,—
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town,
And the moonlight flowing over all.

Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night-encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,—
A line of black, that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.

Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride,
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse’s side,
Now gazed on the landscape far and near,
Then impetuous stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry-tower of the old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height,
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns!

A hurry of hoofs in a village-street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed that flies fearless and fleet:
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.

He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders, that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.

It was twelve by the village clock
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer’s dog,
And felt the damp of the river-fog,
That rises when the sun goes down.

It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.

It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadows brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket-ball.

You know the rest. In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled,—
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard-wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.

So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
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I was thinking of that poem just yesterday, and looked it up and read it.

Also on 19 April: The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. :brokenheart:
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April 19, 1925, my dear, funny, kind, giving FIL was born. He was the bon vivant model for Hubby! He is not resting in peace. He is partying somewhere. His motto: Let's get drunk, get naked, and SING!
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April 19, 1993. The 51 day siege of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, TX, ends with the FBI attacking the compound. Seventy five cult members died.

April 19, 1995. Timothy McVeigh detonates a home-made bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal office building in Oklahoma City, OK, killing 168.
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noblepa wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:00 am April 19, 1993. The 51 day siege of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, TX, ends with the FBI attacking the compound. Seventy five cult members died.

April 19, 1995. Timothy McVeigh detonates a home-made bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal office building in Oklahoma City, OK, killing 168.
The FBI siege of the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) started on April 19, 1985.

Richard Snell, an associate of CSA was executed on April 19, 1995. He had, at one point, considered bombing the Murrah building.
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not exactly to the day but a cultural landmark

950 years ago - Monastry St. Florian, Austria - consecrated
St. Florian Monastery

History

The monastery, named after Saint Florian, was founded in the Carolingian period. Since 1071 it has housed a community of Augustinian Canons, and is thus is one of the oldest operational monasteries in the world following the Rule of St. Augustine.

Between 1686 and 1708 the monastery complex was reconstructed in Baroque style by Carlo Antonio Carlone, whose masterpiece is St. Florian's. After his death, Jakob Prandtauer continued the work. The result is the biggest Baroque monastery in Upper Austria.[Note 2] Bartolomeo Altomonte created the frescoes.

Construction of the library wing began in 1744, under Johann Gotthard Hayberger. The library comprises about 130,000 items, including many manuscripts. The gallery contains numerous works of the 16th and 17th centuries, but also some late medieval works of the Danube School, particularly by Albrecht Altdorfer.

In 1827, Polish librarian Father Josef Chmel found one of the oldest Polish literary artifacts, an illuminated manuscript containing the Psalms in Latin, German and Polish in the monastery. Because of the site of discovery, it has been named the Sankt Florian Psalter, and now resides in the National Library of Poland.[3]

In January 1941, the Gestapo seized the facility and expelled the monks. From 1942, the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft ("Radio Society of the Third Reich"), under general director Heinrich Glasmeier, operated from here. The canons returned after the end of the war.

The premises now also house the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Museum.


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http://www.stift-st-florian.at/

The page on the historical comemoration http://www.stift-st-florian.at/die-chor ... orian.html

Some nice pictures of the monastry in the Cats thread viewtopic.php?p=20999#p20999
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100 years ago - May 31, 1921 – Jun 1, 1921 - Tulsa race massacre
The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre)[10][11][12][13][14][15] took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[16] It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history".[17] The attack, carried out on the ground and from private aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district—at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street".[18]

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A Century After The Race Massacre, Tulsa Confronts Its Bloody Past

May 24, 20215:00 AM ET
Debbie Elliot

Buildings were destroyed in a massive fire during the Tulsa Race Massacre when a white mob attacked the Greenwood neighborhood, a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921. Eyewitnesses recalled the specter of men carrying torches through the streets to set fire to homes and businesses.

It's been 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre — one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. An armed white mob attacked Greenwood, a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Okla., killing as many as 300 people. What was known as Black Wall Street was burned to the ground.

"Mother, I see men with guns," said Florence Mary Parrish, a small child looking out the window on the evening of May 31, 1921, when the siege began.

"And my great-grandmother was shushing her, saying, 'I'm reading now, don't bother me,' " says Anneliese M. Bruner, a descendant of the Parrish family. But the child became more insistent.


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https://korematsuinstitute.org/freds-story/
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was born in Oakland, California, on January 30, 1919. He was the third of four sons to Japanese immigrant parents who ran a floral nursery business in Oakland, California.

After the U.S. entered World War II, Korematsu tried to enlist in the U.S. National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard, but was turned away by military officers who discriminated against himdue to his Japanese ancestry. Korematsu then trained to become a welder, eventually working at the docks in Oakland as a shipyard welder and quickly rising through the ranks to foreman. One day, when he arrived to punch in his time card, Korematsu found a notice to report to the union office, where he was suddenly fired from his job due to his Japanese ancestry.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Japan on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the U.S. military to remove over 120,000 people of Japanese descent, the majority of whom were American citizens, from their homes and forced them into American prison camps throughout the United States.

Arrest and U.S. Supreme Court Case
Fred Korematsu chose to defy the order and carry on his life as an American citizen. He underwent minor plastic surgery to alter his eyes in an attempt to look less Japanese. He also changed his name to Clyde Sarah and claimed to be of Spanish and Hawaiian descent. On May 30, 1942, he was arrested on a street corner in San Leandro, California, and taken to San Francisco county jail.

While in jail, he was visited by Ernest Besig, the director of the San Francisco office of the American Civil Liberties Union, who asked Korematsu if he was willing to become the test case to challenge the constitutionality of the government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans. On September 8, 1942, Korematsu was convicted in federal court for violating the military orders issued under Executive Order 9066. He was placed on a five-year probation. For several months, he lived at the Tanforan “Assembly Center” in San Bruno, CA, one of the former horseracing tracks where Japanese Americans were first held before being sent to the more permanent American concentration camps. Korematsu and his family were transferred from Tanforan to Topaz, Utah, where the government had set up one of 10 incarceration camps for Japanese Americans.

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5 years ago - the UK votes to leave the EU - BREXIT
UK votes to leave EU after dramatic night divides nation
Historic referendum vote in favour of leaving EU raises questions over futures of David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn

Anushka Asthana, Ben Quinn and Rowena Mason
Fri 24 Jun 2016 07.51 BST

The British people have voted to leave the European Union after a historic referendum in which they rejected the advice of the main Westminster party leaders and instead took a plunge into the political unknown.

The decision in favour of Brexit, following a bitterly close electoral race, represents the biggest shock to the political establishment in Britain and across Europe for decades, and will threaten the leaderships of both the prime minister, David Cameron, and the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

The value of the pound swung wildly on currency markets as initial confidence among investors expecting a remain vote was dented by some of the early referendum results, triggering falls of close to 10% and its biggest one-day fall ever. Jeremy Cook, chief economist and head of currency strategy at WorldFirst, said: “Sterling has collapsed … It can go a lot further as well.”

By 4am, a series of key results signposted a likely leave victory. After a lower-than-expected margin of victory for the remain campaign in Newcastle, where it won the backing of 54% of voters, there was a jolt after midnight when leave captured Sunderland with 61.3% of the vote in a city that has traditionally been a Labour stronghold.


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Today in history, Archduke Ferdinand was shot by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo, 1914, Sparking the First World War. 5 years later, in 1919, Germany Signed the Treaty of Versailles under protest on this date.

Tie first Corvette rolled off the Production lines in Flint, Michigan, 1953

The Colonists repulse a British Sea attack in Charleston, South Carolina, 1776

But, most importantly :batting: , Charles I of Spain was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1513.
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Stonewall 1969 :rainbow_flag:
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperi ... stonewall/
Stonewall Uprising
THE YEAR THAT CHANGED AMERICA

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When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.
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100 years ago - founding of the Chinese Communist Party - 1921
The Communist Party of China was founded in 1921 by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International. From 1927 to 1950, the CCP fought a civil war against the Kuomintang's Nationalist government but it temporarily ceased its hostilities in order to form a short-lived alliance with the Kuomintang in order to fight the war against Japan, and in 1949, it emerged victorious when the CCP's Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan. Since then, the CCP has been the sole ruling party in the country, renamed the People's Republic of China in 1949

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June 30, 1520: Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan at heavy cost.

1876 Wounded soldiers evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat

1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from U.S.S.R.

1859 Jean Francois Gravelet crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope

1971 3 Soviet cosmonauts perish in reentry disaster

1934 Hitler purges members of his own Nazi party in Night of the Long Knives

1936 “Gone With the Wind” published
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Landmark US Civil Rights Act becomes law

President Lyndon Johnson signs a culmination of centuries of activism and struggle, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a televised ceremony at the White House. The new law bars racial segregation in public places, and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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