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If we do not learn from the past, we are bound to repeat the same mistakes. Spend some time looking through one of the topics in this post each day and learn about historical events.
This Day in History September 28
48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995 – Members of Slavník's dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 – William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.
1106 – The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1542 – Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
1791 – France became the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1864 – The International Workingmen's Association was founded in London.
1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1891 – Club Atletico Peñarol is founded under the name of Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club
1928 – UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
1941 – Major League Baseball: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox finishes the season with a batting average of .406. He is the latest major league player to have a batting average of .400 or better.
1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1962 – Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
1971 – UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1972 – Canada defeats the USSR in the eighth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series.
1973 – ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken as hostages, takes place in London.
1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic |
| this topic is really not needed... we have history classes for a reason |
No, no, no...
This is actually pretty cool. |
| Its also in most history textbooks... google wiki and hundreds of other places |
this topic is really not needed... we have history classes for a reason
As long as I am not breaking any rules, I will post as I like here. Nobody is making you come here to read it and I suggest you do not try to flame here like you did my other thread. To suggest your history classes will cover all these events is absurd.
for Noxous:
No, no, no...
This is actually pretty cool.
Thanks :P |
As long as I am not breaking any rules, I will post as I like here. Nobody is making you come here to read it and I suggest you do not try to flame here like you did my other thread. To suggest your history classes will cover all these events is absurd.
lol... stating my opinion isnt flaming i never said you couldnt post or shouldnt i said i didnt see the point in it being here its just not needed
and yes history covers all world events... lol... thats the entire point of history classes... (unless u stop taking them) |
lol... stating my opinion isnt flaming i never said you couldnt post or shouldnt i said i didnt see the point in it being here its just not needed
and yes history covers all world events... lol... thats the entire point of history classes... (unless u stop taking them)
You made your opinion so there is no need for you to continue. You dont feel a need for this thread but dont need to keep coming here to say that. We both know why you are posting here. |
| Where are you finding these facts? |
You made your opinion so there is no need for you to continue. You dont feel a need for this thread but dont need to keep coming here to say that. We both know why you are posting here.
because i have a obsession with getting the last word
same as you and how you use transfer logs to insult people
(okay i think this counts as flaming now xd for both so ;3 either way its worth it)
and its only polite to reply untill every says goodbye |
Where are you finding these facts?
Do a search on the net, this day in history and you can find multiple sites. |
because i have a obsession with getting the last word
same as you and how you use transfer logs to insult people
(okay i think this counts as flaming now xd for both so ;3 either way its worth it)
and its only polite to reply untill every says goodbye
Now that you attempted to ruin my thread by flaming I will close it and start anew. If you want to keep this up, I am sure you will be banned again. |
| closed by Modi (2009-09-28 06:48:40) |
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