This day in history..

[Grahambo]

I love history and I love reading about this type of stuff. I figured I would start a thread like this and each day add a fact or two about the day. It's a great way to learn as well. You find something odd, click on a link to a person or event and learn about it. It's addicting (to me anyway). Others are more then welcome to contribute. It's better with the unknown things then it is with something like June 6, 1944 (everybody knows that's D-Day, at least you should know).

So to start it off...

July 13, 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

 

[A Pac]

Love the idea. I'm a history teacher so this is right up my alley.

 

[Grahambo]

Love the idea. I'm a history teacher so this is right up my alley.

Maybe the thread will die a quick death but we still have like 6 weeks until the season starts so why the hell not.

 

[dshans]

On July 13, 1987, my son's bestest buddy growing up (Andy Paulson) was born. On July 21, 1952, dshans was born, which played an important role in pshans birth on July 27, 1987.

Oh, and my twin sister, gshans, was also born on July 21, 1952. 'Twas a good day, indeed.

 

[BobD]

Cool idea! I hope it catches on.

July 13th 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the "Nixon tapes" to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

The begining of the end for "Tricky D!ck Nixon". I think his only true crime might have been getting caught.

Interesting side note: His religion is listed as "Quaker"......I didn't know that.

 

[BGIF]

On July 13, 1987, my son's bestest buddy growing up (Andy Paulson) was born. On July 21, 1952, dshans was born, which played an important role in pshans birth on July 27, 1987.

Oh, and my twin sister, gshans, was also born on July 21, 1952. 'Twas a good day, indeed.

Staying with the Not On This Date In History theme segue initiated by dshans, on October 27 (also not on this date), 1951, dshans I, aka Daddy shans was at the original Marriage Encounter Seminar. The Speaker was discussing the frequency of marital coitus among the married couples and mentioned that he was about to take a survey. He noticed one man sitting in the first row anxiously waiting to raise his hand.

The Speaker asked how many had sex several times a day, a few hands went up among the newlyweds. The man in the front row was not one of them but he sat poised to shoot up his hand.

The Speaker now asked how many had sex several times a week and a few more hands went up but the man in front still sat in anticipation.

The Speaker asked how many had sex once a week and quite a few hands went up but the man in front was still not among them

The Speaker asked how many has sex once a month and more hands went up but still not the man in front althougth he looked like he weaved back and forth like a cobra ready to strike.

Then the Speaker asked those who had sex once a season to raise their hand and a few more went up but again not the man in front.

Finally the Speaker asked those who had sex just once a year to raise their hand and the man in front jumped 9 feet into the air waving his arm with the urgency of a conductor signalling a train wreck.

When the man calmed down the Speaker asked, "Sir, if you only have sex once a year why are you so excited?"

The man jumped to his feet and blurted out, "I'm a shans and today is ANNUAL shans Mating Day. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT!"


July 27, 1952 was a big day to dshans but October 27, 1951 was a BIGGER one to daddyshans.

 

[Grahambo]

July 14, 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.

 

[dshans]

July 27, 1952 was a big day to dshans but October 27, 1951 was a BIGGER one to daddyshans.

Nice story, but on 7/27/52 I was six days old and sharinh an incubator with my twin sis. We were born, prematurely, on the 21st. She weighed all of 4 lbs 1 oz and I weighed a hefty 4 lbs 3 ozs. My older sister was born 9/1/51 and my brother 7/7/49 (7-7-7 squared). It was a great day for me and my twin, but it was a bit of a pinch for the folks. Not only were they a bit surprised that they were pregnant again so soon, they had no idea that twins were involved until it happened. [No ultrasounds and such back then].

There was a great deal of concern that we wouldn't survive, which is why our original birth certificates have us as "shans baby "A" and shans baby "B." Always the gentleman, I ascribed to "ladies go first." I'm shans baby B. Our given names were added (with a Notary in attendance) a little over a month later.

Living in a two bedroom apartment in Queens with four kids, the oldest 3 years and two weeks, was a bit of a pinch so they loaded up the subway and LIRR cars and moved to Lung Eyeland ... Syosset, that is. Potato and corn fields. And suburban housing developments (a la Levittown) ...

Daddyshans was a good Irish Catholic. In spite of his background as a math major, CPA and MBA his rhythm method calculations may have been a tich off.

 

[Irishnuke]

July 14, 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.

Hopefully we can add a "this date in history" for Mackenzie Alexander one day joining the Irish too.

 

[BobD]

From the History Channel

July 14th 1881

Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid for three months after the gunslinger had escaped from prison only days before his scheduled execution, got a tip that Billy was holed up with friends. While Billy was gone, Garrett waited in the dark in his bedroom. When Billy entered, Garrett shot him to death.

Back on April 1, 1878, Billy the Kid ambushed Sheriff William Brady and one deputy in Lincoln, New Mexico, after ranch owner John Tunstall had been murdered. Billy had worked at Tunstall's ranch and was outraged by his employer's slaying-vowing to hunt down every man responsible. Sheriff Brady and his men, who had been affiliated with rival ranchers, were involved with the gang that killed Tunstall on February 18. Billy's retaliatory attack left Brady and Deputy George Hindman dead. Although only 18 years old at the time, Billy had now committed as many as 17 murders.

Following his indictment for the murder of Sheriff Brady, Billy the Kid was the most wanted man in the West. Evading posses sent to capture him, he eventually struck a deal with the new governor of New Mexico: In return for his testimony against the perpetrators of the ongoing ranch wars in the state, Billy would be set free. Although he kept his word about the testimony, he began to distrust the promise that he would be released and so he escaped.

Once a fugitive, Billy killed a few more men, including the gunslinger Joe Grant, who had challenged him to a showdown. Legend has it that Billy managed to get a hold of Grant's gun prior to the fight and made sure that an empty chamber was up first in the man's revolver. When it came time to fire, only Billy's gun went off and Grant was left dead.

Legendary Sheriff Pat Garrett finally brought Billy the Kid in to stand trial. The judge sentenced Billy the Kid to hang until "you are dead, dead, dead." Billy reportedly responded, "And you can go to hell, hell, hell." Two weeks before his scheduled execution, Billy escaped, killing two guards in the process.

Garrett mounted yet another posse to bring in the Kid. After tracing him to the Maxwell Ranch, Garrett shot him to death. No legal charges were brought against him since the killing was ruled a justifiable homicide.

 

[notredomer23]

Today is actually a pretty big day in history if I do remember correctly. I know for a fact that today is the day Napoleon surrendered aboard the ship Bellerophon I want to say in 1815.

I am pretty sure in 1099 on this day Crusaders captured the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem during the first crusade.

I also want to say that the 2nd battle of the Marne either began today or July 15th was a key day in the battle during World War 1.... not entirely sure some one correct me if I am wrong.


As a history major, I am good with all this trivial stuff haha

 

[kmoose]

As a history major, I am good with all this trivial stuff haha

You'll be the life of your Occupy camp, I'm sure.

 

[BobD]

July 15th 1939 - A disputed call on a fly ball down the LF foul line at the Polo Grounds touches off a melee in which New York Giants Billy Jurges and umpire George Magerkurth spit at each other. Both will be fined $150 and suspended for 10 days. National League President Ford Frick announces that 2-foot screens are to be installed inside all foul poles to prevent future arguments. The American League eventually also adopts the rule. The Giants lose, 8 - 4 to the Cincinnati Reds, and will add another eight in a row to take them out of contention.

So thats how those screens came to be....Who knew?

Ford Frick....What a name! He succeeded a guy named Happy. Really.

$150 bucks in 1939 was huge!

 

[Grahambo]

1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

 

[notredomer23]

1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

Look 3 posts up

 

[Grahambo]

Look 3 posts up

:allhail:

 

[BobD]

July 16th: Happy 44th Birthday Barry Sanders.

I don't know how to post the video, so heres a link to a cool video.

This Date in Football: Happy Birthday, Barry Sanders : NFL Films Blog

 

[BGIF]

Look 3 posts up

Ahem, Grahambo didn't put up a wishy washy, "I am pretty sure in ... "

Like Luther, he nailed it to the door without a qualifier. You may want to clean your shoe.

 

[BGIF]

A day late (and a dollar short as usual):

July 15, 1914 Knute Kenneth Rockne married Bonnie Gwendoline Skiles in Sts Peter and Paul Church in Sandusky, OH. The ND graduate assistant in Chemistry was 26. Gus Dorais was Best Man.

 

[BobD]

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[notredomer23]

Two big events today

The eastern and western churches split in 1054.

The first battle of bull run in 1861.

 

[dshans]

Like Luther, he nailed it to the door without a qualifier.

In another skewed aside: My one-time wife went to Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. One fall weekend we drove down to attend a Luther College vs Wartburg College (another Lutheran college in Waverly, IA) football game. They are arch rivals.

Sitting with some of her friends and faculty members the night before the game, I posed the question "Why don't the cheerleaders have a cheer 'Go Luther, Nail 'em!"' It went right over the wife's head, but I was gratified when the two Lutheran Ministers in the group laughed heartily and proceeded to explain it to her.

 

[BGIF]

In another skewed aside: My one-time wife went to Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. One fall weekend we drove down to attend a Luther College vs Wartburg College (another Lutheran college in Waverly, IA) football game. They are arch rivals.

Sitting with some of her friends and faculty members the night before the game, I posed the question "Why don't the cheerleaders have a cheer 'Go Luther, Nail 'em!"' It went right over the wife's head, but I was gratified when the two Lutheran Ministers in the group laughed heartily and proceeded to explain it to her.

My kind of cheer!

 

[BobD]

July 17th 1955
From History.com

Disneyland, Walt Disney's metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy, and futurism, opens on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. Today, Disneyland hosts more than 14 million visitors a year, who spend close to $3 billion.

Walt Disney, born in Chicago in 1901, worked as a commercial artist before setting up a small studio in Los Angeles to produce animated cartoons. In 1928, his short film Steamboat Willy, starring the character "Mickey Mouse," was a national sensation. It was the first animated film to use sound, and Disney provided the voice for Mickey. From there on, Disney cartoons were in heavy demand, but the company struggled financially because of Disney's insistence on ever-improving artistic and technical quality. His first feature-length cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938), took three years to complete and was a great commercial success.

Snow White was followed by other feature-length classics for children, such as Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942). Fantasia (1940), which coordinated animated segments with famous classical music pieces, was an artistic and technical achievement. In Song of the South (1946), Disney combined live actors with animated figures, and beginning with Treasure Island in 1950 the company added live-action movies to its repertoire. Disney was also one of the first movie studios to produce film directly for television, and its Zorro and Davy Crockett series were very popular with children.

In the early 1950s, Walt Disney began designing a huge amusement park to be built near Los Angeles. He intended Disneyland to have educational as well as amusement value and to entertain adults and their children. Land was bought in the farming community of Anaheim, about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles, and construction began in 1954. In the summer of 1955, special invitations were sent out for the opening of Disneyland on July 17. Unfortunately, the pass was counterfeited and thousands of uninvited people were admitted into Disneyland on opening day. The park was not ready for the public: food and drink ran out, a women's high-heel shoe got stuck in the wet asphalt of Main Street USA, and the Mark Twain Steamboat nearly capsized from too many passengers.

Disneyland soon recovered, however, and attractions such as the Castle, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Snow White's Adventures, Space Station X-1, Jungle Cruise, and Stage Coach drew countless children and their parents. Special events and the continual building of new state-of-the-art attractions encouraged them to visit again. In 1965, work began on an even bigger Disney theme park and resort near Orlando, Florida. Walt Disney died in 1966, and Walt Disney World was opened in his honor on October 1, 1971. Epcot Center, Disney-MGM Studios, and Animal Kingdom were later added to Walt Disney World, and it remains Florida's premier tourist attraction. In 1983, Disneyland Tokyo opened in Japan, and in 1992 Disneyland Paris--or "EuroDisney"--opened to a mixed reaction in Marne-la-Vallee. The newest Disneyland, in Hong Kong, opened its doors in September 2005

 

[notredomer23]

The Potsdam conference began today in 1945 discussing post war Europe

 

[woolybug25]

On July 17th, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.

 

[Grahambo]

July 18, 1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.

July, 18 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

Found that a little bit ironic.

 

[BobD]

July 18th 64
from History.com

A fire erupts in Rome, spreading rapidly throughout the market area in the center of the city. When the flames finally died out more than a week later, nearly two-thirds of Rome had been destroyed.

Emperor Nero used the fire as an opportunity to rebuild Rome in a more orderly Greek style and began construction on a massive palace called the Domus Aureus. Some speculated that the emperor had ordered the burning of Rome to indulge his architectural tastes, but he was away in Antium when the conflagration began. According to later Roman historians, Nero blamed members of the mysterious Christian cult for the fire and launched the first Roman persecution of Christians in response.

 

[BobD]

July 22nd

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln informs his chief advisors and cabinet that he will issue a proclamation to free slaves, but adds that he will wait until the Union Army has achieved a substantial military victory to make the announcement.

Attempting to stitch together a nation mired in a bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln made a last-ditch, but carefully calculated, executive decision regarding the institution of slavery in America. At the time of the meeting with his cabinet, things were not looking good for the Union. The Confederate Army had overcome Union troops in significant battles and Britain and France were set to officially recognize the Confederacy as a separate nation.

The issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation had less to do with ending slavery than saving the crumbling union. In an August 1862 letter to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, Lincoln confessed "my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery." He hoped a strong statement declaring a national policy of emancipation would stimulate a rush of the South's slaves into the ranks of the Union Army, thus depleting the Confederacy's labor force, on which it depended to wage war against the North.

As promised, Lincoln waited to unveil the proclamation until he could do so on the heels of a successful Union military advance. On September 22, 1862, after a victory at Antietam, he publicly announced a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves free in the rebellious states as of January 1, 1863. Lincoln and his advisors limited the proclamation's language to slavery in states outside of federal control as of 1862. The proclamation did not, however, address the contentious issue of slavery within the nation's border states. In his attempt to appease all parties, Lincoln left many loopholes open that civil rights advocates would be forced to tackle in the future.

 

[NankerPhelge]

On July 23rd 1978, the Rolling Stones play Anaheim Stadium in California. They play almost their entire new album, "Some Girls" with some other tasty treats, including two Chuck Berry covers. Setlist:

Let It Rock
All Down the Line
Honky Tonk Women
Star****er
When the Whip Comes Down
Beast of Burden
Lies
Miss You
Just My Imagination
Shattered
Respectable
Far Away Eyes
Love in Vain
Tumbling Dice
Happy
Sweet Little Sixteen
Brown Sugar
Jumpin' Jack Flash