On this day in history

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1988 NASA scientist James Hansen testified to the US congress to confirm the greenhouse effect and man made climate change were a fact.
Hansen has stated, “Several times in Earth’s long history rapid global warming of several degrees occurred… In each case more than half of plant and animal species went extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine. If we drive our fellow species to extinction we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world that we inherited from our elders.”

 

[Helena2019]

• 1993 Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1976 the Polish government announced enormous food price rises. Countrywide strikes, public protests, and rioting broke out. In the city Radom demonstrators burned the Communist Party headquarters and fought the police.

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1876 the battle of Greasy grass (Battle of Little Big Horn ) took place.Lakota, Arikara, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho defended Sioux and Cheyenne families from attack from the 7th cavalry led by Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer.

 

[Chas]

On this day in 1968 Tony Hancock died alone in a hotel room in Australia.

 

[Chas]

On this day 54 years ago the first cash machine was unveiled. The first man to use such an revolutionary piece of technology was the actor Reg Varney, Why Was The World's First Cash Machine In Enfield? - [Leaving Land Cruiser Club]

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1969 patrons of the Stonewall Inn Greenwich village New York fought back against a police raid , tired of the routine Police harassment that Lesbian , Gay and trans folks received at the time.The events became known as the Stonewall riots or Stonewall uprising .The events were celebrated the next year in what were the first Gay pride days.

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1943, gay Dutch anti-Nazi resistance fighter Willem Arondeus was executed by occupation forces. His resistance group falsified identity papers for Jews, and in March they attacked the Amsterdam registry, destroying thousands of records against which false papers could be checked. Tragically the unit was betrayed and most members were arrested. Alongside Arondeus, 11 others were executed. Before his execution, Willem asked a friend to testify after the war that "homosexuals are not cowards".

 

[Chas]

On this day in 2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe by balloon. Hear him recount the perils of his journey.

 

[Grimbo]

Today was the first day of what became known as the Battle of the Somme .
A truly horrific day and waste of many lives.... some of the worse casualties were from the "Pals Regiments" where the young men from single towns or areas were wiped out leaving areas without a generation of young men.....
The memorial at Theipval brings home the scale of casualties.... every name inscribed on that memorial is a soldier who has no known grave.... they just disappeared into the mud of the Somme .

 

[Helena2019]

1776 July 02

Continental Congress votes for independence from Britain​

 

[Helena2019]

July 03

1969 Brian Jones and in 1971 Jim Morrison die, two years apart to the day.​

 

[goodoldboy]

1969 Brian Jones and in 1971 Jim Morrison die, two years apart to the day.

Although Morrison took being an arsehole to Olympic levels 3 months before his death he & the Doors recorded probably their best album LA Woman .I discovered it in the early 80s & still play it today.

 

[goodoldboy]

On this day in 1988, the United States Navy shot down Iran Air flight 655, a civilian passenger plane with 290 people on board, all of whom were killed. The victims included 66 children, and an entire family of 16 who were on their way to a wedding in Dubai.
The incident took place during the war between Iran and Iraq, which was led by Saddam Hussein and backed by the US. It followed a catalogue of errors, including the naval officer in charge of firing the missile aboard the USS Vincennes hitting the wrong key no fewer than 23 times before it was eventually fired. The US military then claimed that the Vincennes was rushing to defend a merchant vessel under attack from Iran when an aircraft outside the commercial air corridor was descending in "attack mode" towards the ship – which was false on all three counts. They also tried to claim the ship was in international waters, and naval officials even deleted an Iranian island from the map they showed to Congress. In fact it was in Iranian waters, in clear violation of international law. Meanwhile, the US media backed up the official line, with the New York Times apportioning blame to the pilot, Mohsen Rezaian, and Iran.
In the aftermath, officers and crew of the Vincennes were welcomed home and decorated as heroes, receiving combat action ribbons and in one case a Commendation Medal for "heroic achievement" for "quickly and precisely complet[ing] the firing procedure." The Captain was later awarded the Legion of Merit for "exceptionally meritorious conduct as a commanding officer." Donations from the public to construct a monument honouring the USS Vincennes in Indiana also shot up following the incident, and the monument was constructed and dedicated the following year.

 

[Chas]

On this day 4th of July in 1776, the United States gained independence from Great Britain by the Continental Congress. 12 of the 13 North American colonies voted for the separation from Great Britain.

 

[SteveJB]

CORNFLAKE HISTORY
When I was about six years old eating me breakfast of Kelloggs cornflakes and reading the packet it was written that independence day was declared on the second of July but is celebrated on the fourth of July the reason being that the states of America were so vast that by the time the people had found out that independence had been declared two days had passed by and the people did party true or not I don't know but as history was written by Kelloggs an American company no reason to disbelieve what was written on the cornflake box

 

[Helena2019]

 

[SteveJB]

TRUE OR NOT I DONT KNOW
or did you not see that please read it again

 

[goodoldboy]

Thomas Jefferson was a wrong un

 

[Chas]

On this day 9yrs ago today July 4th Eric Sykes 1923– 2012 died, he was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period