On This Day

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17 AUGUST


1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]

1903 Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America

1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands

1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel

1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed

1982 The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.

1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship

Today's Birthdays:

Davy Crockett
(1786 - 1836)

Mae WestMae West
(1893 - 1980)

Robert De NiroRobert De Niro
74th Birthday

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Birthday 1882 Samuel Goldwyn, American movie mogul who helped start MGM (Metro Goldwyn Mayer).

1987 93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Adolf Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison.

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A couple of good one's there SERVER

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On this day today..http://news.sky.com/story/live-van-p...-10992730:mad:

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Link cannot be found Spirit.

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Link cannot be found Spirit.

Try this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg

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Just finding out what's going on, Sky are covering it live, so are Fox, and so are RT, so are Al Jazeera, and France 24. On the BBC 6 o'clock News some guy is drearily wittering on about Grenfell. Why do we have to pay for this useless, politically biased, organisation ? It's an embarrassment, a national disgrace, totally unfit for purpose.

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The sooner that horrible old cnut Soros snuffs it the better..

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18 AUGUST

1737 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris

1838 United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"

1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois

1920 22 year old representative Harry T. Burn is deciding vote in Tennessee's and thus America's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the constitution allowing women's suffrage after letter from his mother

1940 Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest ever air battle

1960 The Beatles give their 1st public performance at the Kaiserkeller in Hamburg

Today's Birthday's:

Antonio Salieri
(1750 - 1825)

Meriwether Lewis
(1774 - 1809)

Roberto Clemente
(1934 - 1972)

Famous Deaths:

Genghis Khan
( - 1227)

Walter Chrysler
(1875 - 1940)

Frederick Ashton
(1904 - 1988)

Bruce Forsyth
(1928 - Today 2017)


Famous Weddings:

1572 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) marries his cousin Margaret of Valois in Paris

1782 Romantic Age poet and artist William Blake (24) marries Catherine Boucher, 5 years his junior, in St. Mary's Church, Battersea, London.

1918 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (45) weds socialite Dorothy Benjamin (25)

1932 Actress Bette Davis (24) weds musician Harmon Nelson (25)

1979 Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter

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19 AUGUST

43 BC Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.

1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

1942 World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France

1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)

1991 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état

2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait


Today's Birthday's:

Orville Wright
(1871 - 1948)

Manuel L. Quezon
(1878 - 1944)

Bill Clinton
71st Birthday

Famous Deaths:

Augustus Caesar
(63 BC - 14)

Blaise Pascal
(1623 - 1662)

Groucho Marx
(1890 - 1977)

Famous Weddings:

1800 Social reformer Elizabeth Fry (20) weds tea dealer Joseph Fry (23) at the Norwich Quaker Meeting House in Norwich, England

1935 French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris

1956 Actor Christopher Plummer (26) weds actress Tammy Grimes (22) at Cherokee Castle in Sedalia, Colorado

1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge

1974 Oscar-winning lyricist Tim Rice (29) weds Jane McIntosh

Famous Divorces:

2008 Actor-comedian Tom Arnold (48) divorces Shelby Roos (35) after six years of marriage

2011 "My Fair Brady" actress Adrianne Curry (28) divorces "The Brady Bunch" actor Christopher Knight (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage