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Thread: On This Day

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    30 AUGUST

    1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time

    1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

    1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

    1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

    1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India

    1941 Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII

    Famous Birthday's

    Peter the Cruel
    (1334 - 1369)

    Ted Williams
    (1918 - 2002)

    Cameron Diaz
    45th Birthday

    Famous Deaths

    Vera-Ellen
    (1921 - 1981)

    Charles Bronson
    (1921 - 2003)

    Seamus Heaney
    (1939 - 2013)

    Famous Weddings

    1846 Author and Christian pioneer Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine

    1940 CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts

    1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC

    1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills

    1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner

    Famous Divorces

    1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springs****

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    31 AUGUST

    1056 Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty

    1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah

    1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies

    1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain

    1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire

    1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris

    Famous Birthday's

    Caligula
    (12 - 41)

    Commodus
    (161 - 192)

    Ramon Magsaysay
    (1907 - 1957)

    Famous Deaths

    Mary Ann Nichols
    (1845 - 1888)

    Rocky Marciano
    (1923 - 1969)

    Diana Spencer
    (1961 - 1997)

    Famous Weddings

    1940 "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds "Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26)

    1940 Football player and coach Vince Lombardi (27) weds Marie Planitz at Our Lady of Refuge Church in Bronx, New York

    1952 Soprano singer Leontyne Mary Violet Price (25) weds concert bass-baritone singer William Warfield (32)

    1991 Musician Jan Berry (Jan & Dean) weds Gertie Filip

    2010 Actress Leelee Sobieski (27) weds fashion designer Adam Kimmel in Italy

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    01 SEPTEMBER

    1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

    1939 World War II starts as Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig

    1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David

    1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)

    1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defence treaty

    1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan revolution

    Famous Birthday's

    Johann Pachelbel
    (1653 - 1706)

    Rocky Marciano
    (1923 - 1969)

    Gloria Estefan
    60th Birthday

    Famous Deaths

    Jacques Cartier
    (1491 - 1557)

    Louis XIV
    (1638 - 1715)

    William Clark
    (1770 - 1838)

    Famous Weddings

    1730 US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read

    1843 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark

    1940 Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon

    1945 Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (23) weds childhood sweetheart Jane Marie Cox

    1970 "The Bee Gees" singer Barry Gibb (24) weds former Miss Edinburgh Linda Ann Gray

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    02 SEPTEMBER

    31 BC Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.

    1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

    1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

    1864 Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War

    1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

    1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

    Famous Birthday's

    Andrew Grove
    (1936 - 2016)

    Jimmy Connors
    65th Birthday

    Lennox Lewis
    52nd Birthday

    Famous Deaths

    Pheidippides
    ( - 490 BC)

    J. R. R. Tolkien
    (1892 - 1973)

    Bob Denver
    (1935 - 2005)

    Famous Weddings

    1824 US Navy flag officer David Farragut (23) weds Susan Caroline Marchant

    1908 Naval officer Robert Scott (40) weds sculptress Kathleen Bruce (30) at the Chapel Royal in London, England

    1922 "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw

    1978 George Harrison marries Olivia

    1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)

    Famous Divorces

    1960 Actress Tammy Grimes (26) divorces actor Christopher Plummer (30) after 4 years of marriage

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    It was the third of September, that day I will always remember, oh yes I will

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalky_ncfc View Post
    It was the third of September, that day I will always remember, oh yes I will
    Give us a clue Chalky.

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    03 SEPTEMBER

    301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

    1783 Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America

    1900 With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa

    1939 World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada

    1950 1st Formula One WDC: Giuseppe "Nino" Farina wins by three points

    1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War

    Famous Birthday's

    Carl David Anderson
    (1905 - 1991)

    Whitey Bulger
    88th Birthday

    Charlie Sheen
    52nd Birthday

    Famous Deaths

    Oliver Cromwell
    (1599 - 1658)

    Ho Chi Minh
    (1890 - 1969)

    Vince Lombardi
    (1913 - 1970)

    Famous Weddings

    1921 American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29)

    1923 Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)

    1937 Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

    1953 Explorer Edmund Hillary (34) weds Louise Mary Rose

    1957 World Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston (25) weds Geraldine Clark in St. Louis, Missouri

    Famous Divorces

    2010 Pop singer Cheryl Cole (27) divorces England soccer player Ashley Cole (29) due to unreasonable behavior after 3 and a half years of marriage

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    Quote Originally Posted by Altobelli View Post
    Give us a clue Chalky.
    Just quoting the first line of Papa Was A Rolling Stone as it was September 3rd,I always enjoy reading this thread Altobelli
    Last edited by chalky_ncfc; 03-09-2017 at 09:53 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalky_ncfc View Post
    Just quoting the first line of Papa Was A Rolling Stone as it was September 3rd,I always enjoy reading this thread Altobelli
    Thanks Chalky, I was wondering whether to stop doing the thread as I thought not a lot was interested, thanks for the positivity fella

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    Quote Originally Posted by Altobelli View Post
    Thanks Chalky, I was wondering whether to stop doing the thread as I thought not a lot was interested, thanks for the positivity fella
    I come on here every day and always look for this thread,its an interesting read

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