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[maypaxvobiscum]

March 28th

1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1802 - Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas
1807 - Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
1834 - Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1930 - Constantinople & Angora changed their names to Istanbul & Ankara
1939 - Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
1941 - Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf died
1942 - British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
1943 - Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died
1953 - Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
1969 - Eisenhower the 34th president died in Washington at 78

[Alex88]

845 -  Paris is sacked by Viking raiders
1854 - Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan
1959 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
1979 - Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
1809 - Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.

[bunglemark2]

2011 - I had a record 4 dumps before 9:30 a.m.

[dawson99]

2011 - I had a record 4 dumps before 9:30 a.m.

March 27th 2011 - Bunglemark smells the food in the fridge, is sure its edible

[bunglemark2]

2011 - I had a record 4 dumps before 9:30 a.m.

March 27th 2011 - Bunglemark smells the food in the fridge, is sure its edible

Nah mate - the missus cooked dinner yesterday       

[dawson99]

2011 - I had a record 4 dumps before 9:30 a.m.

March 27th 2011 - Mrs Bunglemark smells the food in the fridge, is sure its edible

Nah mate - the missus cooked dinner yesterday       

thats what i said

[maypaxvobiscum]

March 29th

1982 - The combination of an earthquake and a volcanic eruption at El Chichon in southern Mexico converts a hill into a crater, kills thousands of people and destroys acres of farmland on this day in 1982. The eruptions, which continued for over a week, caught many of the area residents unaware and unprepared.

1971 - Lt. William L. Calley is found guilty of premeditated murder at My Lai by a U.S. Army court-martial at Fort Benning, Georgia. Calley, a platoon leader, had led his men in a massacre of Vietnamese civilians, including women and children, at My Lai 4, a cluster of hamlets in Quang Ngai Province on March 16, 1968.

i saw a documentary just days ago on the My Lai killings. it was horrible.

[lakes10]

Robert Falcon Scott Died 29 March 1912 (aged 43)
Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

[maypaxvobiscum]

Man Utd is officially the most hated company in UK

at least they have it in black and white now LINK

[Alex88]

March 29th

1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
1941 - World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England
1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.

[maypaxvobiscum]

1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.

that's massive  doubt we would see such a landslide victory in any country today. and that includes the elected dictatorship known as singapore...

[maypaxvobiscum]

March 30th
1842 - Dr. Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
1932 - Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic
1945 - USSR invades Austria during WW II
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
1974 - John Denver has his first #1 hit with "Sunshine On My Shoulders"

March 31st
1889 - Eiffel Tower in Paris officially opened
1933 - German Republic gives power to Hitler
1959 - Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1991 - Warsaw Pact ends
1993 - Brandon Lee, accidentally shot at 28
1995 - Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24

[maypaxvobiscum]

April 1st
1918 - On April 1, 1918, the Royal Air Force (RAF) is formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry.

April 2nd
1982 - On April 2, 1982, Argentina invades the Falklands Islands, a British colony since 1892 and British possession since 1833. Argentine amphibious forces rapidly overcame the small garrison of British marines at the town of Stanley on East Falkland and the next day seized the dependent territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich group. The 1,800 Falkland Islanders, mostly English-speaking sheep farmers, awaited a British response.
1996 - On this day in 2005, John Paul II, history's most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be the biggest funeral in history.

April 3rd
1882 - One of America's most famous criminals, Jesse James, is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford, who betrayed James for reward money. For 16 years, Jesse and his brother, Frank, committed robberies and murders throughout the Midwest. Detective magazines and pulp novels glamorized the James gang, turning them into mythical Robin Hoods who were driven to crime by unethical landowners and bankers. In reality, Jesse James was a ruthless killer who stole only for himself.
1996 - At his small wilderness cabin near Lincoln, Montana, Theodore John Kaczynski is arrested by FBI agents and accused of being the Unabomber, the elusive terrorist blamed for 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during an 18-year period.