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WA Delegate News
I was contacted by Zenstrum about the 2nd Interregional Writing Contest. All informations can be found here. :D
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1009727
If you have questions regarding this contest then you should contact Zenstrum.
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Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Percyton, Midasia
There's no word limit? Time to pull out my old Toontown fanfic novels!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia
What do you guys think of baseball so far?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia
I dunno. That was just Tired Lavan. He's weird.
I was not high!
It was 2 AM!
Fvck you and your baseball, buddy.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
It's great. I look forward to the other sports as well.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Pirates fans probably hate it (just like they do irl!)
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
LAAAAAME
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Meh, sports in general are dull. With the exception of hockey and soccer/football.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Probably. We may have won, but jeez... your team has a great stadium and uniform.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
I quite like cricket its a good social thing to drink beers over the afternoon just observing a short few hour long game. I love the social side of football as well and going out with your mates to the pub and going to the bookies.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Do yall have a Festival of Nations like event in you states/cities?
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The West Country
Been enjoying so far. I like it.
I don't think we do. Why do you ask?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I am going to the Festival of Nations in Minnesota.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is May 4 and today are:]
Today is May 4 and today are:
- Anti-Bullying Day (United Nations)
- Bird Day (United States)
- Cassinga Day (Namibia)
- Dave Brubeck Day
- Death of Milan Rastislav tefánik Day (Slovakia)
- Greenery Day (Japan)
- International Firefighters' Day
- International Respect for Chickens Day
- International Space Day
- Kent State Shootings Remembrance (Ohio)
- Literary Day (Taiwan)
- National Candied Orange Peel Day (United States)
- National Orange Juice Day (United States)
- National Renewal Day (United States)
- National Space Day (United States)
- National Star Wars Day (United States)
- National Weather Observers Day (United States)
- Petite and Proud Day
- Remembrance Day for Martyrs and Disabled (Afghanistan)
- Remembrance of the Dead (Netherlands)
- Restoration of Independence Day (Latvia)
- Rhode Island Independence Day
- School Lunch Hero Day
- Star Wars Day
- Tuba Day
- World Give Day
- Youth Day (China)
- Youth Day (Fiji)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1256 The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
- 1415 Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
- 1436 Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
- 1471 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
- 1493 Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
- 1626 Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
- 1675 King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- 1686 The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 1776 Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
- 1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
- 1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
- 1814 King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decree of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
- 1836 Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
- 1859 The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England.
- 1865 Surrender of the Confederate departments of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana at Citronelle, Alabama.
- 1869 The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
- 1871 The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 1886 Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- 1904 The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1910 The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- 1912 Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- 1919 May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
- 1926 The United Kingdom general strike begins.
- 1932 In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
- 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
- 1945 World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
- 1945 World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath includes all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
- 1946 In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary; 5 people are killed in the riot.
- 1949 The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
- 1953 Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
- 1959 The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
- 1961 American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
- 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
- 1970 Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
- 1972 The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
- 1978 The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
- 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1982 Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
- 1988 The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
- 1989 IranContra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
- 1990 Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
- 1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
- 1998 A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
- 2000 Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
- 2007 Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
- 2014 Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1655 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano
- 1772 Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher
- 1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, anatomist, and academic
- 1827 John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer
- 1916 Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist
- 1928 Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian air marshal and politician, 4th President of Egypt
- 1928 Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver
- 1929 Audrey Hepburn, British actress and humanitarian
- 1935 Rüdiger Nehberg, German human rights activist, author and survival expert
- 1958 Keith Haring, American painter
- 1960 Werner Faymann, Austrian politician, 28th Chancellor of Austria
- 1989 Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
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Facts of the day
Cats are such picky eaters because they are naturally driven to eat foods with a preferred ratio of protein to fat: 1 to 0.4.
In the 1800s, people bought mummies and held "mummy unwrapping" parties.
During prohibition, the U.S. Congress had their own bootlegger so senators and congressmen could still drink alcohol.
Quote of the day
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
- Arnold Bennett (English Novelist, 1867-1931) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia
So, is this for people who save school lunches, or for hero sandwiches that are served as part of school lunches? The name doesn't really make it clear.
jk
>Rhode Island
>Independence
Pick one.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Why is Rhode Island called Rhode Island when most of it isn't an island?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
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Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Mercunova, Percyton
Tomorrow is Community Day!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton, Midasia, Sarameia
What is this?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
It is a festival to appreciate the cultures our people have.
Russkov Soviet, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island#Origin_of_the_name
I was mostly joking, but the response is appreciated. Thank you.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Solla Ultima
Ah.. That would be our 'World United Week' for us since we have so many allies and heavy tourism. It's already passed though...
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia
Lmao, no, Johnson is a total knob along with the entire Libertarian Party. Also, don't take me so seriously. I'm not as arrogant as I'm coming off, lol.
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
How the hell can the poor's income decrease when I specifically mandated that companies must pay their employees higher wages for working weekends and antisocial hours?!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko, Midasia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ_fFMJSDPw
Well we have something like it but not exactly:
Its called ´´Successful Days Before another Civil War celebration´´
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Midasia
Results of the May Election
Chancellor
Mercunova - 17
Vista Major - 7
Vice Chancellor
Lex Caledonia - 15
Chernarus State - 2
Foreign Affairs
Au Minbo - 13
Midasia - 5
Internal Affairs
The Valleian Orders - 14
Yukona - 4
Justice
Penguania And Antarctica - Acclaimed
Speaker
Continental Commonwealths - Acclaimed
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Unfallious, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Chernarus State, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Cesorion, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia, The West Country, Sarameia
Congratulations to Au Minbo on their electoral victory! Congratulations to everyone else as well!
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The West Country
Happy Community Day! Hope everyone has a good day!
This Cabinet is excited to be in office for the next two months, and we will do everything in our power to ensure the safe, steady administration of this region!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE8V22unwRo
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]5 May 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
16:00 The Chancellor releases a statement
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Midasia, The West Country, Sarameia
President Szadró of Sarameia has issued a statement in regards to the May election results:
"Many congratulations from the Republic!
On this day, we pray for and bless those who
participated in the elections, triumphant or not.
We wish the best for those who have assumed
these positions and support them indefinitely.
God be with you."
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia, The Valleian Orders
Congrats to all the election winners! Looking forward to another successful term!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia, The West Country
Pro-independence march was held in Glasgow today. Sun was shining. Lovely.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Midasia
New Western Atlantic Diplomacy Ministry
Statement
The NWA Government congratulates Chancellor Mercunova on his impressive victory in the recent election, as well as the other elected Cabinet members. Congratulations are also due to all who run for office, and to the Electoral Committee for carrying out the process in a professional manner. We hope that in the next term we shall strengthen our inter-regional ties, perhaps with cross-region events.
[nation=noflag]Cesorion[/nation]
Class II CRC Senator, Diplomat (NWA)
Former Chancellor (CoFN)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia
On a more personal note, Merc-Lex will be awesome. Good to see Vista off govt.
Mercunova, The West Country
[spoiler=Today is May 5 and today are:]
Today is May 5 and today are:
- Beer Pong Day
- Bladder Cancer Awareness Day
- Bonza Bottler Day
- Childhood Stroke Awareness Day
- Children's Day (Japan)
- Children's Day (South Korea)
- Cinco de Mayo (Mexico and the United States)
- Community Day (The Confederacy Of Free Nations)
- Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
- Europe Day (Council of Europe)
- Feast of al-Khadr or Saint George (Palestinian)
- Free Comic Book Day
- Hand Hygiene Day
- Hug A Shed And Take A Selfie
- Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)
- Infidelity Hurts Awareness Day
- International Midwives' Day
- Join Hands Day
- Liberation Day (Denmark)
- Liberation Day (Netherlands)
- Lusophone Culture Day (Community of Portuguese Language Countries)
- Martin Z. Mollusk Day
- Martyrs' Day (Albania)
- National Astronaut Day (United States)
- National Bombshells Day (United States)
- National Cartoonists Day (United States)
- National Chocolate Custard Day (United States)
- National Explosive Ordinance Disposal (United States)
- National Herb Day (United States)
- National Hoagie Day (United States)
- National Homebrew Day (United States)
- National Scrapbook Day (United States)
- National Silence the Shame Day (United States)
- National Start Seeing Monarchs Day (United States)
- National Totally Chipotle Day (United States)
- National Train Day (United States)
- National Windmill Day (Holland)
- Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)
- Revenge of the Fifth (Star Wars community)
- Senior Citizens Day (Palau)
- Tango no sekku (Japan)
- Wildfire Community Preparedness Day
- World Naked Gardening Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0553 The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
- 1215 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
- 1260 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
- 1494 Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
- 1640 King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
- 1762 Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
- 1789 In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
- 1809 Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
- 1809 The Swiss canton of Aargau allowed citizenship to Jews.
- 1811 In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro the French army, under Marshall André Masséna, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Oñoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.
- 1821 Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 1835 The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
- 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1862 Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
- 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
- 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
- 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
- 1866 Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
- 1877 American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- 1886 The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
- 1891 The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
- 1904 Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- 1905 The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
- 1912 Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
- 1920 Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- 1925 Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1925 The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.
- 1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 1940 World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London.
- 1940 World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
- 1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
- 1944 German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura, Greece.
- 1945 World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
- 1945 World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.
- 1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 1949 The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
- 1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King Rama IX of Thailand.
- 1955 West Germany gains full sovereignty.
- 1961 The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
- 1964 The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
- 1972 Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
- 1973 Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
- 1980 Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
- 1981 Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
- 1985 Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen: Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg, Germany, and the site of the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, where he makes a speech.
- 1987 IranContra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
- 1991 A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
- 1994 The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
- 1994 American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
- 2006 The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
- 2010 Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
- 2014 11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
- 2014 22 people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1210 Afonso III of Portugal
- 1813 Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author
- 1818 Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist
- 1826 Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III
- 1830 John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company
- 1833 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic
- 1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943 Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
- 1959 Peter Molyneux, English video game designer and programmer
- 1964 Heike Henkel, German high jumper
- 1988 Adele, English singer-songwriter
- 1989 Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
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Facts of the day
The Heil Hitler' salute is legal in Switzerland as long as it's an expression of personal opinion, not for propaganda purposes.
100,000 mobile phones are dropped down the toilet in Britain every year.
Modern homing pigeons find it more convenient to follow motorways and ring roads and turn left and right at junctions rather than using their in-built navigational abilities.
The word "Britain" is derived from "Pretain" meaning "painted", originally because the Britons had tattoos.
Quote of the day
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Macus Tullius Cicero (Roman Statesman, 106BC-43BC) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
(Changelog: CFN Community Day added to the holidays)
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion, Midasia, The West Country
Congrats to all except myself who participated in the elections. You exercise a vital duty of our little democratic community.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion, Midasia, The West Country
I added powerful painkillers to the water supply in Iberia to sedate the population. This increased tourism.
Arthritic Tourist: I'm just here for the tap water.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Cesorion, Midasia
Ok I'll be the first to admit
the mobile thing is ten times worse than the hitler thing
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
On my own personal note, I, too, am glad to see second-class Ces still off govt. I am genuinely excited to see the Merc-Lex Administration progress our Confederacy without the influence of reactionary expatriates.
Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia, The West Country
Statement from the Office of the Chancellor
It is an honor to once again serve as your Chancellor. At the beginning of my first term I said I hoped to see a more contested next election, and I am incredibly pleased that it was. There's still work to do, but four out of the five offices in the cabinet is an excellent start.
The elected team, consisting of myself, Lex Caledonia, Au Minbo, The Valleian Orders, and Penguania And Antarctica, will be working steadfast to continue this progress over the next two months. We are committed to the betterment and ongoing progress of this region.
All state officers of the Confederacy of Free Nations are open to questions, concerns and comments, by telegram, by Discord, and by the forums. Feel free to contact us at any time.
As the May to July term gets underway the Office of the Chancellor will be releasing statements on any new programs and initiatives being taken by the government. Please stay tuned.
We are excited to have been trusted by you with the administration of your region and we will do everything in our power to ensure that trust remains justified.
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By the Chancellor
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Cesorion, Midasia, The West Country
It hailed last night and the lawn was white. Today it was 70 degrees F outside. I hate Spring.
In other news, happy cinco de mayo and happy local holiday for me, Green up day
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia
Perhaps you didn't understand what Class II means...
I did. But, perhaps you didn't understand what word play means.
Oh really? Rest assured, I did
The two of you really need to stop bitching at each other
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Midasia, The West Country
Um, why? Does my tool shed need some encouragement today?
So, like Queen Elizabeth and Queen Willem-Alexander? Sounds easier said than done, but I suppose it's possible. Spotting royal heads of state at least sounds like an interesting hobby.
Sounds like your kind of holiday, Percyton.
Since you won't congratulate yourself, I will. Congrats, MoJ Peng!
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
That might be a valid point
Jaslandia
Post self-deleted by Cesorion.
Post self-deleted by Cesorion.
Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who voted for me and a big thank you to my competitor Chernarus State. I know I sound like a broken record at this point but it is an honour to serve you all again and now in this position. I will do my best for all of you.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia, The West Country, Sarameia
In turn, I wish to give my congratulations to Lex for taking office as Vice Chancellor: while my votes were much lower, I cannot think of anyone else currently who is suited for the office. I also wish to give thanks to everyone who voted in the election, and for both the new office-takers and their competitors, for preventing the "heat death" of democracy.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Midasia, The West Country, Sarameia
Eventually
Midasia
>being on the Internet
>not bitching
Pick one.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Midasia, The West Country
hmmm been a long time.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia, The West Country
Hi
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia
It has indeed been a long time Your Excellency. Long enough for this stallion to pass the reins of this glorious Equestrian Union over to my son. Nevertheless, welcome back Comrade.
Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia
Ah my first ever ally that I made on this game. It is gracious to be reunited once more my good brother
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Midasia
For some reason, Vista thinks that I am like you stylistically.
Mercunova
what do you mean? I do not remember you
Hello, PLR! It's been a while. How are you?
Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Me: There is only one me, so I am the OG.
Vista: The existence of PLR begs to differ.
Me: How am I similar to PLR?
Vista: Your profile pictures, for one. They both evoke authoritarian nostalgia. That is to say, you both share a certain style.
Peoples Liberation Republic, The West Country
I am doing well, just getting old and tired. I have one year left in college before I hope to get into grad school but that is about it. How are you?
Also, I am going to try and become Libya and expand into a Pan-Arab State just to let you know. I have sent a request for Libya and hopefully Western Algeria.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The West Country
If that is the case then I embrace you as an ally and dear friend.
Percyton
I don't even RP.
no need to RP to be declared a good friend and ally of mine.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
I'm doing good. I just finished my second semester of college, and I'm planning to transfer from my community college to university in the fall.
Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
That is pretty good.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Voting on the motion for the appointment of a Director of the Discord Administrative Organization has concluded. With six votes in favour, one against, and forty abstentions, it has passed.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The West Country
Hello everyone! First off, congrats to the all the winners of the recent election! Everyone did a great job, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this Cabinet can improve the region!
You're right, it does! Shame that holiday is only in the United States. I would say Percyton should have a National Train Day too, but considering how important railways and trains are to our island, I'd say every day is National Train Day!
PLR! So good to see you! It's been too long! How are you?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Ah Percyton. I have been doing well and yourself?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Very good, thank you. We had our Sodor Day celebrations last week, and that went very well! But, the downside is that these celebrations are so big, and there are so many in them in the towns and cities of Sodor, that there's always a lot of clean-up work for us to do afterwards, and that isn't very fun. But, at least our old friend Wesley is back to help!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Here's a news article about the Sodor Day celebrations if you want to read more.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1019516
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Well... Its a good thing the troops from F.O.B Pegasus are always willing to lend a hoof. Having a few thousand soldiers assist in clean up is good, considering I was present for the celebrations!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine
Oh yes, the Equestrian soldiers have been a big help! They've been very organized and thorough in their work, to the point that Duck has called them "honorary Great Westerners" (which is high praise, considering Duck is all about doing things 'the Great Western Way').
Duck: That's right, Percy. The Equestrian soldiers have certainly been doing things the Great Western Way! In fact, I think there might be four ways to do things now: the Great Western Way, the wrong way, the Thomas Way, and the Equestrian Way! But, the Great Western Way is usually the best.
https://youtu.be/vHfhVGPWZtw
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
First two ways, then three ways, and now four ways of doing things? I'd say you're lowering your standards, Duck. If there's an 'Equestrian Way' now, why not, perhaps, a James Way? Yes, the James Way: doing things as fast and as splendidly as possible. I like that.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Duck: The James Way? Would you call knocking over a signal, needing bootlaces to repair a coach's brakepipe, getting jammed brakes, getting stuck on a hill, and nearly crashing your train into Sir Topham Hatt and Dowager Hatt 'the James Way'? I think there's already a name for the 'James Way', anyway: it's called 'the wrong way'.
https://youtu.be/cNSMi6rVxlE
https://youtu.be/L4CT1H3mgdY
https://youtu.be/_dGjnxWUt3s
https://youtu.be/p5lDMAhnPAo
https://youtu.be/cd7GB3asfFs
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://youtu.be/aZHvd0ks7Es
Penguania And Antarctica
Pah! All those incidents happened years ago!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Duck: You want some more recent examples? Fine. What about when you crashed into the back of Tidmouth Sheds? Or when you got covered in leaves and twigs because you couldn't want for your paint to dry?
https://youtu.be/e7sa5vHNKfg
https://youtu.be/olkme4PvvZ0
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
He's got you there, James.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Also, I didn't realize you could be such an argumentative engine, Duck. First arguing with Diesel, then Gordon, and now James. Who will you argue with next?
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=29817443
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=30063819
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Duck: I don't consider myself to be THAT argumentative. I'm just pointing out inaccuracies and other things that deserve to be called out. Nothing wrong with that.
Gordon: Pah! I beg to differ.
Duck: Oh, shut up Gordon!
Gordon: Why don't you shut up, little engine?
Duck: Little? Why I...
Sir Topham Hatt: Alright, that's enough! Quiet down both of you!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia
If I was Jeremy Corbyn, I'd resign as leader and let Labour rot under the Blairites. Then when they lose the next election under a Blairite leader, they can scratch their heads and wonder why people are voting for the real Tories instead of their crappy red version of the Tories.
I'm sure it'll still be Corbyn's fault somehow though.
Ludania, Axeldonia, Midasia
Good morning everyone!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_XQVKe6So
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]6 May 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
No public schedule.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Midasia, Sarameia
Happy Birthday Midasia! May all your birthday wishes come true. I hope you enjoy today with family or/and friends. :D
[spoiler=Today is May 6 and today are:]
Today is May 6 and today are:
- 15th Birthday of [nation=short]Midasia[/nation]
- Day of Gorans (Kosovo)
- Hıdırellez (Turkey)
- International Baby Lost Mother's Day
- International Bereaved Mothers Day
- International No Diet Day
- Joseph Brackett Day
- Martyrs' Day (Gabon)
- Martyrs' Day (Lebanon)
- Martyrs' Day (Syria)
- Mayday for Mutts
- Mothers' Day (Lithuania, Romania, Spain)
- Motorcycle Mass and Blessings of the Bike
- National Beverage Day (United States)
- National Crepe Suzette Day (United States)
- National Dandelion Day (United States)
- National Infertility Survival Day (United States)
- National Lemonade Day (United States)
- National Nurses Day (United States)
- National Tourist Appreciation Day (United States)
- No Homework Day
- Rural Life Sunday
- St. George's Day (Bulgaria)
- Teachers' Day (Jamaica)
- World Laughter Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1527 Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
- 1536 The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
- 1536 King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.
- 1542 Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
- 1659 English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
- 1682 Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
- 1757 Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
- 1757 The end of KonbaungHanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (17401757).
- 1757 English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- 1782 Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
- 1801 Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
- 1835 James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
- 1840 The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- 1857 The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
- 1861 American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
- 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
- 1877 Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- 1882 Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are assassinated in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
- 1882 The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
- 1902 Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President.
- 1906 The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23rd by the Julian calendar).
- 1910 George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- 1915 Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
- 1916 Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
- 1916 Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while attempting to call upon the people to rise up against the French, and later being deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
- 1933 The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
- 1935 New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
- 1937 Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
- 1940 John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
- 1941 At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
- 1941 The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
- 1942 World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
- 1945 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
- 1945 World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
- 1949 EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
- 1954 Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1960 More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
- 1962 Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
- 1966 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
- 1972 Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
- 1975 During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut to commemorate 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
- 1976 An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
- 1983 The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts.
- 1984 103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
- 1994 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
- 1996 The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
- 1997 The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
- 1998 Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
- 1999 The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
- 2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
- 2002 Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
- 2013 Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1405 George Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg, Albanian national hero
- 1464 Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Polish princess
- 1501 Pope Marcellus II
- 1574 Pope Innocent X
- 1758 Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician
- 1797 Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer
- 1856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst
- 1856 Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer
- 1868 Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author
- 1871 Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1871 Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet
- 1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter
- 1895 Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor
- 1904 Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate
- 1915 Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1921 Erich Fried, Austrian-German author, poet, and translator
- 1943 Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction
- 1947 Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author
- 1953 Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1961 George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
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Facts of the day
Mongooses were introduced to Hawaii in 1883 to control the invasive rat population. However, rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal. Hawaii now has a problem with both.
"Ttongsul" is a traditional Korean wine made from feces, particularly that of humans.
A Cleveland Browns fan requested six Cleveland Browns pallbearers at his funeral so "the Browns could let him down one last time".
Quote of the day
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon (English Philosopher, 1561-1626) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia, The West Country
I'd encourage all citizens of the Confederacy to read and keep the contents of this dispatch in mind for the future. It is, obviously, a very important subject.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1018100
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Deimosan, The British Islands Confederacy
Good day everyone!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgQezOF8kY
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]6 May 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
16:00 The Chancellor holds his weekly meeting with the Vice Chancellor
18:00 The Chancellor announces new government policy
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Did you know:
The biggest German law is the Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch) with a total number of 2385 sections.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia
A bureaucrat's wet dream.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Midasia
I like laws. They are well structured. Not always understandable at the first look tho.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Percyton, Midasia
https://youtu.be/gNb2lJSMrWw
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Percyton
Statists. Statists everywhere.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
Simmer doon Ayn Rand :L
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, The West Country, Sarameia
The commies took everything from me...except my spirit [roaring US national anthem, bald eagles with shotgun-machinegun feet flying from explosions in the background].
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major
Child, please
The concept of spirit is nothing but religiously capitalist propoganda meant to reinforce a classist, racist, sexist "Protestant Work Ethic"
TBH most of the time I have to google a bunch of terms to even understand what they're about... is this what getting old feels like?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia
I guess we'll have to take that as well xP
Axeldonia, Percyton, Sarameia
I don't [eats Burger®] understand why [chugs Beer®] all these commies [switches TV® to USAFOOTBALL] keep tryin' to take muh rights [shoots Neightbor® with Gun®].
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
[spoiler=Today is May 7 and today are:]
Today is May 7 and today are:
- Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
- Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)
- Loves Baby Soft Day
- National Barrier Awareness Day (United States)
- National Cosmopolitan Day (United States)
- National Melanoma Monday (United States)
- National Packaging Design Day (United States)
- National Paste-Up Day (United States)
- National Roast Leg of Lamb Day (United States)
- Radio Day (Bulgaria, Russia)
- Soldiers' Day (El Salvador)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0351 The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
- 0558 In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
- 1274 In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
- 1429 Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
- 1487 The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
- 1664 Louis XIV of France begins construction of the Palace of Versailles.
- 1685 Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.
- 1697 Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.
- 1718 The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.
- 1763 Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
- 1794 French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
- 1824 World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
- 1832 Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.
- 1840 The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
- 1846 The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1864 American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
- 1864 The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
- 1895 In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
- 1915 World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
- 1915 Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation)
- 1920 Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
- 1920 Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
- 1920 The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
- 1928 The Jinan incident begins with Japanese forces killing the Chinese negotiating team in Jinan, China, and going on to kill over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
- 1930 The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
- 1940 The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
- 1942 During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
- 1945 World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
- 1946 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
- 1948 The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
- 1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
- 1954 Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
- 1960 Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
- 1976 Honda Accord officially launched.
- 1986 Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
- 1992 Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
- 1992 The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
- 1992 Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
- 1994 Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
- 1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- 1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
- 1999 Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
- 1999 In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- 2000 Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
- 2002 A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
- 2004 American businessman Nick Berg, is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
- 2007 Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
- 2009 Over 100 New Zealand police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1328 Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg
- 1605 Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
- 1711 David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher
- 1748 Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and philosopher
- 1812 Robert Browning, English poet and playwright
- 1833 Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer
- 1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator
- 1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1867 Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1892 Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia
- 1901 Gary Cooper, American actor
- 1919 Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina
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Facts of the day
We consume about 74 gigabytes -- nine DVDs worth -- of data every day.
There's a laser procedure to change one's eye color from brown to blue, as blue eyes exist under all brown eyes.
Natural gas is odorless. The smell is added artificially for safety reasons.
Quote of the day
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Artist, 1853-1890) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia
So basically this region does not RP anymore?
Russkov Soviet
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