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Penguania And Antarctica wrote:[spoiler=Today is May 22 and today are:]

Today is May 22 and today are:

- Abolition Day (Martinique)

- Buddha's Birthday (Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea)

- Harvey Milk Day (California)

- International Day for Biological Diversity

- National Buy a Musical Instrument Day (United States)

- National Maritime Day (United States)

- National Solitaire Day (United States)

- National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)

- National Vanilla Pudding Day (United States)

- Republic Day (Sri Lanka)

- Sherlock Holmes Day

- Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari (Ukraine)

- Unity Day (Yemen)

- World Goth Day

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[spoiler=Today in history:]

Today in history:

- 0192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.

- 0760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.

- 0853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys the undefended Damietta in Egypt.

- 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.

- 1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.

- 1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.

- 1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.

- 1370 – The Brussels massacre: Several Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels.

- 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.

- 1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

- 1570 – The first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, is published with 70 maps.

- 1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.

- 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.

- 1762 – Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clement XIII.

- 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.

- 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.

- 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.

- 1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, which spreads to Ely the next day.

- 1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

- 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.

- 1840 – The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

- 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.

- 1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.

- 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.

- 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.

- 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.

- 1872 – Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

- 1900 – The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.

- 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

- 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.

- 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.

- 1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang China.

- 1927 – Near Xining, China, a 8.3 quake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.

- 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.

- 1941 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.

- 1942 – Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.

- 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.

- 1947 – The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece.

- 1957 – South Africa's government approves racial separation in universities.

- 1958 – The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relationship of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.

- 1960 – The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.

- 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.

- 1963 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt and dies five days later.

- 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society.

- 1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.

- 1967 – The L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.

- 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

- 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.

- 1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

- 1972 – Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Sinn Féin in North Ireland following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.

- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up.

- 1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.

- 1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.

- 1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.

- 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.

- 1994 – A worldwide trade embargo goes into effect against Haiti to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

- 1996 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.

- 1998 – A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.

- 2000 – In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.

- 2002 – Civil Rights Movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

- 2010 – An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.

- 2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.

- 2012 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).

- 2014 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.

- 2014 – An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, the capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.

- 2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.

- 2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.

- 2017 – United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit the Western Wall.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer

- 1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer

- 1891 – Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet

- 1907 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator

- 1907 – Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer

- 1924 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor

- 1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor

- 1930 – Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician

- 1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager

- 1954 – Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1959 – Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer

- 1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model

- 1984 – Karoline Herfurth, German actress

- 1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player

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Facts of the Day

- It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandy, Elaine or Linda.

- The Vatican has a crime rate of 133.6%.

- Fox was contractually obligated to offer Frank Sinatra the lead role in the "Die Hard" movie, but he turned it down.

- The largest living species of Penguins is the Emperor Penguin. They are about 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) tall and weigh about 35 kg (77 lb).

- Moon landing conspiracy theories were proven wrong in 2011 when a NASA probe revealed high-resolution photos of the Apollo Moon landing sites.

- In 1891, Juan Vucetich, an Argentine Police Official, made the first criminal fingerprint identification.

Quote of the Day

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

- Magnus Hirschfeld (German-Jewish Sexologist, 1868-1935) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Studied the finger print one, was good that he did solve it as well considering the charges that would fall on her old beau.

Jaslandia

Post self-deleted by Gualimole.

Westeros' ever-increasing crime rate is bugging me.

Axeldonia

Good day everyone!

Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs

The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]23 May 2018[/I]

(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)

16:00 The Chancellor releases a statement regarding embassies

17:30 The Chancellor held his weekly meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion, Confederal States, The British Islands Confederacy

[spoiler=Today is May 23 and today are:]

Today is May 23 and today are:

- Constitution Day or Tag des Grundgesetzes (Germany)

- Declaration of the Báb (Bahá'í Faith)

- Emergency Medical Services for Children

- International Day to End Obstetric Fistula

- Labour Day (Jamaica)

- National Lucky Penny Day (United States)

- National Taffy Day (United States)

- Students' Day (Mexico)

- Title Track Day

- Vlach’s National Day (Macedonia)

- World Crohn's and Colitis Day

- World Orienting Day

- World Turtle Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Asturians and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.

- 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.

- 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.

- 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

- 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.

- 1609 – Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place.

- 1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War.

- 1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

- 1706 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy in the Battle of Ramillies.

- 1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.

- 1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.

- 1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.

- 1844 – Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith, and Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.

- 1846 – Mexican–American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.

- 1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

- 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

- 1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.

- 1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.

- 1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.

- 1932 – In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.

- 1934 – Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

- 1934 – The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.

- 1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.

- 1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.

- 1945 – World War II: The Flensburg Government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces.

- 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.

- 1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.

- 1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.

- 1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.

- 1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.

- 1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.

- 2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.

- 2004 – Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.

- 2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.

- 2008 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries.

- 2013 – The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.

- 2014 – Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.

- 2015 – At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.

- 2016 – Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killed at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.

- 2016 – Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. 184 people were killed and at least 200 people injured.

- 2017 – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1707 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist

- 1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer

- 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

- 1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English trumpet player and composer

- 1934 – Robert Moog, American businessman, invented the Moog synthesizer

- 1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player

- 1954 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer and actor

- 1958 – Thomas Reiter, German astronaut and Luftwaffe Brigadier General, ESA Interagency Coordinator and Advisor to the Director General

- 1965 – Tom Tykwer, German director, producer, screenwriter, and composer

- 1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian race car driver

- 1991 – Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter

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Facts of the day

- It takes about 37 gallons (140 liters) of water to grow the coffee beans and process them to make one cup of coffee.

- The Titanic crew had no binoculars , which may have helped them see the iceberg. They were inside a locker and the key was lost.

- The 1967 film "Young Americans" is the only movie to receive an Oscar at the Academy Awards, only to have it taken away a few weeks after the ceremony.

- The most dangerous job in the United States is that of the logger, with 110 deaths per 100,000.

- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

- Kalaron thinks "flags are bleh".

Quote of the day

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

- Henry David Thoreau (American Author, 1817-1862) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia

Statement on Recent Embassy Invitations

Last week, the Confederacy received an embassy invitation from the region Lardyland, which was rejected offhand directly from the Chancellery, as they have repeatedly tried to construct embassies with us and have been proven to be a nuisance region.

Having consulted yesterday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it was decided that a request from Yeet Clan would be rejected as they are a raider region. Requests from Secfanatics and Marist Federated States were also rejected, as they are currently too small according to our region's standing embassy construction policy; however, the Minister of Foreign Affairs informed them via telegram that we would be open to constructing embassies if and when they attain a larger number of active nations in future.

The request from Liberty Land can be considered to be provisionally accepted, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently awaiting a formal application from them in order to become an embassy region.

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Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The British Islands Confederacy

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Kalaron thinks "flags are bleh".

how to delete someone elses nationstates account

Bearlong, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, The West Country

I wonder how Ireland's abortion referendum will go tomorrow. I am hoping they vote to legalise it but it could be a close call. I think they're still quite conservative on this issue.

Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:I wonder how Ireland's abortion referendum will go tomorrow. I am hoping they vote to legalise it but it could be a close call. I think they're still quite conservative on this issue.

They reckon a Yes vote win by about 55% according to polls.

Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Unfallious wrote:They reckon a Yes vote win by about 55% according to polls.

I hope so for the sake of Irishwomen.

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:I hope so for the sake of Irishwomen.

Then again, polls have been notoriously unreliable these last few years.

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Unfallious wrote:Then again, polls have been notoriously unreliable these last few years.

Even though I showed one the other day, I'm getting to the point now were I ignore polls. May trusted the polls and look what happened to her. Did you hear the rumours she's thinking about calling another election in the autumn? She is so f*cking stupid it's unreal.

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

I ordered a McDonald's online and had it delivered to my doorstep for the first time today. Capitalism will be the ruin of my health. That said, I don't regret a single bite.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:I ordered a McDonald's online and had it delivered to my doorstep for the first time today. Capitalism will be the ruin of my health. That said, I don't regret a single bite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn6XRu8Ymro

Nuremgard

Nuremgard wrote:Even though I showed one the other day, I'm getting to the point now were I ignore polls. May trusted the polls and look what happened to her. Did you hear the rumours she's thinking about calling another election in the autumn? She is so f*cking stupid it's unreal.

I don't think it's very true. But then again, this is Brexit Britain.

Nuremgard wrote:I ordered a McDonald's online and had it delivered to my doorstep for the first time today. Capitalism will be the ruin of my health. That said, I don't regret a single bite.

The nearest McDonalds to me is a 2 hour walk and I couldn't stand life without a hash brown, so I walked there at 3am. Got there at 5. Best hash brown and McMuffin of my life.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Unfallious wrote:I don't think it's very true. But then again, this is Brexit Britain.

The nearest McDonalds to me is a 2 hour walk and I couldn't stand life without a hash brown, so I walked there at 3am. Got there at 5. Best hash brown and McMuffin of my life.

You -walked- for 2 hours at 3 in the morning? Are you insane?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:You -walked- for 2 hours at 3 in the morning? Are you insane?

I was hungry

Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Unfallious wrote:I was hungry

There's no way in hell I'd step out the door at 3 in the morning, especially not to walk 2 hours. I love McDonald's but not that much!

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:There's no way in hell I'd step out the door at 3 in the morning, especially not to walk 2 hours. I love McDonald's but not that much!

I enjoy night walks at times, it's peaceful at 3am. Although, I'm sure I'd change my mind on that if I were in a bigger city like London or Glasgow.

Penguania And Antarctica, The British Islands Confederacy

Unfallious wrote:I enjoy night walks at times, it's peaceful at 3am. Although, I'm sure I'd change my mind on that if I were in a bigger city like London or Glasgow.

Definitely. I've lived in the same area all my life and know it very well. Even then, I'd never go out in it during the night. Especially because the flats I live accommodate some, let's just say, not so nice people.

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Especially because the flats I live accommodate some, let's just say, not so nice people.

Elaborate.

Gualimole wrote:Elaborate.

Junkies, benefits scroungers.

Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:Junkies, benefits scroungers.

But why would that make you not want to come out at night?

Gualimole wrote:But why would that make you not want to come out at night?

Because weirdos and criminals skulk around at night. You wouldn't believe how many reports there are in the news of women and even many men being mugged or raped in Glasgow.

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Because weirdos and criminals skulk around at night. You wouldn't believe how many reports there are in the news of women and even many men being mugged or raped in Glasgow.

A bit too much lead in Glasgow?

Gualimole wrote:A bit too much lead in Glasgow?

God knows.

The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:God knows.

What are ye gonna do aboot it fone the polis?

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

The West Country wrote:What are ye gonna go aboot it fone the polis?

Phone the old bill on them, aye.

Penguania And Antarctica

my apologies for inactivity. Currently doing government research and looking to get published by the end of the summer

Bearlong, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States, The West Country

Peoples Liberation Republic wrote:my apologies for inactivity. Currently doing government research and looking to get published by the end of the summer

Don't apologise. And best of luck to you getting published!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The West Country

[spoiler=Today is May 24 and today are:]

Today is May 24 and today are:

- Aldersgate Day/Wesley Day (Methodism)

- Aviation Maintenance Technician Day

- Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador)

- Bermuda Day (Bermuda)

- Borther's Day

- Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature Day (Bulgaria)

- Commonwealth Day (Belize)

- Eat More Fruits & Vegetables Day

- Emergency Medical Services Day

- Feast of Mary Help of Christians (Roman Catholicism)

- Independence Day (Eritrea)

- International Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament

- Lubiri Memorial Day (Buganda)

- National Escargot Day (United States)

- National Scavenger Hunt Day (United States)

- Red Nose Day

- Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Eastern Orthodox Church)

- Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners' Day (Republic of Macedonia)

- Tiara Day

- World Schizophrenia Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.

- 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

- 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.

- 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

- 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

- 1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.

- 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.

- 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.

- 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.

- 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.

- 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.

- 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.

- 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").

- 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.

- 1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.

- 1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.

- 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.

- 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

- 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.

- 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.

- 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.

- 1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.

- 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).

- 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.

- 1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

- 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.

- 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.

- 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.

- 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.

- 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.

- 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.

- 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.

- 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.

- 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

- 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.

- 1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.

- 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.

- 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.

- 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.

- 1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

- 1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.

- 1992 – The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.

- 1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.

- 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

- 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

- 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

- 2001 – Mountaineering: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

- 2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.

- 2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.

- 2014 – At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.

- 2017 – Constitutional Court in Taiwan ruled recognition for same-sex couples to marry.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

- 1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale

- 1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

- 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player

- 1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress

- 1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate

- 1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman

- 1963 – Michael Chabon, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter

[/spoiler]

Facts of the day

- At the 1932 Olympics, the 3,000-metre steeplechase was run over 3,460 metres because an official lost count of the number of laps.

- Two actors have died playing Judas in live Biblical productions by accidentally hanging themselves for real during his death scene.

- Males are more likely to have hiccups than females.

- Dogs were used as messengers in WW1, carrying orders to the front lines in capsules attached to their bodies.

- President Jimmy Carter signed a bill that created an exemption from taxation of beer brewed at home for personal or family use, opening the door for today's craft beer brewers.

- Syngenesophobia is the fear of relatives.

Quote of the day

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

- Johannes Brahms (German Composer, 1833-1897) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia, The West Country

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:[spoiler=Today is May 24 and today are:]

Today is May 24 and today are:

- Aldersgate Day/Wesley Day (Methodism)

- Aviation Maintenance Technician Day

- Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador)

- Bermuda Day (Bermuda)

- Borther's Day

- Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature Day (Bulgaria)

- Commonwealth Day (Belize)

- Eat More Fruits & Vegetables Day

- Emergency Medical Services Day

- Feast of Mary Help of Christians (Roman Catholicism)

- Independence Day (Eritrea)

- International Women's Day for Peace and Disarmament

- Lubiri Memorial Day (Buganda)

- National Escargot Day (United States)

- National Scavenger Hunt Day (United States)

- Red Nose Day

- Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (Eastern Orthodox Church)

- Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners' Day (Republic of Macedonia)

- Tiara Day

- World Schizophrenia Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.

- 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

- 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.

- 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

- 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

- 1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.

- 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.

- 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.

- 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.

- 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.

- 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.

- 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.

- 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").

- 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.

- 1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.

- 1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.

- 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.

- 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

- 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.

- 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.

- 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.

- 1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.

- 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).

- 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.

- 1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

- 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.

- 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.

- 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.

- 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.

- 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.

- 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.

- 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.

- 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.

- 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

- 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.

- 1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.

- 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.

- 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.

- 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.

- 1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

- 1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.

- 1992 – The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.

- 1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.

- 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

- 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

- 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

- 2001 – Mountaineering: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

- 2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.

- 2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.

- 2014 – At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.

- 2017 – Constitutional Court in Taiwan ruled recognition for same-sex couples to marry.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

- 1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale

- 1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

- 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player

- 1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress

- 1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate

- 1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman

- 1963 – Michael Chabon, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter

[/spoiler]

Facts of the day

- At the 1932 Olympics, the 3,000-metre steeplechase was run over 3,460 metres because an official lost count of the number of laps.

- Two actors have died playing Judas in live Biblical productions by accidentally hanging themselves for real during his death scene.

- Males are more likely to have hiccups than females.

- Dogs were used as messengers in WW1, carrying orders to the front lines in capsules attached to their bodies.

- President Jimmy Carter signed a bill that created an exemption from taxation of beer brewed at home for personal or family use, opening the door for today's craft beer brewers.

- Syngenesophobia is the fear of relatives.

Quote of the day

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

- Johannes Brahms (German Composer, 1833-1897) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jfg-9_k-flo

Jaslandia, Audiastan, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton

Hello, all! How is everyone today?

Peoples Liberation Republic wrote:my apologies for inactivity. Currently doing government research and looking to get published by the end of the summer

Published? How exciting! I wish you the best of luck, PLR! Take all the time you need!

Continental Commonwealths wrote:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jfg-9_k-flo

Edward: Ah yes, Fawlty Towers. Good show. I used to watch it with my Driver from back then; he was a big Monty Python and John Cleese fan.

Duck: It was a good show. It took place in Torquay, where I actually worked for a time assisting with the holiday trains. That was back when I was on the --

Gordon: Oh no, here he goes again about the Great Western Railway!

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Percyton wrote:Hello, all! How is everyone today?

Published? How exciting! I wish you the best of luck, PLR! Take all the time you need!

Edward: Ah yes, Fawlty Towers. Good show. I used to watch it with my Driver from back then; he was a big Monty Python and John Cleese fan.

Duck: It was a good show. It took place in Torquay, where I actually worked for a time assisting with the holiday trains. That was back when I was on the --

Gordon: Oh no, here he goes again about the Great Western Railway!

Oh, Duck...

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

I've been ranked in the Top 1% of the World for Most Developed.... I am very suprised.

Also... I'm in the Top 10 of the CoFN for Niceness/Compassion, but oversee one of the more fanatical militaries. I just wish I could stop dropping, cause I went from 22nd to 30th in a week. Guess I can't be nice and have a powerful military....

Jaslandia, Percyton, Midasia

Top 0.8% in Rudeness, top in 2% Cheerfulness, top 11% in Inclusiveness but top 94% in Charmlessness, top 95% in Niceness, top 97% in Compassion and top 98% in Ignorance.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton, Midasia

[spoiler=Today is May 25 and today are:]

Today is May 25 and today are:

- Africa Day (African Union)

- African Liberation Day (African Union, Rastafari)

- Carb Day

- First National Government / National Day (Argentina)

- Geek Pride Day

- Independence Day (Jordan)

- Last bell (Russia)

- Liberation Day (Lebanon)

- International Missing Children's Day

- National Brown-Bag It Day (United States)

- National Don’t Fry Day (United States)

- National Heat Awareness Day (United States)

- National Heat Safety Awareness Day (United States)

- National Heroes Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)

- National Missing Children's Day (United States)

- National Tap Dance Day (United States)

- National Title Track Day (United States)

- National Wig Out Day (United States)

- National Wine Day (United States)

- Towel Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 567BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.

- 240BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.

- 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.

- 1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.

- 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.

- 1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.

- 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.

- 1660 – Charles II lands at Dover at the invitation of the Convention Parliament (England), which marks the end of the Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and begins the Restoration (1660) of the British monarchy.

- 1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.

- 1787 – The United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia, when a quorum of seven states is secured.

- 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.

- 1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.

- 1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.

- 1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.

- 1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.

- 1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for governmental reforms.

- 1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.

- 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.

- 1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

- 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.

- 1914 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.

- 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.

- 1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.

- 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

- 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.

- 1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.

- 1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.

- 1950 – Public transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.

- 1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.

- 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.

- 1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.

- 1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.

- 1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.

- 1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.

- 1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.

- 1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.

- 1968 – The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis is dedicated.

- 1973 – HNS Velos, while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.

- 1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters.

- 1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.

- 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.

- 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

- 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.

- 1983 – Return of the Jedi is released in theaters.

- 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.

- 1986 – Hands Across America takes place.

- 1993 – International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is founded.

- 1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

- 1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.

- 2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (except for the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 22 years after its invasion in 1978.

- 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.

- 2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.

- 2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.

- 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

- 2012 – The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.

- 2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.

- 2013 – A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.

- 2018 – The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher

- 1818 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic

- 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1865 – John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1877 – Bill Murray, American singer

- 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft

- 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player

- 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1926 – Max von der Grün, German novelist

- 1927 – Robert Ludlum, American soldier and author

- 1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor

- 1944 – Frank Oz, English-born American puppeteer, filmmaker, and actor

- 1948 – Klaus Meine, German rock singer-songwriter (Scorpions)

- 1972 – Octavia Spencer, American actress and author

- 1974 – Frank Klepacki, American drummer and composer

- 1976 – Cillian Murphy, Irish actor

- 1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player

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Facts of the day

- Over 80,000 people graduated from McDonald's Hamburger University with a bachelor's degree in hamburgerology.

- Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease from 20 to 50 percent.

- More than half of the Earth's surface is not subject to any nation's laws.

- The average U.S. gamer is 35 years old.

- People recall more memories from young adulthood, compared to other periods of their life, a phenomenon called "reminiscence bump."

- In 2005, a psychologist and an economist taught a group of monkeys the concept of money. Soon, the monkeys engaged in prostitution.

Quote of the day

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Leader, 1869-1948) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia, The West Country

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:- 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.

"I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;

I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,

I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,

In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,

I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!

Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGWoXDFM64

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Axeldonia wrote:"I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;

I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,

I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,

In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,

I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!

Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGWoXDFM64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKFMWhxJask

Axeldonia

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/88/medieval-rp-chapter-2?page=2&scrollTo=922

have some garbage

Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKFMWhxJask

https://youtu.be/zSGWoXDFM64

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease from 20 to 50 percent.

https://youtu.be/s2KTAdWk5qk

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

hi, how are you all, im new and socially awkward

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy

Kolasis wrote:hi, how are you all, im new and socially awkward

Welcome to the CoFN! My name is Aleksi Coltsov, the current Premier of the Equestrian Union.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kolasis wrote:hi, how are you all, im new and socially awkward

hey! To be fair, most of us are socially awkward in some way too so hopefully you won't feel out of place.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kolasis wrote:hi, how are you all, im new and socially awkward

Welcome to the region, Kolasis! Make yourself at home!

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Alruniea wrote:hey! To be fair, most of us are socially awkward in some way too so hopefully you won't feel out of place.

I resent that comment because it's true.

Kolasis wrote:hi, how are you all, im new and socially awkward

Hi! Welcome to the Confederacy! I'm Vista Major, leader of the Modern People's Party and the Parliamentary Black Caucus. I'm also queer, if that matters at all ^_^

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1950 – Public transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.

How awful! Fuel trucks are serious business! My condolences to all those affected by the tragedy.

Axeldonia wrote:http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/88/medieval-rp-chapter-2?page=2&scrollTo=922

have some garbage

I don't think it's 'garbage'. I like it!

Kolasis wrote:hi, how are you all, im new and socially awkward

It's alright. Welcome to the CoFN, Kolasis! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it here!

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:I'm also queer, if that matters at all ^_^
It doesn't matter at all to me! you're still a human being

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Kolasis is my only puppet state. anyway i didn't expect such a nice greeting

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Pyles Tis Kolasis wrote:Kolasis is my only puppet state. anyway i didn't expect such a nice greeting
’Ello. How are you?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

The Valleian Orders wrote:’Ello. How are you?
good and you?

Penguania And Antarctica

Ireland has voted to repeal the 8th amendment. I'm glad. They made the right choice. A good day for women's rights in Ireland.

Bearlong, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Midasia, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:Ireland has voted to repeal the 8th amendment. I'm glad. They made the right choice. A good day for women's rights in Ireland.

This reads like some sort of liberal Trump tweet.

Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia, The West Country

Bearlong wrote:This reads like some sort of liberal Trump tweet.

You're saying I write like Trump? Gee, thanks.

Bearlong, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:You're saying I write like Trump? Gee, thanks.

Yes. Rambling, incoherent, and easily agitated.

Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Nuremgard wrote:Ireland has voted to repeal the 8th amendment. I'm glad. They made the right choice. A good day for women's rights in Ireland.

It only makes abortion legal by implication. The current administration has pledged to make it explicitly legal by Autumn.

But definitely an improvement.

Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

If there are any gamers in the region, I highly recommend that you buy and play Detroit: Become Human. It's an awesome game that resonated with me. Heavy themes and parallels with racism and even Nazi Germany at a particular point.

Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica

Pyles Tis Kolasis wrote:Kolasis is my only puppet state. anyway i didn't expect such a nice greeting

Expect us to smother you with kind words and socialism on the daily

Kolasis wrote: It doesn't matter at all to me! you're still a human being

I'm flattered

Vista Major wrote:Expect us to smother you with kind words and socialism on the daily
What type of socialism?

Vista Major

Nuremgard wrote:You're saying I write like Trump? Gee, thanks.

Tory government supports austerity while ending it in NI? Sad!

Nuremgard

Pyles Tis Kolasis wrote:What type of socialism?

Anything ranging from liberal to anarchist.

We also have some notable syndicalists around here.

Vista Major wrote:Anything ranging from liberal to anarchist.

We also have some notable syndicalists around here.

Syndicalist?! My Kaiserreich senses are tingling

Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country

Baxten wrote:Syndicalist?! My Kaiserreich senses are tingling

[spoiler=Syndicalism Intensifies]Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

They say in Harlan County

There are no neutrals there.

You'll either be a union man

Or a thug for J. H. Blair.

Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

My dady was a miner,

And I'm a miner's son,

He'll be with you fellow workers

Until this battle's won.

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Oh workers can you stand it?

Oh tell me how you can?

Will you be a lousy scab

Or will you be a man?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Come all you good workers,

Good news to you I'll tell

Of how the good old union

Has come in here to dwell.

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?[/spoiler]

Baxten

Gualimole wrote:[spoiler=Syndicalism Intensifies]Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

They say in Harlan County

There are no neutrals there.

You'll either be a union man

Or a thug for J. H. Blair.

Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on?

My dady was a miner,

And I'm a miner's son,

He'll be with you fellow workers

Until this battle's won.

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Oh workers can you stand it?

Oh tell me how you can?

Will you be a lousy scab

Or will you be a man?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Come all you good workers,

Good news to you I'll tell

Of how the good old union

Has come in here to dwell.

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Which side are you on?

Songwriters: Florence Reece[/spoiler]

Also, Fuhrerreich is coming out today, so that's interesting, especially when you consider that it is an alternate history scenario in Kaiserreich.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20180526T12&p0=217&msg=FR+release&font=cursive&csz=1

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Gualimole wrote:Also, Fuhrerreich is coming out today, so that's interesting, especially when you consider that it is an alternate history scenario in Kaiserreich.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20180526T12&p0=217&msg=FR+release&font=cursive&csz=1

Yea I'm really excited for that! Imma definitely check it out

Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Yea I'm really excited for that! Imma definitely check it out

I have a feeling that it's going to become even better than Kaiserreich. Build 0.1 is going to have over 20 nations with national focuses.

Penguania And Antarctica

Gualimole wrote:I have a feeling that it's going to become even better than Kaiserreich. Build 0.1 is going to have over 20 nations with national focuses.

Oh damn really? Yea this is gonna be great no doubt...I hope so at least

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Baxten wrote:Oh damn really? Yea this is gonna be great no doubt...I hope so at least

Why not play a multiplayer Fuhrerreich game with me once the mod comes out?

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Gualimole wrote:Why not play a multiplayer Fuhrerreich game with me once the mod comes out?

Im so bad at normal HOI4 its not even funny and my computer is less than a potato like 5 speed is 1 speed on good computers but thatd be fun. We could probably get a bunch of ppl on that too

Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Im so bad at normal HOI4 its not even funny and my computer is less than a potato like 5 speed is 1 speed on good computers but thatd be fun. We could probably get a bunch of ppl on that too

Have you tried turning off rivers and other graphical features in the game? Not only that, but doing things like updating your drivers and defragmenting your device really does help. You should also not be running any other applications while playing your game.

Penguania And Antarctica

Gualimole wrote:Have you tried turning off rivers and other graphical features in the game? Not only that, but doing things like updating your drivers and defragmenting your device really does help. You should also not be running any other applications while playing your game.

I don't run other applications but I will definitely try to turn off graphic features. My computers basically an old notebook. I'm saving for a cheaper gaming computer cause thats all I really need but in the meantime I deal with the slowness

Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:I don't run other applications but I will definitely try to turn off graphic features. My computers basically an old notebook. I'm saving for a cheaper gaming computer cause thats all I really need but in the meantime I deal with the slowness

You should also update your drivers and defragment your files. Cleaning your computer and fixing registry issues with CCleaner is also a good idea.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download

Penguania And Antarctica

Gualimole wrote:You should also update your drivers and defragment your files. Cleaning your computer and fixing registry issues with CCleaner is also a good idea.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download

Alright will do. Thanks so much I hope this works well

Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole

Baxten wrote:Yea I'm really excited for that! Imma definitely check it out

*floores*

HI

Jaslandia, Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Baxten wrote:Syndicalist?! My Kaiserreich senses are tingling

Bax! Welcome back!

Baxten, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:Bax! Welcome back!

>Makes memes about the bread book

>Knows what syndicalism is

>Supports municipal broadband

My radicalization senses are tingling.

Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:Anything ranging from liberal to anarchist.

We also have some notable syndicalists around here.

Liberal socialism isn't real

Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole

Unfallious wrote:Liberal socialism isn't real

So says the purist.

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia

Vista Major wrote:So says the purist.

If Unf, someone who supports the British monarchy, is purest, then what does that make me?

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Gualimole wrote:If Unf, someone who supports the British monarchy, is purest, then what does that make me?

a nuisance.

Penguania And Antarctica

Bearlong wrote:a nuisance.

The people who say that the most to say tend to be the same.

Penguania And Antarctica

Gualimole wrote:If Unf, someone who supports the British monarchy, is purest, then what does that make me?

>supports the British monarchy

What slander is this on my good socialist name?

Penguania And Antarctica

Unfallious wrote:>supports the British monarchy

What slander is this on my good socialist name?

"Supports" probably wasn't the right word. I think "condones" would be more accurate.

Penguania And Antarctica

Happy 19th Birthday Kalaron! I wish you all the best and that all your birthday wishes come true. I hope you enjoy(ed) today with family and friends. :D

[spoiler=Today is May 26 and today are:]

Today is May 26 and today are:

- 19th Birthday of Kalaron

- Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day

- Crown Prince's Birthday (Denmark)

- Independence Day (Georgia)

- Independence Day (Guyana)

- International Heritage Breeds Day

- International Jazz Day

- Julia Pierpont Day

- Mother's Day (Poland)

- National Blueberry Cheesecake Day (United States)

- National Cherry Dessert Day (United States)

- National Heritage Breeds Day (United States)

- National Paper Airplane Day (United States)

- National Sorry Day (Australia)

- World Dracula Day

- World Lindy Hop Day

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 47BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.

- AD17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.

- 0451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity.

- 0946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.

- 1135 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in León Cathedral as Imperator totius Hispaniae (Emperor of all of Spain).

- 1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.

- 1328 – William of Ockham, the Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.

- 1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.

- 1573 – The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.

- 1637 – Pequot War: A combined English and Mohegan force under John Mason attacks a village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Pequots.

- 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.

- 1736 – The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.

- 1770 – The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.

- 1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated the end of fighting in American Revolution.

- 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan Cathedral, the gothic cathedral in Milan.

- 1821 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.

- 1822 – One hundred sixteen people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.

- 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.

- 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.

- 1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.

- 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

- 1868 – The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal by one vote.

- 1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

- 1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.

- 1896 – Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.

- 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

- 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

- 1897 – The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.

- 1900 – Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.

- 1908 – At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

- 1917 – Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.

- 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.

- 1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.

- 1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.

- 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

- 1940 – World War II: Operation Dynamo: In northern France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.

- 1940 – World War II: The Siege of Calais ends with the surrender of the British and French garrison.

- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.

- 1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.

- 1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.

- 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.

- 1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

- 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

- 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

- 1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).

- 1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.

- 1983 – The 7.8 Mw Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.

- 1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.

- 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.

- 1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.

- 1998 – The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.

- 2002 – The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.

- 2004 – United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

- 2008 – Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1886 – Al Jolson, American singer and actor

- 1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist

- 1907 – John Wayne, American actor, singer, director, and producer

- 1926 – Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader

- 1949 – Jeremy Corbyn, British journalist and politician (Labour Party)

- 1951 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, founded Sally Ride Science

- 1954 – Marian Gold, German singer (Alphaville)

- 1962 – Black, English singer-songwriter

- 1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor

- 1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress

- 1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

[/spoiler]

Facts of the day

- The Battle of Bunker Hill in fact took place on Breed's Hill.

- Before he fought the British, George Washington fought for the British. At 21 years old, he was sent to lead a British colonial force against the French in Ohio.

- Smoking a cigarette causes damage in minutes, not years.

- No one is ever born in Vatican City.

- A study using MRI scans showed that the brains of people who exercise moderately look 10 years younger than those who don't.

- The rock at the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago.

Quote of the day

Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.

- Jeremy Corbyn (British Politician, *1949) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine, Midasia

Baxten wrote:Syndicalist?! My Kaiserreich senses are tingling

That flag is sick

Jaslandia, Percyton

Gualimole wrote:The people who say that the most to say tend to be the same.

fuk u m8 ill poo on ur mum

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Bearlong wrote:fuk u m8 ill poo on ur mum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zia-cfRq8MQ

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Yukona wrote:That flag is sick

Its the flag of an independent New England and yes its great. I didn't make it though

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Baxten wrote:Its the flag of an independent New England and yes its great. I didn't make it though

I think he means sick as in horrible, to which I'd agree

Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:I think he means sick as in horrible, to which I'd agree

I'm 110% sure thats not what he meant Vis lol. I mean don't get me wrong I've seen better flags but it's still pretty good

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Hello Bax!

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Baxten wrote:I'm 110% sure thats not what he meant Vis lol. I mean don't get me wrong I've seen better flags but it's still pretty good

It's worse than cringy. It legit makes me want to gag. It's God-awfully plain, for one

Penguania And Antarctica

The Valleian Orders wrote:Hello Bax!

Hey Val I'm assuming

Vista Major wrote:It's worse than cringy. It legit makes me want to gag. It's God-awfully plain, for one

Well everyones entitled to their own opinions lol

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:It's worse than cringy. It legit makes me want to gag. It's God-awfully plain, for one

Plain and simple can sometimes be good. BTW, if Bax's flag is bad, then just how bad is my flag?

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:I think he means sick as in horrible, to which I'd agree

No, I didn't

Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Syndicalist?! My Kaiserreich senses are tingling

WHAT DID I F*CKIN TELL YA, C*NTS: THE SONUVABITCH WAS BUSY WITH SCHOOL, HE'D BE BACK SOON ENOUGH.

Also, happy birthday to the Wee Baby Kalaron, you're officially one of the big bois now

Jaslandia, Baxten, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Chernarus State wrote:WHAT DID I F*CKIN TELL YA, C*NTS: THE SONUVABITCH WAS BUSY WITH SCHOOL, HE'D BE BACK SOON ENOUGH.

Also, happy birthday to the Wee Baby Kalaron, you're officially one of the big bois now

Who are you lol?

Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Syndicalist?! My Kaiserreich senses are tingling

Baxten! It's so great to have you back! We missed you!

Jaslandia, Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine

Baxten wrote:Who are you lol?

Tex

seven accounts does that to ya

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

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