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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Did you guys see Russia is having a coronation today?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Yukona, Confederal States
Good Day! Hope everyone has a good day!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRdxUFDoQe0
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]18 March 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
[I]No public schedule.[/I]
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh?
Yup. It's honestly gonna have garbage effects on everyone too.
The election, Vista.
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Anyone interested in attending the Arms Expo in Kalaron should DM or Telegram me, I'll OK you from there.
Oh, that was sarcasm
Axeldonia
In those elections you vote for a candidate. Not for a party. Tho most of them are of a certain party.
Nuremgard
Well which parties did the candidates you voted for belong to?
Penguania And Antarctica
They were both CDU.
I know what you will say: "What!? I thought you would vote more for the left like SPD or Linke."
But that wasn't important to me. I know those two candidates. I've met them in person several times on several occasions. And they are both very ambitious and friendly men. It doesn't matter that much what party they are since all legislation they propose need to be accepted by the municipal council or district/county council. But their goals were important to me. And the alternatives to those candidates weren't much to my liking. The incumbent mayor for example is part of the FDP (Liberals) but backed by the SPD. Tho he is a piece of garbage and just focused on the business and companies to give them tax reliefs, incentives and the like. But few was done for the citizens. He even broke existing legislation some of which he signed into law. Important sections of the municipality like the fire departments (which by law are compulsory to be equipped and trained sufficiently enough) have to beg for money. A junk car (for training of passenger rescue) which would cost 80 was declined with the statement that there is no money for that. But if there was a festival or a big anniversary they spend easily up to 10.000.
I hope that this justification is suffice.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Fair enough. I've never met any of my elected representatives apart from the First Minister.
Penguania And Antarctica
Mmm. Taaaax relief.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
The First Party Recognition Resolution has passed a vote of Parliament. 6 in favour, 0 opposed, 43 abstentions.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Oh, I've met quite a few. For example my state's Minister of the Interior or the Minister for State Development and Traffic.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
??
Meanwhile, all my state representatives (Senators, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, etc.) all meet in Austin, which is clogged with traffic 24/7. Either that, or my State Representative & Senator (the ones who convene for the state legislature, not Congress) are in bank buildings that constantly have visitors
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is March 18 and today are:]
Today is March 18 and today are:
- Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)
- Birthday of Al-koutb Said Mouhammad Cheikh Al Maarouf (Comores)
- Black Marriage Day
- Chaitra Sukhladi (India)
- Flag and Anthem Day (Aruba)
- Forgive Mom and Dad Day
- Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)
- Goddess of Fertility Day
- Men's and Soldiers' Day (Mongolia)
- National Awkward Moments Day (United States)
- National Biodiesel Day (United States)
- National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day (United States)
- National Sloppy Joe Day (United States)
- National Supreme Sacrifice Day (United States)
- Ougadi (Mauritius)
- Teacher's Day (Syria)
- Zhonghe Festival (China)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD37 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
- 0633 Ridda wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.
- 1068 An earthquake affects the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaving up to 20,000 dead.
- 1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
- 1241 First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
- 1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
- 1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1608 Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1644 The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
- 1741 New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
- 1766 American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
- 1793 The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- 1793 Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
- 1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- 1848 March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
- 1850 American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
- 1865 American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
- 1871 Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
- 1874 Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
- 1892 Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
- 1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
- 1915 World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
- 1921 The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
- 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
- 1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
- 1937 The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 1938 Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
- 1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
- 1942 The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
- 1944 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
- 1948 Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the TitoStalin Split.
- 1953 An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
- 1959 The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
- 1962 The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
- 1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
- 1967 The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
- 1968 Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- 1969 The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 1970 Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
- 1971 Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
- 1980 A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
- 1990 Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
- 1990 In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
- 1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1996 A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
- 1997 The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
- 2014 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
- 2015 The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1690 Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic
- 1813 Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright
- 1828 Randal Cremer, English activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1837 Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd President of the United States
- 1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic
- 1858 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine
- 1869 Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1913 René Clément, French director and screenwriter
- 1922 Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany
- 1926 Peter Graves, American actor and director
- 1932 John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic
- 1936 F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster
- 1950 Brad Dourif, American actor
- 1959 Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
- 1979 Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality
- 1981 Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist
- 1982 Timo Glock, German race car driver
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Quote of the day
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi (American Coach, 1913-1970) -
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, Mercunova, Percyton, Grand Hesperia, Midasia
I wish you all a nice remaining day and sweet dreams tonight.
Love you all. <3
Goodnight [sub]z[/sub]z[sup]Z[/sup]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Confederal States, Grand Hesperia
America's elections are usually on a weekday (mostly Tuesdays), and election day isn't any sort of holiday, so not being able to vote due to work and whatnot is a legitimate excuse over here. Why election day isn't a national holiday I'll never know.
I almost met my Congressional representative when me and my family visited Washington DC and took a tour of the Capitol ten years ago. He was supposed to be our tour guide, but he was busy at the time, so he had an aide do it instead. But, he was kind enough to send us a letter afterwards, apologizing for not being there, and thanking us for visiting the Capitol.
Goodnight, Peng!
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I wouldn't mind meeting my representative, the only problem is that he has two offices for the district, one in Dallas and the other in Fort Worth, and they have the same hours: on the part of multiple offices in the same district, I blame the fact that the 33rd district (my district) is incredibly warped and encompasses the lower-income/minority-heavy parts of Dallas, Fort Worth, Irving, and Arlington (hell, my address is literally two blocks from being in the 6th district, which encompasses rural communities and the other parts of Arlington, plus small parts of Dallas and Fort Worth, which ends with the 6th being a white-majority, consistently Republican district: the only good thing is that the incumbent representative, Joe Barton, got caught with nude selfies taken from a video of him jacking off, along with a letter with some heavy sexual overtones he sent to a female constituent despite being married, which caused him to announce his retirement and to step down from the 2018 election)
Jaslandia
I think I read somewhere that adding a new Federal Holiday would do harm to the economy, which just sounds stupid honestly. After one year of having the holiday it won't hurt the economy any more.
I've met my Representative, my State Representative, and just about every elected person in the Executive branch of my State.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Know they enemy.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
*Evil laugh*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/18/vladimir-putin-wins-russian-election-with-more-than-70-of-vote-exit-poll
What a suprise.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Spanelsko
I'm shocked, shocked to find out that Putin won the election!
https://youtu.be/SjbPi00k_ME?t=12s
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I think I'll probably meet the Governor when I join the State Guard at 21, but other than that, I doubt I'll meet anyone else :p
AMBASSADOR FROM THE VERSUTIAN FEDERATION UPDATE
Hello,
I am here to inform you that I have been removed from my post as the ambassador to your region The Confederacy of Free Nations due to failure on my part. I do not know of any arrangements of my replacement and I have already contacted your region's Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding this matter. It was a pleasure serving as ambassador to your great region and may our region's relations continue to grow stronger.
Minister of Defense of The Versutian Federation
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Hello, everyone! I was feeling bored, so I thought I'd check in here. I'm stuck on track maintenance duty for the night, and most of that is just waiting around while the workmen do their work. I would have preferred to pull the mail, but Sir Topham Hatt placed me on track maintenance, both because the usual engines who do it are busy (Harvey is on loan to a heritage railway for a couple weeks, Diesel 10 is on scrap duty with Scruff, and Diesel and Greg are taking a late night goods train to Barrow), and because he wants to punish me for damaging and derailing some trucks in Knapford Yard earlier today (I was biffing them and trying to scare them, but I must have biffed a few of them too hard). Thomas volunteered to take the mail in the meantime, and hopefully I can go back to the mail soon.
But, enough about me. How are you all?
Diesel: Certainly a proud day for all of diesel kind. In honor of 'Diesel Day', Sir Topham Hatt hadBear, Bowler, and I pull a special passenger train between Tidmouth and Barrow earlier today. I say it's about time us diesels got some recognition around here! Everyone loves those old steam engines, but no one cares for us! It's not fair!
Sir Topham Hatt: Settle down there, Diesel. Steam engines may be important here, but diesels also have a big role to play, and you are all invaluable members of the Sodor engine family!
Percy: See diesel! We're all important!
Diesel: Yes, of course. But some of us are more equally important than others.
Duck: Seriously? Invoking Animal Farm? Orwell is rolling in his grave.
Diesel: Shut up, Duck! Go waddle somewhere else!
Duck: I don't waddle, for your information!
Diesel: You will once I'm finished with you, you preachy pannier!
Sir Topham Hatt: Alright, that's enough! No threatening other engines!
Diesel: *ashamed and embarrassed* Yes, sir.
Percy: Why can't we all just get along?
I'm sorry to hear that, Bainius. It was a pleasure having you here, and hopefully we can continue to enjoy good diplomatic relations!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
Sorry to hear about your bad situation, Percy. Hopefully you can go back to pulling the mail soon! And I'm doing alright. I have a few projects I'm working on, but other than that, nothing much is going on.
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Update from Parliament]Attention Citizens,
A bill entitled the Chartered Organization Act has been moved to the Hall of Discourse for debate. At the request of the author, debate shall take place for four days and will therefore conclude at 11:00pm Eastern on Thursday, March 22. This bill may be accessed here:
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/69/chartered-organization-act
I'd also like to take this opportunity to commend the author, [nation=short]the Valleian Orders[/nation], for becoming so quickly engaged in Parliament upon coming to the region.
Thank you,
[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]
Speaker of Parliament[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
Good Day! Hope everyone has a good day!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpx_T6G8Lo
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]19 March 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
16:00 The Chancellor holds his weekly conference with the Vice Chancellor
18:00 The Chancellor delivers his weekly address
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Midasia
Hey, another awesome song!
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Midasia
Good Evening Comrades! Hope all is well for you all :)
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Midasia
Hey all what did I miss?
Penguania And Antarctica
Downing Street denies betraying Scottish fishermen over EU quotas.
Lol, serves them right. They voted Tory and Brexit. Time for them to feel the consequences of their votes. The farmers will be next. Hell mend the lot of them.
I'm doing alright. Hope the day was good for you too. :)
Oh, hi. Long time no see. How's it going?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyrUEm9D0TY
You voted for Brexit
Mercunova, Yukona
And as I've said beforehand, I regret it lol. But these fannies voted for it and the Tories because they thought they'd be looked after by the Westminster establishment.
If anybody lives in the states and wants a good burger, go to Applebee's.
Nuremgard, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States, Midasia
Well, regretting your decision totally unbangs that stripper.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
This is, of course, a damn dirty lie.
If anything, demolish an Applebee's with your own bare hands and karmic order will reward you with a good burger from a different establishment.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States, Midasia
They will be more f*cked over than I will so. :P
Penguania And Antarctica
That is a declaration of war. This aggression will not stand.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Confederal States, Midasia
Karmic order will reward you an independent Scottish state, but one where the city of Glasgow and all of its inhabitants remain loyal subjects of the UK surrounded by a sea of independence. Better brush up on your God Save the Queen lyrics and break out the orange in your wardrobe!
Your karmic punishment will be moving to Glasgow.Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
You cheeky wee bastard lol
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Merc.
It's Applebees. The most generic place on Earth.
If I want generic food, I'll continue my patronage of Denny's.
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Confederal States
Moons Over My Hammer me to a 2x4
Penguania And Antarctica
I have no idea what that means
Penguania And Antarctica
Maybe generic burgers are fvcking awesome.
And I haven't been to a Denny's in over a decade.
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm more of an IHOP-Guy nowadays.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Yeah, I'm in there once or twice a year.
Penguania And Antarctica
Insert meme here
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=4&scrollTo=639
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
Its a play on their Moons Over My Hammy breakfast sandwich. Thats on the US menu, right? Given its a play on Moons Over Miami, itd be hella weird if it was only on the Canadian menu.
Okay, IHOP is a US restaurant franchise I can get behind. But every Dennys and Applebees in Canada could be straight up Castamere-ed and I wouldnt lose a wink.Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7CZvvsC64
You two have the same head of state despite living in completely different countries on completely different continents. How weird.
Nuremgard
Empire, baby.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Was ist das? Kann man das essen?
ContComm mentions 'Moon Over My Hammy' sandwich the day after John Oliver mentions it in a joke. Coincidence? I think NOT!
https://youtu.be/HZQSCaIZC2U?t=2m57s
Nein.
Penguania And Antarctica
Not to mention that she probably has more German blood than her Scottish and Canadian (lol) lineage combined.
But hard to tell with those royals and their warming pan, baby sneaking ways.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
Hmm. What's it then?
KANADA
She's descended from Hanoverian usurpers.
When one nation conquers and rules over another.
Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
All my Canadian talk has been the biggest ruse since the Maine! Im actually the most annoying Brit ever to be walk this Earth.
Jaslandia
Hmm. But isn't that called a protectorate???
Depends on the level of autonomy the country has.
Penguania And Antarctica
One man's usurper is another man's liberator.
https://youtu.be/cphNpqKpKc4
Penguania And Antarctica
True. William the Turd and the Hanoverians were usurpers in my opinion.
Mercunova, The Scottish Twins
Liberate through conquest. :)
Jaslandia
https://youtu.be/soO5BJBNdMc?t=126
Jaslandia
If they are, they were only usurping other usurpers. If the Britain still had its 'legitimate' monarch, the Anglo-Saxons and Harold Godwinson's descendants would be in power.
Jimmy should thank God (the righteous Anglican one, of course) that he didn't befall the same fate as his dad and leave it at that.
Fun fact: the Canadian government retains a replica of King Charles' death warrant.
Jaslandia
Also true. I'd have been a Jacobite back in the day though.
In the Robing Room where the Queen gets ready to address Parliament, the death warrant of King Charles hangs on the wall to serve as a reminder of what happens to monarchs who don't know their place when it comes to Parliament.
Jaslandia, The Scottish Twins
I could see the historical and cultural value in retaining an original copy, but what's the point of a replica? It doesn't seem to have much value, and I doubt the warrant is going to be served anytime soon; Hades/Satan/Hel/insert death-related being of your choosing here kinda carried it out already.
Nuremgard
You're just saying that because it would mean a Scot would sit on the British throne. *insert smiley face with tongue sticking out emoticon here*
Nuremgard, The Scottish Twins
A Scot and a Catholic.
Well actually the Stuarts stopped being Scots after James VI. The rest of them were born in England and Bonnie Prince Charlie was Italian.
Jaslandia, The Scottish Twins
I don't rightly know. Like Australia, we've had a Governor General or two who have gotten a little feisty when it comes to government affairs. Perhaps we keep it on hand for any such situations so that it can be presented to the viceroy with the warning that if they wish to represent the Sovereign, they may be expected to represent the Sovereign in all things.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Get shot of the GG and the Queen. Become a republic.
Axeldonia, The Scottish Twins
Hey. How about you become a country before telling other countries what to do. :P
Jaslandia, Mercunova
You watch your damn mouth! :P As my friend Aldaur says, all you are is America's hat!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Continental Commonwealths, The Scottish Twins
The same could be said of you and England.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
I would slap both of you right now.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, The Scottish Twins
It's a very fashion- and socially-forward hat
More like the Hogwarts Sorting Hat, shouting "Slytherin is too good for this lot- send them to the House of Hades!"
Vista Major
Jaslandia Sometimes I think you get money everytime someone accesses YouTube through your links. How do you do it that you have a YT video for every goddamn keyword?
Jaslandia, Vista Major
[spoiler=Today is March 19 and today are:]
Today is March 19 and today are:
- Act Happy Day
- Deskfast Day
- Father's Day (Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, Spain)
- International Clients Day
- International Read To Me Day
- Kashubian Unity Day (Poland)
- Las Fallas (Valencia, Spain)
- Minna Canth's Birthday (Finland)
- National Certified Nurses Day (United States)
- National Chocolate Caramel Day (United States)
- National Lets Laugh Day (United States)
- National Poultry Day (United States)
- Operation Iraqi Freedom Day
- Return of the Swallow (Mission San Juan Capistrano in California)
- St. Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism and Anglican Communion)
- St. Patrick's Day (Newfoundland and Labrador, Northern Ireland)
- Well-Elderly Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1279 A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
- 1563 The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
- 1649 The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
- 1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
- 1812 The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
- 1853 The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
- 1861 The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
- 1863 The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
- 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
- 1885 Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
- 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
- 1918 The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
- 1920 The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
- 1921 Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
- 1931 Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
- 1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
- 1941 World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated.
- 1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
- 1944 World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
- 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
- 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
- 1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
- 1954 Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
- 1954 Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record which remains unbroken.
- 1958 The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
- 1962 Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
- 1962 Algerian War of Independence ends.
- 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
- 1966 Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four with an all-black starting lineup.
- 1969 The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
- 1979 The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
- 1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
- 1987 Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
- 1989 The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
- 1990 The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
- 2002 Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
- 2004 A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
- 2004 3-19 shooting incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
- 2008 GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
- 2011 Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
- 2013 A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
- 2016 Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
- 2016 An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1206 Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
- 1813 David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer
- 1821 Richard Francis Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat
- 1848 Wyatt Earp, American police officer
- 1873 Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1900 Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1905 Albert Speer, German architect and politician
- 1906 Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer
- 1928 Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and author
- 1933 Philip Roth, American novelist
- 1936 Ursula Andress, Swiss model and actress
- 1937 Egon Krenz, German politician
- 1947 Glenn Close, American actress, singer, and producer
- 1952 Harvey Weinstein, American director and producer
- 1955 Bruce Willis, German-American actor and producer
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Quote of the day
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Percyton, The Scottish Twins
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Hades
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[spoiler=Update from Parliament]Attention Citizens,
The proposed Constitutional amendment entitled the Parliamentary Electorization Act has been moved to a vote. Voting will conclude at 6:00pm Eastern on Monday, March 26. The proposed amendment may be accessed here:
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/68/parliamentary-electorization-act
If you are in favour of this proposal, please let it be known on the forums with "endorsed". For those opposed, please let it be known with "denounced". Again, indicating an abstention is not necessary as a lack of any vote at all will be considered an abstention.
Thank you,
[nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation]
Speaker of Parliament[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Why the f*ck won't the parliamentary updates stop
I will seriously campaing to dismantle the government next election just to get some damn peace and quiet
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I'm just glad there's actual government correspondence for a change. It's nice to be kept in the loop of things even though I've made it a point not to vote while I hold a foreign position.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Id say you should establish a political party to champion this platform, but just imagine the Parliamentary updates that would come from trying to pass such a motion.
The snake would full on eat its own tail.
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
Inb4 the Seal of the Speaker is just an ouroboros.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Whatever
I'll just dab on them haters
Penguania And Antarctica
OH FOR F*CKS SAKE
IT'S BEEN 15 MINUTES
YOU'RE JUST TAUNTING ME NOW
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
It wasn't a Parliamentary update though. :P
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
stop telegramming meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
On the topic of things that are very old and outdated, Im off to pick up my sweetie and one of her male relatives. Weve been courting for three years today, you see, as I save for a sizeable enough dowery to pay her papa.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
The next person to @ me is double gay
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm not telegramming you.
I thought you were ghey.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Ur double gay haha
Penguania And Antarctica
Well, I'm engaged to a dude so.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
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