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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
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Nuremgard, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
If wee ones are havin trouble payin for their garb, then Ill pay for it! All I ask is that they sport kilts instead! pipes in eccentric United Federation billionaire Robert Montgomery Vasquez, affecting an accent that you are sure is not his native one. Och, when the wee lads and wee lasses wear wee kilts in school, yed be seeing proper traditional family values and pride surging. Just imagine all the little uns dressed in the traditional tartan of the clans. Itd be a grand sight indeed, aye?
So tempted to make kids in Nuremgard wear kilts to school.
I did it. This happened:
Following new legislation in Nuremgard, school children declare that teachers "may confiscate our toys but they can never take our FREEDOM".
Class.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton
I'm surprised Percyton is so un-extreme. A nation led by talking vehicles where humans were denied rights until only a few decades ago certainly sounds 'extreme' to me.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Maybe NS is saying you're normal except for that one thing? Granted it's a pretty big thing, but still.
How did the vehicles actually manage to enslave their human creators?
Percyton
I wouldn't say 'enslaved'; at least some of them were paid even then, and they're all paid now. As for how we did it, from what the others told me, we got some help from humans who weren't happy with the way things were either.
Jaslandia
Random news of Spanelsko
Peace has been fully restored, all opposition to the new regime was suppressed through force and public executions of traitors and communists. Mass rebuilding is being done and the economy is extremely slowly repairing itself.
New era of peace and prosperity awaits Spanelsko after so many pointless wars among the people.
Ban on imports is no longer active, we are switching to limited imports with large focus in trade on export while trying to follow the path of self sufficiency.
Path of science is however our first priority. And will be receiving much more funding then ever before.
Nationalised industry remains, but we will try to open our markets more towards the free market.
Last, we would like to establish formal recognition and basic diplomacy with other nations if possible.
Hopefully one day the sun will rise above Spanelsko once again with pride rather then sadness, and one day hopefully the ruins of the first Iberian Empire and its crimes will be forgotten.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Cool flag.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thank you.
Nuremgard, Percyton
ESC today
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
ESC? Are you going to the Electrical Safety Council? Or the Essential Services Commission?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESC
Percyton
I think he means this Jas
https://www.wambooli.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Escape-key.jpg
Percyton
Escape what exactly?
Eurovision Song Contest
Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is May 12 and today are:]
Today is May 12 and today are:
- 2nd Amendment Day (Pennsylvania)
- American Indian Day
- Bereaved Mother's Day
- Day of the Finnish Identity (Finland)
- International Migratory Bird Day
- International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day
- International Nurses Day
- Mother Ocean Day
- National Archery Day
- National Babysitters Day (United States)
- National Birth Mothers Day (United States)
- National Cornelia De Lange Syndrome Awareness Day (United States)
- National Dog Moms Day (United States)
- National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day (United States)
- National Hospital Day (United States)
- National Limerick Day (United States)
- National Miniature Golf Day (United States)
- National Nutty Fudge Day (United States)
- National Odometer Day (United States)
- National Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Day (United States)
- National Windmill Day (United States)
- Saint Andrea the First Day (Georgia)
- World Belly Dance Day
- World Fair Trade Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0254 Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope.
- 0907 Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
- 1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
- 1328 Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
- 1364 Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
- 1510 The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
- 1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
- 1588 French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
- 1593 London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel.
- 1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is sentenced to death for high treason.
- 1689 King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
- 1743 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1780 American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
- 1784 The Treaty of Paris signed on September 3, 1783, takes effect on this date.
- 1797 War of the First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
- 1821 The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.
- 1846 The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.
- 1862 American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
- 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
- 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
- 1870 The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
- 1881 In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
- 1885 North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
- 1926 The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
- 1932 Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
- 1933 The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies.
- 1937 The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
- 1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
- 1942 World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
- 1942 World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
- 1948 Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne.
- 1949 The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
- 1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1965 The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
- 1968 Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
- 1978 In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
- 1981 Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
- 1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
- 1989 The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
- 1998 Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
- 2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
- 2003 The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people.
- 2006 Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
- 2006 Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
- 2008 An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
- 2008 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
- 2015 A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
- 2015 Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500.
- 2017 A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1670 Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1803 Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic
- 1820 Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician
- 1845 Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator
- 1889 Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank
- 1907 Katharine Hepburn, American actress
- 1910 Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and illustrator
- 1928 Burt Bacharach, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1929 Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia
- 1947 Rolf Zuckowski, German singer, composer and Liedermacher
- 1946 Daniel Libeskind, American architect, designed the Imperial War Museum North and Jewish Museum
- 1963 Gavin Hood, South African actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1968 Tony Hawk, American skateboarder and actor
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Facts of the day
Traces of nicotine and cocaine were found in Egyptian mummies.
London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai or Delhi.
Although usually referred to in the singular, Bermuda consists of 181 islands.
In the 16th century, England punished vagabonds with two years of servitude for the first offence and death penalty for the second.
Paul McCartney is the only musician to have number one singles as a solo artist, as part of a duo, a trio, a quartet, a quintet, and a sextet.
Quote of the day
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (Irish Dramatist, 1854-1900) -
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, Anglia Imperium, The British Islands Confederacy, Midasia
Well, I'm glad peace has been restored in Spanelsko, and Thomas would like me to tell you that we look forward to continued diplomatic and trade relations with Spanelsko!
I would like to add one.
1945 - The Three Railway Engines by Rev. W. Awdry is published, the first book in The Railway Series children's books. The series would go on to spawn the globally-successful Thomas & Friends media franchise.
That's right, today is the 73rd anniversary of not just The Railway Series, but our whole franchise! This franchise is what made us so famous, and we're forever grateful to the Rev. W. Awdry, Christopher Awdry, Britt Allcroft, David Mitton, and everyone else who brought our stories to the world! Thank you so much for your dedication, and we are very glad that our stories have entertained children for so many decades! We hope our stories continue to do so for many more decades!
*sigh* Though I do wish our anniversary didn't share a day with such a terrible railway accident. My thoughts go out to all those affected.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Ah. That makes sense.
As someone who grew up with your stories (though only on TV and VHS/DVD), I would like to thank you, Percy! The stories of you and your engine friends were my absolute favorites growing up, and I'm still fond of them today. They taught valuable life lessons, and they helped make me into the person I am today. Thank you to you, your friends, and to everyone involved in your franchise!
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thank you so much for your kind words, Jas! I'm really touched. We're glad our stories could entertain and help you through the years. And seeing someone tell how our franchise affected them really makes me happy.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
I recommend the Netflix show Safe. It was so good. Kept me and my family guessing until the end.
Penguania And Antarctica
Well, the egyptians DID believe the afterlife would be one big party...
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Really? From what I've seen in docs, the Egyptians believed the afterlife was just an idealised Egypt with no sickness, pain or death.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
4th place for Germany in the ESC. Yay. :D
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Mercunova
ssshhhhhhh
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Well, if you take away sickness, pain, and death, then yeah, life in Egypt was pretty good and was kind of a party. The barely even had to farm: the natural and cyclical flooding of the Nile did most of the work for them.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
True. Farming was easy in Egypt.
Jaslandia
You should watch the Detectorists, I thought it was one of the best programmes I've seen in ages.
What's it about?
Two metal detectorists looking for a Saxon burial. It has really deep characters, fantastic writing, amazing actors (Mackenzie Crook is one of my favourites anyway), and well-thought out jokes and quips. It's very pleasant and the shots are out of this world. It's rated very highly on IMDB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgN7z0SD8v8&t=
Nuremgard
Fair enough. I may check it out at some point. I responded to your telegram on Great Britain and Her Subjects btw, just in case you thought I was ignoring you.
Percyton, The West Country
Noah Webster is angry.
http://www.jasonoffutt.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Portrait_of_Noah_Webster-e1486940783733-1024x849.jpg
Jaslandia
I have no idea who that is
Most of the spelling differences between British English and American English can be attributed to this one man.
Jaslandia, The West Country
Didn't realise they changed it proactively, shame for them though.
I've often maintained that the Americans butchered the English language as an act of defiance against their former rulers. They did it to reinforce their difference from the British. I will never forgive them. Seeing American spellings of many words makes me cringe.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
I've just been told that May 12th is also the birthday of one of the narrators for our TV series, George Carlin. Happy birthday, George! Though you died 10 years ago, we'll always remember your love for our franchise, and your beloved narration for American audiences from seasons 1 to 4. You're one of the best narrators we've ever had, and you're in my personal top 3! Rest in piece, Mr. Carlin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin
https://youtu.be/MI8QFc2nvhU
https://youtu.be/AVd1B25LWi8
https://youtu.be/NrnWvclzIC4
https://youtu.be/zW9HO9GycDA
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Color
Aging
Program
Airplane
Check
Theater
Gray
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
*Shudders*
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Odor
Pajamas
Parlor
Apologize
Organize
Behavior
Neighbor
Favorite
Humor
Rumor
Arbor
Harbor
Enamored
Aluminum
Mustache
Specialty
Mommy
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Please stop. You're offending my inner grammar Nazi.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhf8IVqnj9M
More like simplification of unnecessarily lengthy words, and making them resemble in print how they sound off the tongue. I view British English as incredibly snobby.
My carpal tunnel-stricken wrists thank anyone who eliminated or helped to eliminate all those unnecessary letters.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Thank Noah Webster.
Jaslandia, Mercunova, The West Country
I did.
Jaslandia
Sheer laziness and anti-intellectualism which fails to recognise the beauty and complexity of the written English language.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
This isn't anti-intellectualism. This is anti-elitism. Also, it's "recognize", not "recognise".
Jaslandia, Mercunova
No it's not, you barbarian.
Axeldonia
Which is notoriously difficult for other people to learn.
Simplification of the spelling in itself is not "anti-intellectual" in any way. There's a big difference between making words resemble more closely how they are pronounced and believing stupid superstitious junk just because it was on the television.
American English is a drastic improvement.
Also, the English language is about as beautiful as a wildebeest.
If you want beauty in language you can look to Latin.
Jaslandia
An improvement? That's your opinion.
Ah, Latin. You Romanophile.
Penguania And Antarctica
Not much of one (English is a hard language to improve tbh, it's too flawed to begin with) but an improvement nonetheless.
If you want to be all intellectual and sh!t Latin is waiting for you.
Jaslandia
As much as American English isnt anti-intellectual, real English isnt elitist. I prefer it because the spellings have more historical roots to them and thus show the amazing history of the language. I also like it because its the direct language of many of the greatest writers and poets in history.
Nuremgard
Seems like today is a big day for the franchise. Also, this:
https://youtu.be/2Iwvu-j7BuY
https://youtu.be/IjfwNwyhzXQ
https://youtu.be/v4R9LqdGGac
https://youtu.be/DOts_ZImY14
https://youtu.be/N4vf8N6GpdM
Nuremgard, Percyton
The word "barbarian" is relevant to this discussion in many more ways than one.
It is?
The word "barbarian" comes from ancient Greece and was used to describe all non-Greeks, with the ancient Greek word in question being "bárbaros," with which meant babbler and was used to describe how Greeks thought non-Greeks spoke.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Etymology is so cool.
Jaslandia
And my writing is horrible as a result of how I am always insecure in regards to how I verbalize certain concepts.
I wouldn't say your writing is horrible. Quite the opposite.
The best writers and poets in history died long before the advent of any form of English.
Nuremgard
Maybe I'm just insecure about myself. When talking to others, I like to act as though I don't care about what they think of me even though I really do care. Procrastination also contributes to my insecurities. I have also developed a habit of speaking really quickly and with really fluffy language so that nobody can understand what I'm saying. And sorry if this rant seems a bit annoying. I can't bring myself to talk about these things out of a fear of being judged.
Nuremgard
It's okay. I'm a very insecure person too. I'm often able to better express myself through writing because I can dress up what I say in flowery language. But ask me to speak, especially in front of a crowd or just saying my piece in class, I become tongue-tied, speak quickly and often need to repeat myself because people don't know what I'm saying.
I have to agree. Roman writers are especially witty, funny and perceptive. They were also cynical as hell, which I love.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
I'm always out of breath when I have to speak publically. However, I feel as though I am a very confident public speaker. It's just that stuttering ruins it all.
Nuremgard
I often misspeak words or my words sound slurred. I also have a nervous tick were I rub my neck.
When speaking, even if it is not public, it seems as though I cannot form a coherent sentence. I'm pretty sure it's because of the stuttering.
Have you considered speech therapy?
I've thought about it, but I haven't seriously considered it. Nobody seems to raise these problems with my speaking but me. It might just be me.
It could be. We're often our own worst critics, and we pick out and exaggerate flaws within ourselves. My mum often tells me that I exaggerate how bad my skin flares up because I am looking at it closely in the mirror and seeing it as worse than it actually is.
However, people have complained about how frequently I mishear things. I'm guessing those plane rides I took when I was very young have contributed to this in some way. It's always been a problem.
Sorry to hear that. But regardless, I've always found you articulate and intelligent in your writing.
It's strange to have someone in the COFN compliment me. When someone talks about me in this region, especially if it's behind my back, they say that I'm brash, condescending, unwilling to drop the argument, and that I have "controversial" opinions.
I've sometimes found you very blunt, which can come across as cheeky or smarmy, but I wouldn't say condescending.
I honestly don't know why people say this stuff about me. I just know that they do because UCT told me so a few days ago. However, he wouldn't reveal any private conversations because he didn't want to break trust just to prove a point.
Ah well. It's only people on the internet. None of our opinions matter.
I already knew that. You can't satisfy everyone.
https://youtu.be/U74s8nFE7No?t=91
"That's just what Jesus said, sir!"
Nuremgard
https://i.redd.it/f9w72oefr9o01.jpg
According to this, whatever the hell it is, I am an individualist anarchist. Political ideologies are spooks. Personality types are spooks.
I take privacy seriously, Const, but people see you as being a díck: just ask and they'll tell you.
I would do that if it wasn't incredibly petty.
Anyways, I can see the Big Dipper right now, and I saw a satellite pass by 5 minutes ago
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The West Country
I thought you lived in Dallas-Fort Worth, not rural Texas.
The air's clear over here, so I can see them: also, it's Fort Worth
You would think that the light pollution from a metroplex would prevent such a situation.
Pollution's been clearing up, plus the General Motors plant (the only real industrial part of the town) has been lowering emissions, so the sky's been getting cleaner in the past several years now.
I'm talking about light pollution here. I'm not talking about pollution from emissions. Light pollution makes it harder to observe the stars and planets.
Arlington doesn't have skyscrapers and the stadiums aren't as active this time of year
Russkov Soviet, The West Country
Oh, that makes sense.
In honor of The Railway Series' anniversary, here's the first ever Railway Series story ('Edward's Day Out'), plus the TV adaption of that story and the one after it ('Edward and Gordon'/'Edward Helps Out').
https://youtu.be/5Gd-xBQSJYg
https://youtu.be/LR34XLaDFzU
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I shake and get a twitch its awful
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I think sometimes you don't know when to drop an argument and can be a tad blunt, but I've never confided a dislike of you behind your back. Just like Nurem said, I think you're very intelligent and I respect you and your opinion.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
London usually prevents me from seeing much of the night sky, but when I go back home I go star-gazing quite often, the sky's beautiful back there.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is May 13 and today are:]
Today is May 13 and today are:
- Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, England)
- Children of Fallen Patriots Day
- Day of the National Emblem and Flag of Belarus (Belarus)
- IEEE Global Engineering the Future Day
- International Hummus Day
- King's Birthday (Cambodia)
- Leprechaun Day
- Mother's At the Wall Day
- Mothers' Day (several countries)
- National Apple Pie Day (United States)
- National Crouton Day (United States)
- National Frog Jumping Day (United States)
- National Fruit Cocktail Day (United States)
- Rotuma Day (Rotuma)
- Top Gun Day
- World Bellydance Day
- World Cocktail Day
- Yom Yerushalayim or Jerusalem Day (Israel)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1373 Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
- 1515 Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
- 1568 Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
- 1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
- 1779 War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
- 1780 The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
- 1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
- 1804 Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
- 1830 Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
- 1846 MexicanAmerican War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
- 1861 American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
- 1861 The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
- 1861 Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
- 1862 The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
- 1865 American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
- 1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
- 1888 With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
- 1909 The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
- 1912 The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
- 1917 Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
- 1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
- 1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
- 1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
- 1941 World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
- 1943 World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
- 1948 ArabIsraeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
- 1950 The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
- 1951 The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
- 1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
- 1954 The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
- 1954 The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
- 1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
- 1958 May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
- 1958 Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
- 1960 Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
- 1967 Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
- 1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
- 1972 The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
- 1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
- 1981 Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
- 1985 Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
- 1989 Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
- 1990 The DinamoRed Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).
- 1992 Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
- 1995 Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
- 1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
- 1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
- 1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
- 2005 Andijan massacre: Troops open fire on peaceful protesters in Andijan, Uzbekistan; at least 187 protesters were killed according to official estimates.
- 2006 São Paulo violence: Rebellions occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
- 2011 Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
- 2012 Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
- 2014 An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 1717 Maria Theresa, Austrian wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1792 Pope Pius IX
- 1842 Arthur Sullivan, English composer
- 1857 Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1882 Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor
- 1888 Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist
- 1907 Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright
- 1914 Joe Louis, American boxer, wrestler, and actor
- 1922 Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer
- 1935 Luciano Benetton, Italian billionaire businessman, co-founder of Benetton Group
- 1950 Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1954 Johnny Logan, Australian-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1961 Dennis Rodman, American basketball player, wrestler, and actor
- 1964 Stephen Colbert, American comedian and talk show host
- 1986 Alexander Rybak, Belarusian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, violinist, and actor
- 1986 Robert Pattinson, English actor
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Facts of the day
- It's scientifically proven that even a small dose of POWER changes how a person's brain operates and diminishes empathy.
- The Golden State Fence Company, hired to build part of the US-Mexico border wall, was fined US$5M for hiring illegal immigrant workers.
- In the 1970s, Basil Brown, a healthy food advocate from England, drank himself to death by consuming 10 gallons (38 litres) of carrot juice in 10 days, causing him to overdose on vitamin A.
- In the U.S., sitting on a sea turtle is a third degree felony.
- The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics cost more than the previous 13 Olympics combined.
- Jupiter and Saturn have diamond rains.
- Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.
Quote of the day
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray (English Novelist, 1811-1863) -
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton, The West Country
I don't prefer any of the choices on the poll. I don't like breakfast food. I want that choice on the poll. Please.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The West Country
Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Gualimole, The West Country
He only went and said it oh my God this is the most ground-breaking statement made by a Head of State in the history of thought the crowd is going to go wild!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://emojipedia.org/zero-width-joiner/
Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Gualimole.
We gotta go to space.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
Cheap and easy and even fast
And it even boosts the nuclear industry :>
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