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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
From the perspective of Darkest Hour it's actually in reference to the 360-ish days following the fall of France until the invasion of the Soviet Union when Britain was 100% alone. It's Empire could afford little protection when Britain was directly at risk of invasion in a short period of time, thus why you have all of this wild speculation and panic from that period and the serious consideration of actually negotiating with Germany. It wasn't until the Soviet Union was invaded that Britain was finally afforded some kind of relief and was able to truly think they could come out the other side of this in one piece.
Jaslandia
I think the rest of the Commonwealths resources were tied up elsewhere to the point that many considered the contingency of having to operate an exiled government from the Empire. Regardless, I was talking about the early war - there was no Battle of Britain, wed just lost at Dunkirk, German spies were incredibly active and the threat was very real. Its easy for armchair generals to say this and that but in reality its not a simple affair of Germany couldnt and wouldnt, therefore theres no rhyme to their reason.
Historians still argue even to this day whether or not Germany's Operation Sea Lion would have succeeded or not. My own personal feeling is that Britain would have won the day in a Nazi invasion. The Battle of Britain proved that the UK and her allies were fearless fighters in the air. And as for a sea invasion? Well come on. Britain is an island nation and the Royal Navy was second to none. Plus, Germany didn't have much experience with sea warfare
According to a new book (I forget the name), Hitler was prepared to withdraw from western Europe and give Britain peace if we agreed to remain neutral while the Nazis launched an uninterrupted invasion of the USSR. If this is true (and it appears to be since the book is meant to provide evidence of a detailed peace treaty which Rudolph Hess was set to deliver) it would seem that Hitler thought his Lebensraum policy was more important than securing the western front by force. But the clincher was always Britain. He wanted to subdue us and the Empire, preferably by peace. But when he saw Churchill would not bend, he resolved to go to war with the UK.
Jaslandia
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Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFpd8_-nkH8
Nuremgard
Nazi policy was always supremely pragmatic. The only irrational aspect would be the whole anti-semitism final solution stuff and even then it had some basis in pragmatism. In terms of other policy, the Third Reich was all about expanding to cover Continental Europe and then subduing Russia to provide living space. In modern times the Nazis are presented as the conventional evil race of evil people, and they were supremely evil lets not mistake that, but they were driven by pragmatism and the desire to build a 1,000 year Reich, not to conquer the world. Hitler had some kind of respect for Britain and conquering it was never on his agenda, it was apparently a great disappointment to him that Britain wouldn't align with Germany or, at the very least, concede to it.
Jaslandia, Yukona, Spanelsko
I'm not talking about the actual feasibility of the operations in historic hindsight, where we have all the information in one place. From the perspective of Britain after Dunkirk, the threat of a German invasion was a real possibility, hence it should be (and was) prepared for. And that news in the latter part of your answer isn't new, we've known for a long time that Hitler hoped that Britain would remain neutral or at least leave the war, once we actually had armed conflict on the continent. In fact, before the war he considered us an "honourable Aryan people" (which we're not, even by his own definition, but that was made concrete by eugenic studies later on in the war - which were also pseudo-scientific bullsh*t anyway).
Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgXyVL7KgAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM9fchOLX9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW7E7YUMy88
:p
Was just about to mention that Hitler did desire peace with Britain because we were considered high up on the racial food chain. Second only to the Nordic Aryans I believe. But yes, I know, there was a real fear of invasion. Thankfully it didn't happen.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Finally got rid if the blasted monarchy!
https://youtu.be/SiAGwKw1kRc
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Lucky you. I've been trying to democratise New Salvatore for ages but that damned autocracy policy refuses to leave.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Spanelsko
Once you become a monarchy you just cant leave.....
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
The monarchy isn't the issue. New Salvatore is meant to be a monarchy. The ruling party is monarchist. It's just still an autocracy. I want to institute democratic elections.
Spanelsko
Oh ok, well then the people must really like the autocracy then :p If they refuse to have democracy :p
Nuremgard
There are a few policies I want to change such as allowing a free press, instituting elections, banning sortition, banning compulsory organ harvesting.
Spanelsko
To this day i dont understand how there is still 4.5% of all people that die because of old age, in my nation HOW? we are cannibals, have ritual sacrifices and slavery with child labour, how do they manage to survive that?!
Also good luck Nurem with the issues.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Maybe they are the elite and are thus exempt from sacrifice. And thank you.
Spanelsko
if it would be the army it would make sense, or the government since we banned private industries no one else should be able to escape (except for inquisition) also now that i think about this, we have forced gun ownership and we are a dictatorship, i didnt think that through now did i? Maybe thats why we always collapse :D
Nuremgard
Oh, screw this. I take the business-friendly option in a nation to improve employment knowing it would hurt the environment. What happens? Taxes go up 4%, my environment collapses and employment goes DOWN.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Only in NS.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Spanelsko
How's the Union?
Russkov Soviet
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/K-440
Air-Superiority fighter is done.
[spoiler=Today is January 24 and today are:]
Today is January 24 and today are:
- Beer Can Appreciation Day
- Belly Laugh Day
- Feria de Alasitas (La Paz, Bolivia)
- Library Shelfie Day
- Macintosh Computer Day
- National Compliment Day (United States)
- National Peanut Butter Day (United States)
- Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic Church)
- Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day
- Unification Day (Romania)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD41 Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
- 1438 The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
- 1458 Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
- 1624 Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
- 1679 King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
- 1739 Peshva warrior Chimnaji Appa defeats Portuguese forces and captures Tarapur Fort, India.
- 1742 Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1758 During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Königsberg submit to Elizabeth of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763)
- 1817 Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
- 1835 Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
- 1848 California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
- 1857 The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
- 1859 The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later named Romania) formed as a personal union under the rule of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
- 1862 Bucharest is proclaimed the capital of Romania.
- 1900 Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
- 1908 The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
- 1915 World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
- 1916 In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
- 1918 The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS)
- 1933 The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
- 1939 The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillán, killing approximately 28,000 people.
- 1942 World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
- 1946 The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
- 1960 Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
- 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
- 1968 Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa
- 1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
- 1977 Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy.
- 1978 Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
- 1984 Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
- 1989 Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison
- 1990 Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
- 2003 The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
- 2009 Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
- 2011 At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0076 Hadrian, Roman emperor
- 1712 Frederick the Great, Prussian king
- 1732 Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright and financier
- 1746 Gustav III of Sweden
- 1776 E. T. A. Hoffmann, German jurist, author, and composer
- 1820 Henry Jarvis Raymond, American journalist, co-founder of The New York Times
- 1848 Vasily Surikov, Russian painter
- 1866 Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1888 Vicki Baum, Austrian author and screenwriter
- 1888 Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company
- 1895 Eugen Roth, German poet and songwriter
- 1901 Edward Turner, English engineer
- 1917 Ernest Borgnine, American actor
- 1928 Desmond Morris, English zoologist, ethologist, and painter
- 1940 Joachim Gauck, German pastor and politician, 11th President of Germany
- 1941 Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter and guitaris
- 1943 Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence
- 1943 Sharon Tate, American model and actress
- 1949 John Belushi, American actor and screenwriter
- 1961 Nastassja Kinski, German-American actress and producer
- 1987 Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer
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Quote of the day
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
- Dante Alighieri (Italian Poet, 1265-1321) -
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Jaslandia, Kalaron, Mercunova
! SEND ME NOOTS !
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_KJBq1AnQ
time: 1:41 to 2:15
Penguania And Antarctica
Rest in Chaos Vulkan.
Something I can help you with sir?
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
It is doing well. I do want to get rid of two of my policies though. "Parental Licensing" and "Autocracy". Mating is a natural part of life for us Equines. And we DO have elections, but NS thinks we don't.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Camelon is my hometown in real life! 2spooky
My family is actually from there. I use a lot of old Norse places as my cities and what not.
Lex Caledonia
Hmmm (decides to look at soviet) death causes= 63% disappearance rate. I rather not ask.....
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
I didn't even realize that was so high. Hmmm... I will have to investigate.
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
NS also thinks I ave enforced atheism despite building magnificent churches and having a national anthem that extols the importance of Christianity.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
Lex Caledonia Nuremgard The Scottish Twins
https://youtu.be/1Yq-CCO2yJY
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/021/354/nootnoot.jpg
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/pingu/images/b/ba/Pingu_the_penguin.png/revision/latest?cb=20131217134349
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M6pDjSwxPiY/maxresdefault.jpg
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Yukona, The Scottish Twins
Alba gu bràth!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The Scottish Twins
YAAAAAAAS BIG ROBERT HIMSELF, BRB BUYING CIV6
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, The Scottish Twins
It's part of Civ 6's first expansion pack, 'Rise and Fall' (due to be released February 8th), if you're interested.
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, The Scottish Twins
Very excited and pleased to see Scotland
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, The Scottish Twins
Screw it. I'm sick of waiting on democracy to come to New Salvatore. It's going to fully embrace its fascism and maintain dictatorship.
Jaslandia, Mercunova, Spanelsko
Donald: Alba gu bràth! Scotland forever!
Douglas: Thocht, if Ah had tae nitpick, Ah woods hae preferred tae see William Wallace over Robert th' Bruce. An' golf courses as our unique improvement? 'At seems a bit stereotypical if ye ask me.
Donald: Fa cares about 'at, Dougie? Let's jist enjoy Scotland gettin' th' recognition it rightly deserves!
Douglas: Aye, ye hae a point thaur.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
So
As it turns out
Looking up performances of songs you've sung in Chorus in years gone past is a bad idea if you aren't looking for painful levels of nostalgia.
Furthermore, when they're songs like "Prayer of the Children", "Banks of Doon", "Omnia Sol" and "My gentle harp" it only gets worse ;-;
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
And this is how freedom dies.....
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
The Talking Point
Huge explosions in the sky are a daily occurrence in the cities.
Even NS knows how bad my nation is :p
Jaslandia
Is there a rule that you cant have you puppet nation with your main nation in this region? (Spanelsko here)
Also i just made this nation and it already has managed to beat Spanelsko in Social Conservatism (1 in the region and 1% world wide)
And also somehow this is my most fu*** up dictatorship i ever made...... Both Political Freedom and Rights are outlawed ( Rights 2/100)
(PF 0/100) WTF?
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
No, as said before it's only illegal to have two accountsthat both go for citizenship, and to involve the second account in RP.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
Ok, thank you for explanation. But does that also mean that i cant use this brotherhood for future events? By this i mean not use them in the RP but possibly use them as rebel groups/insurgents/freedom fighters in case i would want to change the dictatorial regime to something closer to a democracy. (still remaining with my main account but changing the flag to the one of the brotherhood of UFIR.)
Of course mentioning them only from the perspective of UFIR itself (Spanelsko) or is that also banned?
Also that doesnt mean that i plan on changing the government of UFIR, i love dictatorships (not in real life) but i am just asking in the case to know if i have my options open or not for future.
From a lore perspective they can. They aren't allowed to *RP* however. If you wish to model an insurgency however, why not do as Tex does?
Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
Thats more or less what i meant, btw who is Tex?
Aw Im really stuck on Fallout, I dont know whether I should join the Institute or Brotherhood, any ideas guys?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
UCT, Pirate Kingdoms.
Both are toxic AF. If not the Minute-Men, I'd recommend the BOS if only to murder the bitches underground. Then shoot every BOS member in the Commonwealth.
Penguania And Antarctica
A D
V I C T O R I A M
I mean, it's not illegal to attempt to RP with a second nation. No one is going to prosecute you for it. RP law =/= Regional law.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
QUICK question, does anyone here know a communist region?
Also sorry for bothering you all.
Reason i ask is because all recruitment telegrams are either from fascist nations or holy empires....
And yes i will tell Tserra about the 3 new puppets (i think it was tserra that updates that stuff in the citizenship i will look later)
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Nope, Lex Caledonia.
That would be me, telegram me your puppets and I'll get it sorted for you.
Jaslandia, United Communists Of Ufir
oh ok, thank you, i will send you a telegram once i finish the forth nation.
That moment you check the roster and realize only one puppet's there :p
ok all finished, Lex prepare for a great telegram.
Have you got more puppets? Send them to me in a telegram and I'll get them marked down for you too.
Jaslandia
danke
Likewise, if anyone has any undeclared puppets, send me a telegram with their name(s) and I'll get it on the roster under your nation.
According to the AfD in Germany climate change is caused by mass migration. An average person living in Europe has a worse carbon food print than a person living in Africa. So their argumentation is that the influx of people coming to Europe and living here cause problems for the climate. Their solution: stop migration and bring those who came here back to where they have come from.
Weird world we are living in. Sad. :/
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion
Right-wingers are not renowned for their intelligence.
Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota
Good lord. They'll blame anything on refugees, won't they? I wouldn't be surprised if they blamed refugees for lightning strikes.
Penguania And Antarctica
Nah. Don't be silly. Everyone knows that lightning strikes are the wrath of God for letting in all those infidels/heathens. :P /jk
Jaslandia
Hey! Far-right wingers. Big difference
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
You laugh, but there have actually been people (at least in America) who've expressed similar statements, namely by stating that hurricanes/terrorist attacks/etc. are the result of America tolerating gay marriage/abortion/etc. How these people are able to live with such twisted logic is beyond me.
https://www.snopes.com/rumors/falwell.asp
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ann-coulter-hurricane-harvey_us_59a59bc2e4b084581a139315
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/did-lesbians-cause-hurricanes-irma-and-harvey-god-knows/2017/09/08/638efbca-94bf-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.6f47d48e7d1f
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gay-people-hurricane-harvey-blame-christian-leaders-texas-flooding-homosexuals-lgbt-a7933026.html
Penguania And Antarctica
You have some really odd people over there I must say.
Jaslandia
Same could be said about Marxists/other commies and other far left idiots (i mention only FAR left moderate left is OK)
Cesorion
At least you clarified...
And yeah, it could
No kidding. Normally I'd say something like "Every country has some nuts", but when it comes to religious/evangelical nuts, America is pretty much alone (at least among developed countries).
Sure, but if nothing else, I've never seen a Marxist/communist blame hurricanes or other natural disasters on capitalism (though some of them will blame capitalism for everything else).
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion, United Communists Of Ufir
Please Vote.
http://www.strawpoll.me/14926657
Penguania And Antarctica
Cant deny that, btw does the right have anything like the Antifa? (asking about them because as mentioned before by me Antifa are idiots and idiots make more idiots be it on the right or left wing)
I am the senate!
Jaslandia
None that I can think of, at least in America. I suppose the closest thing would be the neo-Nazi a**holes like the ones at Charlottesville, but those kind of incidents don't seem to happen as much as Antifa-related incidents.
Holy Inquisition Of Ufir
Perhaps but most of the idiocy these days comes from the right since it's them that seems to be on the ascendant right now.
Axeldonia
World is weird.....
Jaslandia
Still, there is a difference between right and far-right
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
hmmm, which would anyone of you consider as the better option? Centrist, Left Wing or the Right Wing? (combination is also an option)
There is but I don't have a very high opinion of right wingers either given the kind of policies they vote for here.
Spanelsko
Personally i think that it goes both ways :p
(in case someone doesnt understand what i mean, from what i have seen the left wing sees the right wing badly and same for the right wing seeing the left wing badly)
Centre-right
I don't hold the left in high esteem either, but I don't confuse far left with moderate centre-leftists
Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
Right. But when supposed "moderate rightists" in this country are voting for a party that is literally killing people with its policies, I find it hard to respect their "political values"
I also find it hard (heck, impossible) to respect the current political left here
Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
But is the left in your country implementing policies that are making people destitute or forcing them into suicide? I have personal experience with the policy changes here, and it was a very negative one. So I know what I'm talking about. It's nowhere near as extreme as pushing me into poverty or making me suicidal. But it was the first time Conservative policy has directed affected me, and it was extremely distressing.
I can tell you that many people have been pushed to poverty, and made suicidal. It's literally quite hard to remain good with all those policies here. Unless of course you have a friend in government
Well, that's why I find myself practically hating Tory voters. I cant respect someone who votes for such vile policies. Yet I'm called "nasty" because I call them bad names. Yet they vote for policies that make people's lives a misery but get to play the victim because some people call them bad words? The pearl clutching is pathetic.
Axeldonia
One is a poor-hating, wealth-stockpiling, heartless ideology that considers national success as being purely based on economic success.
The other is all that but they also kill minorities
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
You get the difference
Penguania And Antarctica, Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
[spoiler=Today is January 25 and today are:]
Today is January 25 and today are:
- A Room Of Ones Own Day
- Betico Croes' Birthday (Aruba)
- Burns Night (Scotland and Scottish community)
- Dydd Santes Dwynwen (Wales)
- National Florida Day (United States)
- National Nutrition Day (Indonesia)
- National Irish Coffee Day (United States)
- National Opposite Day (United States)
- National Police Day (Egypt)
- National Voters' Day (India)
- Revolution Day 2011 (Egypt)
- Russian Students Day (Russia)
- Tatiana Day (Russia, Ukraine)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD41 After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
- 0750 In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
- 1348 A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
- 1494 Alfonso II becomes king of Naples.
- 1515 Coronation of Francis I of France.
- 1533 Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
- 1554 Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
- 1573 Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
- 1575 Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
- 1704 The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
- 1755 Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
- 1765 Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
- 1787 Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
- 1791 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
- 1792 The London Corresponding Society is founded.
- 1858 The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
- 1879 The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
- 1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- 1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
- 1909 Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 1915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
- 1918 The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
- 1924 The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
- 1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
- 1937 The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
- 1941 Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
- 1942 World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
- 1945 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
- 1946 The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
- 1946 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
- 1947 Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
- 1949 The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
- 1960 The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
- 1961 In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
- 1964 Blue Ribbon Sports is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes, which would later become Nike.
- 1969 Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
- 1971 Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 TateLaBianca murders.
- 1971 Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
- 1979 Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
- 1980 Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
- 1986 The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
- 1993 Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
- 1994 The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
- 1995 The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
- 1996 Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
- 1998 During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
- 1998 A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
- 1999 A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
- 2005 A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
- 2006 Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
- 2011 The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
- 2013 At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
- 2015 A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 750 Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor
- 1627 Robert Boyle, Irish-English chemist and physicist
- 1736 Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer
- 1759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter
- 1874 W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright
- 1882 Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic
- 1886 Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer
- 1913 Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor
- 1928 Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia
- 1938 Etta James, American singer
- 1931 Dean Jones, American actor and singer
- 1933 Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines
- 1942 Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer
- 1981 Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
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Quote of the day
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
- James Whistler (American Artist, 1834-1903) -
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Jaslandia, Mercunova, Cesorion
Had a couple of interesting lectures today. One on the formation of the UK and the other on race in 19th century America.
Jaslandia
Centre-Left/Left, which ever part allows me to be a sound c*nt and treat folk well
Nuremgard, Brotherhood Of Atheist Ufir
Such a nasty woman.
Woops. My grammar goes out the window when I get mad.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
I've half a mind to suppress that
Ohh well. I could say that for this ^^^
Do you support Greece staying in the EU and/or keeping the euro?
Spanelsko
Yep
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