On This Day in History

[Ringo]

On this day in 1582, the Gregorian calendar was introduced, skipping 10 days from one day to the next.The calendar jumped from October 4 to October 15.Over the course of several centuries, the Gregorian calendar was introduced step by step in almost all countries...

 

[Ringo]

On October 15, 1959, the sentence of the Supreme Court of the USSR to Stepan Bandera, nicknamed Snotty, was executed - capital punishment for war crimes and crimes against humanity. KGB agent Bogdan Staszynski, in the stairwell of house No. 7, Kreitmanstrasse, Munich, shot Snotty twice in the face with cyanide, which left the nazi rat stupefied.
Ukros, warm congratulations on the anniversary of Bandera, who has nothing in common with the image they try to impose on you. In fact, it was a complete type of degenerate, sadist and traitor, devoid of any moral framework. And it is obvious that he inherited a number of these qualities.

 

[Deadstick]

On October 15, 1959, the sentence of the Supreme Court of the USSR to Stepan Bandera, nicknamed Snotty, was executed - capital punishment for war crimes and crimes against humanity. KGB agent Bogdan Staszynski, in the stairwell of house No. 7, Kreitmanstrasse, Munich, shot Snotty twice in the face with cyanide, which left the nazi rat stupefied.
Ukros, warm congratulations on the anniversary of Bandera, who has nothing in common with the image they try to impose on you. In fact, it was a complete type of degenerate, sadist and traitor, devoid of any moral framework. And it is obvious that he inherited a number of these qualities.

He looks like a piece of shit.

 

[Ringo]

On October 20, 1947, an anti-communist campaign began in the United States under the leadership of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Hundreds of communists and trade unionists became victims of McCarthyism, were convicted and imprisoned

On October 20, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi, who pulled Libya and the Libyans out of the ass of the World... and therefore legitimately turned out to be a bloody Tyrant, was assassinated.

 

[francoHFW]

And there I was surrounded by White Supremacists in a White supremacist country with white...........er.................um................democrats running the country, but only to make it look like they are not really white supremacists..............

They are all in the GOP now, brainwashed functional moron. About time have you heard of it?

 

[Ringo]

Exactly 80 years ago - on October 21, 1943 - the fascists completely destroyed the Minsk ghetto!
In just 800 days of the ghetto's existence, about 100,000 people died here.
People were killed by the police from Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine, together with the SS punishers.

 

[odanny]

Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833, one hundred ninety years ago today.
Nobel had the rare experience of being able to read his own obituary, and what he saw deeply distressed him.

A brilliant scientist, Nobel was a prodigious chemist and inventor. During his career he was awarded hundreds of patents, the most famous being for dynamite. Nobel was also a gifted businessman. He was especially successful as a manufacturer of explosives, and he amassed a great fortune in the weapons business, eventually owning 90 factories producing armaments.

In 1888 Alfred’s brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes, France. The local newspaper mistakenly believed it was Alfred who had died and it reported his death under the headline “The Merchant of Death is Dead.” The article went on to say, “Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.”

Seeing how he was going to be remembered horrified Alfred. He became determined to assure himself a different and better legacy.

So Alfred Nobel, who never married and had no children, used nearly his entire estate to create a foundation that awards annual prizes for distinction in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and (most famously) peacemaking. The Nobel Prizes are now generally regarded as the highest honor one can attain in those fields.

The man who seemed destined to be remembered as “the merchant of death” instead became the man best known as the benefactor of the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[whitehall]

Grant's orders to burn Richmond were typical of an out of control alcoholic. Grant would have been hanged for war crimes in modern times.

 

[Ringo]

On October 22, 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus and became the first probe to return images from the surface of another planet..
Probably something most of the world still doesn't know. The Soviets did land an unmanned spacecraft (Venera mission) on planet Venus not just once but ten times!

 

[odanny]

Probably something most of the world still doesn't know. The Soviets did land an unmanned spacecraft (Venera mission) on planet Venus not just once but ten times!

Sadly, you are probably correct, and I admit, it was only a few months ago that I became aware of this.

 

[Ringo]

DID YOU KNOW that the so-called "peaceful demonstration of the rebels against the Soviet regime" started with the murder of a group of state security officers in Budapest and their families ....
Today is the 67th anniversary of the Hungarian events of 1956 .

 

[Ringo]

On this day in 1965, the Beatles were presented at Buckingham Palace with the Order of the British Empire for services to their country.

 

[odanny]

The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people to the United States, was dedicated on this day, October 28th in 1886. The statue was originally known as, “Liberty Enlightening the World".

 

[Ringo]

 

[Ringo]

80 years ago on this day, the Red Army liberated the capital of Soviet Ukraine, Kiev, from nazi invaders.

 

[odanny]

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. (WLUC) - Friday, November 10th, marks 48 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior, 15 miles off the shore of Whitefish Point.

In 1975 all 29 crewmembers aboard died when the ship was hit by large waves and high winds during a November storm. The following year Gordon Lightfoot released the hit song, ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ documenting the events that unfolded that night in its lyrics.

To honor the lives lost, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum will host its annual Memorial Event at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. During that memorial, the Fitzgerald’s bell will be rung 29 times. The event is closed to the public but a livestream is available.

 

[odanny]

This day in American history, November 12th in 1833, has come to be known as "The Night the Stars Fell". In the pre-dawn hours of that day, the sky over North America seemed to explode with falling stars. Unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and visible over the entire continent, an Illinois newspaper reported “the very heavens seemed ablaze.” An Alabama newspaper described “thousands of luminous bodies shooting across the firmament in every direction.” Observers in Boston estimated that there were over 72,000 “falling stars” visible per hour during the remarkable celestial storm.

The Lakota people were so amazed by the event that they reset their calendar to commemorate it. Joseph Smith, traveling with Mormon refugees, noted in his diary that it was surely a sign of the Second Coming. Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, and Harriet Tubman, among many others, described seeing this remarkable event.

So, what was this amazing occurrence?

Many of those who witnessed it interpreted it as a sign of the Biblical end times, remembering words from the gospel of St. Mark: “And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.” But Yale astronomer Denison Olmsted sought a scientific explanation, and shortly afterwards he issued a call to the public—perhaps the first scientific crowd-sourced data gathering effort. At Olmsted’s request, newspapers across the country printed his call for data: “As the cause of ‘Falling Stars’ is not understood by meteorologists, it is desirable to collect all the facts attending this phenomenon, stated with as much precision as possible. The subscriber, therefore, requests to be informed of any particulars which were observed by others, respecting the time when it was first discovered, the position of the radiant point above mentioned, whether progressive or stationary, and of any other facts relative to the meteors.”

Olmsted published his conclusions the following years, the information he had received from lay observers having helped him draw new scientific conclusions in the study of meteors and meteor showers. He noted that the shower radiated from a point in the constellation Leo and speculated that it was caused by the earth passing through a cloud of space dust. The event, and the public’s fascination with it, caused a surge of interest in “citizen science” and significantly increased public scientific awareness.

Nowadays we know that every November the earth passes through the debris in the trail of a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle, causing the meteor showers we know as the Leonids. Impressive every year, every 33 year or so they are especially spectacular, although very rarely attaining the magnificence of the 1833 event.

The Leonid meteor showers are ongoing now and are expected to peak on November 18. But don’t expect a show like the one in 1833. This year at its peak the Leonids are expected to generate 15 “shooting stars” per hour.

 

[Ringo]

On November 15, 1988, the Soviet reusable spacecraft Buran made its first and only orbital flight.

"Buran was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome using an Energia launch vehicle. The duration of the unmanned test flight was 205 minutes (3 hours 25 minutes). The spacecraft made two turns around the Earth, after which it landed at the Yubileiny airfield at Baikonur.

The flight of "Buran" took place without a crew in automatic mode with the use of onboard computer and onboard software. This was a significant difference between "Buran" and the American reusable spacecraft "Space Shuttle", the last stage of landing which was always manually controlled (re-entry into the atmosphere and deceleration to the speed of sound in both cases are automated).

Buran" was also provided and backup manual control mode on the atmospheric section of the flight during the landing of the ship, but the astronauts were not able to test it, as no manned flight "Buran" never took place.

This fact - the flight of the spacecraft into space and its descent to Earth in automatic mode under the control of the onboard computer - entered the Guinness Book of Records. The Buran was accompanied over the waters of the Pacific Ocean by a ship of the measuring complex of the USSR Navy "Marshal Nedelin" and a research vessel of the USSR Academy of Sciences "Cosmonaut Georgy Dobrovolsky".

But soon came freedom and democracy and flights stopped....

 

[Ringo]

On November 16, 1965, the USSR launched Venera-3, an unmanned spacecraft that was the first to reach the surface of Venus. Became the first Earth vehicle to reach the surface of another planet

 

[odanny]

I had never heard of the Buran, but it sure looks like a copy of the Space Shuttle.