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Copypasta thread, noone bothers to read the long lists rofl, why bother.

Anyway,

1927 - First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.


That's it.

12/f/taiwan wrote:

Oo ETHER oO wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

I went to Tucson a few years back. Middle of august, hot hot hot place

Hell yes it is, it is 90 outside right now... I remember back a few years ago it was so hot here that the airport shut down because the tires on the planes were melting to the runway it was like 125 that day.

90 in February?

How bad is it during the summer?

Hot enough to blow out car windows and make people put towels on their steering wheels when they park because it burns your hands to touch.

OR, according to this

1944: Airborne troops retreat from Arnhem

British and Polish soldiers withdrew from Arnhem last night south across the Rhine. Those still trapped in the Dutch town have surrendered, according to the Germans.

eichmann sentenced to death

end of battle of verdun

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Events-March 28

    * 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
    * 193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
    * 364 - Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
    * 845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
    * 1776 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
    * 1794 - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
    * 1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
    * 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
    * 1809 - Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
    * 1834 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in de-funding the Second Bank of the United States.
    * 1854 - Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
    * 1860 - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
    * 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
    * 1871 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
    * 1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
    * 1913 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
    * 1920 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
    * 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
    * 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
    * 1940 - Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
    * 1941 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
    * 1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
    * 1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
    * 1969 - Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
    * 1969 - The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
    * 1978 - The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
    * 1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails in the Three Mile Island accident, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
    * 1979 - British Prime Minister James Callaghan, is defeated by one vote in a Motion of No Confidence. This results in Parliament being dissolved to make way for a General Election.
    * 1990 - President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
    * 1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
    * 1994 - BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom
    * 2000 - A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
    * 2003 - In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
    * 2005 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.
    * 2006 - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

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2012 - i imbibed alcohol

1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.


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on my actual birthday, dirt was created. contrary to popular belief, i am NOT older than dirt . . .

^ reported, ageism

edit; you*re

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gustav eh

1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1915 – Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1919 – Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
1971 – The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1981 – Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
1985 – The inauguration of President Ronald Reagan to a second term, already postponed a day because January 20 fell on a Sunday, becomes the second inauguration in history moved indoors because of freezing temperatures and high winds. The parade is cancelled altogether.
1997 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2008 – Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 14%.

Births
1338 – King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
1824 – Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1905 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1918 – Richard D. Winters, American war hero (d. 2011) (from "Band of Brothers" fame)
1921 – Howard Unruh, American mass murderer (d. 2009)
1922 – Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
1924 – Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
1938 – Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
1940 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
1950 – Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1951 – Eric Holder, American jurist, and 82nd United States Attorney General
1956 – Geena Davis, American actress
1963 – Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player
1963 – Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player

Deaths
1924 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
1959 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1985 – James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)

And, it's National Hug Day (United States).