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pensavo di mettere gli anniversari di eventi storici giorno x giorno.
sperando possa essere spunto per dibattiti interessanti.


871 - Battle of Reading - Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army
1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey
1642 - English Civil War: King Charles I of England attacks Parliament
1717 - The Netherlands, England and France sign the Triple Alliance
1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples
1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government
1850 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
1884 - The Fabian Society is founded in London
1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed (Dr. William Grant; patient was Mary Gartside).
1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins
1948 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom
1951 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1957 - After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published.
1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957)
1962 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1965 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
1967 - Donald Campbell dies as his jet-powered Bluebird K7 crashes during an attempt to break the water speed record.
1972 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge in the United Kingdom (Old Bailey, London).
1974 - United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1987 - An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, DC collides with Conrail engines killing 16.
1999 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25.
2004 - Dr. Mikhail Saakashvili won Presidential Elections in the Republic of Georgia.

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In Origine postato da Ferruccio
Non e' facile scegliere.Tira a sorte !

no, ferruccio. io pensavo ad una specie di rubrica...

se poi c'è qualcosa di interessante si apre un 3d apposito....

(mi è venuto in mente perchè mi son segnato che devo aprire un 3d il giorno dell'anniversario di nikolajewka...)

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5 gennaio
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1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
1944 - The London Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.

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e visto che non mi collegherò fino a lunedì:


6 gennaio


871 - Alfred of England defeats the Danes in the Battle of Ashdown
1066 - Harold Godwinson crowned King of England
1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans
1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
1661 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I becomes King of the Romans
1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings
1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
1900 - It is reported that millions are starving in India.
1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith - over 1000 people killed
1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
1929 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia suspends his country's constitution.
1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al; Porky Pig premieres
1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznan, Warthegau.
1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.
1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) hanged for treason
1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
1967 - United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. ....


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7 gennaio

1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1566 - Pius V becomes Pope.
1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
1601 - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
1782 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Americann John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
1789 - First nationwide United States election.
1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
1911 - Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.
1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen.
1927 - First international telephone call - New York City to London.
1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
1935 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
1954 - The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro
1975 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
1979 - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are overthrown by Vietnamese troops

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8 gennaio

871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats Danish invasion army.
1198 - Innocentius III becomes Pope.
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1815 - War of 1812: In the Battle of New Orleans Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1856 - Borax is discovered (John Veatch).
1867 - African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana).
1889 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
1894 - A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage.
1900 - United States President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1908 - A train collision occurs in the Park Avenue Tunnel in New York City killing 17, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1935 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
1953 - René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of France
1958 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship.
1959 - Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).
1964 - President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of placing bugs in Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

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9 gennaio


1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1522 Adriaan F Boeyens of Utrecht elected only Dutch/last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI)
1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 France declares war on Spain
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state
1792 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)
1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1799 Income Tax introduced in UK
1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science
1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1854 Astor Library opens in New York City NY
1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA
1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC
1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede
1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman)
1866 Fisk University establishes
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte" premieres in Paris
1901 New South Wales (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
1903 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota established
1903 Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 & move it to New York City NY (Yankees)
1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88º23' south
1912 US marines invade Honduras
1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco
1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends
1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain
1925 German Postal Minister A Höfle resigns due to corruption
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died
1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions" premieres in New York City NY
1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1929 BG DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in New York City NY
1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army
1936 Noël Coward's "Astonished Heart" premieres in London
1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
1937 Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City NY
1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
1940 J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal" premieres in New York City NY
1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines
1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City NY for 77 performances
1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 148 performances
1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in San Francisco
1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 points in basketball game
1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
1954 Bert Olmstead, Montréal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati OH) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minneapolis/St Paul territory
1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone
1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond
1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints"
1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon
1968 1st ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)
1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City NY after 19 performances
1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's biography is a fake
1972 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire
1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon

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7 gennaio

1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1566 - Pius V becomes Pope.
1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
1601 - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
1782 - The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
1785 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Americann John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air.
1789 - First nationwide United States election.
1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1896 - Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
1901 - Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
1904 - The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
1911 - Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.
1924 - George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
1926 - George Burns marries Gracie Allen.
1927 - First international telephone call - New York City to London.
1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
1935 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1953 - President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
1954 - The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro
1975 - OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
1979 - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are overthrown by Vietnamese troops

Potrebbe essere intreressante sviscerare il percome ed il perche' del cosidetto Patto Laval che ricordo riguardava anche il riconoscimento degli interessi italiani in Abissinia e comunque avrebbe dovuto migliorare i rapporti italo-francesi con garanzie ai confini italiani.Poi tutto ando' a monte con il governo di fronte popolare in Francia. Cosi' mi sembra di ricordare.Il fatto e' che di pattie accordi in quel temnpo ce ne erano stati diversi primo tra tutti il Patto di Locarno poi Stresa etc.

Nessuno garanti' mai qualcosa all'Italia.Cosi' e', se vi pare !

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In Origine postato da Ferruccio
Potrebbe essere intreressante sviscerare il percome ed il perche' del cosidetto Patto Laval che ricordo riguardava anche il riconoscimento degli interessi italiani in Abissinia e comunque avrebbe dovuto migliorare i rapporti italo-francesi con garanzie ai confini italiani.Poi tutto ando' a monte con il governo di fronte popolare in Francia. Cosi' mi sembra di ricordare.Il fatto e' che di pattie accordi in quel temnpo ce ne erano stati diversi primo tra tutti il Patto di Locarno poi Stresa etc.

Nessuno garanti' mai qualcosa all'Italia.Cosi' e', se vi pare !

ne ero certo che andavi a parare li....