irons_kusin
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Ny här, men hoppas lära känna folk, blev tipsad av släktingar om sh i swe, fast jag bor egentligen inte här. 14e mars är en speciell dag:
# 1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
# 1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Netherlands
# 1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
# 1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
# 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
# 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
# 1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
# 1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen
# 1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
# 1743 First American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
# 1757 On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty.
# 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
# 1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
# 1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
# 1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panamá
# 1837 UK hist Wheatstone & Cooke send first British telegraph message (some say 25 Jul – the electric telegraph was patented in May)
# 1840 José Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey", premieres in Madrid
# 1843 Boston conducts its first town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
# 1843 James Douglas lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Victoria); moving HBC trade headquarters from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State)
# 1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
# 1863 RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
# 1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle", premieres in Paris France
# 1864 Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa and names it Lake Albert Nyanza.
# 1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
# 1869 Defeat of Titokowaru.
# 1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
# 1879 Famous genius, Albert Einstein is born.
# 1879 Revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.
# 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado", premieres in London
# 1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")
# 1889 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
# 1891 The submarine Monarch lays telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.
# 1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
# 1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
# 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
# 1900 US currency goes on gold standard
# 1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
# 1906 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms
# 1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
# 1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
# 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
# 1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
# 1914 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty
# 1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
# 1915 In World War I, the German cruiser Dresden is sunk by the Royal Navy in the Pacific
# 1915 World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
# 1916 Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
# 1917 China severs diplomatic relations with Germany in World War I.
# 1918 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco
# 1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicië in Poland
# 1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
# 1923 President Warren G Harding became first President filing income tax report and pay taxes
# 1926 Ro Virilla, Costa Rica: the fall of a train in the Ro Virilla killed 248 and injured 93 victims.
# 1929 NAS Pensacola aircraft make 113 flights for flood rescue and relief
# 1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com
# 1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
# 1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
# 1936 Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue
# 1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio
# 1938 Hitler annexes Austria. A plebiscite shows that nearly all approve.
# 1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
# 1939 German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
# 1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
# 1939 Robert Menzies resigns as Australia's attorney-general and deputy leader of the United Australia Party over party's refusal to adopt a national insurance scheme.
# 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
# 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
# 1941 Xavier Cugat and his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"
# 1942 Australians are required to carry identity cards in World War II
# 1942 John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
# 1943 World War II - The Krakw Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
# 1945 During World War II, the 617 Dambuster Squadron of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) drops the heaviest bomb of the war on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. Known as the "Grand Slam," the 22,000-pound bomb, which was designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, is dropped from an Avro Lancaster flown by RAF Squadron Leader C.C. Calder
# 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
# 1945 The heaviest bomb of World War II, the 9,988kg "Grand Slam", is dropped by the RAF's Dambuster Squadron on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany.
# 1946 Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 6 years in prison for spying
# 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
# 1950 The FBI initiated the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program in order to draw national attention to dangerous criminals who have avoided capture.
# 1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
# 1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
# 1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
# 1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party
# 1955 Off the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 7.0 earthquake one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States
# 1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
# 1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
# 1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
# 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
# 1961 UK hist New English Bible (New Testament) published
# 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
# 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday
# 1964 A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
# 1964 Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is sentenced to die in the electric chair for his "murder with malice" of Oswald
# 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
# 1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
# 1967 The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
# 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
# 1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
# 1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
# 1974 Quebec to make French the official language of the province
# 1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
# 1978 The Israeli Defense Force, invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani
# 1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
# 1979 Peter Lougheed 1928- wins third term in provincial election and so continues the Tory Blue Rule
# 1980 In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
# 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
# 1983 OPEC cut oil prices for first time in 23 years
# 1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
# 1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
# 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Boy George - Everything I Own
# 1988 Iran and Iraq unleash missiles on each other's capitals as so-called "war of the cities" erupts.
# 1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
# 1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
# 1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
# 1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
# 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
# 1994 Flaming oil burns in the Bosporus Strait that divides Istanbul after a tanker and freighter collide, killing 15 crew members.
# 1994 Former West Australian premier Carmen Lawrence enters federal parliament through Fremantle by-election and records a 1.43 per cent swing to Labor
# 1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
# 1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
# 1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
# 1995 First time 13 people in space
# 1995 Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
# 1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
# 1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
# 1997 The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality.
# 1998 In Northern Iran a 6.9 earthquake kills 5 people and 50 injured in Golbaf. Two thousand houses destroyed, 10,000 people left homeless
# 1999 MGM hosts the world's first online DVD event
# 2004 Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia, while the PSOE wins elections in Spain just days after terrorist attacks in Madrid.
# 2005 Cedar Revolution, where one million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
# 2007 In India, 15 people were killed when police open fired on protesters at Singur, Nandigram in West Bengal. The farmers were protesting against the forceful acquisition of agricultural land by the government for setting up factories in collaboration with Tata Motors.
# 1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
# 1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Netherlands
# 1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League
# 1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
# 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
# 1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
# 1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
# 1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen
# 1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
# 1743 First American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
# 1757 On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty.
# 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
# 1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
# 1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
# 1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panamá
# 1837 UK hist Wheatstone & Cooke send first British telegraph message (some say 25 Jul – the electric telegraph was patented in May)
# 1840 José Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey", premieres in Madrid
# 1843 Boston conducts its first town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
# 1843 James Douglas lands at Clover Point on Vancouver Island with 15 men to build new Hudson's Bay Company Fort Camosun (later Victoria); moving HBC trade headquarters from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State)
# 1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
# 1863 RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
# 1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle", premieres in Paris France
# 1864 Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa and names it Lake Albert Nyanza.
# 1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
# 1869 Defeat of Titokowaru.
# 1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
# 1879 Famous genius, Albert Einstein is born.
# 1879 Revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.
# 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado", premieres in London
# 1888 2nd largest snowfall in New York NY history (21")
# 1889 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
# 1891 The submarine Monarch lays telephone cable along the English Channel bed to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.
# 1896 Sutro Baths (San Francisco) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
# 1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
# 1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
# 1900 US currency goes on gold standard
# 1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
# 1906 Calgary City Rugby Football Club forms
# 1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
# 1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
# 1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
# 1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
# 1914 Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty
# 1915 German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
# 1915 In World War I, the German cruiser Dresden is sunk by the Royal Navy in the Pacific
# 1915 World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
# 1916 Battle of Verdun: German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
# 1917 China severs diplomatic relations with Germany in World War I.
# 1918 First concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco
# 1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicië in Poland
# 1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
# 1923 President Warren G Harding became first President filing income tax report and pay taxes
# 1926 Ro Virilla, Costa Rica: the fall of a train in the Ro Virilla killed 248 and injured 93 victims.
# 1929 NAS Pensacola aircraft make 113 flights for flood rescue and relief
# 1996 This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com
# 1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
# 1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
# 1936 Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue
# 1937 Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio
# 1938 Hitler annexes Austria. A plebiscite shows that nearly all approve.
# 1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
# 1939 German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia.
# 1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
# 1939 Robert Menzies resigns as Australia's attorney-general and deputy leader of the United Australia Party over party's refusal to adopt a national insurance scheme.
# 1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
# 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
# 1941 Xavier Cugat and his Orchestraestra record "Babalu"
# 1942 Australians are required to carry identity cards in World War II
# 1942 John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
# 1943 World War II - The Krakw Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
# 1945 During World War II, the 617 Dambuster Squadron of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) drops the heaviest bomb of the war on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany. Known as the "Grand Slam," the 22,000-pound bomb, which was designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, is dropped from an Avro Lancaster flown by RAF Squadron Leader C.C. Calder
# 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
# 1945 The heaviest bomb of World War II, the 9,988kg "Grand Slam", is dropped by the RAF's Dambuster Squadron on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany.
# 1946 Labor-Progressive MP Fred Rose arrested for conspiracy to transmit wartime secrets to the Soviet Union; sentenced to 6 years in prison for spying
# 1948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco
# 1950 The FBI initiated the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program in order to draw national attention to dangerous criminals who have avoided capture.
# 1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
# 1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
# 1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
# 1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary of Communist Party
# 1955 Off the Andreanof Islands, Alaska a 7.0 earthquake one of the Largest Earthquakes in the United States
# 1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
# 1958 RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American)is created and certifies first gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
# 1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
# 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
# 1961 UK hist New English Bible (New Testament) published
# 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
# 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday
# 1964 A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy.
# 1964 Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is sentenced to die in the electric chair for his "murder with malice" of Oswald
# 1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
# 1967 JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
# 1967 The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
# 1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
# 1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
# 1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
# 1974 Quebec to make French the official language of the province
# 1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
# 1978 The Israeli Defense Force, invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani
# 1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
# 1979 Peter Lougheed 1928- wins third term in provincial election and so continues the Tory Blue Rule
# 1980 In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
# 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
# 1983 OPEC cut oil prices for first time in 23 years
# 1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
# 1985 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
# 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Boy George - Everything I Own
# 1988 Iran and Iraq unleash missiles on each other's capitals as so-called "war of the cities" erupts.
# 1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
# 1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
# 1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
# 1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
# 1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
# 1994 Flaming oil burns in the Bosporus Strait that divides Istanbul after a tanker and freighter collide, killing 15 crew members.
# 1994 Former West Australian premier Carmen Lawrence enters federal parliament through Fremantle by-election and records a 1.43 per cent swing to Labor
# 1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
# 1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard
# 1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
# 1995 First time 13 people in space
# 1995 Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
# 1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
# 1997 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery
# 1997 The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality.
# 1998 In Northern Iran a 6.9 earthquake kills 5 people and 50 injured in Golbaf. Two thousand houses destroyed, 10,000 people left homeless
# 1999 MGM hosts the world's first online DVD event
# 2004 Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia, while the PSOE wins elections in Spain just days after terrorist attacks in Madrid.
# 2005 Cedar Revolution, where one million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
# 2007 In India, 15 people were killed when police open fired on protesters at Singur, Nandigram in West Bengal. The farmers were protesting against the forceful acquisition of agricultural land by the government for setting up factories in collaboration with Tata Motors.
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