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Post by LaFille on Mar 16, 2010 0:27:17 GMT
2010 GayTitan returns to Chaos. Welcome back!  |
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Post by Gay Titan on Mar 16, 2010 12:34:10 GMT
2010 GayTitan returns to Chaos. Welcome back! Thank you, LaFille! It is great to be home ;D |
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Mar 16, 2010 22:05:53 GMT
Welcome back!
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Post by LaFille on Mar 24, 2010 15:20:41 GMT
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Post by Gay Titan on Mar 25, 2010 13:07:21 GMT
1634 Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
1807 Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894 Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
1911 A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory in New York City killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women. The tragedy galvanized America's labor movement.
1913 The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
1957 The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1965 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
1975 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1988 Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case."
1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1994 American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.
1996 The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998 President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
2002 A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.
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Post by Gay Titan on Mar 30, 2010 13:53:11 GMT
On this date in:
1822 Florida became a U.S. territory.
1867 Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal roundly ridiculed as "Seward's Folly."
1870 The 15th amendment to the Constitution, giving black men the right to vote, was declared in effect.
1870 Texas was readmitted to the Union.
1945 The Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II.
1964 The TV game show "Jeopardy!" premiered on NBC.
1986 Actor James Cagney died at age 86.
1995 Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical condemning abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws could legitimize.
2002 Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth died at age 101.
2008 President George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington National's new stadium, Nationals Park.
2009 President Barack Obama asserted unprecedented government control over the auto industry, rejecting GM and Chrysler's restructuring plans and engineering the ouster of GM's chief executive, Rick Wagoner..
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Post by Gay Titan on Apr 8, 2010 11:56:24 GMT
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
1935 The Works Progress Administration was approved by Congress.
1952 President Harry S. Truman seized the steel industry to avert a nationwide strike.
1970 The Senate rejected President Richard Nixon's nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court.
1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth's record.
1977 The Clash's self-titled debut album was released in Britain.
1981 Omar N. Bradley, a World War II general and the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died at age 88.
1987 Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigned after saying on ABC's "Nightline" that blacks may lack some of the "necessities" for becoming baseball managers.
1990 Ryan White, an AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national attention, died at age 18.
1992 Tennis player Arthur Ashe announced that he had AIDS.
1994 Rock singer-musician Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was found dead in Seattle at age 27 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
2002 Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "Topdog/Underdog."
2005 World leaders joined pilgrims and prelates in St. Peter's Square for the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
2009 Somali pirates hijacked the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama. The crew was able to retake the cargo ship, but the captain was taken captive by the raiders and held aboard a lifeboat.
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Post by Gay Titan on Apr 15, 2010 12:46:36 GMT
1850 The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1861 President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
1865 Andrew Johnson became the 17th president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
1945 British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1947 Jackie Robinson became baseball's first black major league player when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1980 Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris at age 74.
1986 The United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya said 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
1989 Students in Beijing launched pro-democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang.
1990 Actress Greta Garbo died at age 84.
1998 Pol Pot, leader of the Camobodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime, died at age 73.
2000 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles became the 24th major league player to reach 3,000 hits.
2002 Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White died at age 84.
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Post by Gay Titan on Apr 21, 2010 12:25:07 GMT
On this date in:
1649 The Maryland Toleration Act, which provided for freedom of worship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly.
1789 John Adams was sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.
1816 Charlotte Bronte, author of "Jane Eyre," was born in Thornton, England.
1836 Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas' independence.
1918 Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action during World War I.
1960 Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
1977 The musical "Annie" opened on Broadway.
1980 Rosie Ruiz, the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, was disqualified when officials discovered she had jumped into the race about a mile from the finish.
1986 A vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel that was linked to Al Capone was opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault was empty.
1992 Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years as he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978 murder of two teenage boys.
2004 Five suicide attackers detonated car bombs against police buildings in Basra, Iraq, killing at least 74 people.
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Post by Gay Titan on Apr 27, 2010 12:10:22 GMT
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicated the Italian state of Venice.
1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines.
1805 During the first Barbary War, a force led by U.S. Marines captured the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
1822 Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio.
1865 The steamer Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., killing more than 1,400 Union prisoners of war.
1896 Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby was born in Winters, Texas.
1965 Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow died at age 57.
1972 Apollo 16 returned to Earth after a manned voyage to the moon.
1987 The Justice Department barred Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed in Belgrade by the Republic of Serbia and its lone ally, Montenegro.
1992 Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2006 Construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2009 General Motors announced plans to cut 21,000 hourly jobs and scrap the Pontiac brand.
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Post by Gay Titan on May 5, 2010 13:19:03 GMT
1818 Political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia.
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1892 Congress extended the Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 years.
1893 Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression.
1904 Cy Young of the Boston Americans pitched the first perfect game in modern major league baseball history in a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics.
1925 John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1945 In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.
1955 West Germany became a sovereign state.
1955 The baseball musical "Damn Yankees" opened on Broadway.
1981 Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food.
1985 President Ronald Reagan attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany. The visit drew worldwide condemnation because 49 members of the Waffen SS were buried there.
2000 Reformers swept Iran's run-off elections, winning control of the legislature from conservatives for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
2002 French President Jacques Chirac was re-elected in a landslide victory over extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
2009 Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu.
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