Anniversaries.

[FranknStein]

23 April.

2005-Ist YouTube clip posted.

1984-French researchers announce discovery of the virus causing AIDS.

1661-Charles II crowned in London,The Restoration.

1516-German/Bavarian beer purity law enforced.

1014-Battle of Clontarf.

1968-Oklakama bomber Timothy McVeigh born.

1954-Michael Moore,US satirist,polemecist and film maker born.

1936-Roy Orbison born.

1928-Shirley Temple born.

1858-Max Planck,German physicist born.

2007-Boris Yeltsin dies.

1998-James Earl Ray ,the assassin of Martin Luther King ,dies in prison.

1616-William Shakespeare dies.

[Floki]

On this day every year!!!

[FranknStein]

Twenty years ago today the television presenter Jill Dando was shot on the doorstep of her London home.
Twenty years on the murder remains unresolved.

[FranknStein]

Today is the 25th anniversary of riverdance. Jeeze where do the years go. We were the rock n roll kids, rock n roll was all we did and listen to those songs on the radio.

The interval act at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin.
That was probably the one hosted by Gerry Ryan and Michelle Rocca might have been his co-presenter.
Riverdance for Rwanda was its first incarnation,for charity.
Then they realised its enormous money making potential.

[Barney Rubble]

May 1st 1966 mary lou born. Happy birthday too you.

Well hello Mary Lou .

[Floki]

1976: Colin Farrell is now 43 years old

1911: RMS Titanic launched in Belfast

1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) - And then Godzilla destroys Japan (Not really, but Godzilla is cool)

[DonaldTramp]

Today is the 75th anniversary of d day.

We Americans came to the aid of the ancestors of every Tom,Dick and Harry Englishman that day , Operation Overlord.
In 1942 we bailed them out in North Africa with Operation Torch .

[DonaldTramp]

June 4th 1989, the tiananmen square protests.

Mike Pompeo is keeping their memory alive.
A good guy.

[FranknStein]

The fictional Leopold Bloom begins his peripatetic Dublin Day, 16th June 1904.


16th June 1997.
Radiohead release "OK Computer", their third studio album.

[westcorklad]

Michael Jackson died on this date in 2009.. After recent revelations his name has become a pariah but at the time there was huge worldwide mourning over his death.