Anniversaries.

[FranknStein]

January 20.

1778:James Cook lands in the Hawaiian archipelago(known as the Sandwich Islands at the time).

1788:Third and main part of the First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay.

1785:Samuel Ellis puts up Oyster Island, NY for sale .It will later be renamed Ellis Island and be the site of the main immigration center for America,1892 to 1954.

1841:China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the first Opium War.

1879:British troops commanded by Lord Chelmsford camp at Isandlwana.

1887:US Senate approved lease of Pearl Harbor as a naval base.

1936:EdwardVIII succeeds his father George V as king.

1937:First US Presidential Inauguration day held on January 20(it was previously March 4th).

1942:Nazis organise the Wannsee conference in Berlin formalising the "final solution".

1944:RAF bomb Berlin.

1945:FDR sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term as US President.

1953:Eisenhower delivers the first live coast to coast inauguration address in the US.

1961:Inauguration of JFK.

1969:Nixon inaugurated.

1972:Six oil exporting countries meet with Western oil companies.It is agreed to raise the price of crude.

1973:Car bomb explodes in Dublin killing one and injuring 17.No one claims responsibility.

1973:Second inauguration of Nixon.

1977:Inauguration of Jimmy Carter.

1977:George H.W.Bush ends his term as CIA director.

1979:1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini.

1980:Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics in response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

1981:Inauguration of Ronald Reagan.

1981:US hostages released in Iran.The Iranians made a point of holding them till Carter was gone as President.

1982:Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat ,on stage in Iowa.

1986:Britain and France announce plans to build the Channel Tunnel.

1986:First Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the US.

1986:New footage of 1931 movie "Frankenstein" discovered.

1987:Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut.

1989:George H.W.Bush inaugurated."Potatoe" Quayle is VP.

1991:US Patriot missiles begin shooting down Iraqi missiles during first Gulf War.

1993:Bill Clinton inaugurated.

1999:China announces new restrictions on internet use aimed in particular at internet cafes.

2008:Breaking Bad begins being broadcast.

2009:Inauguration of Barack Obama.

2017: Donald Trump inaugurated.


Births.
1763:Theobald Wolfe-Tone.
1889:Lead Belly.
1910:Joy Adamson of "Born Free" fame.
1920:Fererico Fellini, Italian movie director.
1926:Patricia Neal,US actress.
1930:Buzz Aldrin,Second man on the Moon.
1934:Tom Baker,English actor.
1946: David Lynch,US movie director.
1946:Malcolm McLaren,English actor.
1965,Sophie,Countess of Wessex.
1967:Kellyanne Conway,American Trump mouthpiece.
1971:Gary Barlow,musician,singer ,Take That.
1971:Ger McDonald,Irish mountaineer(died 2008 on K2).
1976:Kirsty Gallacher,Scottish journalist and presenter.
1981:Owen Hargreaves,former footballer.

Deaths.
1896:George Burns,US comedian.
1906:Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman and second husband of Jackie Kennedy.
1900:John Ruskin,English writer.
1936:George V.
1984:Johnny Weissmuller, American Olympic swimmer and actor-notably as Tarzan.
1990:Barbara Stanwyck,American actress
1993:Audrey Hepburn,Belgian born actress.
1994:Matt Busby,ex of Man U.
2012:Etta James,American singer-songwriter.
2018:Paul Bocuse,noted French chef.

[FranknStein]

One hundred years ago today.
The First Dáil meets for the first time in the Mansion House ,Dublin.The meeting began at 3.30 pm and lasted about two hours. It consisted entirely of Sinn Féin M.P.s who had been elected in the 1918 General Election(an invitation had been issued to all Irish MPs but only those of Sinn Féin, who were not imprisoned attended).The meeting was mostly conducted in the Irish language and a roll call was held.Michael Collins and Harry Boland were marked as present (as an alibi)even though they actually were in England at the time, assisting in the breakout of Eamon DeValera from Lincoln Jail.
The British proscribed the Dáil in September 1919.Thereafter it met in secret.

Separately in Tipperary the Soloheadbeg Ambush took place.This is sometimes given as the beginning of the Irish War of Independence.Nine men of the Third Tipperary Brigade of the Irish Volunteers (including Sean Treacy and Dan Breen)attacked those delivering gelignite to a local quarry.This party was being escorted by two RIC Constables.Both RIC were shot and killed and the gelignite was removed.

[Cindy Forever]

February 5, 1992 Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
Happy birthday Neymar Jr.

[Tightsmonster]

rest in power x

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[SteveB]

It is that, boyo;

[Barney Rubble]

Today is international book day. Now bet ye feel better for knowing that.

I would love a good ride, sorry read !!

[FranknStein]

Thirty years ago today,while working at CERN,Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would become known as the World Wide Web.

[Floki]

1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains

[Floki]

Elton John is 72 years of age today.

[slimboyfat]

Fifteen years ago today(March 29,2004) the smoking ban in workplaces in Ireland was introduced,putting an end to generalised smoking in pubs and introducing specialized smoking areas that were open to the atmosphere. That or smoking outside the front door.