On this day in history...

[Мастер]

Cheers. It's 9 years, and that's not divisible by 5 and therefore not a big deal. I hope. That's my understanding of how this works, anyway.

If you used base 3, it would be 100!

[Lianachan]

Is that the same as third base?

[Lianachan]

July 22nd 1298: William Wallace has a go at fighting a battle without Andrew de Moray actually in charge and gets his arse handed back to him.

[Heid the Ba]

July 23rd 2014, the start of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

[Lianachan]

Also on this date, just 270 short years ago, Charles Edward Stuart first landed on Scottish soil to begin his ill-fated campaign. The totalitarian measures taken by the British to ensure that sort of thing couldn't happen again are still having an adverse effect on the Highlands.

[Heid the Ba]

We've missed a few but jumping to today:

30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.

[Arneb]

1 July, 1945. As many as 200 ethnic Germans are murdered in a pogrom in Usti nad Labem, in newly-re-formed Czechoslovakia. The deed is unpunished and not even declared unlawful to this day.

[Мастер]

1 July, 1945. As many as 200 ethnic Germans are murdered in a pogrom in Usti nad Labem, in newly-re-formed Czechoslovakia. The deed is unpunished and not even declared unlawful to this day.

July 31?

On August 1, 1291, Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden form a loose union that eventually becomes Switzerland.

On August 2, 1610, Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay, which he believed to be the Pacific Ocean.

[Arneb]

July 31?

Yes, thanks

[Мастер]

May 13, 2005 - Llance, Cyndi, and Nighthawk become the first members of IRU.

Aug 2, 2005 - Мастер joins IRU.

Aug 5, 2015 - Мастер notices that he missed the ten-year anniversaries of the previous two events.

[Heid the Ba]

You can still remember my 10 year anniversary next August 2nd.

[Мастер]

August 6th, 1945 - some people in Hiroshima had a bad day.

[Heid the Ba]

8th August 1918, according to Ludendorff it was "The Black Day" for the German Army. It was at the start of the 100 Days Campaign that ended the War and the day the German Command knew they were beaten.

[Мастер]

August 8, 1967 - the birth of ASEAN.

[Мастер]

August 9, 378 - the Goths defeat the Roman army and killed the emperor.

August 9, 1945 - atomic bombardment of Nagasaki

August 9, 1965 - Singapore expelled from Malaysia, becoming what is possibly the world's only involuntarily independent nation

[Arneb]

August 15, 1945 - 70 years ago today, Tenno Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender, effectively ending WWII

[Lianachan]

Been a while, but:

September 11th 1297: Andrew de Moray, of whom almost nobody has heard, wins the Battle of Stirling Bridge, but is carelessly among the very few Scottish casualties. William Wallace, of whom everybody has heard, takes all the credit and continues to use his high status in society by faking his signature on documents for months.

[Arneb]

And I'd like to remember the other September 11, too.

[Мастер]

And I'd like to remember the other September 11, too.

The 1973 Chile coup.

[Arneb]

And that one, too.

[Arneb]

Here's another one: 70 years ago, one Franz Anton Beckenbauer, also known as the Kaiser, was born in Munich. Idolized as an extremely able football player and coach (to my knowlededge, the only man ever to have won the World Cup in both functions) and a general identification figure, he is just short of revered by many Germans.

Among his many notable quotes:
"Johan (Cruyff) is better at football, but I am World Champion"
"Go out, play football" (tactical order before the 1990 World Championship Final; it's a very charming quote when you hear it in his soft Bavarian dialect)
"I want to play in a team in which everyone can stop a ball" (asked for his greatest unfulfilled wish; in the same vein:)
You know who I am most sorry for? The ball! (As a TV expert, after a particularly dreadful game; the joke works better in German, because "Ball" is masculine)
"I am too old for tennis. I do something different now. There, I have my own ball. I hurl it away somwhere, follow it, and if I find it, I hurl it someplace else." (to my knowledge, the best description of golf in existence)

[Heid the Ba]

18th September 2014. Bastards. Wee fearty cuntybaw bastards.

[Arneb]

Oh, that one.

[Heid the Ba]

A day late. 30 years ago Marita Koch set the women's 400m record, which still stands. People are getting terribly exercised by this fact, and the fact she was East German. Of course British athletes of the era, like Lord Coe of Olympics, who set records that lasted decades must have been clean. The same LCoO who is employed by Nike, appointed someone else employed by Nike to investigate them and came to the unsurprising conclusion that Nike don't systematically dope their athletes.

[Heid the Ba]

7th October 1591, the Battle of Lepanto where the Ottoman fleet was defeated and the west saved from Islam. During the battle the Spanish author Cervantes lost a hand.