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Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:29 am
by Lianachan
Excellent, happy anniversary! Yes, red sandstone indeed.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:21 pm
by Arneb
From me, too. As the Mem is still the Mem, and you the Mem's Heid, you seem to have made excellent choices in all aspects of the wedding.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:23 pm
by Heid the Ba
Thanks.

Also, we met at this school and the Mem worked in this building while I worked in this building, you can detect a theme for large buildings in Dumfries which I had never really thought about before.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 3:44 pm
by Lianachan
Is.... Is everything down there built with red sandstone?

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:40 pm
by Arneb
I'm sure the next drab concrete block is just outside rhe frame.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:01 am
by Lianachan
29th June, 1950 - the US, captained by the Scot Ed McIlvenny, beat England 1-0 in the World Cup group stage in what's billed as one of the most surprising results ever.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 1:53 pm
by Heid the Ba
Lianachan wrote:Is.... Is everything down there built with red sandstone?

Not quite, just most buildings in the town centre.

Missed this yesterday: 28th June 1914 - Franz Ferdinand and Countess Sophie went for a drive in Sarajevo, it ended badly.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 9:00 am
by Lianachan
July 4th, 1954 - West Germany beat favourites Hungary 3-2 to win the first of their three world cups (unified Germany, of course, adding a fourth later).
July 4th, 1776 - ungrateful colonials try to go it alone

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 9:19 am
by Heid the Ba
No good will come of those thirteen colonies.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 1:18 pm
by Arneb
They'll totally tank. Democracies elect tyrannical dictators who run the country aground, don't they know that?

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:51 pm
by Lance
Is it too late for the queen to take us back?

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:53 pm
by Heid the Ba
I'm sure The Markle will put in a good word for you.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 4:02 pm
by Lianachan
Lance wrote:Is it too late for the queen to take us back?


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Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 5:44 pm
by Lance
Maybe we could become a Canadian Province. Trudeau's not so bad.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 6:57 pm
by Arneb
OTOH, that would mean giving up all those guns. Maybe you try Germany? The guns would go, too, but at least there would be health insurance, and the hospital coffee is way better tan in her Majesty's NHS.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 10:55 pm
by Lance
Canada has healthcare...

And I think we'd be happy to give up the guns to who ever could come and take them.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:01 am
by Arneb
True, butt ve haff Mutti!

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:08 am
by Lianachan
Lianachan wrote:26th June 1483 - Dick the Shit becomes King of England.


July 6th, 1483 - Dick the Shit is crowned King of England.

Quite a day, historically.

July 6th, 1189 - Dick the First accedes to the English throne.
July 6th, 1253 - Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
July 6th, 1560 - signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh between Scotland and England. They thought that brought an end to the Auld Alliance with France! Ha!
July 6th, 1779 - Battle of Grenada sees the French navy defeat the navy of Perfidious Albion, but then not really do anything much with their new advantage in the region.
July 6th, 1919 - the dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
July 6th, 1942 - Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the secret annex over her father's office.
July 6th, 1944 - it is claimed that test pilot Rudolph Opitz reached a speed of 702 mph flying an Me 163B, in the first flight to break the sound barrier.
July 6th, 1947 - the AK47 goes into production.
July 6th, 1957 - John Lennon meets Paul McCartney for the first time.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:13 pm
by Arneb
6 July is also the day Jan Hus died (1415).

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:49 am
by Lianachan
July 9th, 1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:24 am
by Lianachan
July 10th, 138 – death of Hadrian, builder of big walls in England and Africa.
July 10th, 1212 – most of London burns to the ground. Huzzah!
July 10th, 1856 – birth of the great Nikola Tesla.
July 10th, 1925 – start of the Scopes "monkey" Trial in Dayton, Tennessee.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 1:02 pm
by Lianachan
July 11th, 1274 - birth of Roibert a Briuis, King of Scots from March 1306 – June 1329.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:22 am
by Lianachan
July 16th, 1945 - Trinity, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:56 pm
by Arneb
July 16, 1918 - the last (at least, the last before the curreknt Tsar Volodya) Russian Tsar, Nikolai II, together with his wife and five children, is murdered in Jekaterinburg, by Red Army guards.

Re: On this day in history...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:27 am
by Heid the Ba
July 16, 2018 the US President committed treason live on tv.