Today in History.....

[iFairylicious]

lol a new thread for some fun. Look up the date appropriate when you post and look to see what happened on this day. Important current events can be used but try to use historical dates haha

to start off the thread...Today in history marks the 91st anniversary of the end of WWI.

 

[iFairylicious]

....and not many years later on this day Germany occupied France. hmmm lol

 

[brmstn69]

Damn, you started this thread a day too late for the 234th anniversary of the U.S. Marine corps...

 

[slimjim]

And a day late for the 20th anniversary of the bringing down of the Berlin Wall

 

[iFairylicious]

lol well those can be included since it is technically within the past week. hahaha

 

[iFairylicious]

Thinking of history I am watching Milk right now. Haven't watch much of it and should be interesting.

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

The Two Towers being the Second Book of the Lord of the Rings is published on November 11th 1954... if this isn't History ^^

 

[Jamie]

Stanley Tucci was born on 11 Novembre 1960. A great actor. Ah, and Demi Moore was born on 11th Nov as well

 

[iFairylicious]

lol I guess we can include celeb birthdays too. haha

 

[iFairylicious]

....but remember to keep everything relevant lol

 

[Jamie]

lol I guess we can include celeb birthdays too. haha

Nah! LOL! Too many celebrities around the world! I just wrote that as a ..dunno...a thing that I remembered when I read the thread. But no celebrities birthdates cause this way we will fill 10.000 pages with celebrity Bdays

 

[iFairylicious]

lol yeah thats true

 

[Bo.]

11 November 1821
Was born Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достоевский), a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.









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[glamfunk84]

Dammit I gotta go to Wikipedia for that shit, lol

On this day, both Poland and Angola became independent countries in 1918 and 1975 respectively.

Today is Veteran's Day in the US.

In 1889, the state of Washington named after First President George Washington was made an official U.S. state.

R&B legend Lavern Baker was born on this day in 1929. Her famous hits include "Tweedlee Dee" and "Jim Dandy".

So-called "fashion savant" and Emmy-winning "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" host Carson Kressley celebrates his 40th birthday today.

Former "twink", er, teen actor Leonardo DiCaprio celebrates his 35th birthday today.

 

[goejavin]

An Early Frost, the first major movie to deal with HIV/AIDS was broadcast November 11, 1985.

Its certainly a must watch (although the AIDS info is dated) bring I recommend having plenty of tissues nearby.

 

[Tom]

Armistice Day Storm 1940

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/200011/10_steilm_blizzard-m/

http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/top5/numbertwo.htm

 

[iFairylicious]

Today in 1918 Austria became a republic.....ooh Charles Manson born today Oo

 

[iotbg]

12.11.1918

woman right to vote in germany

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

Today, November 12th is the 80th birthday of Princess Gracia Patricia de Monaco, one of the most beautiful women of the 20th Century.

 

[iFairylicious]

Was going to put that hahaha.