Today in History.....

[gorgik9]

Alfred Nobel had two older brothers, Robert and Ludvig, and one younger, Emil.

Emil was killed just 21 years old in a terrible explosives accident (experimenting with nitroglycerine) in 1864.

The Nobel brothers founded an Oil company in Baku, Azerbajdsjan, which soon became the worlds biggest oil company, second in size only to Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 22nd October

In 1964, ''the Mozart of basketball'' was born in Sibenik, Croatia. There is perhaps no bigger name in the history of European basketball than Drazen Petrovic.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 25th October

In 1991, the last YPA (Yugoslav People's Army) soldiers left Slovenia, nearly four months after the end of Slovenia's ten-day independence war.

 

[Shelter]

Ten-days Independence war? I never had heard from. Haiducii I'm sorry - but I will read now something about this drama. Thanks for teaching me.

 

[haiducii]

Ten-days Independence war? I never had heard from. Haiducii I'm sorry - but I will read now something about this drama. Thanks for teaching me.

You can always learn something new

The Ten-Day War, sometimes called the Slovenian War, was a brief military conflict between Slovenia and Yugoslavia that took place in 1991 following Slovenia's declaration of independence. -> READ MORE

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 28th October

In 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The unveiling of the Statue of Liberty on this day forever changed the New York skyline. Designed by Frederic Bartholdi, the statue was a gift from France – although Americans raised the funds for the pedestal she stands on. Only dignitaries were invited to attend the statue’s official dedication ceremony, but an estimated one million people took part in a parade and festivities around New York to mark the occasion.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 29th October

In 1950, Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf), the King of Sweden from 1907, passed away in Drottningholm Palace. Dying at age 92, he holds the record of being the oldest monarch of Sweden and the second-longest reigning monarch of Sweden (after Magnus II).

 

[gorgik9]

In 1950, Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf), the King of Sweden from 1907, passed away in Drottningholm Palace. Dying at age 92, he holds the record of being the oldest monarch of Sweden and the second-longest reigning monarch of Sweden (after Magnus IV).

I think it's absolutely necessary to make two corrections :

1) Who the hell is "Magnus IV" ??? It can't be anyone else but king Magnus Eriksson (1316-1374) who became king of Sweden (1319-1364) and Norway (1319-1343) only three years old after his father, duke Erik Magnusson, was murdered by the duke's older brother king Birger Magnusson (son of king Magnus Birgersson Ladulås) and king Birger in his turn died in 1318.

As king of Norway, Magnus Eriksson could be namned Magnus VII (shiploads of Magnus there ), and as king of Sweden he could be called Magnus II (though he isn't - in Swedish history books he is nothing more or less than king Magnus Eriksson), but Magnus IV :no:.

Magnus Eriksson was forced to resign as king in 1364, and died in a drowning accident in 1374. He had the grave misfortune to live in the same time as Birgitta Birgersdotter, the bitch you Europeans know as St. Brigid of Sweden, who contributed vastly to Magnus Eriksson's downfall by - among many other nasty things she said - scolding the king as - oh yes - a Sodomite.

2) But maybe more important for you haiducii and all the others on GH :

King Gustav V was a gay man. His marriage to queen Victoria of Baden became totally ice cold already in the 1890s, and they tried to stay away from each other as much as possible. There's so much I could talk about concerning king Gustav V and his times in Sweden, but I promise I wouln't start a long lecture.

 

[haiducii]

As king of Norway, Magnus Eriksson could be namned Magnus VII (shiploads of Magnus there ), and as king of Sweden he could be called Magnus II (though he isn't - in Swedish history books he is nothing more or less than king Magnus Eriksson), but Magnus IV :no:.

U R right! Thanks for your correction. It was my mistake...Sorry guys! :blushing:

I learnt something new today: NEVER trust a W1K1.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 30th October

In 1906, Dr. Emilio Giuseppe Farina more commonly known as ''Nino'' was born in Turin - Italy's car capitol. He was the first ever Formula One World Champion.

 

[Shelter]

You can always learn something new

The Ten-Day War, sometimes called the Slovenian War, was a brief military conflict between Slovenia and Yugoslavia that took place in 1991 following Slovenia's declaration of independence. -> READ MORE

Thank you so very much Haiducii for this interesting link. So very interesting to read but surely not to witness! The breakup of Yugoslavia must have been for this region a horrible time. What I don't understand until today - why under the rule of Josip Tito Yugoslavia could exist in peace and after his death this incomprehensible, homicidal and hateful civil war!?

 

[haiducii]

What I don't understand until today - why under the rule of Josip Tito Yugoslavia could exist in peace and after his death this incomprehensible, homicidal and hateful civil war!?

When Tito died in 1980, Yugoslavs were shocked and apprehensive. They had been prepared for his demise with the slogan 'After Tito - Tito'. BUT there was no new Tito. Without him the state began to unravel, as the governments of the republics began to exercise the powers that were due to them under the constitution. Dissent began to grow. Serbs complained of persecution at the hands of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Croats and Slovenes resented the fact that money earned from tourists in their republics went to subsidise poorer parts of Yugoslavia, such as Kosovo. Albanians there demonstrated for their own republic, and even for secession and union with Albania.

Managing these strains and crises was hard enough, but by the late 1980s some people began to sense that communism itself was in question. And if it was, what was to replace it? For Slobodan Milosevic, an up-and-coming politician in Serbia, the answer was nationalism. Seizing on the delicate issue of Kosovo, Milosevic came to supreme power. And so, Yugoslavia began to crumble. In 1989 Milosevic abolished Kosovo's autonomy. Croats and Slovenes feared that they were next in line.

In this way a spiral of competitive and mutually fearful nationalisms began to destroy the country. Politicians fanned the embers of all the old divisions - Serbs versus Croats, Orthodox Christians versus Catholics versus Muslims, and so on.

Source: The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia and Kosovo: War and Revenge, Written by Tim Judah.

 

[Shelter]

Thanks so much Haiducii for this short but very interesting historical summary. Wouldn't it be interesting for you to make an own thread about this theme? I would appreciate it - because you are a person from within and you could tell us history with emotion and from the heart - I mean true history!

Please give it a serious consideration! I would be really a very interested follower of such a thread - and surely many others here as well. So, what do you think about?

 

[gorgik9]

Thanks so much Haiducii for this short but very interesting historical summary. Wouldn't it be interesting for you to make an own thread about this theme? I would appreciate it - because you are a person from within and you could tell us history with emotion and from the heart - I mean true history!

Please give it a serious consideration! I would be really a very interested follower of such a thread - and surely many others here as well. So, what do you think about?

I would definitely be a follower of this potential thread:thumbs up:

 

[Shelter]

Hello Haiducii and everyone who is interested in this theme. I'll recommend very much to you the Austrian movie from 1997 called JUGOFILM directed by Goran Rebic. It is a very convulsing film about what war can do with people.

 

[gorgik9]

Hello Haiducii and everyone who is interested in this theme. I'll recommend very much to you the Austrian movie from 1997 called JUGOFILM directed by Goran Rebic. It is a very convulsing film about what war can do with people.

 

[Shelter]

Gorgik9 you are the king - really. How do you do that so promptly???? I know so much but until today I've not lerarned to upload a movie!!!:angry: Sorry, I'm a very good user of my PC but as well I'm a very good driver of my car - but if something happened with my car or PC I must have a specialist to help me.

So again MASTER - I bow my head in front of you! Great - Thank you! :blushing: :big hug:

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 2nd November

In 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini – writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals – was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino ''The Frog'' Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was arrested speeding along the Ostia seafront in Pasolini’s Alfa Romeo. Pelosi was accused of Pasolini’s brutal murder. It was alleged that Pasolini had picked up Pelosi outside Termini train station, taken him to a pizzeria and then driven to Ostia for sex. Pelosi himself claimed that he had killed Pasolini in self-defence after the latter had attempted to sodomise him with a wooden stick, but after a lengthy trial he was found guilty in 1976 and sentenced to nine years in jail.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 3rd November

In 1718, John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich was born in Chiswick, England. Sandwich was a politician, a traveller and a naval official whose life was too hectic for meals and so he invented the comestible that was named after him.

 

[W!nston]

Guy Fawkes Day in United Kingdom

Guy Fawkes Night is annually held on November 5. It is sometimes known as Bonfire Night and marks the anniversary of the discovery of a plot organized by Catholic conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London in 1605. Many people light bonfires and set off fireworks.​