Today in History.....

[Shelter]

In 1980, at 15:05 in Ljubljana, the great heart of the President of our Socialist Yugoslavia, the President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia, the President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, Marshal of Yugoslavia, and the Commander-in-chief of the Yugoslav armed forces, Josip Broz Tito, has stopped beating.

Josip Broz Tito was a great man - a great person in history - in one word A LEADER!

In this little and moving film mine workers said the sentence WE WILL NOT WANDER FROM YOUR PATH!

That was 1980 and in the years from 1991 to 1995 everything was forgotten. And that is for me something very frightening. How could people live together peaceful as good neighbours during the time of Tito and how could they dividing after his death so strongly that neighbours killed neighbours in a bloody civil war?

 

[slimjim]

Well I've lost my spare car keys!

 

[haiducii]

How could people live together peaceful as good neighbours during the time of Tito and how could they dividing after his death so strongly that neighbours killed neighbours in a bloody civil war?

Tito had been the glue which held Yugoslavia together and so it took a number of years for criticism and ill-feeling towards Tito to become prevalently expressed in the public-domain. In the years following Tito’s death these criticisms slowly disseminated however, while the growing trend towards decentralisation that had marked the latter years of Tito’s rule also gathered pace, leading to the emergence of a new generation of nationalist leaders such as Franjo Tudjman and Slobodan Milosevic, whose extreme-nationalistic tendencies contributed significantly to the collapse of the federation.

 

[Shelter]

Tito had been the glue which held Yugoslavia together and so it took a number of years for criticism and ill-feeling towards Tito to become prevalently expressed in the public-domain. In the years following Tito’s death these criticisms slowly disseminated however, while the growing trend towards decentralisation that had marked the latter years of Tito’s rule also gathered pace, leading to the emergence of a new generation of nationalist leaders such as Franjo Tudjman and Slobodan Milosevic, whose extreme-nationalistic tendencies contributed significantly to the collapse of the federation.

Haiducii, my friend, I hope you will not be very angry if I say now, in the knowing from today, that Tudjman and Milosevic have been political criminals, war criminals. It is their guilt that a whole country was teared up.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 10/11th May

In 1941, the German Luftwaffe launched an unprecedented attacked on London, an event that has since become known as the ‘Longest Night’ (it’s also been referred to as ‘The Hardest Night’). More than 40,000 British civilians were killed in the Blitz, 1.5 million Londoners were left homeless, and the city’s landscape was left shattered. Below, Getty Images photographer Jim Dyson recently traveled to locations across London to make comparisons between scenes from the Blitz and present-day images, laying one on top of the other.

 

[boy10]

Similar on an illustration to Stephen King's novels.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 13th May

In 1954, Johnny Logan was born in Frankston, Australia. "Mister Eurovision" is the only singer to date to win Europe's Favourite TV Show twice, in 1980 and 1987. His third win came in 1992, as composer of Linda Martin's winning entry "Why Me?"

 

[alan2108]

Brilliant images. Thank you.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 20th May

In 2010, a court in Malawi has found a gay couple Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalang guilty of gross indecency and unnatural acts. They were sentenced to 14 years in jail with hard labour.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 22nd May

In 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle, the Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, was born.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 9th June

In 1931, Phoebe Snetsingeran, an American birder who held the record for bird sightings at the time of her death in 1999, was born. Snetsinger, who was born in Illinois and lived in Webster Groves, Missouri, was famous for having seen 8,398 bird species. She died at the age of 68 in November 1999. There were only about 9,000 known species at the time of her death, and no other person had seen more than 8,000.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 11th June

In 2012, Anže Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings became the first Slovenian player to ever win the Stanley Cup.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 14th June

In 1868, Karl Landsteiner, the famous scientist responsible for the classification of blood groups, was born.

 

[mrpiz]

First roller coaster in America opens

On this day in 1884, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York. Known as a switchback railway, it was the brainchild of LaMarcus Thompson, traveled approximately six miles per hour and cost a nickel to ride. The new entertainment was an instant success and by the turn of the century there were hundreds of roller coasters around the country.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 19th June

In 2013, the Sopranos star James Gandolfini died at the age of 51.

 

[camyoo]

On this day: 26th June, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 1st July

In 1903, the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages. At 3:16 p.m., sixty pioneers set out on their bicycles from Montgeron. Maurice Garin won the first Tour de France, on July 19th, 1903, by a margin of almost three hours. The last finisher came in two days behind.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 10th July

In 1856, Inventor Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Lika, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia.

The greatest mind the world has ever seen, was able to conduct electrical experiments nearly two centuries ago that scientists still have difficulty replicating today, and some of which have not been duplicated since his lifetime.

His genius is exponentially underrated because most of absolutely theoretically impossible theories and inventions were laughed by the narrow minded scientists at the time. His brilliance can't be measured. His inventions that made scientists laugh at are now becoming proven. A lot of his ideas we can't even get our heads around it... He is truly the smartest and greatest mind we have ever had walk on this earth.

 

[boy10]

It completely agree.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 26th July

In 1803, Jessop opens the Surrey Iron Railway - the world's first public railway. Jessop was a British civil engineer who worked on a number of projects throughout the Empire. The nine-mile long narrow gauge railway linked Wandsworth (then in Surrey) and Croydon – now all parts of South London. Surrey Iron Railway used horse-drawn wagons to move goods along the River Wandle valley.

Note: Image is not a representation of the Surrey Iron Railway.