Today in History.....

[jasknight12]

On 12 May 1994 "Pulp Fiction", directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson premieres at the Cannes Film Festival (winning the Palme d'Or 1994).

It went on to become a major critical and commercial success upon its U.S. release. It was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Roger Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman each received Academy Award nominations for their roles and revitalized and/or elevated their careers.

Since its release, Pulp Fiction has been widely regarded as Tarantino's masterpiece, with particular praise singled out for its screenwriting.

 

[jasknight12]

On 13 May 2004, the final episode of "Frasier" on NBC is watched by 33 million people.

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for 11 seasons, premiering on September 16, 1993. The series was created as a spin-off of "Cheers", continuing the story of psychiatrist Frasier Crane as he returned to his hometown of Seattle and started building a new life as a radio host while reconnecting with his father and brother.

The show was critically acclaimed, with the show itself and the cast winning thirty-seven Emmy Awards, a then-record for a scripted series. It also won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series for five consecutive years.

 

[Stonecold]

May 14 1st permanent English settlement established in the New World

Jamestown Was Established. May 14, 1607. The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, and begin a settlement. They established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America.

 

[Stonecold]

Rotterdam Blitz May 14th 1940

The German bombing of Rotterdam, also known as the Rotterdam Blitz, was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II.



The Dutch had no effective means of stopping the bombers and 1150 pieces of 50kg bombs and 158 of 250kg were dropped at the city centre of Rotterdam. The bombs destroyed almost 25,000 homes, 2,500 stores, 775 warehouses, 65 schools and 25 churches. Approximately 900 people were killed by the bombs and around 2.6 square kilometers of Rotterdam was almost leveled. The historic heart of Rotterdam was devastated!

 

[Shelter]

Today 70 years ago General Lucius D. Clay ordered the start of the Berlin Airlift. A great action to help the Berlin population against starving which Russia wanted.
Our very thanks to this wonderful and human US-General. Berlin always will remember this man.

 

[dargelos]

Today in Britain we celebrate the 70 th birthday of the National Health Service, our country's proudest acheivement. You might say that defeating facism in WW2 was bigger than that and it was, but that was a joint effort involving the people from many other nations. The NHS we did all by ourselves. And we did it at a time when the country was bankrupt, in so much debt it took 50 years to pay off. So it ain't about the money, its about having the will to do the right thing whatever it costs.
Cue Joni Mitchell;
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

 

[trencherman]

Today in Britain we celebrate the 70 th birthday of the National Health Service, our country's proudest acheivement. You might say that defeating facism in WW2 was bigger than that and it was, but that was a joint effort involving the people from many other nations. The NHS we did all by ourselves. And we did it at a time when the country was bankrupt, in so much debt it took 50 years to pay off. So it ain't about the money, its about having the will to do the right thing whatever it costs.

Socialized is the only sensible and just way to render medical services because you get sick whether you are rich or poor. In fact, more often and more seriously if you are poor.

Cue Joni Mitchell;
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

One cannot be complacent when it comes to public largesse, you have to constantly fight for it
to keep having it.

 

[haiducii]

Today in Britain we celebrate the 70 th birthday of the National Health Service, our country's proudest acheivement.

To celebrate 70 years of the NHS and all of the amazing work they do NHS Voices have created a very special cover of With A Little Help... :heart:

 

[dargelos]

...with a little help from Nile Rodgers, who is not just a shit hot rhythm guitarist but a truly lovely man. To be the brains behind so many brilliant records and to still remain completely unaffected and down to earth, if only there were more people like that.

 

[camyoo]

Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas), died 23 August 1305, was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.

Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297. He was appointed Guardian of Scotland and served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. In August 1305, Wallace was captured in Robroyston, near Glasgow, and handed over to King Edward I of England, who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 10th October

In 1992, the World Federation for Mental Health founded World Mental Health Day and sets the theme sending out thousands of free packets of information.

World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. This year, particular importance is being paid to the mental health of young people around the world.

World Mental Health Day is shedding light on how youths are coping with situations that may lead to mental illness. Slovenian youths are no exception to global trends: they often feel insecure, concerned, and psychologically vulnerable, which has led to an increase in treatment and medication.

 

[topdog]

Kristallnacht happend 80 years ago, where German Storm Troopers and civilians smashed the windows of homes, synagogues and businesses and attacked Jewish residents. The death toll varies from 90 people known to be killed that night, to over 30,000 if you count those who were then expelled and sent to concentration camps.

From Wikipedia:

Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers.[4] The rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were either destroyed or damaged. The British historian Martin Gilbert wrote that no event in the history of German Jews between 1933 and 1945 was so widely reported as it was happening, and the accounts from the foreign journalists working in Germany sent shock waves around the world. The British newspaper The Times wrote at the time: "No foreign propagandist bent upon blackening Germany before the world could outdo the tale of burnings and beatings, of blackguardly assaults on defenseless and innocent people, which disgraced that country yesterday."

The attacks were retaliation for the assassination of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a seventeen-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris. Kristallnacht was followed by additional economic and political persecution of Jews, and it is viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany's broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and The Holocaust.

 

[Shelter]

It is a day of shame in our history. But my hope that such a day never will come again - perhaps will be fulfilled. But humans are humans and always back in history until today they will find a reason to kill other people!

But as a side note here - the picture has nothing to do with the KRISTALLNACHT. The picture shows Russian soldiers in a devastated, perhaps German, city.

Here is a picture from the burning of a synagogue in Berlin on November 9, 1938:

 

[gorgik9]

It is a day of shame in our history. But my hope that such a day never will come again - perhaps will be fulfilled. But humans are humans and always back in history until today they will find a reason to kill other people!

But as a side note here - the picture has nothing to do with the KRISTALLNACHT. The picture shows Russian soldiers in a devastated, perhaps German, city.

Here is a picture from the burning of a synagogue in Berlin on November 9, 1938:

Thanks a lot for giving us the correct visual info !!!

 

[dargelos]

The eleventh of the eleventh is Armistice Day, the day on which the First World War was officialy ended. It is a day to remember with sorrow the millions of lives destroyed by the wholesale butchery of a new kind of war, more terrible than the human mind can comprehend.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn."

Robert Binyon, For the Fallen.

 

[topdog]

The eleventh of the eleventh is Armistice Day, the day on which the First World War was officially ended...

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Let them in, Peter, They are very tired.
Give them couches where the angels sleep, light those fires.

Let them wake whole again, it’s a brand new dawn
fired by the sun not war time’s bloody guns.

May their peace be deep. Remember where the broken bodies lie.
God knows how young they were to have to die.
God knows how young they were to have to die.

So give them things they like. Let them make some noise.
Give dance hall bands, not golden harps to these our boys.

Let them love Peter, they've had no time.
They should have bird songs and trees and hills to climb,
the taste of summer and a ripened pear
and girls sweet as meadow wind and flowing hair.

And tell them how they are missed but say not to fear
It's gonna be all right with us down here.​

 

[Shelter]

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Thank you for this post! What a wonderful poem! I've printed it for my collection. :thumbs up:

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 18th November

In 1991, the battle for Vukovar ended. It was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People’s Army, supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991. Vukovar came under the control of the Yugoslav People’s Army. When Vukovar fell on 18 November 1991, several hundred soldiers and civilians were massacred by Serb forces and at least 20,000 inhabitants were expelled.

 

[Shelter]

Today 75 years ago 1943 at 19:30 (07.30 p.m.) the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche - one of the great landmarks of Berlin was destroyed in one of the most terrible air-raids on Berlin. In rememberance of this day this evening at the time of the air-raid will ring all the church bells here in the city!

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[camyoo]

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was first published on 24 November 1859 and is now considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.