Today in History.....

[haiducii]

On this day: 20th December

In 1986, The Housemartins were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Isley Brothers 'Caravan Of Love.'



It was only the second a cappella song to be a No.1 hit after 'Only You' by the Flying Pickets.

 

[camyoo]

On December 25th in the year 800 in Rome, Charlemagne was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 19th January

In 1946, Dolly Parton, the country music icon, was born in Sevier County, Tennessee.



Of her longevity, Dolly says: ‘People feel like they’ve known me so long because I’ve been around a long time. I’m really like an aunt or a cousin or a person you’ve grown up with—like somebody in the family. So I think they feel comfortable with me. I really think that is Southern hospitality.”’

Happy Birthday, Dolly Parton! :cheers:

 

[Shelter]

On this day, January 19, 1919, women in Germany were allowed to vote for the first time.

 

[gorgik9]

On this day, January 19, 1919, women in Germany were allowed to vote for the first time.

Well, Germany beat Sweden with 2 years: the 1921 election was the very first Swedish election to the parlament in which women could vote (though the desicion for womens right to vote was already in 1918).

When it came to the basic democratic rights Sweden lagged behind the other Nordic countries many years. Sweden was in many ways the conservative Big Brother in the Nordic family...

 

[haiducii]

On this day, January 19, 1919, women in Germany were allowed to vote for the first time.

Slovenian women won the right to vote in 1945.

On the other hand, in 1945 the Slovenian government was one of the first in the world to have a woman minister – Vida Tomšič, in charge of social policy.

In December 2018, Slovenia has appointed its first-ever female police chief after a woman also took command over the army.

Does history repeat itself?

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 28th January

In 1939, William Butler Yeats passed away aged 73. Today marks 80 years since the death of one of Ireland's most important literary figures. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 (the first Irish Nobel Laureate), W.B.Yeats was one of the 20th century’s greatest poets.

Never give all the Heart By William Butler Yeats

Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.

 

[trencherman]

Here’s one that’s sure to impress if committed to memory:

When You Are Old


BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

 

[Stonecold]

Her Majesty Elizabeth II 67th Anniversary of Accession to the Throne

Today marks the 67th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's ascension to the throne, but despite the date's significance, the British monarch won't be celebrating. While February 6 is the day she became Queen, it is also the anniversary of her father's death.
Elizabeth became Queen at the age of 25 in 1952. She was in Kenya on a Commonwealth tour when her father, King George VI, died in his sleep at Sandringham, following a battle with lung cancer.

 

[camyoo]

Today, February 25th, is the birthday of George Harrison



Happy Birthday George! Your music will live forever!

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 12th April

In 1869, Rihard Jakopič was born in Krakovo, a suburb of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Jakopič was the leading Slovene Impressionist painter, patron of arts and theoretician.

Jakopič was a particularly outstanding personality in Slovenian art. He deserved a special place in the artistic pantheon not only as an excellent painter but also as a man who integrated art into a broader social context. At his own expense he erected in 1909 the first public art gallery in Tivoli Park in Ljubljana; in collaboration with Sternen, and later on his own, he led a painting school; he was among the founders of the National Gallery of Slovenia, and a founding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

 

[camyoo]

On this day: April 26th

The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombardment of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out, at the behest of Francisco Franco's nationalist government, by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria. The town was being used as a communications center behind the frontline. The operation opened the way to Franco's capture of Bilbao and his victory in northern Spain. The bombing, which mostly resulted in the deaths of innocent women and children, is the subject of a famous anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso, commissioned by the Spanish Republic.

 

[golfdelta21]

Leonardo da Vinci's life (April 15,1452 - May 2,1519)

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 12th May

In 1003, Gerbert of Aurillac aka Pope Sylvester II passed away. A prolific scholar and teacher, he endorsed and promoted study of Arab and Greco-Roman arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy, reintroducing to Europe the abacus and armillary sphere, which had been lost to Latin Europe since the end of the Greco-Roman era. He is said to be the first to introduce in Europe the decimal numeral system using Arabic numerals.

 

[Shelter]

On this day May 12, 1949 ended the Russian blockade of West-Berlin.


The Russians started this blockade on June 24, 1948 to starve out the population of West-Berlin, because this part of Berlin was a thorn in the side of them.

 

[Shelter]

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General Lucius D. Clay (a man whose name every Berliner will bear grateful in his heart!)
saved the population of West-Berlin by the "air-lift"
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[dargelos]

For the success of the airlift, don't just remember the general, don't even just include the pilots of the planes as well. The airlift could only work with the seamless cooperation of everyone involved, the engineers, loaders, radio operators, and many more, they all had to work all night without sleep, keeping the takeoffs and landings going to an schedule that forgave no mistakes.
Berlin would not be the city it is today without the selflessness of hundreds of men and women.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 13th May

In 1979, Andrej Stremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik were the first Slovenians to Summit Everest. This Slovenian Route along the West Ridge still ranks among the toughest Everest routes.

 

[Shelter]

For the success of the airlift, don't just remember the general, don't even just include the pilots of the planes as well. The airlift could only work with the seamless cooperation of everyone involved, the engineers, loaders, radio operators, and many more, they all had to work all night without sleep, keeping the takeoffs and landings going to an schedule that forgave no mistakes.
Berlin would not be the city it is today without the selflessness of hundreds of men and women.

Dargelos - thank you for your words and it wasn't my intention to insult all the many men and women who worked day and night for the air-lift and all the American, British and French pilots who died during the air-lift ..... well, but the
"General" was the man with the idea and the power to enforce this idea.
Here you can see the Air-Lift-Memorial in front of the former airport of Berlin-Tempelhof. In Berlin it is called "Hungerharke" ... "Hunger-Rake" and it symbolized the three air-corridors on which the western-Allies could fly to Berlin from West-Germany.

 

[haiducii]

On this day: 6th June

In 1523, Gustav Vasa was elected king of a free Sweden, and on the same date in 1809, the country adopted a new constitution.

National Day of Sweden ("Sveriges nationaldag") is a national holiday observed in Sweden on 6 June. Prior to 1983, the day was celebrated as the Swedish Flag Day ("Svenska flaggans dag").



In 2004, the Swedish parliament voted to make it a public holiday, which may cause people to become more interested in celebrating it.



Tillykke med dagen, Sverige! :cheers: