On this day thread

[Cooperman]

Actor and singer David Hasselhoff born on 17th July 1952

Massive Partick Thistle fan (if I remember rightly).

 

[TheLoneRanger]

17th July 1862, during the American Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act. This declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.

 

[Best_loser]

Happy birthday Spencer Davis

Keep on running

 

[Muteswan]

July 17th 2014, Malaysian Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine-Russia border. All 298 people on board died, mostly citizens of The Netherlands.

 

[Swanjaxs]

July 17th 2014, Malaysian Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine-Russia border. All 298 people on board died, mostly citizens of The Netherlands.

The murky hand of Russia all over this atrocity again...

Never mind the Chinese, it looks like the Russians are the ones to watch

 

[Monty]

2004 'Bomber' Roach from Auf Wiedersehen Pet, passed away.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIog8pQ4up0&t

 

[Toronto_Motors]

2004 'Bomber' Roach from Auf Wiedersehen Pet, passed away.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIog8pQ4up0&t

Remember him wrestling.Passed way too young.

That series is still resonant.

 

[Swanjaxs]

July 18th 1969 After a party on Chappaquiddick Island (try saying that after a couple of Strongbows) Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechine dies. (massive Swans fan) RIP

 

[Cooperman]

18th July 1976 - Nadia Comãneci, participating at the Montreal Olympics, scored the first ever ‘perfect ten’ in gymnastic competition for her routine on the uneven bars. An odd quirk meant that Omega, who were the official providers of timing and scoring mechanisms, had not realised that a score of ten was possible and as such had not programmed the scoring devices appropriately. Therefore a score of 1.00 was flashed up to the watching crowd. Aged just 14, she would go on to win three gold medals at the ‘76 games.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

18th July 1942

The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, makes its first flight.

 

[Muteswan]

In the year 64, Nero fiddled as Rome burned to the ground. Apparently, fiddles hadn’t been invented yet and he was also 35 miles away from Rome in Antoine at the time.
Why spoil a good story. :ugeek:

 

[Swan85]

1918 Nelson Mandela born

1936 Franco issues manifesto that leads to Spanish civil war (not a part of history I know much about, I must read up on it, causes, impact and aftermath)

 

[Swanjaxs]

July 18, 1933

Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and their gang are confronted by law officers armed with Thompson submachine guns in Platte City, Missouri. The gang manages to shoot their way out using automatic rifles

 

[Swanjaxs]

Doomsday Comet

July 19, 1862

The Swift-Tuttle Comet is discovered by Horace Tuttle in Massachusetts. It had been independently spotted by Louis Swift in New York three days earlier. It has a 1 in 10,000 chance of colliding with Earth in the year 2126. If this occurs it will probably end civilization.

 

[Muteswan]

The Rosetta Stone was discovered.
On July 19, 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles east of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been “dead” for nearly 2,000 years.