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Magi

Terra wrote:

April 3rd.
1043: Edward The Confessor is Crowned King Of England
1882: Jesse James was Killed
1922: Stalin Becomes The General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia

As I'm another April 3rd spawn, I'll add a few more:
1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins
1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. (Jack the Ripper)
1973 – The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.
1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States

Magi

Sadsack_Awesome

Feb. 25

  • 138 – The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
  • 1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
  • 1793 – George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
  • 1797 – Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
  • 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted an United States patent for the Colt revolver.
  • 1843 – Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
  • 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
  • 1901 – J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
  • 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
  • 1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
  • 1921 – Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
  • 1925 – Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
  • 1925 – Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union are established.
  • 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
  • 1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
  • 1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
  • 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
  • 1945 – World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
  • 1947 – State of Prussia ceases to exist.
  • 1948 – The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
  • 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 1954 – Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
  • 1956 – In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
  • 1971 – The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
  • 1980 – The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
  • 1986 – People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president.
  • 1991 – Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
  • 1992 – Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
  • 1994 – Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
  • 2009 – BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 people are killed, including more than 50 army officials, by Bangladeshi Border Guards inside its headquarters.

That's a lot

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Sadsack_Awesome

Raylax

I read the first post that my browser anchored to, thinking it was the OP (it was Magi's, for some reason). For a moment there I thought Magi was 150 years old

On my birthday (November 17), very little of interest. Asides this:
1796 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole – French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.

THE FRENCH DEFEATED SOMEBODY. I bet the Austrians weren't even at war, they were just holidaying.

Disclaimer: I mean no offence to any French types on these forums. I love you all really :3

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Raylax

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LuWiiGi

Everyone forgot about my birthday, so I just crawled back into the darkness and cried myself to sleep.

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