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RE: On this day - skully - 23-03-2010 13:07

1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east.

1836 - The coin press was invented by Franklin Beale.

1840 - The first successful photo of the Moon was taken.

1989 - A 1,000-foot diameter asteroid missed Earth by 500,000 miles.

1998 - The movie "Titanic" won 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards.


RE: On this day - Josh187 - 23-03-2010 18:02

Some more events i found interesting..


1879 – War of the Pacific is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully takes over Arica and Tarapacá leaving Bolivia as a landlocked country.


1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world


1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).


RE: On this day - skully - 24-03-2010 10:43

1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.

2005 - Sandra Bullock received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


RE: On this day - black knight - 24-03-2010 12:42

Birthdays for March 24th

Lara Flynn Boyle-40
Sharon Corr-40
The undertaker-45


RE: On this day - black knight - 24-03-2010 12:45

1944-World War II:In an event later dramatized in the movie the great escape,76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.


RE: On this day - skully - 25-03-2010 11:31

1306 - Robert the Bruce (eighth Earl of Carrick) was crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace near Perth. Bruce secured Scottish independence from England militarily, if not diplomatically, at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. His statue is at the Bannockburn battlefield site, his body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey, while his heart is at Melrose Abbey.

1807 - The Slave Trade Act received the royal assent, eventually bringing an end to the slave trade. British merchants transported nearly three million black Africans across the Atlantic between 1700 and the early 19th century. The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act outlawed slavery itself throughout the British Empire but slaves did not gain their final freedom until 1838.


RE: On this day - black knight - 25-03-2010 11:43

March 25th birthdays.

Aretha Franklin-68.
Sarah Jessica Parker-45.
Cathy Dennis-41.


RE: On this day - black knight - 25-03-2010 11:45

1584-Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonise virginia.


RE: On this day - Josh187 - 26-03-2010 09:43

some historical events from today march 26th? (pretty sure it's the 26th today lol.)

1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York

1881 – Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again

1934 – The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom


RE: On this day - skully - 26-03-2010 11:39

2007 Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams made history in Northern Ireland with their first face-to-face meeting, where they agreed on the restoration of the Stormont assembly and the return of power sharing.

Birthdays -

Leonard Nimoy - 79

Keira Knightley - 25