On this day

(07-08-2013 11:46 )4evadionne Wrote:  August 7th

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1955 - Karachi: Mohammed Ali resigns as prime minister of Pakistan.

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And just over 8 years later, he defeated Henry Cooper.

August 8th

1904 - Austria: An oil workers revolt at Borislav is ended when a reduction in working hours and an improvement in sanitation is proposed.

1907 - Russia: Representatives of provincial councils call for compulsory schooling throughout the country.

1912 - London: Editor of "The Times" George Buckle retires after 28 years in the post.

1925 - Washington: The first National Congress of the Ku Klux Klan opens with over 40,000 members parading through the city.

1927 - Paris: Vets announce the discovery of a vaccine for distemper.

1933 - Cuba: President Gerardo Machado declares a state of war as rioting against his dictatorship grips the island.

1935 - Berlin: Herman Goering takes control of the German television service.

1937 - China: The Japanese occupy Peking.

1940 - London: Winston Churchill signs an alliance with Charles de Gaulle's Free French movement.

1941 - Berlin: The Soviet air force carries out its first raid on the German capital.

1945 - Moscow: Josef Stalin declares war on Japan.

1949 - France: The Council of Europe meets for the first time, with Turkey, Greece and Iceland joining.

1953 - Paris: 2 million people stage a walk out in protest at planned cuts in the civil service and public sectors.

1955 - Geneva: A conference on atomic energy is attended by 3,000 scientists from 62 countries.

1957 - Britain: Myxomatosis is rife across 11 counties of the UK.

1962 - London: US Nazi Leader George Rockwell is arrested and ordered to leave Britain.

1968 - Miami: Richard Nixon wins the Republican nomination for President.

1969 - Britain: Handley Page, the oldest aircraft manufacturer in the UK, calls in the receiver.

1973 - Washington: Vice-President Spiro Agnew denounces charges of bribery by government contractors in his home state of Maryland as "Damned Lies."

1976 - Ulster: A women's peace movement is launched at a rally of 20,000 protestants and Roman Catholics.

1981 - Belfast: Thomas McElwee becomes the ninth IRA hunger striker to die.

1984 - Britain: British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train makes its first journey since it was withdrawn owing to technical faults in 1981.

1986 - English Channel: Man Utd and West Ham Utd Fans fight a pitched battle aboard a cross-channel ferry.

1991 - Italy: Thousands of Albanian refugees swarm ashore at Bari to seek asylum.

1993 - London: Nigel Mansell wins the New England 200 IndyCar race at New Hampshire.

1995 - Iraq: Two of Saddam Hussein's daughters and their husbands, both Iraqi generals, flee to Jordan.

2007 - New York: A Tornado hits Brooklyn after dawn during a violent thunderstorm, dropping around 3" of rain in the New York Area, crippling the subway and rail system for the morning rush hour.

2011 - Britain: The Royal Navy appoints its first female warship commander with Lieutenant Commander Sarah West taking control of "HMS Portland" in 2012.

August 9th

1900 - China: German Count von Waldersee is appointed commander-in chief of the European forces fighting the Boxer rebels.

1901 - South America: Columbian troops invade Venezuela.

1903 - Rome: Pope Pius X is crowned at the Vatican before a crowd of 70,000 people.

1904 - Paris: An international Miners Congress calls for a minimum wage and an eight hour day.

1906 - London: The Boer War Commission announce that corruption and incompetence in the war cost over £1 million.

1911 - London: The hottest day in the capital for 70 years sees temperatures reach 97 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade.

1914 - Europe: Germany and Austria threaten to attack Italy if it refuses to renounce its neutrality.

1921 - Moscow: Lenin appeals to the "international proletariat" for famine relief.

1932 - Berlin: The government issues a decree imposing the death penalty for political terrorism.

1939: Britain: The King inspects 133 new ships of the newly mobilised Auxiliary Fleet at Weymouth.

1942 - India: In a carefully planned raid, Bombay police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and fifty other leaders of the All-India Congress.
after the Congress had passed a 20-1 majority on a "Quit India" resolution.

1944 - France: British and Canadian forces begin a new offensive south of Caen.

1947 - Britain: 18 people are killed and 74 are injured after a train crash at Balby in Yorkshire.

1954 - Taipei: Chinese Nationalists sink eight Communist Chinese gunboats off Formosa.

1959 - Paris: An announcement is made that the 800-year old central market of Les Halles is to be moved due to it being inefficient and costly.

1963 - Washington: President John F. Kennedys second son dies 36 hours after childbirth.

1965 - Athens: 10,000 anti-monarchist demonstrators chant slogans against King Constantine II.

1967 - Nigeria: Biafran troops cross the River Niger and invade mid-western Nigeria.

1968 - West Germany: 48 people die when a British Eagle Airways Viscount plane hits the Munich to Nuremberg autobahn.

1971 - New Delhi: India and the USSR sign a 20 year defence pact.

1972 - Belfast: British troops clash with the Protestant Ulster Defence Association for the first time.

1973 - Britain: Petrol rationing coupons are stockpiled amid fears of an oil crisis.

1976 - Belfast: SDLP leader Gerry Fitt drives a Republican mob his house at gunpoint.

1979 - USA: Ku Klux Klansmen begin a 50-mile "White Rights" march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

1982 - Paris: Six people die when an unidentified gunman hurls a grenade into a Jewish Restaurant.

1989 - Belfast: 15 year-old Seamus Duffy dies from plastic bullet wounds suffered in the riots.

1996 - Moscow: Boris Yeltsin is sworn in as the President of the Russian Federation after securing a second term in office.

1998 - Britain: Animal Rights activists are criticised by Environmentalists for releasing thousands of mink from a farm in Hampshire in which they claimed there were being kept in "concentration camp conditions."

2007 - Rome: A fire at the Cinecitta Film studio complex, burns down several buildings.

2009 - China: Around a million people are evacuated in south- eastern China as typhoon Morakot approaches.

August 10th

1900 - USA: Americans Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward win the first Davis Cup tennis tournament for the US at Longwood Cricket Club in Boston.

1906 - Rome: Pope Pius X protests to French bishops against the secularisation of France.

1911 - London: The House of Commons sets MP's new salaries at £400.

1914 - London: The Olympia complex in Kensington becomes a concentration camp, after Metropolitan Police round up over 300 Germans suspected of spying.

1919 - London: Police discover a communist revolutionary plot in a raid in Acton, West London.

1921 - Paris: The Allied Supreme Council agrees on the partitioning of Silesia between Poland and Germany.

1923 - USA: A national day of mourning marks the funeral of President Warren G. Harding in his home town of Marion, Ohio.

1924 - Berlin: The black, red, and yellow "Union Banner" first appears at a celebration of the German constitution.

1935 - Mexico: A plot to kill President Lazaro Cardenas is foiled.

1938 - Moscow: The USSR and Japan agree a truce following weeks of border clashes.

1940: Germany: It is "Eagle Day" the date by which the German Luftwaffe planned to win air superiority over the RAF.

1943 - Quebec: Winston Churchill arrives for talks with Roosevelt and Canadian premier Mackenzie King.

1951 - London: Britain signs a trade pact with Cuba.

1954 - Britain: Jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires from the saddle.

1959 - USA: Four male members of The Platters are arrested after a gig in Cincinnati after being found with four 19-year-old women (three were white) in various stages of undress, resulting in their records being removed from US playlists.

1961 - London: Britain formally applies for membership of the EEC.

1963 - USA: 13-year-old Little Stevie Wonder starts a three week run at No 1 on the US singles charts with "Fingertips part II" making him the youngest singer to top the charts.

1964 - New York: Turkey and Greece accept a UN cease-fire in Cyprus.

1968 - USA: Cream start a four week run at No 1 on the US album chart with "Wheels Of Fire."

1972 - Sweden: Paul and Lynda McCartney are arrested for possession of cannabis in a drugs bust after a concert in Gothenburg.

1975 - Belfast: Four-year-old Siobhan McCabe becomes the 1,271st person to die in six years of violence.

1977 - Northern Ireland: The Queen arrives on her first official visit for 11 years.

1982 - Namibia: 216 South African and SWAPO guerrillas are reported killed in clashes on the Angolan border.

1983 - Helsinki: The first athletics world championships begin.

1989 - Japan: Toshiki Kaifu is sworn in as the country's premier.

1998 - Atlantic Ocean: A team investigating the cause of the sinking of the Titanic recovers a section of the liners hull.

2001 - Scotland: Dan Hippgrave marries TV presenter Gail Porter at an Edinburgh registry office.

2005 - London: Airline catering firm Gate Gourmet sacks 670 workers at Heathrow Airport, sparking a sympathy strike from BA staff.

2010 - Britain: Archaeologists claim to have located Britain's oldest house near Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

August 11th

1902 - London: King Edward VII gives Osborne House, the favourite residence of Queen Victoria to the nation.

1908 - Germany: King Edward VII meets Kaiser Wilhelm II at Friedrichshof Castle in Kronberg to try to ease growing tensions between Britain and Germany regarding the build up of German forces.

1909 - Nigeria: 12 British colonial policemen are killed by poisoned arrows in an attack by natives.

1920 - Geneva: The first ecumenical conference is held, bringing together European, US, and Eastern Churches.

1926 - New York: The Eastman Kodak Company announces it is working on colour motion pictures.

1928 - USA: Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover accepts the Republican nomination for presidential candidate.

1929 - Zurich: Zionist leader Dr Chaim Weizmann founds the Jewish Agency.

1932 - USA: President Hoover admits that Prohibition has failed and should be abolished.

1934 - London: Germany wins nine of the eleven events at the Women's World Games.

1936 - Berlin: Joachim von Ribbentrop is appointed ambassador to Britain.

1942 - London: The new Waterloo Bridge built through the Blitz is opened.

1945 - Japan: General Douglas MacArthur is named as Allied Supreme Commander to accept the Japanese surrender.

1949 - USA: Margaret Mitchell the author of "Gone With The Wind" is knocked down and seriously hurt in a car accident.

1957 - Oman: The rebel headquarters at Nizwa is taken by British forces.

1959 - Washington: The US denies having bases in Laos.

1962 - USA: Neil Sedaka starts a two week run at No 1 on the US singles chart with "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do", his first US No 1 as a solo artist.

1967 - Britain: The Three Day Seventh National Jazz, Pop, Ballads and Blues Festival at the Royal Windsor Racecourse saw performances from: The Small Faces, The Move, Marmalade, Paul Jones, Pink Floyd, Amen Corner, Donovan, Cream, Jeff Beck, Zoot Money, John Mayall, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

1969: USA: 350 special guests are invited to see Motown Records new signings The Jackson Five play at the Daisy Club in Beverley Hills, California.

1971 - Britain: Edward Heath leads Britain to victory in the Admiral's Cup Yacht race aboard "Morning Cloud."

1974 - Bangladesh: 2,500 people are feared dead and ten million are homeless after monsoon floods hit half the country.

1981 - Europe: Thousands are stranded in airports as the US air-traffic controllers dispute cause huge delays to flights.

1984 - USA: Ray Parker Jr starts a three week run at No 1 on the US singles chart with the theme from "Ghostbusters."

1990 - Sri Lanka: In continued ethnic violence across the country Tamil rebels massacre 144 Moslems.

1993 - London: The Department of Health announce the number of people awaiting hospital treatment has risen to more than a million for the first time.

1999 - USA: Rock group Kiss unveil their star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

2007 - Sierra Leone: Voters go the polls for the first time since the end of the country's civil war in 2002.

2009: Germany: A German court sentences former Nazi army commander Josef Scheungraber to life in prison over his involvement in the murder of 10 Italians in Tuscany in 1944.

1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

August 12th

1908 - USA: Ford's new Model T motor car is produced in Detroit, to replace the existing Model A range.

1910: London: Electric Street lamps are replaced by 3,000 high-pressure gas lamps giving more light in foggy conditions.

1925 - China: Many people are feared dead during riots by striking cotton workers in Tientsin.

1931 - New York: Gangster "Legs" Diamond is sentenced to four years in jail for liquor offences.

1936 - Paris: France agrees to loan arms to Poland.

1940 - Albania: A revolt begins against the Italian occupation.

1946 - USA: Rex Harrison makes his Hollywood debut in "Anna and the King of Siam."

1950 - Korea: A division of North Korean troops cross the Naktong River in a fresh assault on Taegu.

1951 - East Berlin: Over a million young people take part in anti-US demonstrations.

1956 - Cairo: Colonel Nasser turns down an invitation to the London conference on the Suez crisis.

1962 - USSR: Russia has two cosmonauts, Major Andrian Nikolayev and Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Popovitch orbiting the earth at the same time in separate Vostok spacecraft.

1964 - USA: The Beatle's first feature film "A Hard Day's Night" opens across the country to rave reviews.

1967 - London: Transport Minister Barbara Castle announces the 70mph speed limit is to stay in place.

1968 - Los Angeles: Rioting breaks out in the Watts district of city.

1969 - Londonderry: 112 people are treated in hospital in the city's worst night of rioting.

1970 - Damascus: Syria breaks off relations with Jordan.

1971 - USA: John Lennon and Yoko Ono donate £I,000 to the Clyde Shipbuilders Scottish Union fighting fund, who refused to stop work at the Glasgow site after being made redundant.

1978 - Rome: 200,000 people attend Pope Paul VI funeral.

1980 - Mexico: A giant Panda gives birth to the first cub born naturally in captivity.

1982 - Beirut: Israeli jets carry out an 11-hour air raid on West Beirut.

1983 - Buenos Aries: The Argentinian government releases British assets which were frozen during the Falklands War.

1986 - Northern Ireland: Around 100 people are injured in Orange Day clashes between Catholics and Protestants.

1988 - South Africa: Nelson Mandela is taken from prison to hospital suffering from tuberculosis.

1990 - Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto is offered amnesty from corruption charges, if she withdraws from politics.

1994 - Helsinki: British athletes Linford Christie (100 metres), Steve Backley (Javelin), Sally Gunnell (400 metres hurdles) and Colin Jackson (110 metres hurdles) come away with gold medals at the European Championships.

2007 - Hungary: Remains of a fossilised ancient cypress forest estimated to be 8 million years old are discovered in an open cast coal mine in Bukkabrany.

2010 - Europe: The Perseid Meteor shower reaches its peak with a display of up to 80 meteors an hour gracing the skys for fascinated star gazers.

(12-08-2013 09:35 )4evadionne Wrote:  August 12th
1964 - USA: The Beatle's first feature film "A Hard Day's Night" opens across the country to rave reviews.

Released in 1964, A Hard Day's Night was the first film to star all four Beatles. Released at the height of Beatlemania and shot in black and white, the film follows the band on a typical few days in their lives as they make a journey from Liverpool to London to appear on a television programme.

The Beatles approached Alun Owen to write the screenplay after being impressed by his play, No Trams to Lime Street. They felt he had a natural aptitude to Liverpudlian dialogue with Paul McCartney saying ""Alun hung around with us and was careful to try and put words in our mouths that he might've heard us speak, so I thought he did a very good script". Owen wrote the script from the viewpoint that the Beatles were prisoners of their own fame, that the schedule of constant touring and promotional work had become punishing. The band had discussed this with Owen and said "their lives were like "a train and a room and a car and a room and a room and a room". Richard Lester was selected to direct the film with distribution by United Artists. Before A Hard Day’s Night was released in America, a United Artists executive asked Lester to dub the voices of the group with mid-Atlantic accents. McCartney angrily replied, “Look, if we can understand a fuckin' cowboy talking Texan, they can understand us talking Liverpool.” Lester subsequently directed The Beatles' 1965 film, Help!

The supporting cast featured many names who would go on to big achievements themselves. Irish actor Wilfrid Brambell played Paul's grandfather. A recurring joke throughout the film was for Brambell to be "such a clean man", a play on his character in the sitcom, Steptoe and Son, where he is constantly referred to as a "dirty old man". Lionel Blair, Richard Vernon, Kenneth Haigh, Derek Nimmo and Phil Collins also made cameo and uncredited appearances. George Harrison met his future wife Patricia on set, with her playing a schoolgirl on the train and the band's real manager, Brian Epstein, had an uncredited bit part.

The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, in Best Original Screenplay for Alun Owen and Best Adapted Score for George Martin. By 1971 the film was reported to have earned $11 million worldwide and it is credited as one of the most influential musicals of all time, rated by Time magazine in the top 100 best all time films and inspiring numerous spy films, music videos and the Monkees television show.

Original trailer from Youtube and Wikipedia link below.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%...ght_(film)

On this day in 1973 Jack Nicklaus won his 14th major golf tournament breaking the previous record held by the legendary Bobby Jones.

On this day in 1994 MLB players went on strike rather than allow team owners to restrict their pay levels.
The strike went on for a total of 232 days which meant no World Series that season.

August 13th

1907 - Belfast: Four civilians are killed after troops opened fire on crowds after fierce fighting in the Falls Road area.

1910 - Russia: A Cholera epidemic is reported to have killed around 3,300 in a week.

1920 - Paris: Visiting Greek premier Eluetherios Venizelos is wounded in an assassination bid by two Greek soldiers.

1924 - China: 50,000 are feared dead and two million people are made homeless after a series of severe floods.

1927 - Britain: Petrol is cut to 1/1d a gallon, making it the cheapest it has been since 1902.

1934 - Birmingham: Car maker Austin launches its two-seater "Opal" model of the Austin Seven.

1935 - Italy: 1,000 people are reported killed when a dam bursts at Oveda.

1943 - Italy: The Allies bomb Rome, Turin, and Milan.

1944 - Berlin: The Germans announce there new V-2 flying bomb is ready for use.

1946 - New York: The USSR vetoes Thai and Portuguese entry to the UN.

1948 - USA: Pan-American Airways cuts its transatlantic return fare by a quarter to £118 2/6d.

1953 - Greece: Over a 1,000 people are reported to have died after earthquakes and tidal waves hit the Ionian Islands.

1957 - Britain: The BBC announce a revamp of its radio programmes in a bid to stem the drift of its audience to television.

1960 - London: The price of beer goes up one penny to 1/7d a pint.

1961 - Berlin: East Germany closes the Berlin border and blocks it with barbed wire.

1964 - Britain: Manfred Mann top the UK singles chart with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" the first of the bands three UK No 1s.

1965 - USA: Jefferson Airplane make their live debut at San Francisco's Matrix Club.

1966 - Britain: The Beatle's seventh album release in three years "Revolver" starts a seven week run at No 1.

1971 - USA: Sax player King Curtis Ousley is stabbed to death by a vagrant on the front steps of his New York Home. He had worked with John Lennon, and played on The Coasters hit "Yakety Yak".

1975 - Belfast: Four people die and 23 are hurt in a raid on a bar in the Shankill Road used by the Ulster Volunteer Force.

1976 - London: The Clash play a private gig for the press at Chalk Farm rehearsal studios.

1981 - Strasbourg: The human rights court declares British Rail was wrong to sack three men who would not join a union.

1986 - Dublin: IRA suspect Gerard O'Reilly is freed due to an error in a extradition warrant.

1991 - Edinburgh: As a protest over proposals for the design of the National Museum of Scotland, the Prince of Wales resigns as its patron.

1994 - Sweden: After appearing at the Hulsfred Festival, Band members from Oasis and The Verve are arrested after smashing up a hotel bar and breaking into a church to steal communion wine.

1999 - USA: Ex-Guns N'Roses member Slash is arrested after being accused of assaulting his girlfriend at his Sunset Boulevard recording studio by LA deputies. He is later released on bail.

2000 - Britain: Melanie C goes to No 1 on the UK singles charts with "I Turn To You."

2008 - Pakistan: An explosion at a police station in Lahore kills at least three people on the eve of the 61st anniversary of independence.