"Today in History..." Topic

Today in TMP history, the Today in History board was created, after enthusiastic support in the proposal poll.

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And this why, sadly, many miniature manufacturers want to stay with mainstream armies…

That makes absolutely no sense in regards to this topic. Or was it The Bug?

So what did happen today?

Today was the day in history that Bill established the "Today in History" board. May it ever be celebrated!

Rick

Historical Events on 3rd November

644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
1394 – Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1468 – Liθge is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
1493 – Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1527 – Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 – London – 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 – English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church of England
1620 – Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1629 – Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
1640 – English Long Parliament forms
1655 – England & France sign miltary & economic treaties
1656 – Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1676 – Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier
1716 – Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom
1752 – George Frideric Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
Composer George Friedrich Handel
1760 – Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 – Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
1762 – Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 – Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
1791 – Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1794 – French troops conquer Maastricht
1796 – John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1812 – Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1813 – US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
1820 – Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839 – 1st opium war – 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839 – Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1848 – Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
1856 – A British bombards Canton.
1862 – Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
1863 – Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War
1867 – Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Garibaldi
1868 – First black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 – Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1869 – Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant 1874 – James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 – Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 – US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1885 – Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1886 – Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1888 – Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1889 – Chaplain Ariλns founds first roman catholic workers group
1896 – J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 – Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 – William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1899 – James J Jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries 1900 – First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 – Colombia grants independence to Panama
1903 – Giovanni Giolitti becomes Permier of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms
1905 – Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
1908 – William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 – The USA introduces an income tax.
1916 – Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1917 – 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
1918 – Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
1918 – Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1918 – Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
1920 – "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1922 – Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life
1926 – 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins
MLB Legend Ty Cobb 1926 – Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1927 – 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1927 – Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee" premieres in NYC
1927 – Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 – Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 – First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 – Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1930 – Getϊlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1931 – First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1934 – Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP
1934 – Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP
1935 – George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
Baseball Player Lou Gehrig 1935 – Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42)
1936 – President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1937 – Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km)
1937 – NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont
1939 – Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC
1941 – Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1942 – 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1942 – Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP
1942 – Mort Cooper wins NL MVP
1942 – William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1943 – Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1943 – P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
1944 – German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
1944 – Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 – US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1945 – Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi
1946 – Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1948 – 2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago
1952 – Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1952 – Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1953 – 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
1953 – First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 – Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe
1955 – First virus crystallized (announced)
1955 – Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 – Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua
1955 – Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
1955 – Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 – "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 – USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1958 – USSR performs nuclear test
1960 – Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs
1960 – Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1960 – Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
1961 – General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers
1963 – Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open
1963 – 14th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Joe Weatherly wins
1964 – LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
1964 – Phila voters approve $25 USD million to build a new sports stadium
1965 – Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
1967 – Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1968 – Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 – Ex-premier Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
1968 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic
1968 – NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1968 – 19th Formula One WDC: Graham Hill wins by 12 points
1969 – Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
1970 – "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1970 – Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
1970 – Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1970 – Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
1971 – "Play Misty For Me" premieres
1973 – Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1974 – "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth 1974 – Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic
1975 – Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1975 – U.S. advice columnist Ann Landers asks in a mail-in survey if they could do it all over, would parents still become parents?
1976 – Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf
1977 – Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 – First broadcast of "Different Strokes" on NBC TV
1978 – Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
1978 – Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic
1978 – USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979 – Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic
LPGA Golfer Donna Caponi 1979 – Moroccan offensive against Polisario Front
1980 – Ianford Wilson's "5th of July" premieres in NYC
1980 – Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's
1981 – Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award
1982 – Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record
1982 – Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young
1983 – Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency
1983 – Nashville Network begins on cable TV
1984 – 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 – Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated
1985 – Argentine presdent Alfonsνns Radical Burgerunie wins elections
1985 – Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1985 – 36th Formula One WDC: Alain Prost wins by 20 points
4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi 1986 – Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 – Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 – John Lennon "Menlove Avenue" album released posthumously
1986 – Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 – Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
1987 – Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year
1987 – On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 – Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 – President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 – Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 – Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 – 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1989 – Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose 1989 – Minn Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94
1990 – Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
1991 – 21st NYC Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27
1991 – 22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28
1991 – Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps)
1991 – 42nd Formula One WDC: Ayrton Senna wins by 24 points
1992 – Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)
1992 – Carol Moseley Brown elected first African American woman in US Senate
1993 – Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd cons game
1994 – Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo
1994 – Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
1994 – Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 – Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
42nd US President Bill Clinton 1995 – 1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100
1995 – 1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80
1995 – 1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79
1996 – "It's a Slippery Slope" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1996 – 26th NYC Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18
1996 – 27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54
1996 – Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup
1997 – Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year
1997 – California law ends affirmative action

Amicalement
Armand

Just one would have been enough. And the right day would have been nice too.

All those events on the same date! Obviously, this is evidence of a conspiracy!

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Today in History (Dec 7th) Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

Also today in history all this stuff happened.

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