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Post by luke6745 on Jan 24, 2012 20:56:28 GMT 12
47 years ago today was the death of Sir Winston Churchill.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 24, 2012 22:08:36 GMT 12
An hour early posting this, but before I forget:
25 January 1944 - No. 20 (Fighter) Squadron RNZAF was formed at Ardmore, flying Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawks.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 25, 2012 23:37:13 GMT 12
Today in History 26th of January:
1784 - In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the symbol to be the turkey.
1788 - The first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in what became known as Sydney. The group had first settled at Botany Bay eight days before. This day is celebrated as Australia Day.
1841 - Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.
1875 - George F. Green patented the electric dental drill for sawing, filing, dressing and polishing teeth
1905 - The Cullinan diamond, at 3,106.75 carats, was found by Captain Wells at the Premier Mine, near Pretoria, South Africa.
1911 - Inventor Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful seaplane.
1939 - In the Spanish Civil War, Franco's forces, with Italian aid, took Barcelona.
1942 - The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Northern Ireland.
1950 - India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.
1972 - In Hermsdorf, Czechoslovakia, a JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight crashed after the detonation of a bomb in the forward cargo hold killing 27 people. The bomb was believed to have been placed on the plane by a Croatian extremist group. Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess, survived after falling 33,000 feet in the tail section. She broke both legs and became paralyzed from the waist down.
1992 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin announced that his country would stop targeting U.S. cities with nuclear weapons
1998 - U.S. President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
1999 - Saddam Hussein vowed revenge against the U.S. in response to air-strikes that reportedly killed civilians. The strikes were U.S. planes defending themselves against anti-aircraft fire.
2009 - The Icelandic government and banking system collapsed. Prime Minister Geir Haarde resigned.
2010 - It was announced that James Cameron's movie "Avatar" had become the highest-grossing film worldwide. At the time it was the second highest-grossing film in the United States.
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Post by Luther Moore on Jan 26, 2012 0:02:49 GMT 12
A Turkey?Lucky they didn't the Eagle is a great symbol!
I live in the next suburb from where they landed.It's a great place when they have people dress up as the old school red British soldiers and fire off the cannons(Dam they are loud!)
The Dentist drill is one small but scary invention.
I was not at all impressed with Avatar.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 26, 2012 0:17:29 GMT 12
They just announced Avatar 2 and 3 are to be made soon. Good for Weta Digital..
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Post by ngatimozart on Jan 26, 2012 21:43:20 GMT 12
I could do without the dentist drill. I really liked Avatar and Weta Digital, well yes they are extremely good at what they do. Mirimar has done NZ proudin its film studios and all thanks to Sir Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor and all the other highly talented people that work there. I was also thinking the other day that Omaka would probably be the only place in the world where you could see a real circus of Fokker triplanes flying. Another Sir Peter initiative.
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Post by Luther Moore on Feb 12, 2012 20:41:44 GMT 12
100 years ago today the last survivor of the Titanic disaster, Miss Elizabeth Gladys 'Millvina' Dean (born 12 February 1912), died on 31 May, 2009. This date was exactly 98 years after the Titanic was first launched. At the time of the sinking, she was a two-month old baby and the youngest passenger onboard Read more: wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_there_anybody_from_the_Titanic_still_living_today#ixzz1m9bycwnpFeb 12, 2002 Milosevic goes on trial for war crimes. 1941- German General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli, Libya, to reinforce the position of the Italians. 1940-British Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Gleaner located German submarine U-33 laying mines in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland at 0250 hours. U-33 was badly damaged by depth charges and surfaced at 0522 hours, but the submarine began to sink shortly after surfacing, killing 25 men, including commanding officer Kapitänleutnant Hans-Wilhelm von Dresky. One of the 17 survivors had 3 Enigma rotors in his pockets, which was sent to Alan Turing at the Government Code and Cypher School for further study. The first deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland took place. Erwin Rommel was named the commanding officer of the 7. Panzer-Division.
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