On this day in history.......

Each day post something that happened on that day in history

......... a bit of intellectual banter might help you retards.

OK, here goes.....


May 28th

1742 - 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1754 - George Washington defeats French & Indians at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
1863 - 1st black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1923 - Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens to vehicular traffic
1971 - USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1990 - Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)


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1953: Men reach Everest summit

Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal plant four flags at the peak of Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet above sea level, and become the first explorers to scale Everest. As early as the 1920s, attempts were made to scale Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. However, no climbers succeeded until Hillary and Norgay on 29 May 1953. The two, part of a British expedition, made their final assault on the summit after spending a fitful night at 27,900 feet. News of their achievement broke around the world on 2 June, the day of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, and many called it a good omen of things to come. The Queen knighted Edmund Hillary later that year.

also on this day

2005
A national referendum in France rejects ratification of the European Union Constitution.
2004
22 people are killed as Islamic terrorists attack two oil installations and a compound housing foreign workers in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
1999
After 16 years of military rule, Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria.
1985
39 football fans are killed and at least another 400 injured when a wall collapses during crowd violence at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels only minutes before the start of the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus.
1984
In England, the police and striking miners clash near Sheffield.
1982
In the first Papal visit to Britain since 1531, Pope Paul II prays alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, at Canterbury Cathedral.
1972
Three Japanese gunmen kill 26 people in Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1968
Manchester United becomes the first English football team to win the European cup beating Benfica 4 -1.
1914
Cruise liner Empress of Ireland collides with a Norwegian freighter on the St Lawrence River in Canada. More than 1000 are killed.
1913
Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Rite of Spring, premiers in Paris.
1886
Putney Bridge opens in west London.
1867
The Hungarian Diet formally accepts the terms of the Ausgleich, which creates the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy.
1864
Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, installed by Napoleon III, arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1848
Wisconsin becomes the 30th state to join the Union.
1176
The Lombard League of north Italian cities defeats the German forces of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at the Battle of Legnano in Italy.

Sound Foundry wrote:

Impress me tomorrow!

Copy and pasting infomation impresses you?

boring. zzzzz

Drivdac wrote:

Sound Foundry wrote:

Impress me tomorrow!

Copy and pasting infomation impresses you?

Beat me to it

Drivdac wrote:

Sound Foundry wrote:

Impress me tomorrow!

Copy and pasting infomation impresses you?

The effort, however small, of BOTHERING to research the information and sort the 'wheat from the chaff' before sharing it, impresses me greatly, as well as learning something I didn't know before. To some of us, there is a certain joy in acquiring knowledge, while others just graze mindlessly on 'The Inbetweeners'...

These are known as 'Tards'

I'll have you know i spend countless hours on Wikipedia...if that's not learning i don't know what is.

As long as you're trying mate, that's all that counts.

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