Today In History

I thought it might be different to have a thread where everyone can share a tidbit from a day in history. Today being the seventh of february i will start off with a tidbit from 2 7 1964

On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York's Kennedy Airport--and "Beatlemania" arrives. It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No. 1 U.S. hit six days before with "I Want to Hold Your Hand." At Kennedy, the "Fab Four"--dressed in mod suits and sporting their trademark pudding bowl haircuts--were greeted by 3,000 screaming fans who caused a near riot when the boys stepped off their plane and onto American soil.
Two days later, Paul McCartney, age 21, Ringo Starr, 23, John Lennon, 23, and George Harrison, 20, made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show. Although it was difficult to hear the performance over the screams of teenage girls in the studio audience, an estimated 73 million U.S. television viewers, or about 40 percent of the U.S. population, tuned in to watch. Sullivan immediately booked the Beatles for two more appearances that month. The group made their first public concert appearance in the United States on February 11 at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C.

 

I remember that day; my "girlfriend" (cause you know we were like 13 and hadn't even kissed yet) told me she was in love with Ringo. Broke my heart.

Also on this day in 1943 Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, leaving the island in Allied possession after a prolonged campaign. The American victory paved the way for other Allied wins in the Solomon Islands.

 

On this day in 1905, Oklahoma became a state. Is there any way we can give it back?

 

To who?

 

I dunno...the Chickasaw? They could use a break.

 

Didn't the Lioness start one of these.

https://forum.xnxx.com/showthread.php?t=154799

Yup it seems she did.

 

Okay Richie, now you have to copy each post on this thread and transfer it to Kitty's thread.

 

well fuck, i cant seem to make a post of interest of any kind that is not already here, which if you go back and pick it up you get bitched at, or a post that does not start a war in which i get bitched at. so motherfuckit i give up.

 

Maybe you should try the search function.

Might save some frustration on your part.

Per example: A quick search on "today is" got this.

https://forum.xnxx.com/search.php?searchid=10462795

 

February 7

Benjamin Franklin publishes "An Imaginary Speech", 1775

Tire king Firestone dies, 1938

European Union treaty signed, 1992

Soviet Communist Party gives up monopoly on political power, 1990

The Beatles arrive on American shores, 1964

 

February 8,2001: The House Government Reform Committee opened hearings into former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, with former prosecutors complaining that they hadn't been consulted before the pardon was granted. (In a 2002 report, the committee said it felt Rich's pardon "raised substantial questions of direct corruption, primarily whether pardons were issued in exchange for political and other financial contributions.")

 

LOl that is just mean.....my Grandad was born in Oklahoma in 1898 and he enjoyed joking that he was not born in the USA...he would show his Birth Certificate that said Tecumseh, I.T.-for (Indian Territory)...

we are not indians however...sod busters....

 

Haha, hate those japs

 

Being a bit of a history buff myself, I kinda dig the idea behind this thread.

On this day, Feb. 8,1924,the first execution by lethal gas in American history is carried out in Carson City, Nevada. The executed man was Tong Lee, a member of a Chinese gang who was convicted of murdering a rival gang member. Lethal gas was adopted by Nevada in 1921 as a more humane method of carrying out its death sentences, as opposed to the traditional techniques of execution by hanging, firing squad, or electrocution.

 

50 years ago today the Beatles played their first show in Liverpool at the Cavern.

 

Today, in 1965

A U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson had ordered this deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there.
This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam and there was considerable reaction around the world to the new stage of U.S. involvement in the war. Predictably, both communist China and the Soviet Union threatened to intervene if the United States continued to apply its military might on behalf of the South Vietnamese. In Moscow, some 2,000 demonstrators, led by Vietnamese and Chinese students and clearly supported by the authorities, attacked the U.S. Embassy. Britain and Australia supported the U.S. action, but France called for negotiations.


1973
The release of U.S. POWs begins in Hanoi as part of the Paris peace settlement. The return of U.S. POWs began when North Vietnam released 142 of 591 U.S. prisoners at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport. Part of what was called Operation Homecoming, the first 20 POWs arrived to a hero's welcome at Travis Air Force Base in California on February 14. Operation Homecoming was completed on March 29, 1973, when the last of 591 U.S. prisoners were released and returned to the United States.

 

France calling for negotiations, really weren't they the nation that caused the fucking problems there, when they finally pulled out instead of letting the people have a free and fair election they partitioned the country and supported the puppet government in the south. I think if left alone the Vietnamese would have not fallen into a communist country but become a real democracy.

As for the POWs and MIAs are you sure they all came home?

 

I am absolutely convinced some of them ended up in China and Russia.

 

1953 Eisenhower warns against getting involved in Vietnam.

 

Friday, get over it :excited: