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Knight of Cydonia
8th April 2010, 03:14
well,some people say that we should always remember the history. because history is what build us.

so....let's wrote about, what happened today in history.

8 April 2010 :

Year Event


1756 Governor Robert Morris declared war on the Delaware and Shawnee Indians. Included in his war declaration was "The Scalp Act,” which put a bounty on the scalps of Indian men, women and boys.

1907 An Anglo-French convention confirmed the independence of Siam but established spheres of influence: territory west of the Menam River was to be the British sphere, that to the east the French sphere. (Encyclopedia of World History)

1913 The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified.

1935 Congress passes the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, with wide authority under which the President may establish a variety of agencies.

1943 President Roosevelt (D) orders that all wages and prices be frozen at present levels.

1947 The Iraqi Ba'ath Party was founded on this date.

1950 US Navy PB4Y2 military aircraft with crew of 10 apparently shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet aircraft while spying on the USSR.

1952 US President Truman (D) seizes steel mills in order to avert a threatened strike. Supreme court disapproves on June 2.

1988 In an international agreement involving the U.S., the USSR, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the signatories pledged that Afghanistan would become a nonaligned country whose neutral status would be guaranteed by the U.S. and the USSR. [Hmm]

1997 U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Finance Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung sign accord in Hanoi for Vietnam to repay debts of $145 million. [Not bad -- we only gave them $1 billion in economic grants during that period. But this will allow us to give them much more.]

1999 President Clinton (D) declares that April 8 will be "National Equal Pay Day".

ComradeOm
8th April 2010, 19:06
There's 'history' and then there's 'listing random events from the past'. Try taking a single event, expanding on it, and learning from it

Knight of Cydonia
30th April 2010, 15:01
There's 'history' and then there's 'listing random events from the past'. Try taking a single event, expanding on it, and learning from it
were random events from the past not a history too?

ComradeOm
1st May 2010, 09:37
were random events from the past not a history too?No. History is what you get when you string the random events together

mikelepore
5th May 2010, 17:31
May 5, 1886 - The Bay View Massacre

On this day in 1886, workers and their families and supporters continued several days of protesting on property legally owned by the Milwaukee Iron Company in Bay View, Wisconsin. The protesters were there to demand an eight-hour workday. On May 5, the governor of Wisconsin sent in the National Guard with shoot-to-kill orders. The guardsmen fired rifles randomly into the crowd, fatally shooting seven people, including a boy of age 13.

mikelepore
5th May 2010, 17:58
May 5, 1818

On this day in 1818, in Trier, Prussia, infant Karl was born to proud parents Henrietta and Heinrich Marx. Later in life Dr. Karl Marx became the world's leading supporter of the rights and dignity of humankind.