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Eric Lipps

In 1876 on this day General William Tecumseh Sherman accepted the presidential nomination of the Union Party. "General Sherman" accepts the nomination Eric Lipps USCW In 1844 debate begins in British Parliament over the Colonial Reform Act. Championed by Daniel Webster of the Massachusetts colonial legislature (pictured), the Act proposes that the American colonies be granted representation in the House of Commons. "Colonial Reform" Act of 1844 Eric Lipps AmRev In 1969 the lunar lander Eagle made a hard landing on the moon. Although its occupants, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were not seriously hurt, they discovered that the impact had damaged the landers engines, making it unable to launch and return to the orbiting Apollo 11 spacecraft."Neil Armstrong" dies on the Moon in Apollo XI Tragedy Eric Lipps Coldwar
In 1946 Absaroka is admitted to the United States, becoming the forty-ninth state of the Union."Absaroka" joins the Union Eric Lipps ColdWar In 1981 in what some describe as a "misguided teenage prank gone terribly wrong" and others "the greatest tragedy of our time", Queen Elizabeth II of England died in a fall from her horse due to a starting pistol being fired by Marcus Sarjeant. "Queen Elizabeth I" killed by prankster Eric Lipps Coldwar In 2004 Steve Jobs, founder of the hugely successful Apple computer firm, underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer.


"Steve Jobs" Lives Eric Lipps Postcoldwar
In 1808 the "Leap Year Day Massacre": American settlers in the Ohio Territory are attacked by hostile Indian tribes. "Leap Year Day" Massacre Eric Lipps PreWW1 In 1976 Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy receives the Democratic nomination for President. "Ted Kennedy" nominated in 1976 Eric Lipps ColdWar In 1978 the 37th President of the United States Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. died in Waverly, Minnesota. He was sixty-six years old."President Humphrey" passes away Eric Lipps ColdWar
In 1981 U.S. President Edward M. Kennedy is shot and gravely wounded by a former mental patient named John Hinckley. "Scoop Jackson"'s Eight-hour Presidency Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1826 on this day US President George B. McClellan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Birth of "Little Mac" George B. McClellan Eric Lipps USCW In 1830 on this day the father of Upper Carolina, Zebulon Baird Vance was born in Weaverville, Buncombe County.Birth of "Zebulon Baird Vance", father of Upper Carolina Eric Lipps USCW



In 1891 thirty-fourth President of the United States Earl Warren was born in Los Angeles, California to Methias H. Warren, a Norwegian immigrant whose original family name was Varren,and Crystal (Hernlund), a Swedish immigrant. <span class=EditorText>A teaser from the <a href=http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?thread=President_Warren>President Warren</a> thread.</span>Birth of thirty-fourth President "Earl Warren" Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1837 North Michigan and South Michigan were admitted to the United States of America as free states.Both "Michigans" join the Union Eric Lipps PreWW1 In 1776 reacting to Thomas Jeffersons refusal to excise a paragraph condemning the slave trade in the proposed declaration of independence from Great Britain under debate in the Continental Congress, the delegations of South Carolina and Georgia vote "no" on its adoption. Since it had earlier been agreed that adoption required a unanimous "yes" vote, the resolution fails.Collapse of the "Revolt" Eric Lipps AmRev
In 1876 Elisha Gray files with the U.S. Patent Office a "Caveat" announcing his intention to file for a patent within three months, for "the art of transmitting vocal sounds or conversations telegraphically through an electric circuit", the working apparatus of which would become known as the "telephone", although the word appears nowhere in Grays filing.Controversial Invention of the "Telephone" Eric Lipps PreWW1 In 1876 on this day, cavalry commander Lt. Gen. George Armstrong Custer narrowly avoided a catastrophic defeat when, receiving word that the Sioux encampment against which his regiment had been dispatched by his commander Gen. Alfred H. Terry was heavily defended, he uncharacteristically decided to delay attacking rather than strike at once.Custer's Miracle at "Little Horn" Eric Lipps PreWW1 In 1837 Congress returns from its Christmas recess with the presidency still undecided following the death of James Madison the previous June.Death of "Life-Term President" James Madison Eric Lipps PreWW1
In 2008 the fortieth President of the United States Charlton Heston died in Beverly Hills, California. He was eighty-four years old.Death of Fortieth US President "Charlton Heston" Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1995 George Wilcken Romney, the thirty-eighth President of the United States of America, died.Death of President "George Romney" Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1976 U.S. President Gerald L. K. Smith died of pneumonia at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.Smith was first elected in 1936 on the Union Party ticket, a fusion of disaffected members of the Democratic Party and the remnants of the moribund Populists, defeating President John Nance Garner, whose policies had failed to stem the Great Depression which followed the stock-market crash of October 1931. He campaigned on a platform of "traditional values," including a literal reading of the Bible, and antipathy to the "speculators and international bankers" who, he claimed, were profiting from the Depression.Death of President "Gerald L. K. Smith" Eric Lipps Coldwar
In 2005 Vladimir Arutinian, a citizen of the formerly Soviet Republic of Georgia, assassinated U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgias president Mikhail Saakashvili by throwing a hand grenade at them as they stood together on the podium at a rally in the Georgian capital of Tblisi.Dubya assassinated in "Freedom Square" Eric Lipps Postcoldwar In 1878 the legislature of North Carolina, one of the sovereign states of the Confederate States of America, passed by an overwhelming margin a measure to rename the state "Upper Carolina" to remove the hated word "North" from its name. Governor Zebulon Baird Vance, a veteran of the war of secession, swiftly signed the measure into law.Formation of "Upper Carolina" Eric Lipps PreWW1 In 1783 500 officers of the Continental Army of the United States met at Newburgh, New York to decide whether to abandon the fight against the British, now nearly won, and either move out West and "mock" the Continental Congress for its refusal to provide back pay and pensions it had promised or to march on Philadelphia.Gen Gates confronts an angry officers at "Newburgh Camp". Eric Lipps AmRev



In 1836 defenders of the Alamo under the command of Col. William B. Travis repelled an army of several thousand under Mexican general and president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.Glorious Texan Victory at "the Alamo" Eric Lipps PreWW1 In 1961 a group of Hispanic insurgents led by Ernesto "Che" Guevara landed at the Bay of Pigs with the aim of forcing the secession of the <a href=http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?story=39682-F>49th State</a> of Cuba. <span class=EditorText>An installment from the <a href=http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?thread=49th_State>49th State</a> thread.</span>Hispanic terrorists attack the Bay of Pigs in "49th State" of Cuba Eric Lipps Coldwar In 44 B.C. Marcus Junius Brutus betrayed a group of conspirators who had plotted to kill Julius Caesar, whose appointment as "dictator for life" - in Rome of the period, dictatorship was an elective office conferred by the Senate for limited periods during emergencies - had aroused resentment not only among Caesars many enemies but even among his friends.Julius Caesar Survives the "Ides of March" Eric Lipps 0to10th
In 1215 King John of England, having met with rebellious barons who objected to what they perceived as his abuse of his powers as their feudal lord and who had confronted him with armed force to demand that he sign a charter guaranteeing them various rights and limiting the authority of the crown over the feudal aristocracy and the church, arranged for the barons to be set upon and slain at the meeting at which the King was supposed to have signed the charter.King John refuses to sign the "Magna Carta" Eric Lipps 10to16 In 1841 the Second American Insurrection [against the British Empire] ends with the capture of the last of its leaders, "provisional president" John Calhoun. Liberty Fails: "Calhoun Captured" Eric Lipps USCW In 1955 the world-renowned violinist, composer and conductor Albert Einstein died. Born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, the young Albert displayed an early aptitude for music, as well as for mathematics. In his early teens, he attended the progressive Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich, where his musical talent was recognized. Life & Times of a "Degenerate Artist" Eric Lipps Darkvalley
In 1946 on this day secret research into the harnessing of nuclear fission was authorized for military purposes. Manhattan Project: "Part 1" Eric Lipps WW2 In 1946 secret research into the harnessing of nuclear fission was authorized for military purposes [continued from <a href=http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?story=39666-H>Part 1</a>]. Manhattan Project: "Part 2" Eric Lipps WW2 In 1536 physician and alchemist Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, apparently succeeds in synthesizing gold from lead and other base elements.When word of his discovery leaks out and his efforts are duplicated, panic sweeps Europe at the prospect of a financial collapse. Particularly hard-hit is Spain, which had been levering its expropriating of Aztec and Inca precious metals to increase its political power. With alchemical gold far cheaper to produce than natural gold is to mine and refine and impossible to tell from the natural product by sixteenth-century methods, the bottom drops out of the gold market.Paracelsus transmutes base metals into "Gold" Eric Lipps 10to16
In 1891 on this day former Union President William Tecumseh Sherman died in New York City. He was seventy-one. Passing of President "William Tecumseh Sherman" Eric Lipps USCW In 1861 Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States of America.President "Stephen Douglas" Eric Lipps USCW In 1793 John Hancock, first president of the United States of America, celebrated his fifty-seventh birthday.

President "John Hancock" celebrates his fifty-seventh birthday Eric Lipps AmRev



In 1969 aboard the recovery ship USS Hornet, U.S. President Hubert H. Humphrey welcomed home the triumphant crew of Apollo 11, the first men to land on the moon.President "Humphrey" welcomes home Apollo 11 Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1977 newly inaugurated U.S. President James Earl Carter ignites a storm of controversy when, in response to a reporters question, he suggests that American troops should be withdrawn from Cuba and Vietnam.  President Carter takes America out of the Cuban and Vietnam "Quadmires" Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1986 President Gary Hart delivers his State of the Union address. He had hoped to be able to refer in his speech to a successful launch of the space shuttle Challenger carrying into orbit Christa McAuliffe, the New Hampshire social studies teacher chosen to be the first civilian to fly aboard the shuttle and already dubbed the "teacher in space" by the media.President Hart's "State of the Union" omits Teacher in Space Eric Lipps Coldwar
In 2009 U.S. President John McCain, visiting Libya with Defense Secretary Lindsey Graham, assured that countrys national security advisor, Mutassim Qaddafi, son of dictator Muammar Qaddafi, that relations between their two nations were on the mend after years of strain under McCains predecessors.President McCain's "Gaddafi" Gaff Eric Lipps Postcoldwar In 1983 physicist Edward Teller informs U.S. President Edward M. Kennedy that "recent breakthroughs" in X-ray laser technology have made possible the development of what Dr. Teller asserts can be a "100 percent effective" defense against nuclear missiles. President Ted Kennedy authorizes "Strategic Defense Initiative" Eric Lipps Coldwar In 2011 the fourth movie in the popular Spider-Man series was released, with actor Toby McGuire repeating his dual role as Peter Parker and Spider-Man, Kirsten Dunst returning as Mary Jane Watson. Dylan Baker costarred as Dr. Curtis Connors (whose CGI-aided transformation into the monstrous Lizard and then back to human form would win an Oscar in the special effects category), John Malkovich as the Vulture and Anne Hathaway as Mary Janes romantic rival Gwen Stacy.Release of fourth "Spider-Man" movie Eric Lipps Fanfic
In 1911 the second Catholic President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in Tampico, Illinois. Second Catholic President of the United States "Ronald W. Reagan" Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1983 physicist Edward Teller informs U.S. President Edward M. Kennedy that "recent breakthroughs" in X-ray laser technology have made possible the development of what Dr. Teller asserts can be a "100 percent effective" defense against nuclear missiles. TedK Authorizes "Star Wars" Eric Lipps Coldwar In 1861 the so-called "Crittenden Compromise" is narrowly passed by the U.S. Congress, averting the threatened secession of slaveholding southern states.The "Crittenden Compromise " forestalls USCW Eric Lipps USCW
In 1767 on this day the so-called "Townshend Acts" were voted down in the British Parliament. Originated by Charles Townshend and designed to collect revenue from Britains American colonists by imposing customs duties on imported glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea, the acts were rejected as likely to cause even more resistance than had the recently-repealed Stamp Act.

The British Parliament infuriates partisans by voting down the "Townshend Acts". Eric Lipps AmRev In 1870 General Robert E. Lee, second president of the Confederate States of America, died.
The Death of "Robert E. Lee" Eric Lipps USCW In 1933 all political parties except the Communist Party, known formally as the National Socialist German Workers Party, were outlawed by order of Chancellor Ernst Roehm (pictured). A cowed Reichstag - soon to be renamed the Volkstag - signed off on the measure despite the fact that it meant that bodys reduction to a puppet in the hands of a dictator.Roehms triumph had been a long time coming. 
 The Germany of Chancellor "Ernst Roehm" Eric Lipps ColdWar



In 2001 on this day Sen. Thomas Daschle (D-SD) was rushed to Walter Reed Hospital after a letter he had opened was found to have contained anthrax spores.Tom Daeschle murdered by deadly "antrax attack" Eric Lipps Postcoldwar In 1864 U.S. President Hannibal Hamlin dedicates a national cemetery on the site of the disastrous Battle of Gettysburg in July of the previous year.
U.S. President Hannibal Hamlin's dedication at "Gettysburg" Eric Lipps USCW In 1896 on this day the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson.United States Supreme Court rules in the case of "Plessy v. Ferguson" Eric Lipps USCW
In 1945 the U.S. government announced the fall of Berlin. Western Armies capture "Berlin" Eric Lipps WW2 In 1915 the launching of the so-called Peace Ship marked the beginning of the end of the first phase of the Great European War. Originally derided as a pacifist pipe dream, the Peace Ship gained enormous prestige when Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan (pictured), known to be a vocal advocate of a peaceful settlement, agreed to go along, bringing with him the prestige and presumably the authority of the Wilson Administration.William Jennings Bryan boards the "Peace Ship" Eric Lipps WW1 In 1955 the world-renowned violinist, composer and conductor Albert Einstein died. Born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, the young Albert displayed an early aptitude for music, as well as for mathematics. In his early teens, he attended the progressive Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich, where his musical talent was recognized. World-renowned violinist, composer and conductor "Albert Einstein" Eric Lipps Coldwar




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