Mikachu Yukitatsu
7th August 2013, 12:57 AM
It's been rather quiet here in Misc lately, but here goes nothing.
Everyone knows Wikipedia, right? So in this topic you look at the historical events happened on the day we currently live, and discuss their significance in history.
Starting from 00:00 Kiritimati time zone, to 00:00 Honolulu time zone, we have 48 hours to post the events of each day.
Here's August 7th: August 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7)
For starters, some events:
322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon.
This is the oldest event marked in Wikipedia for this day.
626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
The failure of the siege saved the Byzantine Empire from collapsing.
1461 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
The Rebellion of Cao Qin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_of_Cao_Qin)
1714 – The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
This happened in the area of my country! :patriootti:
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
I personally think this is the most important event because it affects the present world greatly.
1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
An important event in the history of Colombia.
1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
1942 – World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
A manifestation of the Japanese post-war economic miracle.
1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
1964 – Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
Mars is Earth's nearest neighbour, so it's natural that the mankind has great ambitions and imaginations related to that planet.
1998 – The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
Everyone knows Wikipedia, right? So in this topic you look at the historical events happened on the day we currently live, and discuss their significance in history.
Starting from 00:00 Kiritimati time zone, to 00:00 Honolulu time zone, we have 48 hours to post the events of each day.
Here's August 7th: August 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7)
For starters, some events:
322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon.
This is the oldest event marked in Wikipedia for this day.
626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
The failure of the siege saved the Byzantine Empire from collapsing.
1461 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
The Rebellion of Cao Qin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion_of_Cao_Qin)
1714 – The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
This happened in the area of my country! :patriootti:
1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
I personally think this is the most important event because it affects the present world greatly.
1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
An important event in the history of Colombia.
1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
1942 – World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
A manifestation of the Japanese post-war economic miracle.
1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
1964 – Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
Mars is Earth's nearest neighbour, so it's natural that the mankind has great ambitions and imaginations related to that planet.
1998 – The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.