FlyDeltaJets87 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 2258 times:
Okay, we've seen quite a few different thread games on A.net. "The 200+ Word Game" threads, the "This or That" threads, etc. So the other day a new thread game idea popped into my head. Important dates in history. The way it will work is you will guess the event that occured on the date (or dates for an event that occured over a couple days) of the thread above you. Then you pick an important date(s) and the next poster will try to figure out what happened on that date (though for some dates, there may be more than one answer).
NOTE: Please don't be a smartass and post your own birthdate or the day you graduated college or something of the likes. Choose events that are known by a significant portion of the internation community.
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 19259 posts, RR: 63 Reply 1, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2240 times:
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Quoting Duff44 (Reply 10): July 4, 1826 (note: the 50th anniversary of the USA is not what I am looking for...)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died... only US Presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence....
April 12, 1981
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Duff44 From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 1723 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2183 times:
Duff44 From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 1723 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2156 times:
The date Marty goes back to the future in "Back to the Future"
No no no!
Doc Brown fell off his toilet hanging clocks, knocked himself out, and when he came to, he had a vision of the Flux Capacitor which...is what makes time travel...possible.
Duff44 From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 1723 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 2140 times:
Quoting Falcon84 (Reply 21):
Doc Brown fell off his toilet hanging clocks, knocked himself out, and when he came to, he had a vision of the Flux Capacitor which...is what makes time travel...possible.
Wrong...
That was November 5th, 1955 (Watch the scene where Doc is punching the different dates into the Delorean in the mall parking lot...)
N174UA From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 994 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 2123 times:
39 RobertNL070: The first theatre performance in America Something a little more topical: 30th January, 1948 Robert
40 JeffSFO: I was referring to the Edict of Nantes. RE: 30th of January, 1948. Well, could be Orville Wright kicking the bucket, Mohandas Gandhi's assassination
41 RobertNL070: Because of the sixtieth anniversary of the independence of India and the forming of Pakistan tomorrow, I was referring to the assassination of Mohanda
42 FrancoBlanco: Germany occupies Austria. September 30th, 1968.
43 AeroWesty: Rollout of the Boeing 747. New date: June 5, 1968
44 LOT767-300ER: The Jews begin to hand the Arabs a galactic beatdown. Oh yea, Bob gets a cap in LA.
45 Dtwclipper: RFK is assassinated in LA 10 May 1977
46 PAHS200: Doe v. Commissioner of Mental Health August 13, 1899
47 Dtwclipper: Not what I was thinking....but ok. 10 May '77 OBITUARY Joan Crawford Dies at Home By PETER B. FLINT Joan Crawford, who rose from waitress and chorus
48 Duff44: Since nobody got it (or bothered to look): That was the day that the abdication of King Edward VIII became official.
49 Fumanchewd: Alfred Hitchcock born. August 15, 1947 -hint- I'm reading Rushdie right now.
50 Halls120: India become a sovereign nation. June 30, 1956
51 MCOflyer: The United Airline DC-7 collided over the grand canyon with a TWA Constellation. June 17, 1947 Hunter
52 TransIsland: 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves New York City (PA, I assume). Ernst Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin. January 10, 49 BC
54 YYZflyer: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. January 20th, 1986
55 Fumanchewd: beat me to it filler[Edited 2007-08-14 05:48:01]
56 Fumanchewd: First MLK day but going by the frownie face it could be the miltary coup in Lesotho under gen-mjr Lekhanya and premier Leabua Jonathan Also the chunn
61 YYZflyer: woops. I was thinking of putting the shuttle date or the first lunar landing. Guess the 20th for July was in my head..... What amazes me is that some
62 JpetekYXMD80: Because someone is playing this game the right way! I knew that was sometime in January '86.
63 BarfBag: Wrong date, wrong event. The war in question was the Bangladesh Liberation War, when India intervened starting Dec 3rd 1971 to defeat Pakistani force
64 San747: Was that the date of the last moon flight, Apollo 17?
65 Connies4ever: Last humans to walk on the moon, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, Apollo 17, LM "Challenger". Trinity test at Alamogordo,N.M.
66 Nosedive: One yr before Ossies were forced to stop hanging out with Wessies May 14 1973
67 FlyDeltaJets87: Skylab is launched. Keeping on the space theme: December 24, 1968.[Edited 2007-08-16 20:10:33]
69 NorthStarDC4M: yay someone got it 2 things: Apollo 8 earthrise/lunar orbit/genesis reading/most watched TV show in history to that point USS Pueblo detainees releas
70 NorthStarDC4M: oh and the next date: June 28, 1914
71 JGPH1A: Just a guess: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Serves him right for wearing that hat. Oops forgot to add another date
72 Connies4ever: Doh ! I am so thick in the morning....forgot to include me own history date challenge" : April 21, 1926
73 NorthStarDC4M: Elizabeth Windsor (HRH Elizabeth II) is Born... Peron is ousted in Argentina now a new date... hmmm... May 31st 1916
74 Connies4ever: Very good ! I figured someone from the Commonwealth would have to get that one. May 31, 1916 -- Battle of Jutland ? Last real time the German High Se
75 Connies4ever: Dammit, I did it again..... Here's my next date: September 11, 1973.
76 Aloha73G: Chilean coup d'etat, Pinochet takes over August 21, 1959
77 JGPH1A: No, nothing so prosaic. Delivery flight of Boeing 747SP ZS-SPA to SAA, at that time the longest flight by a commercial airliner, Seattle-Capetown.
78 Diamond: Hawaii became the 50th State. New Date: July 23, 1997
79 AllegiantAir: Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in Miami. Here's a more recent one. February 1, 2003
80 FlyDeltaJets87: The Columbia disaster I believe May 27, 1941 (Hint: German Naval History)
81 WrenchBender: The Sinking of the Bismark Aug 9th, 1974 (Canadian military history) WrenchBender
82 Connies4ever: FLQ 'crisis' in Quebec and declaration of War Measures Act, followed by deployment of Canadian Army in Quebec. ?? OK, my new date: Oct 5, 1984
83 Diamond: I wasn't thinking of Cunanan's suicide when I posted that date (although it's valid). I was referring to the date that Boeing acquired McDonnell Doug
84 Planespotting: First Canadian in space! what an obscure date
85 WrenchBender: Sorry that was Oct 70. It was the shooting down of Un Flight 51 (Buffalo 115461) by the Syrians. The day has since become PeaceKeeper Rememberance Da
86 FlyDeltaJets87: March 27, 1977 The message you were about to post is too short and probably not of any higher value to the topic at hand. You should think long and ha
87 Diamond: The Tenerife crash involving two 747's. New date: June 12, 1994
88 FlyDeltaJets87: The day OJ didn't commit the murders and began his quest to find the real killers. In sports, that same year: August 12, 1994
91 LTU932: CAT V Hurricane Andrew hits Florida. New date: May 23rd 1949
92 Connies4ever: Got me. Yes, the Buffalo was s/d by an SA-6 (?), 9 crew & pax killed. I believe the largest number of Canadians KIA since Korea. RIP. OK, I put anoth
93 Connies4ever: Only for an American ! A big one for me as I was a candidate in the 'class of 1983' astronaut selection process. Obviously didn't make but I got as f
94 BHMBAGLOCK: A sad day, my cousin was killed by this hurricane Happier day, birthday for West Germany. Now for a new one, June 12, 1955 Edit: typo[Edited 2007-08-
96 BHMBAGLOCK: No, that was about a month earlier.
97 Connies4ever: OK, I Google'd it: Wally Cox does last "Mr Peepers" show on NBC. I guess it's cheating to some degree...but... New Date : Sept 28, 1066
98 BHMBAGLOCK: No, I'll give you a hint. It happened in France.
99 PSA53: Norman Conquest begins. June 4,1942,but recorded more often on June 6.
100 BHMBAGLOCK: I'll go with the Battle of Midway although I've most often seen it reported as 4-7 June 1942. Still no correct answer on this:
101 GAIsweetGAI: Something to do with the Algeria war?
103 BHMBAGLOCK: No, the other country involved would be Germany. Another hint, think sports, a major tragedy that very much changed a sport. There's no way you would
104 LTU932: The Le Mans disaster, which actually happened a day earlier? That's quite a sad story.
105 BHMBAGLOCK: Yes, sorry on the date, I don't know how I did that.
106 LTU932: No problem. New date: October 7th 1949
108 Connies4ever: Ayrton Senna killed in accident at Imola during San Marino Grand Prix.
109 PSA53: February 9,1964 Hint: America was invaded.
110 Duff44: Saw that live on ESPN, an I still get sick watching it...
111 BHMBAGLOCK: Beatles play the Ed Sullivan show, British invasion(the successful one) commences. Now for another, 11 July 1979, The event was not in France as with
112 N1120A: Skylab burned up in the atmosphere. June 4, 1986
113 Halls120: Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to a charge of spying. November 16, 1914
114 N1120A: Actually, I was thinking about Barry Bonds' first career home run Germany invades Poland, as usual Also, Field Marshal Earl Roberts died in France Ju
115 Halls120: Actually, I was thinking about the Fed opening its doors for business.
117 Piercey: KSU shootings March 14th, 1991 piercey in CLE
118 N1120A: Launch of the failed coup that led to the fall of the Soviet Union. October 18th, 1931
119 Deskflier: I'm out on a limb here, but if my memory serves me right: The start of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. (The true starting date of WW2) December 5
120 Matt727: Operation Barbarossa August 27th, 1883
121 PSA53: Actually begin June 22,1941 Nazi Germany was about 16 miles from taking Moscow when severe winter elements set in and the Soviets began to launch the
122 N1120A: Wow, it took a long time to get an answer and that wasn't it. I actually don't remember anymore, but it was also the date Thomas Edison died. Eruptio
123 Connies4ever: The late Scott Crossfield becomes first human to exceed Mach 2 (actually 2.01 I think) in Douglas D-558-II. Another aviation related date: January 9,
124 Allstarflyer: Louis Riel (can't remember hearing of the guy) - he dies and a controversy erupts lasting over a hundred years? Battle of Berlin? Aviation related -
125 Connies4ever: Almost spot on. Louis Riel hanged in Regina after conviction for treason following North West Rebellion of 1885. Yes, the controversy still continues
126 Miamiair: Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on U.S. Delta rocket) New Date: 16 JUL 46
127 Connies4ever: Wild guess ; IMT (better known as Nuremburg Trials) begin ? New date : January 1, 1947
128 N1120A: Nationalization of British Rail. January 1, 1984
129 Miamiair: Trinity Test - First Nuclear Detonation
130 Connies4ever: I'm figuring a typo: Trinity was July 16, 1945. Well, maybe. But what I'm thinking of is the day that the Canadian Citizenship Act came into force. T
131 Allstarflyer: It's still a Commonwealth anyway. I wouldn't have known, but it looks like AT&T splits along with Brunei becoming independent from Britain. You guys
132 Connies4ever: Chinese invent hot air balloon. New date: Sept 17, 1908 - aviation-related
133 Jamman: First death in powered flight. 25th August 1944
134 Connies4ever: Yes, Thomas Selfridge. 25th August, 1944 - Liberation of Paris. New date: Aug 29, 1949
135 Matt727: The Soviet Union first atomic bomb test in Kazakhstan. February 28, 1986?
136 Connies4ever: Olof Palme assassinated in Stockholm (wife also wounded). Ironically, based on my previous date, Palme had been involved in the Swedish nuclear weapo
137 Allstarflyer: Close (for all I know), but I really meant for this. Sept. 27, 1954
138 Connies4ever: Damn, I did it again: didn't put a new date in. I think I'd forget my head if it wasn't nailed on. New date (space-related): May 13, 1948
139 N1120A: That was indeed Baby Bell day. Anyway, since the last poster didn't include a new date, here is one. December 20, 1879
140 IFEMaster: That was the date that Thomas Edison first demonstrated the light bulb. What a significant day that turned out to be. Here's one: August 10th, 1909.
142 IFEMaster: Not what I referencing, but okay. August 10th, 1909 was the day Leo Fender was born.
143 Allstarflyer: The Star of David again shines over Israel? The Watts Riots - makes sense since you're from L.A. - I don't think much anyone born after that not from
144 N1120A: Sept. 27, 1954 My mother was born Also, The Tonight Show with Steve Allen premiered. September 1, 1920
145 Connies4ever: 1st flight of Bumper-WAC (V-2 + WAC Corporal, world's 1st two-stage liquid-fuelled rocket). But since you brought up Israel: July 22, 1946.
146 N1120A: Attack by Zionist terrorists on the King David Hotel Anyway, like I said before,
147 Connies4ever: Creation of Lebanon. New date: July 23, 1952
148 Matt727: The European Coal and Steel community was founded. July 27 1941?
149 N1120A: Germany invades Ukraine and Japan invades Indochina January 1, 1994. Political
150 Connies4ever: Also the coup in Egypt that brought Nasser to power, IIRC. NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) goes into effect. New Date: June 2, 1953
151 Imiakhtar: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II August 14, 1947
152 Connies4ever: Too easy: Independence for both India & Pakistan. New date: January 26, 1896 (announced, although happened earlier in that month) Hint: science-relat
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