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This is like a history game. Name or tell us about something that happened on this day (whatever day it is that you are posting on).
So tell us the day and tell us the historical event.


Example :
December 8
Italy 1923 Italy Homeless Dec. 8th, 1923 : Many Italians in Rome were rendered homeless and had to run for the hills as a result of severe flooding. The Tiber River is at a record high

Dec 8th 1813 – Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

July 17-2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, is shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board in the deadliest civilian airliner shootdown incident.

Dec 9, 1625 - Netherlands & England sign military treaty

October 4 1992– El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747, freighter, crashes into high-rise apartment buildings in Amsterdam after two of its engines detach from the wing. Forty-three people, including the plane's crew of 3, are killed.

on Dec 10, 1830 - Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MA.

Hitler commits suicide (April 30); Germany surrenders (May 7); May 8 is declared V-E Day. Background: World War II

Dec 11, 1928 - In Buenos Aires, police thwarted an attempt on the life of President-elect Herbert Hoover.

The "unsinkable" oceanliner Titanic sinks on maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg; over 1,500 drown (April 15) 1912.

The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Mass., attracting more than 1,000 participants. National conventions are held yearly (except for 1857) through 1860.

1815—Battle of Waterloo crushes Napoleon

Dec 18, 1787 - New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

on december 18th

218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.

December 20, 1942 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta

December 20 - Peter Criss of KISS was born in 1945.

Top Nazi murderer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina (May 23)—executed in Israel in 1962

Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.

Dec 29th 1170 - Assassination inside Canterbury Cathedral of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church

Mar 7 1965 Bloody Sunday
On March 7, demonstrators start a 54-mile march in response to an activist's murder