Today....

[DeliriousKris]

November 24 is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of the year.

1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.
1978 – Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer, was born

[jenniferhoder]

Interesting facts.... I love to read about what happened on the day it is... very cool.

[DeliriousKris]

November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining until the end of the year.

1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1999 – A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

[beatsdrop]

Today is Britney Spears' 34th birthday. <3

[DeliriousKris]

December 4 is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 27 days remaining until the end of the year.

771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
1110 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem captures Sidon.
1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami.

[DeliriousKris]

December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining until the end of the year.

1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1958 – The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
1971 – The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.

[DeliriousKris]

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!


December 26 is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are five days remaining until the end of the year.

1793 – Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria.
1846 – Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
1925 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1998 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
2009 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

[minioncookies]

Very Interesting facts some i didn't know

[cateyes1]

I was born in 1957, oh does that not count lol...just messin with ya

[DeliriousKris]

December 27 is the 361st day of the year (362nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are four days remaining until the end of the year.

1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.
1918 – The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
1942 – The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia is founded.
2001 – China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
2008 – Operation Cast Lead: Israel launches 3-week operation on Gaza.

[DeliriousKris]

Happy New Year!
January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (364 in leap years).

1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
1949 – Luis Muρoz Marνn becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
2013 – Barack Obama signs the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.

[DeliriousKris]

January 4 is the fourth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 361 days remaining until the end of the year (362 in leap years).

1490 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the King of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lθse-majestι.
1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. Thomas Edison's movie company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of the execution.
1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines.

[DeliriousKris]

February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year (330 in leap years).

62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.

[JediJohnnie]

Feb 14th.....

Today is St Valentine's Day

Today is Jack Benny's 120th Birthday

Today is Rob Thomas's 44th Birthday

[DeliriousKris]

February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining until the end of the year (318 in leap years).

1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1933 – Newsweek magazine is first published.
1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
2003 – The London congestion charge is introduced.
2015 – Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.