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Random Messages Part 2

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@Starlight:

* 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
* 1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
* 1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
* 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
* 1806 – Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
* 1810 – The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
* 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
* 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
* 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
* 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
* 1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
* 1923 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
* 1941 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
* 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
* 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
* 1962 – Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission.
* 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
* 1982 – The Freezer Bowl, the NFL's coldest game in terms of wind chill, at -37°F, is won by the Cincinnati Bengals who defeat the San Diego Chargers 27-7 and advance to Super Bowl XVI.
* 1984 – The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
* 1989 – Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
* 1990 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
* 2001 – A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
* 2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
 

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October 26th :]

Events


* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
* 740 – An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and many deaths.
* 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
* 1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
* 1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* 1775 – King George III went before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
* 1776 – Benjamin Franklin departed from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
* 1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
* 1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
* 1859 – The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
* 1860 – Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
* 1861 – The Pony Express officially ceased operations.
* 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
* 1905 – Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
* 1912 – First Balkan War: The capital city of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, is unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany.
* 1917 – World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
* 1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
* 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
* 1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
* 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.
* 1943 – World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends.
* 1947 – The Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
* 1948 – Killer smog settles into Donora, Pennsylvania.
* 1951 – Boxer Joe Louis comes out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano. However, Marciano would win the fight in eight rounds.
* 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
* 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
* 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
* 1959 – The world sees the far side of the Moon for the first time.
* 1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
* 1965 – The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBEs).
* 1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
* 1977 – The last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
* 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
* 1984 – "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
* 1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
* 1992 – The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Despatch, system which failed.
* 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
* 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
* 1999 – Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
* 2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires.
* 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
* 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
* 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
 

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Events
* 393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
* 971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the 10th century.
* 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
* 1510 – Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
* 1533 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
* 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
* 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
* 1570 – The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
* 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
* 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
* 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
* 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Roman Catholic college in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
* 1793 – Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
* 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
* 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
* 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
* 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
* 1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
* 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
* 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
* 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
* 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
* 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
* 1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
* 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
* 1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
* 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
* 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
* 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
* 1945 – World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
* 1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
* 1958 – Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pérez Jiménez
* 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
* 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
* 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
* 1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
* 1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
* 1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
* 1985 – O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
* 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
* 1997 – Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
* 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
* 2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and is subsequently murdered .
* 2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10
* 2009 – Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.

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nickname! :D you're the first one to use it! *huggles*

my other nicknames, as determined 20 minutes ago, are Typicalscore, Typical, and Loser. i like Loser a lot. :p

Am I really 0_o? Ok then *huggles back* I got to go now guys, my sister has returned from the lake with her friend and our exchange student. Bye!
 

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Hi ya'll. I'm looking foward for school
 

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I'm hungry again. But on the plus side, I just finished all 20 of Aquablade11's youtube videos. Narrated PBR battles. 20 battles. One loss. They're awesome. Watch it.
 
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