Friday, October 01, 2021

1st Oct Review of Historical and Current Affairs

My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence. 

I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections. 

I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately. 

I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.
https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voice

Australia moves towards an election federally. And the director of the Liberal Party infuriates me, asking me for money to support his AGW hucksterism that isn't as bad as the ALP one. It still is not good policy. 

Today, 25th Sept 2021 I carry fake news
The fake news comes from a left wing site called "The Hill" 
In the article on the Arizona draft Audit into 2020 election fraudulently given Biden, we are told there were no accidents and that a simple vote count shows Biden won. However, the simple vote count does not show that at all. It shows that the voter fraud was wilful and deliberate. It shows that the parties behind the fraud covered their tracks. Now for the parts of the audit that have been opposed. A check of signatures. The system data showing when and how votes were cast. That will take longer because the investigation has been impeded. 

Canada loses another election
Trudeau rewarded for COVID failure. Who will be the next conservative leader? Will the next conservative leader have different policies to Trudeau? Why was PPC denied a place in leader's debate when they qualified on all criteria? 

A successful withdrawal was what was engineered at Gallipolli, where, over three days troops pulled out of defended positions and left on ships .. nobody died. That was war. Nobody was left behind. Because of the failure, WW1 was prolonged another two and a half years, Russia collapsed etc etc. The price of failure was big. But the retreat was a success. In contrast, Biden's retreat was utter failure in Afghanistan. 

Editorial on Covid policy failure
It is apparent COVID policy is political, not health related. However health advice has been political and not health related. Public health has been corrupted. Media has failed. Judiciary is corrupt. Defence is incompetent. The thin blue line has been cut. And, elder abuse is apparent from the Presidential office through to the ordinary NYC retirement home. On the plus side, there is an emerging possibility of an empty gesture securing the white house for womyn on behalf of one raised in Canada. 

Dan Andrews' lockdown has cancelled AA meetings. Go the beers. Playgrounds have been shut down state wide and even a curfew has been re-imposed. There is no science showing any such measure addresses COVID, but we know it allows the government to assert authority. 
https://rumble.com/vlxs1g-editorial-on-covid-policy-failure.html

Editorial Biden's Afghan failure culminated from Obama's Afghan lies

Afghanistan is in flames as Biden begins bombing runs on terrorists as he seeks to negotiate with them. US soldiers have been killed after a strategic error left an exposed airport the only means of Americans and their allies to flee. Biden says those that remained behind wanted to, after fleeing Afghans clinging to a wing and fuselage of an aircraft plummet to their deaths. After Biden had said the Afghan government would stand following US withdrawal. US left behind billions of dollars of weapons Chicago gangs look on with shock and awe. The Taliban will not use a fleet of Blackhawk helicopters. China will. 

So who is responsible for the failure? According to Biden, the buck stops with him, and he views it as a Dunkirk like success, when he is not looking at his watch waiting for mourning to end of soldiers that died in his service. Biden also feels any mistake was made by Donald Trump as NK begins nuclear weapons work. The US military have included critical junior officers in their lists of personal pronouns for enemies. What is a personal pronoun for a failed President? 

Editorial on God In answer to Dinesh Dsousa's article 
The God the atheists refute is not real, but is a ridiculous, impossible figure. God is real. God as He is revealed in the Bible is a fact. However, as ridiculous as the atheists arguments are, they are instructive. God made a bridge He could not cross (man's rejection of Him). God bridged that gap with Jesus. Thing is, atheists don't believe that that gap is real. 

In my Sermon on a Miracle I describe how God gave a childless woman who could not bear children, prayed for children, family. He did that. And he did not use supernatural measures. 

God is real. God does the impossible. God is not subject to our demands. God answers prayer. Sometimes bad people prosper for a time. All those statements are true. 

God is worthy of praise. Atheists don't see it, but they have countless examples of it, from their own lives to the works of those they admire. In the Revelations of the Holy Spirit I underscore and outline some of what God does that even atheists call for. 

We need god, but even in a world without God, there is a need for Him. 

https://rumble.com/vlxszm-editorial-on-god-in-answer-to-dinesh-dsousas-article.html

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=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. In NRL sport, mainly from Sydney, but neither contender was based there. Queensland Cowboys faced off Melbourne Storm. Melbourne Storm had many players from Queensland. Queensland won handsomely, with Melbourne Storm scoring 34 to Cowboy's six. It was very one sided all match. Sydney never had a chance. But next year, Sydney teams will start equal. That is how sport works. 

I posted a strongly worded missive regarding Father Bower from Gosford Anglican. He has all the charm, wit and balance of Westboro Baptist's former leader Fred Phelps. As do his defenders. Occasionally they refer to God (So, what is the occasion?) and a few have responded. Father Bower is a SSM advocate, but also advocates AGW hysteria and likes his refugees to be fleeced by people smugglers and face drowning, as opposed to being placed from a refugee camp. 
=== Posting one 
Christina McKercher Booth If you read the post that accompanies the sign (which you obviously haven't!!!) then you would know this has nothing to do with SSM. It is to do with refugees. And to refer to other Christians as the devil because they disagree with your stance is as bad as what you are falsely accusing For Rob of doing. Remove the log!!!

David Daniel Ball  You have misread what I wrote.
"But Father Bower seems to want to drown migrants, after fleecing them through subjecting them to piracy. Bower calls that compassionate"

Christina McKercher Booth I read it. It still has nothing to do with SSM. And your understanding of the refugee situation is sadly misguided.

David Daniel Ball You feel it is God's plan to drown refugees and subject them to people smuggling?

Christina McKercher Booth David. Unless you are to actually genuinely find out the facts about this issue for yourself (I certainly don't have the room to educate you here) then please stop throwing out the rhetoric that you have been fed. This information is untrue. 
Can you please tell us your source? Firstly, can I encourage you to ask what would Jesus do (or say) in this situation? If you think he would smile and suggest locking up innocents in a concentration camps where they are raped, molested, tortured and some murdered or die from the conditions they live in in order to stop people drowning at sea whilst escaping terror and persecution is the way to do things, then you will turn a lot of people away from Him. And that's what is happening. And that's a huge issue you should be very concerned about. 
Or would He say love is first, love is the greatest of these, love is what we should offer? I think, if you genuinely are in a relationship with Christ you know exactly what He says in this situation. Love makes a way, not cruelty. He did't ask us to punish or judge these people, he wants us to help them. Which is what the chapter regarding the Sodomites is about. We need to start loving and sharing and helping or we will end up in the same situation as they did. We don't get to pick and choose who we share God's love with, He does, and that's everyone. If you still think that it's okay to lock people away without legal due course and to treat them as less than human then I have to ask you to revisit your relationship with God. Just as we all should do, constantly. 
And by the way. The boats haven't stopped. They still arrive, the government has banned the reporting of it. 

Being politically correct (in your situation, believing and spouting the rhetoric the government wants you to believe over God's plan) is not God correct. 
I'm not asking you to jump onto Fr Rob's band wagon, I'm just asking you to consider Gods plan for us on this planet. That does not include discarding others and harming them.
=== Posting two
Donata Ferrante Sorry, but you sound absolutely demented. By definition, a CHRISTian is someone who follows the teachings of Christ. He advocated for the poor and the oppressed. He spread a message of love and compassion. He associated with prostitutes and others who most 'Christians' today would turn away from. Fr. Rod Bower is more Christ-like than you could ever hope to be. It seems to me that there are two types of Christians today: the ultra-conservative kind - prosletyse and use the OT teachings to push a hateful, punitive religion that is designed to maintain the status quo (patriarchy and plutocracy) and those who truly emulate Christ. 

You sound seriously deranged (not a diagnosis, just a layperson's observation). You ramble and use hyperbole. There is no logic to what you have written. It is no wonder that many churches have trouble filling their pews. Decent, loving people are seeing the hypocrisy. Fr. Rod is a shining beacon in a sea of mediocrity (and worse). Rant as much as you want, you are surely only fooling those who are already of the same view as you.


David Daniel Ball So you disagree with me and don't understand me. That justifies what father Bower posted?

Donata Ferrante David Daniel Ball yes he was. Absolutely! From 'The Real Meaning of Sodomy' By Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho:
Jesus joins other ancient authorities in viewing the sins of the Sodomites as the abuse of strangers, neglecting the poor andneedy, and the stigmatizing of outsiders. For example, Ezekiel says that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah "had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and the needy" (16:49-50); and the Wisdom of Solomon says that they "refused to receive strangers when they came to them" (19.14). On the other hand, an early Christian book I Clement states that Lot was saved "because of his hospitality and piety" (11.11). It is significant that when Leviticus condemns "men who lie with men," it does not mention the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Dutton is a sodomite.

Donata Ferrante Jesus joins other ancient authorities in viewing the sins of the Sodomites as the abuse of strangers, neglecting the poor and needy, and the stigmatizing of outsiders. For example, Ezekiel says that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah "had pride, surfeit of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and the needy" (16:49-50); and the Wisdom of Solomon says that they "refused to receive strangers when they came to them" (19.14). On the other hand, an early Christian book I Clement states that Lot was saved "because of his hospitality and piety" (11.11). It is significant that when Leviticus condemns "men who lie with men," it does not mention the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Guerrilla, Professor Emeritus, university of Idaho). 

Dutton IS a Sodomite - and Fr. Rod is justified.

David Daniel Ball Thank you for clarifying. I now see why you were confused.


Donata Ferrante Smug, condescending, and deluded aren't you? Have a good day. I hope that you find peace.
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I wrote Bread of Life to address faith issues, and it addresses the condemnation of Donata and Christina, both of whom I blocked because they failed to argue substantively but through name calling. But even so, their arguments deserve to be addressed. Including the theological aspects. 

Christina wants me to quote sources. But first we need to know where there is a dispute of fact. Australia, thanks to Rudd Gillard ending the Pacific Solution had about one boat arrival a day from Indonesia or Sri Lanka. An estimated 1% of boat people drowned on the journey. Generally, most people who pay people smugglers for transport pay from $10k Australian, although some have paid many times that. Now, thanks to Tony Abbott stopping the boats, years often pass without any boat arrivals. Some who arrive in Australia by boat have been linked to terrorism. Using a people smuggler to get to Australia means pushing a refugee aside who is waiting in a refugee camp. The result of the so called compassionate open border policy is a weakening of security and the drowning of many whom have also been subjected to piracy. 

When boat people are processed, they are processed by the UN. Australia does not place them in concentration camps (image of Nazism) but in sheltered areas which are often better than refugee camps, which in fact they are. Terrible crimes are committed in these camps by those who may not be refugees but agents for people smugglers or terrorists. Sometimes, the media have promoted riots and self harm. It would be faster to process the refugees if they didn't burn their identity papers and lie about their birthplace. 

Christina wrote she felt Jesus would drown people after stealing their only too. We disagree on that, but I'm just a humble, bible reading conservative Christian.

Donata claims that Bower associates with prostitutes I mostly rejected (did I read that right?). 

Just before God condemned Sodom and Gomorrha in the Old Testament they had behaved much the same way ISIS do today. Which would be a good reason for preventing their followers free access. Because we know what God would do to a nation that copies them. And if you don't think God would repeat that, look at what is left of ISIS territory today. 

And so here I am, a conservative Christian, preferring a New Testament answer to Donata's old testament solution. 
=== from 2016 ===
A graceless pre match interview highlighted how inappropriate it is to allow the Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull out without a full round of opinion panels advising of alternatives. Turnbull was interviewed on 3AW, Melbourne's home of footy broadcasts for radio. Turnbull pretended he was a Swan supporter from way back. Only he did not know the lyrics to the club song. I don't follow the Swans closely, but I know them. It was a very bad look for Turnbull. He was even prompted, and showed he had no idea. Then, Turnbull turned on Bulldog supporters. It isn't their fault Julia Gillard follows the club. But Turnbull burned them as if they were his political opponents. It isn't the Swans fault Turnbull pretends to follow them, too. Turnbull mentioned Shorten too, clearly showing he only thinks in political terms, but not too deeply. Note to Mike Baird, it is too late now, but we have evidence that Bulldogs are a dangerous breed and something must be done. Luckily Baird has a sense of humour and dignity. Turnbull is a disaster who doesn't know the words to the club song of the club he supports. I wanted Swans to win, but I am happy that a magnificent team of Bulldogs outplayed Swans and deserved to win. Bulldogs beat Weagles in Perth. Hawks in Melbourne. Giants in Sydney and finally the minor premiers. It was a timeless, perfect finals run. Bulldogs match play in the final was likened by a Richmond supporter to be "like a season highlight reel for Tigers in one game." Probably schools will have to built in Melbourne for students conceived in celebration. The last Bulldogs premiership had been 1954. Minor Premiers Swans looked the goods until Turnbull spoke out for them. 
=== from 2015 ===
The Liberal Party are communicating that necessary reform to universities is too hard. Apparently they don't know how to tell the public subsidising degrees fifty percent is more feasible and may be extended indefinitely, while subsiding degrees seventy five percent is not affordable in the long term. Too often the conservative parties have outsourced their policy arguments to the Institute of Public Affairs. The IPA has held the flame of freedom of speech, reason on Global Warming and fiscal responsibility as well as excellence in education. The IPA has been very effective and efficient, but the conservative parties have been reticent to embrace the good policy work, partly because the Libs were being undermined by Turnbull, but now because Turnbull, as leader, doesn't recognise good policy. Maybe Turnbull is afraid someone will do to him what he did to Abbott? And Queensland, and Victoria, and South Australia. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
It was not a funny joke, but yesterday this column pointed out the accusation that the ARL was governed by women was illustrated by the inability of the ARL to decide who was the best and fairest player over a season. Today, Braith Anasta, nephew to George Piggins who was lock for Souths when they last won a grand final over forty years ago, and a former Bulldog who previously has won a grand final as a Bulldog, said he couldn't pick between the two contestants for 2014. Maybe Jason Clare has at last evidence that chemicals are changing athletes? Another unfunny joke was serial liar Julia Gillard endorsing the doormat Hilary Clinton as Presidential Candidate. Former Australian PM John Howard has demanded Gillard retract and apologise for her slurs over 911. Gillard has accused Mr Howard of using commandos to sex up a security issue. A despicable assertion and verifiable lie.  But the left have a tendency to lie and inflate to change perception. Channel 9 News reported "Did Mr Abbott go too far in banning the burqa? We'll tell you tonight at 6pm." They softened the accusation at the actual newscast, possibly because Mr Abbott did not ban the burqa. Not a funny joke. 

What is responsible governance? Media seem confused and teachers have no opinion, so that kids don't know. British Malaya in the '50s has been compared to rape, torture and enslavement of women. UK Had built almost a million houses in communities to limit the jungle incursions from communists. Islamo Fascists of ISIL rape, torture, enslave women and kill people randomly. The UN seem to struggle with knowing which is the better state too. But good governance produces a better state. Had China been a good governor, they would not now be frightened of a fifteen year old boy who has set up a pro democracy movement. Neither rain, nor light is afraid of an umbrella. 

Bad governance by scientists is telling too. Not so much in matters of state, but in matters of collection of data. There is a need for an independent review of temperature data. At the moment, AGW hysterics who call themselves scientists are making outrageous claims unsupported by verifiable facts. Meanwhile some politicians in the ACT jokingly fund a play to kill climate deniers. Terrorists are so poor they could only send twenty million dollars to terrorists while collecting benefits meant for the poor. Compare that with good companies maligned by the press who claim they don't pay tax. Companies do pay tax. Lots of it. It helps fund the great lifestyle Australians enjoy. 

ABC approves Goulburn jail riot and feels it isn't notable. Prisoners calling 'Allahu Akbar' while rioting are not a traditional part of Islamic culture that ABC needs to protect, but connected with Islamo Fascism that ABC needs to expose. Quentin Dempster blames mental illness on ABC Programming. Sounds right. ABC choose a left wing incompetent to be a regular commentator on federal politics, Paul Bongiorno, who failed when he was boosted by The Bolt Report in 2013.
From 2013
Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott is consistent and has a good record. Yet lies told to the press are coming home to roost .. and the journalists who spread the lies, seeing that the lies have no substance, are now claiming Abbott has changed. Abbott has not changed, the journalists who reported on him claiming he was misogynistic, aggressive, dismissive, thoughtless, and lacking compassion are wrong. One highly lauded liar is Malcolm Farr, political editor of the Daily Telegraph. Farr tweeted today Abbott had taken a softly softly approach to policy direction, but that only obscures the fact that Farr was pro ALP and spread their lies and memes which, now Abbott is PM, is clearly seen to be untrue. Another highly lauded liar is Julia Gillard, who sadly has broken her gift of silence she made to the ALP and claims misogyny has ruined her stewardship as PM. The truth is incompetence on her part prevented Gillard from making a single good decision for the nation's welfare. 

Abbott is a conservative, his approach to the issue of global warming is consistent with that. Even if it were the case the hysterical IPCC prognosis of climate change was true, the best way to address it is to maintain a strong industry for the time that a solution is found. One solution Australia should embrace is nuclear power. However, that is at odds with another scare run by the ALP. 

In contrast to Abbott there is Obama. Obama is a liar and failure in policy areas. The US debt under Obama has reached $17 trillion US. When the US debt was $6 trillion US under Bush, Obama had said it was a sign of weak leadership. Mr Bush, please, come back. We need a leader like you for the US.
Historical perspective on this day
331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persiain the Battle of Gaugamela.
366 – Pope Damasus I is elected.
959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.
965 – Pope John XIII is elected.

1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1588 – Coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia.
1730 – Ahmed III was forced to give up the throne.
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 – The Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgiumannexed by RevolutionaryFrance

1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1832 – Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.

1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennisonrelocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1861 – Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California.
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Timesbuilding in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
1918 – World War IArab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.
1918 – Sayid Abdullah became last Khan of Khiva.

1920 – Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner in Iraq.
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1931 – Spain adopted women's suffrage.
1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.

1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 – World War IIUSS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
1946 – Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.

1955 – Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 – General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 – The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 – Thrilla in ManilaMuhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1975 – Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 – The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.

1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
1982 – Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1983 – One man is killed and 26 people injured when multiple bombs destroyed the American, Soviet and Algerian pavilions at an international trade fair in MarseillesASALA took responsibility for the attack.
1985 – The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Tunis.
1987 – The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".

1991 – The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992 – Cartoon Network launched.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
2001 – Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2009 – Thorbjørn Jagland became Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

2012 – A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2014 – A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in the village of Gorni Lom in Northwestern Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
2015 – Umpqua Community College shooting: a gunman killed nine people at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon.
2015 – Heavy rains triggered a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa Catarina Pinula, killing 280 people.

2016 – The Western Bulldogs win their first Australian Football League grand final in 62 years.

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331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persiain the Battle of Gaugamela.
366 – Pope Damasus I is elected.
959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.
965 – Pope John XIII is elected.

1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1588 – Coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia.
1730 – Ahmed III was forced to give up the throne.
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 – The Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgiumannexed by RevolutionaryFrance

1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1832 – Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.

1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1861 – Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California.
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
1918 – World War IArab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.

1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1931 – Spain adopted women's suffrage.
1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.

1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 – World War IIUSS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
1946 – Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.

1955 – Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.

1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.

1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 – General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.

1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 – Thrilla in ManilaMuhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1975 – Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.

1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.


1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
1982 – Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1983 – One man is killed and 26 people injured when multiple bombs destroyed the American, Soviet and Algerian pavilions at an international trade fair in MarseillesASALA took responsibility for the attack.
1985 – The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Tunis.
1987 – The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".


 

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